EP1042177B1 - Behälter für eine flüssigkeit - Google Patents

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EP1042177B1
EP1042177B1 EP98943131A EP98943131A EP1042177B1 EP 1042177 B1 EP1042177 B1 EP 1042177B1 EP 98943131 A EP98943131 A EP 98943131A EP 98943131 A EP98943131 A EP 98943131A EP 1042177 B1 EP1042177 B1 EP 1042177B1
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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
    • B65D1/00—Containers having bodies formed in one piece, e.g. by casting metallic material, by moulding plastics, by blowing vitreous material, by throwing ceramic material, by moulding pulped fibrous material, by deep-drawing operations performed on sheet material
    • B65D1/12—Cans, casks, barrels, or drums
    • B65D1/20—Cans, casks, barrels, or drums characterised by location or arrangement of filling or discharge apertures

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  • the present invention relates to a container of the type, which is described in more detail in the preamble of claim 1.
  • the invention relates particularly to cans designed for viscous petro-chemical products such as oil.
  • US-A-4 412 633 relates to a can with ventilated discharge.
  • the interior of a hollow handle extends from the rear upper area of the can up to the base of a pour spout, a tray-like portion being formed, which is drained through a vertical passage. Since the interior of the handle is not screened off from pratically all of the interior of the pour spout, the entire cross-section of the pour spout can, when the contents in the can is discharged, be filled with liquid, which due to a negative pressure developed in the can practically will be sucked into the interior of the handle and lead to the above-mentioned problems.
  • said drainage has been arranged, which however due to its immediate closeness to the pour spout area always may be blocked and serve as an inlet for liquid in said tray-like portion, when liquid is poured from the can.
  • the liquid which in this way has penetrated from the interior of the can and into the tray-like portion, will also render difiicult and perhaps impossible the desired suction of atmospheric air through the handle.
  • the described drawbacks will probably be particularly remarkable, if the contents in the can is a viscous liquid. Consequently, this can design is objectionable in two senses and sure enough it has not been available in retail trade.
  • BE-A-661164 discloses a can as defined in the preamble of claim 1.
  • the object of the present invention is to counteract and as far as possible eliminate the above-mentioned problems and drawbacks. Also, another object of the invention is to develop the state of the art in this technical field in various respects.
  • a container 1 according to the present invention is shown in its entirety.
  • the container preferably is made of a plastic material, all in one piece, by blow molding.
  • the container suitably is parallelepiped-shaped with a bottom 2, side walls 3 and 4, a front wall 5 and a rear wall 6 as well as a top portion 7.
  • pour spout 8 On the top portion 7 and close to the front wall 5 a pour spout 8 is arranged, suitably extending straight upwards and having e.g. an external thread 9, designed to allow a screwing on of a screw cap (not shown).
  • a hollow handle 10 extends with a first end quite softly or weakly upwards, then horizontally as a portion 21 or parallel to the bottom 2 and finally it extends with a second end, shaped as a soft curving 22, downwards at an angle of 90° and joins its upper or outer wall 11 at the rear wall 6.
  • the front portion of the wall 11, arranged close to the pour spout 8, suitably has an obliquely downwardly directed, mainly plane surface 12, which below, with a short straight portion 13, joins the pour spout base and which at the top forms a rounded tip 14 but then via a minor recess 15 and a joining portion 16, which is directed weakly obliquely upwards, is transformed into a horizontal handle portion 21, in a more uniform way shaped like a tube, tip 14, recess 15 and the weakly obliquely upwardly directed portion 16 forming a gripping notch, for an ergonomic seizing, adjusting and pouring, preferably designed for the index finger.
  • the handle Joint with the bottom wall 17 of the handle, comprehesively tapers off towards the pour spout 8, i.e. the hollow space 18 in the handle is reduced substantially to only a fraction, e.g. 1-30%, preferably roughly 10%, of the cross-sectional area of the hollow space through the handle, when this area is at its maximum.
  • the lower handle wall 17 also follows at a distance at least principally the extension of the upper handle wall 11, in the direction from the pour spout a weak rise 19 up to the horizontal portion 21 of the lower handle wall 17 being arranged.
