EP1451070A1

EP1451070A1 - Container for storing and pouring liquids

Info

Publication number: EP1451070A1
Application number: EP02783002A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Kai Yip Lo
Original assignee: Mewes Axel
Current assignee: Mewes Axel
Priority date: 2001-12-06
Filing date: 2002-10-25
Publication date: 2004-09-01
Anticipated expiration: 2022-10-25
Also published as: ATE323030T1; EP1451070B1; DE50206416D1; CA2469337A1; US20050006420A1; CN1622897A; DE10159988A1; BR0214755A; DE10159988B4; AU2002346879A1; CN1303403C; AU2002346879B2; US7293679B2; WO2003047983A1

Abstract

The invention relates to a container for storing and pouring liquids, which comprises an internal volume and a pouring opening ( 8 ). The interior volume is subdivided into a storage volume ( 3 ) and a withdrawal volume ( 4 ) which communicate with each other ( 10 ), said withdrawal volume ( 4 ) leading to the pouring opening ( 8 ) in such a manner that the pouring opening ( 8 ), when the container ( 1 ) is tilted between the critical angle and the overend position of the container ( 1 ), invariably is the bottom-most point of the withdrawal volume ( 4 ). The container has a ventilation pipe ( 17 ) that extends from the pouring opening ( 8 ) and leads to the storage volume ( 3 ). In the overend position, the housing areas ( 13 ) of the container ( 1 ) delimiting the storage volume ( 3 ) downward have a descending gradient towards the linking opening ( 10 ) or the linking channel between the storage volume ( 3 ) and the withdrawal volume ( 4 ) and/or the housing areas ( 25 ) of the container ( 1 ) delimiting the withdrawal volume ( 4 ) downward have a descending gradient towards the pouring opening ( 8 ).

Description

Containers for storing and pouring liquids

The invention relates to a container, in particular a bottle, for storing and pouring liquids, having an internal volume and a pouring opening, the internal volume being subdivided into a storage volume and a dispensing volume, which are connected to one another, so that a normal one , vertical position of the container, the removal volume is arranged above the storage volume and overflow of liquid from the storage volume into the removal volume is prevented until the container is tilted beyond a predetermined limit angle from the vertical position.

The subdivision of the container volume into a storage volume and a removal volume can take place, for example, by means of a partition which is provided within the container volume. Such a partition can e.g. with an upright bottle-shaped container, pull the interior of the container horizontally above the liquid level and thus separate the two volumes. The volumes are connected through an opening or a channel in the partition, or e.g. also in that the partition extends from one side wall of the container only to an area near the opposite side wall, leaving a gap for the passage of liquid between the end face of the partition and the side wall.

Such a container, which is structurally complex, is known in the form of a bottle from US Pat. No. 4,856,685. With the construction disclosed in US 4,856,685 it is achieved that, for example in the case of oil bottles for motor vehicle oils, the oil bottle from its normal vertical position up to an angle of 90 Degrees, that is, can be rotated to the horizontal lying position without oil flowing from the storage volume into the withdrawal volume and from there to the pouring opening.

For example, if you want to refill oil in a cramped engine compartment of a motor vehicle, there was always the problem with conventional oil bottles or - that with very full bottles, oil comes out of the pouring opening even when the bottle is tilted slightly, even though the pouring opening of the oil bottle is still there was not positioned sufficiently precisely over the engine's oil filler neck. In this case, it could happen that oil flows next to the oil filler neck of the engine, which is questionable from an economic and ecological point of view.

With a generic container, for example the oil bottle described in US 4,856,685, it is possible to first twist or tilt the container from the vertical normal position to a critical angle, for example the horizontal lying position (critical angle = 90 degrees), so that the pouring opening of the oil bottle can be positioned very precisely over the filler neck of the engine before the oil emerges from the pouring opening of the oil bottle.

Only when the tilt angle is further tilted, e.g. the horizontal, i.e. Beyond 90 degrees, the oil flows from the storage volume, in particular via a connecting opening or a connecting channel, into the extraction volume and can reach the pouring opening from there.

However, the construction of the known oil bottle has the disadvantage that the oil initially flows into an area of the withdrawal volume which is below the pouring opening and only emerges from this area after the area has been completely filled up to the lower edge of the pouring opening. A person who wants to remove a liquid from such a container can therefore hardly develop a sensitivity for when the liquid emerges from the pouring opening, since the liquid first passes from the storage volume into the withdrawal volume and then when this reaches a certain level Level is filled, the liquid reaches the pouring opening. Sensitivity when pouring is of particular importance, especially when liquid hazardous goods are to be removed from a container. A container of the known type is therefore not suitable for sensitive dosing and safe removal of such substances.

The known container used as an oil bottle has the further disadvantage that an equalization of the negative pressure in the reservoir volume of the container, which is generated by the escaping oil, through the outlet opening and the connection opening between the volumes, i.e. past the escaping oil, takes place.

