EP1284163A1 - Container - Google Patents
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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
- B65D75/00—Packages comprising articles or materials partially or wholly enclosed in strips, sheets, blanks, tubes, or webs of flexible sheet material, e.g. in folded wrappers
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- B65D75/58—Opening or contents-removing devices added or incorporated during package manufacture
- B65D75/5861—Spouts
- B65D75/5872—Non-integral spouts
- B65D75/5877—Non-integral spouts connected to a planar surface of the package wall
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
- B05C—APPARATUS FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
- B05C17/00—Hand tools or apparatus using hand held tools, for applying liquids or other fluent materials to, for spreading applied liquids or other fluent materials on, or for partially removing applied liquids or other fluent materials from, surfaces
- B05C17/005—Hand tools or apparatus using hand held tools, for applying liquids or other fluent materials to, for spreading applied liquids or other fluent materials on, or for partially removing applied liquids or other fluent materials from, surfaces for discharging material from a reservoir or container located in or on the hand tool through an outlet orifice by pressure without using surface contacting members like pads or brushes
- B05C17/00583—Hand tools or apparatus using hand held tools, for applying liquids or other fluent materials to, for spreading applied liquids or other fluent materials on, or for partially removing applied liquids or other fluent materials from, surfaces for discharging material from a reservoir or container located in or on the hand tool through an outlet orifice by pressure without using surface contacting members like pads or brushes the container for the material to be dispensed being deformable
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
- B05C—APPARATUS FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
- B05C17/00—Hand tools or apparatus using hand held tools, for applying liquids or other fluent materials to, for spreading applied liquids or other fluent materials on, or for partially removing applied liquids or other fluent materials from, surfaces
- B05C17/005—Hand tools or apparatus using hand held tools, for applying liquids or other fluent materials to, for spreading applied liquids or other fluent materials on, or for partially removing applied liquids or other fluent materials from, surfaces for discharging material from a reservoir or container located in or on the hand tool through an outlet orifice by pressure without using surface contacting members like pads or brushes
- B05C17/00586—Means, generally located near the nozzle, for piercing or perforating the front part of a cartridge
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
- B05C—APPARATUS FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
- B05C17/00—Hand tools or apparatus using hand held tools, for applying liquids or other fluent materials to, for spreading applied liquids or other fluent materials on, or for partially removing applied liquids or other fluent materials from, surfaces
- B05C17/005—Hand tools or apparatus using hand held tools, for applying liquids or other fluent materials to, for spreading applied liquids or other fluent materials on, or for partially removing applied liquids or other fluent materials from, surfaces for discharging material from a reservoir or container located in or on the hand tool through an outlet orifice by pressure without using surface contacting members like pads or brushes
- B05C17/01—Hand tools or apparatus using hand held tools, for applying liquids or other fluent materials to, for spreading applied liquids or other fluent materials on, or for partially removing applied liquids or other fluent materials from, surfaces for discharging material from a reservoir or container located in or on the hand tool through an outlet orifice by pressure without using surface contacting members like pads or brushes with manually mechanically or electrically actuated piston or the like
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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
- B65D83/00—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents
- B65D83/0055—Containers or packages provided with a flexible bag or a deformable membrane or diaphragm for expelling the contents
- B65D83/0072—Containers or packages provided with a flexible bag or a deformable membrane or diaphragm for expelling the contents the contents of a flexible bag being expelled by a piston or a movable bottom or partition provided in the container or the package
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- the present invention relates to a container for accommodating a fluid with high viscosity such as adhesives including various sealants. More specifically, the present invention relates to a container suitable for extruding its content therefrom in a predetermined amount by use of a known extruder such as an extruding gun.
- An adhesive such as a sealant including a silicone sealant is generally distributed in a market in a state where it is accommodated in a cartridge 81 constituted by an injection molded body made of resin having a cross-section such as shown in Fig. 8.
- the adhesive is extruded in a predetermined amount by use of an extruding gun 82 commercially available under a name of a caulking gun having an external view such as shown in Fig. 9(A), and a cross-section of the main portion such as shown in Fig. 9(B).
- the cartridge 81 has a structure in which a cylindrical outlet 812 is formed at one end portion of a cylindrical body 811, and a movable bottom 813 which is slidable along an inner surface of the cylindrical body 811 is provided at the other end portion.
- An opening at an inside of the outlet 812 is sealed with an aluminum foil 814.
- the aluminum foil 814 is torn away and removed before use.
- a male thread 812a is formed at an outer peripheral surface of the outlet 812.
- a nozzle (not shown) which is a cylindrical body in the shape of cone is screwed into the male thread 812a. Then, the nozzle is cut at a position where a desired opening diameter is obtained, and the cartridge 81 is mounted to the extruding gun.
- the extruding gun 82 shown as an example in Fig. 9, is of a hermetically closed type, and is mainly constituted by: a cylinder 821 both ends of which are opened; a cover 822 removably mounted at one end of the cylinder 821 and formed with a small opening 822a; a piston 823 movably provided within the cylinder 821; a trigger system 824 for moving the piston 823; a support member 825 for supporting a rod of the piston 823 and the trigger system 824 and for blocking the other end side of the cylinder 821.
- the reference numeral 826 denotes a guide fitted so as to be relatively movable with respect to the rod of the piston 823.
- the cover 822 is removed and the cartridge 81 is inserted into the cylinder 821 in such a manner that the outlet 812 thereof is directed to the side of the cover 822. After that, the cover is mounted and the outlet 812 is projected to the outside through the small opening 822a of the cover 822.
