CONTAINER-CARRYING DEVICE

Abstract

A container-carrying device includes a body that has on the surface at least one opening that is sized for a container to be passed and tightly inserted therethrough. The opening has a contour that has at least one tab extended towards the inside of the same opening, which defines a transition region between the tab and the body. The tab has folding or bending capability in relation to the body. The contour has a rounded chamfer geometry on at least one section adjacent to the transition region between at least one tab and the body.

Claims

1.-31. (canceled)

32. A container-carrying device comprising: a body that has on the surface thereof at least one opening that is sized for a container to be passed and tightly inserted therethrough, wherein the opening has a contour that has at least one tab extended towards the inside of the same opening thereby defining a transition region between the tab and the body, wherein the tab has folding or bending capability in relation to the body, and wherein the contour has a rounded chamfer geometry on at least one section adjacent to the transition region between at least one tab and the body.

33. The container-carrying device of claim 32, wherein the contour has two sections with a rounded chamfer geometry adjacent to one same transition region, the sections arranged in opposite positions with respect to the transition region.

34. The container-carrying device of claim 32, wherein the contour has at least two contiguous tabs.

35. The container-carrying device of claim 34, wherein at least one section with a rounded chamfer geometry of the contour is arranged adjacent to the transition region between a tab of the two contiguous tabs and the body which is free from contact with the other contiguous tab.

36. The container-carrying device of claim 32, wherein the contour has at least two tabs and at least one spacing between the two tabs.

37. The container-carrying device of claim 36, wherein the contour has at least two sections with a rounded chamfer geometry arranged in opposite positions with respect to the spacing.

38. The container-carrying device of claim 36, wherein the spacing has a symmetrical geometry.

39. The container-carrying device of claim 32, wherein the contour has at least three tabs, wherein at least two tabs of the three tabs are contiguous and at least one spacing is between the at least two tabs.

40. The container-carrying device of claim 32, wherein the contour has a plurality of tabs distributed according to a sequence that repeats at least once throughout the contour.

41. The container-carrying device of claim 40, wherein the sequence comprises at least two mutually contiguous tabs.

42. The container-carrying device of claim 40, wherein the sequence comprises at least one space.

43. The container-carrying device of claim 42, wherein there is at least one space between a first tab and a second tab.

44. The container-carrying device of claim 42, wherein there is at least one space at the beginning of the sequence and/or at the end of the sequence.

45. The container-carrying device of claim 40, wherein at least one section with a rounded chamfer geometry is adjacent to the transition region between at least one tab, which is included in the sequence, and the body.

46. The container-carrying device of claim 42, wherein at least one section with a rounded chamfer geometry is adjacent to the transition region between at least one tab, which is included in the sequence, and the body; and the contour has at least one section with a rounded chamfer geometry that is adjacent to the transition region between the first tab and the body closest to the space, and another section with a rounded chamfer geometry that is adjacent to the transition region between the second tab and the body closest to the space.

47. The container-carrying device of claim 32, wherein the body is a laminar-type body.

48. The container-carrying device of claim 32, wherein the rounded chamfer geometry of the section corresponds to an arc.

49. The container-carrying device of claim 32, wherein a region of the tab that is adjacent to the upper free edge of the same tab is enabled so that in a condition of use of the carrying device, it withstands a compressive load and force.

50. The container-carrying device of claim 36, wherein the spacing is enabled so that in a condition of use of the carrying device, it withstands a tractive load and force.

51. The container-carrying device of claim 42, wherein the region of the contour of the opening that is adjacent to the space is enabled so that, in a condition of use of the carrying device, it withstands a tractive load and force.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0070] FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view of a preferred embodiment of the container-carrying device of the present invention.

[0071] FIG. 2 is a schematic view of an enlarged detail of FIG. 1.

[0072] FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the way in which the compressive and tractive load and force act in an embodiment of the carrying device according to the present invention.

DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

[0073] As schematically shown in the plan view of FIG. 1, the container-carrying device of the invention proposed comprises a laminar-type body 1 with a rectangular geometry, which has on the surface thereof at least one opening 2.

