EP0343778A1 - Récipient et capuchon à enlever en le comprimant - Google Patents

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EP0343778A1
EP0343778A1 EP89303457A EP89303457A EP0343778A1 EP 0343778 A1 EP0343778 A1 EP 0343778A1 EP 89303457 A EP89303457 A EP 89303457A EP 89303457 A EP89303457 A EP 89303457A EP 0343778 A1 EP0343778 A1 EP 0343778A1
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container body
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Patrick Nigel Ward
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Johnsen and Jorgensen Plastics Ltd
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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
    • B65D50/00—Closures with means for discouraging unauthorised opening or removal thereof, with or without indicating means, e.g. child-proof closures
    • B65D50/02—Closures with means for discouraging unauthorised opening or removal thereof, with or without indicating means, e.g. child-proof closures openable or removable by the combination of plural actions
    • B65D50/04—Closures with means for discouraging unauthorised opening or removal thereof, with or without indicating means, e.g. child-proof closures openable or removable by the combination of plural actions requiring the combination of simultaneous actions, e.g. depressing and turning, lifting and turning, maintaining a part and turning another one
    • B65D50/045—Closures with means for discouraging unauthorised opening or removal thereof, with or without indicating means, e.g. child-proof closures openable or removable by the combination of plural actions requiring the combination of simultaneous actions, e.g. depressing and turning, lifting and turning, maintaining a part and turning another one where one action elastically deforms or deflects at least part of the closure, the container or an intermediate element, e.g. a ring
    • B65D50/046—Closures with means for discouraging unauthorised opening or removal thereof, with or without indicating means, e.g. child-proof closures openable or removable by the combination of plural actions requiring the combination of simultaneous actions, e.g. depressing and turning, lifting and turning, maintaining a part and turning another one where one action elastically deforms or deflects at least part of the closure, the container or an intermediate element, e.g. a ring and such deformation causes the disengagement of locking means, e.g. the release of a pawl-like element from a tooth or abutment, to allow removal of the closure by simultaneous rotation

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  • This invention is concerned with the provision of a safety container comprising in combination a container body and a cap and the invention also includes a cap and body for use in such a safety container.
  • a safety container we mean a container that can easily be opened by adults but which is difficult for children to open.
  • Our British Patent No. 1524395 describes another form of safety container comprising a one piece body with a mouth and an external screw-threaded portion around the mouth and a one piece cap with an internal screw threaded portion at the top for engagement with the container body and shaped so that the inner surface of the cap tapers out­wardly below the screw threaded part towards the bottom of the cap whereby when the cap is seated on the container body there is a space between the inner surface at the bottom of the cap and the outer surface of the container body and interlocking projections on the cap and on the container body for engagement with one another when the cap is screwed on to the container body to prevent removal of the cap until the cap or the body is squeezed at oppositely disposed positions away from the points of engagement of the projections to deform the cap or the body so that the projections are disengaged to permit unscrewing of the cap.
  • the safety container described in our British Patent is also effective and the construction does not involve the depending lug or lugs extending below the skirt of the cap so that the outer profile of the product is more attractive than the appearance of the safety container described in the Sunbeam Patent.
  • the safety container described in our British Patent does require the use of a tapering skirt on the cap and a long neck on the container body which involves other problems and is impracticable on some types of bottle.
  • One object of the present invention is to provide a safety container in which the cap meets the body in such a way as to present a smooth unbroken outer profile while at the same time the product is an effective safety con­tainer which children will find difficult to open.
  • a safety container comprising a screw cap and a container body wherein the container body has a neck, a mouth at the end of the neck and a screw thread around the outside of the neck below the mouth and wherein the cap has a relative­ly short inner skirt with an internal screw-thread to co­operate with the external screw-thread on the neck of the container body and a relatively long outer skirt concentri­cally surrounding the inner skirt, projections or lugs on the inside of the outer skirt of the cap and projections or cams on the outside of the container body below the screw-thread being provided for engagement with one another when the cap is screwed on to the container body to prevent removal of the cap until the outer skirt of the cap is squeezed at oppositely disposed positions away from the points of engagement of the projections to deform the outer skirt so that the projections are disengaged to permit unscrewing of the cap.
  • a cap 1 has a top 2, an inner skirt 3, an internal screw-thread 4 on the inner skirt 3 and an outer skirt 5.
  • the outer skirt 5 has two oppositely disposed internal projections or locking lugs 6 and two oppositely disposed squeeze positions or pads 7 displaced, preferably by 90 o from lugs 6.
  • a container body 8 has a neck 9 with a jetting plug 10 including a mouth 101 and an external screw-thread 11 around the neck 9 for engagement by the thread 4 on the inner skirt 3 of the cap 1.
  • the body 8 also has oppositely disposed external raised ratchet shaped cams or projections 12 for cooperation with the lugs 6.
  • the lugs 6 ride over the cams 12 along surfaces 13 until the cap 1 is fully seated in position to close the mouth 101 of the body 8 but any attempt to unscrew the cap 1 will fail because the lugs 6 will abut against a shoulder 14 on each of the cams 12.
  • the engagement of the lugs 6 with the cams 12 can be released by applying pressure pads 7 in the direction of the arrows 15 in Figure 4 to deform the outer skirt 5 onto an oval shape as shown in Figure 4 whereupon the cap 2 can be unscrewed in the direction of the arrow 16.
  • Our improved safety container may be made from any suitable plastics material the inner skirt 3 preferably being more robust than the outer skirt 5.
  • a safety container according to this invention will, we think, be very useful when incorporating a body 8 with an angled neck as shown in Figures 1 to 5 which is now a popular design for use with 'jetting' toilet cleansers which are required to get up into the rim of a toilet bowl. These cleaning products may be very toxic and the assembly of cap and body is now deemed to require a child-resistant or safety container and manufacturers in addition require an assembly that is, as in this invention, neat, effective, compact and economically priced.
  • our improved safety container according to this invention may also be used in connection with a body 8 which has a substantially vertical neck as illustrated by way of example in Figure 6.
  • a body 8 which has a substantially vertical neck as illustrated by way of example in Figure 6.
  • CRC Child-Resistant Closure
  • To scrap the moulds and start afresh would necessitate crippling (and largely unbudgeted) expense.
  • Modification of existing bottles in accordance with this invention will cost no more than a few hundred pounds sterling per bottle mould impression. Machining into the existing metal mould to form the lugs might take say two days of work and then the machine can go straight back into production. The same could apply to the existing cap moulds. New moulds demanded by other systems could cost well over £50,000 - say £4-5000 per impression.

