CN103946125A - Closure/connectors for liner-based shipping and dispensing containers and methods for filling liner-based shipping and dispensing containers - Google Patents
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Abstract
A method for removing headspace gas from a liner-based assembly. The liner-based assembly may generally include an overpack, a liner positioned within the overpack and containing a material and headspace gas, and a closure for sealing the liner. The method may include providing a one-way valve in fluid communication with the interior of the liner and permitting flow in a direction out of the interior of the liner, and applying a vacuum to the one-way valve to evacuate headspace gas from the interior of the liner. In some embodiments, The liner-based assembly may also include a port in fluid communication with an annular space between the overpack and liner, and the method may include capping the port, for example, during application of the vacuum to the one-way valve.
Description
Technical field
The disclosure relates to novel and favourable conveying and distribution system.Particularly, the disclosure relates to the novel and favourable closure member/adapter system for the system based on liner, and more specifically, the disclosure relates to the closure member/adapter system that can advantageously be exclusively used in specific industry, this closure member/adapter system can comprise and being configured to and existing distribution system compatibility.The disclosure also relates to fills assembly based on liner with by the novel and favourable method of the minimizing possibility of the damage, leakage or the pollution that are associated with the het expansion of the content of liner.
Background technology
Containment system can be used for many industries with storage, conveying and/or dispensing materials.For example, containment system can be in order to hold the content based on liquid with any viscosity.Conventionally, carry and distribution system will comprise container and/or liner, top cover and the joint of some kind, this top cover can be in order to seal and to protect the content of stocking system when the unallocated content, and joint can be in order to calm device dispense contents.In some industries, can there are one or more main distribution systems, make the existing distribution system compatibility for containment system and terminal user, container must have compatible size and shape feature.But, can store with the tradition of such distribution system compatibility and dispense container system may have one or more row this.For example, tradition stores and the pure of container contents cannot be guaranteed and/or maintain to dispense container system possibly; Possibly cannot effectively use and store and/or conveying space, therefore may produce unnecessary cost; And/or for example may not there is satisfied apportionment ratio.
But, because the purchase of distribution system and/or installation may be important costs, and may be high cost in some cases, so feel simply helpless when terminal user may use with the system of existing distribution system compatibility, even if may be present in other containment system that one or more aspects are more favourable.Therefore, exist for store than tradition aspect one or more and distribution system is good and also can with the storage of existing distribution system compatibility and the needs of distribution system for various existing industries.
In addition, utilize many material users of such containment system wish can without or user's material is delivered to terminal user roughly without headspace gases (headspace gas) in the situation that.At present, exist and use to remove headspace gases by terminal user, and the complex process of any gas of holding back in the material storing.Without or roughly without bottom clearance in the situation that the material of conveying and packaging by the needs of eliminating this complicated terminal station user process, and will allow terminal user the product of terminal user to be directly taken out to from containment system to the final use procedure of terminal user.
In addition, can expect to be stored in many materials in containment system and all may be subject to the impact of temperature traverse.For example, in the time that some materials stand temperature increase, this material may be tending towards expanding and/or in the time that material stands temperature reduction, this material is tending towards shrinking.In some cases, the het expansion that is contained in the material in liner may apply the medium stress to significant quantity to wall of container, and this stress may cause wall of container impaired and can cause the content of container to become polluting and/or leak.In some cases, the content of container may be expensive or even extremely expensive, and may at least have significant negative consequence owing to the loss of the content polluting and/or leak.For example, may be simultaneously very expensive and and if only if this material remains on substantially in free of contamination situation just available for some materials of some hi-tech industries.Therefore it is unavailable that any pollution, being caused by the leakage in wall of container or crack for example can make to have the whole container of unusual expensive material.For this reason, while further needing filling containers, can consider the method for the tendency that material expands in the time that temperature raises.Also exist roughly completely and effectively to carry with cost with material filling containers and/or the needs of storage material.
Summary of the invention
In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to the method for the assembly removal headspace gases from based on liner.Assembly that should be based on liner can substantially comprise external packing, liner and for sealing the closure member of described liner, described liner is positioned in external packing and holds material and headspace gases.The method can comprise: check valve is provided, and the internal fluid communication of described check valve and liner, and described check valve allows flowing in the direction of inside of leaving liner; With apply vacuum to check valve with the emptying headspace gases in the inside from liner.In certain embodiments, the assembly based on liner also can comprise port, and this port is communicated with the annular space fluid between external packing and liner, and the method can comprise: for example during applying vacuum to check valve, port is covered.
In another embodiment, the disclosure relates to and is configured to the assembly based on liner that headspace gases removes.Assembly based on liner can comprise external packing, be positioned at liner, closure member and check valve in this external packing, described closure member is configured to connect removedly with sealed liner with liner, and the internal fluid communication of described check valve and liner also allows flowing in the direction of inside of leaving liner.In certain embodiments, check valve connects with closure member, and in other embodiments, check valve can be integral with closure member.Should also can comprise port by the assembly based on liner, this port is communicated with the annular space fluid between external packing and liner, makes to be configured to for example for indirect pressure distribution based on the assembly of liner.Port temporarily can be covered for headspace gases and removes.
In another embodiment, the disclosure relates to the method for filling containers assembly.The method can comprise: material is heated to predetermined temperature, and is used in this material filling containers under this predetermined temperature; Seal described container; With after the described container of sealing, allow the material cooled in described container.In one embodiment, material can be heated to the temperature between approximately 40 DEG C to approximately 60 DEG C.Similarly, can allow the general context room temperature of material cooled to the room at container place.The method can comprise and container is roughly filled to top with material, makes substantially not for headspace gases provides redundant space.In other embodiments, after airtight container, removable headspace gases.
In another embodiment, the disclosure relates to the assembly based on liner for pressure distribution.Assembly based on liner can comprise external packing, be arranged on the liner in this external packing and can be fixed to the closure assembly of external packing and/or liner.Closure assembly can comprise bottom clearance air extractor duct and receiver, and this receiver is configured to collect the overflowing of material of the inside that is stored in liner.The overflow that closure assembly can be configured to substantially by making the material in receiver solidifies to come liner formation sealing.In a particular embodiment, the material being stored in the assembly based on liner is adhesives.In a further embodiment, the assembly based on liner also can comprise and is configured to the top cover of sealing storage removedly.
In another embodiment, the disclosure relates to for filling the also method of airtight container.The method can comprise: use adhesives filling containers; Closure assembly is operationally attached to container, and this closure assembly has the receiver overflowing that is configured to collect adhesives; Allow or cause that a part for the adhesives in container flow in the receiver of closure assembly; With make overflowing of adhesives in receiver and solidify that container is formed to sealing.The method also can comprise: closure assembly is covered with sealing storage removedly.
In another embodiment, the disclosure relates to the assembly based on liner for pressure distribution.Assembly based on liner can comprise external packing, the liner in this external packing is set and can be fixed to the cap assembly of external packing and/or liner, this cap assembly comprises closure member and plug member, wherein closure member comprises the mouth that is configured to be removably attached to distribution joint and is removably attached to plug member, and wherein connector is configured to roughly fully fill the mouth of closure member.In a particular embodiment, the assembly based on liner is constructed to use together with the existing distribution joint of food industry and food service industry, and thus, liner can hold edible food, and distribution joint can be configured to distribute food.
In another embodiment, the disclosure relates to the method for the content for distributing the assembly based on liner.The method can comprise: provide and store the liner of expecting material, this interior laying-in is arranged in external packing and comprises liner neck, and this liner neck has the sealing member that is fixed to this liner neck; Distribution joint is fixed to liner neck, make the probe in distribution joint initially be positioned to be adjacent to but not pierce through the sealing member in liner neck, but this probe positioning is become to make in the time distributing described material by pressure distribution, sealing member is against probe upwarping, and probe puncture through seal part is to allow the distribution of material.In certain embodiments, material can distribute by indirect pressure distribution, wherein pressure is applied to the annular space between liner and external packing.
Although disclose multiple embodiment, other embodiment of the present disclosure will become apparent those skilled in the art from following detailed description, and this detailed description is shown and described illustrative embodiment of the present disclosure.As understood, various embodiment of the present disclosure can various obvious aspect in revise, and all do not deviate from spirit of the present disclosure and category.Therefore, accompanying drawing and detailed description will be regarded as illustrative and nonrestrictive in essence.
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Although specification sheets is pointed out and obviously advocates that the claim that is considered as the purport that forms various embodiment of the present disclosure finishes with specific, think and will understand preferably the disclosure from following description by reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
Figure 1A is according to the cutaway view of the conveying of an embodiment of the present disclosure and distribution system.
Figure 1B is according to the conveying that comprises closure member/joint of another embodiment of the present disclosure and the exploded drawings of distribution system.
Fig. 2 is according to the conveying that comprises closure member/joint of an embodiment of the present disclosure and the exploded drawings of distribution system.
Fig. 3 A is according to the cutaway view of the conveying of Fig. 2 of an embodiment of the present disclosure and distribution system, and wherein closure member/joint is attached to and carries and distribution system.
Fig. 3 B is according to the cutaway view of the system based on liner of the present disclosure of an embodiment.
Fig. 3 C figure is that wherein liner is just compressed according to the cutaway view of the system based on liner of the present disclosure of an embodiment.
Fig. 3 D is according to the transparent view of the joint of an embodiment of the present disclosure and sealing member.
Fig. 3 E is according to the cut-away view of the system based on liner of an embodiment of the present disclosure.
Fig. 4 is according to the cutaway view of the closure member/joint that is attached to conveying and distribution system of another embodiment of the present disclosure.
Fig. 5 is according to the transparent view of the distribution joint using together with conveying and distribution system of another embodiment of the present disclosure.
Fig. 6 illustrates the conveying using together with indirect pressure distribution and the stocking system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
The statistics relevant to indirect pressure distribution method shown in Fig. 6 that provide with nomogram form according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is provided Fig. 7.