Since such pressure equalization cannot take place continuously, but only in thrust or pulse-like fashion when the vacuum falls below a certain negative pressure, it is not possible to pour the oil evenly out of this known oil bottle. Here, due to the impulsive pressure equalization impulses, the oil leaks out of the pouring opening of the bottle, which can lead to the oil flowing over a filler neck next to the filler neck even if the pouring opening is precisely positioned beforehand, which in turn is economical and ecological is perceived as a major disadvantage. In the case of liquid dangerous goods in particular, this disadvantage represents a hazard to the person holding the bottle and to the environment.

In addition, due to the simple construction of the partition in an oil bottle according to US 4,856,685, the storage volume of the oil bottle cannot be completely emptied, since there are oil residues on the surfaces of a partition can accumulate, which are not safely directed to the pouring opening, or which cannot be completely poured out of the withdrawal volume.

In this respect, with the known oil bottle according to US 4,856,685, an oil residue can remain in the bottle, which is e.g. when used for oil or liquid dangerous goods, leads to environmental pollution and also represents a lost, unusable resource.

The object of the invention is to provide a container, in particular a bottle, for storing and pouring out liquids of the type mentioned at the outset, with which safe, uniform pouring out of the liquid and complete residual emptying of the container is possible.

According to the invention, this object is achieved on the one hand in that the removal volume opens into the pouring opening in such a way that when the container is tilted between the critical angle and the overhead position of the container, the pouring opening forms the lowest point of the removal volume or of the container housing area surrounding the removal volume ,

On the other hand, the object is also achieved in that the container has a ventilation line which extends from the pouring opening and opens into the storage volume.

According to a further aspect of the invention, the object is also achieved in that, in an overhead position of the container, the housing areas of the container which delimit the storage volume downward have a gradient in the direction of the connection opening or the connecting channel between the storage volume and the removal volume and / or that the Withdrawal volume downwardly delimiting housing areas of the container have a slope in the direction of the pouring opening. In the sense of the invention, the normal vertical position of the container is understood to mean the position in which the container or the bottle is usually offered upright for sale. Here, the container housing usually extends above a container base, which is oriented horizontally in the normal vertical position of the container.

The further external shape of the container in this vertical position is irrelevant with regard to the features essential to the invention, for example the bottle can have a rectangular, round or other type of cross section, and the cross section can also change in the direction of the pouring opening arranged above.

In the normal vertical position of the container, the pouring opening is preferably arranged at the upper end, for example and preferably such that the mouth of the pouring opening is aligned parallel to the base of the container. With this orientation, the axis of rotation of a screw cap which is preferably provided is perpendicular to the base of the container. However, this arrangement is also not mandatory, the orientation of the pouring opening can also be oriented at other angles.

In the normal vertical position, the inner volume of the container is further divided into a storage volume and a removal volume, the removal volume being arranged above the storage volume. Both volumes are connected to each other, for example through an opening or a channel.

The overhead position of the container is understood to mean the position in which the pouring opening of the container points downward and at the same time the base area of the container is again aligned horizontally. The overhead position thus corresponds to a rotation of the container by 180 degrees from the normal vertical position. The critical angle position is the position at which the container assumes a position that is rotated relative to the normal vertical position, from which the liquid passes from the storage volume into the removal volume upon further tilting. When rotating from the normal vertical position up to this critical angle, there is no liquid transfer between the volumes.

Depending on the construction, the critical angle can be dimensioned differently. In principle, any desired angle between 0 and 180 degrees is possible, with angles in the range of 90 degrees plus / minus 30, preferably a tilt of 90 degrees as the critical angle position, that is, the position at which the container is aligned horizontally.

Height information is to be understood in the context of this description basically with regard to the downward gravity effect.

In the critical angle position, from which there is an overflow between the supply and removal volumes, for example and preferably when tilted by 90 degrees out of the normal vertical positioning position and thus in a substantially horizontal arrangement of the container, in which the base area is oriented vertically, the liquid will enter the dispensing volume and, due to the action of gravity, will reach its lowest point where the pouring opening is arranged, so that the liquid immediately exits the pouring opening without first collecting in another area of the dispensing volume.

Thus, with the construction according to the invention, there is only one barrier that the liquid has to overcome, namely that between the storage volume and the removal volume. Such a construction allows liquid to be removed from the container in a very precisely metered manner, which also allows such a container to be used with hazardous substances. As described above, according to an alternative of the invention, the division into the two volumes can be carried out by a partition, which then has, for example, a through opening or a through channel. The connection of the two volumes can also take place in that the partition does not extend completely to one of the housing inner walls of the container, so that this results in an opening between the two volumes. When a partition is formed, the through-opening or the through-channel is located near a side wall of the container housing, so that this opening always remains above the liquid level when tilted up to the critical angle and is only overflowed by the liquid when tilted beyond the critical angle.

