EP2004498B1 - Tap for food vessels with integral warranty seal - Google Patents
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- EP2004498B1 EP2004498B1 EP06756270A EP06756270A EP2004498B1 EP 2004498 B1 EP2004498 B1 EP 2004498B1 EP 06756270 A EP06756270 A EP 06756270A EP 06756270 A EP06756270 A EP 06756270A EP 2004498 B1 EP2004498 B1 EP 2004498B1
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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
- B65D5/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper
- B65D5/02—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper by folding or erecting a single blank to form a tubular body with or without subsequent folding operations, or the addition of separate elements, to close the ends of the body
- B65D5/12—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper by folding or erecting a single blank to form a tubular body with or without subsequent folding operations, or the addition of separate elements, to close the ends of the body with end closures formed separately from tubular body
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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
- B65D47/00—Closures with filling and discharging, or with discharging, devices
- B65D47/04—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps
- B65D47/06—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps with pouring spouts or tubes; with discharge nozzles or passages
- B65D47/08—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps with pouring spouts or tubes; with discharge nozzles or passages having articulated or hinged closures
- B65D47/0804—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps with pouring spouts or tubes; with discharge nozzles or passages having articulated or hinged closures integrally formed with the base element provided with the spout or discharge passage
- B65D47/0833—Hinges without elastic bias
- B65D47/0847—Hinges without elastic bias located within a flat surface of the base element
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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
- B65D47/00—Closures with filling and discharging, or with discharging, devices
- B65D47/04—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps
- B65D47/06—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps with pouring spouts or tubes; with discharge nozzles or passages
- B65D47/10—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps with pouring spouts or tubes; with discharge nozzles or passages having frangible closures
- B65D47/103—Membranes with a tearing element
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- the present invention refers to a tap for food vessels.
- Such tap will protect vessels containing therein foodstuff, for example dry foodstuff (mainly ready-made spices and flavours, useful for food use, which can be congealed or frozen, such as minced parsley, minced garlic, etc.), but also any other type of food, such as for example liquid and/or solid foods.
- dry foodstuff mainly ready-made spices and flavours, useful for food use, which can be congealed or frozen, such as minced parsley, minced garlic, etc.
- any other type of food such as for example liquid and/or solid foods.
- vessel + tap such as for example those manufactured by companies Daregal, Tetrapak, etc.
- vessel + tap such as for example those manufactured by companies Daregal, Tetrapak, etc.
- Such arrangement is composed of a vessel which, once filled in with the product which will have to be marketed, is closed and frozen (or surgealed).
- glue is laid (commonly on four points, but sometimes it can happen, for example with Tetrapak taps, that the whole tap surface is used for gluing), and afterward the tap, without any real warranty seal or direct protection thereon (on the box there is a sort of seal, with scarce strength, to be broken once having opened the plastic tap before using it), is oriented and placed on the vessel itself.
- the tap area used for gluing which is a plated lower part thereof, in some cases and with particular geometries, is almost never perfectly plane. In this case, gluing becomes difficult, since, due to the scarce planarity of the plastic piece, the gluing area decreases, increasing the previously described problem of glue crystallisation.
- PE/PP PolyEthylene/PolyPropylene
- the vessel usually made of cardboard
- the prior art tap must be realised by using a great amount of cardboard, increasing its production cost.
- Object of the present invention is solving the above prior art problems, by providing a tap for vessels (preferably a plastic tap for cardboard vessels) which exploits the restraining between vessel cardboard and internal tap geometries; in this way, all problems given by glue and gluing a piece of plastic onto a cardboard are removed.
- a tap for vessels preferably a plastic tap for cardboard vessels
- a further object of the present invention is providing a tap as described above, which is further manufactured in a single piece, with integral warranty seal, preferably of the tearing type, in order to do without the seal on the cardboard, which provides practical problems for the user.
- a further object of the present invention is providing a tap as mentioned above, which further allows saving material (cardboard) for manufacturing the vessel, since four small edges obtained on the upper side of the vessel itself are enough, since the inventive tap exploits their resiliency, together with the resiliency of geometries created on the tap, to obtain a correct insertion and locking of the tap onto the vessel.
- the high cardboard force is exploited, which has a cutting force, which makes highly stable and unmovable the tap onto the vessel even under extreme conditions (of the freezing or surgealing type).
- a closing cover locking system onto the tap has been created, which is much more accurate and safe, and which guarantees the tap to remain with its cover closed even if subjected to vibrations of the tap supplying vibrator, which preferably provides an interference system between two small circular profiles being present on tap and cover, which, when closing, mutually cooperate; it is however possible to create numerous arrangements, similar to the shown one, which guarantee a perfect anchorage of the two parts, preventing their accidental opening.
- the tap 1 of the invention is described, in a form thereof adapted to be applied to a vessel of the box type, substantially of the parallelepiped type.
- the tap 1 is obviously shaped with a body with square shape, but it is as well obvious that the tap 1 of the invention can be made of any shape which allows it to be coupled with vessels of any shape and size.
- the inventive tap 1 is adapted to be used with a vessel 3 for foods in order to cover the vessel 3 through which foods are delivered.
- the tap 1 substantially comprises a support body 5 equipped with at lest one delivering opening 7 for foods and with opening and closing means 9 of such delivering opening 7, hinged in 6 to the support body 5.
- the support body 5 is further equipped with means 11, 12, 13 for the unmovable restraining connection to the vessel 3 itself.
- such connecting means 11, 12, 13 are composed of at least one abutment projection 11 adapted to engage the wall 14 of the vessel 3 from inside the vessel 3 itself, of at least one abutment wing 12 for the wall 14 from outside the vessel 3, and of at least one tooth 13 adapted to engage the wall 14 from outside the vessel 3.