Fig. 8 is according to the conveying that comprises packaging element of an embodiment of the present disclosure and the cutaway view of distribution system.
Fig. 9 be according to an embodiment of the present disclosure for filling the diagram of circuit of method of the assembly based on liner.
Figure 10 is the conveying based on liner of the check valve that removes for bottom clearance according to having of an embodiment of the present disclosure and the transparent view of distribution system.
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The disclosure relates to novel and favourable conveying and distribution system.More specifically, an aspect of the present disclosure relates to the novel and favourable closure member/adapter system for the conveying based on liner and distribution system.On the other hand, the disclosure relates to expectation material fills the assembly based on liner, makes the novel and favourable method of the Risk Reduction of the damage of the content that causes liner and/or liner being caused by the het expansion of material.In certain embodiments, the closure member of conveying based on liner disclosed herein and distribution system and/or the conveying based on liner and distribution system and joint can be configured to use in the special-purpose in food industry or storage material is adhesives therein situation, described adhesives includes but not limited to epoxy resin, adhesive epoxy resin, epoxide and polyurethane tinting pigment, polyurethane castable resin, based on the adhesives of ultraviolet ray and/or the poly-silica of moisture-curable, based on ultraviolet ray and/or the acrylic acid adhesives of heat solidifiable, cyanoacrylate and anaerobic adhesive, reaction composite adhesives, described reaction composite adhesives includes but not limited to resorcinol, polyurethane, epoxide and/or cyanoacrylate, described reaction composite adhesives is mainly via chemical reaction but not solidify via the evaporation of carrier or solvent.But, should be by understanding, conveying based on liner disclosed herein and closure member and the joint of distribution system and/or the conveying based on liner and distribution system also can be used for multiple other application.The example of the material of some types that also can use together with embodiment of the present disclosure includes but not limited to: ultrarapture liquid, such as acid, solvent, alkali, photoresist, slurry, cleaning agent, clean composite, dopant, inorganic, organic, metal is organic, TEOS and biological solution, DNA and RNA solvent and reagent, medicine, printable electronics inorganic and organic material, lithium ion or other battery types battery acid, Nanometer material (for example comprising fullerene, inorganic nanoparticle, sol-gel and other pottery) and radio chemistry product; Insecticide/fertilizer; Paint/polishing material/solvent/coating material etc.; Powder cleaning liquid; For example,, for the lubricant of automobile or aircraft industry; For example, food, such as, but not limited to, seasonings, cooking oil and soft drink; For reagent or other material biomedical or research industry; The hazardous material for example being used by army; Polyurethane; Agricultural chemicals; Chemical; Cosmetic chemical; Oil and lubricant; Aquaseal; Health and dental health product and bathroom product; Or (for example) any other material that can distribute via pressure distribution.The material that can use together with embodiment of the present disclosure can have any viscosity, comprises heavy body and low viscosity fluid.Those skilled in the art will recognize that the benefit of the disclosed embodiments, and therefore those skilled in the art will recognize that the applicability of the disclosed embodiments for transport and the distribution of various industries and various products.
In certain embodiments, the system based on liner of the present disclosure can be held the highest approximately 200 liters.Alternatively, should the system based on liner can hold the highest approximately 20 liters.Alternatively, the system based on liner can be held approximately 1 liter to 5 liters or still less.The container dimensional that should be understood that institute's reference is only example, and system based on liner of the present disclosure can be easily used through being adapted to together with the conveying of various size and shape and dispense container.In certain embodiments, the whole system based on liner of the present disclosure can be used and then abandon by single.In other embodiments, for example reusable external packing, and liner and/or any closure member or joint only can use single.In other embodiments, the some parts of closure member and/or joint can be configured to disposable use, and the other parts of closure member and/or joint can be configured to repeated usage.
Figure 1A illustrates conveying based on liner of the present disclosure and an embodiment of distribution system 100.In certain embodiments, conveying and distribution system 100 can comprise external packing 102, liner 104 and one or more closure member and/or joint, and this one or more closure member and/or joint can be described as closure member/joint 122 in this article.In certain embodiments, closure member/joint can comprise fills joint and/or distribution joint and/or closure member or top cover, as will be below described in further detail.
External packing 102 can comprise external packing wall 106, internal cavities 108 and mouth 110.External packing 102 can comprise any applicable material or combination of materials, such as but not limited to one or more poly-mers, comprises plastics, nylon, ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (EVOH; Ethylene Vinyl Alcohol Copolymer), polyolefin or other natural or synthetic polymer.In another embodiment, external packing 102 can be used following material to make: polyethylene terephthalate (PET), Polyethylene Naphthalate (PEN), gather and (stretch butyl 2, 6-naphthalene) (PBN), polyethylene (PE), straight-chain low density polyethylene (LLDPE), Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE), medium density polyethylene (MDPE), high density polyethylene (HDPE) (HDPE), polypropylene (PP) and/or fluoropolymer, fluoropolymer is such as, but not limited to polychlorotrifluoroethylene (PCTFE), polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), PEP (FEP) and perfluoro alkoxy (PFA).External packing 102 can have any applicable shape or structure, such as, but not limited to ampuliform, tank shape, drum type etc.
As mentioned above, conveying and distribution system 100 can comprise liner 104, and described liner 104 can be arranged in external packing 102.Liner 104 can comprise inner liner wall 112, internal cavities 114 and mouth 116.The mouth 116 of liner 104 can comprise and connects (fitment) part 118.This mating portion 118 can be made up of the material different from the remainder of liner 104, and the remainder of mating portion 118 comparable liners harder, have more elasticity and/or more do not have flexibility.Mating portion 118 can connect with closure member, joint or closure member/joint 122 (below more expounding adequately) by any suitable means, described means are such as, but not limited to complementary threads, snap fit or frictional fit means, grafting means or any mechanism or Mechanism Combination for connecting that other is applicable to, as those skilled in the art will understand.In certain embodiments, joint or closure member/joint 122 can be attached to, or also can be attached to the mouth 110 of external packing 102.
In certain embodiments, liner 104 can be roughly flexible can collapse (collapsible) liner, and in other embodiments, liner can be rigidity but still can collapse a little, for example rigidity can collapse liner or roughly rigidity can collapse liner.As used herein, except any normal dictionary definition, term " rigidity " or " roughly rigidity " mean and also comprise and roughly keep its shape and/or volume when in the environment of the first pressure, but wherein can in the environment of the pressure increasing or reduce, change object or the material behavior of shape and/or volume.The amount that changes the pressure of the required increase of the shape of object or material and/or volume or minimizing can be depending on the expectation application of this material or object, and the amount of this pressure can be according to application and difference.In addition, term " roughly rigidity " means and comprises the shape and/or the volume that roughly keep object or material, but after applying the pressure of this increase or minimizing, is tending towards causing such as, but not limited to the situation such as deflection, bending but not the object or the material behavior that rupture.
Can use any applicable material or combination of materials to manufacture liner 104, described material is such as, but not limited to above about any in the listed material of external packing 102 or combination of materials.But external packing 102 and liner 104 needn't be made up of identical material.In certain embodiments, the thickness of selected material and material can be determined the rigidity of liner 104.Liner 104 can have one or more layers, and liner 104 can have the thickness of any expectation.Liner 104 can have for example thickness from about 0.05mm to about 3mm, or any other applicable thickness.
Liner 104 can be configured to comprise any intended shape that attracts user and/or help the collapse of liner.In certain embodiments, liner 104 can be dimensioned and be configured as the inside that roughly meets external packing 102.Thereby liner 102 can have the relative simple designs of smooth outer surface substantially, or liner can have the relative complex design comprising such as but not limited to indenture and/or projection.In certain embodiments, the surface that inner liner wall 112 can comprise large solid texturing is to be down to minimum by leaching and/or binding force.For example, in certain embodiments, this surface can comprise multiple projections, scale or projection, and described multiple projections, scale or projection be each has any suitable size, such as but not limited to the size from approximately 0.5 μ m to 100 μ m.Veining feature can any applicable distance of each interval.In certain embodiments, veining can for example comprise framework, such as grid or skeleton.The example of some applicable veining features is described in more detail in U.S. Provisional Patent Application case the 61/334th application on May 12nd, 2010, that title is " Fluid Processing Components with Textured Surface for Decreased Adhesion and Related Methods ", in No. 006, this application case is all incorporated to herein by reference at this.Liner 104 can have the inner liner wall 112 of relative thin compared with the thickness of external packing wall 106.In certain embodiments, liner 102 can be flexible, make such as via through the vacuum of mouth 116 or via the pressure (being referred to herein as the annular space between inner liner wall 112 and external packing wall 106) inner liner wall 112 and external packing wall 106, inner liner wall 112 collapse easily.
In another embodiment, liner 104 can have such shape, when expanding or filling when liner 104, this shape be different from external packing 102 shape but with the shape complementarity of external packing 102, liner 104 can be arranged in external packing 102.In certain embodiments, liner 104 is attached to the inside of external packing wall 102 removedly.Liner 104 can provide resistance barrier from the migration of the annular space between inner liner wall 112 and external packing wall 106 to driving gas, such as gas resistance barrier.In certain embodiments, the material of manufacture liner 104 can provide gas barrier performance matter.In other embodiments, gas barrier layer can be provided by the composition that is added into the material of manufacturing inner liner wall, gas barrier layer can be the extra play that is added into inner liner wall 112, or gas barrier layer can be any other appropriate configuration for gas resistance barrier is provided between annular space and liner inside.Therefore, the purity of the content in liner can be guaranteed and/or remain on to liner 104 substantially.