- the trigger 824 is operated to move the piston 823 toward the cover 822. Thereby, the piston 823 pushes the movable bottom 813, so as to extrude the content such as a sealant from the cartridge 81 through the outlet 812.
- extruding gun of a hermetically closed type having a cylindrical cylinder 821 such as shown in Fig. 9, also commercially available is an extruding gun of an open type having a semi-cylindrical extruding cylinder upper half section of which is opened.
- the conventional cartridge 81 such as described above has a problem as follows.
- the volume of the cartridge remains unchanged even after its content is run out, and therefore, high cost is required for treating the empty cartridge based on the container recycling law.
- it is required to hermetically attach the movable bottom 813 to the inside of the cylindrical body 811 with the outlet 812 integrally formed. This causes a problem of high production cost is required.
- An object of the present invention is to provide a container which, as compared with a conventional cartridge, can be more easily treated when its content is run out, resulting in largely cutting off the cost required for treating the empty container, and which can be produced at remarkably lower cost, and also which is capable of extruding the content such as a sealant at the same workability as a conventional cartridge, when used by use of a conventional extruding gun.
- an extruding outlet (may be called spout) 2 including an extruding nozzle 22 is attached at one end portion of a pouch 1 which accommodates a fluid with high viscosity such as a sealant in a hermetic state.
- the pouch 1 is perforated at the position where the extruding outlet 2 is attached to the pouch 1.
- the content can be extruded at the same workability as a conventional rigid cartridge by use of a conventional extruding gun.
- the volume of the container after the content is run out can be reduced to the size of about a several tens of a conventional cartridge.
- Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a container of the present invention before mounted to an extruding gun;
- Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view showing the vicinity of an extruding outlet unit 2 according to an embodiment shown in Fig. 1;
- Fig 3 is a explanatory structural diagram showing a pouch 1 used in an embodiment of the present invention, where Fig. 3(A) is a front view showing a state where no content is accommodated, and Fig. 3(B) is a cross-sectional view along the line B-B of Fig. 3(A);
- Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the main portion showing the state where the container is mounted in an extruding gun according to an embodiment of the present invention
- Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing another exemplary structure of extruding device for extruding the content from the container according to an embodiment of the present invention
- Fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view showing an exemplary structure of a cover 23 which has a function of perforating a pouch and is effective when accompanied with the container according to an embodiment of the present invention
- Fig. 7 is a diagram for illustrating another explanatory structure of an extruding outlet according to the present invention, and is a cross-sectional view of an extruding outlet in which a flange section to be attached to a pouch and an extruding nozzle are integrally formed;
- Fig. 8 is a cross-sectional view showing an exemplary structure of a cartridge for accommodating an adhesive such as a sealant in a freely extrudable manner;
- Fig. 9 is a diagram for illustrating a structure of a commercially available extruding gun for extruding a content from the cartridge shown in Fig. 8, where Fig. 8(A) is an external view thereof, and Fig. 8(B) is a cross-sectional view of a main portion thereof.
- the present invention provides a container for accommodating a fluid with high viscosity such as an adhesive, and for extruding the fluid in a predetermined amount in each time by use of an extruder, comprising:
- the pouch accommodates a content in a hermetically encapsulated state, and when used, the pouch is perforated at a position inside the cylindrical section of the extruding outlet base body after its base body is attached to the pouch.
- the container may accompany a cup-shaped cover having a female thread for engaging the male thread of the cylindrical section of the extruding outlet base body.
- the cover includes a piercing stick which is integrally formed on an inner bottom surface of the cover and is forced into the base body to perforate the pouch after the extruding outlet base body is attached to the pouch.
- the container of the present invention may include, instead of the extruding outlet constituted by the outlet extruding base body having the flange section to be attached to the pouch, and the extruding nozzle, an extruding nozzle integrally formed with a flange section which is to be attached to the pouch and is formed at the end section of a cone-shaped cylindrical body.
- the film-shaped material for constituting the pouch preferably is a laminated film including a gas barrier layer or a water vapor barrier layer constituted by at least one of the layers including an aluminum foil layer, a transparent deposited polyethylene telephthalate resin layer, a transparent deposited polyamide resin layer, a composite prestretched polyamide resin layer, a composite prestretched polypropylene resin layer, and an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer resin layer.
- the shape of the pouch used in the present invention is not specifically limited. However, a pouch in the shape of a bottom of a ship formed by attaching two rectangular films to each other at their end portions via the film having the shape of the bottom of ship (see Fig. 3), or a known standing pouch can be used under good handling characteristics and workability.
- the present invention attains its objective by accommodating a sealant into, instead of a conventional cartridge in which a movable bottom surface is provided within a rigid cylindrical body, a pouch having flexibility as a whole, and by attaching an extruding outlet to one end portion of the pouch.
- a fluid with high viscosity in this invention may be a sealant or an adhesive having a viscosity in the range of about 4000 centipoise (cP) to 1,000,000 cP.
- a modified silicone base adhesive is known to have a viscosity of 5000 cP.
- a modified silicone sealant is known to have a viscosity of 300000 cP.
- other selants or adhesives avairable in the market may be applied to the container of the present invention.
- a fluid with high viscosity is accommodated into a soft container such as a pouch constituted by forming a film-shaped material into the shape of a bag.
- the pouch is filled with the fluid and sealed by heat sealing.
- An extruding outlet including an extruding nozzle of the same type as that used in a conventional cartridge is attached to an end portion of the pouch, and the pouch is perforated at the position where the extruding outlet is attached. Then, the pouch is deformed by a piston by use of a conventional extruding gun of hermetically closed type.
