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CONT~T~ ~OR ~ACRING ~D r~ T- CO~P~I~G
O~J~CT OP T~E INv~NTION
~ he invention refer6 to a container which,
preferably ~ade of plastlc material and capable o~
adopting the shape of a bottle, can or v~ l with p~r~-
llelepiped configurat~o~, .pr~sents the part~cularity,
that the l~tera-l sldeo ~r.e alternately equipped wlth
compleme~tary lands and rece~ for the attainm~nt o~
: lateral a~e~bly and inter-r~tent~on: o~ the actual
lo . cQntainer6, ~nabll~g their transportation without ~equi-
ring any type of pac~ag~ng. ~he cont~nsr shall p~eBent
a rectanqular or quadrangul~r; or even hexagonal contour.
In additlon to the lateral land~ and recesce~,
the Contain~r ~180 present6 the.p~r*icularity of having
1~ on ~t~ bot~toD.sur~ace,.a perL~etri~etral clo~ed ~ollo~ or
~ortise, ~or t~e plac~ment and po6itiOhing 0~ the n~ck
corresponding to the mouth of the lover container, 8nd in
- its case, al~o hou~e the h~n~le in.t~e-ca6Q that the
.contalnQr ha~ ~uch an elem~nt. - -
- The -con~iner, which ~ay ,ke collaterally
coupled and ~tacksd with.other ~lmlla~ one~, m~kes
poasibl~ t~e ~ormat~on of a ~lock or a58emb1y o~ contal-
. ner6 wnlch may be tra~.s~ ed without regulring
packag~ or boxes, only ~equiring a peri~et~al tape to
k~op them vertically grouped in the ~taok, 6inee late-
rally, they remain po~itioned;ln ~ stable manner wlthout
po~ibility o~ di~placQment.betweQn each other, ln v$rtue
of t~ location o~ the necks ~nd/or handle~ ~n t~e
nortise~ or hollov5 provided to such an ~ffect on th~
~ottom. .
BACKG~N~ OF~ INVEN~ION
Nu~erous types.of contai~e~ ~e_~Lacles, of
l~quid6 and product6 of diver6e type, ~uçh as dri~k
- . bottles,.v~s~rl~ of ot~e~ pr2duct~.~uch-ao oils, ~$1k,
35 . QtC . ~ ~re-~ometl~eo. commerclalized in groups forming
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package6 or blocks, each o~ ~hlch lnclude variou~
contalners, the tran6portation and co~merciali2ation of
~hich r6gu~re that said group o~ containers are arranged
ln boxes, or el~e remain grouped together by mean~ of a
retractile package or envelope, ln 6~ch a way that, be
they e~thcr ~n boxQs or in retractile envelopes, problems
ari~e at the ~oment of recovery of said components, for
th~lr ~ubsequent recycling or eli~inatio~.
Anotner d~adv~ntage pre8ented by the contai-
o ner~ of the r~er~ed type, consl~ts in that they ar~ not
~u~iclently ~tlff~ned and-undergo de~onmatlons during
~he dlff~r~nt ~n~lin~ they aro s~b~ectQd to durlng the
filling, -tran~portation, etc.
- ~imilarly cmph~sl~ed mu~t be t~e fact t~at ~hen
the. ~Dnt~i~er~ haY~. cyl~ndrical conf~gur~tion, dead
spaceQ-are produced bet~een them ln their collat~ral
arrRn~Rm~nt vith one another, ~sing the volum~ occupied
by v~rdoue container~ to b~ greater than the su~ of all
of them together, thus ~asting useful 6p~ce, ~hich W
cau~e an Inorsa~e-in the co~t ~f the traneport~tion.
On th~ other hand, wh~n thls type o~ cont~lner
~ stacked, a co11apse or fall of the actual conta~ners
m~y be pro~c9~, a~ a con~quence of the fact that som~
may ~e dlsplaced as regards tho otherg.
