EP0865993A1 - Recipient pour boissons, conserves et autres - Google Patents

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EP0865993A1
EP0865993A1 EP97926007A EP97926007A EP0865993A1 EP 0865993 A1 EP0865993 A1 EP 0865993A1 EP 97926007 A EP97926007 A EP 97926007A EP 97926007 A EP97926007 A EP 97926007A EP 0865993 A1 EP0865993 A1 EP 0865993A1
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Gustavo Investigacion Desarrollo PUENTE PUBILL
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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
    • B65D47/00—Closures with filling and discharging, or with discharging, devices
    • B65D47/04—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps
    • B65D47/06—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps with pouring spouts or tubes; with discharge nozzles or passages
    • B65D47/061—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps with pouring spouts or tubes; with discharge nozzles or passages with telescopic, retractable or reversible spouts, tubes or nozzles
    • B65D47/063—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps with pouring spouts or tubes; with discharge nozzles or passages with telescopic, retractable or reversible spouts, tubes or nozzles with flexible parts
    • 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
    • B65D17/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers specially constructed to be opened by cutting or piercing, or by tearing of frangible members or portions
    • B65D17/28—Rigid or semi-rigid containers specially constructed to be opened by cutting or piercing, or by tearing of frangible members or portions at lines or points of weakness
    • B65D17/401—Rigid or semi-rigid containers specially constructed to be opened by cutting or piercing, or by tearing of frangible members or portions at lines or points of weakness characterised by having the line of weakness provided in an end wall
    • B65D17/4012—Rigid or semi-rigid containers specially constructed to be opened by cutting or piercing, or by tearing of frangible members or portions at lines or points of weakness characterised by having the line of weakness provided in an end wall for opening partially by means of a tearing tab
    • 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
    • B65D2517/00—Containers specially constructed to be opened by cutting, piercing or tearing of wall portions, e.g. preserving cans or tins
    • B65D2517/0001—Details
    • B65D2517/001—Action for opening container
    • B65D2517/0016—Action for opening container pivot tab, push-down and pull-out tear panel
    • 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
    • B65D2517/00—Containers specially constructed to be opened by cutting, piercing or tearing of wall portions, e.g. preserving cans or tins
    • B65D2517/0001—Details
    • B65D2517/0047—Provided with additional elements other than for closing the opening
    • B65D2517/0049—Straws, spouts, funnels, or other devices facilitating pouring or emptying
    • 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
    • B65D2517/00—Containers specially constructed to be opened by cutting, piercing or tearing of wall portions, e.g. preserving cans or tins
    • B65D2517/0001—Details
    • B65D2517/0058—Other details of container end panel
    • B65D2517/0059—General cross-sectional shape of container end panel
    • B65D2517/0061—U-shaped
    • B65D2517/0062—U-shaped and provided with an additional U-shaped peripheral channel
    • 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
    • B65D2517/00—Containers specially constructed to be opened by cutting, piercing or tearing of wall portions, e.g. preserving cans or tins
    • B65D2517/0001—Details
    • B65D2517/0058—Other details of container end panel
    • B65D2517/0059—General cross-sectional shape of container end panel
    • B65D2517/0065—General cross-sectional shape of container end panel convex shaped end panel

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  • This invention is concerned with a container for drinks, canned foods and similar.
  • containers for drinks, especially soft drinks, and for canned foods and others have, on the lid of the container, indentation lines with a ring-pull tab or imaginary cutting lines for the corresponding cutting implements.
  • the patent US-A-3 547 308 from GILLIEM LESTER G presents a drinking tube which incorporates elastic means to push it outwards when the container is opened. These means can be enclosed inside the drinking tube. This method of production complicates the manufacture of the container, and does not allow all the contents of same to be drunk, and does not keep the contents of the container completely contamination-free.
  • German patent DE-U-88 02 548.9 from LIN CHUAN-SHENG could also be cited, which introduces a container incorporating a straw. It requires a device for attaching the straw, equipped with a concertina, to the container. It complicates manufacture and assembly of the container. It requires parts in different materials. It does not allow all the contents of the container to be drunk. It does not keep the contents of the container contamination-free.
  • the lid of the container is equipped with a ring-pull tab and an indentation line similar to those for the old model of soft drinks containers, in which the indentation line is positioned around the whole circumference of the lid, and in which the ring-pull tabs are submitted by the user to Lending and pulling.
  • the opening made is defined by the indentation line and takes up practically the whole surface of the lid.
