EP1675778B1 - Verschlusskombination aus einer verschlusskappe und einem behältnisteil - Google Patents

Verschlusskombination aus einer verschlusskappe und einem behältnisteil Download PDF

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EP1675778B1
EP1675778B1 EP04766753A EP04766753A EP1675778B1 EP 1675778 B1 EP1675778 B1 EP 1675778B1 EP 04766753 A EP04766753 A EP 04766753A EP 04766753 A EP04766753 A EP 04766753A EP 1675778 B1 EP1675778 B1 EP 1675778B1
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Udo Suffa
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Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH and Co KG
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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
    • B65D50/00—Closures with means for discouraging unauthorised opening or removal thereof, with or without indicating means, e.g. child-proof closures
    • B65D50/02—Closures with means for discouraging unauthorised opening or removal thereof, with or without indicating means, e.g. child-proof closures openable or removable by the combination of plural actions
    • B65D50/04—Closures with means for discouraging unauthorised opening or removal thereof, with or without indicating means, e.g. child-proof closures openable or removable by the combination of plural actions requiring the combination of simultaneous actions, e.g. depressing and turning, lifting and turning, maintaining a part and turning another one
    • B65D50/045—Closures with means for discouraging unauthorised opening or removal thereof, with or without indicating means, e.g. child-proof closures openable or removable by the combination of plural actions requiring the combination of simultaneous actions, e.g. depressing and turning, lifting and turning, maintaining a part and turning another one where one action elastically deforms or deflects at least part of the closure, the container or an intermediate element, e.g. a ring
    • B65D50/046—Closures with means for discouraging unauthorised opening or removal thereof, with or without indicating means, e.g. child-proof closures openable or removable by the combination of plural actions requiring the combination of simultaneous actions, e.g. depressing and turning, lifting and turning, maintaining a part and turning another one where one action elastically deforms or deflects at least part of the closure, the container or an intermediate element, e.g. a ring and such deformation causes the disengagement of locking means, e.g. the release of a pawl-like element from a tooth or abutment, to allow removal of the closure by simultaneous rotation

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  • the invention relates to a closure combination according to the features of the preamble of claim 1.
  • Both the closure cap and the container part are preferably plastic parts, more preferably plastic injection parts.
  • a closure combination is known in which, in some embodiments, an actuating tab formed on the closure cap extends below a threaded portion of the closure cap. In a further embodiment, the actuating tab extends above the threaded portion of the cap. The function of this embodiment is questionable.
  • the invention has the object, a closure combination of the type specified in such a way and further, that in a structurally advantageous concept, a reliable secure dual actuation is given.
  • the actuating tab has a control section at the foot, which extends at least in a closed position inside the peripheral band and that on a vertical external thread wall of the container part and / or on the, the horizontally oriented container part ceiling a screw-on rotation stop is formed.
  • the closure combination allows a safe reaching the locked position.
  • the locked position can not be endangered by over-tightening.
  • the opening safety device is spatially separated from the threaded engagement between the closure cap and the container part.
  • the counter projection to be crossed may be integrally formed in the area of a container part ceiling. More preferably, the projection extends perpendicular to the plane of the container part ceiling.
  • the counter-protrusion may be an integral part of a ring wall enclosing the container part ceiling, which in the transition region to the Counter projection - viewed in the screwing direction of the cap - merges into a ramp.
  • a plurality of evenly distributed counter projections preferably over the circumference of the container detail ceiling.
  • Based on a floor plan of the container part ceiling provided two diametrically opposite counter projections, wherein the number of cooperating with these actuating tabs may correspond to the number of counter projections. Alternatively, less actuating tabs may be provided, so for example. At four Gegemvorsprüngen two diametrically opposite operating tabs.
  • the said container part ceiling may be functionally formed on the already mentioned additional part.
  • the radial modulation of the actuating lobe and the final, automatic return displacement of the same in the blocking position are ensured by elastic properties of the selected plastic for the production of the cap according to the diametrical arrangement of two counter-projections are preferably also in the closure cap freely cut two diametrically opposed actuating tabs, wherein further protrude the incisions into the region of the closure cap bottom, whereby the incisions each consist of a vertical and an approximately horizontal portion.
  • the actuating tabs or can. the actuating tabs are pressed from above or at least partially from above to overcome the opening safety.
  • the actuating tab is freely movable relative to the peripheral band.
  • the or the actuating tabs also have over this afford cherries circumferential wall and with respect to the remaining cap in the cap between the actuating tabs Kappenwandungsabroughen reduced to Kappendrebachse radius.
  • the peripheral band list outside the operating lobe integral part of a cap wall, wherein preferably the peripheral band and the cap wall have the same diameter and wherein the circumferential band is free of cuts for the actuating tabs It also proves to be advantageous that a cooperating with a marginal edge of the actuating lobe, the counter-projection ausformender rotary opening stopper, which is to be overcome only by En appreciation the actuating tab, is formed in a oriented on a horizontal container ceiling.
