CN101124119A

CN101124119A - Container for beverages and method for filling of such container

Info

Publication number: CN101124119A
Application number: CNA200580030178XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 乔瓦尼·扎戈; 米尔齐亚德·博库斯
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2004-08-02
Filing date: 2005-08-02
Publication date: 2008-02-13
Also published as: ITPN20040054A1

Abstract

A disposable container for beverages (6) complete with a hermetic closing device (23), and realised in a plastic and/or thermoplastic material by means of a mold-blowing technique; the main characteristic is that it permits the drinking of a single portion of the beverage, whether water, wine or some other gaseous or natural beverage, which maintains the integral flavour and amount of gas that may be contained in said container, in the same condition as that poured from a freshly bottle.

Description

The method of drinking container and this container of filling

Technical field

The present invention relates to a kind of drinking container and a kind of method of filling this container.

Background technology

The container that is used for marketing beverages at present mainly comprises jar, glass bottle and/or plastic bottle, and described beverage is water, grape wine and other alcohol and non-alcoholic beverage for example.

Specifically for wine, keep grape wine unlike the ancient Greece people in terrine, Roman's early start uses wooden barrel and glass bottle, just introduces the initial grape wine vintage wine and the notion of ageing thus before more than 2,000 years.

Nowadays, these terms have lost their original implications to a great extent, because large-scale market is more general, weight is lighter, outward appearance is more tempting and more economical new approaches and form.

Described form also should be practical many, and should weight in sky lighter so that handle and the reduction of traffic cost.

The container that is used for water and other non-alcoholic beverage is made of plastic usually; Employed plastics generally are a kind of poly-mers, promptly so-called PET (polyethylene terephthalate), and its principal particulars is transparent fully and can bears the mechanical strees of the liquid that contains gas-pressurized.

PET belongs to molecular category of polyesters, promptly initially is extruded into fibrous poly-mer, and this poly-mer is widely used in manufacturing from the shirt to socks and stocking and the various clothings that serve as a contrast cotton jacket etc. at the seventies.

PET can use separately or by the mixed related use of the similar compatible polymer of suitable percentum and other, these poly-mers are PEN (PEN), PETG (polyethylene terephtalate glycol) and other similar products for example.

Summary of the invention

In this context, the invention is intended to propose a kind of completely new product that can utilize aforementioned PET and/or PET/PEN and/or compound, similar and/or different derivant to make.

Particularly, the objective of the invention is to realize a kind of drinking container, it has the characteristic of top seal sealing and wieldy glassy container.

Another object of the present invention is to realize a kind of drinking container, and it is avoided using bottle and glass and makes the user can only consume the beverage of aequum when needed.

Another object of the present invention is to realize a kind of drinking container, and it allows user directly to drink and needn't gollop from container, but allows the user to drink contained beverage in mode identical when using the traditional glass cup.

Another object of the present invention is to realize a kind of drinking container, and its weight is extremely light, transparent, airtight, biodegradable, shock-resistant, and its contained beverage keeps definitely pollution-free.

The these and other objects utilization realizes according to the drinking container of claims 1 and according to the fill method that is used for described container of claim 11.

Advantageously, the present invention includes a kind of drinking container, described beverage is mineral water, natural fermented wine, fruit juice, alcohol and non-alcoholic beverage, beverage gassiness or that do not have gas for example, this container seals by the blow molding technology manufacturing and with seal cap portion, and sealing cap portion injects by thermoplastic and makes and be applied to container top.

This cap portion is complete leak free, therefore can be used to the wine with vapour and foaming, and promptly so-called " fizz (spumante) ", this wine at room temperature just can reach in 1.5-2 clings to change between the 3-3.5 crust high and press.

Preferably have two kinds of preferred capacity (not having under the situation of drinkable liquid), i.e. 100cc and 187.5cc according to container of the present invention.

Container with above-mentioned characteristic uses blow molding technology to realize, and can be configured to single piece or be configured to two under the situation that the bar bilge construction is made separately and applied.

Container is realized with plastic material, preferably uses PET, and this is because its specific wear-resisting, in light weight, transparent and hermetic properties fully, with and and other food compositions between the height chemical inertness and the characteristics that can reclaim fully; PET can use multiple different technologies distortion, for example blowing, injection moulding or extrusion molding.

In addition, the content of the wide diameter of the opening bigger than the normal bottles on the market (no matter being the bottle of 1 liter, half liter or 1/4th liters capacity) and single part makes container according to the present invention have the unique practical characteristic of having no precedent before.

