EP0517963A1 - Conteneur avec une cuillère-doseuse plieé, cuillère-doseuse et un couvercle avec une telle cuillère-doseuse - Google Patents

Conteneur avec une cuillère-doseuse plieé, cuillère-doseuse et un couvercle avec une telle cuillère-doseuse Download PDF

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EP0517963A1
EP0517963A1 EP91201444A EP91201444A EP0517963A1 EP 0517963 A1 EP0517963 A1 EP 0517963A1 EP 91201444 A EP91201444 A EP 91201444A EP 91201444 A EP91201444 A EP 91201444A EP 0517963 A1 EP0517963 A1 EP 0517963A1
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Antonius Wilhelmus Daems
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Thomassen and Drijver Verblifa NV
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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
    • B65D51/24—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes
    • B65D51/246—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes provided with eating utensils or spatulas
    • B65D51/247—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes provided with eating utensils or spatulas located between an inner and an outer closure

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  • the present invention relates to a packaging which consists of a holder with an opening which prior to use of the contents is closed with a removable closing skin, a so-called tagger, and a cover which after removal of the closing skin takes over the function of closing the holder opening and further protects the closing skin against damage.
  • Such a packaging is often used for packaging material in particle form, particularly foodstuffs, such as milk powder, powdered soup and the like.
  • the packaging can consist of a metal holder, a glass holder, a plastic holder and the like.
  • a measuring spoon is often supplied with this packaging.
  • the measuring spoon is often arranged in the holder. This means that after breaking open the packaging the measuring spoon is buried under the contents of the packaging and is only found after the consumer has rummaged through the contents.
  • the present invention has for its object to incorporate the measuring spoon in the packaging in an entirely different manner, and this in the space lying between the cover and the closing skin. When the contents of the packaging are broken open the measuring spoon is thus directly available to the consumer before the closing skin is removed.
  • the measuring spoon cannot however be readily arranged into this disc-shaped space, because the spoon portion in particular of the measuring spoon has to have a relatively large capacity (about 5-25 ml) so that the spoon portion is of too large dimensions to be arranged in this disc-shaped space.
  • the invention is based on the insight that, despite the restricted, disc-shaped space that is present between the closing skin and the cover, a measuring spoon can nevertheless be arranged therein, without providing the closing skin or the cover with bulges, by making use of a substantially flat spoon portion which, after being bent round, is coupled to and supported by a spoon bottom which is connected to a spoon handle.
  • the packaging according to the invention is therefore characterized in that it comprises a holder having an end opening closable by a cover, which opening is closed with a removable closing skin, and having a measuring spoon for assembly located in a space between the cover and the closing skin, which spoon comprises a handle with a moulded on spoon bottom which is intended to receive a spoon portion for bending into a round shape.
  • the spoon handle with the spoon bottom spans the opening and optionally supports on an opening rim via the closing skin.
  • This opening rim can be an edge of a cover ring, or a neck edge of a glass holder. Any forces exerted by the flat-folded spoon portion are sustained via the spoon handle and the spoon bottom on the opening rim, so that the closing skin cannot be penetrated.
  • a particularly favourable measuring spoon which does not have the problem of components thereof disappearing, results when the spoon handle, the spoon bottom and the spoon portion are preferably manufactured from one piece, for instance by injection moulding.
  • a very convenient packaging results if the measuring spoon is fixed in the cover in folded state. It is thus possible for the supplier of the packaging to arrange the closing skin and the cover, wherein the measuring spoon is already incorporated, onto the bottomless holder with existing apparatus. The filler finally carries out the filling and subsequently arranges the bottom.
