EP1748028A1 - Zapfhahn mit hoher Sauerstoffbarriere zum Zapfen von Flüssigkeiten aus Behältern, besonders angepaßt für aseptische Anwendungen - Google Patents

Zapfhahn mit hoher Sauerstoffbarriere zum Zapfen von Flüssigkeiten aus Behältern, besonders angepaßt für aseptische Anwendungen Download PDF

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EP1748028A1
EP1748028A1 EP05425554A EP05425554A EP1748028A1 EP 1748028 A1 EP1748028 A1 EP 1748028A1 EP 05425554 A EP05425554 A EP 05425554A EP 05425554 A EP05425554 A EP 05425554A EP 1748028 A1 EP1748028 A1 EP 1748028A1
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Diego c/o Vitop Moulding S.R.L. Nini
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67D—DISPENSING, DELIVERING OR TRANSFERRING LIQUIDS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B67D3/00—Apparatus or devices for controlling flow of liquids under gravity from storage containers for dispensing purposes
    • B67D3/04—Liquid-dispensing taps or cocks adapted to seal and open tapping holes of casks, e.g. for beer
    • B67D3/045—Liquid-dispensing taps or cocks adapted to seal and open tapping holes of casks, e.g. for beer with a closing element having a linear movement, in a direction parallel to the seat
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67D—DISPENSING, DELIVERING OR TRANSFERRING LIQUIDS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B67D3/00—Apparatus or devices for controlling flow of liquids under gravity from storage containers for dispensing purposes
    • B67D3/04—Liquid-dispensing taps or cocks adapted to seal and open tapping holes of casks, e.g. for beer
    • B67D3/042—Liquid-dispensing taps or cocks adapted to seal and open tapping holes of casks, e.g. for beer operated by deforming a membrane-like closing element

