Stackable packaging unit
OwnerOtmar Fahrioninventor
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Abstract
A stackable packaging unit (10) has a lower supporting pallet (12), a marginal wall arrangement (14) made of corrugated cardboard and a covering pallet (16) having the same geometry as the supporting pallet. Both pallets are moulded parts with feet (28 to 32) and have receptions (34 to 38) for the feet on their upper surface. The feet and the feet receptions are asymmetrical, so that the feet of an upper pallet engage the underlying feet receptions (34 to 38) over a short distance (Z1) in a first relative position of two adjacent pallets (12, 16) but engage them over a longer distance in a second relative position. The pallets (12, 16) may thus be closely stacked after use of the packaging unit and transported back to their point of origin.
Claims16
A stackable packaging unit with a lower pallet, a marginal wall arrangement having an upper end and a lower end borne by the lower pallet and a cover part borne by the marginal wall arrangement, the lower pallet being a stackable moulded part which has downwards projecting feet and foot receptors formed in an upper side of the lower pallet, into which, when another lower pallet is superimposed on said lower pallet, the feet of said other lower pallet may be introduced, wherein the cover part is formed by an upper pallet, which has the same shape as the lower pallet, the lower pallet and the upper pallet thus being items of a stock of identical standard pallets, and which is placed on top of the marginal wall arrangement in such orientation that the feet of the upper pallet hang downwards;
- and wherein the feet of the upper and lower pallets and/or the foot receptors of the upper and lower pallets are formed asymmetrically with respect to a plane of symmetry of the upper and lower pallets, respectively, or with respect to a central axis of the upper and lower pallets being perpendicular to the plane of the upper and lower pallets such that in two different relative positions of two superimposed standard pallets the feet of the overlying one of these two superimposed standard pallets engage into the foot receptors of the underlying one of said two superimposed standard pallets by two different distances (Z1, Z2).
A stackable packaging unit, comprising:
- a lower located standard pallet;
- a marginal wall structure having an upper end and a lower end supported at an upper surface of the lower located standard pallet;
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- an upper located standard pallet supported by an upper edge of the marginal wall structure,
- wherein the lower located standard pallet and the upper located standard pallet are identical and each has the form of a stackable moulded part provided with a plurality of downwardly depending feet and a plurality of foot receptors formed in an upper surface into which the respective feet of another standard pallet may be located,
- wherein the upper located standard pallet is placed on top of the marginal wall with its feet depending downward into a space defined by the marginal wall,
- wherein one or both of the feet and the foot receptors of each of said standard pallets are formed to be disposed asymmetrically either with respect to a plane of symmetry of the standard pallet or with respect to a central axis perpendicular to a plane of the standard pallet,
- whereby in respective first and second arrangements an overlying standard pallet may be supported by an underlying standard pallet with the feet of the overlying standard pallet fitted into corresponding receptors of the underlying standard pallet to provide respective first and second separation distances Z1 and Z2 between the overlying and underlying standard pallets.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.