EP0055954B1 - Flacon à partie(s) pliante(s) ou souple(s) - Google Patents

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EP0055954B1
EP0055954B1 EP81401976A EP81401976A EP0055954B1 EP 0055954 B1 EP0055954 B1 EP 0055954B1 EP 81401976 A EP81401976 A EP 81401976A EP 81401976 A EP81401976 A EP 81401976A EP 0055954 B1 EP0055954 B1 EP 0055954B1
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Antonin Goncalves
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LOreal SA
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D41/00—Caps, e.g. crown caps or crown seals, i.e. members having parts arranged for engagement with the external periphery of a neck or wall defining a pouring opening or discharge aperture; Protective cap-like covers for closure members, e.g. decorative covers of metal foil or paper
    • B65D41/02—Caps or cap-like covers without lines of weakness, tearing strips, tags, or like opening or removal devices
    • B65D41/16—Snap-on caps or cap-like covers
    • B65D41/17—Snap-on caps or cap-like covers push-on and twist-off
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D1/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers having bodies formed in one piece, e.g. by casting metallic material, by moulding plastics, by blowing vitreous material, by throwing ceramic material, by moulding pulped fibrous material or by deep-drawing operations performed on sheet material
    • B65D1/32—Containers adapted to be temporarily deformed by external pressure to expel contents

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  • Bottles of this kind are conveniently made of polyethylene which is an inexpensive plastic material having the desired flexibility.
  • polyethylene cannot be used for the packaging of all liquid products.
  • Certain products, in particular hair dyes, cannot be stored in polyethylene.
  • Polyethylene can then be replaced by another common plastic material, inexpensive and not posing a conservation problem for the liquid substance which it is desired to condition, namely polyvinyl chloride; but, as we know, polyvinyl chloride is a rigid material so that the bottles thus produced no longer have the desired flexibility and can no longer be compressed alternately without too much effort using the fingers to produce small liquid jets.
  • FR-A No 1224134 shows, in its figs. 1 to 4, a bottle with a bellows which also opens into the bottom wall of the bottle.
  • the bellows opens into the upper wall of the container body.
  • the present invention proposes a solution which goes contrary to all that has been proposed hitherto, since, instead of the bellows constituting a flexible or folding part, as is generally the role of a bellows, it constitutes a rigid part, in any case a part which is less able to deform than the remaining smooth part, thus making it possible to deform the latter.
  • the present invention therefore relates to a bottle made of polyvinyl chloride or a plastic material of comparable rigidity, comprising a body whose side wall is capable of being alternately compressed to produce small jets of liquid, characterized by the fact that said body has, on its side wall, at least one fold extending substantially parallel to the axis of the bottle, without opening either in the bottom wall of the bottle, or in the upper wall of the body of the bottle, said fold forming a reinforcement and the remaining area of the side wall forming a relatively flexible part which can be deformed manually.
  • the bottle according to the invention comprises two substantially identical folds, symmetrical with respect to the axis of the bottle; each fold is provided in hollow on the side wall of the body of the bottle; it extends substantially over the entire height of the bottle body and ends, on the one hand, in the vicinity of the shoulder of the bottle body where the neck is connected and, on the other hand, in the vicinity of the bottom of said bottle .
  • Each fold advantageously has the configuration of a groove whose cross section, perpendicular to the axis of the bottle, has the shape of a V;
  • the groove with the aforementioned V section has two planes of symmetry: on the one hand, a diametral plane passing through the internal edge of the groove and, on the other hand, the transverse median plane of the body of the bottle;
  • the two outer edges of each groove are not parallel but have a spacing which increases progressively from the end of the groove situated on the side of the shoulder of the body of the bottle to the middle of said body and then decreases gradually to the end of the groove located on the side of the bottom of the bottle;
  • the depth of the furrows is also variable: it increases gradually from the end of the furrow located on the side of the shoulder of the body of the bottle to the middle of said body to then decrease gradually until the end of the groove located on the bottom side of the bottle.
  • the bottle according to the invention is advantageously produced by extrusion blow molding or injection blow molding of a plastic material. It is preferably made of polyvinyl chloride.
  • the bottle according to the invention can carry on its side wall a label placed on a labeling machine.
  • a label must be affixed on a smooth part of the side wall outside of the fold (s). It is therefore advisable to orient the bottle properly inside the labeling machine.
  • the bottom of the latter has externally, in its central part, a rib coming from molding, making it possible to orient the bottle inside the labeling machine. This positioning can be performed by engagement of the aforementioned rib inside a slot of complementary shape provided on the support of the bottles inside the labeling machine.
  • the neck of the bottle according to the invention comprises at its periphery an additional thickness provided, on the side of the neck rim, with a crenellated edge. Inside the aforementioned slots are nested slots of complementary shape formed on the inner side wall of a closure cap which is snapped onto said neck.
  • the small capacity bottle which can contain, for example, a dose of hair product, that is to say the quantity just necessary for an application to the hair. .
  • Bottle 1 is made of polyvinyl chloride. It is molded by extrusion blow molding.
  • the cylindrical body of the bottle 1 is connected by a shoulder 3 to a neck 4; the latter has at its periphery, over about half of its height, an additional thickness ending, on the side of the neck edge, by a crenellated serrated border 4a. Between the edge of the neck and the aforementioned crenellated border 4a is made a peripheral groove 4b.
  • a closure cap 5, made of plastic, is fixed by snapping onto the neck 4 of the bottle. It also has internally, on the side of its circular bottom 5a, an additional thickness, the edge 5b of which defines slots of complementary shape to the slots of the neck.
  • the closure of the closure cap 5 is done by snap-fastening of an inner annular ring (not shown) of said capsule inside the peripheral groove 4b of the neck; in this position, the slots 5b of the closure cap are nested in the slots 4a of the neck.
  • the bottle is opened by rotating the stopper cap 5 relative to the neck 4, while its closure is obtained by pressing the stopper cap 5 onto the neck 4.
  • the neck 4 can be provided, in a conventional manner, with an external thread cooperating with the internal thread formed on the stopper cap to ensure the screwing of the latter on the neck of the bottle.
  • the neck 4 of the bottle receives a dispensing nozzle 6 provided with a central orifice 7, making it possible to reduce the flow of liquid dispensed by the bottle.
  • the liquid is dispensed by alternately compressing the side wall 2 of the bottle using the fingers. So that the latter has the required flexibility, despite the rigidity of the plastic material in which it is made, two folds 8 are provided having the same shapes and dimensions, which are arranged symmetrically with respect to the axis of the bottle; each fold 8 extends longitudinally, along a generatice of the cylindrical side wall 2, over substantially the entire height of said side wall; it ends, on the one hand, in the upper part just near the bottom of the bottle and, on the other hand, in the lower part just near the shoulder 3.
  • Each fold 8 has the configuration of a groove which, in cross section perpendicular to the axis of the bottle, takes the shape of a V.
  • the aforementioned groove has two planes of symmetry: on the one hand, a diametral plane of the bottle passing through the inner edge 8a of the groove and, on the other hand, the transverse median plane of the bottle body.
  • the two outer edges 8b which border the groove are not parallel: their spacing increases progressively from the end of the groove located near the shoulder 3 to the middle of the bottle body where it reaches its maximum value and then gradually decreases to the end of the groove located near the bottom of the bottle.
  • the depth of the two furrows varies in the same way: it gradually increases from the end of the furrow located near the shoulder 3 to then gradually decrease to the end of the furrow located near the bottom of the bottle.
  • the body of the bottle has two rigid parts 8 arranged between two flexible and smooth parts 9 (fig. 2); the two flexible and smooth parts 9 have maximum flexibility in the middle of the body of the bottle, in the area where the groove is the widest and deepest.
  • An outer rib 11 substantially rectilinear, is provided in relief in the concave curved central part of the bottom 10 of the bottle. It extends substantially, in this example, perpendicular to the axial plane passing through the two edges 8a, of the two grooves. It allows, on a labeling machine, to position a label on one of the flexible and smooth parts 9 of the bottle.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Ceramic Engineering (AREA)
  • Containers Having Bodies Formed In One Piece (AREA)
  • Details Of Rigid Or Semi-Rigid Containers (AREA)
  • Containers And Packaging Bodies Having A Special Means To Remove Contents (AREA)
  • Laminated Bodies (AREA)
  • Paints Or Removers (AREA)
  • Adhesives Or Adhesive Processes (AREA)
  • Blow-Moulding Or Thermoforming Of Plastics Or The Like (AREA)
  • Processing And Handling Of Plastics And Other Materials For Molding In General (AREA)
EP81401976A 1981-01-05 1981-12-10 Flacon à partie(s) pliante(s) ou souple(s) Expired EP0055954B1 (fr)

