EP1025010A1 - Verschliessvorrichtung - Google Patents
VerschliessvorrichtungInfo
- Publication number
- EP1025010A1 EP1025010A1 EP98947266A EP98947266A EP1025010A1 EP 1025010 A1 EP1025010 A1 EP 1025010A1 EP 98947266 A EP98947266 A EP 98947266A EP 98947266 A EP98947266 A EP 98947266A EP 1025010 A1 EP1025010 A1 EP 1025010A1
- Authority
- EP
- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- closing device
- sealing wall
- pusher
- cover
- opening
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
- Granted
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Classifications
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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
- B65D5/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper
- B65D5/42—Details of containers or of foldable or erectable container blanks
- B65D5/72—Contents-dispensing means
- B65D5/74—Spouts
- B65D5/746—Spouts formed separately from the container
- B65D5/747—Spouts formed separately from the container with means for piercing or cutting the container wall or a membrane connected to said wall
- B65D5/748—Spouts formed separately from the container with means for piercing or cutting the container wall or a membrane connected to said wall a major part of the container wall or membrane being left inside the container after the opening
Definitions
- the present invention relates to a closing device for laminated paper containers, with the features of the preamble of claim 1.
- the containers made of laminated paper that are of interest here have a cubic basic shape and are used primarily for packaging liquid products, in particular products from the food industry.
- the structure of the laminated paper used here is corresponding.
- such laminated papers have the following layer sequence from the outside in:
- the surface of those containers which are provided with a sealing device is m a predetermined opening of the container in the laminated paper.
- the target opening is a pre-cut opening that normally cuts through the top three layers, while the bottom two layers of aluminum and polyethylene are completely intact.
- closure devices of interest here for containers made of laminated paper are known in two basic types. With an older type, the container is already open and the opening is then closed with a removable seal. After the seal has been removed, the container is sealed in a sealing manner by the closure device attached to the container.
- a closing device consists of a lower part with a pouring opening and a cover which is pivotally attached thereto and which closes the pouring opening with a sealing wall which engages sealingly in the pouring opening.
- the seal is broken either by tearing open or by means of a perforating or cutting device which is arranged on the cover.
- this variant requires that the cover is transported, stored and traded in the fully opened state, which creates the risk of the seal being inadvertently destroyed.
- Closing devices of a second type have been developed from these experiences.
- the laminated paper container is unopened and only shows a prepared target opening.
- a target opening can be realized in different ways.
- several layers of the laminate are cut through and only the innermost plastic layer and the overlying aluminum layer are still intact, as has already been described at the beginning.
- the target opening can have different shapes, namely one that is longitudinally separable and forms two flaps that can be folded away to the side, or from a single U-shaped flap that can be folded backwards.
- US-A-4,934,590 shows a closing device with the characterizing features of patent claim 1.
- the closing device described here has a pivotable pusher in the lower part, which serves on the one hand to completely cut open the target opening and then to move the corresponding U-shaped tab out of the pouring area to the rear.
- the problem with this closure is that in the tamper-evident position the pusher, which is supposed to cut open the target opening, lies open and is therefore completely unprotected against unwanted or willful destruction.
- the actual cover is used at the same time as an operating lever, which means that in the originality position the cover is completely opens. At the same time, the surface of the cover that lies inside the container is exposed to contamination all the time before it is closed for the first time. For the reasons mentioned, the solution described here could not prevail on the market.
- the printer which is connected to the cover in a form and pivotable manner, is actually only printed to the rear when the cover is closed. In this situation, however, the problem does not arise. However, as soon as the cover is completely open, the printer can be swiveled completely freely and will certainly be moved forward again by the tab due to the material elasticity and comes into play, especially when the container is still relatively full, the flow of the escaping content, which necessarily interferes with the pouring jet.
- the present invention has therefore set itself the task of creating a closing device of the type mentioned, in which this problem is avoided. Further embodiments of the subject matter according to the invention emerge from the dependent patent claims.