Z5 It ~u~t al~o ~e con~idered that When can type
of contaln~r~ are involved, that i~ to eay, with capacity
for ~ar~ou~ liteirs, the upper handle of thie typ~ of
con~entional contain~ir ~ hollow and is to be found in
direct eom~un~catlon with the incidQ of the containeir, in
such a. manner, that when ~he ~am~ ~8 ~illed up, air
pocket~ are.alvays pr~ent, i~peding the total useiof the
actual capaclty o~the con~a~neir. In other ca~es, thi~
~ype of contalners i~ provided with a land, the helght o~
which i6 ~igual to that of ~he neck wlth the stop~er to
allow the stack1~g., though-thia land i~ aleo hollow and
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involv~ t~e above indicated di8advantag6s
D~ TPTION OF THE lNv~h~IoN
The container of the inventSon, vhich, ae has
been previously indlcated, may be con6tructed in the
S form o~ a bottle, can, vessel or ~imllar, p~esents the
par~icula~ity that the contour i5 pre~era~ly rectangular
or qu~drangular, an~ ~ven hexagonal, and thc$r ~lde~ are
~lterna~ely provided with at lea6e, one.pair of lands at
dlffcrent heigh~e, complementary to rece6s~s pro~ided on
the remainlng-~ide~, making po~$ble: the collatQrAl
coupllng LeL~.c,. tne contalner to attal~ the grouping of
various o~ them,.thu8 for~1ng a block, w~ic~, in virtu~
o~ the coupling b~t~aen ~.ecesses and lands, may be
handled ~ithout ~oxe~ or- r~tractile packlng envelope~,
with the ~aximum u6e of capacity and wlthout 1085 0~ any
~pace betwsen the grouped conta$ners, achieving a reduc-
~ion of Yolume whlch wlll incide both on the tran6porta-
tion and on- the ~torage.
- - ~hen th~ contAinPræ ars 6t~cked ~orming group~,
,- 20 a simple perinGt~al ba~d or tap~ shAll ~uff$ce to keep
them joln~d in vertical direction.
Evidently, the landg and eo~plementary recesQes
may h~e any adequate configur~tlon to pos~bllitate
thelr easy co~pllng and uncoupllng ~nd that addltionally,
they prove efficient ln the inter-container retention,~
quoting a~ advantageous exa~ple, land~ and complementary
rc~J~-^ in dovetall.
The 5aid landa and comple~entary reces~e~ are
construct~d in tran~er6al direotion as regards the
vertica~ axi~ of the contalner, ~on~tituting sti~fenlng
rein~orcement~ which prevent deform~tiong during
handllng,-tr~n~p~rt~tion; filling, etc., of the actual
cans . -. ~
. ~he contalner Day ~e constructed ~n the sh~pe
of a ~ottle with qu~dra~gular or r.Bctangular contour,
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th an upper neck which projects ln a ~hort tubular
section, whlch in turn ~xr~n~ lnto ~nother inverted neck
in the rOnm of ~ pan, through whlch ~t i8 po~s$ble to ~.
carry out th~ 2illin~-up of the contalner and the clo~ure
by mean~ o~ wel~lng or any othe~ conventional ~y6tem,
with the p~rticularity that said upper pro~ct~on, in the
fo~m o~ a pan constitute~ the gra~ping ~eans for t~e
unitary transportation of the can, which, on the other
hand, i~ proYld~d on its ~a~e wl~h a hollow or morti~e to
~0 hou5e.the ~tacking of the pa~t whlch deter~lnes the tvo
.axlal neck~ pro~ide~ on the upper-part of-the conta~ner.
- . -On t~is typ~ o~-cont~ r, c~id upper nock in
th~ form o~ a pan may be independent as regard~ the lower
.neck o eo;to constitute,;if dQsired, a 6topper capable
of coupiing.on 6a~d-io~er neck on ~hich the mouth is
determined, performing ~ald ln~sp~ndizatlon by means of
a 6~ mple sectlon$ng of the narrow tu~ular oection w21ich
~oin~ the two prevloUsly indicated ne~k~.
