Bottle crate

A crate ( also box or frame, in Switzerland and in the GDR trade language Harass, bavarian Tragl ) is used to transport bottles. Originally it was made of wood, today it is usually made of plastic. Crates are mainly used for returnable bottles, is also being charged for these separately according to type a deposit amount.

Today's commercially available boxes are built so that the lower surface snaps onto the surface of an identical box when successive sets the crates. Thereby, the boxes are well suited stackable for transport. This property forms the basis of the toy box stacking.

Cases of beer and mineral water boxes usually have the base 400 mm × 300 mm, juice boxes with 6 × 6 × 0.75 or 1 liter of mineral water boxes with 6 × 1.5 liters and milk crates and crates of beer with 11 0.5 -liter bottles the dimensions of 300 mm × 200 mm. Thus, they can be stacked and transported 800 mm with the base of 1200 mm × efficiently and without loss of cargo space on euro -pallets. In the format of 400 mm x 300 mm Euro pallets are loaded with 40 boxes, the box size 300 mm × 200 mm 60 to 80 crates stacked on the pallet in the offset. A stocked with empties Euro pallet weighs approximately 200 to 400 kg. With full product it reaches a weight of 550 up to 1200 kg.

Examples: 12 × 40 × 1 liter PET boxes full product weighs about 560 kg. 20 × 0.5 × 40 liter boxes weigh around 800 kg. 11 × 0.5 × 60 liter boxes weigh about 700 kg.

For a long time mineral water boxes have for refillable glass bottles, the base 355 mm × 270 mm. They are 48 or 60 pieces to so-called well pallets with an area of 1100 mm x 1070 mm stacked (ie not a Euro dimensions ). Equipped with 48 crates of empties weighs a fountain pallet 350 kg, with 60 cases about 440 kg. Equipped with full containers weigh the pallets 815-1050 kg.

Beer crates usually contain either 24 × 0.33 -liter bottles ( total of 8 liters / box) or 20 × 0.5 -liter bottles ( total of 10 liter / box).

Historical Bierkasten

Stacked on pallets, beer crates

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