EP1105342A1 - Dispositif distributeur destine a un recipient pour fluides - Google Patents

Dispositif distributeur destine a un recipient pour fluides

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EP1105342A1
EP1105342A1 EP99941642A EP99941642A EP1105342A1 EP 1105342 A1 EP1105342 A1 EP 1105342A1 EP 99941642 A EP99941642 A EP 99941642A EP 99941642 A EP99941642 A EP 99941642A EP 1105342 A1 EP1105342 A1 EP 1105342A1
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Prior art keywords
housing body
valve
outlet opening
web
container
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EP1105342B1 (fr
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Arthur Steiger
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Kunst-Stoffwerk and Formenbau Arthur Steiger AG
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Kunst-Stoffwerk and Formenbau Arthur Steiger AG
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67D—DISPENSING, DELIVERING OR TRANSFERRING LIQUIDS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B67D3/00—Apparatus or devices for controlling flow of liquids under gravity from storage containers for dispensing purposes
    • B67D3/04—Liquid-dispensing taps or cocks adapted to seal and open tapping holes of casks, e.g. for beer
    • B67D3/043—Liquid-dispensing taps or cocks adapted to seal and open tapping holes of casks, e.g. for beer with a closing element having a linear movement, in a direction perpendicular to the seat

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  • the invention relates to a removal device for a liquid container - in particular for a container made of flexible material in an i.w. surrounding and penetrated by the removal device.
  • dimensionally stable outer container - wherein a tubular part of the removal device has an outlet opening that can be closed by a valve element.
  • - Containers For storing liquid foods - such as wine, cooking oil or the like.
  • - Containers are known from a dimensionally stable outer container and an inner container stored in this made of flexible material.
  • the cube-shaped or cuboidal outer container for example, can consist of corrugated cardboard and its inner container can be made of thermally welded plastic film.
  • Such systems are also referred to as "bag-in-box" containers.
  • the latter can be used to weld a flange collar of a hollow coupling piece made of plastic in a liquid- and gas-tight manner.
  • a pin or a tap is pressed into this coupling piece;
  • the reclosable cock contains a valve element which is assigned to the cross section of an outlet opening.
  • the tap is inside the outer container and is pulled through a pre-perforated section of the outer container before opening.
  • the valve can also be sealed.
  • the flexible inner container collapses, ie its volume always adapts the amount of liquid stored in it - oxidation processes caused by inflowing air do not occur.
  • the properties required by a tap of the type described are simple to keep clean and a shape that facilitates injection molding.
  • Rotating elements are unsuitable for so-called bag-in-box systems because the flexible inner container does not offer sufficient resistance to rotation. To open such a tap, you have to hold it or its coupling piece with one hand while operating the valve element with the other hand.
  • a rotary tap with a manually rotatable valve cover can be found, for example, in DE 39 10 425 AI.
  • taps that can be opened and held with one hand are more suitable; this leaves the second hand available to hold a vessel to be filled.
  • the above-mentioned opening of the inner container can be closed by a plate or a stopper which is removed before the first use.
  • taps which, in addition to the valve element, also offer a device for piercing that plate or for removing the plug from the container opening.
  • the valve element can be connected to the piercing device, for which purpose reference is made to DE 32 12 232 AI.
  • the latter describes a valve with valve element and Closing device in which the valve element and a plug of the closing device are arranged coaxially one behind the other.
  • EP 0 432 070 A discloses a valve with a housing body and a piston loaded with an energy accumulator.
  • the piston acts on a sealing membrane connected to the housing body.
  • the invention has for its object to simplify the design of a removal device for liquid containers made of flexible material, in particular for wine containers of bag-in-box systems, and to increase their gas tightness.
  • the outlay on plastic is to be reduced and the manageability and cleanability are to be improved.
  • a tubular housing body is closed at one end by a membrane-like end disk and in this a cross-bar-like element is mounted, from which a valve tappet for a valve disk extends, which is assigned to the outlet opening provided laterally in the tubular housing body.
  • Valve tappets and valve disks should advantageously form a molding unit made of plastic which is softer than the housing body or the web-like element, for example made of polyethylene; the valve lifter is mounted in the area of an articulation point on the web-like element.
  • the latter and the housing body are preferably molded from polypropylene.
  • the above-mentioned web-like element runs approximately parallel to the longitudinal axis of the housing body and can be swiveled out of it with temporary deformation of the end plate toward the outlet opening, for which purpose it advantageously lies outside the housing body as a type of Key body is designed, that is, a printing surface for a finger or the like. Offers.
