CN101772459A - Container insert for zero headspace - Google Patents
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- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
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- B65D47/20—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps comprising hand-operated members for controlling discharge
- B65D47/2018—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps comprising hand-operated members for controlling discharge comprising a valve or like element which is opened or closed by deformation of the container or closure
- B65D47/2031—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps comprising hand-operated members for controlling discharge comprising a valve or like element which is opened or closed by deformation of the container or closure the element being formed by a slit, narrow opening or constrictable spout, the size of the outlet passage being able to be varied by increasing or decreasing the pressure
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
- B67C—CLEANING, FILLING WITH LIQUIDS OR SEMILIQUIDS, OR EMPTYING, OF BOTTLES, JARS, CANS, CASKS, BARRELS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FUNNELS
- B67C3/00—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus; Filling casks or barrels with liquids or semiliquids
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Abstract
A container (3) suitable for containing a liquid composition and comprising an insert (1) located in the neck (2) of said container (3), and wherein when said container (3) is filled with a liquid composition, zero headspace exists below said insert (1).
Description
Invention field
The present invention relates generally to a kind of container with zero head room.More particularly, the present invention relates to a kind of plug-in unit that obtains zero head room at described internal tank.
Background of invention
In the time of in fluid composition being packaged into the packing of using for the customer, before can be with package encapsulation, air generally be trapped in the top of container.The air that is trapped in container top (head room) produces bubble, and the direction of therefore rotating bottle or changing it will make the composite confusion of bottle interior.Create under the situation of special pattern in the fluid composition in container, bubble can cause damage to pattern between Time of Shipment.Head room generally can " be full of " container by the composite with sufficient amount and prevent that air from remaining on container top and dwindling.Yet this technology is difficult to automation, and therefore must carry out by hand usually.In addition, " being full of " causes the overflow of fluid composition usually, and it makes cost up also may influence the oeverall quality of the liquid product in the container.
A kind of known method that is used to eliminate head room is the gas that discharges the container that is filled with liquid.A kind of technology relates to pressure system, and described pressure system comprises sheet rubber, metal spring and/or the flexible film (being generally vinyl chloride) that is used for mentioning and opening the air extractor vent on the closure member when internal pressure reaches given threshold value.Method for exhausting depends primarily on the kind of the fluid composition that carries out exhaust so that can operate.It also limits the pattern option and influences the optimal allocation of fluid composition.Another kind of technology is complicated passage is provided on closure member and makes gas can leave system and the liquid loss is minimum.The third system, it can be known as pinhole system, adopts the one or more micropores on rubber, metal or plastic diaphragms that make material can see through gas.Another kind of system, so-called positive-dispacement pump or piston system adopt a kind of mechanism that composite is shifted onto container top by the piston or the pump of rising.Yet, do not have a kind of head room that can eliminate container effectively in the preceding method.
In general, preceding method requires after filling by pump or compression container, forces gas to pass through the manual gas of getting rid of of method of vent material.These methods have can not evict the weakness of gas fully from and usually cause gas backstreaming in container.Especially discharging by the compressed flexible container under the situation of gas, when allowing container to return to it not during compression position, some gas is drawn back in the container probably.
Therefore, still need a kind of zero head room that during packaging produces also to prevent that simultaneously gas from reentering the closure member in the container.Also need to allow customer's content of distribution package from same closure member easily.
Summary of the invention
The present invention is suitable for the receiving fluids composite and comprises that the container that is positioned at the plug-in unit on the described container neck has satisfied aforementioned needs by providing, and wherein when described vessel filling has fluid composition, has zero head room below described plug-in unit.
Although the present invention will get in touch some embodiment and be described, should be appreciated that the present invention is not limited to these embodiments.On the contrary, the present invention includes all selective replacement schemes, modification and the equivalent that belongs in the spirit and scope of the invention.
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Accompanying drawing, illustrative embodiment of the present invention with general description of the present invention that above provides and the detailed Description Of The Invention that hereinafter provides, are used for explaining the present invention.