  • the intermeshing threads of the closure cap and container part are preferably placed on a maximum Aufschraubwindung the cap of about 180 °
  • a maximum Aufschraubwindung the cap of about 180 °
  • the latter can cooperate in the simplest way with a correspondingly shaped end portion of the closure cap-side internal thread.
  • the screw-on rotation stop is positioned in such a way that, after the stop cap has been screwed on stop-wise, each operating lobe is locked behind the counter-projection.
  • the cap is then tied up in both directions of screwing, which can be adjusted by appropriately positioning the attacks a movement in the bound position.
  • the said counter-projection is formed on the additional part
  • the additional part at the mouth or on the container (back) is secured against rotation.
  • the attachment may be a muzzle closure.
  • the mouth may in particular also be a double mouth. In this way, by suitable encircling the double orifice through the additional part results in itself a rotational security of the additional part relative to the container, by means of just the mouth design.
  • the mouth especially if it is a single mouth, may be designed for this purpose in its ground plan out of round.
  • the additional part may be designed for slip-over over the mouth and a subsequent down from the mouth level thread-free neck portion.
  • the additional part is in a cross section in particular also preferably hat-shaped.
  • the ring wall in the vertical orientation, can be formed on the hat edge, which forms the counter-projection.
  • Fig. 1 Shown and described is first with reference to Fig. 1 a closure combination of a preferably produced by plastic injection molding cap 1 and a, also preferably made of plastic mouth opening 2 having container part. 3
  • the closure cap 1 can be screw-fastened to the container part 3 or to an ejection part raised on a neck of the container 3, wherein an opening safety device is provided which requires a double actuation.
  • the container part 3 or the dispensing part has an actuating part wall 4, which carries an external thread 6.
  • the container part 3 is provided with a oriented on a horizontal container part ceiling 6, which extends in a plane transverse to a screw-axis of rotation x.
  • the ceiling 6 carries the outer edge following, designed as a ring wall 7 actuating wall 4, which extends from the container part ceiling 6, starting perpendicular to this.
  • annular wall 7 integrally forms two diametrically opposite, radially inwardly facing counter projections 8.
  • each counter-projection 8 is preceded by a run-on bevel 9, which is likewise integrally formed from the annular wall 7.
  • Each of a rotary opening stop 10 forming counter-projections 8 can be directed radially in the direction of the Be Strukturnisbeil cover 6 in the center Deutschenzrebende axis of rotation x.
  • an embodiment in which the counter-projections 8 are inclined in the screwing-on direction by approx. 10 ° beyond an imaginary radial liner which relates to the axis of rotation x is preferred (see angle ⁇ in FIG Fig. 9 ).
  • no run-on slope is formed by this undercut
  • two mouth openings 2 are provided, which are formed on outgoing from the container part ceiling 6 elevations 11. It is also conceivable embodiment according to Fig. 6 in which a central mouth opening 2 is provided and in which the annular wall 7 with respect to the embodiment in Fig. 2 viewed in the axial direction is extended and the outer wall of this annular wall 7, the external thread 5 is arranged, wherein further formed by the counter-projections 8 and the ramps 9 formed constrictions of the annular wall 7 extend over the entire height of the annular wall 7 and thus interrupt the external thread 5 in these areas , but this leads to no impairment in the course of screwing the cap 1.
  • the external thread 5 has a screw-on rotation stop 12, which in the form of a on the container part wall 4 and in the embodiment according to Fig. 6 on the annular wall 7 is parallel to the axis of rotation x extending, radially outwardly projecting abutment shoulder 13 is formed
  • This Aufschraub-Drehanschlag 12 is viewed in the direction of rotation angle offset behind the associated counter-projection 8 arranged, this including taking into account in a vertical projection Betehenben angles between counter stop 8 and screw-on rotation stop 12 of about 60 °.
  • two diametrically opposed screw-on rotational stops 12 or stop shoulders 1.3 are provided.
  • cap 1 has a cap cover 14 and a circumferential cap wall 15.
  • the cap cover 14 is provided on the inside with not shown closure means, such as plugs for sealing closure of the mouth opening 2.
  • the closure cap 1 is provided with a number of fitting tabs 16 corresponding to the number of opposing projections 8 of the container part, such as two diametrically opposed actuating tabs 16 in the illustrated embodiments.
  • the latter are cut free on the closure cap 1, the tabs defining an actuating tab 16 each on three sides Free cuts 17 extend into the closure cap cover 14.
  • the actuating lobes 16 which has an L-shaped cross-section.
  • the actuating tabs 16 extend from the cap cover 14, starting over about two-thirds of the cap height and are underpinned by a circumferential band 18 of the cap 1, which on the inside have a thread formation 19 in the form of an internal thread.
