EP1765685B1 - Capsules-services legeres en matiere plastique et tubes souples legers munis desdites capsules-services legeres. - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to the field of flexible plastic tubes for storing and dispensing liquid to pasty products. It relates more particularly to the service capsules that equip said flexible tubes according to the preamble of claim 1.
- a first step is to reduce the thickness of their walls.
- Such a solution has been adopted without problem for small capacity tubes having a small diameter flexible skirt.
- a simple reduction in the thickness of the skirt or the shoulder finds its limits in the mechanical strength of the tube, especially for tubes with a capacity of more than 150 ml, the vast majority of which have diameters greater than 40 mm. and more particularly, the problems of mechanical strength amplifying with the diameter, for the tubes of skirt diameter greater than 45 mm.
- the rigidity of the skirt becomes insufficient and makes handling difficult both during the manufacture of the tube and during its filling and use.
- the flexible tubes have a capacity typically of less than 400-500 ml, with a diameter of less than 60 mm, because beyond these dimensions, they become unmanageable and are replaced by rigid flakes.
- An object according to the invention is a service capsule provided with a cap and a base comprising a plate, a fixing skirt and an outer side skirt, characterized in that the fixing skirt is thicker, typically of a few tenths of a millimeter, as the tray and the outer side skirt.
- the capsule-service has been designed in a particular way, with a thickness and height as low as possible.
- the capsule-service has an overall structure identical to that of the service capsules of the prior art, which comprise a base intended to be fixed irreversibly on the head of the tube and a cap pivoting around a hinge located at the periphery of the base and the cap, the cap from closing a hole formed on the base and in communication with the dispensing orifice of the tube head.
- the base comprises a tray, provided with said orifice, a fixing skirt and an outer lateral skirt, generally cylindrical and configured so that it is approximately in the extension of the skirt of the tube, when the service capsule is fixed. on said tube.
- the service capsule has a thick and rigid base, in particular to have a clear opening. the cap pivoting about a fixed axis connected to the tube.
- the rigidity of the base also made it possible to rapidly unmold the capsule-service using the conventional positioning of the extractor assisting the demolding of the capsule-service: the latter comes into abutment on the open end of the outer side skirt.
- the rigidity was ensured on the one hand by the thickness of the walls of the base and on the other hand by the presence of radial ribs, at least 6, typically 8. attached to the inner surface of the outer side skirt and to the surface internal plateau. These notably prevented the outer side skirt from deforming, or even turning around like a sock, when the extractor was activated to demold the entire capsule-service.
- the document GB 2337035 discloses a service capsule according to the preamble of claim 1.
- the capsule-service object of the invention was designed in order to reduce the weight, reduce the cooling times after molding and facilitate demolding. This is why the thickness of the wall of the plate, that of the outer lateral skirt and that of the cap has been decreased, especially at the level of the upper part of the finger grip.
- the fixing skirt is relatively thicker than the rest of the service capsule: by applying to the demolding the extractor on the open end of said fixing skirt, it is possible to demold easily the entire capsule despite its parts. thinned and although not supported by radial veins; thus, the fixing skirt is thicker, typically a few tenths of a millimeter, than the rest of the capsule service, including the tray and the outer side skirt.
- the geometry of the outer side skirt is preferably defined, in particular its height, so that when the service cap is attached to the tube head, the open end of said outer side skirt distance d as small as possible from the shoulder of the tube, typically a mean distance of between 0.1 and 0.7 mm, preferably between 0.2 and 0.5 mm.
- the dimensional manufacturing tolerances imposed on the tube head and the service capsule are suitably defined.
- the minimum distance L1 between the end of the outer side skirt and the point of contact on the bead of the fixing skirt is greater than L2-d, where L2 is the maximum distance between the bridge of contact on the bead of the neck and the point of the shoulder being in line with the axial extension of the outer side skirt of the capsule-service.
- the shoulder of the tube is advantageously provided with a sidewalk around which the open end of the outer side skirt engages with a radial clearance as low as possible, typically an average radial clearance less than 0.5 mm. preferably 0.3 mm.