- the fluid with high viscosity such as a sealant, which is a content filling the container, can be extruded in a predetermined amount in each time at the same workability as a conventional extruding gun.
- substantially all the amount of the content can be extruded with no content remaining in the container. The experiment affirmed the above.
- the container of the present invention has a main body which is a soft or flexible pouch, the volume of the empty container after all the amount of the content has been extruded is remarkably small, as compared with the a conventional rigid cartridge. As a result, a cost required for treating the empty container can be largely cut off, and the cost for producing the container also can be largely lowered.
- the pouch for accommodating a content such as a sealant is hermetically closed in an unused state.
- the pouch is perforated at an inside of the extruding outlet to allow the content to be extruded therefrom.
- the pouch can be perforated by use of any instrument. For example, onto an inner bottom surface of the cover which is engaged with the extruding outlet base body attached to the pouch so as to mount the extruding nozzle thereon, a piercing stick for perforating the pouch when the cover is engaged with the extruding outlet base body is integrally formed.
- the extruding outlet base body and the extruding nozzle to be forced thereinto are used.
- they may be integrally formed into one piece unit, that is, an extruding outlet in which a flange section to be attached to the pouch is integrally formed with the end section of the extruding nozzle made of a cone-shaped cylindrical body.
- the pouch may be perforated by use of a long instrument such as a driver.
- the film-shaped material for constituting the pouch is preferably has gas barrier characteristics or water vapor barrier characteristics, in the case where the content in the pouch is an adhesive such as one part modified silicone sealant, one part urethane adhesive and one part silicone sealant
- the pouch preferably is a laminated film including a gas barrier layer or a water vapor barrier layer constituted by any one of an aluminum foil layer, a transparent deposited polyethylene telephthalate resin layer, a transparent deposited polyamide resin layer, a composite extended polyamide resin layer, a composite prestretched polypropylene resin layer, and an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer resin layer.
- the pouch may have any shapes as far as all the amount of the content can be extruded by use of an extruding gun and the like.
- a pouch in the shape of the bottom of a ship and a standing pouch in view of easiness of handling of the container and workability.
- Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing the state immediately before the container is mounted to an extruding gun according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view showing the vicinity of the extruding outlet unit 2 thereof.
- Fig. 3 is a diagram for illustrating a structure of a pouch 1, where Fig. 3 (A) is a front view showing a state where no content is accommodated, and Fig. 3(B) is a cross-sectional view along the line B-B of Fig. 3(A).
- the pouch 1 is a pouch in the shape of the bottom of a ship. As shown in Fig. 3, the pouch 1 has a structure in which an irregular hexagonal-shaped film 11c is provided to one end portions of two substantially rectangular-shaped films 11a, 11b, and the entire circumference of the film 11c is fused to the film 11a or 11b, and the films 11a and 11b are fused to each other at their both side edges.
- the fused portion is denoted by M in Fig. 3.
- a fluid with high viscosity such as a sealant is accommodated and hermetically encapsulated therein.
- the film 11c is substantially flat, and an extruding outlet base body 21, which will be described later, can be easily attached thereto.
- soft films with gas barrier characteristics or water vapor barrier characteristics may be preferably employed as materials for constituting the films 11a, 11b, and 11c.
- Specific examples thereof include: a laminated film in which an aluminum foil is used as a gas barrier layer and a water vapor barrier layer, and a stretched polyamide resin layer is laminated on one surface, while a polyethylene resin layer with low density or a unstretched polypropylene resin layer is laminated on the other surface thereof; a laminated film in which a transparent deposited polyethylene telephthalate resin layer or a transparent deposited polyamide resin layer formed by depositing ceramics and the like is used as a gas barrier layer, and a stretched polyamide resin is laminated to one surface, while a polyethylene resin layer with low density or an unstretched polypropylene resin layer is laminated to the other surface thereof; a laminated film in which a composite polyamide resin layer is used as a gas barrier layer, and
- the following films may be employed for the films 11a, 11b, and 11c: a laminated film in which a polyethylene resin layer with low density or an unstretched polypropylene resin layer is laminated on one surface of a stretched polyamide resin layer; a laminated film in which a polyethylene resin layer with low density or an unstretched polypropylene resin layer is laminated on one surface of a polyethylene telephthalate resin layer; or an laminated film in which a polyethylene resin layer with low density or an unstretched polypropylene resin layer is laminated on one surface of a stretched polypropylene resin layer.
- a content such as a sealant is kept in a hermetically encapsulated state within the pouch 1 having a structure such as described above.
- an extruding outlet unit 2 constituted by an extruding outlet base body 21 and an extruding nozzle 22 shown in Figs. 1 and 2 is provided for the pouch 1 in which the content is accommodated in a hermetically encapsulated state.
- the pouch 1 is distributed with the extruding outlet unit 2 into a market.
- the extruding outlet unit 2 is sold independently from the pouch 1.
- the extruding outlet base body 21 and the extruding nozzle 22 are respectively injection molded bodies made of resin.
- the extruding outlet base body 21 has a shape in which a flange section 21b is formed at one end portion of a cylindrical section 21a. On the surface of the flange section 21b, an adhesive layer 21c for attaching the flange section 21b to the pouch 1 is accumulated. On the outer periphery of the cylindrical section 21a, a male thread 21d is formed.
- the extruding nozzle 22 is of the same type as that attached to the cartridge which is conventionally used for accommodating a content of this kind.
