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 are adapted to the foot region of a plurality of multipacks arranged one beside the other and second supporting contours, which are adapted to 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 which accommodate the foot region of a plurality of individual bottles inserted one beside the other.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a continuation of co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11 / 922,542 filed Dec. 19, 2007, which is a national phase of International Patent Application No. PCT / CH2006 / 000327 filed Jun. 15, 2006, which claims priority to German Patent Application No. DE 10 2005 029 304.2 filed Jun. 22, 2005; German Patent Application No. DE 10 2005 058 342.3 filed Dec. 6, 2005; and German Patent Application No. DE 20 2006 001 482.9 filed Jan. 30, 2006, all of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]1. Field of the Invention[0003]The invention relates to an arrangement for transporting drinks containers, in particular bottles and / or a plurality of handling units combined to form multipacks comprising a plurality of drinks 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 mea...

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Benefits of technology

[0015]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.

[0083]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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