- the capsule-service must be generally indexed, namely placed in a precise angular position relative to a decoration of the skirt of the tube.
- the very reliable but rather heavy indexing means described in EP-B-0633197 may, where possible, be replaced by a single longitudinal rib attached to the inner surface of the outer side skirt which is trapped between two small studs of low height, located on the shoulder.
- the attachment of the service capsule on the tube is effected by a driving movement and rotation.
- the capsule is immobilized in axial displacement, for example by means of complementary snap-fastening means of the fixing skirt and the neck described above.
- the base of the longitudinal rib comes into contact with the top wall of the first bridge which slopes gently in the circumferential direction.
- the longitudinal rib follows that top wall which, like a cam surface, which imposes a certain axial translation towards the outside of the tube. Arriving at the end of the cam path, the end of the longitudinal rib is no longer supported, elastically releases and is trapped in the interval between the two pads.
- the relief of the second stud is less progressive so that the latter acts as a stop and prevents the longitudinal rib from continuing to move angularly.
- the upper part of the mandrel which serves as a mold part at the tube head advantageously has two protuberances which serve as "cores" for the formation of these pads, so that these are made with a constant thickness and have a hollow towards the inside of the tube.
- the longitudinal rib attached to the inner surface of the outer side skirt and used for indexing is advantageously located in the median plane of the hinge: this facilitates the feeding of the narrow channels defining the different parts of the hinge (tensioning elements and hinge itself) and this improves the mechanical strength of the capsule when the cap is solicited at the opening.
- Another object of the invention is the assembly of a flexible tube and a service capsule according to the invention, said flexible tube having a dispensing head and a cylindrical skirt made of plastic or metalloplastic material, of diameter greater than 44 mm, more particularly greater than 49 mm, said cylindrical skirt having a thickness of between 0.2 mm and 0.4 mm, preferably between 0.25 mm and 0.35 mm, and comprising high density polyethylene (PE. HD), with a density of between 0.935 g / cm 3 and 0.97 g / cm 3, preferably greater than 0.945 g / cm 3, in a proportion by weight greater than 55%, preferably 70%.
- PE. HD high density polyethylene
- the cylindrical skirt also comprises low density polyethylene (PE.BD) with a specific gravity of between 0.86 g / cm 3 and 0.93 g / cm 3, in a proportion by weight of less than 45%, preferably 30%, and of which more than 50%, preferably more than 90% by weight, is a linear PE.BD (PE.BDL).
- PE.BD low density polyethylene
- PE.BDL linear PE.BD
- the tube is a plastic tube or a rolled tube having a head provided with a dispensing orifice and a cylindrical skirt of large diameter, typically greater than 44 mm.
- the head generally includes a neck that surrounds the dispensing orifice and a shoulder that connects the neck to the skirt.
- the skirt is cylindrical but its section is not necessarily circular. In fact, the tube is here described in its filling configuration, before completion of the final transversal weld which seals the packaged product.
- the skirt may have a circular or elliptical orthogonal section or any other shape.
- flexible tubes have skirts composed predominantly - or entirely - of PE.BD.
- a tube according to the invention having the same diameter as a traditional tube has a thinner skirt month composed predominantly - or in full - of PE.HD.
- the skirt may be made of a single material, for example a blend resulting from a mixture according to the invention of PF.IID and PE.BD, the major part of which is a Linear PE.BD.
- the presence of PF.BDI. and the percentage of PF.IID within such a blend can be determined for example using two complementary techniques: Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), using for example a Nicolet 510P FTIR spectrometer and calorimetry.
- FTIR Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
- the skirt. laminated or coextruded may also be made of a multilayer material comprising PE.HD layers, PE.BD layers, the bulk of which is a linear PE.BD, and / or layers PE.HD + PE mixtures .BD.
- the skirt may have, due to its lower thickness, a resistance to radial penetration identical or lower than that of a skirt of the prior art while by presenting, despite this lower thickness, an equal or better resistance to buckling and bending under the effect of the same compressive axial force.
