Transport and storage container for liquids

Abstract

A transport and storage container for liquids includes a pallet-type understructure for an inner container made of plastic, the inner container having four side walls, a sealable filling socket formed on an upper bottom and an outlet socket formed on the lower portion of a side wall and having a tapping fitting, the container comprising a cage having horizontal and vertical bars made of metal for receiving the inner container, at least two vertical bars disposed on opposite side walls, being connected at connecting portions by a traverse bar extending over the upper bottom of the inner container which is formed by a hollow profile, the vertical bars having a cross section recess for decreasing a shear force acting on the connecting screw in transition portions formed adjacent to the connecting portions.

Claims

1. A transport and storage container for liquids comprising: a pallet understructure; a cage coupled to the pallet understructure, the cage comprising horizontal and vertical bars made of metal, the vertical bars having upper and lower ends formed by a hollow profile and welded to a lower and an upper circumferential edge profile of the cage, the upper ends of the vertical bars having a connecting portion to be connected to the upper edge profile, said connecting portion being formed by deforming the hollow profile to a flat section, the connecting portions having a passage opening; and a traverse bar formed by a hollow profile and having connecting portions formed on ends of the traverse bar by deforming the hollow profile of the traverse bar to a flat section, the connecting portions of the traverse bar having a fastening opening with a wall for forming a threaded engagement with a connecting screw, the traverse bar further comprising transition portions formed adjacent to the connecting portions and having a cross section recess; and an inner container made of plastic received in the cage; the inner container having four side walls, a lower and an upper bottom, a sealable filling socket which is formed on the upper bottom and an outlet socket which is formed on a lower portion of a side wall, said outlet socket having a tapping fitting, wherein the connecting portions of at least two vertical bars, which are disposed on opposite side walls, are connected at the connecting portions by the traverse bar which extends over the upper bottom of the inner container, such that the connecting portions of the vertical bars are connected to the connecting portions of the traverse bar, the connecting portions of the traverse bar are bent upward with respect to a longitudinal portion of the traverse bar, the longitudinal portion extends over the upper bottom of the inner container, and the connection portions of the traverse bar extend in parallel to the connecting portions of the vertical bars, wherein the connecting portions of the vertical bars and the connecting portions of the traverse bar are connected via a screwed joint in each case, such that the connecting screw is guided through the passage opening of the connecting portions of the vertical bars and engaged with the fastening opening of the connection portions of the traverse bar, wherein the cross section recess of the transition portion of the traverse bar is formed opposite a screw end of the connecting screw protruding from the fastening opening.

2. The container according to claim 1, wherein the cross section recess is formed as a depression or a recess which is formed between longitudinal edges of the traverse bar in the transition portion of the traverse bar.

3. The container according to claim 1, wherein the vertical bars have cross section recesses in the transition portion, each of the cross section recesses in the transition portions of the vertical bars forming a predetermined bending point which allows a pivoting of the connecting portions away from the inner container around the predetermined bending point and outwards around an axis which is parallel to the upper edge profile when a shear force acts on the connecting portions via the traverse bar.

4. The container according to claim 3, wherein the predetermined bending point is formed as a groove which is disposed on an outer surface of the vertical bars in the transition portion and which extends parallel to the upper edge profile.

Description

(1) Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the disclosure will be described in more detail with reference to the drawings.

(2) FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of a transport and storage container comprising a cage which is provided with traverse bars on its upper edge profile;

(3) FIG. 2 shows an enlarged view of a traverse bar connecting area which is formed on the cage;

(4) FIG. 3 shows a sectional view of the traverse bar connecting area shown in FIG. 2 according to cutting line in FIG. 2;

(5) FIG. 4 shows an enlarged view of the traverse bar connecting area illustrated in FIG. 3 in a case where an inner container of the transport and storage container illustrated in FIG. 1 is subjected to increased internal pressure.