- FIG. 1 shows, like the following FIGS. 2-7, vertical sections through the closing device according to the invention, mounted on a corresponding container made of laminated paper in various positions of use, whereby
- Figure 1 shows the situation before first use with the cover closed
- FIG. 2 shows the same situation, however, with the cover open.
- Figure 4 shows the lowest position of the printer
- FIG. 5 shows the permanent position of the printer after the closing device has been fabricated.
- FIG. 6 again shows a section through the closing device in the position according to FIG. 1, but perpendicular to its longitudinal orientation.
- FIG. 7 shows the situation of Figure 2 on a larger scale
- FIG. 8 shows the situation according to FIG. 2 in a top view, the closure device being shown attached to the container, while in FIG
- Figure 9 shows the closed closure device in a view from below
- Figure 10 is shown in supervision, but both times with the container omitted.
- the closing device which is designated overall by 1, is explained in detail. Only then is the effect of the invention and the use of the closing device explained with reference to FIGS. 1 to 6.
- the closing device 1 comprises three flat main elements, namely a lower part 2, to which a cover 4 is attached via an articulated axis 16.
- the lower part 2 has a pouring opening 3 which is initially covered by a pusher 5.
- the lower part 2 has a circumferential, flat adhesive edge 20, with which the closing device 1 is welded or glued onto the container B made of so-called laminated paper.
- the container has a target opening which is at least approximately congruent with the pouring opening 3 of the closing device 1 when the closing device is mounted on the container B in a precise location.
- the pusher 5 consists of two parts, namely a large swivel part 9 and a small one Fastening part 8. These two parts are connected on the one hand via a film hinge 10 and on the other hand via a spiral spring element 11.
- the film hinge 10 is interrupted in the area of the spiral spring 11.
- the specified opening in the container B must be at least as large as the swivel part 10 of the printer 5.
- a circumferential sealing wall 7 runs around the pouring opening 3 with respect to the adhesive edge 20 of the lower part 2, and the sealing wall 7 is offset concentrically inwards relative to the adhesive edge 20 of the lower part 2.
- an additional wall 21 is raised on the periphery thereof, on the upper edge of which the hinge axis 16 for the hinged connection of the lower part 2 to the cover 4 is arranged.
- the cover 4 has a peripheral support wall 22 which is supported on the adhesive edge 20 of the lower part 2 in the closed state of the closing device. This ensures that pressure on the cover 4 in the closed state before the sealing device is opened cannot exert any pressure on the printer 5 and thus an undesired opening of the container B takes place.
- a completely circumferential sealing ring wall 14 is attached to the underside of the cover 4 concentrically with the support wall 22. This is dimensioned such that it can encompass the sealing wall 7 in a sealing manner.
- the sealing wall 14 has a circumferential sealing bead 17 on its inward edge. This acts in a closed to ⁇ standing of the closure 1 in a circumferential sealing notch 18, with which a high degree of tightness can be achieved.
- the printer On the one hand to support the printer 5 relative to the lower part 2 and on the other hand as a guarantee element, the printer is connected to the lower part 2 at its lower long edges via predetermined breaking points 19.
- This lateral arrangement is preferred because a tensile load rather than a tensile load occurs on the predetermined breaking point, as a result of which the predetermined breaking point 19 can be destroyed particularly easily.
- the printer 5, which serves to break open the opening in the container B, is specially designed for this purpose.
- the edge 24 is formed as a cutting edge 26 from the notch element 25 with a certain tightening angle m in the direction of the cover surface 23 at least in the front region of the printer 5.
- the closing device can be seen in the completely closed state.
- the lower part 2 of the Closing device 1 is attached to the container B.
- the non-visible opening is still completely closed and the container is therefore sealed.
- the printer 5 is still fixed to the lower part position via the predetermined breaking points 19, and the cover 4 is closed and protects the printer 5 located underneath.