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AT81401976T ATE9305T1 (de) 1981-01-05 1981-12-10 Flakon mit biegsamen teilen.

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FR8100042 1981-01-05
FR8100042A FR2497495A1 (fr) 1981-01-05 1981-01-05 Flacon a partie(s) pliante(s) ou souple(s)

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EP0055954A2 EP0055954A2 (fr) 1982-07-14
EP0055954A3 EP0055954A3 (en) 1982-08-04
EP0055954B1 true EP0055954B1 (fr) 1984-09-12

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EP (1) EP0055954B1 (enrdf_load_stackoverflow)
JP (1) JPS57133836A (enrdf_load_stackoverflow)
AT (1) ATE9305T1 (enrdf_load_stackoverflow)
CA (1) CA1180288A (enrdf_load_stackoverflow)
DE (2) DE3166091D1 (enrdf_load_stackoverflow)
FR (1) FR2497495A1 (enrdf_load_stackoverflow)

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EP0055954A3 (en) 1982-08-04
DE3166091D1 (en) 1984-10-18
ATE9305T1 (de) 1984-09-15
FR2497495B1 (enrdf_load_stackoverflow) 1984-11-16
DE55954T1 (de) 1984-02-16
EP0055954A2 (fr) 1982-07-14
JPS57133836A (en) 1982-08-18
CA1180288A (fr) 1985-01-02

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