- the extruding nozzle 22 as a whole has a cylindrical body in the shape of cone having an opening with large diameter at its end section. The other top end portion of the cylindrical body is closed in an unused state, and is opened when it is cut at a position which gives a diameter for allowing the content in a predetermined amount to be extruded therefrom.
- a female thread 22a for engaging the male thread 21a is formed on an inner peripheral surface of the end section of the extruding nozzle 22 .
- the extruding outlet base body 21 is attached to a substantially middle position of the film 11c at one end portion of the pouch 1 by attaching the flange section 21b to the pouch 1 via the adhesive layer 21c. After that, the inside of the extruding outlet base body 21 torn and perforated by an appropriate piercing stick and the like. In this state, the female thread 22a of the extruding nozzle 22 is screwed and fixed to the male thread 21d. At the same time, the top end portion of the extruding nozzle 22 is cut at an appropriate position to open it.
- a commercially available extruding gun 82 exemplarily shown in Fig. 9 is prepared.
- the cover 822 of the extruding gun 82 is removed, and then, the container of the present invention which has been prepared as described above is inserted into the cylinder 821.
- the cover 822 is mounted, and the extruding outlet 2 is projected to the outside through the small opening section 822a.
- This state is shown in Fig. 4 as a cross-sectional view of a main section.
- the trigger 824 is operated to move the piston 823 toward the cover 822, so that the pouch 1 is pressed within the hermetically closed cylinder 821.
- the fluid with high viscosity such as a sealant within the pouch 1 is extruded through a hole formed at the inner side of the extruding outlet 2, and then is flowed out through the top end opening section of the extruding nozzle 22. Since the pouch 1 is soft and flexible, it is deformed while forming wrinkles as the piston 823 is advanced to extrude the content. Finally, substantially all the amount of the content can be extruded.
- the pouch 1 After all the amount of the content is run out, the pouch 1 is in a thickness of about several millimeters in its original axial direction.
- the volume of the empty container is a several tens of a conventional cartridge, thereby largely cutting off the cost required for its treatment.
- a pouch having a shape of the bottom of a ship is used as the pouch 1.
- the present invention is not limited thereto, and pouches of any shapes may be employed as far as they are soft and flexible and an extruding outlet can be attached to one end portion thereof.
- pouches in known shapes such as standing pouches, tube-shaped pouches, envelope-shaped pouches, back-attached type pouches, GZ type pouches, irregular triangle-shaped pouches, and the like may be employed.
- the hermetically closed type extruding gun is used as an instrument for extruding the content from the container of the present invention. Same effect may be obtained when an extruding gun having the following structure perspective view of which is shown in Fig. 5 is used.
- a known extruding gun including a semi-cylindrical extruding cylinder 41, a piston 42 moving inside the extruding cylinder 41, and a trigger system 43 for moving the piston 42, is provided with an open/close type cover 44 for closing the opened section of the upper half section of the semi-cylindrical extruding cylinder 41.
- the piston of each of the extruding guns described above may be moved by a screw.
- the container of the present invention has a main body which is a pouch with flexibility.
- the extruding instruments and extruding methods for extruding the content therefrom are not specifically limited, and any instruments and methods other than the extruding gun such as described above may be employed.
- an instrument having two rolls between which the container is sandwiched to extrude the content therefrom may be employed.
- the content may be extruded by manually pressing the pouch.
- the cover 23 has a structure in which, in its cup-shaped inside surface opened at one end, a female thread 23a which engages the male thread 21d of the extruding outlet base body 21 is formed, and a piercing stick 23b with a sharp top end is formed in such a manner as to project from the inner bottom surface beyond the open end.
- the piercing stick 23b tears the pouch 1 to perforate the pouch 1 at the inside of the extruding outlet base body 21.
- the cover 23 is mounted to the extruding outlet base body 21 after the extruding nozzle 22 is removed. In this manner, the cover 23 serves as a cover for preventing the quality of the content from deterioration.
- the extruding outlet for extruding the content from the pouch the extruding outlet base body 21 to be attached to the pouch 1, and the extruding nozzle 22 screwed and fixed to the extruding outlet base body 21 are used.
- an integral type extruding nozzle 5 such as shown in the cross-sectional view of Fig. 7.
- a flange section 52 for attachment to the pouch 1 is integrally formed to the end section of a cone-shaped nozzle 51, and an adhesive layer 53 is accumulated to the flange section 52.
- an instrument with long length such as a driver may be used.
- the main body of the container for accommodating the fluid with high viscosity such as a sealant is a pouch constituted by forming a soft and flexible film into the shape of a bag, and the content is accommodated in the container in a hermetically encapsulated state.
- the extruding outlet is attached to one end portion of the pouch to perforate the pouch at the inside of the extruding outlet.
- the content is extruded in a predetermined amount in each time through the nozzle provided to the extruding outlet by use of a conventional extruding instrument such as an extruding gun.
- the container of the present invention can be produced at remarkably lower cost.
- the volume of the container after the content is run out can be remarkably reduced to small, resulting in largely cutting off the cost required for treating the empty container.
- the pouch is constituted by a film-shaped material which is a laminated film including a gas barrier layer or a water vapor barrier layer
- the container may be employed with no problem for accommodating the fluids such as various sealants which require the container to have gas barrier characteristics and water vapor barrier characteristics.
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- The present invention relates to a container for accommodating a fluid with high viscosity such as adhesives including various sealants. More specifically, the present invention relates to a container suitable for extruding its content therefrom in a predetermined amount by use of a known extruder such as an extruding gun.