Fig. 1 is the side front elevation that comprises the container of fluid composition and plug-in unit described herein;
Fig. 2 is the enlarged perspective as the valve of plug-in unit in this paper container;
Fig. 3 is the top plan view of valve shown in Fig. 2;
Fig. 4 is the side front elevation of valve shown in Fig. 2;
Fig. 5 is the enlarged side view according to the container that comprises fluid composition of assign group component as described herein;
Fig. 6 is the container top and the enlarged side view that inserts according to the valve of one embodiment of the invention that comprises fluid composition;
Fig. 7 is the enlarged side view that comprises the container top of fluid composition, and fluid composition moved by valve when it showed in injecting container neck.
Fig. 8 is the enlarged side view on top that comprises the container of fluid composition, and it shows in the cardinal principle balance on the valve face either side after the insertion.
Detailed Description Of The Invention
Particularly point out and claimed claims of the present invention clearly though after specification sheets, provide, it is believed that the present invention may be better understood by following description.
As used herein, term " plug-in unit " be meant fluid composition under the enough condition of pressure reduction can by and can be fixed in a kind of mechanism of the internal tank that is suitable for fluid composition.Valve is a kind of of plug-in unit.
As used herein, term " valve " is meant and is used to stop or a kind of device that controlling liquid, gas or other material flow by passage, pipeline, inlet, outlet etc.When applying enough difference of pressures thereon, it can be activated.
As used herein, term " balance substantially " is meant that the external force on the either side that acts on the surface is almost equal or equal.Under the cardinal principle EQUILIBRIUM CONDITION, valve keeps sealing herein.The pressure reduction deficiency causes balance substantially.
As used herein, term " pressure reduction " thus be meant and make plug-in unit be activated and breathable pressure on the side that acts on this paper plug-in unit.
As used herein, term " zero head room " is meant the space between the top surface of the lower surface of plug-in unit and fluid composition, this space internal tank be positioned at plug-in unit below.When obtaining zero head room, between the lower surface (below) of plug-in unit and fluid composition, there is not the space.
In one embodiment, the plug-in unit that is used for obtaining zero head room is a valve 1, and it is designed to be inserted into effectively in the neck 2 of container 3.Usually by clasp 5 valve 1 is attached to or is sealed on the inwall 16 of neck 2.Valve 1 generally comprises flexible elastic material, and described valve can open under the pressure differential effect so that distributing fluids, and under the situation of pressure reduction relative deficiency, it is impermeable substantially for liquids and gases.Valve 1 can use based on the thermoplastic elastomer of, ethene third rare such as themoplasticity, urethane, styrene and their halid material and process.Similarly valve is described in US Patent 5,439, in 143 and U.S. reissue patent RE39,520.More valve can be from supplier Liquid Molding Systems for example, and Inc. (Crystal lake, Illinois) commercially available.
Shown in Fig. 2-4, a kind of flexible longitudinal plane of symmetry 6 that comprises of valve 1, this longitudinal plane of symmetry 6 have recessed configuration (when from visual observation) and it limits two orthogonal crossing isometric approximately distribution slits 7.The slit 7 that intersects limits four roughly fan-shaped turnover panels 8 on recessed longitudinal plane of symmetry 6.The container pressure (pressure reduction) that turnover panel 8 responds the enough sizes that increase is outwards opened from the intersection point of slit 7, and it can be by compressed flexible container 3 or (hereinafter describing in detail) realization when valve 1 being injected the neck 2 of container 3.
Valve 1 comprises from valve 1 longitudinal plane of symmetry 6 outward extending shirt rims 10 (Fig. 4).Outside shirt rim 10 (on) end, there is thin annular lip 11, this annular lip 11 10 is circumferentially extended with angled direction from the shirt rim.Thin flange 11 ends at the much thick periphery flange 12 of increase, and this periphery flange 12 has the cross-sectional plane of approximate wedge shape.
The lower surface of periphery flange 12 is incorporated on the clasp 5, and this clasp 5 extends upward to form cylinder 13, and described cylinder 13 has the length of slightly being longer than the neck 2 of container 3 usually.Cylinder 13 comprises inwall 14 and outer wall 15.The outer wall 15 of cylinder 13 can comprise that component is sealed to the outer wall 15 with cylinder 13 on the mating surfaces of inwall 16 of container 3 necks 2.Component can comprise screw thread, clamps tight mechanism, clamping mechanism, adhesion agent or known in the artly be used to produce other parts of leak free.