According to another alternative, the removal volume can preferably be designed in such a way that it forms a channel, one end of which opens into the pouring opening and the other end of which flows into the storage volume. When the container is tilted up to the critical angle, the removal volume or the removal channel in an upper region, in particular in the highest region of the storage volume, preferably lead into this.

If the container is tilted beyond the critical angle, this area will lower until it reaches the liquid level, so that liquid passes from the storage volume into the removal volume via this area forming the mouth.

In relation to the normal vertical position of the container, this construction can also be described in such a way that a container according to the invention has a removal channel which rises in height, the upper end of which opens into a pouring opening and the lower end of which is close to or adjacent to a lateral container wall through the upper Housing wall of the container opens into the storage volume, the extraction channel starting from a Side wall of the container extends towards the opposite side wall.

This construction ensures that when the limit angle and the overhead position are tilted, the removal channel extends from the storage volume to the pouring opening in the direction of gravity and the pouring opening always forms the lowest point of the removal channel or the removal volume.

With this construction, the removal channel can be integrally formed on the container housing forming the storage volume or with this via suitable connecting means, e.g. be connected by screwing. Such a removal channel, which has an essentially S-shaped course between its outer mouth openings, can thus also be retrofitted to existing containers.

It is advantageous if the opening through which the removal channel is connected to the housing forming the storage volume forms the highest point in the upper housing wall of the storage volume, based on the vertical position of the container.

To stabilize the removal channel above the storage volume, the channel below the pouring opening can be connected to the underlying housing of the storage volume via a web. This web is preferably spaced apart from the container housing part, which forms the mouth region between the two volumes, so that there is a passage between these container regions and the removal channel can thus also be designed as a handle.

If the container according to the invention is now tilted from a normal vertical position beyond the green angle, for example up to 90 degrees, the liquid arranged in the storage volume can be at one Construction with a partition wall over its tip or through an opening, or in the case of an attached removal volume / channel, flow through the overflow opening or overflow channel into the removal volume and from there to the pouring opening.

If the container is only slightly tilted beyond the limit angle mentioned above, the liquid will only wet the lower areas of the removal volume or channel and will not yet fill an overlying volume of the removal channel. With this orientation, pressure equalization between the storage volume and the outside atmosphere can take place without any problems.

However, if the container or the bottle is tilted more, the escaping liquid will completely fill the connection opening and / or the removal volume. Then a pressure equalization can no longer take place through the removal volume or the channel.

A construction of the container according to the invention, which can also be used independently of the aforementioned construction, therefore provides that the container has a ventilation line that extends from the pouring opening and opens into the storage volume.

Through the implementation of a ventilation line, which extends from the mouth of the pouring opening into the storage volume, it is achieved according to the invention that pressure equalization can take place continuously when the liquid is poured out. This prevents the negative pressure in the storage volume from building up to a certain limit value and then a large amount of air being sucked in through the container or the pouring opening of the container, which would result in a gush-like escape of the liquid. The ventilation line accordingly ensures that the liquid from the container can be removed evenly without the liquid spilling and splashing unintentionally.

So that liquid is not sucked in again through the ventilation line, which begins in the pouring opening, the mouth of this ventilation line is arranged with respect to the direction of gravity in an upper region of the pouring opening, which is not wetted by the escaping liquid when the container is tilted.

The ventilation line is advantageously arranged in such a way that this line extends from the pouring opening to a mouth opening in the storage volume of the container, which is diametrically opposite the pouring opening.

If the container is tilted beyond the critical angle, the opening of the ventilation line will therefore end in a position in the storage volume that forms the highest point of the container in which the inflowing air collects. Due to this construction, the mouth opening when the container is tilted beyond the critical angle lies above the liquid level in the storage volume.

This ensures that the air entering through the ventilation line does not have to pass through the liquid to be poured out at any point, but rather is introduced into the ever-expanding liquid-empty air space at the upper end of the container, so that the calm of the liquid inside the container is caused by the inflow the air is not disturbed in any way. As a result, this solution of the container construction according to the invention can also be used, for example, for liquid hazardous substances in which a safe, uniform and well-dosed pouring must be ensured.

A particularly simple design of the ventilation line can be achieved in that it is formed inside or on the wall of the container housing. For example, the ventilation line can be directly connected to the Production of the container are taken into account, for example in blow molding or when welding two container halves together.

These manufacturing processes can also be used to create a partition in the container. For example, the partition can be produced by recessed grips in the housing wall.

The ventilation line is preferably formed in or on the regions of the wall of the container housing which, when the container is tilted, point upward from the vertical position in relation to the direction of gravity. This ensures that a short ventilation line connects the liquid-emptied upper area in the storage volume to the surrounding outside air via the ventilation line.

