Modular Container for Holding Ventilation-Sensitive Commodities

Abstract

The invention relates to a modular container consisting of a plurality of elementary containers ( 1 ) stacked sequentially into one another. The elementary containers ( 1 ) comprise a recessed ( 5 ) [sic] base ( 4 ) for receiving a neck ( 2 ). Nesting elements ( 6, 7 ) assemble peripheral ramps ( 8, 9 ) in nested cooperation capable of assembling together the elementary containers ( 1 ) by rotating their axial junction, and end-of-travel stops ( 10, 11, 14, 15 ) of said rotation in snap-on cooperation which constitute means of locking the assembly of the elementary containers ( 1 ) from rotation, and which are capable of preventing spontaneous reverse rotation.

1 . A modular container comprised of a plurality of elementary containers stacked sequentially into one another, the elementary containers comprising a recessed base of a revolution conformation to receive a neck of a similar structure, cooperating nesting elements being made respectively on the base and on the neck of the elementary containers ( 1 ) in order to constitute means of assembling the elementary containers with each other, wherein the nesting elements associate peripheral ramps in nested cooperation, which are able to assemble the elementary containers ( 1 ) with each other by rotation of their axial junction, and end-of-travel stops of said rotation in snap-on cooperation, which constitute locking means of the assembly in rotation of elementary containers with each other and which can prevent a spontaneous reverse rotation. 
   
   
       2 . The modular container of  claim 1 , wherein the stops are integrated into the ramps and are in snap-on cooperation with them by snap-on in reaction to an elastic deformation of the nesting elements. 
   
   
       3 . The modular container of  claim 2 , wherein the nesting elements are elastically deformable indifferently by means of the ramp and/or the stop of which they are a part, respectively. 
   
   
       4 . The modular container of  claim 1 , wherein the ramps are made respectively recessed and/or projecting indifferently on one and/or the other of the base and/or the neck of the elementary containers. 
   
   
       5 . The modular container of  claim 1 , wherein the stops are made respectively recessed and/or projecting indifferently on one and/or the other of the ramps respectively assigned to the base and/or to the neck of the elementary containers. 
   
   
       6 . The modular container of  claim 1 , wherein the cooperation surface between the stops is spherical. 
   
   
       7 . The modular container of  claim 1 , wherein the cooperation stops are formed by complementary snap-on reliefs that are made indifferently made at the end of the ramps for a tangential connection of the elementary containers between each other with respect to their revolution conformation, and/or by snap-on reliefs made indifferently on the axial and/or peripheral faces of the nesting elements, for a radial connection of the elementary containers to each other. 
   
   
       8 . The modular container of  claim 1 , wherein a male nesting element is formed from a plate integrated by molding into the neck, said plate comprising a plurality of ramps radially distributed equally, at least one of which forms at least one stop, while a female nesting element is formed from recess of complementary shape integrated into the molding of the base. 
   
   
       9 . The modular container of  claim 8 , wherein the ramps are arranged as grooves made in the section of the plate ( 12 ). 
   
   
       10 . The modular container of  claim 8  wherein the cooperating stops are respectively arranged as dome and cup and are indifferently of axial extension and/or of radial extension. 
   
   
       11 . The modular container of  claim 8  wherein the ramps are indifferently of circular or helicoidal extension. 
   
   
       12 . The modular container of  claim 8  wherein the ramps are helix shaped and constitute elements of axial thrust against the stops. 
   
   
       13 . The modular container of  claim 1  wherein the ramps are in plurality and are radially equally distributed and oriented along a generatrix of said conformation of revolution of the recess of the base and of the neck. 
   
   
       14 . The modular container of  claim 12 , wherein the stops are formed by at least a bead and a groove that are made respectively at the end of one and/or the other of the ramps respectively made in the base and neck.