(6) FIG. 1 shows a transport and storage container 10 for liquids which can be used as a disposable container and as a reusable container and which comprises an inner container 11 made of plastic, inner container 11 having four side walls 12, 13, 14 and 15 and a lower and an upper bottom 16, 17, a filling socket 19 which is formed on upper bottom 17 and which is sealable with a lid 18, and an outlet socket 20 which is formed on the lower portion of front side wall 13, said outlet socket 20 having a tapping fitting 21, transport and storage container 10 further comprising an outer cage 22 formed by intersecting horizontal and vertical bars 23, 24 made of metal for receiving inner container 11. Vertical bars 24 are welded to an upper edge profile 26 via an upper connecting portion 25 and to a lower edge profile 28 of cage 22 via a lower connecting portion 27. Furthermore, cage 22 is connected to a pallet-type understructure 29 via its lower edge profile 28.

(7) As FIG. 1 shows, cage 22 is provided with two traverse bars 30 which extend over upper bottom 17 of inner container 11 and which extend parallel to each other in the case at hand and which are connected to upper connecting portion 25 of a vertical bar 24 in a force-fitting manner via a screwed joint 32 at connecting portions 31 formed on each of their longitudinal ends, as is illustrated in FIG. 2. As FIG. 3 shows, both connecting portion 31 of traverse bar 30 and connecting portion 25 of vertical bar 24 are each formed by a flat section of traverse bar 30 and of vertical bar 24, which are formed by hollow profiles 33 and 34, respectively, and are separated from longitudinal portions 37 and 38, which are formed by hollow profiles 33 and 34, by means of transition portions 35 and 36, respectively.

(8) As in particular FIG. 3 shows, connecting portion 31 of traverse bar 30 is bent open with respect to longitudinal portion 37 of traverse bar 30 in such a manner that connecting portion 31 of traverse bar 30 and connecting portion 25 of vertical bar 24 extend in essentially parallel planes, connecting portions 31, 25 being connected to each other in a force-fitting manner by means of a connecting screw 39 which extends through a passage opening 40 formed in connecting portion 25 of vertical bar 24 and through a fastening opening 41 formed in connecting portion 31 of traverse bar 30.

(9) To form the force fit, connecting screw 39 is screwed into fastening opening 41, which is formed as a threaded hole, with a screw end 42, which penetrates fastening opening 41, in such a manner that a threaded engagement is produced between a wall 43 of fastening opening 41 and screw end 42.

(10) In particular FIGS. 2 and 3 show that, in the present embodiment of the transport and storage container, both transition portion 35, which is formed between connecting portion 31 and longitudinal portion 37 of traverse bar 30, and transition portion 36, which is formed between connecting portion 25 and longitudinal portion 38 of vertical bar 24, have a cross section recess which is formed as a depression 44 or a groove 45, depression 44 being formed opposite screw end 42 which protrudes from fastening opening 41, and groove 45 being formed in an outer surface 46 of bar 24 which faces away from inner container 11 and extending parallel to upper edge profile 26.

(11) To explain the advantageous effect of depression 44 and groove 46 in a case where an inner container 11 is subject to increased hydraulic internal pressure, FIG. 4 schematically illustrates the deformation state in the area of screwed joint 32. As a comparison between the undeformed state of screwed joint 32 (illustrated in FIG. 3) and the deformation state (illustrated in FIG. 4) shows, forming depression 44 in transition portion 35 of traverse bar 30 allows transition portion 35 to approach screw end 42 in the event of a deformation, without forming a physical contact between screw end 42 and transition portion 35. Depression 44 forms a free space in transition portion 35 into which screw end 42 can plunge when transition portion 35 approaches screw end 42.

(12) Furthermore, a comparison between the illustrations in FIGS. 3 and 4 shows that groove 45 which is formed on outer surface 46 of vertical bar 24 in transition portion 36 forms a predetermined bending point, which allows a pivoting of connecting portions 31, 25 around the predetermined bending point and outwards around an axis which is parallel to upper edge profile 26 when a shear force acts on connecting portions 25, 31 via traverse bar 30 as a result of the expansion of inner container 11, such that, in addition to the aforementioned possibility of plunging into depression 44, screw end 42 of connecting screw 39 can also avoid the approaching of transition portion 35 of traverse bar 30 because of this pivoting motion.

(13) As can be derived from the above, both the forming of depression 44 in transition portion 35 of traverse bar 30 and the forming of groove 45 in transition portion 36 of vertical bar 24 allow avoiding a physical contact between transition portion 35 of traverse bar 30 and screw end 42, the simultaneous forming of depression 44 and groove 46 in the illustrated embodiment allowing a particularly advantageous overlapping of the effects.