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EP89303457A 1988-05-27 1989-04-07 Récipient et capuchon à enlever en le comprimant Withdrawn EP0343778A1 (fr)

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GB888812726A GB8812726D0 (en) 1988-05-27 1988-05-27 Improved squeeze release cap & container
GB8812726 1988-05-27

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FR2676997A1 (fr) * 1991-05-29 1992-12-04 Novembal Sa Bouchon-service a l'epreuve des enfants.
GB2256638A (en) * 1991-06-10 1992-12-16 Chemence Ltd Child resistant closure
GB2330356A (en) * 1997-10-14 1999-04-21 Rexam Plastics Inc Closure with trapezoidal or triangular lug
GB2362879A (en) * 2000-05-31 2001-12-05 Rexam Medical Packaging Inc Childproof closure
US6666346B2 (en) * 2002-01-15 2003-12-23 Plastipak Packaging, Inc. Blow molded plastic container with inclined mouth and method and apparatus for obtaining same
FR2911329A1 (fr) * 2007-01-12 2008-07-18 Rexam Pharma Soc Par Actions S Ensemble de conditionnement et de distribution d'un liquide medical
WO2009095109A2 (fr) * 2008-01-29 2009-08-06 Delta Engineering Bvba Récipient de base et récipient comprenant une coque supérieure et le récipient de base
WO2016097145A1 (fr) * 2014-12-19 2016-06-23 Aero Pump Gmbh Capuchon de protection doté d'une sécurité enfant et récipient correspondante pour substances liquides ou pâteuses
WO2016188588A1 (fr) * 2015-05-28 2016-12-01 Shb Gmbh Bouteille en plastique, en particulier bouteille pour wc, ainsi que capuchon et contenant de bouteille pour une bouteille en plastique de ce type
USD841471S1 (en) 2017-02-24 2019-02-26 S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. Bottle
USD845135S1 (en) 2017-02-24 2019-04-09 S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. Bottle neck with cap
USD869955S1 (en) 2016-11-08 2019-12-17 Pollen Gear Llc Squeeze to open container
USD928621S1 (en) 2016-11-08 2021-08-24 Pollen Gear Llc Squeeze to open container

