EP1566338B1 - Utilisation d'une bouteille en deux parties pour la préparation d'un mélange de boissons - Google Patents

Utilisation d'une bouteille en deux parties pour la préparation d'un mélange de boissons Download PDF

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EP1566338B1
EP1566338B1 EP20040003519 EP04003519A EP1566338B1 EP 1566338 B1 EP1566338 B1 EP 1566338B1 EP 20040003519 EP20040003519 EP 20040003519 EP 04003519 A EP04003519 A EP 04003519A EP 1566338 B1 EP1566338 B1 EP 1566338B1
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Rainer Schellberg
Rainer H. Bielinski
Ulrich Schöne
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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
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    • B65D81/32—Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents for packaging two or more different materials which must be maintained separate prior to use in admixture
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  • the invention relates to the use of a bottle assembly of a first bottle and a second bottle.
  • a single bottle in particular a glass bottle contains a so-called mixed drink, which consists of a first beverage component and a second beverage component.
  • the first beverage component is, for example, a lemonade or a caffeinated lemonade and the second beverage component is an alcoholic beverage, for example, beer or Altbier.
  • Such mixed drinks are very popular nowadays.
  • the mixture of beverage components is already produced when bottling the bottles and the finished mixed drink is then offered in the bottles.
  • these offered mixed drinks have considerable disadvantages.
  • the shelf life of the mixed drinks is limited or leaves much to be desired.
  • many of these mixed drinks also in terms of taste do not meet the requirements or at least in terms of taste can be improved. It is believed that the taste of these drinks suffers from the fact that the mixed drinks are stored or stored as a finished mixture for a long time.
  • the AU 426 828 deals with a bottle aggregate in order to be able to mix separately stored components of a mixture.
  • the two bottles are held in storage position by a removable spacer to each other.
  • the spacer must be removed so that one of the two bottles can penetrate into the other. This is expensive.
  • a drink cup is presented, whose foot and tulip are filled with different drinks. By connecting foot and tulip, the two drinks can be mixed.
  • the invention is based on the technical problem to provide a way to produce a mixed beverage, with which the disadvantages described above are effectively avoided.
  • the invention teaches the use of a bottle assembly for producing a ready to drink mix containing a first bottle containing a first beverage component and a second bottle containing a second beverage component, the first bottle having an upper dispensing opening and a dispensing opening having occlusive bottle cap, wherein the first bottle is further provided with a lower filling opening and with a closing element closing the lower filling opening and designed as a rupture disk with predetermined breaking points, the second bottle having an upper connection opening and an opening closure closing this connection opening, wherein the second bottle with its connection opening to the lower filling opening of the first bottle with automatic opening of the closure element of the lower filling opening and automatic opening of the opening closure of the upper connection opening is liquid-tight manner by a provided on an underside of the closure element of the first bottle opening element for automatically opening the opening closure of the second bottle in the course of the connection of the two bottles ensures and break the predetermined breaking points of the closure element when connecting the second bottle, releasing a connection opening between the two bottles, and wherein the
  • Upper discharge opening of the first bottle means, in particular, the upper end of the neck of a common bottle.
  • the bottle cap of this dispensing opening is for example a crown cap or a quick release.
  • the second bottle can be connected to the first bottle with automatic opening of the closure element, means within the scope of the invention that the closure element does not have to be removed by additional manual measures such as pulling out or unscrewing.
  • the two beverage components are miscible with each other via the compound produced between the second bottle and the first bottle.
  • This mixture of the two beverage components can take place by pure diffusion, by leaving the bottle unit with the shutter open element without further manipulation.
  • the mixing of the two beverage components is preferably supported by a swiveling or shaking of the bottle unit.
  • the first bottle and the second bottle made of a plastic.
  • a very special preferred embodiment of the invention is characterized in that the first and the second bottle made of the same plastic material, preferably made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET).
  • PET polyethylene terephthalate
  • the closure disc or plate may be a circular disc / plate.
  • the predetermined breaking lines of the closure disk expediently run in a star shape from a center of the closure disk to the edges of the closure disk, in particular to the edges of the circular closure disk.
  • a film or a thin disk / plate without predetermined breaking points can be used as a closure element of the lower filling opening. Then tears the connection of the second bottle, the film under release of Connection opening on or the thin disc / plate breaks when connecting the second bottle.
  • a connecting device is provided at the lower filling opening of the first bottle and a complementary connecting device is provided at the connecting opening of the second bottle and that the second bottle can be fixed to the first bottle by interaction of connecting device and complementary connecting device.
  • Fixation or attachment of the second bottle to the first bottle means here in particular that the second bottle can not fall out of the first bottle or not readily withdrawn from the first bottle or can be pulled out of the first bottle.
  • the automatic opening of the closure element of the first bottle takes place.
  • the connecting means of the first bottle is an internal thread and the complementary connection means of the second bottle is a complementary external thread and by producing a screw connection between internal thread and external thread, the bottles are fixed to one another.