  • a weak rise 23 is also arranged in the other direction, up to a wall portion 24, which is formed by the lower handle wall 17 and extends upwards along almost the full height of the pour spout 8 to the immediate vicinity of the external end of the pour spout with a transversal screening off from the interior of the pour spout 8.
  • This upwardly extended wall portion 24 extends inside the pour spout 8 around its base 27 and at a distance from the interior wall, a passage 28 with a preferably circular or oval cross-section being enclosed and a guide wall 32, which leans, seen from above, obliquely into the shoulder area of the pour spout and successively reduces the cross-sectional area of the pour spout, being formed.
  • the inclined guide wall also facilitates the insertion of e.g. a funnel, e.g. designed to fill the container in a factory, higher filling speeds being achieved, because a filling spout or the like can be directed against the inclined wall and be automatically guided by it to the correct position.
  • the rises 19 and 23 in mutually opposite directions and also in a transversal direction in opposite directions form a shallow tray 26, from the lowermost portion of which a drain passage 30 extends in a e.g. on top of the top portion 7 designed portion 31 of the container and follows the slope of the top portion obliquely downwards along at least a substantial length of the upper side of the container within the area of the handle all the way down to the area of said second handle end, and in this way it can be far-reachingly guaranteed, when the liquid is poured from the container, that the interior end 20 of the drain passage 30 will escape from the contents in the container.
  • Such a container will function in the following way:
  • the handle 10 is first of all seized in the right way, particularily by pressing an index finger against the portions 14-15, and in this way the can can be automaticly, in a simple way, quickly and correctly put in the right position, the exposed pour spout being directed against a tank opening or the like.
  • the can is then inclined and the inclination degree is successively increased to allow the contents in the container to flow from the pour spout, air at the same time being allowed to penetrate into the container through the passage 28, through the hollow space 18 in the handle and into the interior 29 of the container via the rear portion of the handle.
  • the tray 26 and the drain passage 30 wich extends between the tray and the rear upper interior 29 of the container, no liquid can in any practical phase be accumulated in the tray, but it will, regardless of where it came from, flow downwards through the drain passage and back to the interior 29 of the container. In this way the air inflow paths into the container are always open. It is important to realize the significance of the fact, that the drain passage leads to precisely the rear portion of the interior of the upper portion of the container, because exactly due to this positioning end 20 of the drain passage will, within this area, when the liquid is poured, in practice always be placed above the liquid surface within the container, even if the container perhaps is filled to its maximum.

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  1. Behälter (1) für eine Flüssigkeit, insbesondere ein Kanister für zähflüssige petrochemische Produkte, mit Behälterwänden (2-7), einem oberen, verschliessbaren Ausguss (8), welcher nahe der Vorderwand (5) des Behälters angeordnet ist, sowie einem oberen hohlen Handgriff (10), welcher sich mit einem ersten Ende von einem oberen Bereich des Behälters in Ausguss-nähe und mit einem zweiten Ende bis zur Hinterwand (6) des Behälters erstreckt, wobei das Innere des Handgriffes mit dem Inneren (29) des Behälters kommuniziert, wobei eine Passage (28) innerhalb des Ausgussbereiches zum Einströmen von Luft abgeschirmt ist, welche die Flüssigkeitsmenge im Behälter ersetzt, die aufgrund des Ausgiessens von Flüssigkeit reduziert ist, welche Luft zum Strömen über den Ausguss in den hohlen Handgriff, durch diesen hindurch und in den oberen Bereich des Behälters abgewendet vom Ausguss vorgesehen ist, und wobei der Handgriff(10) von einer unteren Handgriffwand (17) gebildet und begrenzt ist, deren Abschnitt (24), welcher das genannte erste Handgriffende bildet, nach oben gebogen ist, um genannte Passage (28) zu bilden und einen Trog (26) abzuschirmen, der von der unteren Handgriffwand (17) gebildet ist, und dessen Boden mit dem Inneren des Behälters über eine Drainierpassage (30) kommuniziert, und wobei genannter Handgriffwandabschnitt (24) sich nach oben erstreckt entlang von im wesentlichen der gesamten Höhe des Ausgusses (8) bis zur unmittelbaren Nähe des äusseren Ausgussendes bei transversaler Abschirmung vom Inneren des Ausgusses, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Drainierpassage (30) sich schräg nach unten entlang von wenigstens der wesentlichen Ausdehnung der oberen Seite des Behälters innerhalb des Bereiches des Handgriffes erstreckt bis hin zum Bereich vom genanntem zweiten Handgriffende, um eine Ausströmzone (20) zu bilden, die während des Ausgiessens weitgehendst sichergestellt vom Behälterinhalt beabstandet ist.