  • Such a cover with measuring spoon can be manufactured in only a small number of manufacturing operations, for example injection moulding operations, if the cover and the spoon handle with the spoon bottom are manufactured from one piece. Only one manufacturing operation is necessary if, as preferred, the cover and the measuring spoon are manufactured from one piece.
  • the spoon bottom and the bent round spoon portion can be mutually coupled in favourable manner if in preference the spoon bottom is provided with a standing peripheral edge. This coupling can be further improved if more preferably the interior size of the peripheral edge diverges towards the spoon bottom and the spoon portion is provided with a longitudinal edge of wedge-shaped section. Thus avoided as far as possible is an undesired disconnection of the spoon bottom from the spoon portion.
  • the spoon bottom can possess any non-angular disc shape, it is however recommended for coupling the spoon bottom and the spoon portion that the spoon bottom is circular disc-like.
  • the spoon portion is a material strip for bending round, the end edges of which are preferably coupled with co-acting coupling means arranged on the end edges. It is favourable if a number of coupling means are arranged over the breadth of the strip, i.e. over the height of the bent round spoon portion. Easy to form and reliably operating coupling means comprise a hook with a co-acting opening or eye.
  • the spoon portion consists of a bent round material sleeve which can be brought by material tension or by shaping into its slightly conical, preferably substantially cylindrical form.
  • the measuring spoon consists of a spoon bottom and a spoon portion together forming a partitioned disc, wherein the disc is preferably provided with co-acting coupling means along the dividing edges and preferably also along the peripheral edge of the disc.
  • the spoon bottom and the spoon portion are mutually joined via a material bridge and/or the handle and the spoon portion are mutually connected. It is further possible that the handle is folded with the spoon bottom onto the spoon portion and is handled and optionally even arranged in the cover of the packaging in this folded state.
  • the invention not only relates to the packaging with a folding measuring spoon according to the invention, but also to the measuring spoon itself and to a cover wherein this measuring spoon is fixed, for instance by glueing, or by moulding in a simultaneous manufacturing operation, such as for instance by injection molding.
  • Figure 1 shows a packaging 1 according to the invention having a cylindrical, metal holder 2 with an end opening 3 which is closed off with an aluminium closing skin 4 that is a conventional closing skin.
  • This closing skin rests on a holder rim 5 bent round towards the inside.
  • the closing skin 4 is removable by pulling on a pull-tab 6.
  • the end opening 3 can be closed with a plastic cover 7, which can be arranged closing over the holder 2, wherein an internal peripheral edge 8 snaps over an external rim 9 of the holder 2.
  • a conventional packaging Up to this point, a conventional packaging.
  • This plano 10 is a measuring spoon 11 according to the invention for assembly (see figure 5).
  • the plano 10 has an external size such that it spans the end opening 3 and rests on the holder rim 5. Damage to the closing skin 4 is thus avoided, even when the measuring spoon 11 for assembly displays shaping bias.
  • FIGS 2-6 show in more detail the measuring spoon 11 according to the invention.
  • the measuring spoon 11 comprises a rigid handle 12 and a spoon bottom 13 moulded thereon and further a spoon portion 14, in this case a material strip for bending round which is connected via a flexible material bridge 15 to the spoon bottom 13.
  • the handle 12 and the spoon portion 14 are mutually connected at the other side via a thin material bridge 16 which can be broken by being bent a number of times out of the plane of the plano.
  • the spoon bottom is provided with a standing peripheral edge 17 whereof an internal dimension A diverges toward the spoon bottom 13.
  • the wall thickness of the peripheral edge 17 decreases in the direction towards the spoon bottom 13.
  • the spoon portion 14 is provided with a wedge-shaped lengthwise edge 18 which can co-act with the wedge-shaped peripheral edge 17 of the spoon bottom 13.
  • the end edges 19 and 20 are further each provided with corresponding rebates 21 and 22 on which are arranged coupling means 23 for coupling the end edges 19 and 20.
  • the coupling means consist of a pin 24 arranged in the rebate 21 on the later inner surface of the spoon portion 14 and a hole 26 arranged in the rebate 22 located in the later outer surface 27 of the spoon portion 14.
  • the measuring spoon 11 which is shown in assembled state in figure 5, can be assembled as follows.