For example, expect easily at the restaurant or use described container in the snack counter; In both cases, this container all makes not to be needed glass and provides additional function and considerable saving economically, because it has saved the purchase of glass and the management replacing of dry and broken cup (clean).

Container according to the present invention is all extremely important in other daily use (at bar and family), because its make the user can potable water, wine and certain other gassiness and the natural alcohol or the part of non-alcoholic beverage, this part is very fresh as what take out from new one bottle.

At last, drinking container of the present invention provides a lot of advantages, for example:

-weight is extremely light;

-excellent biodegradability (when burning, only generating water and carbon dioxide);

-to the perfect hygienic protection of mouth contact area;

-excellent the transparency;

-be used to hold mechanical well-formedness with water, wine and other carbonated beverage of pressing in high;

-air-tightness;

-extraordinary Dent resistance;

-inclusion contaminated anything but;

-meet the opening and closing operation of ergonomics.

Description of drawings

From following to as the preferred illustrative of the drinking container of theme of the present invention and non-limiting embodiment and the description of the drawings will more be known these and other advantage, in the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1-4 illustrates a series of sequential steps that are used for according to the manufacturing process of drinking container of the present invention;

Fig. 5 illustrates first embodiment according to drinking container of the present invention;

Fig. 6 illustrates the pattern of opening according to drinking container shown in Figure 5 of the present invention;

Fig. 7 illustrates the modification according to the embodiment of drinking container shown in Figure 5 of the present invention;

Fig. 8 illustrates the configuration that is used to fill according to the electric rotary equipment of drinking container shown in Fig. 5 of the present invention and 7.

The specific embodiment

Specifically with reference to Fig. 1-4, it illustrates the illustrative arrangement of using the blow molding technology manufacturing to have the technology of hollow in-to-in body, the beginning step (Fig. 1) that can see blow molding process comprises that the thermoplastic by adopting dryer 10, funnel 11 and injection screw rod 12 to carry out injects circulation in mould 2, and tentatively is manufactured on the initial parison 1 that is called performing member in the technical term.

Fig. 2 illustrates by the blowing effect performing member 1 is inserted in the mould 2, and wherein suitable temperature and high pressure gas input are expanded performing member 1, thereby it is leaned against on the wall 13 of mould 2 with very big defeating, and make it present the form of internal mold shape.

Fig. 3 illustrates two main portions that constitute performing member 1: rigidity and have the neck that is not used in blowing 3 of screw thread and specify the cylinder 4 that is used for blowing.

Neck 3 is the parts that are not subjected to any distortion in the performing member 1 in the blow molding process process, and is used for sealing with after-applied screw thread top cap portion 5 on this part.

Cap portion 5 injects circulation by thermoplastic and makes separately, and be essential part according to container 6 of the present invention, because it must guarantee the fully sealing of container in for a long time, particularly when described container 6 air inclusions (carbon dioxide), as the situation of the beverage of the wine of carbonated mineral water, band vapour or " foaming " or bubbling.

In order to finish this function, cap portion 5 can be in any form and material manufacture, and its opening and closing system also can be different (but utilize drawing belt, utilize the rotary seal destructive effect, utilize screw thread to open effect or the like) to adapt to the type of contained product in the container 6.

Fig. 4 illustrates last step of manufacturing on-cycle that is used for blowing, wherein opens blow mold 2 and takes out the container of being finished 6.

Fig. 5 specifically illustrate " three parts " structure according to drinking container 6 of the present invention, it comprises bar portion 21, blow molding centrosome or cup portion 22 and cap portion 23.

The place is useful on the device 24 that is installed to bar portion 21 in cup portion 22 bottoms, and be useful on pedestal 27, the interference line 25 of laying cap portion 23 at the top and the threaded portion 26 of the cap portion 23 that can be used for screwing on, described interference line 25 is used for being held in place at the opening steps of cap portion 23 locking ring 29 with cap portion 23, thereby cap portion can separate by the fracture of line of rupture 28.

Fig. 6 reference is constructed (Fig. 5) according to " three parts " of drinking container 6 of the present invention and the pattern of preferably opening of container 6 is shown.

Particularly, cap portion 23 is included in locking ring 30 that opening of cap portion 23 be held in place in the mechanism and can be along the upper body 31 that dotted line line of rupture 32 separates on container 6.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the opening 36 of container 6 also is rendered as sizable diameter (equaling or exceeding 36mm), and be embodied as the distance that makes between this opening and the threaded portion 26 and be equal to or greater than 0.5cm, thereby the mouth of end user can not be subjected to the stimulation of threaded portion 26 when drinking.