[0074] Said openings 2 are sized for a beverage can or container to be tightly pass therethrough and have a contour 3, understood as the linear perimeter thereof, which has at least one tab 4 extended toward the inside of the same opening 2.

[0075] As was previously explained, defined between the tab 4 and the body 1 is a transition region 5, which may also be called intermediate region, as seen more clearly in enlarged detail A of FIG. 2. Likewise, said tab 4 has folding or bending capability in relation to the body 1.

[0076] The distribution of tabs 4 on the contour 3 follows a specific sequence 8 that is repeated at least once throughout the same contour 3, as seen in FIG. 1. Said sequence 8 comprises at least one space 9 that is between two tabs 4 and also two contiguous tabs 4. In FIG. 1, the sequence 8 is shown inside a dashed line, and it is repeated four times, occupying the entire contour 3 of the opening 2.

[0077] The contour 3 of the opening 2 has at least one section 7 with a rounded chamfer geometry, as can be seen in enlarged detail A of FIG. 2. Said section 7 is adjacent to or in contact with the transition region 5.

[0078] As can be seen in enlarged detail A of FIG. 2, the rounded chamfer has rounded corners with no vertices and corresponds to an arc. The radius of this arc is preferably between 0.45 mm and 1.5 mm.

[0079] The enlarged detail A of FIG. 2 shows how the contour 3 has two sections 7 with a rounded chamfer geometry arranged in opposite positions with respect to the space 9.

[0080] Enlarged detail A of FIG. 2 also shows how the space 9 is between a first tab 4a and a second tab 4b. The section 7 with a rounded chamfer geometry is adjacent to the transition region 5 between the first tab 4a and the body 1 closest to the space 9. Another section 7 with a rounded chamfer geometry is adjacent to the transition region 5 between the second tab 4b and the body 1 closest to the space 9.

[0081] As can be seen in FIGS. 1 and 2, the tabs 4 have a symmetrical polygonal, rectangular or trapezoidal geometry.

[0082] Likewise, the space 9 also has a symmetrical geometry, the two sections 7 of the contour 3 having symmetrical rounded chamfer geometries with respect to the axis of symmetry of the same space 9.

[0083] As can be seen particularly in enlarged detail A of FIG. 2, each one of the two sections 7 of the contour 3 connects by means of the rounded chamfer to the sides of the tabs 4a and 4b arranged on either side of the axis of symmetry of the space 9.

[0084] As can be seen in FIGS. 1 and 2, the region of the contour 3 of the opening 2 that corresponds to the space 9 has a straight path.

[0085] In the use of the container-carrying device of the invention, the sections 7 with the rounded chamfer adjacent to or in contact with the transition region 5 of the tabs 4 prevent the tearing of the material of the body 1 when tightly passing the beverage can or container through the openings 2 of the same body 1.

[0086] As can be seen in FIG. 3, another highly advantageous aspect of the arrangement of the container-carrying device of the proposed invention is that in the use thereof, by tightly inserting and arranging a container through the opening 2, the action of the weight of the container itself causes the region of the tabs 4 that corresponds to the upper free edge of the same tabs 4 to withstand compressive load and force.

[0087] At the same time, and due to the same action of the weight of the same container, in the same condition of use with the container tightly inserted and arranged through the same opening 2, the region of the same contour 3 of the opening 2 that corresponds to the spaces 9 withstands tractive load and force.

[0088] In a highly advantageous way and as a result of the foregoing, in the container-carrying device of the proposed invention, the fastening of the container based on the weight exerted by the same results in around 60% compressive load and force withstood by the tabs 4 and around 40% tractive load and force withstood by the region of the contour 3 of the opening 2 of the body 1 that corresponds to the spaces 9 or spacings.

[0089] This results in a much more effective fastening of the container in the use of the container-carrying device of the invention by allowing for a more advantageous distribution of the loads and forces to which the contour 3 of the opening 2 of the body 1 is subjected as a result of the weight of the container itself.

[0090] The details, shapes, dimensions and other secondary elements, as well as the materials used in manufacturing the container-carrying device of the invention, may be suitably replaced with others that are technically equivalent and do not depart from the essential nature of the invention or from the scope defined by the claims included below.