EP1379449B1 - Ensemble de distribution de produit fluide - Google Patents

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EP1379449B1
EP1379449B1 EP02727645A EP02727645A EP1379449B1 EP 1379449 B1 EP1379449 B1 EP 1379449B1 EP 02727645 A EP02727645 A EP 02727645A EP 02727645 A EP02727645 A EP 02727645A EP 1379449 B1 EP1379449 B1 EP 1379449B1
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Frédéric Duquet
Hervé Pennaneac'h
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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
    • B65D75/52—Details
    • B65D75/58—Opening or contents-removing devices added or incorporated during package manufacture
    • 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
    • B65D75/38—Articles or materials enclosed in two or more wrappers disposed one inside the other

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  • the present invention relates to a fluid dispenser assembly such as can be found in the field of perfumery, cosmetics or pharmacy.
  • a fluid dispenser assembly such as can be found in the field of perfumery, cosmetics or pharmacy.
  • perfumery and cosmetics there are distributors or distribution sets that are actually samples for the consumer to be aware of the product for advertising purposes. These samples are usually distributed free of charge.
  • a number of these samples are included in magazines, and it is not uncommon to find three, four or five samples in a single magazine. For this, the samples must have a very small thickness to not significantly increase the thickness of the magazine. Indeed, the magazines must be able to be stored in the form of vertical stack, and the samples included inside must not destabilize the stack of magazines.
  • Such sample dispensing assemblies generally include a fluid dispenser defining a fluid reservoir.
  • a fluid dispenser defining a fluid reservoir.
  • the thickness of the tank is then significant.
  • the tank can still be made with two flexible sheets. This considerably reduces the thickness of the tank, but then the flatness of the tank faces can not be guaranteed.
  • any fluid dispenser comprises a dispensing orifice, and in the case of samples, this dispensing orifice is often closed by a removable closure member that the consumer tears, detaches or folds to unmask the orifice of distribution. It is important that the removable closure member can not be an inconvenience in the supply of samples using a machine equipped with a system of suction cups and clamps. In other words, the removable closure member, while remaining accessible, must not be able to interfere with the operation of a machine for feeding gripping and fixing samples in magazines.
  • the body of the dispenser which defines the fluid reservoir is thus covered by the packaging and the removable closure member is protected in the opening portion so that it is almost impossible for it to constitute an annoying element or bulky when handling the whole.
  • the removable closure member can be very difficult to accidentally actuated in its opening portion.
  • the outer walls of the packaging mask the body, which although substantially flat, is not perfectly flat. Thanks to this conditioning, at least one plane face is obtained, and the removable closure member is protected.
  • the opening portion comprises a notch in which is housed the visibly removable closure member.
  • the packaging here forms a sort of cut-out housing in which the removable closure member extends, which is therefore visible and directly grasped.
  • the opening portion at least partially envelops the removable closure member.
  • the opening portion is delimited by at least one line of least resistance so that the opening portion is detachable from the remainder of the package with the removable closure member.
  • the opening portion is delimited by at least one cut. The opening portion then covers the removable closure member which is not necessarily completely visible. To remove it, simply grasp the opening part and tear it off with the removable closure member.
  • the package comprises a carrier sheet and a flap sheet, the dispenser being attached to the carrier sheet and the flap sheet is attached to the carrier sheet on their peripheries.
  • the support sheet may advantageously be more rigid than the body of the dispenser, so that it will not undergo deformation due to the attachment of the body on its inner face.
  • the support and flap sheets will be very slightly curved due to the inclusion of the substantially flat body of the dispenser.
  • the sheets are substantially flat and able to be gripped using a suction system.
  • the flatness of at least one of the two sheets allows an easy apposition of indication such as the brand, the composition and the method of use of the product.
  • the support and flap sheets are integrally formed and folded along one side.
  • the notch is located on this side.
  • the removable closure member comprises a free edge which extends substantially in alignment with the joining side.
  • the dispensing orifice is located on an edge of the opening portion, for example at the bottom of the notch or on the line of least resistance.
  • the body defines an actuating wall on which is pressed to drive fluid through the dispensing orifice, said actuating wall being operable through the packaging.
  • the opening portion is formed by a respective, and advantageously identical, cut of the support and flap sheets, the cuts being superposed when the flap sheet is attached to the support sheet.
  • the fluid dispenser assembly of the invention comprises two components, namely a fluid dispenser 1 and a package 2.
  • the dispenser 1 may for example be identical to that described in document FR 2 791 645.
  • the dispenser described in this document may be identical to that shown in FIG. 2.
  • the dispenser 1 comprises a body 10 made from one or two sheets 11, 12, for example of complex film, welded together on their peripheries.
  • the body 10 thus defines a reservoir 16 containing a small amount of fluid.
  • a support piece 13 is fixed, advantageously by heat sealing between the two sheets 11 and 12.
  • This piece 13 serves to support a piece of porous material 14 capable of imbibing fluid.
  • the piece of porous material 14 extends from the support piece 13 inside the tank 16, but communicates with its end fixed to the support piece 13 with a dispensing orifice 17.