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GB1387572A (en) * 1973-04-05 1975-03-19 Sunbeam Plastics Corp Safety closure
AU462459B2 (en) * 1972-10-06 1975-06-26 Aci Australia Limited Safety closure
GB1603668A (en) * 1977-06-29 1981-11-25 Owens Illinois Inc Child-resistant safety closure
EP0217114A2 (fr) * 1985-10-04 1987-04-08 Joh. A. Benckiser GmbH Bouteille en plastique pour la pulvérisation de produits de nettoyage liquides

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AU462459B2 (en) * 1972-10-06 1975-06-26 Aci Australia Limited Safety closure
GB1387572A (en) * 1973-04-05 1975-03-19 Sunbeam Plastics Corp Safety closure
GB1603668A (en) * 1977-06-29 1981-11-25 Owens Illinois Inc Child-resistant safety closure
EP0217114A2 (fr) * 1985-10-04 1987-04-08 Joh. A. Benckiser GmbH Bouteille en plastique pour la pulvérisation de produits de nettoyage liquides

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR2676997A1 (fr) * 1991-05-29 1992-12-04 Novembal Sa Bouchon-service a l'epreuve des enfants.
ES2060501A2 (es) * 1991-05-29 1994-11-16 Novembal Sa Tapon de servicio a prueba de niños.
GB2256638A (en) * 1991-06-10 1992-12-16 Chemence Ltd Child resistant closure
GB2256638B (en) * 1991-06-10 1995-05-17 Chemence Ltd Container
GB2330356A (en) * 1997-10-14 1999-04-21 Rexam Plastics Inc Closure with trapezoidal or triangular lug
US6152315A (en) * 1997-10-14 2000-11-28 Rexam Plastics Inc. Closure having back-angled lugs
GB2330356B (en) * 1997-10-14 2001-12-12 Rexam Plastics Inc Closure
US6343705B1 (en) 1997-10-14 2002-02-05 Rexam Medical Packaging Inc. Closure having back-angled lugs
GB2362879A (en) * 2000-05-31 2001-12-05 Rexam Medical Packaging Inc Childproof closure
US6666346B2 (en) * 2002-01-15 2003-12-23 Plastipak Packaging, Inc. Blow molded plastic container with inclined mouth and method and apparatus for obtaining same
FR2911329A1 (fr) * 2007-01-12 2008-07-18 Rexam Pharma Soc Par Actions S Ensemble de conditionnement et de distribution d'un liquide medical
WO2008099079A3 (fr) * 2007-01-12 2008-10-16 Rexam Pharma Ensemble de conditionnement et de distribution d'un liquide medical
US8444610B2 (en) 2007-01-12 2013-05-21 Rexam Pharma Assembly for conditioning and dispensing a medical liquid
WO2009095109A2 (fr) * 2008-01-29 2009-08-06 Delta Engineering Bvba Récipient de base et récipient comprenant une coque supérieure et le récipient de base
WO2009095109A3 (fr) * 2008-01-29 2009-10-29 Delta Engineering Bvba Récipient de base et récipient comprenant une coque supérieure et le récipient de base
WO2016097145A1 (fr) * 2014-12-19 2016-06-23 Aero Pump Gmbh Capuchon de protection doté d'une sécurité enfant et récipient correspondante pour substances liquides ou pâteuses
US10336516B2 (en) 2014-12-19 2019-07-02 Aero Pump Gmbh Childproof safety cap and associated container for liquid or pasty substances
WO2016188588A1 (fr) * 2015-05-28 2016-12-01 Shb Gmbh Bouteille en plastique, en particulier bouteille pour wc, ainsi que capuchon et contenant de bouteille pour une bouteille en plastique de ce type
US10689168B2 (en) 2015-05-28 2020-06-23 Shb Gmbh Plastic bottle, in particular toilet cleanser bottle, and attachment and bottle container for such a plastic bottle
USD869955S1 (en) 2016-11-08 2019-12-17 Pollen Gear Llc Squeeze to open container
USD928621S1 (en) 2016-11-08 2021-08-24 Pollen Gear Llc Squeeze to open container
USD841471S1 (en) 2017-02-24 2019-02-26 S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. Bottle
USD845135S1 (en) 2017-02-24 2019-04-09 S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. Bottle neck with cap

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