In certain embodiments, must keep in fact especially therein in the situation of aseptic of liner content, liner 102 can comprise certain material, and this material can assist in ensuring that or keep being arranged on the gnotobasis of the content in liner.For example, in certain embodiments, liner can comprise Danbury, the TK8 that the ATMI of Connecticut manufactures, or any other applicable material.In other or alternate embodiment, liner and/or the conveying based on liner and distribution system can be the aseptic in fact storage that is configured to especially material, the liner of carrying and distribute and/or conveying and the distribution system based on liner, be " Liner-Based Shipping and Dispensing Containers for the Substantially Sterile Storage such as the title of applying on October 12nd, 2012, Shipment, and Dispense of Materials " No. PCT/US2012/59865th, international pct application case in disclosed, and this application case is all incorporated to herein by reference at this.
As mentioned above, in certain embodiments, liner 104 can comprise multiple layers.The plurality of layer can comprise poly-mer or other the applicable material that one or more are different.In certain embodiments, the thickness, layer of the layer of liner and/or liner and/or composition can allow by limit or typical inferior position that elimination is associated with convention liner or packaging or problem such as for example, weld cracking, pin hole, gas are carried secretly and/or any other pollution modes comes safe and the essentially no content of impurely carrying the system based on liner of the present disclosure.Similarly or additionally, by liner is configured to roughly meet the shape of external packing in the time that liner is filled, thereby the amount of movement that is reduced in content during conveying, liner 104 also can contribute to safety and the free of contamination in fact conveying of the content of conveying of the present disclosure and distribution system 100.
External packing 102 and liner 104 can use any applicable manufacturing process manufacture separately, such as, but not limited to ejection blow moulding, penetrate stretching blow-moulding, extrude etc., and external packing 102 and liner 104 can be fabricated to separately single parts or can be the combination of multiple parts.In certain embodiments, external packing 102 and liner 104 can nested mode blowing mouldings, and this blowing moulding is also referred to as common blow molding at this.In No. PCT/US11/55560th, international pct application case that to utilize the example of the system and method based on liner of blowing moulding technology to be altogether more described in detail in the title of application on October 10th, 2011 be " Nested Blow Molded Liner and Overpack and Methods of Making Same ", this application case is all incorporated to herein by reference at this.In certain embodiments, liner inflatable is molded in established external packing, and this external packing can be served as the mould of liner thus, and this blowing moulding is referred to herein as " two blowing moulding " sometimes.In such embodiments, external packing can be by any applicable technique manufacture.
The liner of spendable the type and the example of external packing are disclosed in following application case in more detail: the PCT/US11/55558 international pct application case that is " Substantially Rigid Collapsible Liner, Container and/or Liner for Replacing Glass Bottles " in the title of application on October 10th, 2011; On October 10th, 2011, the title of application was the PCT/US11/55560 international pct application case of " Nested Blow Molded Liner and Overpack and Methods of Making Same "; On December 9th, 2011, the title of application was the PCT/US11/64141 international pct application case of " Generally Cylindrically-Shaped Liner for Use in Pressure Dispense Systems and Methods of Manufacturing the Same "; On September 21st, 2012, the title of application was the U.S. Provisional Application case the 61/703rd of " Liner-Based Shipping and Dispensing Systems ", No. 996; Title on March 29th, 2011 application be the U.S. Provisional Application case the 61/468th of " Liner-Based Dispenser ", No. PCT/US2011/061764th, No. 832 and the relevant international pct application case of applying on November 22nd, 2011; Title on August 19th, 2011 application be the U.S. Provisional Application case the 61/525th of " Liner-Based Dispensing Systems ", No. PCT/US2011/061771st, No. 540 and the relevant international pct application case of applying on November 22nd, 2011; On May 31st, 2000, the title of application was the U.S. patent application case the 13/149th of " Fluid Storage and Dispensing Systems and Processes ", No. 844; On June 5th, 2006, the title of application was the U.S. patent application case the 11/915th of " Fluid Storage and Dispensing Systems and Processes ", No. 996; It is No. PCT/US10/51786th, the international pct application case of " Material Storage and Dispensing System and Method With Degassing Assembly " in the title of on October 7th, 2010 application; No. PCT/US10/41629th, international pct application case; US Patent the 7th, 335, No. 721; U.S. patent application case the 11/912nd, No. 629; U.S. patent application case the 12/302nd, No. 287; No. PCT/US08/85264th, international pct application case; In the U.S. patent application case the 12/745th of application on February 15th, 2011, No. 605; On February 29th, 2012, the title of application was the U.S. Provisional Application case the 61/605th of " Liner-Based Shipping and Dispensing System ", No. 011; And be the U.S. Provisional Application case the 61/561st of " Closure/Connectors for Liner-Based Shipping and Dispensing Containers " in the title of application on November 18th, 2011, No. 493, in above-mentioned application case in each part application case be all incorporated to by reference herein at this.For the external packing 102 that uses together with conveying of the present disclosure and distribution system 100 and liner 104 can be included in disclosed embodiment in arbitrary application case of above-mentioned application case, feature and/or strengthen in any one, for example include but not limited to flexible, rigidity can collapse, two dimension, three-dimensional, welding, molded, angle brace and/or non-angle brace liner and/or containing crisp liner and/or the liner that comprises the method for limiting or eliminate obstruction and with ATMI, the brand name of Inc.
the liner of selling.In embodiment as herein described the various features of disclosed distribution system can be combined with about the one or more further features described in other embodiment.
In a particular embodiment, as shown in 1B figure, storage of the present disclosure and distribution system can comprise the system based on liner, should the system based on liner have the liner 130 in external packing of being positioned at 132.External packing 132 can comprise top 134 and bottom 136.Bottom 136 also can be described as a barrel bottom flange.But in other embodiments, external packing can be single; Or in other embodiments, external packing can comprise more than two.Liner and external packing can be formed by any suitable method as herein described, and liner and external packing can comprise any suitable material as herein described.For example, having in the embodiment of single-piece external packing, can for example liner and external packing be total to blow molding.Liner 130 and/or external packing 132 can comprise surface characteristics, and such as wherein with nest shell type altogether blowing moulding manufacture in some embodiment of liner and external packing, liner 130 and/or external packing 132 can comprise coextensive surface characteristics, and this coextensive surface characteristics for example can help to minimize or eliminate the liner that may be caused by temperature traverse and/or the indenture of external packing.Particularly, in one embodiment, liner 130 can contain surface characteristics, such as, but not limited to can be around the panel of one or more female or male of the circumferential registration of liner 138.In certain embodiments, external packing 132 also can have similar or coextensive surface characteristics.This surface characteristics can comprise any expectation or suitable size, geometric configuration or pattern, as in U.S. Provisional Application case the 61/605th, in No. PCT/US11/55558th, No. 011 and international pct application case, further describe, above application case had previously all been incorporated to herein by reference.By and large, such as one or more panels surface characteristics can to liner and/or external packing be gained in strength and/or rigidity.But in certain embodiments, more shallow edge also can stop liner to be bonded in external packing.
In other embodiments, conveying based on liner of the present disclosure and distribution system can comprise baffle plate, baffle plate feature or other discountinuity in the inside face of this conveying based on liner and distribution system, with storing and/or In transit hinders the precipitation that is included in the suspended solid in this conveying and distribution system based on liner.
Conveying and distribution system based on liner as herein described can be constructed to any suitable shape, includes but not limited to square, rectangle, triangle or pyramid, cylindrical or any other suitable polygon or other shape.Difform distributing box can improve the vanning density at storage and/or In transit, and can reduce integral transportation cost.In addition, difform distributing box can be in order to distributing box is distinguished from each other, such as with provide be arranged on the instruction of the content in distributing box or identification content will be used to which kind of application etc.In another embodiment, distributing box as herein described can be constructed to any suitable shape, to carry out " improvement " distributing box with existing allocation component or distribution system.
The embodiment of the assembly based on liner of the present disclosure can comprise supplementary features, and described supplementary features can help to minimize static friction (for example,, by comprising protective film or slip agents at the material of liner and/or external packing); Described supplementary features can help to reduce pollution risk (for example,, by comprising that colorant is to external packing penetrating with minimizing ultraviolet light); Described supplementary features can make packaging, conveying, carrying and/or mobile assembly based on liner be more prone to (for example, by comprising one or more handles, or extra package component); Described supplementary features can allow liner and external packing to be able to and one or more top covers, joint or allocation component compatibility; And/or described supplementary features make assembly based on liner safety and/or make the content of liner avoid polluting more, such as ring, the axle collar, sealing, joint, top cover etc.; And/or any further feature, such as being described in more fully U.S. Provisional Application case the 61/605th, No. 011, U.S. Provisional Application case the 61/561st, any further feature in No. PCT/US11/55558th, No. 493 and international pct application case, each the part application case in above-mentioned application case had previously all been incorporated to herein by reference.
By and large, in use, should the system based on liner can use in the following manner: first the system based on liner can be delivered to and fill place; For example, available expectation material is filled this system based on liner, and then the system based on liner is delivered to terminal user; Terminal user can then store and/or the content of dispense container; Finally, after distributing, terminal user can be abandoned system and/or the recirculation based on liner or re-use some or all of system based on liner, comprises some or all in closure member/joint.One or more moment that closure member/joint can compatibly be constructed with in as above circulating for the use described in the system based on liner are used.For example, fill joint can during the filling of liner, be fixed to liner connect 118, the mouth 110 of external packing, or be fixed to liner connect 118 and the mouth 110 of external packing both.In certain embodiments, for example, fill joint can be formed at restriction during filling or roughly destroy contaminants be introduced in liner or material be introduced in liner; And/or generable speed is filled in increase.Once, filling place filling liner, carry top cover or closure member to be just fixed to the system based on liner with removably.In certain embodiments, top cover or closure member can be attached to liner connect 118, the mouth 110 of external packing or liner connect 118 and the mouth 110 of external packing both.In some cases, can before connecting sealed part, remove filling joint, and in other cases, closure member can be attached to filling joint, and filling joint can remain on container during storage and/or conveying.The object of closure member is to block the expectation material in pollutants and liner in storage and/or In transit substantially.Once filling liner or the system based on liner arrives and will the terminal destination of some or all of distribution occur, in some cases, just can be by closure member (or in certain embodiments, closure member and fill joint) remove, and distribution joint can be fixed to liner connect 118, the mouth 110 of external packing or liner connect 118 and the mouth 110 of external packing both.In certain embodiments, fill joint and also can be constructed to distribution joint.Therefore, in some cases, closure member or top cover can be attached in joint, make single joint can be used for filling, carry and distribute, and in other cases, distribution joint can be and the joint separating for the joint of filling.