  • a stop element is formed on the back of the key body according to the invention, which in the closed position is at a distance from a bearing tongue or similar profile element protruding from the end face of the housing body. This helps a user to perform the swivel movement using two fingers.
  • the bearing tongue can be assigned to the circumferential region of the housing body diametrically opposite the outlet opening, ie the two fingers grab the inner section of the web element towards the outlet opening - for this purpose the valve plate is assigned to an edge or pipe socket surrounding the outlet opening on the outside of the housing body and is led away from the latter. If the bearing tongue is assigned or molded onto the circumferential area of the housing body adjacent to the outlet opening, the two fingers pivot the inner section of the web element away from the outlet opening, which is why in this case the valve plate is assigned to the rim or pipe socket on the inside of the housing body surrounding the outlet opening and can be lifted off from the pipe socket or the like along its longitudinal axis.
  • the key body can only be pivoted after the shaped strips have been severed.
  • the pipe socket surrounding the outlet opening at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the housing body, preferably at an angle of approximately 75 °, as a result of which the outlet opening is more easily accessible.
  • a hose can be attached to this as a permanent line.
  • the housing body is equipped with a radial flange collar as a stop element for an annular body of a thrust flange that can be pushed onto the housing body.
  • the latter is tightly fixed, for example welded, to the inner container by means of an end ring flange which delimits an opening in the liquid container and forms its coupling part for the housing body.
  • the latter and the thrust flange are connected to one another in a latching, tight manner by means of radially acting retention pairs - on the one hand circumferential grooves and on the other hand circumferential beads that can be inserted into them.
  • Fig. 2.4 Cross sections through two versions of the plastic tap
  • Fig. 3.5 the end views of Fig. 2 and Fig. 4;
  • Fig. 5,6 partial sections through areas of the plastic tap
  • FIG. 7 a detail of FIG. 2 in a modified configuration
  • FIGS. 2, 4 an enlarged detail from FIGS. 2, 4 in a further embodiment.
  • a liquid container made of thermally welded plastic film with an outer coating of an aluminum layer, only indicated at 12 is accommodated.
  • This flexible inner or liquid container 12 is equipped in the area of an opening indicated in FIG. 2 with a tap 14 which passes through the packaging container 10. Thanks to the tap 14, for example, a wine carafe 16 can be filled with the contents of the container.
  • the valve 14 is composed of two separately manufactured parts, namely a housing body 18 made of polypropylene and a valve element 20 made of polyethylene. That housing body 18 surrounds a cylindrical tube 22 of outside diameter d and a membrane-like end plate 24 which closes the cylindrical tube 22 at one end.
  • the key body 28 is opposed by an arm-like protruding from the end plate 24 - according to FIG. 3 corrugated bearing tongue 30.
  • Fig. 2 is a side view almost triangular securing tab 32 can be seen, which connects the button body 28 before the first use of the tap 14 by means of shaped strips 34 via that securing tab 32 with the housing body 18 and thus prevents unwanted actuation; only after the securing tab 32 has been removed can a finger of an actuating hand — not shown — for example the index finger here — be placed on the surface of the key body 28. If the thumb of the hand lies on that bearing tongue 30, the key body 28 can be pulled in the direction of the arrow x without any problems and the valve element 20 can thus be actuated.
  • the stop bar 29 prevents the key body 28 from being deflected too much when it hits the inside of the bearing tongues 30 during the latter movement.
  • a tube stub 38 is formed from the latter, defining an outlet opening, the longitudinal axis B of which, with the longitudinal axis A of the tube 22, forms an angle w of approximately 75 ° loading borders.
  • the tube wall is drawn in at 40 — toward the longitudinal axis A; this lower region of the housing body 18 in FIG. 2 thus has a smaller radius r 1 than the region with the radius r lying up here.
  • the pipe socket 38 accommodates - in its interior 41, which is delimited at the top by an inner edge 39 and forms an outlet opening - a valve plate 42 which, by means of a valve tappet 44 which is molded onto it and forms the valve element 20 with it as a unit, near it free end 27 of the web 26 is articulated to this at 46 or inserted into it; the unit consisting of valve plate 42 and tappet 44 is manufactured separately and then attached to the web 26.
  • the film 13 forming the liquid container 12 is connected in the region of the container opening mentioned to a thrust flange 48 which is pushed onto the cylindrical nozzle section 23 on the left in FIG. 2 and clamped thereon.
  • the thrust flange 48 consists of an annular body 50 with radially integrally formed annular flanges 52; inner ring grooves 54 of the ring body 50 receive outer ring beads 56 of the nozzle area 23.
  • a strand-like and flexibly designed fixing element 60 for example a plastic thread ending in a ball 62 as a latching body, can be introduced on the key body 28; the latter is inserted into an edge slot 31 of the bearing tongue 30 in the open position of the valve element 20, the ball 62 being supported on the outer surface of the bearing tongue 30 and holding the valve element 20 in the open position.
  • an external thread 64 can be formed in the pipe socket 38 a .

