EP1332977A1 - Fermeture de distribution et emballage muni de ladite fermeture - Google Patents

Fermeture de distribution et emballage muni de ladite fermeture Download PDF

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EP1332977A1
EP1332977A1 EP03250476A EP03250476A EP1332977A1 EP 1332977 A1 EP1332977 A1 EP 1332977A1 EP 03250476 A EP03250476 A EP 03250476A EP 03250476 A EP03250476 A EP 03250476A EP 1332977 A1 EP1332977 A1 EP 1332977A1
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John M. Shingle
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BPrex Healthcare Brookville Inc
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Owens Illinois Closure Inc
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D47/00—Closures with filling and discharging, or with discharging, devices
    • B65D47/04—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps
    • B65D47/06—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps with pouring spouts or tubes; with discharge nozzles or passages
    • B65D47/12—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps with pouring spouts or tubes; with discharge nozzles or passages having removable closures
    • B65D47/122—Threaded caps
    • B65D47/123—Threaded caps with internal parts
    • 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
    • B65D2251/00—Details relating to container closures
    • B65D2251/20—Sealing means
    • 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
    • B65D2401/00—Tamper-indicating means
    • B65D2401/15—Tearable part of the closure
    • B65D2401/25—Non-metallic tear-off strips

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  • This invention relates to a dispensing closure for application to a liquid-filled container, and to a package that incorporates such a closure closingly applied to a liquid-filled container. More particularly, this invention relates to a closure and package of the aforesaid character in which the container is filled with a consumable beverage under pressure.
  • a dispensing closure is a multi-piece closure in which the packaged beverage can be consumed, or otherwise dispensed, without removing the entire closure from the container, by manually moving an element of the closure relative to another element or other elements of the closure.
  • U.S. Patent 6,073,809 discloses a known type of dispensing closure, and the closure of the '809 patent has tamper-evident opening characteristics, which are important in the use of such closures for the packaging of consumable beverages.
  • WO 00/64774 also discloses a known dispensing closure for application to a liquid-filled container.
  • the closure of this reference is especially well-suited for application to a pressurized, liquid-filled container, for example, a container for a carbonated beverage, or a container that contains a non-carbonated beverage, such as a sport beverage, when such beverage is pressurized, when filled, under pressure of N 2 , to rigidify an associated plastic container,
  • the closure of this reference has multiple elements for sealingly dosing a container, a main closure element that need not be moved relative to the container to permit dispensing, and a top cap element that is moveable relative to the main closure element to prevent or permit dispensing, as desired.
  • Closures of the type disclosed in the aforesaid '809 patent require that the moveable closure portion, described as a push-pull portion in that reference, remain in place during dispensing of a liquid from an associated container, albeit at a different position from its position when the closure is dosed to liquid dispensing.
  • This feature is a disadvantage in a closure for application to a container for a beverage because the push-pull portion, which is usually manually manipulated, can contaminate the beverage that is being consumed or that remains in the container, by dirt on the hand of the consumer.
  • a closure of the type disclosed in the '809 patent is also prone to spraying contents of an associated container when the container is used to package a pressurized package, because the dispensing opening is not covered by a dust cover at the time of opening. Such spraying of packaged contents can be annoying to a consumer. Also, such a closure, when provided with a dust cover, is difficult to handle, because one hand is required to remove and hold the dust cover while the other hand is required to pull the pull spout for access to the contents of the container to which the closure is applied, which leaves no hand to hold the container. As many such containers are blow molded from a resilient plastic material, it is important that the container be securely grasped during dispensing to permit dispensing by squeezing of the container.
  • a closure of the type disclosed in the aforesaid WO 00/64774 reference also requires a separate dust cover when used to package a consumable beverage. This also results in the disclosed two-piece closure, in practice, becoming a three-piece closure for such a packaging application, it also presents an opportunity for such a dust cover to be discarded after first opening, and, in the case of a dispensing closure for the packaging of a pressurized beverage, such a closure is also prone to spraying packaged contents at the time of first opening.
  • the aforesaid and other problems encountered in adapting dispensing closures to the packaging of consumable beverages, especially pressurized beverages such as carbonated soft drinks and beverages packaged under N 2 pressure, are overcome by the present invention in which there is provided a closure with only two pieces, including a dust cover.
  • the closure of the present invention has a main closure element with an annular top panel, an annular skirt that depends from the top panel to closingly engage an exterior of an associated container finish and an annular spout that surrounds an opening in the top panel and extends upwardly therefrom to provide a dispensing opening for a liquid within the container through a free end of the annular spout.
  • the closure of the present invention also has, as a separate piece, a generally cup-shaped dust cover that removingly surrounds the spout of the closure element, the dust cover having a projection that depends downwardly from a top panel thereof to enter the dispensing opening of the closure element when the dust cover is in closing position relative to the closure element to thereby close the closure element to liquid dispensing in the closing position of the dust cover.
  • the present invention also resides in a package having a closure, as described above, closingly applied to a liquid-filled (except for a customary unfilled head space) container.
  • the dispensing closure of the present invention requires only two pieces, the first of which need not be removed from the container to permit dispensing, and a second piece, which must be removed from the first piece to permit dispensing, and then also reaffixed to the first piece to reclose the container.
