EP1289858B1 - Spender mit befestigungsorgan und umlaufender dichtung - Google Patents

Spender mit befestigungsorgan und umlaufender dichtung Download PDF

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EP1289858B1
EP1289858B1 EP01925644A EP01925644A EP1289858B1 EP 1289858 B1 EP1289858 B1 EP 1289858B1 EP 01925644 A EP01925644 A EP 01925644A EP 01925644 A EP01925644 A EP 01925644A EP 1289858 B1 EP1289858 B1 EP 1289858B1
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Dany Ray
Gilles Jourdin
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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
    • B65D83/14—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for delivery of liquid or semi-liquid contents by internal gaseous pressure, i.e. aerosol containers comprising propellant for a product delivered by a propellant
    • B65D83/38—Details of the container body
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B11/00—Single-unit hand-held apparatus in which flow of contents is produced by the muscular force of the operator at the moment of use
    • B05B11/01—Single-unit hand-held apparatus in which flow of contents is produced by the muscular force of the operator at the moment of use characterised by the means producing the flow
    • B05B11/10—Pump arrangements for transferring the contents from the container to a pump chamber by a sucking effect and forcing the contents out through the dispensing nozzle
    • B05B11/1042—Components or details
    • B05B11/1043—Sealing or attachment arrangements between pump and container
    • B05B11/1049—Attachment arrangements comprising a deformable or resilient ferrule clamped or locked onto the neck of the container by displacing, e.g. sliding, a sleeve surrounding the ferrule

