EP0909715A1 - Capsule pour la fermeture de récipients - Google Patents

Capsule pour la fermeture de récipients Download PDF

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EP0909715A1
EP0909715A1 EP98117430A EP98117430A EP0909715A1 EP 0909715 A1 EP0909715 A1 EP 0909715A1 EP 98117430 A EP98117430 A EP 98117430A EP 98117430 A EP98117430 A EP 98117430A EP 0909715 A1 EP0909715 A1 EP 0909715A1
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Emilio Morini
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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
    • B65D47/20—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps comprising hand-operated members for controlling discharge
    • B65D47/24—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps comprising hand-operated members for controlling discharge with poppet valves or lift valves, i.e. valves opening or closing a passageway by a relative motion substantially perpendicular to the plane of the seat
    • B65D47/241—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps comprising hand-operated members for controlling discharge with poppet valves or lift valves, i.e. valves opening or closing a passageway by a relative motion substantially perpendicular to the plane of the seat the valve being opened or closed by actuating a cap-like element
    • B65D47/242—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps comprising hand-operated members for controlling discharge with poppet valves or lift valves, i.e. valves opening or closing a passageway by a relative motion substantially perpendicular to the plane of the seat the valve being opened or closed by actuating a cap-like element moving helically
    • 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
    • B65D41/00—Caps, e.g. crown caps or crown seals, i.e. members having parts arranged for engagement with the external periphery of a neck or wall defining a pouring opening or discharge aperture; Protective cap-like covers for closure members, e.g. decorative covers of metal foil or paper
    • B65D41/32—Caps or cap-like covers with lines of weakness, tearing-strips, tags, or like opening or removal devices, e.g. to facilitate formation of pouring openings
    • B65D41/34—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers provided with tamper elements formed in, or attached to, the closure skirt
    • B65D41/3423—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers provided with tamper elements formed in, or attached to, the closure skirt with flexible tabs, or elements rotated from a non-engaging to an engaging position, formed on the tamper element or in the closure skirt
    • B65D41/3438—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers provided with tamper elements formed in, or attached to, the closure skirt with flexible tabs, or elements rotated from a non-engaging to an engaging position, formed on the tamper element or in the closure skirt the tamper element being formed separately but connected to the 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
    • B65D41/00—Caps, e.g. crown caps or crown seals, i.e. members having parts arranged for engagement with the external periphery of a neck or wall defining a pouring opening or discharge aperture; Protective cap-like covers for closure members, e.g. decorative covers of metal foil or paper
    • B65D41/32—Caps or cap-like covers with lines of weakness, tearing-strips, tags, or like opening or removal devices, e.g. to facilitate formation of pouring openings
    • B65D41/34—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers provided with tamper elements formed in, or attached to, the closure skirt
    • B65D41/3442—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers provided with tamper elements formed in, or attached to, the closure skirt with rigid bead or projections formed on the tamper element and coacting with bead or projections on the container
    • B65D41/3457—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers provided with tamper elements formed in, or attached to, the closure skirt with rigid bead or projections formed on the tamper element and coacting with bead or projections on the container the tamper element being formed separately but connected to the closure