Distribution joint can be configured to and the specific distribution system compatibility being used by terminal user.Existing distribution system can be according to industry and difference.In some cases, depend on the structure of the conveying that for example can be generally used in specific industry and dispense container and/or because any other reason may established any other standard or specification in specific industry, various distribution systems can be used in those industries.
The various embodiment of storage as herein described and distribution system can be used in any suitable assigning process.For example, the various embodiment of storage as herein described and distribution system can be used for pressure distribution technique, comprise that direct pressure is distributed and pressure distribution, pump distribute and the distribution of pressure complementary pump indirectly, comprise and be disclosed in the various embodiments of title for the reverse distribution method in No. 10-0973707th, the Korean Patent Registration of " Apparatus for Supplying Fluid ", this patent is registered in this and is all incorporated to by reference herein.Similarly, the various embodiment of storage as herein described and distribution system can be used for conventional manual or Automatic-dumping method, or according to the expection of material use or any other suitable means of the content of related application dispense container in.Distribution joint can comprise the feature of the content that distributes liner.In certain embodiments, for example, distribution joint feature can allow to distribute by existing pressure distribution system.By and large, such pressure distribution distribution joint feature can comprise pressurization admission port, this pressurization admission port allows gaseous tension introduction pipe line insert or connect with distribution joint via distribution joint substantially, and allows gaseous tension introduction pipe line to be communicated with the annular space fluid between liner 104 and external packing 102.In such system, pressure fluid, gas or other suitable material can be introduced in annular space, cause that liner collapse leaves external packing wall, thereby by liquid outlet, liner content are extruded.For example, in one embodiment, be stored in middle liquid in liner in order to distribute, can be to the annular space pressurization between liner and external packing, in No. PCT/US11/55558th, international pct application case, further describe, this application case was previously incorporated to by reference.
In some cases, use comparable other distribution method of indirect pressure distribution favourable.For example, distribute the content of liner can adversely cause bubble and/or can be to material and system application of stress with pump, this measure may be unexpected, and this is because the purity of the content of liner may be vital.The use of pressure distribution can help to avoid or eliminate this problem.In addition, in some cases, can distribute different pressure distribution to realize the distribution of higher rate from pump by using.But direct pressure distribution method can cause gas to be introduced directly in the content of liner, and can reduce the purity of the content of liner.The use of pressure distribution can help to avoid or eliminate this problem indirectly.
Although be not limited to so, it is particularly useful that an embodiment of closure member/joint can be configured to the assembly based on liner of the material to holding to use in food industry.As seen in Figure 2, in certain embodiments, the closure member/joint 240 using for the system 200 based on liner can comprise closure member 250 and connector 260.As mentioned above, in certain embodiments, containment system 220 can comprise the liner being arranged in external packing.But, it should be understood that and it is contemplated that any liner and/or external packing as described herein, and this any liner and/or external packing are in spirit of the present disclosure and category.
The closure member 250 of closure member/joint 240 can advantageously be configured to the existing distribution system using with terminal user and/or other prior art that can for example use in food industry or machine compatibility.Thereby, by using closure member/joint 240 of the present disclosure, can (for example) realize as herein described advantage relevant with containment system (comprising liner and/or external packing) and without change terminal user technology or machine.
In certain embodiments, closure member 250 can comprise mouth 252 and connection features 254.In certain embodiments, mouth 252 can be configured to allow easy and/or controlled distribution.The mouth 252 of closure member 250 can or also can suitably be set size and shaping in case with one or more distribution system compatibilities.
3A figure diagram is according to the cut-away view of the closure member of the present disclosure 250 of some embodiment, and wherein closure member 250 is attached to the container 220 based on liner.In certain embodiments, closure member 250 can be attached to the container 220 based on liner by connection features 254.As can be seen, in certain embodiments, what the mouth 310 of external packing can be attached to liner connects 318.In one embodiment, as shown in the figure, although connecting of the mouth 310 of external packing and liner 318 can connect by complementary threads, other connecting mode is also possible.In other embodiments, the mouth 310 of external packing can be adjacent to but be not attached to liner connect 318.Closure member 250 can or also can be fixed to the container 220 based on liner with removably by connection features 254, and described connection features 254 can be present in closure member 250 and/or liner and/or external packing.For example, in one embodiment, connection features 254 can comprise negative thread, described negative thread for example can with upper outside thread complementation on the mouth 310 that connects outside thread on 318 and/or external packing of liner.Should will recognize, any other appropriate ways that closure member 250 is fixed to the container 220 based on liner with removably is all possible, combines such as snap fit, frictional fit or any other appropriate ways or mode.
Closure member 250 can comprise any suitable material, such as metal, plastics or any other material or combination of materials.In certain embodiments, closure member 250 can comprise the material that can be suitable for using in gnotobasis, such as material listed above or any other suitable material or combination of materials.
Refer again to Fig. 2, in certain embodiments, connect connector 260 and also can be included in closure member/joint.Can be inserted in the opening 252 in closure member 250 connecting connector 260.In certain embodiments, connector 260 can be roughly fixedly connected by any proper method or Combination of Methods and closure member 250 at one or more position place.For example, connector 260 can have the screw thread coordinating with the complementary threads on the inside of for example closure member mouth 252.In other embodiments, connector 260 can have or also can have snap fit and/or the friction fit features of the mouth 252 that can allow connector to be attached to securely closure member 250.In certain embodiments, substantially close-coupled or be attached to closure member 250 for storing and/or carrying in airtight mode substantially of connector 260, but still can in the time that needs remove, dismantle.
In certain embodiments, connect connector and can be used for storing and/or carrying, and unless make needs, for example pollutants can not enter into container 220, and the content of liner cannot be gone out from container 220.Connector 260 can comprise any suitable material, such as metal, plastics or any other material or combination of materials.In certain embodiments, connector 260 can comprise the material that can be suitable for using in gnotobasis, such as material listed above or any other suitable material or combination of materials.Connector 260 can comprise the material identical or different with closure member 250.In certain embodiments, connector 260 can be the existing connector using in food industry, for example, such as, but not limited to by Northlake, the Scholle Packaging of Illinois, the connector that Inc. or E.I.du Pont de Nemours and Company manufacture.Thus, the mouth 252 of closure member 250 can be specifically constructed into the such connector of reception 260.Although previous embodiment is described as being particularly advantageous in the application in food industry, should be by understanding, closure member/joint 240 can use and/or use in any expectation industry for any expectation application in conjunction with conveying and dispense container.
In another embodiment, closure member/joint as above or any other closure member/joint can comprise sealing member, the seal can help to keep the content of liner to avoid polluting, particularly ought be in some cases for example top cover or joint be being removed and are being placed another top cover or joint for a point timing, if and there is no the seal, the content of liner may expose at this time durations.Sealing member 320 shown in Fig. 3 D can be flexible seals in certain embodiments, and the seal 320 during distribution can pierce through by the probe of joint, makes to be roughly introduced in the material being contained in liner without air before distributing.For example, liner 340 can be filled with material M, as shown in Figure 3 B.In some cases, packed space is predetermined and controlled.For example, packed space can be determined by the time quantum of measuring and be controlled at the flow rate during filling and allow material to fill liner.Alternatively, can be by measure the weight of system based on liner during filling process, and in the time reaching predetermined and filling weight that expect, stop filling process and determine packed space.It is contemplated that other method predetermined and control packed space, and this other method is in spirit of the present disclosure and category.In certain embodiments, once fill liner, just pressure fluid or gas can be incorporated in the annular space between the outer wall of liner 340 and the inwall of external packing 342.Introduce pressure in annular space and can make to compress the wall of liner 340, as shown in Figure 3 C, thereby the material M in liner 340 is upwards pushed to the top of liner, remove roughly all unexpected bottom clearances." bottom clearance " representative is such as the amount that remains in for example air of gas at liner top place after filling liner with expectation material.Bottom clearance may be unexpected, and this is because gas can cause the spuming of for example material, bubble, stress, protein to be damaged and/or gaseous contamination, and above-mentioned phenomenon may be very less desirable in the case of maintaining the purity of content of system very important.
In the embodiment of the present disclosure shown in Fig. 9, can utilize filling process 900, this filling process 900 can filled place by degassed the content of the liner of having filled substantially, also removes substantially all bottom clearances in sealing or fixing liner of having filled for conveying and/or before storing simultaneously.As discussed above, restriction or the bottom clearance of roughly eliminating in the liner of having filled can be favourable, and this is because in the time that for example the assembly based on liner moves during carrying, and this measure can limit or roughly eliminate the risk of the content of headspace gases pollution liner.