The function of the container according to the invention has already been described above, which ensures that the liquid does not flow from the storage volume into the removal volume until the container has reached a certain limit angle, e.g. is tilted beyond the horizontal. In principle, every possible angle can be set here, from which a transition of liquid from the storage volume into the removal volume takes place, for example by moving the opening connecting the volumes or the transition area.

With a normal upright vertical position of the container and a formation of the ventilation line inside or on the container wall, this ventilation line having an opening in the storage volume which is below the liquid level when the container is in the upright position, it results from the principle of the communicating tubes, that the liquid level in the ventilation line is the same as in the storage volume. When the container is tilted out of this upright vertical position into the horizontal position, the construction according to the invention ensures that no liquid from the storage volume reaches the dispensing volume or the pouring opening, but it can also happen that liquid in the ventilation line passes through it during the tilting and the action of gravity to the pouring opening, in particular because the ventilation line in the horizontal position of the container also has a course following the action of gravity up to the edge of the pouring opening, at least in the end region.

Accordingly, it can happen that when the container is tilted into the horizontal position or to the limit angle, no liquid from the storage volume passes through the removal volume to the pouring opening, but the liquid from the ventilation line reaches the pouring opening and from there from the end of the ventilation line.

In order to prevent this, according to a preferred development of the invention, it is provided that, in the critical angle position of the container, the ventilation line, at least in a partial section, rises in height in the pouring direction, so that the liquid level within the ventilation line changes in all positions of the container from the vertical position to the critical angle in a section of the ventilation line, which has the above-mentioned increasing profile with respect to the direction of gravity.

This ensures that when the container is tilted from the vertical normal position to the position of the limit angle, for example up to the horizontal orientation of the container, the liquid in the ventilation line due to the rising profile of the ventilation line due to the force acting on the ventilation line setting oblique level is pushed back into the storage volume. Even if the container is tilted Accordingly, up to the critical angle position, no liquid can escape from the ventilation line in the direction of the pouring opening.

In order to realize this increasing course, the construction is preferably such that the ventilation line has at least one line section in its course, which is arranged when the bottle is tilted up to the critical angle above the mouth opening, via which the ventilation line opens into the storage volume.

In order to obtain a particularly steep course at the critical angle position at least in a partial area of the ventilation line, it can be provided that the ventilation line has at least one further line section located between the line section above the outlet opening and the outlet opening, which line section is arranged below the outlet opening. As a result, the ventilation line between these two points has a strongly bent course, which ensures that such a steep, inclined plane is reached in the line section of the ventilation line which is arranged above the mouth opening, so that the liquid is prevented from this with great certainty will get out of the ventilation line to the pouring opening. The liquid in the ventilation line will therefore collect in the bent angle position in this bent line section and close the ventilation line.

In order to be able to prevent leakage of liquid from the ventilation line with certainty, it is further provided according to the invention that the line section described above the mouth opening is arranged in each tilting position above the liquid level in the storage volume of the container.

This can be ensured if the line section lying horizontally or the line section lying above the mouth opening at the critical angle also with a vertical orientation of the container, ie the normal position is arranged at least in sections above the liquid level, in particular above the transition opening between the volumes. Accordingly, the liquid level in the ventilation line cannot pass over this line section above the mouth opening at any tilting position.

If the container is tilted beyond the limit angle or preferably beyond the horizontal position, the liquid will pass from the storage volume into the removal volume and fill the connection opening between the two volumes completely with liquid, so that pressure equalization within the storage volume from this position only is only possible through the ventilation line. When liquid emerges from the pouring opening, the residual liquid remaining in the ventilation line is sucked back by the negative pressure in the storage volume and drips back into the storage volume through the end of the ventilation line.

The residual liquid in the ventilation line is prevented from escaping until it tilts in the area of the critical angle or the horizontal alignment due to the force of gravity on the inclined, rising plane which is formed in the ventilation line, and in the event of further tilting of the container by the resulting negative pressure conditions , as this draws the residual liquid from the ventilation line back into the storage volume.

It is therefore ensured with the design of the ventilation line according to the invention that an uncontrolled escape of liquid from the ventilation line is not possible in any conceivable position of the container.

The container according to the invention also ensures that complete emptying of the container is possible. This residual emptying can also be independent of the features described above On the one hand, this ensures that when the container is in an upside-down position, the housing areas of the container which delimit the storage volume downward have a gradient in the direction of the connecting opening or the connecting channel between the storage volume and the removal volume.

With this position and the construction mentioned, it is ensured that all liquid residues that are in the storage volume are passed through the inclined plane of the wall surface facing the storage volume due to the force of gravity through the connection opening or the connection channel into the removal volume.

On the other hand, the residual emptying is further supported by the fact that, when the container is in the above-mentioned position, the container housing areas of the removal volume also have a gradient in the direction of the pouring opening. This has the effect that all liquid residues that have found their way from the storage volume into the removal volume are also directed from there to the pouring opening, wherein, as mentioned above, the mouth of the pouring opening is arranged at the lowest point of the removal volume when the container is upside down is.