- This situation corresponds to the transport position.
- the cover 4 can additionally be connected to the lower part 2 via a guarantee element. In the simplest embodiment, this can be a paper seal, which at least partially overlaps the cover 4 and is connected to the container B.
- a guarantee band on the protruding edge of the cover 4 via corresponding predetermined breaking points, which is positively and / or non-positively connected to the bottom part 2 of the closing device by means not shown here.
- FIG. 2 shows the first step in opening the closing device or opening the container B.
- the cover 4 is pivoted backwards by 180 °.
- the printer 5 is now freely accessible and the snap hinge 5 can be seen. This position has already been described in detail with reference to FIG. 7.
- the printer 3 By pressing the printer 3, the container B is now opened.
- a first intermediate layer is shown in FIG. 3.
- the design of the printer 3 plays an extremely important role here.
- the opening in container B can only be opened if the two intact innermost layers, namely those made of aluminum and the innermost polyethylene layer, are first cut through and then cut open.
- the printer has the notch element 25 mentioned, which is arranged at the end of the printer opposite the film hinge 10. Thanks to the notch element 25, both the aluminum layer and the polyethylene layer can be pushed through without effort. This ensures that when printing on the printer 3 the user does not print it jerkily into the interior of the container and thus comes into contact with the contents of the container itself or, what is even more unpleasant, the contents spill out of the container.
- the predetermined breaking points 19 arranged laterally also lead to a particularly easy opening because, as already mentioned, the predetermined breaking points are not subjected to tension but to shear, which means that they can be destroyed particularly easily.
- this is changed such that the cutting edge 26 only slopes relatively steeply up to the top surface 23 of the printer 3 in the front third of the printer, while the rear part of the cutting edge 26 extending towards the film hinge 10 is approximately parallel to the top surface 23 of the printer 3 or even retrograde in the direction of the base of the lower part 2 hm.
- This ensures that the cutting edge 26 can exert the best possible shearing effect on the layers below.
- the reduction in the inclination of the cutting edge 26 on the printer 3 to the front third of the printer is based on the knowledge that when the swiveling movement now begins, the required cutting angle alone leads to an optimal shear angle due to the position of the printer 3 relative to the horizontal cutting surface.
- the negative rise angle of the cutting edge 26 which is thus present in the rear region of the printer near the pivot axis, which is formed by the film hinge 10, thus leads through the large change the printer itself to an optimal cutting angle.
- the position of the printer 5 in FIG. 3 corresponds at least approximately to the dead center position of the snap hinge 6.
- This angle can be optimally designed by appropriately designing the flexible spring element 11 and the relative arrangement of the film flexible element 10 and the articulation points of the flexible spring element 11.
- the dead center position of the snap hinge can already be reached at an immersion angle of around 35 °, so that the printer 5 moves away automatically from here under the action of the spiral spring element 11. It sweeps over the lowest position, as shown in FIG. 4, in order to remain in an end position rotated by a maximum of 180 °.
- the printer 5 pushes the tab L, which previously covered the opening in front of it, and finally, in the end position according to FIG.
- the sealing ring wall 14 on the lower cover surface of the cover 4 is used for this purpose. It was previously customary for this sealing ring wall to form a seal on the inner edge of the pouring opening 3 plant. Accordingly, liquid residues on the sealing wall 7 of the lower part mostly remained covered by the cover, but were not protected comprehensively. Accordingly, these pouring residues led to impurities, they crystallized or oxidized and influenced the quality of the material subsequently to be poured out and led to aesthetically completely unsatisfactory results. Accordingly, a completely new and inventive proposal here is to dimension the sealing ring wall 14 on the cover 4 in such a way that it is able to encompass the sealing wall 7 on the lower part from the outside.
