EP0711122B1 - Chemilumineszenter untersetzer - Google Patents

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EP0711122B1
EP0711122B1 EP94911033A EP94911033A EP0711122B1 EP 0711122 B1 EP0711122 B1 EP 0711122B1 EP 94911033 A EP94911033 A EP 94911033A EP 94911033 A EP94911033 A EP 94911033A EP 0711122 B1 EP0711122 B1 EP 0711122B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47G—HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT
    • A47G23/00—Other table equipment
    • A47G23/03—Underlays for glasses or drinking-vessels
    • A47G23/0306—Underlays for glasses or drinking-vessels with means for amusing or giving information to the user
    • A47G23/0309—Illuminated
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21K—NON-ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES USING LUMINESCENCE; LIGHT SOURCES USING ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; LIGHT SOURCES USING CHARGES OF COMBUSTIBLE MATERIAL; LIGHT SOURCES USING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES AS LIGHT-GENERATING ELEMENTS; LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F21K2/00—Non-electric light sources using luminescence; Light sources using electrochemiluminescence
    • F21K2/06—Non-electric light sources using luminescence; Light sources using electrochemiluminescence using chemiluminescence
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47G—HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT
    • A47G2200/00—Details not otherwise provided for in A47G
    • A47G2200/08—Illumination

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  • the coaster object of the invention comprises an upper face and a lower face totally or partially transparent or translucent, one or more light sources arranged in a space between the said faces making it totally or partially luminous and is characterized in that the source is chemiluminescent and in that the upper face intended to support the glass is made of a rigid material, the underside being entirely or partially made of material flexible, a space being provided between the underside and the source or between the said underside and a plane which is at the lower end of a ledge peripheral or foot elements or protuberances regularly spaced this spacing allowing the expansion of the slight gas emanation occurring at the time of chemiluminescent reaction.
  • the light source chemiluminescent is a transparent envelope or translucent where chemiluminescence-inducing reagents are kept in separate compartments which are put in communication at the time of employment.
  • the chemiluminescent light source is an envelope transparent or translucent where the reagents inducing chemiluminescence are already mixed, which requires, for avoid induction of chemiluminescence before use, they are kept at a temperature such that the reaction of chemiluminescence is stopped.
  • the underside carries an opening allowing a slight expansion of the chemiluminescent envelope.
  • the coaster can be adapted in its shape and presentation to look like the casino bet plates.
  • the coaster has a opaque faces.
  • the transparent or translucent upper face can be with self-adhesive film or pieces of film transparent, itself protected by a film that sticks to it and can be easily removed.
  • the coaster can be worn on the front sides and back, on one or the other or both at the same time logos or advertising inscriptions.
  • the coaster may have other uses than being placed just below cups or drinking glasses seen from containers which we want to either protect the bottom or protect the table or support on which these containers are posed. It can be used for advertising or advertising purposes. communication or decoration that finds its place in bars with cocktail accessories.
  • Coasters have been known for a long time; many coaster models are made of cardboard more or less absorbent; coasters serving as advertising medium, printed logos of brands or advertising messages are usually thrown away quickly and replaced as soon as they become wet or soiled. There are many other models of coasters; some more expensive are made of metal, leather, plastic possibly metallized, wood, etc .; these coasters, given their higher price, are manufactured to decorate a bar and to be used regularly in their role of protecting the container or the bar himself; they are not disposable items use.
  • Chemiluminescence is produced by the reaction of an activator with a fluorescent agent and an oxalate.
  • the second method or METHOD B consists in the use of chemiluminescent light by the use of reagents mixed beforehand but with their reaction producing chemiluminescent light blocked by a cold intense enough to do this. Indeed, it appears in the literature concerning chemiluminescent light that the reaction which creates it is killed between the limits of -40 C. to +75 C., with the best light output between +20 C. and +50 C. One can therefore imagine the use of the already executed mixture of reagents, chemiluminescent liquid and corresponding activator, and its prior storage at a temperature below -40 C., in carbo-ice, for example.