  • the circumferential band 18 is an integral part of the Verschlusakappen-wall 15 outside the actuating tabs and has the same diameter as the Verachlusskappen- wall 15.
  • the actuating tabs 16, however, are reduced in relation to the closure cap wall 15 in their radial dimension, such as the extent of the wall height.
  • Each actuating tab 16 has in the free foot area a step-like tapered control section 20 which extends in a projection onto the closure cap wall 15 in register with the upper edge region of the circumferential band 18.
  • This control section 20 material thickened area is exposed in the window-like cutout of the cap 1 for actuation and is provided for improved handling with a corrugated surface.
  • the rotational barrier achieved in this way is only to be overcome by radially pressing in the actuating tabs 16 in the direction of the axis of rotation x, the control sections 20 being displaced radially inwardly against the material spring force so far that they are displaced by subsequent rotary displacement of the closure cap 1 via the counter-projections 8. this can be done while maintaining the radially inwardly acting pressure on the actuating lobes 16 -.
  • the axial height of the counter-projections 8 and the annular wall 7 is selected so that they are freely overrun by a predetermined thread pitch at the next overflow. It is conceivable in this regard Also, a slotted guide that hold the radially inward after turning the cap once inside the actuating tabs 16.
  • FIG 10 an alternative embodiment of the arrangement of a screw-on rotary stop 12 is shown.
  • This is contrary to the embodiment described above not positioned in the area of the thread formations, but rather as a formed from the Bingwandung 7, radially inwardly pointing to the Drehache x Wheelanschlagschulter 22, which cooperates with a vertical surface 23 of the control section 20 of the actuating lobe 16, which vertical surface 23 of the cooperating with the counter-projection 8 vertical surface 24 opposite.
  • the control section 20 of an actuating tab 16 serves not only the reversible by double actuation turnstile, but also for Aufschraub stop limit.
  • the control section 20 of an actuating tab 16 is caught in the screwed-on position of the closure cap 1 between the counter-projection 8 and the drah-impact shoulder 22 in a pocket 25 formed between them.
  • FIGS. 11 to 16 an embodiment is shown, which manifests itself first in a double orifice 26 of the container 3.
  • the container 3 is a double bottle with two chambers separated from each other, which are connected to each other only via a connecting web 27.
  • the connecting web 27 is pulled above the thread 5, which is formed on each sub-bottle, see.
  • Fig. 11
  • an additional part 28 is provided, which is the double orifice 26 in each case individually covering from above and also in a simple manner can be removed to the top. Already due to the double orifice, the additional part 28 is rotationally secured in the attached state.
  • the closure cap 1 is essentially, with the exception of the features mentioned below, gleichgestalteit to the already described cap of the other embodiments.
  • the additional part 28 can be removed after unscrewing the cap 1 without hindrance up from the container or the double orifice 26.
  • the thread 5 is in two subsections, each associated with one of said sub-containers formed. But basically on a circular floor plan, if the same mouths 26 (not only) can be enclosed by a non-round envelope surface. In the closed state, see Figure 12 , the cap 1 sits on the cross-section under the threaded portion, on a shoulder of each of the sub-containers. In the region of the partition 27, an opening is given down.
  • the closure cap 1 again has the already described actuating tabs 16, separated from the cap wall by free cuts 17, on.
  • Assigned to an actuating tab 17 is a Wandungsabsenkung or Wandungsabflachung 29 each formed in the radial direction.
  • the cap shape is developed undisturbed, with an integrally extending below the operating lobe circumferential band 18th
  • the additional part 28 now forms the Betuschistssteilwandung 4 and the annular wall 7, wherein in contrast to the vorerläuterten embodiments, this operating part but now reduced to the shape of the counter-projections 8 and bevel 9, etc. (which is not contrary to that in another , Not shown embodiment, the additional part 8, such as when it is restrained on the container, the thread (with) can form.
  • closure cap 1 basically completely covers the additional part 28 in the closed state, this is not completely the case with respect to the wall 4, 7 in the region of the actuating tabs 16, as is especially apparent Fig. 13 seen.
  • closure sections 30 protruding into the double orifice 26 in each case. These are cup-shaped, designed with an opening to the outside in each case.
  • FIGS. 17 to 20 a further embodiment is shown, which corresponds to the previously described embodiment, but here (again) only one mouth opening 2 is formed.
  • This mouth opening 2 is, however, out of round designed as in particular from the top view of the container 3 according to Fig. 20 results.
  • the explosive representation according to Fig. 17 otherwise corresponds to the illustration according to Fig. 11 , so that reference is made to the description in principle to the description.
  • the perspective bottom view of the additional part 28 of this embodiment shows in particular the closure portion 30, which, moreover, also from the cross-sectional view according to Fig. 18 results.

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