EP1541483A1 - Originalitätsgesicherte Verschlusskappe für Getränkebehälter wie Bierfass - Google Patents

Originalitätsgesicherte Verschlusskappe für Getränkebehälter wie Bierfass Download PDF

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EP1541483A1
EP1541483A1 EP04292935A EP04292935A EP1541483A1 EP 1541483 A1 EP1541483 A1 EP 1541483A1 EP 04292935 A EP04292935 A EP 04292935A EP 04292935 A EP04292935 A EP 04292935A EP 1541483 A1 EP1541483 A1 EP 1541483A1
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Jean-Pierre Sittler
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Nouvelle Dinamic Emballages Ste
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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
    • B65D41/00—Caps, e.g. crown caps or crown seals, i.e. members having parts arranged for engagement with the external periphery of a neck or wall defining a pouring opening or discharge aperture; Protective cap-like covers for closure members, e.g. decorative covers of metal foil or paper
    • B65D41/32—Caps or cap-like covers with lines of weakness, tearing-strips, tags, or like opening or removal devices, e.g. to facilitate formation of pouring openings
    • B65D41/46—Snap-on caps or cap-like covers
    • B65D41/48—Snap-on caps or cap-like covers non-metallic, e.g. made of paper or plastics

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  • the present invention relates to a capsule tamper evidence for a container outlet especially for drinking, in particular for beer.
  • a beer keg has on its face upper filling and racking head having a flange defining an orifice.
  • the capsule must be sufficiently broken and deteriorated during her removal so that she can not be reused on this drum.
  • Such a capsule also has a function to protect the filling head against dirt, dust and the like, and must be easy to remove, without being reduced to pieces, fragments or debris during removal.
  • the capsule remains glued to the collar of the filling head of the which complicates its withdrawal. Indeed, the beer which dries acts as an adhesive.
  • the capsule must therefore include means to avoid contact with its underside with the upper face of the head of filling and racking.
  • the object of the invention is therefore, to provide a tamper-proof and automatic locking on the hole of the beer barrel which can only be removed by splitting it. This breakage must be clean, free of debris, manifest and irremediable, and allow a quick and easy withdrawal of the whole body of the capsule.
  • the capsule according to the invention comprises a disc of overlap and an adjacent skirt, attached to surrounding and extending from the disk to a certain distance from it.
  • This capsule is shaped to be mounted on said flange and the inner wall of the skirt comprises for this purpose resilient retaining elements, which in the closing, engage elastically around the collar so that the capsule is anchored firmly on the collar.
  • a tearing part provided with a tongue is provided, which extends substantially over the entire diameter of the cover disc, so that the traction at achieve on the tear strip be oriented following the direction of the center line of the disc.
  • the capsule according to the invention comprises a tearing portion with edges curved divergent.
  • the tearing part When pulling on the tongue of the capsule, the tearing part is disengages from the rest of the capsule in a part of capsule with increasing width from the tongue. A time this part of tearing removed, it remains so two parts of the disk of much smaller size to that of the two halves of the disc, which are much easier to remove.
  • the capsule according to the invention preferably comprises protrusions with spacer effect, preferentially in the form of studs or pins on the face bottom of the disc, these studs or pins allowing to maintain the underside of the capsule to distance from the upper face of the barrel head.
  • the capsule can be put automatically by mechanical means and at high speed.
  • the capsule 1 according to the invention is intended for snapped onto the edge of the hole of a barrel of beer 2 as shown in Figure 1.
  • This capsule 1 includes a disc of overlap 3 and an adjacent skirt 4 attached to its perimeter and extending from disk 3 to a certain distance from it.
  • Wall interior of the skirt 4 has elements of snap-fastening elastic retainer 5 having example each an inclined ramp snap of the notch type. These elastic retainers 5 are intended to engage snap on the rim of the collar of the opening of the beer barrel in position of closure so that the capsule 1 is so effectively retained at the collar.
  • Part of tearing 6 is also provided on the cover disc 3 with a pull tab 7 serving as a gripping member to remove the capsule from the barrel head.
  • This tearing portion 6 is delimited by two weakening lines 8 formed on a of the faces of the disc 3, preferably on the face lower of disc 3. These lines of weakening 8 are curved and divergent, and start substantially at the level of the tongue 7 for finish at the limit of skirt 4 of capsule 1 to distance from the tongue.
  • These weakening lines 8 are provided so that when pulling on the tongue 7 of the capsule 1, the tearing portion 6 disengages from the rest of the capsule into a capsule part to increasing width from the tongue 7.
  • the weakening lines 8 are provided for the tearing part 6 and the two parts of capsule remaining on the collar of the drum have a substantially lengthwise skirt portion similar.
  • the pull tab 7 is extended by the tearing part 6 so as to facilitate pulling out by leverage.
  • this extension of the tongue 7 which also facilitates its grip, should not extend beyond the outer diameter of the edge of the disk to allow stacking of capsules.
  • the gripping of the tongue 7 can also be facilitated by an opening 9 of the tab type of prehension provided in the skirt 4 at the height of the tongue.
  • lines of weakening 8 extend preferentially through the skirt 4, so that when tearing off the part tearing 6, the skirt itself is split into three pieces.
  • Such an allowance may be present on along the tearing portion 6 in the form of a reinforcement thickening 11, preferentially in its middle part to give more resistance to it for that part of tearing does not break accidentally out of lines of weakening 8 during its tearing.
  • the skirt may have inclined ramps 12 in its part internal, which serve as a means of restraint.
  • the cover disc 3 may comprise on its underside protrusions forming spacers, preferentially under the shape of studs or pimples. These studs or dots allow to maintain the bottom surface of the capsule away from the plane defined by the collar so that it does not stick to the upper face of the head of the beer keg.
  • the projections forming spacers are made in the form of spikes distributed in two semicircles on either side of the median longitudinal of the tearing portion 6.
  • the capsule 1 according to the invention advantageously be molded in one piece, preferentially by injection, which implies a low cost of manufacture.
  • the laying of a capsule according to the invention on a keg of beer is extremely simple and easy, while like his withdrawal.
  • a simple pressing up and down on the capsule helps to engage it by snapping on the collar of the barrel beer, its immobilisation being carried out automatically by abutment on the upper face of the barrel head.
  • the removal of the capsule is just as simple. First, you need to grasp the tab grasping and pulling on it in the direction of the opposite edge of the capsule. Continuing this movement, the tongue then drives the part of tearing to separate from the rest of the capsule. When the entire tearing part has been torn along its two lines of weakness, an important middle part of the capsule, remained attached to the tongue, can be removed from the collar. There are only two pieces left of capsule, joined by a thinned part of the skirt at the level of the grip opening. By dismissing remaining part of the capsule on the collar, it can then be easily released, giving access to the head of the drum. This one is free from any debris or plastic fragment from the capsule and any impurity that could have been deposited on the collar in the absence of capsule.

