EP 0610100 A1 19940810 - Storage and stacking tray for articles.
Title (en)
Storage and stacking tray for articles.
Title (de)
Schale zum Lagern und Stapeln von Gegenständen.
Title (fr)
Plateau de stockage et empilage d'articles.
Publication
Application
Priority
GB 9302248 A 19930205
Abstract (en)
A thermo-formed tray (3) carries staggered rows of bottles (1) as one of five such trays stacked one upon the other. The tray (3) is stacked on the tops of bottles (1) of the tray immediately below, with the tops engaged in channels (9) of the tray's under-surface (7). The closed-end channels (9) are defined by troughs (6) and (10) in an upper-surface (5) of the tray (3) that is otherwise flat within a peripheral wall (4). The troughs (6) are of short lengths so that the walls (8) of the channels (9) are interrupted to relieve frictional resistance against removal of the tray (3) from the bottles (1) below, and in regions (11) are omitted altogether to allow the tray to be lifted by suction pads. An orderly array of the bottles (1) in maintained in spite of the lack of row-constraint on the tops of the bottles (1) where the channel walls (8) are interrupted in both these ways, by virtue of abutment of the bottles (1) upon one another within their rows and also between adjacent rows. As an alternative (Figure 5), troughs are omitted other than along the sides (26) of the array and at the ends of the rows (30). <IMAGE>
IPC 1-7
IPC 8 full level
B65D 71/70 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP)
B65D 71/70 (2013.01)
Citation (search report)
- [AD] EP 0521705 A1 19930107 - FORMOLD LTD [GB]
- [AP] FR 2679878 A1 19930205 - SAINT GOBAIN EMBALLAGE [FR]
- [A] GB 2079256 A 19820120 - ELOPAK AS
- [A] EP 0335730 A2 19891004 - COCA COLA CO [US]
- [A] DE 7135286 U 19720113
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AT DE ES FR GR IE IT PT
DOCDB simple family (publication)
EP 0610100 A1 19940810; EP 0610100 B1 19970514; AT E152994 T1 19970515; DE 69403096 D1 19970619; DE 69403096 T2 19971113; ES 2104269 T3 19971001; GB 9302248 D0 19930324
DOCDB simple family (application)
EP 94300890 A 19940207; AT 94300890 T 19940207; DE 69403096 T 19940207; ES 94300890 T 19940207; GB 9302248 A 19930205