EP0471629A1 - Abnehmbare Kappe und Behälter versehen mit einem Garantieverschluss - Google Patents

Abnehmbare Kappe und Behälter versehen mit einem Garantieverschluss Download PDF

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EP0471629A1
EP0471629A1 EP91420292A EP91420292A EP0471629A1 EP 0471629 A1 EP0471629 A1 EP 0471629A1 EP 91420292 A EP91420292 A EP 91420292A EP 91420292 A EP91420292 A EP 91420292A EP 0471629 A1 EP0471629 A1 EP 0471629A1
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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
    • B65D51/18—Arrangements of closures with protective outer cap-like covers or of two or more co-operating closures
    • B65D51/20—Caps, lids, or covers co-operating with an inner closure arranged to be opened by piercing, cutting, or tearing
    • B65D51/22—Caps, lids, or covers co-operating with an inner closure arranged to be opened by piercing, cutting, or tearing having means for piercing, cutting, or tearing the inner closure
    • B65D51/221—Caps, lids, or covers co-operating with an inner closure arranged to be opened by piercing, cutting, or tearing having means for piercing, cutting, or tearing the inner closure a major part of the inner closure being left inside the container after the opening
    • B65D51/222—Caps, lids, or covers co-operating with an inner closure arranged to be opened by piercing, cutting, or tearing having means for piercing, cutting, or tearing the inner closure a major part of the inner closure being left inside the container after the opening the piercing or cutting means being integral with, or fixedly attached to, the outer closure
    • 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
    • B65D2251/00—Details relating to container closures
    • B65D2251/0003—Two or more closures
    • B65D2251/0006—Upper closure
    • B65D2251/0025—Upper closure of the 47-type
    • 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
    • B65D2251/00—Details relating to container closures
    • B65D2251/0003—Two or more closures
    • B65D2251/0068—Lower closure
    • B65D2251/0071—Lower closure of the 17-type
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S215/00—Bottles and jars
    • Y10S215/901—Tamper-resistant structure

