US 6,860,389 B2 · Fixture for recycling bottles and recycling bottle

Abstract

A fixture for recycling bottles made of plastics, which includes a base plate and means for anchoring the bottles arranged on the upper side of the base plate and engaging in indentations provided on the bottle bottoms, and a recycling bottle made of plastics to be used with such a fixture and including an indentation on its bottle bottom. In order to facilitate handling of the bottles for recycling purposes and to enable the automated determination of possible deposits for the bottles as well as the simple and rapid recyclability of the bottles, it is provided that the anchoring means, in a sense oriented away from the upper side of the base plate, have decreasing cross sections and barb-shaped formations. Thus, the optimum support of the bottles on the fixture is safeguarded. Preferably, the base plate is located within the projection of the bottles onto the base plate.

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Dependent claims

A fixture for recycling a plurality of bottles made of plastics, said fixture comprising:

a base plate including an upper side and a lower side;
and
a plurality of anchoring means on upper side of the base plate for anchoring the plurality of bottles, wherein each of the plurality of anchoring means contains decreasing cross sections and a plurality of barbs, wherein each of the plurality of barbs is connected to the decreasing cross sections only at the smallest cross section of the decreasing cross sections, wherein each of the plurality of barbs horizontally extend beyond the perimeter of the smallest cross section of the decreasing cross sections, and wherein the plurality of anchoring means are configured to engage indentations provided on the bottoms of the plurality of bottles.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Fixture for recycling bottles and recycling bottle

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Fixture for recycling bottles and recycling bottle

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Abstract

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