  2. Behälter nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der vorderste Bereich der oberen Wand (11) des Handgriffes, welcher benachbart zum Ausguss (8) angeordnet ist, eine schräg nach unten gerichtete, im wesentlichen ebene Fläche (12) bildet, welche sich mit einem kurzen geraden Abschnitt (13) sich an die Basis des Ausgusses anschliesst und zuoberst eine abgerundete Spitze (14) bildet und alsdann über eine kleine Versenkung (15) und einen anschliessenden Abschnitt (16), der sich geringfügig schräg nach oben erstreckt, in einen horizontalen Handgriffabschnitt (21) übergeht, der mehr einheitlich als ein Rohr ausgebildet ist, und dass die Spitze (14), die Versenkung (15) und der geringfügig schräg nach oben sich erstreckende Abschnitt (16) eine Greifscharte bilden, die vorzugsweise für einen Indexfinger vorgesehen ist sowie zu ergonomisch richtigem Ergreifen, Positionieren und Ausgiessen.
  3. Behälter nach Anspruch 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass im Bereich der im wesentlichen ebenen Oberfläche (12) und des kurzen geraden Abschnittes (13) der Handgriff zusammen mit seiner unteren Wand (17) ringsum sich verjüngt in Richtung zum Ausguss bei wesentlicher Reduzierung der Querschnittsfläche des Hohlraumes (18) im Handgriff auf nur einen Bruchteil nämlich 1-30%, vorzugsweise 10%, der Querschnittsfläche des Hohlraumes im Handgriff im Verhältnis zur maximalen Querschnittsfläche.
  4. Behälter nach wenigstens einem der Ansprüche 1-3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sich der hohle Handgriff (10) vom Bereich hinter dem Ausguss (8), von der Vorderwand (5) her gesehen, zuerst sanft oder geringfügig nach oben erstreckt, alsdann horizontal oder parallel als ein Abschnitt (21) zum Boden (2) des Behälters und schliesslich mit einem zweiten Ende, welches sanft gerundet ist, in einem Winkel von 90°, sich nach unten erstreckt und mit seiner oberen oder äusseren Wand (11) sich an die Hinterwand (6) des Behälters anschliesst.
  5. Behälter nach Anspruch 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass auch die untere Handgriffwand (17) beabstandet der oberen Handgriffwand (11) folgt, und dass ein geringfügiger Anstieg (19), der sich vom Ausguss (8) weg erstreckt, gebildet ist bis zu genanntem horizontalen Abschnitt (21) der unteren Handgriffwand (17), und dass ein geringfügiger Anstieg (23) auch in der anderen Richtung bis zu genanntem Wandabschnitt (24) vorgesehen ist, der von der unteren Handgriffwand gebildet ist.
  6. Behälter nach wenigstens einem der Ansprüche 1-5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der sich nach oben erstreckende Wandabschnitt (24) sich innerhalb des Ausgusses (8) um seine Basis (27) herum erstreckt sowie beabstandet von der Innenwand des Ausgusses, dass die im Querschnitt vorzugsweise kreisförmige oder ovale Passage (28) eingeschlossen und eine Führungswand (32) gebildet ist, welche von oben gesehen geneigt ist nach innen, schräg nach unten und in den Ansatzbereich des Ausgusses, und welche sukzessiv die Querschnittsfläche des Ausgusses reduziert, sowie welche auch dazu vorgesehen ist, einen grösseren Abstand zwischen dem Lufteinlassbereich in den äusseren Bereich der Passage (28) und der Flüssigkeitsausströmzone (25) des Ausgusses zu bilden, um auf diese Weise zusätzlich ein Eindringen von Flüssigkeit in genannten äusseren Passagenbereich zu reduzieren und die Einführung eines Trichters, eines Ausgusses od.dgl. zu erleichtern, insbesondere wenn der Behälter in einer Fabrik zu füllen ist.
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