- the sealing ring wall 14 can be provided with one or more ring-shaped sealing beads 17 without any problems, and accordingly the sealing wall 7 on the lower part 2 can be provided with circumferential sealing grooves 18 on the outside. In addition, this leads to a better holding force of the cover 4 on the lower part 2.
- an additional rear wall 21 is attached in the rear area to the adhesive edge 20, on the upper edge of which the joint 16 is located around which the cover 4 is pivotally held. So si ⁇ is ensure that the back sealing ring wall 14 may be completely circumferential, as well as the sealing wall 7 at the lower part 2, WO optimally and securely closes the pouring opening 3 by the closing device.
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- Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
- Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
- Closures For Containers (AREA)
- Cartons (AREA)
- Supplying Of Containers To The Packaging Station (AREA)
- Closing Of Containers (AREA)
- Auxiliary Devices For And Details Of Packaging Control (AREA)
- Glass Compositions (AREA)
- Seal Device For Vehicle (AREA)
- Formation And Processing Of Food Products (AREA)
Abstract
Description
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Applications Claiming Priority (3)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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CH247997 | 1997-10-23 | ||
CH247997 | 1997-10-23 | ||
PCT/CH1998/000445 WO1999021767A1 (de) | 1997-10-23 | 1998-10-21 | Verschliessvorrichtung |
Publications (2)
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EP1025010A1 true EP1025010A1 (de) | 2000-08-09 |
EP1025010B1 EP1025010B1 (de) | 2002-04-17 |
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EP98947266A Expired - Lifetime EP1025010B1 (de) | 1997-10-23 | 1998-10-21 | Verschliessvorrichtung |
Country Status (9)
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US (1) | US6431384B1 (de) |
EP (1) | EP1025010B1 (de) |
JP (1) | JP2001520966A (de) |
AT (1) | ATE216337T1 (de) |
AU (1) | AU743839B2 (de) |
CA (1) | CA2306909A1 (de) |
DE (1) | DE59803880D1 (de) |
NO (1) | NO20002019D0 (de) |
WO (1) | WO1999021767A1 (de) |
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JP2006069658A (ja) * | 2004-09-06 | 2006-03-16 | Mikasa Sangyo Kk | カップ型容器の開封補助具 |
US8056749B2 (en) * | 2007-05-07 | 2011-11-15 | Rexam Closure Systems Inc. | Flip-lid dispensing closure and package |
USD671834S1 (en) | 2011-01-07 | 2012-12-04 | Ball Corporation | Closure |
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US10632520B2 (en) | 2014-03-07 | 2020-04-28 | Ball Corporation | End closure with large opening ring pull tab |
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- 1998-10-21 WO PCT/CH1998/000445 patent/WO1999021767A1/de active IP Right Grant
- 1998-10-21 DE DE59803880T patent/DE59803880D1/de not_active Expired - Fee Related
- 1998-10-21 AU AU94268/98A patent/AU743839B2/en not_active Ceased
- 1998-10-21 CA CA002306909A patent/CA2306909A1/en not_active Abandoned
- 1998-10-21 AT AT98947266T patent/ATE216337T1/de not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1998-10-21 US US09/530,002 patent/US6431384B1/en not_active Expired - Fee Related
- 1998-10-21 JP JP2000517884A patent/JP2001520966A/ja not_active Withdrawn
- 1998-10-21 EP EP98947266A patent/EP1025010B1/de not_active Expired - Lifetime
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WO1999021767A1 (de) | 1999-05-06 |
AU9426898A (en) | 1999-05-17 |
JP2001520966A (ja) | 2001-11-06 |
EP1025010B1 (de) | 2002-04-17 |
NO20002019L (no) | 2000-04-18 |
CA2306909A1 (en) | 1999-05-06 |
AU743839B2 (en) | 2002-02-07 |
US6431384B1 (en) | 2002-08-13 |
NO20002019D0 (no) | 2000-04-18 |
DE59803880D1 (de) | 2002-05-23 |
ATE216337T1 (de) | 2002-05-15 |
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