  • the other type of lid is not fitted with any kind of ring-pull tab or indentation line, and the user makes the corresponding opening with suitable independent cutting implements, following an imaginary line very close to the circumference of the lid, with the assistance of the rim of the body of the container.
  • the opening made is similar to the type with ring-pull tab.
  • Spanish patent No. P9401620 is concerned with eliminating these drawbacks, in such a way that the consumption of soft drinks, canned foods and others by the user does not present the slightest risk of contamination, with these products, drinks and/or canned foods, being kept perfectly hygienic during their consumption, totally preventing the possibility of swallowing metal particles and the like, which causes irreversible diseases, very serious to the health, where the user's health is safeguarded at all times.
  • This patent No. P9401620 is concerned with a container for drinks, canned foods and similar, which has, in its mouth, a device combined with the lid inside same which, when it is opened, causes the emergence, from the mouth of the container, of a tube, via which the product contained in the container has a direct outlet, without coming into contact with the outside of same.
  • the tube protrudes from the body of the container thanks to the action of an elastic concertina.
  • the tube is connected at the bottom to a wrapper concertina which forms part of the lid.
  • the tube itself may fain the concertina.
  • the tube is sealed at its end by a tear-away membrane which forms part of same. For fizzy drinks, it is the pressure of the actual gas which makes the tube protrude from the body of the container.
  • the other drawback is the fact that the edge of the part of the lid torn away when the container is opened can injure the user whilst he is consuming the product.
  • This invention eliminates these problems, whereby, essentially, on the one hand, it attaches the perimeter edge of the continuous strip onto the actual lid, and, on the other hand, it makes bending of the tear-away section of the lid easier, and furthermore, the edge is blunted.
  • the container for drinks and canned foods is characterized by the fact that the tube extends in the form of a continuous strip, the perimeter edge of which is hermetically joined to the inside of the lid by a closed line between the indentation line on the lid to open the container, and the rim of the container; the end of this tube is sealed by a membrane, and by the fact that the tear-away section of the lid, marked by the indentation line, includes an intermediate fold line which, when opening the container, enables the tear-away section of the lid to be folded over onto itself.
  • the indentation line of the lid when the container is opened, has two opposing recesses, matching up with the intermediate fold line.
  • the edge of the continuous strip is hermetically joined in a continuous housing provided on the inside of the lid, between the lid indentation line and the rim of the container.
  • the membrane is permanently joined to the tube and may be torn away from the tube to open it and enable it to be resealed, using a conventional lid, cap or stopper, or it may be attachable to the tube after opening, to enable it to be resealed .
  • the tube may have a concertina-like section, or a series of continuous, concertina-like folds.
  • the tube emerges through the opening in the lid thanks to the pressure inside the container.
  • this tube may be provided with lengthways reinforcements which extend into the continuous strip and cause the emergence of this through this opening in the lid.
  • the tube may incorporate a straw inside.
  • the first method of production according to this invention consists of a container -1- for drinks, canned foods and similar, comprising a body -E- and, on the underside of the lid -T-, it incorporates a tube -C-which extends in the form of a continuous strip -LC-.
  • the perimeter edge -BP- of this continuous strip is hermetically joined to the inside of the lid -T- along a closed line -LN- between the edge -B- of the mouth of the lid -T- when the container -1- is opened and the rim -RE-of the container.
  • This tube -C- is sealed at the end by a tear-away membrane -Ca-.
  • the sealing membrane -Ca- is torn away by a tear-away flange -Cc-.
  • the indentation lines -Cb- open the tube -C- like a channel, which makes it possible for the user to drink the contents of the container -1-, as air can penetrate inside the container.
  • the second method of production according to this invention consists of a container -1'- for drinks, canned foods and similar, which comprises the body -E'- and, inside the lid -T'-, it incorporates a tube -C'- which extends in the form of a continuous strip -LC'-
  • the perimeter edge -BP'- of this continuous strip is hermetically joined to the inside of the lid -T'- along a closed line -LN'- between the edge of the indentation line -B'- of the lid -T'-, which enables the container -1'- to be opened, and the rim -RE'- of the container.
  • This tube -C'- is sealed at the end by a membrane -Ca'-.
  • the indentation line -B'- of the lid -T'- divides it into two parts, one tear-away section -Ta'- inside and one outside -Te'-, which remains in the container -1'- after it has been opened.
  • the tear-away section -Ta'- of the lid incorporates an intermediate fold line -5-, which, when the container is opened, enables this tear-away section -Ta'- to be folded over onto itself (see figures 18, 23 and 24).
