EP0358583B1 - Originalverschluss für Behälter - Google Patents

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EP0358583B1
EP0358583B1 EP89420328A EP89420328A EP0358583B1 EP 0358583 B1 EP0358583 B1 EP 0358583B1 EP 89420328 A EP89420328 A EP 89420328A EP 89420328 A EP89420328 A EP 89420328A EP 0358583 B1 EP0358583 B1 EP 0358583B1
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closure means
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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
    • B65D51/00—Closures not otherwise provided for
    • B65D51/002—Closures to be pierced by an extracting-device for the contents and fixed on the container by separate retaining means
    • 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
    • B65D55/00—Accessories for container closures not otherwise provided for
    • B65D55/02—Locking devices; Means for discouraging or indicating unauthorised opening or removal of closure
    • B65D55/06—Deformable or tearable wires, strings, or strips; Use of seals, e.g. destructible locking pins
    • B65D55/08—Annular elements encircling container necks
    • B65D55/0863—Plastic snap-on cap-like collars having frangible parts

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  • the present invention relates to tamper-evident closure means for a container of the type comprising a capsule constituted by a cylindrical skirt or sleeve, provided with a central opening, ensuring the locking of a shutter of the orifice of the container, and on which is fixed by gluing or welding a tear-off cover made of aluminum foil or the like, the cover being dimensioned so as to project beyond the capsule to which it is fixed and its projecting part, that is to say all of its periphery, being made integral by bonding, sealing or other, of a rigid gripping ring engaged, at least partially, on the capsule.
  • the obturator is a tight plug made of flexible material inserted into the orifice of the neck of the container and capable of being crossed by the needle of a syringe for withdrawing the product.
  • the capsule locking this obturator is provided with a notch engaged elastically under a shoulder of the neck of the container and with a central opening allowing the passage of the needle and is closed, before use, by a tear-off seal which is fixed to it by bonding.
  • This cover is also fixed to a rigid gripping ring connected to the capsule by bridges of materials and allowing the safe, easy and practicable tearing off of the cover in order to give access to the shutter by the central opening of the capsule.
  • This embodiment if it is entirely suitable for injectables, is not suitable for other sterile pharmaceutical products, for example pulverulent, for which it is necessary to completely remove the locking capsule in order to be able to remove the obturator and have access to the product contained.
  • the object of the present invention is therefore to provide sealing means ensuring perfect sealing while allowing safe and easy tearing of the locking capsule, which must be able to be carried out quickly and practically with one hand and systematically give a result. satisfactory.
  • the rigid gripping ring is connected by a bridge of material to a part of the upper end of the cylindrical skirt of the capsule, in the vicinity at least one tear line extending over the entire height of the cylindrical skirt and being associated with a partial cut formed on the end wall of the capsule and extending from the tear line considered up to l 'central opening of the capsule, so that this skirt is torn along the tear line when the tear-off seal is torn off using the rigid gripping ring.
  • the cover has the advantage of protecting the visible part of the rubber stopper against any pollution, whether it is liquid or in the form of dust.
  • This cover also has the additional advantage of being able to serve as a support for any information concerning the product packaged in the container such as, in particular, its identification or any other precision.
  • the material bridge connecting the rigid gripping ring to the cylindrical skirt is delimited circumferentially by the two upper ends of two tear lines parallel to the generatrices of the cylindrical skirt.
  • the material bridge is extended to the central opening of the capsule by a tongue defined by two partial cutouts formed on the end wall of the capsule, each of which lies in the diametral plane of a line of scrapping.
  • the rigid gripping ring is equipped, in the region substantially diametrically opposite the bridge of material, with a spout extending outwards capable of facilitating the handling of said ring.
  • the gripping ring In order to avoid any accidental tearing off of the gripping ring, it is linked to the capsule by at least one arm of material, preferably two, designed as breaking initiators easy to break, these arms of material being advantageously arranged at the level of the grip ring spout.
  • the capsule is made of a thermoplastic material such as polypropylene able to split as soon as an attempt is made to open the container by means other than the grip ring.
  • the container of the assembly illustrated in the drawing is a bottle of which only the neck 2 is visible. Near its upper end which surrounds the orifice 3 of the bottle, the neck 2 has an external shoulder 4 whose presence is used to ensure the fixing by elastic engagement of a capsule 5 made of thermoplastic material, preferably polypropylene, or the like, which itself ensures the locking of a shutter 6 made of natural or synthetic elastic material or the like.
  • the capsule 5 is constituted by a cylindrical sleeve or skirt 7 provided with a central opening 8a formed in its end wall 8.
  • a tearable lid 9 made of aluminum foil covers the central opening 8a of the sleeve or cylindrical skirt 2 to protect the shutter 6 against any attack by dust or other impurities.
  • the tearable lid 9 is fixed by heat sealing to the end wall 8 of the sleeve 7, while the projecting part 9a relative to the cylindrical skirt 7 is assembled in the same way to a rigid gripping ring 10 engaged on the capsule 5.
  • This rigid gripping ring 10 is connected by a material bridge 11 to a part of the upper end of the cylindrical skirt 7 delimited circumferentially by the two upper ends of two tear lines 12 parallel to the generatrices of the cylindrical skirt 7 and s extending over the entire height of the latter. It is, in fact, two grooves 12 along which the cylindrical skirt 7 has a lesser material thickness and is weakened. The traction exerted via the material bridge 11 using the rigid gripping ring 10 is thus sufficient to tear the capsule along these two lines 12.
  • the material bridge 11 is extended to the central opening 8a of the capsule 5 by a tongue 13 defined by two partial cutouts 14 formed in the end wall 8 of the capsule 5. Each cutout 14 is included in the plane diametral of a tear line 12.
  • the rigid gripping ring 10 is connected to the end wall 8 by means of two arms of material designed as fracture primers easy to break. At the level of these arms 15, the rigid gripping ring 10 has a spout 16 projecting outwards and intended to facilitate its handling.
  • the tearing of the capsule 5 takes place as follows:
  • the shutter 6 is no longer locked by the capsule 5, it suffices for the user to remove it to gain access to the sterile product and stored as such contained in the container.
  • the tamper-evident closure means in accordance with the invention allow both easy removal of the cover 9 and easy tearing of the capsule 5 , while ensuring perfect sealing of the container.
  • the capsule is equipped with stops 17 for positioning the shutter 6 of the orifice of the neck 2 of the container. As shown in particular in FIG. 2, these stops 17 are distributed uniformly over the upper end of the inner wall of the cylindrical skirt 7. They make it possible to block the elastic shutter 6 relative to the capsule and thus to engage, simultaneously these two elements on the neck 2 of the container when it is capped.
  • the cylindrical skirt 7 could have only one tear line 12 associated with a partial cut 14 of the end wall 8, or else the ring 10 could not be linked by one or more initiations of rupture 15 at the capsule 5, or even that the latter does not comprise stops for positioning the shutter 6.