Relevant prior art and an embodiment of the invention are shown in the following drawings and are explained in more detail below:

Show it:

Figures 1 - 5: A known generic designed as a bottle

Containers in different positions

FIGS. 6 to 11: each a sectional view of a liquid-filled container according to the invention at different tilting angles Figure 12: A plan view of a container according to the invention

Figure 13: A view of the base of an inventive

container

Figure 9: A rear view of the container according to the invention

FIG. 1 shows a generic container 1 known in the prior art in the form of a bottle 1 for use, for example, in motor vehicle oils. The bottle 1 is divided by a partition 2 into a storage volume 3 and a removal volume 4. In the normal position shown, in which the lower housing base 5 is aligned horizontally, the bottle 1 is filled with a liquid, for example oil. The liquid level 6 extends here just below the partition 2.

In the case of the clockwise tilting shown in FIG. 2 in the direction of arrow P by 90 degrees, the partition 2 is set up essentially vertically and prevents the liquid in the storage volume 3 from passing into the removal volume 4, since the liquid level 6 changes due to the predetermined Filling quantity of the container is still below the upper edge or end face 7 of the partition 2. Up to the limit angle of 90 degrees shown here, the internal construction of the bottle accordingly effectively prevents liquid from escaping from the pouring opening 8, so that the pouring opening 8 can initially be positioned precisely, for example above a filler neck 9.

Only when it is tilted further beyond the limit angle of 90 degrees, as shown in FIG. 3, will the liquid level 6 exceed the upper edge 7 of the partition 2, so that the liquid reaches the removal volume 4. According to the construction shown here, however, the liquid will initially collect a lower area 4a of the removal volume 4 and only flow out of the bottle 1 via the pouring opening 8 when the level in the removal area 4a again reaches the height of the lower edge of the pouring opening 8.

In this respect, the bottle 1 shown here according to FIGS. 1 to 5 essentially has two barriers which the liquid has to cross before it can exit through the pouring opening 8. On the one hand, these are the upper edge 7 of the partition 2 and the lower edge of the pouring opening 8. Because of these two barriers, which have to be overcome one after the other, there is no possibility for a person of a sensitive, highly precise metering of the amount of liquid to be removed, so that the bottle 1 shown is not suitable for fine dosing and the removal of dangerous goods.

FIG. 4 shows a further tilting of the bottle 1, in which the removal volume 4 and the passage opening 10 above the upper edge 7 of the partition 2, which connects the removal volume 4 to the storage volume 3, are completely filled with liquid. If the liquid now flows out of the pouring opening 8 out of the bottle 1, a negative pressure occurs in the area of the storage volume 3, which has to be equalized in order to be able to continue removing liquid from the bottle. In the case shown, pressure equalization takes place in that air is sucked in through the pouring opening 8, the through opening 10 and the liquid in the storage volume 3 up to the upper region 12 of the bottle in the form of more or less large air bubbles 11 through the removal volume 4 aufströmt. Since the pressure equalization generally takes place intermittently, there can accordingly be strong pressure fluctuations within the bottle 1, which under certain circumstances can lead to a gushing discharge of the liquid from the removal opening 8 and accordingly also to a possible spilling and splashing of the liquid. For this reason too, the known bottle 1 shown is not suitable for safely and well-dosed removal of dangerous liquid goods. FIG. 5 shows a situation in which the bottle 1 is shown in the overhead position. This position, which corresponds to a tilt angle of 180 degrees, furthermore shows the disadvantages of the sometimes abrupt pressure equalization described above, and shows that the bottle 1 cannot be completely emptied in this position, since on the surface of the partition 2, particularly in the case of highly viscous ones viscous liquids, residues that cannot find their way through the connection opening 10 into the removal volume 4. In this respect, the disposal of such a bottle 1 with residual contents is highly questionable from the point of view of environmental protection, with the remaining contents being lost as a valuable substance.

FIG. 6 shows a container according to the invention in the form of a bottle 1 for storing and pouring liquids with an inner volume and a pouring opening 8, the inner volume being divided into a storage volume 3 and a removal volume 4, which are connected to one another via the connection opening 10 in Connected, so that in a normal vertical position of the container according to Figure 6, the removal volume 4 is arranged above the storage volume 3 and overflow of liquid from the storage volume 3 into the removal volume 4 is prevented until the bottle 1 over a predetermined limit angle according to Figure 8 is tilted out of the vertical position.

In the representation according to FIG. 6 and the following representations, it is clear that the removal volume 4 opens into the pouring opening 8 in such a way that the pouring opening, when the container is tilted, as shown in FIGS. 8-11, between the critical angle (FIG. 8 ) and the overhead position (FIG. 11) of the bottle 1 each form the lowest point of the removal volume 4.