  • the main closure element of the dispensing closure of the present invention does not have a push-pull element to permit dispensing, it is not required that a hand of a user engage the dispensing spout of the main closure element, which helps to ensure its cleanliness, and also permits a user to consume liquid from the container while securely grasping the container itself during consumption because only a single hand is required to manipulate the closure to adjust it from a closed condition to a condition in which liquid can be dispensed therefrom.
  • the dispensing closure of the present invention is applied to a container filled with a pressurized liquid, the dispensing opening from the main closure element is covered by the dust cover at the time of pressure release to prevent spraying of contents against the user, Further, if and when desired, the dispensing closure of the present invention can readily be provided with tamper-indicating properties, such as the band of the aforesaid WO 00/64774, and also, if desired, it can be provided with self-sealing properties, such as the sealing rib 16 of such reference.
  • it is an object of the present invention is to provide a closure of the aforesaid character that is very well suited for application to a container that is filled with a pressurized, consumable beverage, and to provide a package with a container that is filled with a pressurized, consumable beverage with such a closure applied thereto.
  • a dispensing closure according to the present invention is indicated generally be reference numeral 10 in Figs. 1 and 4.
  • the dispensing closure 10 is a two-piece closure that is made up of a main closure element 12, which is adapted to be applied to an upper finish portion of a container 50, which is shown in Figs. 3 and 4, and a separate dust cover element 14.
  • Each of the main closure element 12 and the dust cover element 14 is preferably molded from a suitable thermoplastic material, for example, high density polyethylene or polypropylene, by a conventional molding process, for example, compression molding or injection molding.
  • the main closure element 12 which is molded in a single piece, has an annular top panel 16 and an annular skirt 18 that depends downwardly (toward the container 50 when applied thereto) from an outer edge of the top panel.
  • the main closure element 12 also has an annular spout 20 that extends upwardly from a radially interior portion of the top panel 16, the spout 20 surrounding an opening in the top panel 16 and defining a flow or dispensing passage 22 (Fig. 4) for liquid (not shown) in the container 50 to permit the liquid to be dispensed from the container 50 without removing the main closure element 12 therefrom.
  • the spout 20 which is generally frusto-conical in shape, has an outer annular free end 24 with an opening 26 therein.
  • the interior of the skirt 18 of the main closure element 12 is provided with an inwardly projecting and helically extending thread 28 (Fig. 4) by which the main closure element 12 can be removeably applied to a neck or finish portion 52 of the container 50, which has an outwardly projecting and helically extending thread 54 that is complimental to the thread 28 of main closure element 12.
  • the main closure element 12 may be removably secured to the container 50 in various other ways, for example, by a snap fit, as is understood in the art.
  • a lower margin of the skirt 18 is provided with a disengageable band 30 that engages an outwardly projecting bead 56 on the finish 52 of the container 50, below the helical thread 54, when the main closure element 12 is securely applied to the container 50.
  • the band 30 will remain on the finish 52 of the container 50 by virtue of an interference fit between the bead 56 and inwardly extending projections of the band 30, the band 30 being connected to the skirt 18 by a spaced plurality of frangible bridges 32 to facilitate separation of the band 30 from the skirt 18.
  • the dust cover element 14 is generally cup-shaped with an imperforate end panel 40 and an annular skirt 42 that depends downwardly (toward the top panel 16 of the main closure element 12) from an outer edge of the end panel 40.
  • the interior of the annular skirt 42 of the dust cover element 14 is provided with inwardly projecting and part-helically extending projections 44 (Fig. 2), and the exterior of the spout 20 of the main closure element 12 is provided with complimental, outwardly projecting and part-helically extending projections 34 by which the dust cover element 14 may be removeably applied to the spout 20 of the main closure element 12.
  • the interior of the end panel 40 of the dust cover element 14 is also provided with a downwardly depending annular flange 47, and the annular flange 47 fills and seals the opening 26 at the upper end 24 of the main closure element 12 when the dust cover element 14 is securely applied to the main closure element 12, to thereby close a package that is made up of a filled container 50 with a dispensing closure 10 applied to it.
  • the annular spout 20 of the main closure element 12 is provided with an outwardly projecting bead 36, and a tamper-indicating band 46 of the dust cover 14, which is connected to a lower edge of the skirt 42 by flangible bridges 48, will remain on the spout 20 of the main closure element 12 when the dust cover 14 is first removed therefrom to provide a visual indication of such removal.
  • top panel 16 of the main closure element 12 is also provided with an integral annular flange 39 that surrounds and is spaced from the spout 20 of the main closure element 12 to securely retain the tamper-indicating band 46 of the dust cover 14 when the tamper-indicating band disengages from the skirt 42 upon the removal of the dust cover 14 from the main closure element 12.
  • a pressure-retaining seal may be provided by including an integral, downwardly and inwardly sealing rib 38 (Fig. 4) on the closure 12, to form a top and side seal against the rim of the neck 52 of the container 50, as taught, for example, in U.S. Patent 5,782,369 (Tansey), the disclosure of which is also incorporated by reference herein.
  • annular flange 47 of the dust cover 12 and the opening 26 in the spout 20 of the main closure element 12 should be sufficient to seal the junction therebetween.
  • a lower edge of the annular flange is provided with an upwardly and outwardly tapered free edge 47a to facilitate insertion of the annular flange 47 into the opening 26.

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WO2000064774A1 (fr) * 1999-04-28 2000-11-02 Owens-Illinois Closure Inc. Fermeture a capuchon « tire-pousse »
WO2001068469A1 (fr) * 2000-03-14 2001-09-20 Longvic Dispositif de bouchage notamment pour des bouteilles, comprenant un bec verseur et une caspule

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WO2000064774A1 (fr) * 1999-04-28 2000-11-02 Owens-Illinois Closure Inc. Fermeture a capuchon « tire-pousse »
WO2001068469A1 (fr) * 2000-03-14 2001-09-20 Longvic Dispositif de bouchage notamment pour des bouteilles, comprenant un bec verseur et une caspule

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WO2006085779A1 (fr) * 2005-02-10 2006-08-17 Vin Singlz Limited Emballage de liquide
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