EP1172303B1 - Verschlusskappe mit einer plissierten Schürze und Dichtung für kohlensäurehaltige Getränkeflasche - Google Patents

Verschlusskappe mit einer plissierten Schürze und Dichtung für kohlensäurehaltige Getränkeflasche Download PDF

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EP1172303B1
EP1172303B1 EP01401807A EP01401807A EP1172303B1 EP 1172303 B1 EP1172303 B1 EP 1172303B1 EP 01401807 A EP01401807 A EP 01401807A EP 01401807 A EP01401807 A EP 01401807A EP 1172303 B1 EP1172303 B1 EP 1172303B1
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Georges Hardy
Michel Hubert
Pierre Tixier
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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
    • 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
    • B65D41/02—Caps or cap-like covers without lines of weakness, tearing strips, tags, or like opening or removal devices
    • B65D41/10—Caps or cap-like covers adapted to be secured in position by permanent deformation of the wall-engaging parts
    • B65D41/12—Caps or cap-like covers adapted to be secured in position by permanent deformation of the wall-engaging parts made of relatively stiff metallic materials, e.g. crown caps

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  • the present invention relates to a capsule according to the preamble of claim 1. She has some applications in the field of sealing bottles soft drink and more specifically in the champagne and sparkling wines.
  • the shutter device is impermeable to liquids as well as gases and this to all stages of "foaming" and maturing of the drink.
  • the pressure rise is due to the carbon dioxide which is produced by a fermentation process initiated by the introduction into a white wine called “still wine”, sugar, yeast and bentonite. This process which ends when the yeasts have consumed the sugar, leaves a residue in the form of a deposit or lees.
  • the sealing device must therefore be watertight both start of fermentation to prevent oxygen or other environmental substances cannot get into the bottle, only after the pressure build-up, in order to prevent the gas carbon dioxide and / or the liquid cannot escape or only oxygen cannot penetrate by permeability of the obturation device.
  • This sealing must also be able to be ensured over periods of times which can be very long, the bottles can be stored for ten years or more.
  • GB-788.210 discloses a capsule according to the preamble of claim 1, improvements on or in relationship with bottle closures which for the purpose improve bottleneck hygiene, offers coverage plastic extending widely over the neck, a capsule set on a ring bordering the neck opening ensuring immobilization of the cover which overflows from the capsule.
  • FR-1.380.389 on knows a closure system for glass bottles allowing, with a crimped cap, to refill the bottle after opening.
  • the capsule has a skirt that hooks by crimping on a distal edge of a ring and a counter-ring.
  • the skirt has recesses or notches offset by 120 ° in order to lift at the opening a specific sector of the skirt.
  • a gasket is confined to the opening of the neck.
  • the present invention therefore proposes to improve the characteristics of known devices with a capsule according to claim 1.
  • the present invention therefore makes it possible to improve the resistance and sealing the shutter thanks to the increase in surface of contact between the seal and the external surface of the neck and thanks to the use of an elastomeric material which has qualities particularly interesting mechanical and chemical inertia.
  • the use of metal to make the capsule is particularly interesting in the case of a bottom capsule convex and for the application of cryogenic techniques of solidification and elimination of deposits or lees because the metal is a good thermal conductor.
  • the volume of drink that is eliminated with the lees is reduced and the losses thus reduced.
  • Figures 1A and 1B show a sealing device known from the state of the art.
  • This device is a capsule 6 to pleated skirt intended to be set on a neck 1 of a bottle in order to close the opening 5 of said bottle.
  • Bottleneck 1 is conventionally formed of an external surface comprising several contiguous parts which are, from the opening 5 of the neck, an edge circular 2 surrounding the opening 5, continuing with a ring 3 then by a counter-ring 4.
  • the capsule 6 is formed of a shell 7 made of metal comprising two main parts: a bottom 11 and a pleated skirt 12.
  • the bottom 11 is intended to come opposite the opening 5 and the circular edge 2.
  • the bottom 11 continues peripherally by a pleated skirt 12 which is intended to come opposite the ring 3.
  • the capsule 6 has internally at bottom level 11 a joint 8 of agglomerated cork covered with layer 9 of material or "spot".
  • a plastic cover called “contraption” 10 is also put in action.
  • the “bidule” 10 is intended to receive deposits or lees when the bottle is turned over and stored, neck towards the low.
  • Figure 1B shows the capsule and the “widget” in Figure 1A positioned on the neck of a bottle to ensure its Shutter.
