公开(公告)号：MY6800001A

公开(公告)日：1968-12-31

申请号：MY6800001

申请日：1968-12-31

Applicant: PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY

Inventor： EDWARD RANKIN MARTIN

IPC: B65D1/24 ,  B65D

Abstract: 1,039,511. Bottle crates. PHILLIPS PETROLEUM CO. Jan. 31, 1963 [Feb. 1, 1962; April 11, 1962], Nos. 3899/62 and 13940/62. Heading B8P. A thermoplastic bottle crate is moulded in one piece to have bottom, top, side, and end walls, 1, 2, 3, 4 respectively, and the bottles are separated by apertures 2A, with skirts 2B, in the top wall, and walls 5, 5A, 6 formed integrally with the bottom wall, parallel to the side walls. The walls 5, 5A, 6 have high points 12 at their intersections and lower points 11 therebetween, and run down into the bottom wall at their ends 13, see Fig. 4, At certain of the high points the walls connect with projections 8 depending from the top wall to form reinforcing struts, and these have holes 20 which assist drainage during washing of the crate, as do holes 19 in the bottom wall 1. The end walls 4 have hand holes 15 in recesses 18 and the walls 5A, adjacent the ends have low points 11 not so low as in the walls 5, and 6, to provide more strength. In a second embodiment, Fig. 7, the walls 5, 5A, 6 are absent and the bottles are spaced by ridges 36 surrounding flat square, or V-shaped, areas 37A level with the crate bottom. The skirts of the apertures in the top wall may be deeper and have vertical slits so that they grip the bottles more firmly. In further embodiments the bottle separators are projections of various kinds integral with the top and/or bottom walls. A preferred separator is shown in Fig. 16 and has a frusto-conical top portion and a cruciform lower part which provides support for the bottles. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 907,444.