  • This fold line - 5- can consist of a fold, as illustrated, or an indentation line or other which will enable this tear-away section -Ta'- to be folded over.
  • the indentation line -B'- of the lid -T'- displays two opposing recesses -6-, which match up with the ends of the intermediate fold line -5-. These recesses -6- assist folding of the tear-away section -Ta'- along the fold line -5-.
  • This intermediate fold line -5- makes it possible, when the container is being opened, during this operation or afterwards, for the tear-away lid -Ta'- to fold over onto itself, as is shown in the figures.
  • the sealing membrane -Ca'- of the tube -C'- is always joined to this tube, and this membrane may be tear-away (although in figure 21, to make the sketch simpler, it is illustrated separately), as well as the tear-away section -Ta'- of the lid.
  • This arrangement makes it possible to reseal the tube -C'- with a conventional, independent cap, lid or stopper.
  • the tube - C'- may be provided with screw-threading -7- (as is illustrated in this figure 21), and enables screw closing with a screw cap.
  • the tube -C'- may be provided with an end rim to enable sealing with a cap with slight pressure.
  • the sealing membrane -Ca'- always joined to the tube -C'-, for example, directly joined to the end of the tube, or by a nerve -8- (see figure 18), enabling this sealing membrane -Ca'- to be attachable to the tube, enabling it to be opened and resealed with this membrane.
  • the tube -C'- may incorporate a straw -CA'- inside, which helps air to come out whilst the user is drinking.
  • the perimeter edge -BP-, -BP'- of the continuous strip -LC-, -LC'- is hermetically joined in a continuous housing -EN-, -EN'- provided on the inside of the lid -T-, -T'- between the indentation line -B-, -B'-of the lid and the rim -RE-, -RE'- of the container -1-, -1'-.
  • the membrane -Ca-, -Ca'- seals the end of the tube - C-, -C'- and, if a fizzy drink -P-, -P'- is inside the container, when the container -1-, -1'- is opened, see figures 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, of the first method of production, and figures 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 of the second method of production, the pressure -P-, -P'- of the drink contained in the container causes the tube -C-, -C'- to emerge through the opening made in the lid -T-, -T'-.
  • the beginning of the tube -C-, -C'- may be provided with lengthways reinforcements which extend into the continuous strip - LC-, -LC'- and which, when the lid -T-, -T'- is opened, as is shown in the said figures 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18, cause the emergence of this tube -C-, -C'-by elasticity, through the opening made in the lid -T-, -T'-. If the drink is still or for canned foods, and the tube does not have these lengthways reinforcements, the tube -C-, -C'- can be made to emerge simply by the user pulling on the sealing membrane -Ca-, -Ca'-.
  • the lid -T-, -T'- has the indentation line -B-, -B'-, which matches up with the opening made in the lid -T-, -T'-, with conventional ring-pull tabs -4-, -4'-.
  • the particular arrangement of these indentation lines -2-, -2'- is not absolutely necessary.
  • the tube -C-, -C'- has a concertina-like portion -F-, -F'-, or alternatively, as is shown in figures 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18, is can have continuous, concertina-like folds -PL-, -PL'- along part or all of its length.
  • the tube -C-, -C'- can be positioned centrally to the container -1-, -1'-, as is shown in figures 8, 9, 10, 19 and 20, or off-centre, as is shown in figure 11.
  • the tube -C-, -C'- can have any cross-section as required, and this may be small or large.
  • the invention comprises containers for drinks, canned foods and similar of any shape as required, even or irregular.
  • the indentation line -B-, -B'- of the lid -T-, -T'- and the tube -C-, -C'- may be centred or off-centre in respect of the rim -RE-, -RE'- of the container -1-, -1'-.
  • the housing -EN, -EN'- of the lid, onto which the perimeter edge -BP-, -BP'- of the continuous strip -LC-, -LC'- is attached inside is defined by a closed line which is comprised between the indentation line -B-, -B'- of the lid -T-, -T'-, and the rim -RE-, -RE'- of the container -1-, -1'-, and may he centred or off-centre.
  • the material making up the tube and the continuous membrane may be any as required, provided it is compatible with drinks and canned foods.
  • the invention within its essence, may be put into practice in other methods of production, differing solely in detail from the above indications, solely for illustrative purposes, and the protection granted shall likewise cover same.
  • the container for drinks, canned foods and similar with which this invention is concerned may, therefore, be produced in any shape or size, with the most suitable means and materials and with the most appropriate accessories, and the component parts may be substituted by others which are technically equivalent, all of which is included in the claims.

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