As mentioned above, when having liquid in the packing that comprises fluid composition, the air pocket of package top make usually composite aspect chemical, aesthetic or this two aspects disorder.Although in fluid composition, can exist other gas as suspended matter or air bag, during transportation can migrate in the whole liquid composite at the air pocket of package top, this will cause aforesaid disorder.This problem is resolved by zero head room plug-in unit.
In one embodiment, zero head room is by being filled into shoulder 19 places of container 3 with fluid composition 17 with container 3 or above level 18 realizes, as shown in Figure 5.When filling, container has a part of gas 9 (air) that continues to stay container 3 tops usually, and it is usually at shoulder more than 19 and be in the neck 2.Valve 1 is inserted into replaces fluid composition 17 in the neck 2.When valve 1 was fallen in the neck 2, fluid composition 17 was substituted in container 3, was forced in from upwards rotating on one's body and opening, shown in Fig. 6 and 7 up to valve 1.Fluid composition 17 flows through valve openings 4, and accumulates on the valve 1, and is general in the neck 2 of container 3.When valve 1 reached the cardinal principle balance, next valve 1 turned back to its sealing station, as shown in Figure 8.After inserting valve 1 and being fixed on the neck 2, then can the top cover (not shown) be administered on the container 3 as closure member by various parts known in the art by component mentioned above.
Above-mentioned zero head room plug-in unit prevents that gas (now being arranged on the valve 1) from entering and destroying the fluid composition 17 of container 3.This is to preventing that rotation owing to container 3 from damaging the fluid composition that comprises pattern and figure and bubble and moving in the whole liquid composite 17 and be particularly useful.Certainly, keep such pattern and figure especially be packaged in transparent vessel in fluid composition relevant.Therefore, in one embodiment, container 3 is transparent or the semi-translucent container.
In use, for discharged liquid composite 17 from container 3, valve 1 must be removable, and perhaps container 3 can be flexible.Therefore, in one embodiment, valve 1 by component movably for example screw thread be removable, as indicated above.Under the situation of personal care composition or other low viscosity liquid composite, compressible container can significantly improve the comfort feature that fluid composition is discharged.Therefore, in another embodiment, container 3 is mainly by flexible plastic material for example polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP) or poly-ethylene glycol dibenzoate (PET) is made.This type of material can be processed to transparent, opaque or semi-translucent container.As indicated above, compressed flexible container 3 produces and is enough to come the pressure reduction of discharged liquid composite 17 to need not valve is removed by valve 1.
Dimension disclosed herein and value are not intended to be understood that strictly to be limited to described exact value.On the contrary, except as otherwise noted, each such dimension is intended to represent the value of being quoted and centers on the scope that is equal on this value function.For example, disclosed size " 40mm " is intended to expression " about 40mm ".
The relevant part of all references is all incorporated this paper into way of reference in the detailed Description Of The Invention.Quoting of any document all may not be interpreted as its approval as prior art of the present invention.When any implication of term in any implication of term among the present invention or definition and the file of introducing for your guidance or when defining contradiction, should obey the implication or the definition of giving this term in the present invention.
Though casehistory and described specific embodiments of the present invention it is obvious to those skilled in the art that and can make a plurality of other changes and modification under the situation that does not break away from the spirit and scope of the invention.Therefore, in additional claims, comprise all such changes and modifications that belong in the scope of the invention consciously.
Claims (8)
1. container, this container is suitable for the receiving fluids composite and comprises the plug-in unit that is arranged in described container neck, and wherein when described vessel filling has fluid composition, has zero head room below described plug-in unit.
2. plug-in unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein said plug-in unit are valve.
3. as claim 1 and 2 described containers, wherein said container is a flexible cell.
4. the described container of each claim as described above, wherein said container are transparent or semi-translucent.
5. the described container of each claim as described above, wherein said container comprises polyethylene, polypropylene or polyethylene terephthalate.
6. the described fluid composition of each claim as described above, wherein said fluid composition presents pattern or figure.
7. the described fluid composition of each claim as described above, wherein said fluid composition is a multi phase personal care composition.
8. method that realizes zero head room according to following steps:
A. with fluid composition with vessel filling to level more than the shoulder of described container;
B. plug-in unit is inserted in the described container, so as to move described fluid composition up to described fluid composition owing to pressure reduction flows through described valve;
C. allow described valve at cardinal principle balance lower seal.
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