  • the internal thread is expediently arranged in the filling region of the first bottle in front of the closure element.
  • the external thread of the second bottle is preferably located on the connection piece of the second bottle, with which connection piece the second bottle is introduced into the filling area of the first bottle. It is within the scope of the invention that a positive connection and in particular a positive fluid-tight connection between the two bottles is produced by the connection of the two bottles.
  • the connecting device of the first bottle and the complementary connecting device of the second bottle are set up in such a way that that a connection of the two bottles via a bayonet lock is possible.
  • the connection means of the first bottle has positive locking elements and that the complementary connection means of the second bottle Komplementärform gleichiana, and that the production of the positive connection between the positive locking elements and the complementary form-locking elements, the bottles are positively and liquid-tight fixed to each other.
  • a film covering or closing the filling area of the first bottle is provided at the bottom of the first bottle.
  • the filling area of the first bottle means an insertion recess of the first bottle into which the second bottle for the connection of both bottles can be inserted.
  • the filling area adjoins the filling opening with the closure element.
  • the foil covering the filling area is expediently a metal foil, in particular an aluminum foil or a plastic foil.
  • the filling region of the first bottle has a conical contact surface or sealing surface and the connection region of the second bottle has a conical complementary contact surface or a conical complementary sealing surface.
  • a positive contact contact is advantageously made.
  • the opening closure at the connection opening of the second bottle preferably consists of a foil or of a thin disk.
  • This is in particular a metal foil, preferably an aluminum foil.
  • the film can also be a plastic film. Even if the opening closure is formed as a thin disk, this preferably consists of a metal, in particular of aluminum or of a plastic.
  • At least one opening element for automatically opening the connection opening of the second bottle in the course of connection of the two bottles is provided on the underside of the closure element at the filling opening of the first bottle.
  • Automatic opening means, in particular, that the opening takes place without further action or without further manual intervention.
  • the opening element is preferably a mandrel arranged on the underside of the closure element. The mandrel expediently penetrates into the opening closure at the connection opening of the second bottle, so that the second bottle is opened in this way. If the opening closure of the second bottle according to a preferred embodiment of the invention consists of a foil or of a thin disc, the mandrel will be pierced when connecting both bottles this film or disc as it were.
  • the first beverage component is an alcoholic beverage component and the second beverage component is a non-alcoholic beverage component or vice versa.
  • the non-alcoholic beverage component is at least one beverage from the group "lemonade, fruit juice, carbonated beverage with dye.”
  • the alcoholic beverage component may be at least one Drink from the group "Beer, Pils, Altbier, wheat beer” act.
  • the alcoholic beverage component is a spirit component.
  • the spirit component contains at least one component from the group "brandy, rum, vodka, whiskey, gin".
  • one of the two beverage components is a milk product, for example milk or drinking yoghurt.
  • the other beverage component may then be, for example, a fruit concentrate or the like.
  • the invention is based on the finding that can be produced with the bottle assembly according to the invention mixed drinks, which are distinguished from the known from the prior art mixed drinks by considerable advantages.
  • the separate keeping ready of the two beverage components in separate bottles thus optimized storage in terms of durability is achieved and ensures a variant-optimized storage.
  • the mixing of the two beverage components shortly before consumption results in an excellent taste of the beverage, which clearly stands out from the taste of the mixed drinks known from practice. It is particularly surprising that especially after the mixing of the two contained in plastic bottles, preferably in PET bottles beverage components a mixed drink of very excellent taste is obtained.
  • Bottle unit combinable bottles can continue to be produced in a low cost and with low cost.
  • the figures show a bottle unit for producing a ready-to-drink mixed drink, with a first bottle 1 containing a first beverage component, not shown. Furthermore, a second bottle 2 is provided which contains a second beverage component, also not shown.
  • the first bottle 1 has an upper dispensing opening 3 and a bottle closure 4 closing this dispensing opening 3.
  • the bottle cap 4 may be a crown cap.
  • the first bottle has at its bottom 5 in a filling region 6 a lower filling opening 7.
  • the lower filling opening 7 is closed with a closure element 8, which closure element 8 expediently and in the embodiment as a rupture disk made of plastic is trained.
  • This rupture disk has predetermined breaking points 9, which break when connecting the second bottle 2, releasing a connection opening between the two bottles 1, 2.
  • the predetermined breaking points 9 are preferably and in the embodiment designed as predetermined breaking lines, which extend in a star shape from a center of the rupture disk (closure element 8) to the edge of the closure element 8.
  • the filling area 6 of the first bottle 1 consists of a recess in the bottom 5 of the first bottle 1.
  • the second bottle 2 has an upper connection opening 10 and an opening closure closing this connection opening 10.
  • This opening closure 11 is formed in the embodiment as aluminum foil.