- the PE.BD was supposed to be the only material capable of satisfy, provided however that it is in the form of a sufficiently thick layer.
- the use of a material more rigid than PE.BD to compensate for the loss of stiffness due to thinning is not obvious. Indeed, it is known from experience that the use of more rigid materials leads to a loss of ergonomics of use.
- the grip of the tube is indeed less easy, the tube is not flexible enough (it is less easy to extract the product by simply applying pressure on the wall of the skirt) or too elastic behavior: the product just out of the orifice, is reabsorbed inside the tube as soon as the pressure on the skirt decreases.
- Such a property is illustrated by the magnitude of the elastic recovery of the material after plastic deformation by folding: the greater this return, the greater the "shape memory” is important and degrades the ergonomics of use.
- This shape memory is often characterized by the angle obtained after folding and springback of a bung of constant thickness: the larger the angle, the greater the shape memory is important inversely, the lower the angle, the better is his ability to keep the new form, translated by the Anglo-Saxon word "dead fold".
- the metal tubes have a very good wrinkle ability whereas the plastic tubes have a generally poor to poor wrinkle ability.
- the Applicant has found that, thanks to the significant decrease in the thickness of its wall, the tube has a better property at "dead fold", that is to say a better ergonomics of use despite use of a material (PE.HD) more rigid than PE.BD.
- the outer layers are preferably PE.HD: this results in slightly better axial buckling resistance.
- the outer layers of PP.HD are less sensitive to stress cracking.
- the PE.HD has a liquid permeability much lower than that of PE.BD, in a ratio such that the decrease in thickness does not lead to a degradation of the liquid barrier properties (water, alcohols, oils and other fatty substances that may be contained in the cosmetic product to be packaged), which maintains the performance in terms of acceptable weight losses.
- the liquid barrier properties water, alcohols, oils and other fatty substances that may be contained in the cosmetic product to be packaged
- PE.BD if it exists in the skirt, is a minor constituent material, limited to 30% by weight, preferably 10%. It consists for the most part of linear PE.BDL (or PE.BDL), that is to say a polyethylene copolymer comprising non-polar alphaolefins (such as butenal or hexene) whose molecules have only short side chains and regular.
- linear PE.BD is recommended to improve on the one hand the weldability of the skirt and on the other hand the resistance to stress cracking.
- Stress cracking is a property related to long-term behavior: by immersing the material under stress in a surfactant liquid, cracking appears after a certain time. This phenomenon, very important in the case of polyethylene, strongly depends on the surface tension exerted by the medium, the molecular weight and the morphology of the polymer. It is known that cracking occurs all the more quickly as the stress is high and that the material (polyethylene in this case) has a significant melt index (“melt index").
- the linear PE.BDL (PE.BDL) is in a proportion by weight greater than 50%. This proportion is preferably higher as the proportion of PE.BD is important in the material of the skirt. This makes it possible to improve the weldability and resistance to stress cracking of the skirt. So, for a mixture 70% PE.HD + 30% PE.BD, the latter should preferably be more than 90% by weight of PE.BDL.
- plastic and laminated tubes offer the best characteristics relating to all the constraints of manufacture and use when the skirt comprises more than 90% by weight of PE, HD and less than 10% by weight of PE.BDI.
- the flexible tube also has a lightened dispensing head to which must be attached a plug or a dispensing tip, such as a service capsule.
- the tube head comprises a neck surrounding the dispensing orifice and a shoulder connecting said neck to the skirt and it is on said neck that is fixed this plug or this capsule service.
- a neck provided with a securing means such as a snap-fitting bead is preferred to a neck equipped with a screw thread, more sensitive to stress cracking. It is thus possible to limit the thickness of the neck and the shoulder to a value typically less than 1 mm.
- Said head is preferably made of a material which comprises high-density polyethylene (HDPE) with a density of between 0.935 g / cm 3 and 0.97 g / cm 3, preferably greater than 0.945 g / cm 3. in a proportion by weight greater than 55%, preferably 70%.
