Box for storing, protecting, and transporting containers
AssigneeFlexiways S.P.R.L.
InventorEric Lepot
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a box (10) for storing, transporting, and protecting vertically suspended containers with an upper opening (11), a rectangular bottom (12), lower side walls (13) connected to said bottom (12), and a step (14) connected to said lower side walls (13) and forming a bearing for supporting a plate (15). Said box (10) includes upper side walls (16) connected to said step (14), and each comprises at least one portion (17; 43) extending to the end of the box, each of said upper side walls also being connected to an upper edge (22) extending outside the box. An edge (20) is positioned on the upper corners (21) of said box (10). The present invention also relates to a container for transporting such boxes and to a method for palletizing and depalletizing said boxes.
Claims18
Box (10), for storing, transporting and protecting vertically-suspended containers, comprising a top opening (11), a rectangular bottom (12), lower side walls (13) connecting to said bottom (12), a step (14) connecting to said lower side walls (13) and forming a bearing supporting a plate, upper side walls (16) connecting by their bottom end to said step (14) and by their top end to a top flange (22) extending toward the outside of the box (10), wherein a rim (20) is positioned on the top corners (21) of said box (10) and in that said upper side walls (16) of said box (10) include at least one portion (17;
- 43) extending toward the outside of the box (10), so that said box (10), when it is positioned side-by-side with a second box (10), is in contact with said second box via said at least one portion (17, 43) thus preventing the overlapping of said box with said second box, and wherein said at least one portion (17:
- 43) extends vertically, obliquely or in an inverted oblique manner.
Box (10), for storing, transporting and protecting vertically-suspended containers, comprising a top opening (11), a rectangular bottom (12), lower side walls (13) connecting to said bottom (12), a step (14) connecting to said lower side walls (13) and forming a bearing supporting a plate, upper side walls (16) connecting by their bottom end to said step (14) and by their end to a top flange (22) extending toward the outside of the box (10), wherein a rim (20) is positioned on the top corners (21) of said box (10) and in that upper side wall (16) of said box (10) include at least one portion (17;
- 43) extending toward the outside of the box (10), so that said box (10), when it is positioned side-by-side with a second box (10), is in contact with said second box via said at least one portion (17, 43) thus preventing the overlapping of said box with said second box, wherein said rim (20) includes at least one junction point with said top flange (22).
Box (10), for storing, transporting and protecting vertically-suspended containers, comprising a top opening (11), a rectangular bottom (12), lower side walls (13) connecting to said bottom (12), a step (14) connecting to said lower side walls (13) and forming a bearing supporting a plate, upper side walls (16) connecting by their bottom end to said step (14) and by their end to a top flange (22) extending toward the outside of the box (10), Wherein a rim (20) is positioned on the top corners (21) of said box (10) and in that upper side wall (16) of said box (10) include at least one portion (17;
- 43) extending toward the outside of the box (10), so that said box (10), when it is positioned side-by-side with a second box (10), is in contact with said second box via said at least one portion (17, 43) thus preventing the overlapping of said box with said second box, wherein said rim (20) and said top flange (22) from a continuous surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.