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  • the invention relates to an opening capsule or strain capsule comprising a base or strain attached to the neck of a container and an opening part closing the orifice of this neck, the opening of this part being effected for example by rotation or by pivoting with respect to said base, and the orifice of the neck being initially provided with a tamper-evident seal.
  • Plastic opening capsules are known, the base or strain of which is fixed to the plastic neck of a tube typically by snap-fastening, this base comprising a sealing means from the inside of said neck, for example a penetrating crown. with forcing inside this neck.
  • the Applicant has sought to develop an opening capsule adapted to such a container having a tamper-evident seal.
  • the subject of the invention is the assembly of a closure and a plastic neck container surmounted by a tamper-evident seal, said closure comprising means of axial fitting by force of said seal and being made of plastic harder than that of said neck and of said lid, characterized in that said closure is an opening capsule provided with a base or strain, and in that said base and said neck comprise on the one hand complementary latching means, the start of their snap-fitting only intervening after the start of the fitting at maximum effort of said fitting means in said cover, and on the other hand below said latching means complementary screwing means, these means latching and screwing allowing the rupture of the cover and its insertion into said neck.
  • Said means of axial fitting by force of the cover have a tightening function both anti-rotation and producing the retention of the cover in the blockage.
  • They are preferably either longitudinal fins internal to the capsule inserted between longitudinal reliefs of the cover, or again, as known from the document cited, longitudinal radial fins for notching the cover.
  • the screwing means of the neck immediately follows the screwing means of the base of the capsule in the just snapped-in position, and the base in this position is blocked or strongly braked with regard to possible rotation in the sense of unscrewing and / or the anti-unscrewing means intervene from the latched position, preventing this rotation.
  • the position just snapped in is the delivery position of the non-violated encapsulated container, which can be identified by a witness, for example a colored area of the shoulder of the container visible at this stage between this shoulder and the lower end of the skirt. outside of the base of the capsule.
  • a witness for example a colored area of the shoulder of the container visible at this stage between this shoulder and the lower end of the skirt. outside of the base of the capsule.
  • the capsule can only rotate in the direction of screwing, that is to say the usual direction of closure, and its opening part rotates the cover by its notched fins and tears the web of connection of this cover by shearing: quickly, typically after 1/10 of rotation with or without screwing.
  • the lower end of the lid enters the orifice of the neck and comes to stopper it, the opening of the container then being done by pivoting of the opening part of the capsule and the lid that remains prisoner.
  • These means may be fins and ratchet teeth carried respectively by the inner surface of the outer skirt of said capsule and by a lateral surface of the container, typically of its shoulder. These means oppose when unscrewing said base, leaving only an angular movement of less than 10 °.
  • Figure 1 shows an assembly according to the invention in the snapped-on position, in axial section.
  • Figure 2 shows the same assembly in the screwed position, also in axial section.
  • FIG. 3 represents the anti-unscrewing means of said assembly, according to a half-section seen from above marked AA in FIG. 2.
  • Figure 4 shows the same assembly after screwing, the capsule being opened, also in axial section.
  • the neck 2 whose end orifice 7 has a diameter of 7.5 mm is surmounted by a tight seal 8 connected to the inside of the neck by a narrow tearable portion 9 of thickness 0.2 mm.
  • the cover successively comprises an externally curved annular skirt 10 with an outside diameter greater than 0.2 mm than the diameter of the orifice 7, then an annular cup 11 with an outside diameter 10.5 mm serving as a sealed stop for the future insertion of the cover 8 into the orifice 7, and also serving as a safety stop for mounting the cover in the cover 5, then finally a cylindrical portion 12 of height 5 mm and of 8.8 mm diameter with a slight entry chamfer 13 0.4 mm high at its upper end.
  • the neck 2 carries 4 mm below its orifice 7, at the lower end of an inclined outer surface 14 of increasing diameter, a snap-in relief 15 in the form of a rib 15 with an outside diameter of 13 mm and a horizontal annular underside 16 surmounting a recessed cylindrical portion 17 with a diameter of 12 mm and a height of 3 mm.
  • This recessed portion 17 is followed by a slightly stronger portion carrying an external thread 18 with a pitch of 1.5 mm and a total height of 5 mm.
  • This thread 18 ends on the shoulder 19 of the tube 1, the surface of which lateral 20 carries on the one hand a colored area 21 and on the other hand teeth 22 said ratchet, here inclined in the direction of screwing ( Figure 3) but can also be radial as has been shown by another test.
  • the opening part or cover 5 of the capsule 3 comprises a central tube 23 open at its two ends, its inner surface 24 of diameter 8.9 mm carrying radial fins 25 with a tapered end at an angle of 15 °, these fins 25 having a lower end 26 which gradually widens.
  • the slight diametral clearance of the surface 24 between fins relative to the cover 8 will facilitate the insertion of this cover 8 into the tube 23 despite its small notches or incision by these fins 25.
  • the base 4 of the capsule 3 comprises a central cylindrical portion 27 having an internal diameter 270 of 13 mm and 2.5 mm high with at its base a snap relief 28 having a horizontal flange 29 with an internal diameter 12.35 mm then a frustoconical engagement surface 30 with a height of 1 mm and a diameter of 13.2 mm at its base 300.
  • the central portion 27 and the relief 28 are extended by a tube 31 carrying in its upper part, just below the relief 28, an internal thread 32 of height 2.3 mm which is screwed onto the thread 18 of the neck.
  • the outer skirt 33 of the base 4 with an internal diameter of 26 mm, carries on its inner surface inclined fins 34 (FIGS. 1 and 3) anti-unscrewing, cooperating with the teeth 22 of the neck 2 from the snap-fastening of the capsule 4 and 5.
  • the rotation of the capsule 3 in the direction of screwing without screwing or else with the start of screwing makes it possible to leave this waiting position.
  • the cover 8 is rotated by the cover 5 and the insertion of its radial fins 25, its tearable connection 9 ( Figure 1) with the neck 2 being quickly chiselled. After approximately 30 ° of rotation, this connection 9 is broken, the lower end of the skirt 10 of the cover sinking into the orifice 7 during screwing (stage not shown), the connection 9 having to facilitate this depression has an outside diameter slightly smaller than the diameter of this orifice 7.
  • the cover is released from the orifice 7 by the pivoting of the cover 5 and accompanies it in its opening.
  • the closing of the cover 5 is accompanied by a sealed filling of the orifice 7 by the cover 8 trapped in this cover 5.
  • Tamper evident containers with an opening capsule in the hygiene, pharmaceutical, cosmetology, food and cleaning products industries.

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EP91420292A 1990-08-14 1991-08-08 Abnehmbare Kappe und Behälter versehen mit einem Garantieverschluss Expired - Lifetime EP0471629B1 (de)

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FR9010605A FR2665886B1 (fr) 1990-08-14 1990-08-14 Ensemble d'une capsule a ouverture et d'un recipient a opercule inviolable.

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CA (1) CA2049105C (de)
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ES (1) ES2047999T3 (de)
FI (1) FI913830A (de)
FR (1) FR2665886B1 (de)
IE (1) IE69573B1 (de)
IS (1) IS3744A7 (de)
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JPH0516961A (ja) 1993-01-26
FR2665886A1 (fr) 1992-02-21
JPH07102864B2 (ja) 1995-11-08
PT98671A (pt) 1994-01-31
EP0471629B1 (de) 1993-12-29
FR2665886B1 (fr) 1992-10-16
IS3744A7 (is) 1992-02-15
ATE99255T1 (de) 1994-01-15
ES2047999T3 (es) 1994-03-01
FI913830A (fi) 1992-02-15
DE69100886D1 (de) 1994-02-10
PT98671B (pt) 1999-01-29
CA2049105A1 (fr) 1992-02-15
IE912862A1 (en) 1992-02-26
IE69573B1 (en) 1996-10-02
US5203838A (en) 1993-04-20
NO913153D0 (no) 1991-08-13
FI913830A0 (fi) 1991-08-13
DE69100886T2 (de) 1994-04-28
DK0471629T3 (da) 1994-01-24
CA2049105C (fr) 1996-09-17

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