  • the material bridge 15 is broken, whereafter both end edges 19 and 20 are carried towards one another as the spoon portion 14 is bent round.
  • the rebates are laid one over the other, wherein the pin 24 is inserted into the hole 26.
  • the thus resulting, circle cylindrical spoon portion 14 is pressed with the longitudinal edge 18 into the peripheral edge 17 of the spoon bottom 13, wherein the bridge 15 bends and for this movement is fixed to the spoon portion 14 at a position lying outside the longitudinal edge 18.
  • the assembled measuring spoon 11 according to the invention maintains this form during scooping of material which can be easily discharged if the spoon bottom 13 is also provided with a small air hole 28.
  • Figure 7 shows a variant of a spoon portion 29 according to the invention wherein the rebate 31 is provided with a hooking member 30 that is formed out of a part of rebate 31 and an opening 33 that is formed in the rebate 32.
  • a number of coupling means 23 as shown in figures 2-6 and figure 7 can be arranged over the breadth of the strip from which the spoon portion 14 or 29 is assembled, in other words over the height of the assembled spoon portion 14, 29.
  • Figure 8 shows yet another variant of a spoon portion 34 according to the invention wherein a rebate 35 is provided with a spine 36 which can be received in snap-in manner in a groove 37 arranged in a rebate 38.
  • Figure 9 shows a measuring spoon 40 according to the invention wherein the handle 12 with the spoon bottom 13 is folded onto the spoon portion 39 while the material bridge 15 is bent, wherein the folded state is locked by a hook 41 which is formed on the handle 12 and hooks behind an end edge 42 of the spoon portion 39.
  • This folded measuring spoon 40 is easy to handle, transport and arrange in the space between cover 7 and closing skin 4.
  • FIG 10 shows yet another measuring spoon 43 according to the invention wherein a spoon portion 44 is connected to the handle 45 via a material strip 46 which can be broken off at the break points 47 and 48 by moving the handle 45 and the spoon portion 44 relative to the bridge 46.
  • the spoon bottom 50 is joined via a rigid material bridge 51 to the edge 52 of spoon portion 63.
  • the coupling means 23 moreover comprise in the rebate 53 hooking members 54 formed therein and therefrom which co-act with holes 56 arranged in the rebate 55.
  • Figure 12 shows an assembly of a cover 57 having fixed therein via material strips 58 a measuring spoon 40 as shown in figure 9.
  • material strips can consist of the same material as the measuring spoon and the cover or of weld or glue points of a welding material or glueing material.
  • Figure 13 shows a spoon portion 59 with a sleeve form whereof also the peripheral edge 60 is wedge-shaped and intended for receiving in the peripheral edge 17 of the spoon bottom.
  • Figures 14 and 15 show another measuring spoon 61 according to the invention respectively in plano form and folded form.
  • the handle 62 is moulded on a disc 64 which in the folded state forms the spoon bottom 65 and the spoon portion 66.
  • the disc 64 is partitioned by an incision 67 which ends in the disc centre point 68 with a larger hole 69.
  • the coupling means 23 consist in this case of hooks 71 and 72 arranged in the peripheral edge of the disc 64 and the respective hook eyes 73 and 74.
  • the disc 64 By bending the disc 64 round into a cone shape the hooks 71 and 72 can hook into the corresponding hook eyes 73 and 74, wherein the form shown in figure 15 results with a handle 62 that is slightly curved but thereby strengthened.
  • the circle 75 in figure 14 indicates that the measuring spoon 61 rests on the holder rim 5 and therefore spans the closing skin 4.
  • This measuring spoon 61 can be manufactured from a metal, for example by stamping from a metal plate, whereby such a measuring spoon consists of one piece, is easy to assemble and whereby reinforcing ribs can be omitted, since in the assembled form the measuring spoon 61 assumes a form-retaining state.
  • the measuring spoons according to the invention and the diverse components thereof are manufactured by injection moulding and, if desired, optionally in a single injection moulding operation with the forming of the cover.
  • the measuring spoons according to the invention can also be used in packagings in which no closing skin is incorporated, but wherein the advantage is nevertheless provided of the measuring spoon being available when the packaging is opened and rummaging in the packaging can be wholly avoided.
EP91201444A 1991-06-11 1991-06-11 Conteneur avec une cuillère-doseuse pliée, cuillère-doseuse et un couvercle avec une telle cuillère-doseuse Expired - Lifetime EP0517963B1 (fr)

