EP1163162B1 - Device for fast capping and uncapping of small liquid containers - Google Patents

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EP1163162B1
EP1163162B1 EP00910906A EP00910906A EP1163162B1 EP 1163162 B1 EP1163162 B1 EP 1163162B1 EP 00910906 A EP00910906 A EP 00910906A EP 00910906 A EP00910906 A EP 00910906A EP 1163162 B1 EP1163162 B1 EP 1163162B1
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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
    • B65D47/26—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps comprising hand-operated members for controlling discharge with slide valves, i.e. valves that open and close a passageway by sliding over a port, e.g. formed with slidable spouts
    • B65D47/261—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps comprising hand-operated members for controlling discharge with slide valves, i.e. valves that open and close a passageway by sliding over a port, e.g. formed with slidable spouts having a rotational or helicoidal movement
    • B65D47/268—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps comprising hand-operated members for controlling discharge with slide valves, i.e. valves that open and close a passageway by sliding over a port, e.g. formed with slidable spouts having a rotational or helicoidal movement the valve member pivoting about an axis perpendicular to the container mouth axis
    • 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
    • B65D47/26—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps comprising hand-operated members for controlling discharge with slide valves, i.e. valves that open and close a passageway by sliding over a port, e.g. formed with slidable spouts
    • B65D47/28—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps comprising hand-operated members for controlling discharge with slide valves, i.e. valves that open and close a passageway by sliding over a port, e.g. formed with slidable spouts having linear movement
    • B65D47/286—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps comprising hand-operated members for controlling discharge with slide valves, i.e. valves that open and close a passageway by sliding over a port, e.g. formed with slidable spouts having linear movement between planar parts

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  • the present invention relates to a rapid plugging and unblocking device intended to equip small containers for liquids such as glass or thermoplastic bottles.
  • Glass or thermoplastic bottles are commonly used with a neck closed by a cork stopper force-fitted inside the neck or a cap which is screwed or clipped or crimped on the external lateral wall of the neck in order to wedge a seal on the upper part of the neck; to remove these corks or capsules, hold the bottle with one hand and remove the cork or capsule with the other, which occupies both hands and forces you to place the cork if you want to free one hand to hold a glass; the movement allowing the plug to be extracted is a rotational and tensile movement possibly followed by an installation movement which takes time and which requires at least as much time for the reverse operation.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a plugging device which can be operated by a single simple movement for plugging as for unclogging, of the kind defined in the preamble of claim 1 and known by the combination of the CH-A patents. -249764, DE-A-2409760 and US-A-2141572, but waterproof and inexpensive to be able to be used on small containers of even gaseous liquid and in particular on bottles provided with a neck.
  • FIG 3 shows an elevational view of the closure device of Figure 1 with the closure plate in the open position.
  • a plugging device 10 (fig. 1 and 2) according to the invention consists of a sleeve 20 comprising an internal channel 33 which opens on one side onto a means for sealingly assembling the plugging device on the neck 4 d 'a bottle and on the other side forms a new orifice 26 of the bottle, which are associated with sealing means.
  • the bottle comprises a neck 4 (fig. 1) substantially cylindrical with a main axis of symmetry of revolution.
  • the sealed assembly means of the sleeve on the neck 4 of the bottle generally uses the same means of fixing the stopper or the capsule which may be an external screw thread or a clipping bead or a cylindrical surface internal to the neck intended to a stopper; the seal is produced by known means such as a flexible seal clamped between the sleeve 20 and the upper edge of the neck 4 or a skirt bearing on the internal cylindrical edge of the neck.
  • the internal cylindrical channel of revolution 33 has an axis of symmetry 18 which coincides with the main axis of symmetry of revolution of the neck 4.
  • the sleeve 20 is provided with a sliding surface 19 which is a cylinder sector or a portion of a sphere having an axis of symmetry of revolution 17 substantially secant and perpendicular to the axis of symmetry 18 of the internal channel 33 of the sleeve 20. Said new orifice is defined in said sliding surface.
  • the closure plate 21 is associated with a stirrup 22 pivoting about the axis of symmetry of revolution 17, by the end of its two parallel arms 23: the sleeve comprises two pins 24, perpendicular to the side wall of the sleeve 20 , on which are articulated, by a bore 25, the ends of the parallel arms 23 of the stirrup 22.
  • the pins 24 (fig. 1 and 2) and the bores 25 are shaped to define cams allowing the tightening of the plate to be varied shutter 21 on the sliding surface 19 and in particular to increase the tightening when the new orifice 26 is closed.
  • the new orifice 26 with a seal 27 with flexible lip of substantially frustoconical shape of revolution whose large base 29 is integral with the edge of the new orifice 26 and the small base 30 of which is slightly above the new orifice 26 when it is open; the closure plate 21 has in the area covering the new orifice 26 a small spherical cap with a diameter 28 of the order of magnitude of that of the new orifice 26 and a radius of curvature of the spherical cap.
  • the bore 25 of the stirrup 22 associated with the pin 24 is shaped so that, during shuttering, the spherical cap of the shutter plate 21 is firmly supported on the small base 30 of the joint to lip 27 ensuring sufficient gas tightness to allow that when the gas pressure rises in the bottle, it is it which, by deformation of the lip seal 27, applies it more and more firmly to the spherical cap of the plate. shutter 21.
  • An operating lever 31 secured to the parallel arms 23 of the stirrup 22 makes it possible to place or remove the shutter plate 21 by sliding it over the sliding surface 19.
  • the closure device can in particular be produced from parts of injected thermoplastic material assembled by cleavage or by welding.