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  • Capsules for closing containers such as bottles of water, soft drinks and the like have been present in the art for some time.
  • the capsules are generally speaking made of plastic and realized in two parts which are joint-assembled at the moment they are inserted on the container.
  • the first part of the capsule is essentially constituted by a cap which opens and re-closes the container, while the second part comprises an annular element for checking that the container has in fact been opened.
  • This annular element comprises a first ring which is joint-fitted into the cap and a second ring which is coaxially connected to the first by easy-break fractures and which is commonly known as the security strip.
  • the second part of the capsule can also comprise an additional element, constituted for example by a pouring device, the periphery of which is connected by easy-break points to an internal edge of the annular element so as to be easily detachable from the latter when the capsule is inserted on the container neck.
  • an additional element constituted for example by a pouring device, the periphery of which is connected by easy-break points to an internal edge of the annular element so as to be easily detachable from the latter when the capsule is inserted on the container neck.
  • the two parts of the capsule are made separately, in general by injection-moulding or compression, and assembled subsequently, at the moment of application of the capsule on the container.
  • Capsules of the above type are known in the prior art, for example in patent GB 2141414 and Italian application IT MO96A000023.
  • the main aim of the present invention is to realize a capsule composed of two assemblable parts which is provided with a security strip for indicating that the container has been opened and a pouring device which enables the liquid contained in the container to be poured without removing the cap from the container itself.
  • An advantage of the invention is that it provides a tamper-proof capsule with a pouring device but which is also economical to produce, store and assemble.
  • a further advantage of the invention is that it enables the container to be opened and closed as well as the contained liquid to be poured with very simple and rapid operations.
  • a still further advantage of the invention is that it provides a capsule which can be applied to mouths of containers already existing on the market.
  • Yet further advantages of the capsule are: its relatively small mass, a good seal, a steady pouring action, which last enables the consumer to drink directly from the bottle without any need for a beaker and without having to touch the mouth of the container with his or her lips.
  • figure 1 is a schematic halfway section in vertical elevation of the capsule, assembled and applied to the mouth of a container, in a closed configuration
  • figure 2 is the capsule of figure 1 in an open configuration.
  • 1 denotes in its entirety a capsule for containers made according to the present invention.
  • the capsule 1 is applied to a mouth 2 of a container constituted by a plastic bottle, for example having flexible lateral walls and containing a drink.
  • the capsule 1 comprises a first hood-shaped element 3, destined to be constrained to the mouth 2 of the container by a screw coupling, with the possibility of moving axially up and down with respect to the container.
  • the first element 3, which constitutes the cap of the container and which serves to re-close the container after it has been opened for the first time, can be moulded and made of relatively stiff plastic.
  • the first element 3 comprises a cylindrical lateral body 30 closed by an upper wall 31.
  • the lateral body 30 is provided with an internal thread which couples with an external thread provided on the mouth 2 of the container.
  • the upper wall 31 centrally exhibits an outlet mouth 32 for the liquid in the container; which is situated at the upper end of an upwards-facing truncoconical spout 33.
  • the first element 3 further exhibits a tubular wall 34, preferably cylindrical, having an axis which is parallel to that of the mouth 2 of the container. In the illustrated example the tubular wall 34 is coaxial to the mouth 2.
  • the tubular wall 34 projects downards from the upper wall 31 and exhibits, in proximity of its lower end, an outwardly-projecting annular lip 35.
  • the capsule 1 comprises a second element 4, annular in shape, comprising a first annular part 40 and a second annular part 41 (in effect a security strip) which is connected coaxially to the first part 40 by easy-break fractures.
  • the first annular part 40 is destined to joint in an annular seating provided internally of the lateral body 30 of the first element 3 when the first element 3 is assembled with the second element 4.
  • the capsule 1 further comprises a third element 5, coaxially connected by fracture points to the second element 4 so as to be detachable therefrom on insertion of the capsule 1 on the container.
  • the third element 5 has an external diameter which is smaller than the internal diameter of the second element 4.
  • the first element 3 can selectively assume at least a lower first closure position (figure 1) in which the outlet mouth 32 is closed by an obturator 50 constrained solidly to the third element 5 and an upper second position in which it is open (figure 2), and in which the outlet mouth 32 is distanced from the obturator 50 and the second annular part 41 is detached from the first part 40.
  • the third element 5 comprises three parts joined together in a single piece.
  • a first part 51 is annular and is destined to form a seal with the upper edge of the mouth 2 of the container, This first part 51, which is the most external part of the third element 5, bears the fracture points which connect the third element 5 to the second 4 before the capsule is mounted.
  • a second part 52 of the third element 5, cylindrical and connected to the first part 51, is destined to connect sealingly with the internal surface of the mouth 2 of the container; this second part 52, which is coaxial to the mouth 2, can have annular lips, projecting externalwise and having the function of a seal on the inside of the mouth 2.
  • a central third part 53 of the third element 5 bears the above-mentioned obturator 50 and has its periphery connected to a lower end of the second part 52.
  • the third part 53 is destined to close the mouth 2 of the container and exhibits one or more passage apertures 54 for the liquid in the container.
  • the obturator 50 is constituted in the illustrated example by an upwards-facing internally-hollow axial projection situated at the centre of the third element 53.
  • the projection has a lower part 50a, truncoconical in shape, joined to an upper part 50b, which is cylindrical and superiorly closed.
  • the various elements of the capsule 1 are conformed and arranged in such a way that, when the first element 3 is in the closed position (figure 1), its tubular wall 34 is almost entirely internally facing the second part 52 of the third element 5 which seals on the internal surface of the mouth 2.
  • the means for limiting comprise an annular projection 55 projecting inwardly of the third element 5 and having an internal diameter which is smaller than the internal diameter of the mouth 2 to which the capsule is destined to be fitted.
  • the annular projection 35 of the first element 3 is predisposed to interact contactingly with the above-mentioned means for limiting on the third element 5, as can clearly be seen in figure 2.
  • the capsule 1 After mounting, the capsule 1 is in the closed and inviolate configuration as shown in figure 1, with the second element 4 still whole and the outlet mouth 32 closed by the obturator 50.
  • the capsule By unscrewing and raising the first element 3 the capsule moves into the configuration of figure 2; the raising of the first element 1 is stopped by the fact that the annular projection 35 of the first element 3 strikes on the means for limiting (in the example represented by the internal projection 55) of the third element 5.
  • the capsule can be used to drink directly from the spout 33 of the container by upturning the container, with no need for a beaker and without touching the spout itself.
  • This operation can be further facilitated if the lateral walls of the container are flexible, so that the container can function as a pump and expel the liquid more energetically.
  • the invention enables the liquid to be poured without removing the cap or any other part of the capsule from the container.
  • the consumer can, however, if so desired, completely detach the capsule from the container and so free the whole mouth 2, by exerting a relatively strong unscrewing and raising force on the first element 3; then, if so desired, the capsule can be replaced on the container mouth.
  • the container can be re-closed by screwing the first element 3 so that the obturator 50 re-closes the outlet mouth 32.
  • the detachment of the security strip 41 remains the proof that the container has been opened.