~ The welding of oa~d tubular 6ectio~ be~we~n the
two,neck~, which i~ conctltutlvQ of ~e closure of thQ
can, prevent6 the cla~cal sy~te~ of 6~allng, not
requ~ring any stopper as addltlonal element since, oncQ
the container i~ open, the upper neck in the for~ Or a
psn, may conotltute the actual ~topper, for vhich lt Ila~
been fo~e8ee.. th~t both the inte~nal ~urface o~ ~ald
upper neck in the ~orm o~' a pan and the external ~urface
of the low~r neck vhic~ pro~o~ to ~he upper part of the
container, are provi~Qd ~ith a co~plQmentary thread to
aehieve th~ coupllng snd attach~ent of oaid uppQr ~Qck on
the low~r neck, to conetitute a~ a ~peci~ic moment, the
a~tual ~topper. - -
When t~e ~ontalnQr pre~ents the 6hape o~ a c~nwith a capacity f'or var~ou~ ero! lt 8hall then be
provided ~lt~ a handle ~h~ch projectR a8 regards the ac- i
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all thl6 ~n such a manner, that the tota~ capacity of the
contain~r $8 u~eable and may be ~illed wlth liquid, thu5
801~ing the problem lnvolved with convent-onal contalners
of thi~ type, ~ith holloY handle or land and ln co~mun~-
cation w~th the $nterior of.the eontalner.
~ hi~-qecond typQ of container, according to the
lnv~ntion, presen~s the pa~ticularity that on the bottom
base o~ ~h8 same-, it i6 p~o~ided wlt~ a ~ectangular
~ortise,.-d~fln$ng a ~los~d pe~i~eter, the length and
Yldth of whlch i8 ~uch, t~at it permit~ the location o~
- the~.handl~ and-neck.~lth the ~topper o~ th~ bottom
contAlnEr.when they ar~ otacked, thuo pre~ntlng ~ny type
o~ l~t~ral di~placement of t~e stack~d contain~r~. ~
~ u~ary, the-cont~ r Or the invent$on
pre~entG,.in any o~ it6 ~ersions, an ~pproxlmately 100%
capacity for u~ing all the space a~all~ble, with the
conqequent sav~ngs of tran8portation C05t5 ~hich ~ay be
e~aluated ~t 20% .to 30~.
Ad~ltlonally, the 6tacking between th~ contai-
ner~ result~ per~Qctly st~b~ due to th~ ~act th~t nolat~al displacem~nt qhall exl~t between them, 61nce an
uppe~ part o~ the ~a~ shall bQ ~oused in a mort~ 6Q 0
hollow pro~lded on the bot~om part.
Si~llarly, and as has ~sen previou~ly indica- -
ted, the container~ may be y~eu~J Yithout any type o~
packaglng, allo~ing ~Ge of tr~eportatlon o~ ths eame.
~inally, it.muct ~e lndicated that the conta$- .
ner p~essnts the partlcularity thqt ite ~tructure ic ..
roinforced by ~eans o~ lands and complementary rece6ses
prev~t~ng de~ormatiohs of the aa~e.
D~SC~P~TON-OP T~ DRAWT~GS
Ae co~plemQnt to th~ de~criptlon off~red -as
~ollows, and in or~sr to attaiR a bett~r under6tanding of
~he charact~ri~tics o~ the ln~ention, the pre~ent
de~crlptive ,e~o~L i~ encloaQd vith a 6et of drawing6
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b~6ed on which, the inno~ation~ and advantage~ of the
cont~n~r e~bodied acco~ding to th~ ih~entlo~ shall be
~or~ ~asily under~tood.
Figure 1 6hows a sect~onal vlew ~ccording to a
sidc elevation o~ a conta$ner ~ith the embod~ment of the
ob~ect of the l~vention.