Fig. 7 illustrate " two parts " structure according to drinking container 6 of the present invention, it has and uses blow molding technology to generate and the body 33 of expression cup portion 22 and bar portion 21 and comprise locking ring 30 and the cap portion 23 at the junction surface 32 of rupturing.

Equally in the case, opening 36 has sizable diameter (being equal to or greater than 36mm), and be embodied as the distance that makes between this opening and the threaded portion 26 and be equal to or greater than 0.5cm, thereby the mouth of end user can not be subjected to the stimulation of described threaded portion 26 when drinking.

Fig. 8 illustrates and is used for pack into the electric rotary equipment of beverage of the container 6 of sky, and this container 6 is advanced according to circulating path in chamber 39, and this path comprises to be cleaned and sterilization portion 14, filling part 34 and sealing 35.

Chamber 39 is full of by filter the filtrated air that the ambient air that is blown into by blowing engine 15 obtains with diffusional filter 37, and this diffusional filter 37 is provided with the unit (cells) of 0.2 micron of diameter, can stop even the smallest bacteria of 0.45 micron of diameter.

Aseptic always in order to ensure this environment, can know and should introduce air being higher than under the controlled pressure of external atmosphere pressure.

When loop ends, container 6 is full of required product and seals with cap portion 23.

This explanation has clearly been explained as the characteristic of the method for the drinking container of theme of the present invention and the described container of filling, has also been made all advantages that obtained become clear simultaneously.

Claims

1. a drinking container (6) is characterized in that, described container (6) is made with plasticity and/or thermoplastic material by blow molding process, and described container (6) has hermetically enclosed device (23).

2. drinking container according to claim 1 (6), it is characterized in that, described container (6) can be used for natural or gassiness water, gassiness beverage, alcohol and/or non-alcoholic beverage and/or by the natural fermented wine that obtains and/or be added with carbon-dioxide wine.

3. drinking container according to claim 1 (6), it is characterized in that described themoplasticity construct blow-molded is PET (polyethylene terephthalate) and/or PETG (polyethylene terephthalate glycol) and/or PEN (PEN) and/or above one or more have the compound of proper ratio dosage in these.

4. drinking container according to claim 1 (6) is characterized in that, the net content of beverage is 100cc in the described container (6).

5. drinking container according to claim 1 (6) is characterized in that, the net content of beverage is 187.5cc in the described container (6).

6. drinking container according to claim 1 (6), it is characterized in that, described container (6) comprises by blowing realizes and is designed to have at least one body (33) of cramp bar portion effect and at least one the cap portion (23) that constitutes described hermetically enclosed device, and described at least one cap portion comprises at least one locking ring (30) and at least one fracture junction surface (36).

7. drinking container according to claim 1 (6), it is characterized in that described container (6) comprises at least one body (22) of realizing by blowing, at least one cap portion (23) of supporting at least one bar portion (21) of described body (22) and constituting described hermetically enclosed device.

8. drinking container according to claim 1 (6), it is characterized in that, described hermetically enclosed device comprises by plastics or metal screwed cap portion (23), and described cap portion is by screw thread and/or reverse and/or pull and/or pressuring action and/or have band or equivalent system opens or closes.

9. drinking container according to claim 1 (6), it is characterized in that, described container (6) comprises at least one opening (36) and at least one threaded portion (26), can drink and the diameter of described opening is equal to or greater than 36mm from described opening, described threaded portion is arranged on the distance that is equal to or greater than 0.5cm apart from described opening (36).

10. drinking container according to claim 1 (6) is characterized in that, described hermetically enclosed device (23) is provided with gas-tight seal, and described sealing member applies separately or directly obtain in described closing appliance by the excessive injection of thermoplastic.

11. a method that is used to fill drinking container according to claim 1 (6) is characterized in that, described method may further comprise the steps at least:

The asepticize (14) of-container (6);

The filling (34) of-container (6);

The sealing of-container (6).

12. the method for filling containers according to claim 11 is characterized in that, described step is carried out in chamber (39), and described chamber keeps aseptic by introducing the filtered air that is produced by a series of blowing engines (15) always.

13. the method for filling containers according to claim 12 is characterized in that, described chamber (39) keep aseptic by introducing gas-pressurized always.