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  • the present invention relates to a fluid dispenser comprising a dispensing member such as a pump or a valve, a container with a neck and an organ fixing to fix the dispensing member on the neck.
  • a dispensing member such as a pump or a valve
  • a container with a neck and an organ fixing to fix the dispensing member on the neck.
  • This kind of distributor is frequently used in the field of pharmacy, cosmetics or perfumery for dispensing fluid products for example in pulverized form.
  • a fixing member is used more commonly referred to as the fixing ring.
  • This one cooperates in general with the outside of the collar and includes a receiving housing in which the body of the pump or valve is mounted, for example, by snapping.
  • the fixing ring includes a skirt that cooperates with the outside of the collar: the most common techniques used are screwing, snapping or crimping.
  • the present invention is interested more particularly to snapping.
  • the seal can be made either at the upper end of the neck contact with the plate of the ring, either at the shoulder of the carnette.
  • the seal is axial, and it is necessary to exercise a strong traction or thrust on the ring in the axial direction of the container to achieve this seal.
  • a trim band that comes to cover the ring of attachment and serves as a pushing member to force the tabs and the ratchet heads to come in under the carnette of the collar. Therefore, the watertightness is not reached as long as the trim ring is not mounted on the fixing ring.
  • the present invention aims to overcome the disadvantages of the prior art by defining a distributor in which the fastener performs a sealing at the level neck without the need to deform the skirt or the latching lugs.
  • the present invention provides a fluid dispenser comprising a dispensing member, a container with a neck defining a surface external device, and a fastener for fixing the dispenser member on the neck, said fastener forming a skirt defining an inner wall for surrounding from the outside and to cooperate with the external peripheral surface of the neck, circumferential sealing means by radial clamping are provided at the level of said inner wall or said outer peripheral surface characterized in that the sealing means comprise a continuous annular sealing rib (15) formed on the outer peripheral surface (13) of the neck and adapted to bite into the inner wall (21) of the skirt (20).
  • the inner wall and the outer surface are substantially concentric and cylindrical. Since the sealing means are interposed between two substantially cylindrical surfaces, the seal is radial and not axial as in the prior art. It is no longer necessary to exert a push or traction on the ring to obtain an effective seal.
  • the sealing means therefore fulfill a dual function, namely that intrinsic sealing, and that of fastening means for effective attachment of the skirt on the outside of the collar. We can be completely without ratchet heads or a ratchet cord to achieve the fixing of the ring on the neck. We can also do without a trained collar with a reinforced part or carnette. As a result, the design of the collar and neck is much simpler.
  • the neck of the container is preferably made of a material harder than the skirt of the fastener so that the continuous annular sealing rib penetrates into the inner wall of the skirt flowing the material of the skirt to this place.
  • the rib forms an annular seal and at the same time achieves effective fastening of the skirt on the neck.
  • the sealing means constitute fastening means of the skirt on the collar.
  • the fixing member 2 which is generally made of molded plastic, comprises a detent housing 25 for snap-fitting the body of a valve or pump (not shown).
  • This latching housing 25 is extended on its outer periphery by a plate 22 intended to come into contact with the end upper 14 of the neck 10.
  • the outer periphery of the plate 22 is connected to a skirt 20 which extends downwards but can also extend upward as shown on the FIGS.
  • the downwardly extending portion of the skirt 20 has an inner wall 20 for to cooperate with the external surface of the neck 10.
  • a covering band 3 covers the body of fixing 2 so that it is not visible.
  • the fastener has only one function aesthetic in the present invention.
  • the neck 10 of the container 1 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 is of a known general type forming a reinforced portion or carnette 11 which protrudes radially inwardly at level of the upper outside of the neck 10.
  • the carnette 11 has a peripheral surface external 13 which is substantially cylindrical in shape.
  • the carnette also forms a shoulder 12 which is the connection between the surface 13 and the part of the neck 10 below of the carnette.
  • This is a particular well-known type of container neck shape. It is however, it is possible to use a container with a neck that does not have a carnette for embodiment of FIGS. 1 and 2. In this case, the external surface of the neck 10 can be perfectly cylindrical to its upper end.
  • the inner wall 21 of the skirt 20 of the fastener 2 cooperates with the surface external device 13 of the notebook 11. It is the same of the lower surface of the tray 22 which comes into contact with the upper end 14 of the neck 10.
  • the inner wall 21 of the skirt 20 at the level of the carnette is also substantially cylindrical so that the wall and the surface 13 come into mutual contact.
  • sealing means are provided at the surface external device of the carnette 11, that is to say at the inner wall 21 of the skirt 20 at the level of the carnette 11.
  • This rib 15, of rounded shape in FIG. 1 may, however, be any profile allowing effective attachment in the inner wall 21 of the skirt 20. It is possible to example imagine a rib profile shaped stopper to achieve a fixation by harpooning.
  • a rib profile shaped stopper to achieve a fixation by harpooning.
  • only one rib 15 is shown in the figure 1, one can of course imagine other embodiments with more than one rib performed at the outer peripheral surface 13 of the carnette.
  • the neck of the container is preferably made of a material harder than that of the fixing member so that the rib 15 is not deformed during assembly of the fastener 2 on the neck.
  • the inner wall 21 of the skirt 20 which undergoes a deformation, for example by creep of material around the rib 15 in end position shown in Figure 1.
  • the container may be made of glass and the plastic fastener.
  • the rib 15 which serves as a sealing means also serves as fastening means of the skirt on the collar.
  • the constituent plastic of the fixing member 2 has a tendency to flow around the rib 15 and to make a fixation effective at this location. Fixing and sealing are therefore achieved by clamping radial and no longer by traction or thrust as is the case in the prior art. It is not therefore not necessary to provide any fixing means at the wall 21 of the skirt 20 below the shoulder of the carnette 12 as the heads or detent cord of the prior art.
  • the ring can therefore have a very simple perfectly cylindrical and the outer wall of the neck 10. Indeed, the rib 15 can very well be formed on a neck of the perfectly cylindrical container that is to say without carnette 11.
  • FIG. 2 differs from the previous one in that the rib 15 formed by the neck 10 is replaced by a seal 4 disposed in a housing 23 formed in the wall 21 of the skirt 20.
  • the seal 4 is fixed in the housing 23 by any what technique, such as overmolding, gluing, or snapping into force.
  • the surface external device 13 of the carnette 11 can be perfectly cylindrical so that the seal 4 comes crashing against the surface 13, but preferably the peripheral surface is formed with a recess 16 of substantially complementary shape to the gasket 4 so that the seal 4 can be housed inside the recess 16. It is of course necessary that the seal 4 be somewhat compressed inside the recess 16 for achieve a perfect seal at this level.
  • the seal 4 does not fill only one sealing function but also fixing by coming to lodge inside of the recess 16. Again, it is not necessary to provide fixing means particular at the level of the skirt 20 below the carnette 11. Similarly, it is not necessary that the neck of the container is provided with a carnette.
  • FIG. 3 there is shown a third embodiment which is not part of the invention.
  • a fastener The inner wall 21 of the skirt 20 is here provided with a gasket 5 which extends substantially over the height of the carnette, that is to say the height of the surface external device 13.
  • the skirt 20 also forms a ratchet 24 for engage under the carnette 11 that is to say at the level of its shoulder 12.
  • the seal can be held in place in the ring by gluing by overmoulding or snapping in strength.
  • the seal is radial, which of course contributes to the fixation that however, is completed by the presence of the snap-in bead 24 engaged under the Note, however, that the engagement of the ratchet cord 24 does not contribute to achieve sealing at the joint 5 as is the case of years art prior.
  • the seal 5 fulfills its sealing function by itself and the ratchet cord 24 serves only to complete the fixation on the neck of the container.
  • peripheral sealing means are always integral with either the neck (rib 15 formed directly by the neck) of the skirt (joints 4 and 5).
  • solidarity it is meant that the sealing means make part of the neck or skirt, either by being integrally formed or by being reported, glued, inserted and / or overmolded.