As understood in this technique, some materials can occupy volume more or less, that is, some materials can expand or shrink due to temperature traverse.For example, if the content of liner is substantially filled and is sealed in liner at a temperature, and then the content of this liner for example stands temperature traverse in storage or during carrying, and therefore the material in this liner may expand (temperature increase) or collapse (temperature reduction).For the material that is tending towards under the temperature traverse increasing expanding, exist the het expansion of material can be to the risk of inner liner wall application of stress, cause potentially liner to leak.In the situation that having removed bottom clearance, this risk may be even more serious, because in this case, there is no the space not yet being occupied by material in liner, even and therefore expand relatively little amount of material, pressure also may cause the damage of inner liner wall and produce leaking.The disclosure advantageously provides the solution for this problem, thereby allows roughly all bottom clearances to be removed, and also eliminates simultaneously or be roughly minimized in the risk of leaking occurs in the situation of the material het expansion being contained in liner.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, available expectation material is filled liner, wherein, in the time filling liner with material 902, this material 902 is heated and gas equilibrium.For example, in the time that material is incorporated in liner, can heat material.In certain embodiments, material can be heated to this material before distributing, be included in store and carry during the highest temperature that stands of expection.In other embodiments, material can be heated to any suitable and preferred temperature.In certain embodiments, for example can material be heated to approximately 40 DEG C to approximately 60 DEG C during filling process.In other cases, material can be heated between approximately 50 DEG C to approximately 55 DEG C.In another embodiment, can select any suitable filling temp.In certain embodiments, liner can be filled to the top of liner, substantially not for headspace gases leaves redundant space, and in other embodiments, can be in the space of the more remaining relatively small amounts in the top place of liner.Once fill liner, available any appropriate ways seals liner, fix and/or cover, and which remains in liner by material and minimizes or roughly eliminate the exposure of the pollutants of material to liner 904 outsides.These one or more sealing members, top cover or other fixed mechanism can be sir-tight.In certain embodiments, can after being fixed to liner, top cover or joint remove some or any bottom clearance 906.In such embodiments, can pressurize inwardly to compress inner liner wall to the annular space between liner and external packing, thereby any bottom clearance is urged to outside liner and is urged in the retaining zone of for example top cover and/or joint, as discussed below in more detail.But, should be by understanding, it is contemplated that any proper method that removes bottom clearance, and such method is in spirit of the present disclosure and category.Then, can allow the material in liner to be cooled to ambient room temperature 908.Along with material is cooling, material will become substantially with respect to room temperature undersaturation, that is, material will be roughly degassed.In addition,, because material is being cooled to room temperature after sealed liner, material can be tending towards shrinking.The material shrinking may through fill and fixing liner in a small amount of imaginary space is provided.
As discussed above, between conveying and/or storage life, the material in liner can stand the high higher temperature of temperature being cooled to after the heat of liner is filled than this material.For example, the assembly based on liner can be transferred by having the relatively part area of high-temperature, and such as being for example transferred by desert, the room temperature in the comparable filling of the temperature place of this area is high.Therefore, the material in liner can be substantially along with temperature increases and expands.In certain embodiments, the feature of liner and/or external packing can help to reduce or eliminate by material expand and cause in any stress of being lining with.For example, in certain embodiments, liner and/or external packing can have the surface characteristics such as panel as above, and described surface characteristics can allow liner to expand in the time being applied in pressure.As shown in Figure 1B, panel 138 can be for example spill, until pressure is for example applied to panel 138 from liner inner side due to the content het expansion of liner.Although panel has above been described particularly, should be by understanding, it is contemplated that can substantially allow the material of liner in liner to expand time and any suitable surface characteristics expanding, and this suitable surface characteristics is in spirit of the present disclosure and category.In addition, as mentioned above, when material heat fill and sealing after when cooling, material contraction also can provide some additional spaces, this additional space can allow material het expansion and not to inner liner wall application of stress subsequently in liner.Fill method as herein described can advantageously allow liner roughly fully to be filled, and keeps without headspace gases, simultaneously still allows material het expansion to a certain degree, thus the remarkable possibility of reduction or elimination damage, pollution or the leakage relevant with het expansion.
In some embodiment that remove at bottom clearance, particularly with respect to more accurate containment system, such as the containment system with thin inner liner wall, any non-conformal cooperation between inner liner 104 and external packing 102 all can be during carrying simulation potential product failure roughly.That is, as described herein annular space is pressurizeed to remove bottom clearance and substantially causes liner to leave the distortion of having a mind to of external packing, this distortion during for example carrying can but always do not cause container to lose efficacy or meet the inefficacy of the container of required specification.Therefore, in certain embodiments, can remove in process and adopt extra or alternative step to avoid such distortion at bottom clearance, or reduce the effect that such distortion produces.
For example, in certain embodiments, during bottom clearance removes process, the mode collapse that liner and overpack can be unanimous on the whole.For this reason, in an embodiment who illustrates in Figure 10, check valve or boiler check valve 1008 can be set, bottom clearance removes and can realize by described check valve or boiler check valve 1008, Figure 10 illustrates storage and distribution system 1000 based on liner, and storage that should be based on liner and distribution system 1000 have the liner (invisible) in external packing of being positioned at 1002 and bucket bottom flange 1004 and comprise and liner and/or the external packing closure member 1006 can operating mode to connect.In one embodiment, check valve 1008 is with can operating mode or be included in integratedly in closure member 1006.Check valve 1008 can be constructed or be arranged so that the internal fluid communication of this check valve 1008 and liner and allow gas to flow in the direction in the outside from liner inside to closure member 1006.Should be understood that closure member 1006 also can comprise the port one 010 that the annular space between liner and external packing is communicated with, this port one 010 can be used for distributing via indirect pressure distribution the content of liner, as described herein.Remove in order to realize bottom clearance, after filling liner and covering liner with closure member 1006, can first annular space port one 010 (if providing) be covered, make can enter the annular space between liner and external packing without air.After covering annular space port one 010, can such as by by vacuum source connect apply vacuum to check valve, described check valve and liner internal communication are with any bottom clearance in emptying liner inside.This measure can cause both roughly evenly but conventionally minimum collapses of liner and external packing 1002, and this can be avoided or reduce liner and leave the distortion of external packing, and this distortion may be disadvantageous as mentioned above in some cases.When from the inner emptying desired amount of liner, conventionally all or roughly when all bottom clearance, vacuum source can be removed from check valve 1008.In certain embodiments, if needed, check valve 1008 can be removed.But, check valve 1008 can be stayed in closure member 1006, and according to the essence of the unidirectional characteristic of check valve 1008, this check valve 1008 should stop any air migration to be got back in liner.In a further embodiment, check valve can be covered to increase protection.In other embodiments, except vacuum source or as vacuum source substitute, can remove bottom clearance by pressure is applied to external packing.Because annular space port one 010 has been covered, so the pressure in external packing can cause pressure to be applied to liner, and therefore can bottom clearance be extruded via check valve 1008.Then, packaging can be ready for and be transported to terminal user, and after incoming terminal user place, the material that is included in liner inner side should keep the emptying level of bottom clearance.Although be discussed as boiler check valve herein, described valve can be any suitable check valve, includes but not limited to eduction valve (bleeder valve) etc.
In another embodiment, do not need annular space pressurization and do not need to remove bottom clearance.In fact, many embodiment may not need such processing.No matter whether remove bottom clearance, can be by sealing member, and flexible seals can be applied in certain embodiments to the outlet of liner, and comprise the inner space connecting that sealing member is applied to liner, make in the time applying sealing member, the content of liner can not loss.Sealing member can comprise any suitable material or combination of materials, includes but not limited to plastics, rubber, elastic body or any other suitable material.Sealing member can be the sealing of any suitable type, include but not limited to be called as in certain embodiments the sealing member of flat seal, maybe can be placed on the sealing member that is called as in other embodiments leakiness sealing member (blabber seal) below the neck connecting of liner.Sealing member can be formed as the inside of the neck that is engaged to liner, and can or otherwise be engaged to the inside of the neck of liner by sealing member heat seal, adhesion.In other embodiments, sealing member can be engaged to the top of the neck of liner.Once apply sealing member, just can remove any pressure that is applied to annular space that removes step from above-mentioned optional bottom clearance from annular space, and can and/or store top cover or other closure member/joint by conveying as herein described and be attached to liner and/or external packing for storing and/or carrying.Then, terminal user can store and/or the content of dispense container.In the time need to distributing the content of liner, can use any suitable distribution method to remove content via the mouth of liner, such as via pressure distribution, comprise that direct and indirect pressure distribution, pump are distributed, pressure complementary pump distributes, oppositely distributes, topples over or use or any other suitable means of the content of related application dispense container according to the expection of material, described above.In certain embodiments, the distribution joint that is configured to specific distribution method can be attached to the system based on liner admittedly, thinks that the content that removes liner prepares.Distribution joint can be configured to and the specific distribution system compatibility being used by terminal user, and this specific distribution system can be according to industry and be different.For example, in the time of the content of desired distribution liner, distribution joint 326 can be attached to liner and/or external packing.Depend on used embodiment, carry/store top cover also also can serve as distribution joint; Distribution joint can be fixed to conveying/storage top cover; Maybe can will carry/store top cover remove and distribution joint can be fixed to liner and/or external packing.Sealing member so can be located, with in the time that distribution joint 326 is attached to liner and/or external packing, joint probe 328 is can be substantially very static or gently against the surface of sealing member near the surface of sealing member, but not puncture through seal of joint probe 328, as shown in Figure 3 D.The tip of probe 328 can be sharp, and in some cases, the tip of probe 328 can be substantially very sharp.When such as by gas being incorporated in the annular space between liner and external packing and initiation pressure divides timing, be incorporated into the compressible inner liner wall of pressure in annular space and substantially upwards oppress the material in liner, sharp tip towards joint probe 328 upwards promotes flexible seals, thus puncture through seal part allow the content of liner to be assigned with.Advantageously, this embodiment can help to stop roughly any air to be introduced in the material of liner before actual allocated.