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Devices For Dispensing Beverages (AREA)
  • Closures For Containers (AREA)
  • Sampling And Sample Adjustment (AREA)

Abstract

L'invention concerne un dispositif distributeur destiné à un récipient pour fluide, notamment à un récipient constitué d'un matériau souple disposé à l'intérieur d'un récipient extérieur sensiblement rigide qui l'entoure et dans lequel pénètre ledit dispositif. Ce dernier comprend une partie tubulaire qui présente un orifice de sortie pouvant être fermé par une soupape. Une enveloppe tubulaire est fermée à une extrémité par un disque frontal de type membrane, dans lequel est disposé un élément transversal en forme de tige, d'où part un poussoir de soupape destiné à une tête de soupape disposée dans l'orifice de sortie sur un côté de ladite enveloppe. Le poussoir et la tête de soupape forment une unité monobloc constituée d'un plastique plus souple que celui de l'enveloppe ou de l'élément en forme de tige. Le poussoir de soupape est disposé sur l'élément en forme de tige dans une zone d'articulation.
EP99941642A 1998-08-21 1999-08-19 Dispositif distributeur destine a un recipient pour fluides Expired - Lifetime EP1105342B1 (fr)

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DE19837947 1998-08-21
DE19837947A DE19837947A1 (de) 1998-08-21 1998-08-21 Entnahmevorrichtung für einen Flüssigkeitsbehälter
PCT/EP1999/006078 WO2000010908A1 (fr) 1998-08-21 1999-08-19 Dispositif distributeur destine a un recipient pour fluides

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EP1105342A1 true EP1105342A1 (fr) 2001-06-13
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EP (1) EP1105342B1 (fr)
AU (1) AU743840B2 (fr)
BR (1) BR9914292A (fr)
CA (1) CA2340681C (fr)
DE (2) DE19837947A1 (fr)
ES (1) ES2178460T3 (fr)
WO (1) WO2000010908A1 (fr)

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BR9914292A (pt) 2001-06-19
EP1105342B1 (fr) 2002-06-05
DE59901656D1 (de) 2002-07-11
AU743840B2 (en) 2002-02-07
WO2000010908A1 (fr) 2000-03-02
CA2340681A1 (fr) 2000-03-02
ES2178460T3 (es) 2002-12-16
CA2340681C (fr) 2005-12-27

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