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Abstract

The closing device consisting of a sleeve that seals onto the neck of a bottle and that comprises an internal channel which opens, via a new orifice in a sliding-contact surface with associated slopes and slideways acting as guide means to a shut-off plate for closing the new orifice which is moved translationally by a knob, which sliding-contact surface may be planar or in the form of a sector of a cylinder of revolution or in the form of a portion of a sphere.

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La présente invention a pour objet un dispositif de bouchage et débouchage rapide destiné à équiper des petits conteneurs à liquides tels que des bouteilles en verre ou en matière thermoplastique.The present invention relates to a rapid plugging and unblocking device intended to equip small containers for liquids such as glass or thermoplastic bottles.

On utilise couramment des bouteilles en verre ou en matière thermoplastique comportant un goulot fermé par un bouchon en liège emmanché à force à l'intérieur du goulot ou une capsule venant se visser ou se clipper ou se sertir sur la paroi latérale extérieure du goulot afin de coincer un joint d'étanchéité sur la partie supérieure du goulot ; pour enlever ces bouchons ou capsules, il faut tenir la bouteille d'une main et enlever le bouchon ou la capsule de l'autre, ce qui occupe les deux mains et oblige à poser le bouchon si on veut se libérer une main pour tenir un verre ; le mouvement permettant d'extraire le bouchon est un mouvement de rotation et de traction suivi éventuellement d'un mouvement de pose qui prend du temps et qui exige au moins autant de temps pour l'opération inverse. Il existe pour la bière et la limonade un système de bouchage de bouteilles en verre réutilisable comportant un obturateur de goulot, généralement en porcelaine. muni d'un joint annulaire en caoutchouc épais combiné avec un dispositif de verrouillage de l'obturateur utilisant la compressibilité élastique du joint ; comme on utilise de plus en plus des bouteilles non consignées ce dispositif de bouchage tend à disparaître ; ce système de bouchage est facile à ouvrir et l'obturateur reste après le goulot, en contrepartie il est un peu plus difficile à refermer.Glass or thermoplastic bottles are commonly used with a neck closed by a cork stopper force-fitted inside the neck or a cap which is screwed or clipped or crimped on the external lateral wall of the neck in order to wedge a seal on the upper part of the neck; to remove these corks or capsules, hold the bottle with one hand and remove the cork or capsule with the other, which occupies both hands and forces you to place the cork if you want to free one hand to hold a glass; the movement allowing the plug to be extracted is a rotational and tensile movement possibly followed by an installation movement which takes time and which requires at least as much time for the reverse operation. There is a reusable glass bottle closure system for beer and lemonade with a neck shutter, usually made of porcelain. fitted with a thick rubber annular seal combined with a shutter locking device using the elastic compressibility of the seal; as more and more non-returnable bottles are used, this closure device tends to disappear; this closure system is easy to open and the shutter remains after the neck, in return it is a little more difficult to close.