A specific embodiment of the present disclosure shown in Fig. 3 E.System based on liner can comprise external packing 346, liner 348, registration device 378, top cover 354, keep some or all in top cover 352, distribution joint 356 and absorbent 374.External packing 346 can comprise any suitable material or combination of materials, comprises those materials as herein described.For example, external packing can comprise that metal or external packing can be formed by PE blowing mould.The mouth of external packing 346 can be enough large, when liner 348 is during in collapse state, can liner be inserted by this mouth allowing.Liner 348 can be any suitable liner that comprises any suitable material as herein described.In one embodiment, liner can be the liner with pre-folded, and this pre-folded for example can allow liner collapse in a predefined manner, expansion and collapse again, and described in international pct application case PCT/US11/55558, this application case had previously all been incorporated to herein.Liner 348 can comprise diaphragm seal 366.This diaphragm seal can comprise any suitable material, includes but not limited to poly-silica barrier film.In certain embodiments, the seal also can comprise paper tinsel barrier 368.Described paper tinsel barrier 368 can help to reduce the infiltration across barrier film, to maintain purity and/or the aseptic of the material in liner.Top cover 354 can comprise filling access, pressure port 364 and/or air extractor duct, and top cover 354 can be held in place liner 348 substantially in external packing 346 inner sides.One or more extra closure members and/or retainer can connect with top cover 354, for filling and/or dispensing materials from liner.For example, keep top cover 352 can be fixed to top cover 354.In certain embodiments, filling and/or distribution joint 356 can be attached to subsequently top cover 354 and/or keep top cover 352.In other embodiments, top cover 354 can not need to keep top cover 352, and top cover 354 self can be directly and joint 356 compatibilities.Joint 356 can comprise plunger 360.This plunger can comprise thorn " pin " pointed probe, this probe penetrable septum sealing 366.In the time that diaphragm seal is pierced through at tip, plunger can reduce to prevent that bubble from entering distribution joint along with " pin " point.Then, can extract plunger out with flowing after allowing tip is inserted into liner from tip region.
Absorbent, desiccant or degasifier 374 can be positioned in the annular space between liner 346 and external packing 348.Degasifier 374 is absorbing moisture and/or oxygen substantially, and prevent that thus moisture from penetrating in liner and polluting the content of liner.Can use one or more degasifiers and/or absorbent.
System 344 based on liner also can comprise one or more registration devices 378, and these one or more registration devices 378 can help liner to be stabilized in external packing 346.Registration device 378 can comprise any suitable material, includes but not limited to plastics, metal, rubber, timber or any other suitable material.Device 378 can adopt any suitable shape and/or structure, makes this device can help liner to be positioned in external packing, and in some cases, liner is vertically located and/or is stabilized in external packing.For example, in certain embodiments, the bottom of liner can or have another geometric configuration by sphering, and this geometric configuration can be different from the geometric configuration of external packing bottom substantially.Therefore, registration device can be shaped in such a manner and place, for example, so that () fills any imaginary space region in the external packing not occupied by liner.Other embodiment of system based on liner disclosed herein can comprise the one or more features in the feature of discussing with reference to the embodiment shown in Fig. 3 E.
In another embodiment, closure member/joint can comprise closure member 400 as shown in Figure 4 and/or distribution joint 500 as shown in Figure 5.In certain embodiments, closure member 400 as shown in Figure 4 can comprise air extractor duct 412, receiver 416 and top cover 422.Therefore, in certain embodiments, closure member or top cover that closure member 400 can be used as the filling joint for filling and can use in storage and/or during carrying.Closure member 400 can comprise any suitable material, such as metal, plastics or any other material or combination of materials.In certain embodiments, closure member 400 can comprise the material that can be suitable for using in gnotobasis, such as material listed above or any other suitable material or combination of materials.
As mentioned above, the typical case of the system based on liner uses circulation to comprise: what be conventionally attached to by use that the filling joint of liner and/or external packing carries out fills liner with material; By by closure member with to fill joint integrated, or fill joint fixedly separated closure member and come with closure member or top cover the system sealing based on liner for storing and/or transport by removing; By the container traffic being filled through fixing to terminal user for distributing, terminal user can remove in some cases and fill joint and/or closure member Fufen connector admittedly before distributing thus.
As mentioned above, can be by closure member 400 as filling joint, this filling joint also can comprise the favorable characteristics for storing and/or transporting.In certain embodiments, closure member 400 can comprise for example air extractor duct 412 and integration air extractor duct as shown in the figure, and this air extractor duct can allow for example air of gas or nitrogen (N
2) during filling process and/or filling process after loss.The gas that may be trapped in filling containers as discussed above, can be called as bottom clearance substantially.Bottom clearance may be less desirable, damage and/or gaseous contamination because gas may cause the spuming of for example material, bubble, stress, protein, above-mentioned phenomenon (for example) may be very less desirable in the case of maintaining the purity of content of system very important.In the time of transport filling containers, the negative consequences of bottom clearance may increase, because gas can be further stirred in the during transportation movement of the content of container, and therefore pollutes the content of liner.Therefore it can be favourable or very favorable, removing bottom clearance.Once liner is filled, just can be by suitable gas or fluid be incorporated in the annular space between liner and external packing and remove bottom clearance.The pressure of the increase in annular space can promote liner self, thereby extrudes any unnecessary gas in liner.In certain embodiments, the unnecessary gas in liner can pass through air extractor duct 412 loss.
In certain embodiments, once remove bottom clearance via air extractor duct as mentioned above, the overflow of the content of container can be collected in receiver 416.Overflow can be described to content through filling liner due to the too much material in liner for example or folding and can not be engaged in the part in liner.Alternatively or additionally, overflow may occur due to the process that removes bottom clearance, as discussed above.Conventionally, overflow is less desirable, because overflow material can not be utilized.But in some embodiment and application, overflow can be advantageously used in and help sealing system for storing and/or transport.For example, be for example adhesives, and be for example in particular, in the situation that needs the () reacting adhesive by ultraviolet light polymerization at the content of liner, because bottom clearance removes process, to flow into overflow in receiver 416 curable.Overflow adhesives is solidified and can cause producing sealing, sealing can close the content of liner for storing and/or carrying.In certain embodiments, once set up such sealing, just top cover 422 can be fixed to closure member for storing and/or transport.Top cover 422 can be attached to closure member 400 by any suitable means, and described in this, suitable means comprise by snap fit, complementary threads or any other proper method or Combination of Methods.
In certain embodiments, once headspace gases be removed via air extractor duct 412, in receiver 416, produce sealing, and by fixing top cover 422, just can be by the container traffic being filled to end user.In the time that end user prepares to distribute some or all in the content of liner, closure member 400 can be removed, and substitute closure member 400 by distribution joint 500 as shown in Figure 5.
Distribution joint 500 can be any suitable distribution joint 500 that can use with desired distribution method compatibility, described distribution method comprises that for example pressure distribution, pressure complementary pump distribute, pump distributes, oppositely distributes, topples over or any other distribution method, as described earlier in this article.For example, as visible in the 5th figure, in certain embodiments, the distribution joint that is configured for pressure distribution can be attached to container for distributing.Such pressure distribution joint can comprise that permission is above for the assigned characteristics of the pressure distribution described in previous embodiment.In certain embodiments, distribution joint is droppable, and distribution joint is constructed to disposable use; But in other embodiments, distribution joint is configured to repeated usage conventionally.
Distribution joint can comprise any suitable material, such as metal, plastics or any other material or combination of materials.In certain embodiments, distribution joint can comprise the material that can be suitable for using in gnotobasis, such as material listed above or any other suitable material or combination of materials.
In some cases, the embodiment of liner of the present disclosure can distribute under the pressure that is less than about 100psi, or more preferably under the pressure that is less than about 50psi, distributes, and even more preferably under the pressure that is less than about 20psi, distributes.But, in some cases, depend on that expection is used or related application, as needed, the content of the liner of some embodiment can distribute under significantly lower pressure.
In a further embodiment, the allocation component that comprises joint also can comprise controls the function unit that enters gas and trickle.For example, controller can operating mode be attached to function unit to control the distribution of liquid from liner.Also can comprise that in certain embodiments one or more convs are with sensing entrance and/or delivery pressure.Thus, can utilize such function unit to detect liner and when be close to sky.When be close to from such distribution of liner definite liner the US Patent the 7th that title that empty device is for example to issue on February 6th, 2007 is " Liquid Dispensing System " for controlling fluid, 172, No. 096 and international filing date are to describe in No. PCT/US07/70911st, the title on June 11st, the 2007 PCT application case that is " Liquid Dispensing Systems Encompassing Gas Removal ", and each in above-mentioned patent and application case is all incorporated to herein by reference at this; And this device is described in No. PCT/US2011/055558th, international application, this application case is all incorporated to herein at this.
In other or alternative embodiment shown in Figure 6, emptying testing agency can comprise liner and external packing system 602, and this liner and external packing system 602 can operating mode be connected to indirect pressure distribution assembly 604.Allocation component 604 can comprise pressure converter or sensor 606, pressure solenoid or other control cock 608 and air extractor duct screw actuator or other control cock 610.Microcontroller can be in order to control presssure screw actuator 608 and/or air extractor duct screw actuator 610.Outlet fluid pressure can be read and be measured by pressure converter 606.If hypotony, that is, pressure, lower than setting value, can be opened a period of time (P by pressure solenoid 608
on), thereby cause more gas-pressurizeds or other material to be introduced in the annular space between external packing and liner, and be lifted out a mouthful fluid pressure.If hypertonia, higher than predetermined value, can be opened a period of time (P by air extractor duct screw actuator 610 that is
vent), discharge a little the pressure in the annular space between external packing and liner, thus and reduction outlet fluid pressure.As visible in Fig. 7, along with the content of liner is close to sky, fluid pressure declines 710.The decline of fluid pressure triggers pressure solenoid and opens long period section.Increase (the P of solenoidal time of response pressure
on) along with liner is close to empty rising 712 rapidly.Therefore time quantum (the P that, pressure valve is opened
on) can be in order to determine the time of the terminal that has arrived distribution.