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  • the present invention refers to a high-oxygen-barrier tap for dispensing liquids from vessels, particularly the so-called vessels of the "bag-in-box" type, especially adapted for aseptic applications.
  • taps of this type are known in the art, some of which derive from document EP-A-0432070 , which can be called the parent of this product.
  • the prior tap disclosed in this document provides for: an opening/closing control plunger equipped with outwards projecting wings; plunger guides on the tap body; a removable warranty seal; a resilient membrane that performs the seal and automatically returns to its initial closing position; a particular geometry in the connection to the vessel.
  • taps are known that are equipped with dome-shaped valve members contained inside the tap body; the dome-shaped part of the valve member is squashed against the body itself when opening and bents over itself. This arrangement, however, in order to be realised, needs a high number of parts.
  • Object of the present invention is solving the above prior-art problems, by providing an improved dispensing tap that is made of a minimum number of parts, is equipped with an internal sealing membrane, that is the main tap member, that allows realising both closing and opening automatic operations of the tap, and a greater oxygen seal, also due to the high-sealing elastomeric material of which it is composed.
  • a further object of the present invention is providing a tap as stated above that realises a double seal of the plunger on the body, thereby obtaining a high increase of oxygen barrier, due to a further seal of the above-mentioned membrane.
  • the oxygen barrier improvement is further obtained due to the fact that the closure is directly performed on the disk through a sealing offset of the body and the control member, between which part of the elastomeric vale is arranged and works as "gasket", removing the leakages due to the various parts exposed to the outside (that allow the passage of oxygen from the plastic material structure and the various parts couplings); moreover, all system members, for such purposes, are housed inside the control member that is placed on the front area of the tap.
  • the valve given this unusual housing with respect to the prior art, is protected by the cap lip which avoids damages due to following sterilisation steps.
  • the inventive tap is equipped with a high oxigen barrier and a protection of members, that are usually made of very fragile plastic material that does not support cycles of aseptic treatments, while here, being inside, they are protected by the driving member structure coupled with the protection wings of the internal member placed on the cap.
  • the majority of aseptic taps must necessarily weld onto the liquid outlet month an opening, usually made of aluminium, to guarantee the outlet mouth protection and the protection of internal members from treatments, above all thermal ones, while in this case seal and hygiene are guaranteed also without openings.
  • the inventive tap is adapted for aseptic applications, and therefore for aseptic treatments, which, sometimes, can be damaging and therefore cannot be applied to some types of taps, since their dispenser must be subjected to sterilisation cycles with hot steam or gamma rays, or distilled water or other agents (also mutually associated), that in some cases are aggressive, impairing the closure operation.
  • the inventive tap has an automatic closure with drop-preventing or drop-cutting system, and is further equipped with a warranty seal that also protects the liquid outlet hole, not shown in the drawings.
  • the gemoetry with disk with which the body is equipped immediately orients the tap in the right position, highly simplifying the vessel manufacturing companies, above all of the bag type, that manage to assemble the tap on the mouth immediately in the exact position.
  • the assembling of the cap body can be provided of the restrained type (through coupled undercut geometries), or due to hot laser or ultrasound welding.
  • the inventive tap is made with compact sizes with respect to other taps that can be found on the market in a "light" version; moreover, and above all, especially as regards the body back and the mouth, the heights has been taken to a minimum, realising the 10 mm value with respect to the 19 mm value of the majority of commercialised mouths.
  • valve member and the control member are equipped with further arrangements to improve their mutual seal.
  • the tap warranty seal is obtained with a simple male mould coupled with a female, without using saddles (even if it is anyway possible to create a tap of this type, with seal, using a mould with saddles), thereby realising a less complex, less costly and quicker mould.
  • the tap body is equipped with a recess that allows discharging the forces operating on the sealing lip of the control member, when this latter one is in its rest position, thereby guaranteeing its longer operating life.
  • Such sealing lip is flexible and therefore is able to perfectly suit to the body cylinder, with a geometry that will allow its flexure, or better the not excessive stiffness, that will perform the seal at any time, through a pointed outline composed of a small triangle on the end part of the control member lip, that can be found at the end of the lip itself and rubs against the body cylinder.
  • the spring-type valve is housed inside the control member and operates above all when the tap is in its opening phase and therefore the valve is pulled.
  • the valve operates also when it is in its closing position: in fact, the components are coupled (especially the cap abutment with the valve), so that the membrane, when it is in its closing position, has a pre-load that forces it to push the control member against the valve gasket and in turn against the body, forcing it to remain in its closing position and therefore compelling it to realise the oxygen seal, so that a force is created that from inside the member is discharged outside it, till the body cylinder, guaranteeing a greater pull but also a greater seal: everything is then compensated by the fact that the membrane discharges its distortion force on the internal wall of the control member in its flexible area, and in turn the resulting force will be discharged on the body cylinder.
  • Such force can be easily defined as compensated, since due to the small lip outside the member, it will be always optimally distributed.
  • the thereby-devised tap is much simpler, and therefore much cheaper, to be moulded, since the high-flexibility mouth is made with a curved geometry that on one side allows distributing the forces that are generated thereon when the bag is full or other, and that, if concentrated, could even bring about the mouth breakage; on the other hand, such mouth geometry allows associating thereto a position of the moulding point that allows injecting the material against the curved part of the piece, so that the material can be injected immediately on a narrow area of the imprint, in order to increase the pressure and therefore the material injection speed: in this way, the material will be injected in the mould at lower pressures and temperatures with respect to the majority of existing mouths, and therefore less stresses will be created inside the piece, these stresses being one of the causes which concur in creating a stiffer piece, and above all with more brittle areas.
  • the tap 1 of the invention is used for delivering liquids from a vessel (not shown), and substantially comprises:
  • control member 9 is made with a cylindrical shape adapted to slide inside the support body 3 and is equipped with one outward diverging end 20 with respect to its own axis in its end part with a projecting point: such end 20 is adapted to elastically engage an internal surface of the support body 3 in order to guarantee a liquid seal between the support body 3 and the control member 9.
  • the support body 3 is equipped with a recess 13 adapted to provide a rest area for the end 20 of the control member 9 when the control member 9 is in its closing position of the opening 8.
  • valve member 12 is shaped as a dome, and such dome is equipped on its greater base with an external lip 22 adapted to abut against the support body 3 and the control member 9 in order to guarantee a liquid seal between the support body 3, the control member 9 and the valve member 12.
  • the valve member 12 is further equipped, on the greater base of said dome, with a seat 19 for an operating anchorage of a respective projecting tooth 21 with which the control member 9 is equipped.
  • a respective projecting tooth 21 is slightly flexible, to compensate for the dilatation force of the valve when it is pulled (but also when it is at rest), making the resulting force, which is then discharged onto the external flexible lip and which in turn is discharged on the body cylinder, always compensated and optimum, to enable the sliding, but also an optimum seal.
  • the mouth 2 it is welded onto the vessel (usually a bag of the "bag-in-box” type) and is used as connecting member between vessel and tap 1.
  • the vessel usually a bag of the "bag-in-box” type
  • the lower part of the mouth 2 is very stressed, above all when a sterilisation or a bag filling with an hot procedure is performed, since the liquid causes such stress, being at a temperature of about 70 °C (such temperature value is obviously not limiting, but an example), and above all for a long period of time (not estimated), since, in case of a "bag-in-box", the hot-filled bag is placed in a cardboard box and closed.
  • the mouth is subjected, in addition to the bag distortion action, also to the heat action, and it is in this case that the better moulding and internal piece tensions comes into play: the majority of so-far known mouths were structured with a staircase-shaped outline till the desired thickness was reached, and all these thickness variations became, under certain conditions, brittle areas.
  • the inventive mouth 2 provides for an external curved surface 18 of the "excavated" type, which provides better flexibility to the piece in its most stressed area. Two possible geometries and shapes of the external surfaces 18 can be better seen in Figures 4 and 12.
  • the above curved excavated geometry has been associated also with a moulding point position (point A in Fig. 5) which allows injecting the proper material against the curved wall 18 of the mouth 2, so that the material can be injected immediately on a narrow imprint area, in order to be able to increase the pressure, and therefore the injection speed, of the material itself.
  • point A in Fig. 5 a moulding point position which allows injecting the proper material against the curved wall 18 of the mouth 2, so that the material can be injected immediately on a narrow imprint area, in order to be able to increase the pressure, and therefore the injection speed, of the material itself.
  • the material will be injected into the mould at lower pressures and temperatures with respect to the majority of known mouths, and therefore less internal stresses will occur in the piece, such stresses being one of the reasons that concur in creating a more brittle piece.
  • the mouth 2 is further equipped with an undercut 40 for the unmovable operating seal of the support body 3.
  • the plug 7 is composed of an internal cylindrical member 17 and is further equipped with at least one circumferential wing 14 for protecting the internal member 17.
  • Such internal member 17 allows a perfect centring between plug 7 and valve member 12, and also and above all operates as abutment member, since, with the valve member 12, the abutment member is the most important part of the tap 1, since it determines the pull of the valve member 12 and therefore the pull which the control member 9 will have on the gasket and on the body 3.
  • inventive tap 1 is further equipped with sealing means 30 adapted to guarantee the tap 1 against possible tampering.
  • the sealing means 30 can be composed of a clamp 30 wound around the plug 7 and ending with a tongue 32 for grasping and tearing the clamp 30, in which such clamp 30 is removably connected to the plug 7 through a plurality of teeth 33 adapted to be broken, when the clamp 30 is removed from the plug 7 through a grasping and tearing action of the tongue 32.
  • the vessel can be of the "bag-in-box" type and then the tap 1 is adapted to assume an horizontal operating position with respect to such vessel.
  • the tap 1 is adapted to assume a vertical operating position with respect to said vessel.
  • the closing and opening positions of the tap 1 are respectively shown, in which the valve member 12 assumes a stretched and a squashed configuration, due to its inherent elasticity, and due to the dome shape with which it has been realised.
  • the valve member 12 when it is in its "pull" phase, tends to be dilated outwards, pushing against the control member 9 walls: this phenomenon makes the control member 9 more strongly press against the support body 3 walls. Therefore, the more the control member 9 is pulled, the more the valve member 12 pushes onto the body 3 walls, the more is the seal among the various parts.