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EP98117430A 1997-09-17 1998-09-15 Capsule pour la fermeture de récipients Expired - Lifetime EP0909715B1 (fr)

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IT1997MO000041U IT243548Y1 (it) 1997-09-17 1997-09-17 Capsula di chiusura per contenitori.
ITMO970041 1997-09-17

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GB2128596A (en) * 1982-10-13 1984-05-02 Robert Fontanaud Closure and pouring member assembly
GB2141414A (en) * 1983-06-15 1984-12-19 Bormioli Metalplast Spa Improved screw bottle cap in two joined parts, of the type incorporating a tamper-indicating ring
FR2577891A1 (fr) * 1985-02-22 1986-08-29 Bormioli Metalplast Spa Capsule en matiere plastique, en deux pieces, pourvue de bande d'inviolabilite, notamment pour bouteilles
FR2682085A1 (fr) * 1991-10-08 1993-04-09 Plastivit Sa Dispositif pour fermer des bouteilles.
WO1997031838A1 (fr) * 1996-02-29 1997-09-04 Bormioli Rocco & Figlio S.P.A. Bouchon distributeur en deux pieces muni d'un dispositif de securite

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GB2128596A (en) * 1982-10-13 1984-05-02 Robert Fontanaud Closure and pouring member assembly
GB2141414A (en) * 1983-06-15 1984-12-19 Bormioli Metalplast Spa Improved screw bottle cap in two joined parts, of the type incorporating a tamper-indicating ring
FR2577891A1 (fr) * 1985-02-22 1986-08-29 Bormioli Metalplast Spa Capsule en matiere plastique, en deux pieces, pourvue de bande d'inviolabilite, notamment pour bouteilles
FR2682085A1 (fr) * 1991-10-08 1993-04-09 Plastivit Sa Dispositif pour fermer des bouteilles.
WO1997031838A1 (fr) * 1996-02-29 1997-09-04 Bormioli Rocco & Figlio S.P.A. Bouchon distributeur en deux pieces muni d'un dispositif de securite

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WO2002024541A2 (fr) 2000-09-22 2002-03-28 Bormioli Rocco & Figlio S.P.A. Capsule pour la fermeture de recipients

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