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1. Verletzungssichere Verschlußeinrichtung für einen Behälter, mit einer Kapsel (5), die aus einer zylindrischen Schürze oder Manschette (7) gebildet ist, welche mit einer Öffnung (8a) versehen ist und die Sicherung eines Stopfens (6),für die Öffnung (3) des Behälters (2) bewirkt, und auf welcher durch Kleben oder Schweißen ein zerreißbarer Deckel (9) aus Aluminiumfolie o.dgl. befestigt ist, wobei der zerreißbare Deckel (9) so dimensioniert ist, daß er über die Kapsel, auf der er befestigt ist, übersteht und wobei der überstehende Teil, d.h. der gesamte Umfangsrand, durch Kleben, Schmelzen o.ä. mit einem starren Greifring (10) fest verbunden ist, der seinerseits zumindest teilweise mit der Kapsel (5) verbunden ist, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der starre Greifring (10) über wenigstens eine Materialbrücke (11) mit einem Bereich des oberen Endes der zylindrischen Schürze (7) der Kapsel (5) in der Nähe wenigstens einer Reißlinie (12) verbunden ist, die sich über die ganze Höhe der Schürze (7) erstreckt und einem partiellen Einschnitt (14) zugeordnet ist, der in der Endwand (8) der Kapsel (5) ausgebildet ist und sich von der genannten Reißlinie (12) bis zur zentralen Öffnung (8a) erstreckt derart, daß die Schürze (7) beim Abreißen des zerreißbaren Deckels (9) mittels des starren Greifringes (10) einreißt.
2. Verschlußeinrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die den starren Greifring (10) mit der zylindrischen Schürze (7) verbindende Materialbrücke (11) in Umfangsrichtung durch die beiden oberen Enden zweier Reißlinien (12) begrenzt wird, die parallel zu den Mantellinien der zylindrischen Schürze (7) verlaufen.
3. Verschlußeinrichtung nach Anspruch 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Materialbrücke (11) bis zur zentralen Öffnung (8a) der Kapsel (5) durch eine Zunge (13) verlängert ist, die durch zwei partielle Einschnitte (14) gebildet wird, welche in der Endwand (8) der Kapsel (5) ausgebildet sind, wobei jeder der Einschnitte in der einer Reißlinie (12) zugeordneten Diametralebene liegt.
4. Verschlußeinrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der starre Greifring (10) in seinem der Materialbrücke (11) im wesentlichen diametral gegenüberliegenden Bereich mit einer nach außen abstehenden Lasche (16) versehen ist, die zur Erleichterung der Handhabung des Ringes (10) dient.
5. Verschlußeinrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Greifring (10) mit der Kapsel (5) über wenigstens eine leicht zu zerstörende Sollbruchstelle (15) verbunden ist.
6. Verschlußeinrichtung nach Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Sollbruchstellen (15) zweifach vorgesehen sind und die Lasche (16) des Greifringes (10) mit der Kapsel (5) verbinden.
7. Verschlußeinrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß Positioniervorsprünge (17) zum Positionieren des Stopfens (6) für die Öffnung (3) des Behälters (2) vorgesehen sind, die an der Innenwand der , zylindrischen Schürze (7) angeordnet sind und eine Befestigung des Stopfens (6) an der Kapsel (5) und eine gemeinsame Verrastung dieser beiden Elemente auf dem Hals (2) des Behälters beim Verschließen erlauben.
8. Verschlußeinrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 7, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Kapsel (5) aus einem thermoplastischen Material wie beispielsweise Polypropylen hergestellt ist, welches sich spalten kann, sobald man versucht, an die Öffnung des Behälters mit Hilfe eines anderen Mittels als dem Greifring heranzukommen.
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FR8812060A FR2636311B1 (fr) 1988-09-09 1988-09-09 Moyens de bouchage inviolables d'un recipient
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DE68902290T2 (de) 1992-12-10
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