- An adhesive such as a sealant including a silicone sealant is generally distributed in a market in a state where it is accommodated in a
cartridge 81 constituted by an injection molded body made of resin having a cross-section such as shown in Fig. 8. In an actual use, the adhesive is extruded in a predetermined amount by use of anextruding gun 82 commercially available under a name of a caulking gun having an external view such as shown in Fig. 9(A), and a cross-section of the main portion such as shown in Fig. 9(B). - The
cartridge 81 has a structure in which acylindrical outlet 812 is formed at one end portion of acylindrical body 811, and amovable bottom 813 which is slidable along an inner surface of thecylindrical body 811 is provided at the other end portion. An opening at an inside of theoutlet 812 is sealed with analuminum foil 814. Thealuminum foil 814 is torn away and removed before use. At an outer peripheral surface of theoutlet 812, amale thread 812a is formed. A nozzle (not shown) which is a cylindrical body in the shape of cone is screwed into themale thread 812a. Then, the nozzle is cut at a position where a desired opening diameter is obtained, and thecartridge 81 is mounted to the extruding gun. - The
extruding gun 82, shown as an example in Fig. 9, is of a hermetically closed type, and is mainly constituted by: acylinder 821 both ends of which are opened; acover 822 removably mounted at one end of thecylinder 821 and formed with asmall opening 822a; apiston 823 movably provided within thecylinder 821; atrigger system 824 for moving thepiston 823; asupport member 825 for supporting a rod of thepiston 823 and thetrigger system 824 and for blocking the other end side of thecylinder 821. Thereference numeral 826 denotes a guide fitted so as to be relatively movable with respect to the rod of thepiston 823. In practical use, thecover 822 is removed and thecartridge 81 is inserted into thecylinder 821 in such a manner that theoutlet 812 thereof is directed to the side of thecover 822. After that, the cover is mounted and theoutlet 812 is projected to the outside through thesmall opening 822a of thecover 822. In this state, thetrigger 824 is operated to move thepiston 823 toward thecover 822. Thereby, thepiston 823 pushes themovable bottom 813, so as to extrude the content such as a sealant from thecartridge 81 through theoutlet 812. - As to the extruding gun of a hermetically closed type having a
cylindrical cylinder 821 such as shown in Fig. 9, also commercially available is an extruding gun of an open type having a semi-cylindrical extruding cylinder upper half section of which is opened. - The
conventional cartridge 81 such as described above has a problem as follows. The volume of the cartridge remains unchanged even after its content is run out, and therefore, high cost is required for treating the empty cartridge based on the container recycling law. In addition, in theconventional cartridge 81, it is required to hermetically attach themovable bottom 813 to the inside of thecylindrical body 811 with theoutlet 812 integrally formed. This causes a problem of high production cost is required. - An object of the present invention is to provide a container which, as compared with a conventional cartridge, can be more easily treated when its content is run out, resulting in largely cutting off the cost required for treating the empty container, and which can be produced at remarkably lower cost, and also which is capable of extruding the content such as a sealant at the same workability as a conventional cartridge, when used by use of a conventional extruding gun.
- At one end portion of a pouch 1 which accommodates a fluid with high viscosity such as a sealant in a hermetic state, an extruding outlet (may be called spout) 2 including an
extruding nozzle 22 is attached. The pouch 1 is perforated at the position where the extrudingoutlet 2 is attached to the pouch 1. In this state, taking advantage of flexibility of the pouch, the content can be extruded at the same workability as a conventional rigid cartridge by use of a conventional extruding gun. The volume of the container after the content is run out can be reduced to the size of about a several tens of a conventional cartridge. - Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a container of the present invention before mounted to an extruding gun;
- Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view showing the vicinity of an
extruding outlet unit 2 according to an embodiment shown in Fig. 1; - Fig 3 is a explanatory structural diagram showing a pouch 1 used in an embodiment of the present invention, where Fig. 3(A) is a front view showing a state where no content is accommodated, and Fig. 3(B) is a cross-sectional view along the line B-B of Fig. 3(A);
- Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the main portion showing the state where the container is mounted in an extruding gun according to an embodiment of the present invention;
- Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing another exemplary structure of extruding device for extruding the content from the container according to an embodiment of the present invention;
- Fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view showing an exemplary structure of a
cover 23 which has a function of perforating a pouch and is effective when accompanied with the container according to an embodiment of the present invention; - Fig. 7 is a diagram for illustrating another explanatory structure of an extruding outlet according to the present invention, and is a cross-sectional view of an extruding outlet in which a flange section to be attached to a pouch and an extruding nozzle are integrally formed;
- Fig. 8 is a cross-sectional view showing an exemplary structure of a cartridge for accommodating an adhesive such as a sealant in a freely extrudable manner; and
- Fig. 9 is a diagram for illustrating a structure of a commercially available extruding gun for extruding a content from the cartridge shown in Fig. 8, where Fig. 8(A) is an external view thereof, and Fig. 8(B) is a cross-sectional view of a main portion thereof.
- The present invention provides a container for accommodating a fluid with high viscosity such as an adhesive, and for extruding the fluid in a predetermined amount in each time by use of an extruder, comprising:
- a pouch constituted by forming a film-shaped material into bag; and
- an extruding outlet attached to an end portion of the pouch;
- the extruding outlet including
- an extruding outlet base body constituted by a
cylindrical section having a male thread at its outer
peripheral surface, and
a flange section which is to be attached to the pouch and is formed at one end portion of the cylindrical section; and - an extruding nozzle constituted by a cone-shaped cylindrical body having a female thread for engaging the male thread on an inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical body end section.
