Arrangement for Transporting Bottles, Drinks Containers and/or Multipacks

Abstract

An arrangement for transporting bottles and / or a plurality of handling units combined to form multipacks made up of a plurality of bottles. The arrangement comprises a tray of rectangular shape having a top side and an underside. The top side and underside of the tray position such multipacks and allow trays to be stacked one upon the other and also allow the insertion of individual bottles. The top side of the tray has first supporting contours, which the foot region of a plurality of multipacks arranged one beside the other accommodate second supporting contours and accommodate the head region of a plurality of individual bottles inserted one beside the other. The underside of the tray has third supporting contours, support the head region of the multipacks and fourth supporting contours, accommodate the foot region of a plurality of individual bottles inserted one beside the other.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The invention relates to an arrangement for transporting drink containers, in particular bottles and / or a plurality of handling units combined to form multipacks comprising a plurality of irks containers, in particular bottles, for example a four-pack or a six-pack, the drinks containers or bottles or handling units being held tightly together by means of a retaining element, for example by means of a shrink film or similar film packaging, to form a single handling unit of for example square or rectangular basic shape, the arrangement comprising a tray of essentially rectangular basic shape, and the tray having a top side and an underside.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]DE 20 2004 007 452.4 discloses an arrangement of the generic type which is suitable, and intended, for storing and accommodating plastic bottles, in particular PET bottles for drinks. Such tray-like elements are produced as plastic mouldings. Each plastic moulding has standing regions for bottle...

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Benefits of technology

[0012]As a result of this design, each tray is suitable, on the one hand, for accommodating multipacks in the form of four-packs or six-packs held together, for example, by shrink wrap or else for accommodating individual bottles. For use with multipacks the tray is set down with the top side upwards and the multipacks are inserted into the corresponding supporting contours. A further, identical tray can then be placed, with the same orientation, on the head region of the multipacks. This allows a stacking sequence of trays and multipacks.

[0080]When the apparatus rolls onto the Europallet, the supporting rollers are guided in the guide channels, so that precise positioning is possible.

Problems solved by technology

As a result of this design, it is not possible for the bottles, as is customary with individual bottles, to be placed on corresponding transporting arrangements at a certain spacing apart from one another, rather, in the case of the handling units combined to form a four-pack or six-pack, the bottles are pushed close together in each case, so that they butt against one another.

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