  • This mode can be called "frozen” method.
  • the chemiluminescent devices being integral with the containers for which they were designed, it is not claimed that they can be stuck to the very bottom of the glasses, or that they can be included in cardboard or plastic thicknesses or any other material to serve as a coaster luminous.
  • the object and function of this invention are different from those set out in this brief.
  • the destination as a badge for this device is well indicated by the very configuration of it which exposes a design allowing the interior liquid level from the mixture of reagents, under pressure slight evolution of carbon dioxide from the reaction, not to descend from the upper part of the badge when it is held vertically, its position when the device is used as a badge; indeed, this lowering of the liquid level prevents a regular illumination of the entire transparent face or translucent of the badge; it is, moreover, planned a tank part projecting from the back of the badge which is necessary to create a carbon dioxide expansion space and obtain the effect which has just been exposed; this tank protrudes and also makes the two sides of the device are not parallel surfaces.
  • the object and function of this device are different from those of the present invention.
  • U.S. Patent A, 5,010,461 (K. Saotome) of April 23, 1991 (Multicolor pressure-sensitive illuminating display platform) describes a platform illuminating an object whose weight triggers the illumination process in a choice color variable created by a mobile filter placed between the exhibition platform and a light source inside the device.
  • the object and function of this relatively expensive device which are to light up, with electric power sufficient to do so, an object placed on the device even are different from those of the present invention.
  • the luminescent coaster is a flat element which must in its different models be designed so that it can receive a chemiluminescent envelope, whether of the "extemporaneous" method or the “frozen” method.
  • the chemiluminescent envelope to which the coaster is associated must be as flat as possible and must be thinner than the rest of the body even of the coaster himself into which it fits.
  • the top side of the envelope must be the most as close as possible to the level of the upper side of the coaster.
  • These upper faces of the chemiluminescent envelope and coaster are possibly covered cover sheets (2), one of which allows form a continuous flat surface capable of carrying elements the other possibly constituting a self-adhesive sheet (3), itself covered with a protective sheet to be removed.
  • the first cover sheet must be (2) the upper side of the handset is made of a material transparent rigid, sheet of plastic or any other suitable material. It must not only strengthen and weld the whole namely the upper side of the body main and upper side of the chemiluminescent envelope but also let the light from the source pass bright and allow the reading of advertising.
  • a luminescent coaster model for single use interesting - with "frozen” or “extemporaneous” system - which is a variation of the model exposed above is the one which is described below (see FIGURE 2); consider a chemiluminescent envelope having a parallelepiped shape with vertical walls on 4 sides connecting the ceiling and the envelope floor; the side walls (6) of the envelope around the completely closed cavity and constituting the chemiluminescent reaction center of the envelope develop, in the same material, towards the exterior, extending in the plane (7) to give form to a completely plastic coaster transparent or translucent.
  • the brightness of chemiluminescent light not only propagates towards the top by its transparent or translucent upper face but also in the transparent or translucent walls and also by the bottom of the envelope which can also be transparent or translucent.
  • the roofing material of the ceiling and the surround of the envelope part should be rigid and transparent or translucent and is the same as that of the chemiluminescence chamber while that constituting the floor (8) of the chamber only should be more flexible so that we can put pressure on him; this pressure would be transmitted inside the chamber to trigger the reaction chemiluminescent broke the bulb (9) therein contained - this in the case of a system model "extemporaneous" - (see FIGURE 3); it would also allow the slight development of the envelope at the time of expansion due to the production of carbon dioxide from the reaction.
  • the faces of the assembly, the upper and the lower, can be printed or transparent film bearing advertisements can be pasted there.
  • This coaster model is designed to allow insertion into a reserved space a chemiluminescent envelope. When this is not not present, it can be used as a coaster non-luminescent.
  • the production formula presented is therefore a model intended to be a non-disposable model, with renewed use and which, as discussed above, could be used as non-luminescent coaster.