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- The pouch accommodates a content in a hermetically encapsulated state, and when used, the pouch is perforated at a position inside the cylindrical section of the extruding outlet base body after its base body is attached to the pouch.
- In the present invention, the container may accompany a cup-shaped cover having a female thread for engaging the male thread of the cylindrical section of the extruding outlet base body. The cover includes a piercing stick which is integrally formed on an inner bottom surface of the cover and is forced into the base body to perforate the pouch after the extruding outlet base body is attached to the pouch.
- The container of the present invention may include, instead of the extruding outlet constituted by the outlet extruding base body having the flange section to be attached to the pouch, and the extruding nozzle, an extruding nozzle integrally formed with a flange section which is to be attached to the pouch and is formed at the end section of a cone-shaped cylindrical body.
- When the content to fill the container requires gas barrier characteristics, the film-shaped material for constituting the pouch preferably is a laminated film including a gas barrier layer or a water vapor barrier layer constituted by at least one of the layers including an aluminum foil layer, a transparent deposited polyethylene telephthalate resin layer, a transparent deposited polyamide resin layer, a composite prestretched polyamide resin layer, a composite prestretched polypropylene resin layer, and an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer resin layer.
- The shape of the pouch used in the present invention is not specifically limited. However, a pouch in the shape of a bottom of a ship formed by attaching two rectangular films to each other at their end portions via the film having the shape of the bottom of ship (see Fig. 3), or a known standing pouch can be used under good handling characteristics and workability.
- The present invention attains its objective by accommodating a sealant into, instead of a conventional cartridge in which a movable bottom surface is provided within a rigid cylindrical body, a pouch having flexibility as a whole, and by attaching an extruding outlet to one end portion of the pouch.
- A fluid with high viscosity in this invention may be a sealant or an adhesive having a viscosity in the range of about 4000 centipoise (cP) to 1,000,000 cP. For example, a modified silicone base adhesive is known to have a viscosity of 5000 cP. A modified silicone sealant is known to have a viscosity of 300000 cP. In the present invention, other selants or adhesives avairable in the market may be applied to the container of the present invention. Such a fluid with high viscosity is accommodated into a soft container such as a pouch constituted by forming a film-shaped material into the shape of a bag. In more detail, the pouch is filled with the fluid and sealed by heat sealing. An extruding outlet including an extruding nozzle of the same type as that used in a conventional cartridge is attached to an end portion of the pouch, and the pouch is perforated at the position where the extruding outlet is attached. Then, the pouch is deformed by a piston by use of a conventional extruding gun of hermetically closed type. In this manner, the fluid with high viscosity such as a sealant, which is a content filling the container, can be extruded in a predetermined amount in each time at the same workability as a conventional extruding gun. In addition, substantially all the amount of the content can be extruded with no content remaining in the container. The experiment affirmed the above. Since the container of the present invention has a main body which is a soft or flexible pouch, the volume of the empty container after all the amount of the content has been extruded is remarkably small, as compared with the a conventional rigid cartridge. As a result, a cost required for treating the empty container can be largely cut off, and the cost for producing the container also can be largely lowered.
- In the present invention, the pouch for accommodating a content such as a sealant is hermetically closed in an unused state. When used, the pouch is perforated at an inside of the extruding outlet to allow the content to be extruded therefrom. The pouch can be perforated by use of any instrument. For example, onto an inner bottom surface of the cover which is engaged with the extruding outlet base body attached to the pouch so as to mount the extruding nozzle thereon, a piercing stick for perforating the pouch when the cover is engaged with the extruding outlet base body is integrally formed. By providing this cover to the extruding outlet base body, in addition to the easiness of the perforation operation, the deterioration of the quality of the content can be prevented when the content is left in the container after use and is kept in the container.
- In the present invention, the extruding outlet base body and the extruding nozzle to be forced thereinto such as described above are used. Alternatively, they may be integrally formed into one piece unit, that is, an extruding outlet in which a flange section to be attached to the pouch is integrally formed with the end section of the extruding nozzle made of a cone-shaped cylindrical body. In this case, the pouch may be perforated by use of a long instrument such as a driver.
- The film-shaped material for constituting the pouch is preferably has gas barrier characteristics or water vapor barrier characteristics, in the case where the content in the pouch is an adhesive such as one part modified silicone sealant, one part urethane adhesive and one part silicone sealant In this case, the pouch preferably is a laminated film including a gas barrier layer or a water vapor barrier layer constituted by any one of an aluminum foil layer, a transparent deposited polyethylene telephthalate resin layer, a transparent deposited polyamide resin layer, a composite extended polyamide resin layer, a composite prestretched polypropylene resin layer, and an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer resin layer.
- In the present invention, the pouch may have any shapes as far as all the amount of the content can be extruded by use of an extruding gun and the like. Especially preferable are a pouch in the shape of the bottom of a ship and a standing pouch, in view of easiness of handling of the container and workability.
- Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
- Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing the state immediately before the container is mounted to an extruding gun according to an embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view showing the vicinity of the extruding
outlet unit 2 thereof. Fig. 3 is a diagram for illustrating a structure of a pouch 1, where Fig. 3 (A) is a front view showing a state where no content is accommodated, and Fig. 3(B) is a cross-sectional view along the line B-B of Fig. 3(A). - The pouch 1 is a pouch in the shape of the bottom of a ship. As shown in Fig. 3, the pouch 1 has a structure in which an irregular hexagonal-shaped
film 11c is provided to one end portions of two substantially rectangular-shapedfilms film 11c is fused to thefilm films - Into the pouch 1 having the structure described above, a fluid with high viscosity such as a sealant is accommodated and hermetically encapsulated therein. In this state, the
film 11c is substantially flat, and an extrudingoutlet base body 21, which will be described later, can be easily attached thereto. - When the container is intended to accommodate a content such as a sealant which requires a barrier characteristics against gases, soft films with gas barrier characteristics or water vapor barrier characteristics may be preferably employed as materials for constituting the
films - When the container is intended to accommodate a content which does not specifically require barrier characteristics against gases, the following films may be employed for the
films - A content such as a sealant is kept in a hermetically encapsulated state within the pouch 1 having a structure such as described above. In this embodiment, an extruding
outlet unit 2 constituted by an extrudingoutlet base body 21 and an extrudingnozzle 22 shown in Figs. 1 and 2 is provided for the pouch 1 in which the content is accommodated in a hermetically encapsulated state. The pouch 1 is distributed with the extrudingoutlet unit 2 into a market. Alternatively, the extrudingoutlet unit 2 is sold independently from the pouch 1. - The extruding
outlet base body 21 and the extrudingnozzle 22 are respectively injection molded bodies made of resin. The extrudingoutlet base body 21 has a shape in which aflange section 21b is formed at one end portion of acylindrical section 21a. On the surface of theflange section 21b, anadhesive layer 21c for attaching theflange section 21b to the pouch 1 is accumulated. On the outer periphery of thecylindrical section 21a, amale thread 21d is formed. - The extruding
nozzle 22 is of the same type as that attached to the cartridge which is conventionally used for accommodating a content of this kind. The extrudingnozzle 22 as a whole has a cylindrical body in the shape of cone having an opening with large diameter at its end section. The other top end portion of the cylindrical body is closed in an unused state, and is opened when it is cut at a position which gives a diameter for allowing the content in a predetermined amount to be extruded therefrom. On an inner peripheral surface of the end section of the extrudingnozzle 22, afemale thread 22a for engaging themale thread 21a is formed. - In use, the extruding
outlet base body 21 is attached to a substantially middle position of thefilm 11c at one end portion of the pouch 1 by attaching theflange section 21b to the pouch 1 via theadhesive layer 21c. After that, the inside of the extrudingoutlet base body 21 torn and perforated by an appropriate piercing stick and the like. In this state, thefemale thread 22a of the extrudingnozzle 22 is screwed and fixed to themale thread 21d. At the same time, the top end portion of the extrudingnozzle 22 is cut at an appropriate position to open it. - Then, a commercially available extruding
gun 82 exemplarily shown in Fig. 9 is prepared. Thecover 822 of the extrudinggun 82 is removed, and then, the container of the present invention which has been prepared as described above is inserted into thecylinder 821. Thecover 822 is mounted, and the extrudingoutlet 2 is projected to the outside through thesmall opening section 822a. This state is shown in Fig. 4 as a cross-sectional view of a main section. In this state, thetrigger 824 is operated to move thepiston 823 toward thecover 822, so that the pouch 1 is pressed within the hermeticallyclosed cylinder 821. The fluid with high viscosity such as a sealant within the pouch 1 is extruded through a hole formed at the inner side of the extrudingoutlet 2, and then is flowed out through the top end opening section of the extrudingnozzle 22. Since the pouch 1 is soft and flexible, it is deformed while forming wrinkles as thepiston 823 is advanced to extrude the content. Finally, substantially all the amount of the content can be extruded. - After all the amount of the content is run out, the pouch 1 is in a thickness of about several millimeters in its original axial direction. The volume of the empty container is a several tens of a conventional cartridge, thereby largely cutting off the cost required for its treatment.
- In the above embodiment, a pouch having a shape of the bottom of a ship is used as the pouch 1. However, the present invention is not limited thereto, and pouches of any shapes may be employed as far as they are soft and flexible and an extruding outlet can be attached to one end portion thereof. For example, pouches in known shapes such as standing pouches, tube-shaped pouches, envelope-shaped pouches, back-attached type pouches, GZ type pouches, irregular triangle-shaped pouches, and the like may be employed.
- In the above description, the hermetically closed type extruding gun is used as an instrument for extruding the content from the container of the present invention. Same effect may be obtained when an extruding gun having the following structure perspective view of which is shown in Fig. 5 is used. A known extruding gun including a
semi-cylindrical extruding cylinder 41, apiston 42 moving inside the extrudingcylinder 41, and atrigger system 43 for moving thepiston 42, is provided with an open/close type cover 44 for closing the opened section of the upper half section of thesemi-cylindrical extruding cylinder 41. Also, the piston of each of the extruding guns described above may be moved by a screw. - Furthermore, the container of the present invention has a main body which is a pouch with flexibility. The extruding instruments and extruding methods for extruding the content therefrom are not specifically limited, and any instruments and methods other than the extruding gun such as described above may be employed. For example, an instrument having two rolls between which the container is sandwiched to extrude the content therefrom may be employed. Alternatively, the content may be extruded by manually pressing the pouch.