,F~gure 2 sho~ a vi~w o~ ~our containere, stac-
k~d and coupled ln pair~, in accordance with thQ
e~bo~me~t of the prevloUs figure -
~0. . . ~igure--.3 sho~s a.pe~D~e~lve vie~ o~ four
.container~, collaterally inter-co~pled, l~a~ing,on Yie~,
the lands and reC~Fsos vith which the lateral Gides of
t~ contain~r~ are-provided wltb ~or said collateral
inter-coupling, said-container~ cD~s~ondinq to tho~
r~pre~entQd-~n figur~ nd a. - - - - -
Figure 4 shows a side ele~atlonal view of theupper part of the sa~e co~tainer represented in the
prQvious flgures, ~l~h the neck as an uppQr pro~ection of
the cont~iner, tho t~h~lAr ~ec~tion wlth w~ich ~aid neck
is contin~ nd the.in~erted n¢a~ in thR manner o~ pan
for fllling ~h8 container. .~
Figure 5 shows another elevational view ~imilar
to the ono in th~ previous figure, ln whlch the closu~e
o~ the container ha~ been ca~ried out by welding of the
2S t~bul~r 6ection ~hlch inter~oin~ thQ two necX6, ~ormed in
opposltion on the upp~r part of the actual cont~ine~,
Figur~ 6 showg ~ ~chematlcal view o~ what ~ay
be con~idered as a o~rie~ of ~ontain~rs, collaterally
lnt~r-coupled, the containers ~aving hexagonal contour,
in which ~ai~ contou~ h~ only been rQp~e~ented in order
to ~ke ~ioibl.c, t~Q-ab~olut~ ab~ence o~ lo~o o~ sp~ce.
Flgure-7 show~ a ~ eleva~ional vi~W of an
a~ternative ~bodi~ent o~ the contalner of the invQntlon, -
. . form$ng what i8 ~now~ as a "ca~" wi~ various liters o~
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. Figure 8 shows another Qlevatlonal vlew
corresponding to-a 90 rotated po~ition as re~ards the
pr~vious figure6 of the same container.
Figure 9 sho~s a plan vlew o~ ~he container
repres~nted ~n figurec 7 and 8.
. Flgu~e 10 6hows a slde elevat~onal vl~ of four
container~, collate~ally lnter-coupled and lhter-6tacked~
-as wel-~ a6 a pair of indepQndent container~, in po5~tion
- ~or coupling with thQ.previou6 cont~ner~, ln accordance
~ith -~he e~bod~mént of the contnaine~ repreo~nted in
flgure~-7, 8 and 9~
PTION o~ Fn ~MR~DI~NT
~ AB may b~ ob~erved 1~ ~lgur~ 1 tho~gh 6, the
container 1 o~ t~ ~nve~t~o~, vhich may be o~ rectangu-
lar, quadrangular ~nd .even h~xagonal configuration
prQsent~ the partlcularity that ~t least two 20nes at
differ~nt heights, of two of the ~ide~, each include
- - lands 2 ~hiah ar~ comple~eneary ~f co.~ onding rece~s
3 provided in alternate manner on the other 8~des, all - 20 the abov~, wi~h th~ ob~ect o~ aohl~ving a collateral cou-
pllng bet~een containers 1 a~ i6 represQnted in figu~s
2 and 3, allo~ing the formation o~ a block or package o~
contalnera 1 i~nd of their being ~ointly tranQported
without requiring box~s or retrac~lle packlng envelope6
for the 6ame.
Eaeh contiainer 1 ~ncludes on its base, a hollow
or ~ortl6Q 4 ~hlch allo~ the lnter-8~acking of contai- '.
n6r~, elnce in ~aid hollo~ or mortise ~, an upper
extQnsion o~ th~ actu21~cont~in~r may be loc~ted w~th
prec$~ion f~, ~hlch is d~terminant of the ~llling neck
and mouth, iand the.~pper part or-ex~en~ion of which i~
determlned ~y a nec~ S ~ith its lat~ra~ surface affec~d ::~
-. by a we~ i8 ~etermlnl~g a thread, nQck 5 which continues
-- axially-.and concent~lcally ~n a tub~liar ~Qction 6, and
~hich in turn 9Yr~ in~o another invert~d neck 7 vhi d ,
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ln th~ mann~r of pan, allow~ the con5tltution o~ a mean~
throu~h whlch the ~llling of the contalner 1 ls conduc-
ted, using said neck in the ranner of pan 7, after lt~
1n~Pp~n~iz~tion, ~s stopper coupled by screwlng on ~h~
neck 5 of container 1, since it shall have an internal
~e~bing compl~mentary to.th~ one provlded on said neck 5
in order to attach both parts or nec~s ~y scre~lng.