Alternatively or additionally, can monitor the frequency that the solenoidal On/Off of inlet pressure switches.As noted above, in the time that liner is close to sky, inlet pressure increases to maintain constant liquid outlet pressure by needs.Therefore,, in the time that liner is close to sky, the frequency On/Off that inlet pressure screw actuator can be higher enters into the annular space between liner and container with the gas-pressurized that allows aequum.This frequency that On/Off switches can be useful emptying detection index.The emptying detecting mechanism of all emptying testing agencies as disclosed herein can help to save time and energy, and therefore saves money.
Complete distribution or roughly completing distribution, and liner is for sky or after being roughly sky, terminal user can be abandoned this system based on liner, and/or terminal user can recirculation or is re-used some or all in this system based on liner, comprises some or all in closure member/joint.In order to help to make distributing box as herein described more there is sustainability, one or more parts of distributing box or this distributing box, comprise any external packing, liner, handle etc., can be manufactured by Biodegradable material or biodegradable polymer, include but not limited to: poly-hydroxyl alkane alkoxide (PHAs), as poly--3-hydroxy butyrate (PHB), poly-hydroxyl valerate (PHV) and poly-hydroxycaproic ester (PHH); Poly(lactic acid) (PLA); Poly butylene succinate (PBS); Polycaprolactone (PCL); Polyanhydride; Polyvinyl alcohol; Starch derivative; Cellulose ester, as the derivant (celluloid) of cellulose acetate and nitrocellulose and cellulose acetate and nitrocellulose; Deng.Similarly, in certain embodiments, and if be suitable for technical application, one or more parts of distributing box or this distributing box can by can recirculation or recycled materials manufacture form, and in certain embodiments, one or more parts of distributing box or this distributing box can be used by identical or different terminal user in another process, thereby allow this terminal user to alleviate the impact of this terminal user on environment, or reduce the entirety discharge of this terminal user.For example, in one embodiment, one or more parts of distributing box or this distributing box can be manufactured by the material that can incinerate, and make the heat producing from this incineration be caught by identical or different terminal user and merge or use another process.By and large, one or more parts of distributing box or this distributing box can be manufactured by material that can recirculation, or one or more parts of distributing box or this distributing box can be converted into the raw MAT'L that can reuse.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, storage and distribution system 800 can comprise other optional packaging element 820, and liner and external packing 802 can be positioned in this other optional packaging element 820.This packaging element 820 can be in order to relatively easily storing in some cases, transport and/or carrying liner and external packing 802.Packaging element 820 can be roughly by corrugated material and construct the case forming, and described corrugated material is such as, but not limited to cardboard.But in other embodiments, packaging element 820 can comprise any suitable material or combination of materials, comprise for example paper, timber, metal, glass or plastics.Packaging element 820 can comprise one or more reinforcing elements 830, and these one or more reinforcing elements 830 can be that liner and the external packing 802 for being arranged in packaging element 820 provides support and/or stability.Reinforcing element 830 can be positioned on any suitable or Desired Height in packaging element 820.For example, as visible in Fig. 8, can near the top of the main body of external packing and liner 802, reinforcing element 830 be set.For example, but in other embodiments, one or more reinforcing elements can be positioned on other region of external packing, are positioned at the bottom of external packing or the middle part in external packing.In another embodiment, reinforcing element can be filled roughly having living space or a part of space in the space not occupied by liner and external packing substantially.Reinforcing element 830 can comprise any suitable material or combination of materials, such as, but not limited to the material for packaging element listed above.In certain embodiments, reinforcing element 830 can comprise the material identical with the remainder of packaging element 820, is not necessary although use same material.Packaging element 820 also can have one or more handles or handle groove/opening 840, and these one or more handles or handle groove/opening 840 can make packaging element 820 move and/or carrying relative to being easy to.Packaging element 820 can have any intended shape, and packaging element 820 can be roughly rectangular box in some cases, as shown in the figure.Owing to the rectangular box shape of packaging element, all systems as shown in Figure 8 of multiple systems can easily and easily be cased for storing and/or carrying.In addition, packaging element can further protect the liner and the external packing that are arranged in packaging element to avoid exposing, such as avoiding being exposed to potential harmful ultraviolet ray.
In some embodiment that comprise packaging element 820, liner and external packing system can not comprise handle or bucket bottom flange, because the support that storage element 820 can provide handle groove/opening and be provided by described bucket bottom flange.Therefore, in such embodiments, can reduce or cost that elimination and handle and/or the relevant liner of bucket bottom flange and external packing are associated.But in other embodiments, liner and external packing still can comprise handle and/or bucket bottom flange at the embodiment that comprises packaging element.
In order to help to distribute, such as, but not limited in pump dispensing applications, the system of any one in the system based on liner of the present disclosure based on liner can comprise the embodiment with dip-tube, and described dip-tube extends any suitable distance in liner.In other embodiments, the system based on liner of the present disclosure can not comprise dip-tube, such as for some pressure distribution or reverse dispensing applications.In alternate embodiment, each embodiment of potential self-supporting liner as herein described can carry and be placed in the pressurizing vessel at reception facilities place to distribute the content of liner without external packing in the situation that.
In certain embodiments, the system based on liner as above also also comprises the feature for helping prevent or limit obstruction.Generally speaking, obstruction can be described to when the final collapse of liner liner from it or collapse in the structure of liner inside, situation about occurring when forming the chokepoint being arranged on above large quantity of fluid.In the time blocking generation, obstruction can hinder the use completely of the liquid being arranged in liner, and this is a serious problem, because the many materials that use in Biological Technology and/or pharmaceuticals industry can be for example all very expensive.The variety of way preventing or process obstruction is described in No. PCT/US08/52506th, PCT application case that title that the international submission date is on January 30th, 2008 is " Prevention Of Liner Choke-off In Liner-based Pressure Dispensation System ", and this application case is all incorporated to herein by reference at this.The other mode preventing or process obstruction is described in and applies in No. PCT/US11/55558th, international pct application case that the title on October 10th, 2011 is " Substantially Rigid Collapsible Liner; Container and/or Liner for Replacing Glass Bottles; and Enhanced Flexible Liners ", and this application case had previously all been incorporated to herein by reference.
In certain embodiments, to wall of container inner with inner liner wall outside between annular space in gas-pressurized or the introducing controlled and variation of liquid can be used for mixing the content of liner.For example, cause the compression of liner and the controlled circulation of lax pressurization and decompression can make the contents mixed of liner.In use, this embodiment is by the aseptic mixing of the content of permission liner and without impeller or mixer.Because object is incorporated into the risk that can increase pollution in liner inside, without impeller or mixer are incorporated in liner, can advantageously help pollution risk to be down to minimum.
In certain embodiments, distributing box as herein described can comprise symbol and/or the word in the one or more parts that are molded into distributing box or this distributing box.Described symbol and/or word can include but not limited to title, mark, instruction, warning etc.Can during the manufacturing process of one or more parts of distributing box or this distributing box or afterwards, carry out this molded.In one embodiment, this moldedly can for example be carried out embossing and be completed easily during manufacturing process by the model of the one or more parts to distributing box or this distributing box.For example, described molded symbol and/or word can be used for distinguishing product.
In certain embodiments; during manufacturing process or afterwards; one or more colors and/or absorbing material can be added into the material of one or more parts of distributing box or this distributing box, helping to protect the content of distributing box to avoid the impact of external environment condition, decorate distributing box or as instruction or the mark of the content in distributing box or otherwise distinguish multiple distributing boxs etc.Can use for example dyestuff, pigment, nanoparticle or any other applicable mechanism to add color.Absorbing material can comprise the material that absorbs ultraviolet light, infrared light and/or radio-frequency (RF) signal etc.
Similarly, in certain embodiments, one or more parts of distributing box or this distributing box can be provided with different textures or degree of finish.The same with color and molded symbol and/or word, different texture or degree of finish can be in order to distinguish product, are arranged on the instruction of the content in distributing box or can be used for which or which application etc. with identification content to provide.In one embodiment, texture or degree of finish can be designed to roughly slip-resistant texture or degree of finish etc., and comprise that one or more parts that this texture or degree of finish are maybe added into this texture or degree of finish distributing box or this distributing box can help to improve gripability or the carrying property of packaging system, and and then risk that distributing box is dropped reduce or be down to minimum.Texture or degree of finish can for example be provided surface characteristics and be completed easily during manufacturing process by the mould of the one or more parts to for distributing box or this distributing box.In other embodiments, molded distributing box can be coated with texture or degree of finish.In certain embodiments, can be on whole distributing box roughly or roughly provide on the whole texture or degree of finish at one or more parts of this distributing box.But, in other embodiments, can only in a part for a part for distributing box or one or more parts of this distributing box, provide texture or degree of finish.
Similarly, in certain embodiments, the outer wall of one or more parts of distributing box or this distributing box and/or inwall can have any applicable coating thereon.This coating can increase material compatibility, reduces penetrablility, gain in strength, increases anti-pin hole, increases stability, antistatic effect is provided or otherwise reduces static etc.Such coating can comprise the coating of poly-mer or plastics, metal, glass, sticker etc., and can for example during manufacturing process, apply by being coated in the preform of using in blow molding, or can be such as applying by spraying, dipping, filling etc. after manufacturing.
In certain embodiments, the system based on liner can comprise one or more handles, and these one or more handles can operating mode or attached with liner and/or external packing integratedly.These one or more handles can have any shape or size, and these one or more handles can be positioned at any applicable position of distributing box.The type of handle can include but not limited to: the handle that is positioned at top and/or side; The handle of ergonomics; Removable or detachable handle; Be molded into the handle that in distributing box or after manufacturing distributing box, (such as for example by snap fit, sticker, riveted joint, screw connection, the cooperation etc. of pegging graft) arranges; Deng.Different handles and/or carrying apolegamy part can be set, and described handle and/or carrying apolegamy part can be depending on such as but not limited to the expection distribution system of the size of the application of the expection content of distributing box, distributing box, distributing box and shape, distributing box etc.Handle can be provided for promoting more easily or transporting the means of external packing and/or liner.