This is particularly evident in FIG. 8, where the bottle 1 according to the invention is shown in the critical angle position, that is to say when it is rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise, according to the present embodiment Withdrawal volume 4 is designed as a channel, one end 4.1 of which opens into the pouring opening 8 and the other end 4.2 of which flows into the storage volume 3 via the connecting opening 10. In this position, as shown in FIG. 8, the pouring opening 8 occupies the lowest point of the removal volume 4, which also applies to the further positions rotated in the tilt according to FIGS. 9, 10 and 11, where the overhead position is reached , is also given.

At all angles beyond the critical angle up to reaching the overhead position, the pouring opening 8 therefore represents the deepest point of the removal volume 4, which prevents regions 4 from forming in the removal volume in which the liquid initially collects before it emerges from the pouring opening 8 as is known to be disadvantageous in the prior art. Such a bottle construction accordingly conveys a sensitivity for the dosage during the liquid withdrawal.

It can be seen from FIG. 7 that the pouring opening forms the deepest point of the removal volume 4 even at angles smaller than the critical angle as soon as the pouring opening 8 is arranged below the transition opening 10 between the two volumes 3/4 due to the rotation. This results from the clear course of the channel of the removal volume, which begins in the transition area 10 between the volumes and ends in the pouring opening 8.

The bottle 1 according to the invention is filled with a quantity of liquid in order to use the essential properties according to the invention, so that the liquid level 6 comes to lie below the transition opening 10 between the two volumes or the tip 7 when the bottle is positioned upright according to FIG. 6 , This maximum filling quantity is a prerequisite for a perfect use of the properties essential to the invention. If the bottle 1 is now tilted further counterclockwise in the direction of arrow P to the critical angle according to FIG. 7, the liquid level 6 remains below the transition opening 10 or tip 7 between the two volumes 3/4 until the critical angle in it Trap 90 degrees, according to Figure 8 is reached. Upon further rotation beyond the critical angle, as shown in FIG. 9, the liquid enters the removal volume 4 via the opening 10 or tip 7, which is designed as a channel and becomes gravitational from there due to gravity led in the lowest point outlet opening 8 so that it can exit from this.

This bottle according to the invention has the advantage that no liquid emerges from the pouring opening 8 up to a tilt angle up to a critical angle, in the present case 90 degrees, so that the outlet opening 8 can be positioned precisely, for example, via a filler neck (not shown).

In the present case of the bottle 1 shown, the removal channel 4 is integrally formed as a tubular section on the upper housing areas of the storage volume 4 of the bottle 1 in the area of the transition 10, so that this channel-shaped tube section is located above the housing area 13, which the storage volume 3 follows limited above, extends. According to the illustration, the channel-shaped removal volume 4 can be designed as a handle so that the bottle 1 according to the invention can be carried safely. To stabilize the handle element, which is formed by the removal channel 4, a web 14 is provided which connects an area below the pouring opening 8 with an underlying area of the upper housing area 13 of the storage volume 4, so that between this web 14 and the one-piece transition in the area of the connection 10 between the volumes 3/4 results in a penetration 15 which is provided for holding fingers of one hand.

The construction shown here can also be understood to mean that the upper limiting housing wall 13 of the storage volume 3 and the lower one delimiting housing wall 16 of the removal channel 4 form the two side surfaces of a partition 2, by means of which the inner volume of the bottle 1 according to the invention is divided into the storage volume 3 and the removal volume 4. The connection area of these container housing areas 13/16 accordingly forms the tip 7 of this partition, beyond which the liquid passes between the volumes 3/4 in the transition area 10.

Compared to the prior art, the bottle 1 according to the invention has the advantage that sufficient liquid ventilation of the storage volume 3 is ensured when liquid is removed. This takes place through a ventilation line 17 which extends from the pouring opening 8 and opens into the storage volume 3. According to the present embodiment, the opening 18 of the ventilation line 17 in the storage volume 3 is diametrically opposite the pouring opening 8, so that when the bottle 1 is tilted according to FIGS. 9, 10 and 11, the opening 18 of the ventilation line 17 is arranged in the storage volume 3 that it comes to rest at its highest point. In this way, according to the invention it is achieved that the air which is sucked into the pouring opening 8 without coming into contact with the liquid can enter the upper ventilated area 12 of the storage volume without disturbing the calmness of the liquid and causing turbulence. This construction of the ventilation line 17 accordingly ensures a steady, smooth removal of liquid.

Figures 12 and 13 in particular show that the mouth 19 of the ventilation line 17 is arranged in the pouring opening 8 in an upper region when the position is tilted, so that this opening 19, in which air is sucked in, is not wetted by escaping liquid. In this respect, it can be prevented that the vacuum in the storage volume 3 again draws liquid into the ventilation line 17 and clogs it. It can also be seen from FIGS. 12 and 13 that the ventilation line 17 is arranged on the surface of the bottle 1 according to the invention and via the removal channel 4 and 12 and 13 is led down over the right-hand side surface 20 of the bottle 1 to a point where the ventilation line 17, as shown in FIGS. 14 and 6, is in an upright position in the lowest point 18 into the storage volume 3 empties. Alternatively, there is the possibility of arranging the ventilation line 17 directly in the housing wall of the container 1 in other constructions.