- the head also comprises low density polyethylene (PE.BD) with a specific gravity of between 0.86 g / cm 3 and 0.93 g / cm 3, in a proportion by weight of less than 45%, preferably 30%, and more than 50%, preferably more than 90% by weight, is a linear PE.BD (PE.BDL)
- the tube has a head composed predominantly - or entirely - of PE.HD.
- the head may be made of a single material, for example a blend resulting from a mixture according to the invention of PE.HD and PE.BD, the major part of which is a Linear PE.BD.
- the head can also have a multi-layer wall with PE.HD and / or PE.BD layers. most of which is linear PE.BD, and / or mixtures PE.HD + PE.BD.
- the head can be molded separately and then welded to one end of the skirt, but it can also be molded and welded autogenously to the skirt.
- This multilayer head can be obtained either by co-injection according to a process such as that described in EP 1 123 241 or by compression molding a coextruded blank.
- the head may have a neck and a shoulder less than 1mm thick.
- a tube has a substantial saving in weight: while a standard tube typically weighs between 0.80 and 1.10 g per centilitre of useful volume, a tube according to the invention with the same capacity weighs between 0.55 and 0.80 g per cl. useful volume.
- a gain in packaging weight of the order of 30% is obtained. This gain can be further increased if one continues the effort of lightening on the cap.
- the flexible tubes presented in this example offer a useful volume of 150 ml for the shower gel that they are intended to contain.
- a tube of the prior art is illustrated in figure 1 .
- a tube provided with a special capsule-service according to the invention is illustrated in figure 2 This is illustrated in figure 2
- This capsule-service is enlarged figure 3 . It is molded in a tool, a detail of which is illustrated in figure 4 .
- the tube 110 of the prior art has a diameter D of 50 mm and an overall height (greater than H + h ) close to 175 mm. It has a skirt 120 and a dispensing head 130 provided with a neck 131 and a shoulder 132 for connecting said neck to said skirt.
- the skirt 120 is PL.BD. It has a thickness e1 of 0.6 mm, which gives the shower gel dispenser tube a certain rigidity.
- the head 130 is also in PE.BD.
- the shoulder 132 has a thickness e2 of 1.1 mm.
- the weight of the tube according to the prior art is 16.4 g.
- the service capsule 140 comprises a base 141 intended to be fixed irreversibly on the neck 131 of the tube and a cap 142 pivoting about a hinge 143 located at the periphery of the base and the cap, the cap sealing a orifice 150 formed on the base 141, the base 141 comprises a plate 1411, provided with the orifice, of distribution and an outer lateral skirt 1410 cylindrical and configured so that it is approximately in the extension of the skirt 120 of the tube.
- the service capsule 140 according to the prior art has a thick and rigid base.
- capping 142 has, at the upper portion 147 of the finger grip, a vertical wall 148 .
- the tube + capsule-service set weighs 26 g.
- the tube 210 for receiving a service capsule 240 has a diameter D ' of close to 50 mm and an overall height ( H + h' ) close to 173 mm. It has a skirt 220 and a dispensing head 230 provided with a neck 231 of diameter approximately 20 mm and a shoulder 232 intended to connect said neck to said skirt.
- the skirt 220 is PE.HD. It has a thickness é1 of 0.35 mm, which gives the shower gel dispenser tube a greater flexibility, acceptable by all users.
- the head 230 is also PE.HD.
- the shoulder 232 has a thickness e2 of 1 mm.
- the weight of this tube is 11 g.
- the centering studs 235 are made with a constant thickness, that is to say having a hollow towards the inside of the tube.
- the service capsule 240 is, in this example, polypropylene of height h 'equal to 22.7 mm.
- the service capsule 240 comprises a base 241 intended to be fixed irreversibly on the neck 231 of the tube and a cap 242 pivoting about a hinge 243 located at the periphery of the base and the cap, the cap closing off a orifice 250 formed on the base 241 .
- the cap 242 pivots around the hinge 243 when the user exerts a force in the upper portion 247 of the finger grip located on the cap.