  • a spring element 15 is disposed in the tank 16.
  • the dispenser 1 also comprises a removable closure member 18 which closes or masks the dispensing orifice 17.
  • a removable closure member 18 which closes or masks the dispensing orifice 17.
  • the particularity of this dispenser described in the document FR 2 791 645 is that the spring element 15 is constrained to the maximum so as to define a minimum reservoir volume as long as the removable closure member 18 is not removed from the body 10. This ensures that the body 10 of the dispenser has a shape substantially flat that does not exceed two millimeters.
  • the removable closure member 18 is removed, air can enter the reservoir 16 through the dispensing orifice 17 and the piece of porous material 4.
  • the reservoir 16 then contains a small amount of fluid and a large amount of air which allows a biphasic type distribution through the piece of porous material and the dispensing orifice 17. This ensures a very good spray quality.
  • the fluid product may also be a powder or more generally a powdery material.
  • the piece of porous material 4 can be omitted.
  • the dispensing assembly also comprises a packaging 2 which at least partially envelopes the body 10 of the dispenser 1.
  • the packaging 2 can be made from two sheets 21 and 25 between which the body 10 of the dispenser 1 is disposed.
  • the packaging can also be made from a single sheet folded on itself along a fold which will form a rectilinear side of junction 20.
  • the sheet or sheets can be made of plastic, metal, paper, cardboard , or from a laminated complex film of metal and plastic.
  • the dimensions of the sheets are greater than the dimensions of the body 10 of the dispenser 1 so that the body 10 of the dispenser can be arranged between the sheets without exceeding.
  • one of the two sheets 25 serves as a support sheet on which the body 10 of the dispenser is advantageously fixed by gluing.
  • the face 11 of the body 10 can be glued to the support sheet 25.
  • the other sheet 21 is then folded on the sheet of support 25 so as to cover the body 10 of the dispenser.
  • the flap sheet 21 is glued to the backing sheet 25 on their respective peripheries 22, 26 with the exception of the side 20 where the two sheets are interconnected.
  • the circumference of the packaging is perfectly flat and thin.
  • the body 10 of the dispenser is substantially flat (of the order of 2 mm)
  • the support sheets 25 and flap 21 remain relatively flat, or at least with a slight curvature. This gives an extremely flat distribution set with substantially flat faces.
  • the essential thing is that at least one of the two faces of the distribution assembly is substantially flat. But in practice, with a distributor as described above, the two faces of the distribution assembly are substantially flat.
  • the removable closure member is housed in an opening portion (24, 28; 240, 280) formed by the packaging (2).
  • the removable closure member 18 is housed in a notch which is formed by a cut window on the junction of the two sheets, that is to say on the side 20: thus, this notch comprises a window portion 24 formed by the flap sheet 21 and another window portion 28 formed by the support sheet 25.
  • this notch comprises a window portion 24 formed by the flap sheet 21 and another window portion 28 formed by the support sheet 25.
  • the window is transformed into a notch cut on the side 20, as can be seen in Figure 3.
  • the removable closure member 18 is fully inscribed in the notch 24, 28 and preferably its free end edge 182 is substantially in alignment with the side 20.
  • the dispensing orifice 17 formed by the support piece 13 of the body 10 is advantageously located at the bottom of the notch 24, 28.
  • the removable closure member 18 is wrapped in an opening portion formed by the sheets 21 and 25.
  • the sheets 21 and 25 respectively define two shutters 240, 280 which are superimposed when the flap sheet 21 has been folded down on the support sheet 25.
  • These flaps 240, 280 are here partially delimited by lines of weakness 241, 281 and 248 cutouts.
  • the two superposed flaps 240, 280 form a tongue enclosing the removable closure member and defined by the cutouts 248 folded on themselves and the superimposed breaking lines 241, 281.
  • the opening portion is located on the side 20, so that the flaps 240, 280 are contiguous and monobloc.
  • the opening part is located on another side of the packaging 2.
  • the user grasps the tongue forming the opening portion and detaches it along the rupture line, thus removing at the same time the removable closure member that it covers.
  • a dispensing assembly of the invention With a dispensing assembly of the invention, it is very easy to store it in a feed box for a machine with a suction cup system to grab it and place it in a magazine.
  • the distribution assembly shown in the drawings has a rectangular or square shape, it is possible to imagine other simple geometric shapes such as polygonal, round, oval or elliptical.
  • One of the principles of the invention lies in the fact that the assembly has at least one substantially flat face and / or an opening portion in which the removable closure member is housed.

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EP02727645A 2001-03-30 2002-03-28 Ensemble de distribution de produit fluide Expired - Lifetime EP1379449B1 (fr)

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FR0104327 2001-03-30
FR0104327A FR2822808B1 (fr) 2001-03-30 2001-03-30 Ensemble de distribution de produit fluide
PCT/FR2002/001092 WO2002081325A1 (fr) 2001-03-30 2002-03-28 Ensemble de distribution de produit fluide

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JP (1) JP3908166B2 (ja)
CN (1) CN1235776C (ja)
BR (1) BR0208519B1 (ja)
DE (1) DE60216905T2 (ja)
ES (1) ES2276933T3 (ja)
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WO (1) WO2002081325A1 (ja)

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US9045268B2 (en) * 2012-07-25 2015-06-02 Gojo Industries, Inc. Collapsible container and dispenser employing a collapsible container

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FR2791645B1 (fr) 1999-04-02 2001-06-15 Valois Sa Echantillon de produit fluide destine a la presse
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EP1379449A1 (fr) 2004-01-14
JP2004535992A (ja) 2004-12-02
WO2002081325A1 (fr) 2002-10-17
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