In order to prevent liquid from being uncontrolled to the pouring opening 8 through the ventilation line 17, in which the liquid reaches the same level 6 as in the storage volume 3 according to FIG. 6, the bottle 1 according to the invention has a special construction which essentially corresponds to the figure 8 can be seen. Figure 8 shows the critical angle position of the container 1, i.e. a tilt of 90 degrees out of the vertical position, from which it can be seen that the ventilation line 17 has, at least in a partial section 17a, a course which rises in height in the pouring direction A, ie to the left in the illustration. FIG. 8 furthermore shows the advantageous embodiment that the ventilation line 17 has a further line section 17b between the mouth opening 18 and the mentioned section 17a, which lies below this opening 18. This results in a kinking course of the ventilation line 17, which initially falls from the mouth opening and then rises steeply in the partial area 17a, which causes the residual liquid present in the ventilation line 17 in the bend 21 that forms, in particular before the steeply rising line, in the illustrated limiting angle position Piece 17a of the ventilation line 17 collects and is prevented from passing over into the area 17c of the ventilation line 17 falling off to the left of the section 17a by the acting gravity.

If the bottle 1 according to the invention is now further tilted beyond the critical angle, as shown in FIG. 9, the liquid will enter the removal volume 4 via the connection opening 10 and both the removal volume 4 and the passage opening 10 will be complete close, so that the negative pressure resulting from the removal of liquid in the storage volume 3 can only be achieved by pressure equalization via the ventilation line 17.

Accordingly, air 22 is sucked in through the ventilation line 17, which drives back the amount of residual liquid 24 collected in the bend 21 in the direction of the opening 18 of the ventilation line 17, so that this residual liquid 24 drips back 23 into the storage volume 3, as shown in FIG. 9, even before the portion 17a of the ventilation line 17 which rises in the critical angle position, when tilted further according to FIG. 9, reaches a horizontal orientation which would allow the liquid to fundamentally pass into the falling ventilation line region 17c.

The construction described accordingly effectively ensures that an uncontrolled removal of liquid can also be prevented from the ventilation line 17 when the bottle 1 according to the invention is tilted.

For the formation of a ventilation line 17 with the effect according to the invention, a subdivision of the ventilation line 17 into the rising and falling line sections 17a and 17b is not necessarily required. It is basically sufficient that in the critical angle position of the container, the ventilation line 17, starting from the mouth opening 18 in the storage volume 3, has a profile that increases, in particular, compared to the liquid level 6 in the storage volume 4.

Adequate and sufficiently secure positioning of the rising section 17a of the ventilation line 17 is achieved when the line section 17a above the opening 18 of the ventilation line is in the critical angle position (FIG. 8), in the vertically normal orientation (FIG. 6) of the bottle 1 and all intermediate positions, at least in sections above the connection opening 10 between the volumes 3/4 is arranged. In this case, the residual liquid quantity 24 in the ventilation line 17 will always flow against an increasing ventilation line section 17 a, which prevents further flow to the pouring opening 8.

FIG. 11 makes it clear that when the bottle 1 according to the invention is in the overhead position, complete residual emptying is also possible without the person who wants to empty the bottle having to worry about the exact positioning. FIG. 11 shows here in particular that in this overhead position the housing areas 13 of the bottle 1 delimiting the storage volume 3 downward have a gradient in the direction of the connection opening 10 between the storage volume 3 and the removal volume 4. If the bottle according to the invention is now only aligned approximately vertically in the overhead position, this gradient ensures that all of the liquid in the storage volume 3 is safely guided to the connection opening 10 due to the force of gravity and from there is directed into the removal volume 4 or the removal channel 4 formed ,

Since the housing areas 25 which delimit the removal volume 4 or the removal channel 4 downward also have a gradient in the direction of the pouring opening 8, it is ensured that the quantities of liquid which have found their way into the removal volume 4 also reliably reach the pouring opening 8, which represents the lowest point of this removal volume 4 are performed. In this respect, safe residual emptying is guaranteed.

As an alternative to the illustrations shown in the exemplary embodiment, a complete residual emptying can be achieved in a construction with a partition within the container volume, provided that the partition 2 realized in the container volume tapers towards the tip 7 of the partition 2 or towards the opening 10 of the partition 2 Has course, which is designed such that the wall side 13 of the partition wall, which faces the storage volume, also has a slope in the overhead position in the direction of the opening 10. The bottle 1 described above is particularly suitable due to its design features to ensure safe and evenly dosed removal of the liquid from the bottle and complete emptying of the residue even in the case of liquid dangerous goods.

