EP1393869B1 - Bouchon multi-couche en liége naturel et procédé pour sa fabrication - Google Patents

Bouchon multi-couche en liége naturel et procédé pour sa fabrication Download PDF

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EP1393869B1
EP1393869B1 EP02384003A EP02384003A EP1393869B1 EP 1393869 B1 EP1393869 B1 EP 1393869B1 EP 02384003 A EP02384003 A EP 02384003A EP 02384003 A EP02384003 A EP 02384003A EP 1393869 B1 EP1393869 B1 EP 1393869B1
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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
    • B65D39/00—Closures arranged within necks or pouring openings or in discharge apertures, e.g. stoppers
    • B65D39/0052—Closures arranged within necks or pouring openings or in discharge apertures, e.g. stoppers made in more than one piece
    • B65D39/0058—Closures arranged within necks or pouring openings or in discharge apertures, e.g. stoppers made in more than one piece from natural or synthetic cork, e.g. for wine bottles or the like
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B27—WORKING OR PRESERVING WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL; NAILING OR STAPLING MACHINES IN GENERAL
    • B27J—MECHANICAL WORKING OF CANE, CORK, OR SIMILAR MATERIALS
    • B27J5/00—Mechanical working of cork

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  • the present invention relates to a multi-layer natural cork stopper consisting of substantially cylindrical or frustoconical multiple layers adhered by their bases, wherein the plug constituting each of these layers has veins extending between the upper and lower bases of the cylinder, that is, in its longitudinal or axial direction.
  • the present invention also relates to a method of manufacturing this multi-layer plug resulting in the punching of the plugs by the edge of a composite slice obtained by gluing multiple non-consecutive slices of a natural cork board or coming from different boards, the punching in the direction of veins of natural cork.
  • the pieces of natural cork, as extracted from the tree, have a concave and elongated shape and have veins arranged in the longitudinal direction, that is to say, perpendicular to the radial direction of the shaft from the concentric layers of bark growth.
  • these pieces are subjected to a prior flattening treatment which results in irregular natural cork planks, having a length proportional to the height of the tree, a width approximately corresponding to the half of the circumference of the trunk and a variable size depending on the bark of the tree.
  • the cork of these planks retains these veins in the longitudinal direction. Subsequently, the boards are cut into slices from which the plugs are punched.
  • the resulting product will have a different configuration, texture and properties that will give it different behavior characteristics.
  • the basic office of a cork in a container is to isolate the contents from the outside, the requirements increasing with the quality of the product contained.
  • One-piece stoppers made of natural cork whose veins extend between their bases are the most appreciated, for example, for butchering bottles of good wine, as they guarantee, reasonably, and naturally that this office is accomplished .
  • a standard, one-piece plug of natural cork may have pore, holes, cracks and impurities specific to the cork itself or caused by animal or plant pests affecting the tree. Very often, these irregularities happen to form one or more passages, oriented in a direction generally the same as that of the veins, which connect the upper and lower bases of the cap, with which the capacity of isolation of the cap is lost.
  • corks go through various selection and external control processes to be classified according to their surface appearance, current inspection methods do not have no means having sufficient accuracy to guarantee the internal quality of the plugs, that is to say, the absence of passages between their bases.
  • a thorough unitary inspection in the event that an appropriate method is developed for this, would entail additional costs and a large number of refusals that would make the final product significantly more expensive.
  • Another object of this invention is to provide a method for the manufacture of this plug.
  • a plug having the features of claim 1 comprising multiple layers bonded by their bases to form a plug having the required dimensions, the veins of each layer being extending between their respective upper and lower bases, and the ends of the veins and the possible passages of each of the layers being substantially displaced from the veins and possible passages of the contiguous layers.
  • the basic idea is to form a plug having the required dimensions from several less long plugs united by their bases.
  • each of these shorter plugs that is to say each layer, has its veins in the longitudinal direction makes its behavior characteristics be those specific to a one-piece plug, mentioned above. Therefore, the complete cap formed by several layers will also retain these properties. Moreover, the fact that the ends of the veins and passages of each layer are substantially offset from those of the adjacent layers ensures that any possible passage that can communicate the upper and lower bases will not follow.
  • the natural cork multilayer plug of this invention solves the problem of functional quality of one-piece plugs because it virtually guarantees 100% isolation while maintaining its behavior characteristics.
  • the plug of the invention can only be distinguished by its appearance outside because it has several superimposed transversal fringes corresponding to the various layers that compose it.
  • the second of these objectives above is achieved with a method for making a natural cork multilayer plug of this invention.
  • the method comprises, firstly, as is conventional, obtaining pieces of natural cork, flatten them to obtain planks of natural cork and cut these boards into slices; however, here, these slices are lower than usual.
  • the method of the invention then comprises joining by their edges several of these natural cork slices, not consecutive, if they come from the same board, or even better, from different boards, to form a composite slice , at appropriate height for a plug having the required dimensions, and then punch the plugs on the edge of this compound slice.