  • the first bottle 1 has in the filling area 6 an internal thread 12 as a connecting device and the second bottle 2 has in the connection area or at its connection piece 13 to the internal thread 12 complementary external thread 14 as a complementary connection means.
  • the two bottles 1, 2 can be fixed to one another and indeed liquid-tightly connected to each other.
  • a conical contact surface 15 arranged in the filling region 6 of the first bottle 1 comes into positive contact contact with a conical complementary contact surface 16 provided in the connection region of the second bottle 2.
  • Conical contact surface 15 and conical complementary contact surface 16 additionally act as sealing surfaces in the connection of the two bottles 1 and 2 ,
  • this film 17 ruptures, so that the second bottle 2 can be filled into the filling region 6.
  • an opening element 18 is provided on the underside of the closure element 8, which is realized in the embodiment as an integrally formed on the closure element 8 and the rupture disc mandrel.

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  1. Utilisation d'un ensemble de bouteilles pour la création d'une boisson mixte avec une première bouteille (1) contenant un premier composant de boisson et une seconde bouteille (2) contenant un second composant de boisson, la première bouteille (1) présentant un orifice supérieur de déversement (3) et un dispositif de fermeture de bouteille (4) fermant cet orifice de déversement (3),
    la première bouteille (1) étant en outre pourvue d'un orifice inférieur de remplissage (7) ainsi que d'un élément de fermeture (8) fermant l'orifice inférieur de remplissage (7) et constitué d'un disque de rupture équipé de points destinés à la rupture (9),
    la seconde bouteille (2) présentant un orifice supérieur de raccordement (10) et un dispositif de fermeture (11) fermant cet orifice de raccordement (10),
    la seconde bouteille (2) pouvant être raccordée de façon étanche aux liquides, par son orifice de raccordement (10), à l'orifice inférieur de remplissage (7) de la première bouteille (1), par ouverture automatique de l'élément de fermeture (8) de l'orifice inférieur de remplissage (7) et ouverture automatique du dispositif de fermeture (11) de l'orifice supérieur de raccordement (10), caractérisé en ce que
    un élément d'ouverture (18) prévu sur la partie inférieure de l'élément de fermeture (8) de la première bouteille (1), destiné à l'ouverture automatique du dispositif de fermeture (11) de la seconde bouteille (2), assure la liaison entre les deux bouteilles (1, 2) et les points destinés à la rupture (9) de l'élément de fermeture (8) se rompent lors du raccordement de la seconde bouteille (2), en libérant un orifice de liaison entre les deux bouteilles (1, 2) et
    les deux composants de boisson peuvent être mélangés l'un à l'autre par la liaison créée entre l'orifice de raccordement (10) de la seconde bouteille (2) et l'orifice de remplissage (7) de la première bouteille (1).
  2. Utilisation selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle la première bouteille (1) et/ou la seconde bouteille (2) sont en matière synthétique.
  3. Utilisation selon la revendication 2, dans laquelle la première et la seconde bouteilles (1, 2) sont faites du même matériau, de préférence du polyéthylène téréphtalate (PET).
  4. Utilisation selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisée en ce que l'élément de fermeture (8) consiste en un disque de fermeture pourvu de points destinés à la rupture (9).
  5. Utilisation selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 4, dans laquelle un dispositif de liaison est prévu sur l'orifice inférieur de remplissage (7) de la première bouteille (1) et un dispositif de liaison complémentaire est prévu sur l'orifice de raccordement (10) de la seconde bouteille (2), l'interaction du dispositif de liaison et du dispositif de liaison complémentaire permettant de fixer la seconde bouteille (2) à la première bouteille (1).
  6. Utilisation selon la revendication 5, dans laquelle le dispositif de liaison de la première bouteille (1) est un filet interne (12) et le dispositif de liaison complémentaire de la seconde bouteille (2) est un filet externe complémentaire (14), la création d'une liaison vissée entre le filet interne (12) et le filet externe (14) permettant de fixer les bouteilles (1, 2) l'une à l'autre.
  7. Utilisation selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 6, dans laquelle le fond (5) de la première bouteille (1) est pourvu d'un film (17) recouvrant la zone de remplissage (6).
  8. Utilisation selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 7, dans laquelle la zone de remplissage (6) de la première bouteille (1) présente une surface de contact conique (15) et la zone de raccordement de la seconde bouteille (2) présente une surface de contact conique complémentaire.
  9. Utilisation selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 8, dans laquelle le dispositif de fermeture (11) de l'orifice de raccordement (10) de la seconde bouteille (2) se compose d'un film ou d'un disque mince.
  10. Utilisation selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 9, dans laquelle le premier composant de boisson est un composant de boisson alcoolisé et le second composant de boisson est un composant de boisson non alcoolisé.
  11. Utilisation selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 10, dans laquelle le composant de boisson non alcoolisé est au moins une boisson du groupe des "limonades, jus de fruits, boissons au gaz carbonique avec colorant".
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