After conductinq the filli~g o$ container 1,
t~e clo6ure of the same is offect~d by mean8 o~ welding
8 of the tubu-lar eection 6, thus attaining a totally
- tlqht closure without requ~ring sea~ing, or eVQn a
~topper, si-nce ~he n~ck in the ~anne~ o~ pan 7, 1~ kept
joined ~o the -neck 5-through th~ tubular 6Retion 6 on
which is:e~bodied the ~elding ~, thus ~.orming a strlp 8'
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~otnt of thQ tubular sectton 6, origlnating on top 2nd
b~lo~ 6aid welding 8', the sections 5' and 7' whlch ~orm
part of necks 5 and 7 respectivQly, ln such ~ manner that
in ord~r to.open thQ container ~t 6hall ~e nece6~ary to
cut s~ction 5' ln vhich nec~ 5 16 $inl~h~d o~ on the ..
uppQr part. on its p~rt, nock 7, once m~de independent
from n~ck 5 and ~fter ~eing cu~ through th~ ~eld~d
~ectton 8', may be u~ed a~ stopper o~ th~ actual contal-
ner 1, in aecordance with pre~ou8 ~nd~¢ation6.
Land~ 2 and co~ple~entary rec~es 3 may have -~
any Euitable configuration, though adva~tageou81y, may
~ave dove~ll shap~, att~ining a retontlon b~t~een the
contain~rs ~$~hout pos~ibility that thj~y may beo~
lnd~e~ t unless an ~ntent1onal and ~anual uncoupling
30 i8 eonducted by th~.user.
~- -. In ~igure 3 $t~may be obserYed how contain~rs
1 collat~rally inter-coup~e ~or~ng a package wi~h a
~ariable number of units, capable of transportation
- togeth~r, ~ithout requlring pacX~ging o~ any type,
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necXs 5-7, and hollowc or ~orti8e6 4 of the b~G al~o~ing
the otabl~ stacking between contalners, alYays wlth the
ad~antage of a maximum use of space, both in 6aid
collateral coupling and in the vertlcal 6tacklng, as
represented in f~gure 2.
An example o~ the ~aximum u~e of the 6pace ~s
ee~e~atically represented in figure 6, in which contai-
ners 1', in this case with hexagonal contour, define a
p~cket o~ an inde~inlte nu~ber of units, without the
lo least 10B~ of 6pace, a complete o~perpo~itioning Or ~he
confronte~ sides exi6t~ng, ~ince the contours are
perfectly regular polygonals. In ~aid figure 6, re~ercn-
CQ~ 2' and 3' correspond to the l~nds 2nd comple~entary
rece6se~ provided on the l~teral side6 o~ the hexagonal
lS containers 1'.
F$gurQs 7 th~ough 10 show a Ya~iant e~bodiment
of the cont~iner, in this c~se in the ~haps o~ a can,
refer~nced gen~rally with number 1'', can or contain~r
which i8 equlpped with the cor~esponding lands 2 " and
~o complem~ntary recesse~ 3'', to permit the coll~teral
~nter-coupling, in similar fa~hion as i8 pre~OU8ly ~-
- ~ndicated.
Such contalner 1 " i8 provided on its upper
part with a neck 5" wlth ~topper and a handle 9, both
s~id neck and the actual necX with 6topper 5 " reaching.
the sa~e h~ight. Handle 9, ~hlch h~s an inverted ~'U"-
~haped con~guratlon and ~carce thicknes~, may be hollow
without co~munlcatlon exist~ng bet~een the same and the
in~lde of contain~r 1l'.
3C In corresponde~ce wlith Che ~as~, container ~
i~ a~ected wlth a ~ortise q1- whlch i5 rectangular and
perimetrically closed, the length and ~ldth of ~hich ~re
such that lt allo~s the hou~ng of han~le 9 ~nd neck 5 "
vi~h the ~topper, in the stacking bGtween contain~rs, ~8 ' `,
35 i8 repr~sentcd ln rigure 10, making i~pos~i~le the
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latcral di6place~nt of container~ 1 " wlth one another,
Uhen said ~tac~c~ng i5 ~ffected between the ~ame, thu~
~llowing an ea~ier and more ef~ic~ent ~o~Age.
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