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  1. Fluidspender, aufweisend ein Spenderorgan, ein Behältnis (1) mit einem Hals (10), der eine Außenumfangsfläche (13) festlegt, und ein Befestigungsorgan (2) zur kraftbetätigten verspannfreien Montage zur Festlegung des Spendeorgans an dem Hals, wobei das Befestigungsorgan eine Schürze (20) bildet, welche eine Innenwandung (21) festlegt, die dazu bestimmt ist, die Außenseite zu umgeben und mit der Außenumfangswandung (13) des Halses (10) zusammen zu wirken, Umfangsdichtungsmittel (15; 4; 5) zur Radialverspannung, die auf Höhe der Innenwandung (21) oder der Außenumfangsfläche (13) vorgesehen sind, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Dichtungsmittel eine kontinuierliche ringförmige Dichtungsrippe (15) umfasst, die auf der Außenumfangsfläche (13) des Halses gebildet und dazu ausgelegt ist, in der Innenwandung (21) der Schürze (20) zum Eingriff zu gelangen.
  2. Fluidspender nach Anspruch 1, wobei die Innenwandung (21) und die Außenfläche (13) im wesentlichen konzentrisch und zylindrisch sind.
  3. Fluidspender nach einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, wobei die Dichtungsmittel (15; 4; 5) Mittel zur Befestigung der Schürze (20) am Hals (10) bilden.
  4. Fluidspender nach Anspruch 1, wobei die Außenumfangsfläche im wesentlichen zylindrisch ist, wobei die Dichtungsrippe in Richtung auf die Außenseite in Bezug auf die Außenfläche vorspringt.
  5. Fluidspender nach Anspruch 1, wobei mehrere Dichtungsrippen vorgesehen sind.
  6. Fluidspender nach Anspruch 1, wobei die Dichtungsrippe ein Verankerungsprofil aufweist.
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FR0007019A FR2809714B1 (fr) 2000-05-31 2000-05-31 Distributeur a organe de fixation a etancheite peripherique
PCT/FR2001/001146 WO2001092132A1 (fr) 2000-05-31 2001-04-13 Distributeur a organe de fixation a etancheite peripherique

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