Il existe dans les cafés des bouteilles dont le goulot est équipé d'un verseur de petit diamètre, comportant un dispositif d'introduction d'air, mais qui ne sont pas étanches, il existe aussi des bouchons doseurs fixés sur des bouteilles d'apéritifs qui sont disposées à l'envers sur des supports, ces dispositifs ne délivrent que des petites doses de liquide quand on appuie fortement le bord du verre sur des butées qui se déplacent en soulevant un clapet qui permet la délivrance du liquide.There are bottles in cafes whose neck is equipped with a small diameter pourer, comprising an air introduction device, but which are not leaktight, there are also dosing caps fixed on aperitif bottles. which are arranged upside down on supports, these devices deliver only small doses of liquid when the edge of the glass is strongly pressed against stops which move by lifting a valve which allows the delivery of the liquid.

On trouve au niveau des robinets raccordés à un réseau de fluide sous pression ou à un conteneur de grande dimension des dispositifs à fermeture rapide utilisant deux surfaces sphériques ou cylindriques de même courbure glissant l'une sur l'autre afin de faire coïncider ou non deux ouvertures permettant le passage d'un fluide : c'est le cas des robinets à boisseau sphérique ou cylindrique qui s'ouvrent ou se ferment en faisant faire un quart de tour à un levier de manoeuvre, tel que les robinets de tonneaux en bois, certains robinets dits « à boule » d'évier, ou les vannes situées à l'extrémité des lances d'incendies : tous ces dispositifs ne nécessitent l'usage que d'une main et permettent une ouverture et une fermeture rapide ; généralement ces robinets sont en métal et utilisent des pièces de précision qui sont coûteuses.Quick-closing devices using two spherical or cylindrical surfaces of the same curvature, sliding one over the other in order to make two or not coincide, are found at the taps connected to a network of pressurized fluid or to a large container. openings allowing the passage of a fluid: this is the case of ball or cylindrical ball valves which open or close by making a quarter-turn with an operating lever, such as wooden barrel valves, certain so-called sink “ball” taps, or the valves located at the end of fire hoses: all these devices require the use of only one hand and allow rapid opening and closing; generally these valves are made of metal and use precision parts which are expensive.

L'objet de l'invention consiste à proposer un dispositif de bouchage manoeuvrable par un seul mouvement simple pour le bouchage comme pour le débouchage, du genre de celui défini dans le préambule de la revendication 1 et connu par la combinaison des brevets CH-A-249764, DE-A-2409760 et US-A-2141572, mais étanche et peu coûteux pour pouvoir être utilisé sur les petits conteneurs de liquide même gazeux et notamment sur les bouteilles munies d'un goulot.The object of the invention is to provide a plugging device which can be operated by a single simple movement for plugging as for unclogging, of the kind defined in the preamble of claim 1 and known by the combination of the CH-A patents. -249764, DE-A-2409760 and US-A-2141572, but waterproof and inexpensive to be able to be used on small containers of even gaseous liquid and in particular on bottles provided with a neck.

Dans ce qui suit on a décrit un dispositif appliqué à une bouteille munie d'un goulot vissé, mais il est bien entendu que ce dispositif peut être transposable à d'autres types de goulots et de conteneurs.In what follows, a device has been described which is applied to a bottle provided with a screwed neck, but it is understood that this device can be transposed to other types of necks and containers.

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  • La figure 1 représente une coupe d'un dispositif de bouchage selon l'invention, utilisant une surface de glissement cylindrique ou sphérique guidée en rotation par un étrier pivotant autour d'un axe.
  • La figure 2 représente une vue en élévation du dispositif de bouchage de la figure 1 avec la plaque d'obturation en position de fermeture du nouvel orifice.
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  • FIG. 1 represents a section of a closure device according to the invention, using a cylindrical or spherical sliding surface guided in rotation by a stirrup pivoting about an axis.
  • 2 shows an elevational view of the closure device of Figure 1 with the closure plate in the closed position of the new orifice.

La figure 3 représente une vue en élévation du dispositif de bouchage de la figure 1 avec la plaque d'obturation en position ouverte.3 shows an elevational view of the closure device of Figure 1 with the closure plate in the open position.

