EP1184296A1 - Behälter mit zumindest einem Verschluss - Google Patents

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EP1184296A1
EP1184296A1 EP01402015A EP01402015A EP1184296A1 EP 1184296 A1 EP1184296 A1 EP 1184296A1 EP 01402015 A EP01402015 A EP 01402015A EP 01402015 A EP01402015 A EP 01402015A EP 1184296 A1 EP1184296 A1 EP 1184296A1
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Nicholas Alan Timothy Colford
Frits Frederik De Jong
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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
    • B65D51/00—Closures not otherwise provided for
    • 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
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S220/00—Receptacles
    • Y10S220/916—Container including axially opposed removable closures

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  • the invention relates to a container which can be used in particular in a state weightlessness and provided with at least one sealing device.
  • US-A-2,710,387 which relates to a completely different field, describes a sealing device for an incubator allowing the passage of hands to handle a newborn baby.
  • This device consists of a disc of low thickness of deformable material (rubber for example) fragmented in several portions (strips or quarter for example) which can be deform in a plane substantially perpendicular to the shutter (towards inside or outside of the container) when passing a hand or an object.
  • To introduce an object or a hand into the container push on the slats and we spread them towards the inside of the container in order to arrange a sufficient passage between them.
  • the quarters return of themselves in an elastic manner in their shutter position to close the container. This return to the state of rest is generally quite slow because this elasticity should not be too much of an obstacle to the introduction of the object or the hand.
  • To remove the object from the container performs the reverse maneuver by spreading the slats elastically towards the outside of the container.
  • the object of the invention is therefore to solve these problems in in particular for use in weightlessness.
  • the shutter having a plane and comprising deformable closure means elastically to go from a closed rest state without external stress to an active state opened under external stress, characterized in that said obturation means are elastically deformable essentially in the plan of the shutter device.
  • the shutter device include at least one peripheral rigid support structure on which are mounted the elastically deformable means which intersect and surround a shutter member so as to tighten it.
  • the peripheral structure will preferably be a rigid frame on which the elastically deformable means will then stretched between two substantially opposite points.
  • the peripheral structure may include at least one ring having an internal diameter and a center
  • the means elastically deformable may be elastics mounted in groups of two elastic bands juxtaposed and fixed to the ring by their ends diametrically opposite.
  • the shutter member will be a sleeve of flexible material having a diameter and a length at least equal to twice this diameter, each end of the sleeve passing through each pair of elastic bands, substantially in the center of the ring, to be tightened radially in the closed state of the device or to define a single passage opening of the object in the open state of the device, the elastic then being deformed radially by the passage of said object
  • one end of the sleeve can be fixed peripherally on an external face of a second ring and the other end of said sleeve will then be fixed peripherally on one face external opposite of a first ring identical to the first, the sleeve being tightened substantially in a middle zone between each pair of elastic bands, these being mounted on one or the other of the rings which are themselves fixed by their internal faces.
  • both rings will be angularly offset from each other by twisting the sleeve axially, this angular offset is preferably about 90 °.
  • the rings are connected together by gluing or sewing.
  • the sleeve may be made of fabric.
  • the elastic bands will be of eight mounted juxtaposed in pairs and distributed so as to pass through the center of the ring which supports them by forming therein eight quarters substantially identical.
  • the elastics will be slightly under tension on their support ring in the closed state of the device.
  • the container will have a straight or curved cylinder shape and will then have a device shutter at each end. So the user can put on both hands in the container to handle objects placed inside without risk of these escape from said container.
  • FIG. 1 represents a container 1 usable in particular in weightlessness by astronauts performing for example experiments in a space station. It looks like a long tube preferably flexible and for example in fabric provided at each of its ends 3 and 5 with a shutter device 10 as described below. He also presents on his body a transparent display wall 7 allowing the manipulator to see what it is doing inside the container. The user can thus manipulate 100 tools and objects for a zero gravity experience without them escaping from the container during handling or once his hands are removed.
  • FIG. 2 a first support ring 30 belonging the closure device 10 of the invention is shown.
  • This ring 30 plan with center C and internal diameter D has a radial part on the surface internal 34 of which are fixed the ends 40a of eight elastic bands 40 of length slightly greater than D (to be easier to attach to this radial part, for example by sewing or gluing).
  • These elastic 40 are slightly stretched in their inactive state and substantially intertwine in the center C of the ring 30 with their fixing ends 40a diametrically opposite.
  • the elastic bands 40 are distributed radially so regular and mounted in four pairs of two elastic 40 juxtaposed in parallel so as to define eight substantially identical sectors.
  • a second ring 50 for supporting the shutter device 10 is shown. It also has a diameter internal D as well as a radial part on the external surface 52 of which is fixed a flexible sleeve 60 of fabric of diameter D and length L substantially equal to D, or slightly greater. This sleeve 60 serves as an organ shutter when it cooperates with the elastics 40, as we will see more far in the description.
  • FIG. 6 we see how the two rings 30 and 50, the elastic bands 40 and the sleeve 60 are arranged and interconnected axially.
  • the end 62 of the sleeve 60 is fixed on the external surface 52 of the second ring, for example by fusing or sewing.
  • Sleeve 60 then crosses the center C of the first ring 30 and passes between each pair elastic bands 40. It is at this point, substantially at the middle part M of the sleeve, that its diameter D is restricted by the elastic bands 40 so that the shutter device 10 is substantially closed.
  • the other end 64 of the sleeve 60 is then sewn or heat-bonded to the external surface 32 of the first ring 30 so that each end of the sleeve 60 is returned on either side of its middle part M.
  • the two rings 30 and 50 are then bonded together (bonding or sewing) at the internal surface 54 of the second ring and of the internal surface 34 of the first ring, of preferably after having rotated them axially in rotation by approximately 90 ° one relative to each other to twist the sleeve and improve the sealing of the device and reducing the diameter of the passage opening 45.
  • the number and the arrangement of the elastic bands can vary, but it is advised that the elastic bands of each pair are very close.
  • the shape of the device can be other than circular, even if it is a priori the simplest and most practical.
  • a square shape rectangular (or any other parallelogram)
  • a triangular shape we can plan to connect the media on each side to the opposite corner, three pairs of elastic bands.
  • the tension and the elongation coefficient of the elastics can be variable depending on the difficulty with which we want to be able to introduce (and therefore also retain) the objects inside the container.

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FR0010792A FR2813285B1 (fr) 2000-08-22 2000-08-22 Conteneur muni d'au moins un dispositif d'obturation

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