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DE1991622236 DE69122236T2 (de) 1991-06-11 1991-06-11 Behälter mit gefaltetem Messlöffel sowie Messlöfel und Deckel mit einem solchen Messlöffel
EP91201444A EP0517963B1 (fr) 1991-06-11 1991-06-11 Conteneur avec une cuillère-doseuse pliée, cuillère-doseuse et un couvercle avec une telle cuillère-doseuse
DK91201444T DK0517963T3 (da) 1991-06-11 1991-06-11 Enballage med en foldet måleske, måleske og et låg, der er forsynet med en sådan måleske

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WO1995007847A1 (fr) * 1993-09-13 1995-03-23 Goldthorn Investments Pty. Ltd. Couvercles et conteneurs avec couvercles
EP0779229A1 (fr) 1995-12-15 1997-06-18 L'oreal Support pour organe de préhension et ensemble de conditionnement comportant ce support
GB2331060A (en) * 1997-11-07 1999-05-12 Huang Shou Li Food container cover incorporating a two-part eating utensil
EP1473244A1 (fr) * 2003-04-04 2004-11-03 TECNOFORM S.r.l. Element de couvercle pour récipient tel que canette de boisson
US8245736B2 (en) 2009-04-28 2012-08-21 N.V. Nutricia Powder packaging

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FR897092A (fr) * 1943-04-05 1945-03-12 Cuillère
FR1280021A (fr) * 1960-11-15 1961-12-29 Manducher & Cie E Récipient pour crèmes glacées et autres usages analogues
GB1349332A (en) * 1973-01-04 1974-04-03 First Dynamics Inc Combination of food container and implement for extracting the contents
DE8908305U1 (fr) * 1989-07-07 1989-09-07 Novoplast-Verpackungen Gmbh & Co Kg, 7970 Leutkirch, De
EP0400708A1 (fr) * 1989-05-29 1990-12-05 Thomassen & Drijver-Verblifa N.V. Cuillère-doseuse pliable
NL9000583A (nl) * 1990-03-14 1991-10-01 Thomassen & Drijver Verpakking met een opgevouwen maatschep, de maatschep en een deksel voorzien van een dergelijke maatschep.

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FR897092A (fr) * 1943-04-05 1945-03-12 Cuillère
FR1280021A (fr) * 1960-11-15 1961-12-29 Manducher & Cie E Récipient pour crèmes glacées et autres usages analogues
GB1349332A (en) * 1973-01-04 1974-04-03 First Dynamics Inc Combination of food container and implement for extracting the contents
EP0400708A1 (fr) * 1989-05-29 1990-12-05 Thomassen & Drijver-Verblifa N.V. Cuillère-doseuse pliable
DE8908305U1 (fr) * 1989-07-07 1989-09-07 Novoplast-Verpackungen Gmbh & Co Kg, 7970 Leutkirch, De
NL9000583A (nl) * 1990-03-14 1991-10-01 Thomassen & Drijver Verpakking met een opgevouwen maatschep, de maatschep en een deksel voorzien van een dergelijke maatschep.

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO1995007847A1 (fr) * 1993-09-13 1995-03-23 Goldthorn Investments Pty. Ltd. Couvercles et conteneurs avec couvercles
EP0779229A1 (fr) 1995-12-15 1997-06-18 L'oreal Support pour organe de préhension et ensemble de conditionnement comportant ce support
GB2331060A (en) * 1997-11-07 1999-05-12 Huang Shou Li Food container cover incorporating a two-part eating utensil
GB2331060B (en) * 1997-11-07 2002-02-27 Huang Shou Li Food container cover with retained eating utensil
EP1473244A1 (fr) * 2003-04-04 2004-11-03 TECNOFORM S.r.l. Element de couvercle pour récipient tel que canette de boisson
US8245736B2 (en) 2009-04-28 2012-08-21 N.V. Nutricia Powder packaging

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