  • FIGURE 4 shows a sectional view of such a coaster.
  • the basic element is a receptacle (10) providing a cavity (11) intended to receive the chemiluminescent envelope.
  • This receptacle can carry elements of regularly spaced foot or protrusions preventing the flat bottom to be in direct contact with the surface on which it is posed.
  • the receptacle is here closed in its part upper by a removable, rigid and transparent cover (12) or translucent in plastic or any other material rigid and transparent or translucent.
  • This cover cleaning the interior chamber in this way intended to receive the chemiluminescent envelope (13).
  • This receptacle cover can be fixed by a snap or by a hinge (14) which allows it to be lifted and lower it by closing the cavity.
  • the floor of this coaster may show a hole (15) which can optionally activate by pressing the chemiluminescent envelope if you don't want to raise the cover (12).

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  1. Glasuntersatz mit einem völlig oder teilweise durchsichtigen oder durchscheinenden oberen und unteren Teil sowie einer oder mehreren Lichtquellen (9,13), die sich in einem Raum (1) zwischen den genannten Teilen befinden und diesen völlig oder teilweise zum Leuchten bringen, charakteriziert dadurch, dass die Quelle chemolumineszent ist und die obere Seite, die zur Aufnahme des Glases bestimmt ist, aus festem Material besteht, und die untere Seite völlig oder teilweise aus flexiblem Material besteht, wobei ein Freiraum (4) zwischen der unteren Seite und der Quelle oder zwischen der genannten unteren Seite und einer Ebene, die sich in Höhe des unteren Endes einer peripheren Leiste (5) oder in Höhe von Fusselementen oder von in regelmässigen Abständen angeordneten Ausstülpungen befindet, wobei dieser Freiraum (4) die Ausdehnung der leichten Gasemanation, die bei der Chemolumineszenz-Reaktion eintritt, ermöglicht.
  2. Glasuntersatz gemäss Anspruch 1, wobei die chemolumineszente Lichtquelle eine durchsichtige oder durchscheinende Hülle ist, in der Reagenzien, die die Chemolumineszenz herbeiführen, in getrennten Kammem aufbewahrt werden, die zum Zeitpunkt der Verwendung miteinander in Kommunikation gebracht werden.
  3. Glasuntersatz gemäss Anspruch 1, bei dem die chemoluminiszente Lichtquelle eine durchsichtige oder durchscheinende Hülle ist, in der die Reagenzien, die zur Chemolumineszenz führen, bereits gemischt sind, wobei die Reagenzien zur Vermeidung der Einleitung der Chemolumineszenz vor der Verwendung bei einer Temperatur aufbewahrt werden müssen, bei der die Chemolumineszenzreaktion unterbunden wird.
  4. Glasuntersatz gemäss Anspruch 1, wobei die untere Seite eine Öffnung (15) aufweist, die eine leichte Ausdehnung der chemolumineszenten Hülle ermöglicht.
  5. Glasuntersatz gemäss Anspruch 1, der in der Weise angepasst ist, dass er in Form und Aussehen den Einsatzplättchen im Kasino ähnelt.
  6. Glasuntersatz gemäss Anspruch 1, wobei eine der Seiten lichtundurchlässig ist
  7. Glasuntersatz gemäss Anspruch 6, wobei die durchsichtige oder durchscheinende obere Seite mit einem Film (3) oder Stücken eines durchsichtigen selbstklebenden Films versehen ist, der seinerseits durch einen darauf klebenden Film geschützt ist, der leicht entfernbar ist.
  8. Glasuntersatz gemäss einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 7, wobei die Oberseite oder/und die Unterseite Logos oder Werbeaufschriften tragen.
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BE9300382A BE1006969A3 (fr) 1993-04-16 1993-04-16 Dessous-de-verre chimiluminescent.
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PCT/BE1994/000028 WO1994023622A1 (fr) 1993-04-16 1994-04-14 Dessous-de-verre chimiluminescent

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