Un dispositif de bouchage 10 (fig.1 et 2) selon l'invention est constitué d'un manchon 20 comportant un canal interne 33 qui débouche d'un côté sur un moyen d'assemblage étanche du dispositif de bouchage sur le goulot 4 d'une bouteille et de l'autre côté forme un nouvel orifice 26 de la bouteille, auquel sont associés des moyens d'étanchéification.A plugging device 10 (fig. 1 and 2) according to the invention consists of a sleeve 20 comprising an internal channel 33 which opens on one side onto a means for sealingly assembling the plugging device on the neck 4 d 'a bottle and on the other side forms a new orifice 26 of the bottle, which are associated with sealing means.

On considère dans ce qui suit que la bouteille comporte un goulot 4 (fig. 1) sensiblement cylindrique avec un axe de symétrie de révolution principal. Le moyen d'assemblage étanche du manchon sur le goulot 4 de la bouteille utilise en général le même moyen de fixation du bouchon ou de la capsule qui peut être un pas de vis extérieur ou un bourrelet de clippage ou une surface cylindrique interne au goulot destinée à un bouchon ; l'étanchéité est réalisée par des moyens connus tels qu'un joint souple serré entre le manchon 20 et le bord supérieur du goulot 4 ou une jupe venant en appui sur le bord cylindrique interne du goulot.It is considered in what follows that the bottle comprises a neck 4 (fig. 1) substantially cylindrical with a main axis of symmetry of revolution. The sealed assembly means of the sleeve on the neck 4 of the bottle generally uses the same means of fixing the stopper or the capsule which may be an external screw thread or a clipping bead or a cylindrical surface internal to the neck intended to a stopper; the seal is produced by known means such as a flexible seal clamped between the sleeve 20 and the upper edge of the neck 4 or a skirt bearing on the internal cylindrical edge of the neck.

Le canal interne cylindrique de révolution 33 a un axe de symétrie 18 qui est confondu avec l'axe de symétrie de révolution principal du goulot 4.The internal cylindrical channel of revolution 33 has an axis of symmetry 18 which coincides with the main axis of symmetry of revolution of the neck 4.

Dans l'exemple, le manchon 20 est pourvu d'une surface de glissement 19 qui est un secteur de cylindre ou une portion de sphère ayant un axe de symétrie de révolution 17 sensiblement sécant et perpendiculaire à l'axe de symétrie 18 du canal interne 33 du manchon 20. Ledit nouvel orifice est défini dans ladite surface de glissement. La plaque d'obturation 21 est associée à un étrier 22 pivotant autour de l'axe de symétrie de révolution 17, par l'extrémité de ses deux bras parallèles 23 : le manchon comporte deux tourillons 24, perpendiculaires à la paroi latérale du manchon 20, sur lesquels viennent s'articuler, par un alésage 25, les extrémités des bras parallèles 23 de l'étrier 22.In the example, the sleeve 20 is provided with a sliding surface 19 which is a cylinder sector or a portion of a sphere having an axis of symmetry of revolution 17 substantially secant and perpendicular to the axis of symmetry 18 of the internal channel 33 of the sleeve 20. Said new orifice is defined in said sliding surface. The closure plate 21 is associated with a stirrup 22 pivoting about the axis of symmetry of revolution 17, by the end of its two parallel arms 23: the sleeve comprises two pins 24, perpendicular to the side wall of the sleeve 20 , on which are articulated, by a bore 25, the ends of the parallel arms 23 of the stirrup 22.