  • a skirt of the state of the art has a height of about 7 mm while the skirt according to the invention may, for example, have a height included between 12 and 13 mm.
  • FIG. 2 a capsule 13 according to a first mode of implementation with a flat bottom 16 and which is crimped onto a bottle neck 1.
  • This capsule 13 which is produced from of a metal shell 17, has a pleated skirt 14 whose end free device descends to the level of the counter ring 4.
  • a seal 15 of elastomeric material disposed on the internal surface of the capsule 13 ensures the sealing by contact on the surface outside of the neck to the level of the free edge, or even overflow, pleated skirt 14.
  • the contact area between the neck and the joint is particularly extensive and concerns the circular edge 2 as the ring 3 and the counter-ring 4.
  • the seal 15 in elastomeric material is therefore compressed by the capsule 13 against the external surface of the neck 1 and more particularly against the circular edge 2, ring 3 and counter ring 4.
  • the elastomeric material covers also the internal surface area of the bottom next to opening 5 to avoid direct contact between the metal of the capsule and drink.
  • the thickness of elastomeric material is smaller in the area of the internal surface of the bottom opposite the opening 5 and which is not not compressed against the external surface of the neck.
  • the seal doesn't need to have a particular shape, it has to essentially be bulky for power, after crimping the capsule, compressing on the external surface of the neck and sealing.
  • a shape joint is envisaged particular and, for example, a rough imprint shape ring and counter ring.
  • Such a capsule can also be used with the "Contraption" known from the state of the art.
  • the capsule 13 'crimped on a neck is shaped so as to include a lees tank.
  • the capsule 13 ′ has a bottom 16 ′ curved outwards by compared to the bottleneck.
  • the 13 'capsule is made from a 17 'metal shell.
  • the bottom 16 'delimiting the lees tank continues at the periphery with a 14 'pleated skirt of a height such that its free peripheral end reaches the counter-ring 4 of the neck 1.
  • a seal 15 'of elastomeric material is arranged on the inner surface of the capsule 13 'so sealing the assembly.
  • the joint 15 ' is compressed by the capsule 13' against the external surface of the neck and more particularly against the circular edge 2, the ring 3 and the counter ring 4.
  • the elimination of lees does not require the use of a “contraption”.
  • the use of such a capsule with the method freezing the lees is particularly interesting because the cold is much more effectively transmitted by the metallic shell with lees and liquids at the bottom 16 'forming a lees reservoir with respect to the known devices of the state of the art where the cold must also pass through the neck 1 and the "contraption" which is made of plastic and therefore not very conductive heat.
  • the reservoir capsule of Figure 3 which is shown in section, allows to visualize a tank which has faces substantially flat which can facilitate the holding of the bottle, upside down, vertically or inclined according to the plane of the face of the tank implemented.
  • other forms are being considered including a cylindrical tank shape with cap hemispherical.
  • the size of the tank allows its introduction into the base of a another bottle in order to be able to “thread” bottles inside each other.
  • Figure 4 shows an uncrimped capsule 13 and corresponding to the crimped capsule shown in Figure 2.
  • the seal 15 has a thickness of material upper opposite the areas of contact with the neck and in particular at the level of the circular edge 2 of the ring 3 and the counter-ring 4 of the neck 1, with respect to the zone of the facing bottom of the opening.
  • the folds of the pleated skirt 14 are filled with elastomeric material.
  • elastomeric material such a case can arise for a seal which is manufactured in situ in the capsule.
  • the seal although continuous and in continuous contact with the external surface of the neck, does not fill all the space between the internal surface of the capsule and the neck, that is to say that the folds do not are not necessarily filled with elastomeric material.
  • Such a case can arise for an added seal which is introduced into the metal shell.
  • this joint surface can have the general shape of the neck and / or present areas where the material is more or less thick according to the constraints which will be created there after crimping.
  • the skirt having a general shape substantially in a truncated cone after crimping and the external surface of the neck being bypassed, the distribution of stresses in the material elastomeric may be irregular.
  • the dimensions indicated in this document are to relate to the dimensions of a standard neck as defined in the document from the National Institute of Bottling dated 31 March 1986 page 4 in the fact sheet concerning the ring crown 29 of Champagne. They are therefore indicative and depend on the dimensions of the neck which receives the capsule.