In order to help to make distributing box as herein described more there is sustainability, one or more parts of distributing box or this distributing box, comprise any external packing, liner, handle etc., can be manufactured by Biodegradable material or biodegradable polymer, include but not limited to: poly-hydroxyl alkane alkoxide (PHAs), as poly--3-hydroxy butyrate (PHB), poly-hydroxyl valerate (PHV) and poly-hydroxycaproic ester (PHH); Poly(lactic acid) (PLA); Poly butylene succinate (PBS); Polycaprolactone (PCL); Polyanhydride; Polyvinyl alcohol; Starch derivative; Cellulose ester, as the derivant (celluloid) of cellulose acetate and nitrocellulose and cellulose ester, class cellulose acetate and nitrocellulose; Deng.
In certain embodiments, distributing box can comprise two-layer or more multi-layered, such as external packing and liner, multiple external packing or multiple liner.In another embodiment, distributing box can comprise at least three layers, and at least three layers of enhancing appearance that can assist in ensuring that the content in distributing box carry, increase structural strength and/or reduce penetrablility etc.Arbitrary layer in described layer can, by identical or different material, be made such as, but not limited to the previously discussed material of this paper.
In certain embodiments, if be suitable for technical application, one or more parts of distributing box or this distributing box can by can recirculation or recycled materials manufacture, and in certain embodiments, one or more parts of distributing box or this distributing box can be used by identical or different terminal user in another technique, thereby allow this terminal user to alleviate its impact on environment, or reduce the entirety discharge of this terminal user.For example, in one embodiment, one or more parts of distributing box or this distributing box can be manufactured by the material that can incinerate, and make caught by identical or different terminal user and merge or for another process by incinerating the heat producing.By and large, one or more parts of distributing box or this distributing box can be manufactured by material that can recirculation, or one or more parts of distributing box or this distributing box can convert the raw MAT'L that can reuse to.
In certain embodiments, architectural feature can be designed in distributing box, described architectural feature can be gained in strength and integraty to one or more parts of distributing box or this distributing box.For example, the substrate of distributing box (or in certain embodiments bucket bottom flange), top and side can be all the shake of for example, during filling, carry, install and use (, distributing) experience increase and the region of external force.Therefore, in one embodiment, the thickness increasing or structural system (for example, crane span structure design) can be added into the bearing stress region of distributing box, this measure can be gained in strength and integraty to distributing box.In addition, any join domain in distributing box also can experience the stress of increase during use.Therefore, any region in this region all can comprise the architectural feature of for example gaining in strength by the thickness increasing and/or the design customizing especially.In another embodiment, can use triangle to gain in strength with the arbitrary structure in said structure; But, also can use other design or mechanical support feature.
In certain embodiments, one or more parts of distributing box or these distributing boxs, comprise any external packing or liner, can comprise Enhanced feature, such as, but not limited to screen cloth, fiber, epoxy resin or resin etc., described Enhanced feature can be integrated or be added into one or more parts of distributing box or this distributing box, the part of this distributing box, strengthens or intensity to add.This enhancing can contribute to high pressure dispensing applications or for distributing the application of heavy body content or corrosive property content.
In certain embodiments, distributing box can comprise horizontal sensed characteristic or sensor.Described horizontal sensed characteristic or sensor can use vision, electronics, super sonic or other applicable mechanism for identification, instruction or determine the level that is stored in the content in distributing box.For example, in one embodiment, the part of distributing box or this distributing box can be made up of translucent or transparent material roughly, the described level that roughly translucent or transparent material can be used for checking the content in the part that is stored in this distributing box or this distributing box.
In another embodiment, flow metering technology can be integrated in joint or with joint can operating mode connecting, for directly measuring the material that is delivered to downstream process from packaging system.The direct measurement of the material being transferred can provide data to end user, and described data can assist in ensuring that process repeatability or duplicability.In one embodiment, flow counter can provide the analog or digital reading of material stream.Other parts of flow counter or system can consider that properties of materials (including but not limited to viscosity and concentration) and other flow parameter are to provide accurate flow measurement.Additionally or alternatively, flow counter can be constructed to process and accurately measure and be stored in the certain material distributing in distributing box and from distributing box.In one embodiment, capable of circulation or adjust inlet pressure to keep delivery pressure or the flow velocity of constant.
The embodiment of various conveying of the present disclosure and distribution system has the some advantages that are better than Traditional Packing system.Run through this application has and mention many advantages, include but not limited to the above-mentioned advantage of the disclosed system based on liner connecting with closure member/joint, described closure member/joint can allow with specific industry in existing distribution system compatibility, described industry is adhesives industry or food industry for example.Other advantage will be by those skilled in the art recognize that and can be according to sector application and difference.
Some embodiment of feature as above are to describe in further detail in No. PCT/US11/55558th, international pct application case that the title of on October 10th, 2011 application is " Substantially Rigid Collapsible Liner; Container and/or Liner for Replacing Glass Bottles; and Enhanced Flexible Liners ", and this application case had previously all been incorporated to herein by reference.
In the foregoing description, for the object illustrating and describe has presented various embodiment of the present invention.Embodiment is not intended to exhaustive the present invention or the present invention is limited to disclosed precise forms.In view of above-mentioned teaching, apparent amendment or variation are possible.Select and describe described embodiment so that the best illustration of practical application of principle of the present invention and principle of the present invention to be provided, and so that those skilled in the art can utilize the present invention in various embodiments, various amendments are suitable for the specific use of imagination simultaneously.When all amendments and change while explanation according to the range enjoyed equitably, legally and liberally, all amendments and changing all in the determined category of the present invention by claims.
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1. for a method for the assembly removal headspace gases from based on liner, the described assembly based on liner comprises: external packing; Liner, described liner is positioned in described external packing and holds material and headspace gases; With the closure member for sealing described liner, described method comprises:
Check valve is set, and the internal fluid communication of described check valve and described liner also allows flowing in the direction of inside of leaving described liner;
Apply vacuum with the emptying headspace gases in the inside from described liner to described check valve.
2. method according to claim 1, wherein, the described assembly based on liner also comprises the port being communicated with the annular space fluid between described external packing and described liner, and described method also comprises: described port is covered.
3. the assembly based on liner, the described assembly based on liner is configured to remove headspace gases, and the described assembly based on liner comprises:
External packing;
Liner, described liner is positioned in described external packing;
Closure member, described closure member is configured to connect removedly to seal described liner with described liner; With
Check valve, the internal fluid communication of described check valve and described liner also allows flowing in the direction of inside of leaving described liner.
4. the assembly based on liner according to claim 3, wherein, described check valve connects with described closure member.
5. the assembly based on liner according to claim 4, also comprises the port that the annular space fluid between described external packing and described liner is communicated with.
6. the assembly based on liner according to claim 5, wherein, described port is temporarily covered for removing headspace gases.
7. for a method for filling containers assembly, described method comprises:
Material is heated to predetermined temperature, and the described material being used under described predetermined temperature carrys out filling containers;
Seal described container; With
After the described container of sealing, allow the described material cooled in described container.
8. method according to claim 7, wherein, described predetermined temperature approximately 40 DEG C to 60 DEG C between.
9. method according to claim 8, wherein, allows the general context room temperature of described material cooled to the residing room of described container.
10. method according to claim 7, described method also comprises: with described material by described vessel filling roughly to top, make not substantially to be provided for the redundant space of headspace gases.
11. methods according to claim 7, described method also comprises: after the described container of sealing, remove headspace gases.
12. 1 kinds of assemblies based on liner for pressure distribution, the described assembly based on liner comprises:
External packing;
Liner, described liner is arranged in described external packing; With
Closure assembly, described closure assembly can be fixed at least one in described external packing and described liner, described closure assembly comprises bottom clearance air extractor duct and receiver, and described receiver is constructed to collect the overflow of the material in the inside that is stored in described liner;
Wherein, the described overflow that described closure assembly is configured to by making the material in described receiver solidifies to form the sealing to described liner.
13. assemblies based on liner according to claim 12, wherein, described material is adhesives.
14. assemblies based on liner according to claim 13, also comprise top cover, and described top cover is configured to seal removedly described receiver.
15. 1 kinds for filling and the method for airtight container, and described method comprises:
Fill described container with adhesives;
By closure assembly, can operating mode being attached to described container, described closure assembly comprises receiver, and described receiver is configured to collect the overflow of described adhesives;
Allow and/or cause that a part for the described adhesives in described container flow in the described receiver of described closure assembly; With
Make the overflow of the adhesives in described receiver solidify that described container is formed to sealing.
16. methods according to claim 15, also comprise: described closure assembly is covered to seal removedly described receiver.
17. 1 kinds of assemblies based on liner for pressure distribution, the described assembly based on liner comprises:
External packing;
Liner, described liner is arranged in described external packing; With
Cap assembly, described cap assembly can be fixed at least one in described external packing and described liner, described cap assembly comprises closure member and plug member, wherein, described closure member comprises mouth, described mouth is configured to removably be attached to distribution joint and is removably attached to described plug member, and wherein, described connector is configured to roughly fill completely the described mouth of described closure member.
18. assemblies based on liner according to claim 17, wherein, described liner holds edible food, and described distribution joint is configured to distribute food.
19. 1 kinds for distributing the method for content of the assembly based on liner, and described method comprises:
Provide wherein to store and expect the liner of material, described liner is arranged in external packing, and described liner comprises liner neck, and sealing member is fixed to described liner neck;
Distribution joint is fixed to described liner neck, make the probe in described distribution joint initially be positioned to contiguous but not pierce through the sealing member in described liner neck, but described probe positioning is become to make in the time distributing described material by pressure distribution, described sealing member is against described probe upwarping, and described probe pierces through described sealing member to allow the distribution of described material.
20. methods according to claim 19, wherein, distribute described material by indirect pressure distribution, wherein, pressure are applied to the annular space between described liner and external packing.
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