LIST OF REFERENCES:

1 container, bottle

2 partition

3 storage volume

4 withdrawal volume, withdrawal channel

5 container footprint

6 liquid levels

7 Top edge / tip of the partition

8 pouring opening

9 filler neck

10 Transition / connection between supply and withdrawal volumes

11 air bubbles

12 upper air area in the storage volume

13 upper / lower housing area of the storage volume

14 bridge

15 penetration

16 lower housing area of the removal volume

17 ventilation line

17a rising ventilation duct section

17b, c falling ventilation duct section

18 Mouth opening of the ventilation line in the storage volume

19 Mouth opening of the ventilation line in the pouring opening 0 Right side surface of the container 1 Kink in the ventilation line 2 Air sucked in 3 Liquid drops 4 Residual liquid

Claims

claims

1. Container, in particular bottle (1), for storing and pouring liquids, with an inner volume and a pouring opening (8), the inner volume being divided into a storage volume (3) and a removal volume (4), which are together are in connection (10), so that in a normal vertical position of the container (1) the removal volume (4) is arranged above the storage volume (3) and prevents overflow of liquid from the storage volume (3) into the removal volume (4) until the container (1) is tilted beyond a predetermined limit angle from the vertical position, characterized in that the container (1) has a ventilation line (17) which extends from the pouring opening (8) and into the storage volume (3) opens.

2. Container according to claim 1, characterized in that the mouth opening (18) of the pouring opening (8) is diametrically opposite.

3. Container according to one of the preceding claims 1 or 2, characterized in that the mouth opening (18) of the ventilation line (17) is arranged in the storage volume (3) such that when the container is tilted over an angle greater than the critical angle in one Upper area (12) of the storage volume (3), in particular in its highest point.

4. Container according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the ventilation line (17) is formed inside or on the wall of the container housing, in particular in the critical angular position of the container inside or on the upwardly facing wall of the container housing.

5. Container according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that in the critical angular position of the container (1) the ventilation line (17) at least in a partial section (17a) has a height increasing in the pouring direction (A).

6. Container according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that in the critical angular position of the container (1) the ventilation line (17) has in its course at least one line section (17a) which is arranged above the mouth opening (18) through which the Ventilation line (17) opens into the storage volume (3).

7. Container according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the ventilation line (17) between the line section (17a) above the mouth opening (18) and the mouth opening (18) has at least one further line section (17b) which is below the mouth opening (18) is arranged.

8. Container according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that in the critical angular position of the container (1) above the mouth opening (18) line section (17a) with a vertical orientation of the container (1) at least in sections above the connection opening (10) lies between the volumes (3,4).

9. Container, in particular according to one of the preceding claims, for storing and pouring liquids, with an inner volume and a pouring opening (8), the inner volume being divided into a storage volume (3) and a removal volume (4) are connected to each other (10) so that, in a normal vertical position of the container (1), the removal volume (4) is arranged above the storage volume (3) and overflow of liquid from the storage volume (3) into the removal volume (4) is prevented until the container (1) is tilted beyond a predetermined limit angle from the vertical position, characterized in that the removal volume (4) is inserted into the Pouring opening (8) opens out so that when the container (1) is tilted between the critical angle and the overhead position of the container (1), the pouring opening (8) forms the lowest point of the removal volume (4).

10. A container according to claim 9, characterized in that the removal volume (4) is designed as a channel, one end (4.1) of which opens into the pouring opening and the other end (4.2) of which is into the storage volume (3).

11. A container according to claim 10, characterized in that the container housing areas of the channel-shaped removal volume (4) form a handle.

12. A container according to claim 10 or 11, characterized in that a housing area of the removal volume (4) is connected to a housing area of the storage volume (3) via at least one web (14) which is in particular separated from the transition area (10) between the two volumes ( 3,4) is spaced.

13. Container according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that when the container (1) is tilted at the critical angle, the removal volume (4) opens into an upper region (10), in particular in the highest region of the storage volume (3).

14. Container according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the removal volume (4) and the storage volume (3) are formed by a partition (2) which divides the inner volume of the container (1).

15. Container (1), in particular according to one of the preceding claims, for storing and pouring liquids, with an inner volume and a pouring opening (8), the inner volume being divided into a storage volume (3) and a removal volume (4) is that with each other are in connection (10), so that in a normal vertical position of the container (1) the removal volume (4) is arranged above the storage volume (3) and prevents overflow of liquid from the storage volume (3) into the removal volume (4) until the container (1) is tilted beyond a predetermined limit angle from the vertical position, characterized in that, when the container (1) is in an overhead position, the housing areas (13) of the container (13) delimiting the storage volume (3) downward 1) have a slope in the direction of the connection opening (10) or the connection channel between the storage volume (3) and the removal volume (4) and / or that the housing areas (25) of the container (1) delimiting the removal volume (4) downward Have a slope towards the pouring opening (8).