- the base 241 comprises a plate 2411 surrounded by a cylindrical outer side skirt 2410 . configured so that it is approximately in the extension of the skirt 220 of the tube.
- the service capsule 240 does not have 8 radial ribs to improve its stiffness, but a single longitudinal rib 245 , thin and of low radial height, attached to the inner surface of the outer side skirt 2410 .
- This longitudinal rib 245 makes it possible to index the service capsule with respect to the tube skirt, by trapping between two small and low-height studs situated on the shoulder 230 .
- One of these pads is illustrated on the figure 2 with the reference 235
- the cap 242 has, at the level of the upper part 247 of the finger grip, a wall 248 in a slope, inclined at approximately 25 ° with respect to the axis of the capsule and oriented towards the inside of the base 241 of the capsule 240 .
- the axis of the capsule is the axis of the fixing skirt 246 . It coincides with the axis of the tube when the service capsule is fixed on said tube.
- the attachment means of the service capsule on the tube head are snap beads disposed on the one hand on a fastening skirt 246 attached to the plate 2411 and on the other hand on the neck 231 of the tube head.
- the geometry of the outer side skirt 241 has been defined, in particular its height h ', so that when the serving capsule 240 is attached to the tube head, the open end of the outer side skirt 2410 is close to the shoulder 230 of the tube, typically at a distance d less than 0.5 mm from the point 2320 of the shoulder located at the right of the axial extension of the outer side skirt 2410 .
- the manufacturing dimensional tolerances imposed on the tube head and the service cap are defined so that the minimum distance L1 between the end of the outer side skirt 2410 and the point of contact on the bead 2460 of the fixing skirt 246 is greater than L2-d.
- L2 being the maximum distance between the point of contact on the bead 2310 of the neck 231 and the point of the shoulder 2320 .
- the tube + capsule-service set weighs 16.7 g.
- the fixing skirt 246 on the neck 231 has a thickness of 1.2 mm, greater than that of the rest of the service capsule, in particular the outer side wall 2410 (0.9 mm).
- the fixing skirt 246 also has a discontinuous latching bead (in the form of regularly distributed rice seeds) cooperating with the snap-fitting bead 2310 of the neck 231 .
- the weight of the dispensing tube has increased from 26 g to 16.7 g, a gain of nearly 36%.
- a standard (non-lowered) truck can carry 66 pallets of 50 mm diameter tubes (150 ml capacity), or about 140,000 tubes.
- the truck carries a significantly lower load and thus saves energy, which, moreover, makes it possible to reduce the emission of carbon dioxide into the vehicle. atmosphere,
- the figure 4 illustrates, in diametral section, a detail of the molding tool 300 of a lighter service capsule according to the invention such as the capsule 240.
- the tool is in several parts: an upper part 310 , a lower part 320 provided with an extractor 330 .
- the pivoting cap of the service capsule is made by molding in the cavity 342 .
- the lower portion 320 of the mold comprises a wall 321 which delimits the upper portion 2421 (outer) of the finger grip and a wall 322 located on the other side of the wall 321 and facing the inside of the cap.
- the wall 322 was vertical, which had the advantage of facilitating demolding and the disadvantage of greatly increasing the thickness and thus weigh down the cap.
- the Applicant has found that one could still achieve a wall 322 with an undercut of less than 35 ° slope without having difficulty in demolding with a standard mold, that is to say without drawer or hold up month using an extractor 330 acting in the center of the cap
- the cap has with respect to the upper part 247 of the finger grip, an inclined wall - an angle less than 35 ° with respect to the axis of the capsule -service - towards the inside of the base of the capsule.
- the axis of the service capsule is the axis 250 of the fixing skirt whose cavity is indicated by the reference 346 . It coincides with the axis of the tube when the service capsule is fixed on said tube.
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Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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PL08017038T PL2022724T3 (pl) | 2004-07-06 | 2005-07-04 | Giętkie tubki z tworzywa sztucznego i sposób ich wytwarzania |
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