Untitled record

FRENCH REPUBLIC

MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY

INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY SERVICE

N ° 1.532.002

PATENT

PV n ° 2.223, Vaucluse International classification:

Improved bottle or container and their packaging.

Mr. Pierre JAFFIER residing in France (Vaucluse).

Requested on July 17, 1967, at 16 45 ”, in Avig:

Issued by decree of May 27, 1968.

(Official Bulletin of Industrial Property, No. 27 of July 5, 1968.)

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In the past, bottles used for food and other liquids were generally made of glass and very fragile. To group several bottles, in particular for the purpose of transporting them, it was essential to store them in crates, racks or the like, which had two main purposes: to provide effective protection and to allow grouping.

The evolution of techniques now allows the manufacture of much more resistant bottles, in treated glass or other materials, which can often do without protection. The use of cases or racks for their transport has generally been preserved because it is practically not possible otherwise to group together a certain number of bottles to handle them together conveniently.

These boxes, lockers and other containers are a source of handling, space, transport and additional costs.

One of the aims of the present invention is the creation of a type of bottle, or container, and of its simplified packaging which can be transported in groups of a certain number without requiring the use of boxes, cartons, racks or any containers.

The invention is embodied by a bottle which, held pressed against another bottle of the same type, even by low pressure, cannot slide against the latter, nor can it last against it. It is the same if we plate and maintain between them several bottles of the same type, we obtain a set of which each unit is integral with the others and cannot move without driving them.

The new property conferred on the bottles according to the invention by their shape, their structure or their material, allows an extremely simplified packaging or conditioning constituted by a link surrounding the group of bottles and keeping them placed against each other, in accordance with the invention, by a reasonable pressure compatible with their resistance. The group of bottles, tightened and maintained, forms a compact and easy to

210473 7 handle. The whole group can be lifted by holding only one or more bottles located on its periphery without the bottles located in the middle of the group running the risk of slipping and falling.

In order to produce bottles according to the invention, which do not slide against each other, various means can be used: coated with adhesive materials, incorporation of permanent magnets or any other device. However, the lowest cost price is to be sought for this manufacture and the simplest solutions are the first to be retained. One can in particular give by molding, to the glass or other materials used, a shape which allows, by bringing two or more bottles together, to always put in contact (without having to seek the position), one face of each of them which is the exact counterpart of the face of another bottle which comes into contact with it, so that each of the faces considered is anchored on the other and cannot slide while it is in contact. In this case the new property is conferred on the bottles or containers at the time of molding and without any additional cost, as easily as can be affixed the designations, marks or other inscriptions, which can without disadvantage also be added to the new forms.

The link, or more precisely packaging-link, according to the invention, intended to hold “the bottles against each other, may be elastic, may or may not have handles, serve as a shock absorber, in particular during transport.

It can be rigid or made up of an adhesive tape of appropriate strength. It may or may not include a brand and / or advertising inscriptions; it suffices that it constitutes an element suitable for keeping the containers suitably pressed against each other for as long as it is necessary, and that it is easily removable when it is desired to separate them.

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Other advantages and characteristics of the present invention will appear on reading the description which follows, given with reference to the appended drawings, given simply - by way of nonlimiting examples.

In these drawings:

Figure 1 shows a bottle according to the invention, perspective view;

FIG. 2 represents two sections (at level AA of FIG. 1) of two bottles identical to that of FIG. 1;

Figure 3 shows, seen in perspective, another type of bottle according to the invention;

Figure 4 shows two sections (at CC level in Fig. 3) of two bottles identical to that shown in Figure 3;

FIG. 5 represents, seen in perspective, a group of bottles maintained by nn packaging-link, according to the invention;

Figure 6 shows, seen in perspective, a link packaging according to the invention.

In FIG. 1, 1 and 2 represent the parts which, joined to the same parts of a similar bottle den, will form an anchorage and cannot slide over one another. 3 is a narrower part intended to receive and maintain the packaging-link. AA indicates the level of the cuts of figure 2 carried out on identical bottles.

In FIG. 2, 4 is the section of the bottle, with the thickness of the material composing it, at the level of AA (in FIG. 1). 5 is the outer contour of the shape of the bottle at level BB (on fig. 1). 4 and 5 are squares, with cut angles, identical but offset by a few degrees as by a rotation on the axis of their diagonals. Under these conditions, each side of the squares forms a plane which intersects at point 6 with the plane formed by the side of the square which follows it. Points 6 represent the median vertical axes on each side of the bottle.

Π it is easy to understand, by examining the sections, that the faces of the bottles, whatever they are, will always fit into the face of another identical bottle which will be placed near a first and that they will not will no longer be able to slide as long as they are joined.

In FIG. 3, 7 and 8 are the parts which, joined to the identical parts of another similar bottle, will not allow sliding between them. 9 is the constricted part intended to properly maintain the packaging-link.

In Figure 4, we can see two sections of a bottle, similar to that shown in Figure 3, at CC level in this figure. It is easy to understand how each side fits into that of an identical bottle which is brought into contact with it and how each of them cannot slide against the other.

In FIG. 5, 11 represents, seen in perspective, a group of eight bottles in accordance with the invention, anchored against one another by the complementary reliefs of their faces in contact and which cannot slide against each other. 12 is a tie wrapper which keeps them in this position. It is easy to understand that one can lift the group of bottles by any of them without the others being able to slip or fall. Under these conditions, if the bottles are strong enough, we can do without a rack for their transport. It should be noted that the bottoms of the bottles, not visible in the drawing, can represent, in hollow, the shape of their necks; thus, if several groups are placed on top of each other, those above will not be able to slide over those below, the necks of the bottles of the lower groups being embedded in the bases of those of the upper groups.

In FIG. 6, 13 is a relatively thick elastic link packaging, such a ring, placed as 12 in FIG. 5, can form an effective bumper to prevent blows between the groups of bottles. 14 is a handle, molded at the same time as 13, which allows the group of bottles held by 13 to be handled easily and comfortably.

Considering Figures 1 and 3, it can be noted that the shapes obtained for the production of bottles according to the invention can be original and aesthetic, which is an element facilitating the sale.

It goes without saying that modifications of details can be made to these embodiments in the field of technical equivalences without, however, departing from the scope of the invention.