- When the extruding
outlet unit 2 of the embodiment described above is accompanied by acover 23 such as shown in Fig. 6, further effect is obtained. Thecover 23 has a structure in which, in its cup-shaped inside surface opened at one end, afemale thread 23a which engages themale thread 21d of the extrudingoutlet base body 21 is formed, and a piercingstick 23b with a sharp top end is formed in such a manner as to project from the inner bottom surface beyond the open end. After the extrudingoutlet base body 21 is attached to the pouch 1, thecover 23 is screwed to themale thread 21d to cover thebase body 21. In this manner, the piercingstick 23b tears the pouch 1 to perforate the pouch 1 at the inside of the extrudingoutlet base body 21. In addition, when the content is left after use and is kept in the container, thecover 23 is mounted to the extrudingoutlet base body 21 after the extrudingnozzle 22 is removed. In this manner, thecover 23 serves as a cover for preventing the quality of the content from deterioration. - In the above embodiment, as the extruding outlet for extruding the content from the pouch, the extruding
outlet base body 21 to be attached to the pouch 1, and the extrudingnozzle 22 screwed and fixed to the extrudingoutlet base body 21 are used. Alternatively, it is also possible to use an integral type extruding nozzle 5 such as shown in the cross-sectional view of Fig. 7. In the integral type extruding nozzle 5, aflange section 52 for attachment to the pouch 1 is integrally formed to the end section of a cone-shapednozzle 51, and anadhesive layer 53 is accumulated to theflange section 52. In this case, in order to perforate the pouch 1 at the inside of the extruding nozzle 5 after the extruding nozzle 5 is attached to the pouch 1, an instrument with long length such as a driver may be used. - As has been described above, according to the present invention, the main body of the container for accommodating the fluid with high viscosity such as a sealant is a pouch constituted by forming a soft and flexible film into the shape of a bag, and the content is accommodated in the container in a hermetically encapsulated state. In practical use, the extruding outlet is attached to one end portion of the pouch to perforate the pouch at the inside of the extruding outlet. Taking advantage of flexibility of the pouch, the content is extruded in a predetermined amount in each time through the nozzle provided to the extruding outlet by use of a conventional extruding instrument such as an extruding gun. As compared with a conventional rigid cartridge for accommodating a content such as a sealant and the like, the container of the present invention can be produced at remarkably lower cost. At the same time, the volume of the container after the content is run out can be remarkably reduced to small, resulting in largely cutting off the cost required for treating the empty container.
- Since the pouch is constituted by a film-shaped material which is a laminated film including a gas barrier layer or a water vapor barrier layer, the container may be employed with no problem for accommodating the fluids such as various sealants which require the container to have gas barrier characteristics and water vapor barrier characteristics.
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- A container for accommodating a fluid with high viscosity such as an adhesive, and for extruding the fluid in a predetermined amount in each time by use of an extruder, comprising:a pouch constituted by forming a film-shaped material into bag; andan extruding outlet attached to an end portion of the pouch;an extruding outlet base body constituted by a cylindrical section having a male thread at its outer peripheral surface, and
a flange section which is to be attached to the pouch and is formed at one end portion of the cylindrical section; andan extruding nozzle constituted by a cone-shaped cylindrical body having a female thread for engaging the male thread on an inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical body end section,the pouch accommodating a content in a hermetically encapsulated state, and being perforated at a position inside the cylindrical section of the extruding outlet base body after its base body is attached to the pouch. - The container according to Claim 1, comprising a cup-shaped cover having a female thread for engaging the male thread of the cylindrical section of the extruding outlet base body, and the cup-shaped cover comprising a piercing stick which is integrally formed into an inner bottom surface of the cover and is forced onto the outlet base body to perforate the pouch after the extruding outlet base body is attached to the pouch.
- A container comprising, instead of the extruding outlet according to Claim 1, an extruding nozzle integrally formed with a flange section which is to be attached to the pouch and is formed at the end section of the cone-shaped cylindrical body.
- The container according to any one of Claims 1, 2, and 3, wherein the film-shaped material for constituting the pouch is a laminated film comprising a gas barrier layer or a water vapor barrier layer constituted by at least one of the layers including an aluminum foil layer, a transparent deposited polyethylene telephthalate resin layer, a transparent deposited polyamide resin layer, a composite stretched polyamide resin layer, a composite stretched polypropylene resin layer, and an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer resin layer.
- The container according to any one of Claims 1, 2, 3, and 4, wherein the pouch is a pouch in the shape of a bottom of a ship.
- The container according to any one of Claims 1, 2, 3, and 4, wherein the pouch is a standing pouch.
- A container for accommodating a fluid with high viscosity and for extruding the fluid in a predetermined amount in each time by use of an extruder, comprising:a pouch constituted by forming a film-shaped material into bag; andan extruding outlet attached to an end portion of the pouch;an extruding outlet base body constituted by a cylindrical section having a male thread at its outer peripheral surface, and
a flange section which is to be attached to the pouch and is formed at one end portion of the cylindrical section; andan extruding nozzle constituted by a cone-shaped cylindrical body having a female thread for engaging the male thread on an inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical body end section. - The container of Claim 7, with the fluid with high viscosity hermetically encapsulated therein.
- The container of Claim 7 or Claim 8, in which the fluid with high viscosity is an adhesive.
- A cup-shaped cover for the container of any one of Claims 7 to 9, comprising:a female thread for engaging the male thread of the cylindrical section of the extruding outlet base body; anda piercing stick which is integrally formed onto an inner bottom surface of the cover.
- Use of the container of any one of Claims 7 to 9, comprising:being perforated at a position inside the cylindrical section of the extruding outlet base body after its base body is attached to the pouch before practical use.
- Use of Claim 11, in which the perforation is made with the cup-shaped cover of Claim 10.
- Use of Claim 11 or 12, in which the container is left with the extruding outlet base body capped with the cup-shaped cover of Claim 10 after practical use.
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