Les tourillons 24 (fig. 1 et 2) et les alésages 25 sont conformés pour définir des cames permettant de faire varier le serrage de la plaque d'obturation 21 sur la surface de glissement 19 et notamment d'augmenter le serrage lorsque le nouvel orifice 26 est obturé. Dans un perfectionnement de cette version de l'invention, notamment lorsque l'on doit obtenir une bonne étanchéité au gaz, on peut doter le nouvel orifice 26 d'un joint 27 à lèvre souple de forme sensiblement tronconique de révolution dont la grande base 29 est solidaire du bord du nouvel orifice 26 et dont la petite base 30 est légèrement au-dessus du nouvel orifice 26 lorsqu'il est ouvert ; la plaque d'obturation 21 comporte dans la zone venant recouvrir le nouvel orifice 26 une petite calotte sphérique d'un diamètre 28 de l'ordre de grandeur de celui du nouvel orifice 26 et d'un rayon de courbure de la calotte sphérique. nettement supérieur : l'alésage 25 de l'étrier 22 associé au tourillon 24 sont conformés de manière que, lors de l'obturation, la calotte sphérique de la plaque d'obturation 21 soit fermement en appui sur la petite base 30 du joint à lèvre 27 assurant une étanchéité au gaz suffisante pour permettre que lorsque la pression de gaz monte dans la bouteille ce soit elle qui, par déformation du joint à lèvre 27, l'applique de plus en plus fermement sur la calotte sphérique de la plaque d'obturation 21. Un levier de manoeuvre 31 solidaire des bras parallèles 23 de l'étrier 22 permet de placer ou d'enlever la plaque d'obturation 21 en la faisant glisser sur la surface de glissement 19.The pins 24 (fig. 1 and 2) and the bores 25 are shaped to define cams allowing the tightening of the plate to be varied shutter 21 on the sliding surface 19 and in particular to increase the tightening when the new orifice 26 is closed. In an improvement of this version of the invention, in particular when it is necessary to obtain a good gas tightness, it is possible to provide the new orifice 26 with a seal 27 with flexible lip of substantially frustoconical shape of revolution whose large base 29 is integral with the edge of the new orifice 26 and the small base 30 of which is slightly above the new orifice 26 when it is open; the closure plate 21 has in the area covering the new orifice 26 a small spherical cap with a diameter 28 of the order of magnitude of that of the new orifice 26 and a radius of curvature of the spherical cap. significantly higher: the bore 25 of the stirrup 22 associated with the pin 24 is shaped so that, during shuttering, the spherical cap of the shutter plate 21 is firmly supported on the small base 30 of the joint to lip 27 ensuring sufficient gas tightness to allow that when the gas pressure rises in the bottle, it is it which, by deformation of the lip seal 27, applies it more and more firmly to the spherical cap of the plate. shutter 21. An operating lever 31 secured to the parallel arms 23 of the stirrup 22 makes it possible to place or remove the shutter plate 21 by sliding it over the sliding surface 19.

Le dispositif de bouchage peut être notamment réalisé à partir de pièces en matière thermoplastique injectée assemblées par clivage ou par soudure.The closure device can in particular be produced from parts of injected thermoplastic material assembled by cleavage or by welding.

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  1. Closing device adaptable to a glass or thermoplastic container comprising a neck closable by a stopper forced into the neck or screwed or clipped or crimped to the side wall of the neck while compressing a seal onto the upper end of the neck, the device consisting of a sleeve (20) comprising an internal channel (33) having an axis of symmetry (18) that opens at one end on a leaktight connection of the closing device to the neck (4) of a container and at the other end in a sliding-contact surface (19) which is a sector of a cylinder or a portion of a sphere, having an axis of symmetry of revolution (17) that intersects the axis of symmetry (18) of the internal channel of the sleeve (20) at right angles, providing the bottle with a new orifice (26) that can be closed by a shut-off plate (21) connected to a caliper (22) which pivots, via the ends of its two parallel arms (23), about two journals (24) integral with the sleeve (20), on which the arms pivot by means of a bore (25), the device being characterized in that the journals (24) and the bores (25) form cams that enable the pressure of the shut-off plate (21) on the sliding-contact surface (19) to be varied and in particular the pressure of the sealing means (27) to be varied when the new orifice (26) is closed using control means (31).
  2. Closing device according to Claim 1, characterized in that a sealing means consists of a seal (27) with a flexible lip integral with the new orifice (26), shaped essentially as a frustum of a cone of revolution, while the shut-off plate (21) comprises, in the area that covers the new orifice (26), a small spherical cap with a diameter (28) roughly the same as that of the said orifice (26) and with a radius of curvature of the spherical cap that is much greater.
  3. Closing device according to Claim 1, characterized in that a control means is a lever (31) integral with the parallel arms (23) of the caliper (22).
  4. Closing device according to any one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that the closing device is produced from thermoplastic injection-moulded parts clipped or welded together.
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