  • the various slices can be connected by any known techniques and adhesives in the sector.
  • the method of the present invention offers other economic advantages because the rejections are fewer in number and the raw material is better exploited, with all this an expensive unitary inspection system is no longer necessary.
  • FIGS. 1 to 4 only seek to illustrate an explanation of the basic principle upon which the properties of the plug of this invention are based and in no way the own method of the present invention, which will be described later with reference to Figs. 5 to 9.
  • FIG. 1 shows three caps A, B, C made of one-piece natural cork, substantially cylindrical (although they could have another shape, for example frustoconical), having a desired height and provided respectively upper bases 4a, 4b, 4c and lower bases 5a, 5b, 5c.
  • the natural veins of the cork are extended longitudinally between the upper and lower bases 4a, 4b, 4c and 5a, 5b, 5c, respectively.
  • an internal passage 6a, 6b, 6c formed by natural irregularities of the cork, such as pores, holes and cracks, and / or caused by animal or plant pests. .
  • passages 6a, 6b, 6c communicate the upper and lower bases 4a, 5a; 4b, 5b; and 4c, 5c of their respective plugs, which could allow air entry inside a container clogged with this plug or a loss of its contents.
  • plugs with these anomalies are commercialized without this fault being detected.
  • This invention is based on the principle of interrupting the possible passages existing in the plug so that they fail to communicate the upper base and the lower base.
  • FIG. 2 these same three plugs A, B, C are shown, which have been cut transversely so that with each of them we obtain a portion of the plug 1, 2, 3, that is to say, a portion 1 cap A, a portion 2 of the plug B and a portion 3 of the plug C, the heights of the portions 1, 2, 3 are such that by adding them they give the desired height of the plug.
  • Each cap portion 1, 2, 3 comprises a respective passage portion 61a, 61b, 63c. If, as shown with reference to FIG.
  • FIG. 4 these three plug portions 1, 2, 3 are shown stacked and united to form a natural cork multilayer plug in accordance with this invention.
  • the plug of FIG. 4 is made of natural cork, has an upper base 4c, a lower base 5a and the cork veins are oriented in a direction substantially perpendicular to the two bases 4a, 5c. That is to say, it has the positive characteristics of the one-piece natural cork stopper that make it the most appreciated.
  • the plug of the invention has the possible passages 61a, 62b, 63c interrupted, which could communicate its bases 4a, 5c, with which one avoids certain disadvantages of the natural cork stopper in one piece.
  • FIG. 5 to 9 a method of manufacturing the plug of FIG. 4 applicable to the industry. It should be noted that even though natural cork pieces have irregular shapes, in Figs. 5 to 9 schematically represented by geometric shapes so that the drawings are clearer.
  • a natural cork part 10 is obtained from the tree as shown in FIG. 5.
  • These natural cork pieces 10, as extracted from the tree, have a concave and elongated shape and they have veins arranged in the longitudinal direction, that is to say, perpendicular to the radial direction of the shaft.
  • the direction of the veins was represented by double-headed arrows.
  • the length of the piece 10 is proportional to the height of the tree, its width is approximately half of the circumference of the trunk and its size is variable, it depends on the bark of the tree.
  • the boards 12 are cut into slices 14 having a predetermined height according to the height and the number of layers that will have the final cap.
  • the final plug will be composed of three layers having the same height and it will have a required final height. Therefore, each of the slices 14 has a height approximately the same at one-third of the required final height.
  • the layers may have another number and different heights from each other, the only condition being that the sum of the heights of the slices is equal to the final height required.
  • the next phase of the process comprises joining by their edges various slices of natural cork 14 to form a composite slice 16 as that which is schematically illustrated with reference to FIG. 8, having a suitable height for a plug having the required final height. It is important to be careful that the contiguous slices 14 of the composite slice 16 are not consecutive slices if they come from the same board, it is better that it is slices from different boards.
  • the different slices can be joined with any techniques and materials known in the sector technique.
  • the natural cork multilayer plug 18 is composed of multiple layers bonded together by their bases to form a plug having the required final dimensions, the veins of each of the layers being extended between their respective upper and lower bases, that is, in a direction substantially perpendicular to the upper and lower bases 22, 24 of the plug 18. Ente the adjacent layers 20 remain formed interfaces 7.
  • the ends of the veins are substantially shifted in these interfaces 7 of the adjacent layers 20 and the possible passages are interrupted at interfaces 7, as explained above with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4. Also, conventionally, the natural cork 18 multi-layer stoppers are after polished and finished to give the finished product.

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AT02384003T ATE343461T1 (de) 2002-08-30 2002-08-30 Korken aus naturkork und verfahren zu deren herstellung
ES02384003T ES2274951T3 (es) 2002-08-30 2002-08-30 Tapon multicapa de corcho natural y procedimiento para su fabricacion.
EP02384003A EP1393869B1 (fr) 2002-08-30 2002-08-30 Bouchon multi-couche en liége naturel et procédé pour sa fabrication
DE60215639T DE60215639D1 (de) 2002-08-30 2002-08-30 Korken aus Naturkork und Verfahren zu deren Herstellung
PT02384003T PT1393869E (pt) 2002-08-30 2002-08-30 Rolha multicamada em cortiça natural e processo para o seu fabrico

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