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EP04292935A 2003-12-09 2004-12-09 Originalitätsgesicherte Verschlusskappe für Getränkebehälter wie Bierfass Active EP1541483B1 (de)

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FR0314407 2003-12-09
FR0314407A FR2863257B1 (fr) 2003-12-09 2003-12-09 Capsule d'inviolabilite pour contenant de boisson, notamment fut a biere

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Cited By (5)

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WO2006087600A1 (de) * 2005-02-15 2006-08-24 Klaus Boetzkes Verschlusskappe
GB2481436A (en) * 2010-06-24 2011-12-28 Silvia Romana Marabini Chime attachment means and tamper evident cap
CN102424177A (zh) * 2011-08-12 2012-04-25 四川省隆鑫科技包装有限公司 一种安全不伤人瓶盖
WO2016132001A1 (es) * 2015-02-16 2016-08-25 Plasticos Industriales Geca, S.A. Precinto para barriles de cerveza
ES2928006A1 (es) * 2021-05-11 2022-11-14 Sanchez Jose Francisco Gonzalez Precinto de inviolabilidad para barriles de bebida

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DE2738551A1 (de) * 1976-09-08 1978-03-16 Farmaprof Srl Verschlusskappe fuer einen flakon
US4779750A (en) * 1986-12-19 1988-10-25 Arlco Pty. Limited Beer keg cap
EP0652160A1 (de) * 1993-11-06 1995-05-10 Lawson Mardon Sutton Ltd. Schnappverschluss für Bierfass
BE1008450A6 (nl) * 1994-05-11 1996-05-07 Gevaplast Vat, i.h.b. biervat, voorzien van een afdekkap en werkwijze voor het vervaardigen van de afdekkap.
GB2319019A (en) * 1996-11-06 1998-05-13 Rankin Brothers & Sons Tamper Proof Seal

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE2738551A1 (de) * 1976-09-08 1978-03-16 Farmaprof Srl Verschlusskappe fuer einen flakon
US4779750A (en) * 1986-12-19 1988-10-25 Arlco Pty. Limited Beer keg cap
EP0652160A1 (de) * 1993-11-06 1995-05-10 Lawson Mardon Sutton Ltd. Schnappverschluss für Bierfass
BE1008450A6 (nl) * 1994-05-11 1996-05-07 Gevaplast Vat, i.h.b. biervat, voorzien van een afdekkap en werkwijze voor het vervaardigen van de afdekkap.
GB2319019A (en) * 1996-11-06 1998-05-13 Rankin Brothers & Sons Tamper Proof Seal

Cited By (7)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO2006087600A1 (de) * 2005-02-15 2006-08-24 Klaus Boetzkes Verschlusskappe
GB2481436A (en) * 2010-06-24 2011-12-28 Silvia Romana Marabini Chime attachment means and tamper evident cap
CN102424177A (zh) * 2011-08-12 2012-04-25 四川省隆鑫科技包装有限公司 一种安全不伤人瓶盖
CN102424177B (zh) * 2011-08-12 2014-09-03 四川省隆鑫科技包装有限公司 一种安全不伤人瓶盖
WO2016132001A1 (es) * 2015-02-16 2016-08-25 Plasticos Industriales Geca, S.A. Precinto para barriles de cerveza
EP3260385A4 (de) * 2015-02-16 2018-10-31 Plasticos Industriales Geca, S.A. Dichtung für bierfässer
ES2928006A1 (es) * 2021-05-11 2022-11-14 Sanchez Jose Francisco Gonzalez Precinto de inviolabilidad para barriles de bebida

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