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  1. Verschlusskapsel (13, 13') mit Dichtung zum Verschließen der Öffnung (5) eines Flaschenhalses (1) des Typs Champagnerflaschenhals einer Flasche für ein kohlensäurehaltiges Getränk, die aus einem Material hergestellt ist, wobei der Flaschenhals eine Außenfläche mit einem kreisförmigen Rand (2) aufweist, der die Öffnung (5) umgibt und sich seitlich durch einen Ring (3), der einen seitlichen kreisförmigen Materialwulst bildet, und sich dann durch einen Gegenring (4), der einen seitlichen kreisförmigen Materialwulst bildet und eine zurückgesetzte kreisförmige Materialzone zwischen den beiden Wülsten freilässt, fortsetzt, wobei die Kapsel (13, 13') einen Boden (10) und am Umfang des Bodens (10) eine plissierte Einsetzschürze (14, 14') umfasst, die sich kranzförmig zwischen dem Boden und einem freien Rand erstreckt, wobei der Boden eine Innenfläche aufweist, die dazu bestimmt ist, gegenüber der Öffnung (5) und dem kreisförmigen Rand (2) des Flaschenhalses angeordnet zu werden, und wobei die Schürze eine Innenfläche aufweist, die dazu bestimmt ist, gegenüber der Außenfläche des Flaschenhalses nach dem Aufsetzen der Kapsel auf dem Flaschenhals angeordnet zu werden, wobei die Dichtung (15) aus Elastomermaterial besteht und zwischen der Kapsel und dem Flaschenhals angeordnet ist,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass, wenn die Kapsel auf dem Flaschenhals aufgesetzt ist, die Schürze (14, 14') den Ring (3) und die zurückgesetzte Materialzone bedeckt, wobei der freie Rand der Schürze den Gegenring (4) erreicht, und dass die Anordnung des Elastomermaterials in Höhe des Bodens und der Schürze (14, 14') derart ist, dass die Dichtung (15) an die gesamte Außenfläche des Flaschenhalses bis mindestens zur Höhe des freien Randes der Schürze angelegt wird.
  2. Kapsel nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Menge an Elastomermaterial derart ist, dass die Dichtung (15) das gesamte Volumen, das von der Außenfläche des Flaschenhalses und der Innenfläche der Schürze begrenzt ist, bis mindestens zu ihrem freien Rand ausfüllt, wobei die Plisseefalten der Schürze mit Material gefüllt sind.
  3. Kapsel nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Menge an Elastomermaterial derart ist, dass die Dichtung (15) über den freien Rand der Schürze hinausragt, wenn die Kapsel (13, 13') auf dem Flaschenhals aufgesetzt wird.
  4. Kapsel nach einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Dicke des Elastomermaterials der Dichtung (15) in Höhe des Bodens der Kapsel (13, 13') in der Dichtungszone geringer ist, die nicht dazu bestimmt ist, mit der Auβenfläche des Flaschenhalses in Kontakt zu kommen.
  5. Kapsel nach einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Boden (16) der Kapsel (13) flach ist.
  6. Kapsel nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Boden (16') der Kapsel (13') nach außen ausgebaucht ist, um einen Behälter zum Auffangen des Bodensatzes zu bilden.
  7. Kapsel nach einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sie metallisch ist.
  8. Kapsel nach einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Elastomermaterial aus den Elastomeren für Kontakt mit Lebensmitteln, Kautschuk oder Silikon ausgewählt wird.
  9. Kapsel nach einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass im Falle einer Flasche, die vertikal angeordnet ist und einen Flaschenhals aufweist, der eine Öffnung mit einem Durchmesser von 17,4 +/- 0,3 mm, einen Rand mit einer Breite in der Horizontalen von 4, 1 mm +/- 0,1 mm, einen Ring mit einer Höhe in der Vertikalen von 3,85 mm +/- 0,15 mm und einen Gegenring mit einer Höhe in der Vertikalen von 7 mm +/- 0,1 mm umfasst, wobei der Gegenring in einem Abstand zum Rand in der Vertikalen von ungefähr 10 mm angeordnet ist, der Boden der Kapsel einen Durchmesser in der Horizontalen von 26,6 mm +/- 0,3 mm aufweist und die Schürze eine Höhe in der Vertikalen zwischen 12 mm und 13 mm +/- 0,3 mm aufweist.
  10. Kapsel nach einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass im Falle einer Kapsel (13'), die einen ausgebauchten Boden (16') umfasst, dieser ausgebauchte Boden ein annäherndes Volumen zwischen 2 und 3 Milliliter begrenzt.
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