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EP05425554A 2005-07-28 2005-07-28 Zapfhahn mit hoher Sauerstoffbarriere zum Zapfen von Flüssigkeiten aus Behältern, besonders angepaßt für aseptische Anwendungen Not-in-force EP1748028B1 (de)

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AT05425554T ATE413361T1 (de) 2005-07-28 2005-07-28 Zapfhahn mit hoher sauerstoffbarriere zum zapfen von flüssigkeiten aus behältern, besonders angepasst für aseptische anwendungen
EP05425554A EP1748028B1 (de) 2005-07-28 2005-07-28 Zapfhahn mit hoher Sauerstoffbarriere zum Zapfen von Flüssigkeiten aus Behältern, besonders angepaßt für aseptische Anwendungen

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WO2014210437A1 (en) * 2013-06-28 2014-12-31 Johnson James W Slider valve assembly for aseptic packaging
IT201900022887A1 (it) * 2019-12-03 2020-03-03 Vitop Moulding Srl Rubinetto erogatore di liquidi anti-manomissione ad apertura automatica

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CH356681A (de) * 1956-08-24 1961-08-31 Mauser Kg Ausziehbarer ausguss an Behältern
FR2619612A1 (fr) * 1987-08-19 1989-02-24 Dufrene Alain Robinet de soutirage de liquides
EP0432070A1 (de) 1989-12-04 1991-06-12 Wicotop Unverletzbarhahn versehen mit einer Vorrichtung zur Besteuerung
US6131767A (en) * 1998-09-09 2000-10-17 Scholle Corporation Tap for dispensing fluid
EP1498359A1 (de) * 2003-07-18 2005-01-19 Illinois Tool Works, Inc. Schieberhahn

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CH356681A (de) * 1956-08-24 1961-08-31 Mauser Kg Ausziehbarer ausguss an Behältern
FR2619612A1 (fr) * 1987-08-19 1989-02-24 Dufrene Alain Robinet de soutirage de liquides
EP0432070A1 (de) 1989-12-04 1991-06-12 Wicotop Unverletzbarhahn versehen mit einer Vorrichtung zur Besteuerung
US6131767A (en) * 1998-09-09 2000-10-17 Scholle Corporation Tap for dispensing fluid
EP1498359A1 (de) * 2003-07-18 2005-01-19 Illinois Tool Works, Inc. Schieberhahn

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO2014210437A1 (en) * 2013-06-28 2014-12-31 Johnson James W Slider valve assembly for aseptic packaging
US9434516B2 (en) 2013-06-28 2016-09-06 Liqui-Box Corporation Slider valve assembly for aseptic packaging
US9714124B2 (en) 2013-06-28 2017-07-25 Liqui-Box Corporation Cap assembly for slider valve for aseptic packaging
IT201900022887A1 (it) * 2019-12-03 2020-03-03 Vitop Moulding Srl Rubinetto erogatore di liquidi anti-manomissione ad apertura automatica
WO2021111480A1 (en) * 2019-12-03 2021-06-10 Vitop Moulding S.R.L. Tamper-preventing liquid dispensing tap with automatic opening

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