- Function of the abutment projection 11 is avoiding that the vessel 3 wall deflects and therefore, once having inserted the tap 1 onto the vessel 3, the bent wall 14 can be overturned and go out of its engagement with the tap 1, such engagement being guaranteed by locking the end 14' of the vessel 3 with wing 12 and tooth 13.
- the at least one tooth 13 is adapted to engage the open end 14' of the wall 14 which is bent onto itself towards outside the vessel 3, as can be well seen from the Figures.
- the body 5 of the tap 1 is equipped with seal means 16, 16' placed between body 5 and opening/closing means 9 in order to close the opening 7 and prevent the access inside the vessel 3, after having opened the opening/closing means 9 till the seal means 16, 16' have been removed.
- the seal means 16, 16' are made in a single piece with the body 5 of the tap 1.
- the seal means 16, 16' are equipped with a weakening area 17 adapted to make it easier to remove the seal means 16, 16' from the tap 1 when a removal force is exerted onto the seal means 16, 16'.
- a weakening area 17 is sealingly reinforced with a corresponding reinforcing rib 20, which will be better described below.
- the inventive tap 1 is further equipped with such reinforcing rib 20 placed inside the body 5, in which this rib 20 is adapted to reinforce the tap 1 seal onto the vessel 3 and also to support the tearing force of the seal means 16, 16' by abutting against the cylindrical projection 18.
- the seal means 16, 16' are composed of a tearable ring 16 connected to a closing wall 16' adapted to be removed from the opening 7 when seal.means 16, 16' are removed from the tap 1.
- the ring-type seal means 16,16' are contained inside a cylindrical projection 18 internal to the body 5, which cylindrical projection 18 performs, in addition to the function of protecting the seal means 16, 16', also a function against the disengagement of the opening/closing means 9, as will be described below.
- the opening/closing means 9 are in turn equipped with a cylindrical projection 22 adapted to be coupled with the cylindrical projection 18 of the body 3 in order to prevent the undesired opening of the opening/closing means 9.
- the opening/closing means 9 are equipped with at least one catching wing 30 for opening and/or closing them.
- the body 3 of the tap 1 when the vessel 3 is shaped as a parallelepiped, the body 3 of the tap 1 must be of a square shape, each one of the four sides of the body 3 being equipped with connecting means 11, 12, 13 and a reinforcing rib 20, as shown.
- Other different shapes of the tap 1, for connecting to corresponding vessels with different shapes, are obviously clear for a skilled person in the art, and fall within the scope of the invention, as pointed out by the following claims.
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Description
- The present invention refers to a tap for food vessels.
- Such tap will protect vessels containing therein foodstuff, for example dry foodstuff (mainly ready-made spices and flavours, useful for food use, which can be congealed or frozen, such as minced parsley, minced garlic, etc.), but also any other type of food, such as for example liquid and/or solid foods.
- Arrangements are known nowadays which comprise vessel + tap, such as for example those manufactured by companies Daregal, Tetrapak, etc. Commonly, such arrangement is composed of a vessel which, once filled in with the product which will have to be marketed, is closed and frozen (or surgealed). Upon securing the tap onto the box, after filling and closing the box, glue is laid (commonly on four points, but sometimes it can happen, for example with Tetrapak taps, that the whole tap surface is used for gluing), and afterward the tap, without any real warranty seal or direct protection thereon (on the box there is a sort of seal, with scarce strength, to be broken once having opened the plastic tap before using it), is oriented and placed on the vessel itself.
- Under this condition, the tap sometimes detachs itself, since glue (especially under low temperature like in products to be refrigerated) crystallises and therefore loses its efficiency.
- Moreover, the tap area used for gluing, which is a plated lower part thereof, in some cases and with particular geometries, is almost never perfectly plane. In this case, gluing becomes difficult, since, due to the scarce planarity of the plastic piece, the gluing area decreases, increasing the previously described problem of glue crystallisation. Moreover, it is necessary to remember that, in order to favour gluing a piece of polyethylene or polypropylene on cardboard, it is necessary to "treat" the cardboard itself (at least on the surface where glue will be deposited) with a thin layer of PE/PP (PolyEthylene/PolyPropylene) in order to favour gluing, increasing the cost of cardboard and therefore of all tap-vessel system. Moreover, it is never easy to glue PE/PP against another PE/PP.
- Moreover, it is necessary to take into account that the various steps of closing the vessel, laying glue and orienting and laying the piece, highly increase the costs for the tap laying machine, in addition to the arrangement with vessel plus tap itself.
- Still more, the fact of not having the warranty that the tap remains stable over the vessel could greatly damage the vessel manufacturer together with a high economic damage (possible lack of compliance of the manufactured package).
- Moreover, the vessel, usually made of cardboard, with the prior art tap must be realised by using a great amount of cardboard, increasing its production cost.
- Finally, in cases in which there is a sort of cardboard seal, there is the problem that the consumer is scarcely prompted to remove such seal, which is difficult to access and scarcely practical.
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US 4,621,744 discloses a tap and vessel arrangement according to the preamble of claim 1. - Object of the present invention is solving the above prior art problems, by providing a tap for vessels (preferably a plastic tap for cardboard vessels) which exploits the restraining between vessel cardboard and internal tap geometries; in this way, all problems given by glue and gluing a piece of plastic onto a cardboard are removed.
- A further object of the present invention is providing a tap as described above, which is further manufactured in a single piece, with integral warranty seal, preferably of the tearing type, in order to do without the seal on the cardboard, which provides practical problems for the user.
- A further object of the present invention is providing a tap as mentioned above, which further allows saving material (cardboard) for manufacturing the vessel, since four small edges obtained on the upper side of the vessel itself are enough, since the inventive tap exploits their resiliency, together with the resiliency of geometries created on the tap, to obtain a correct insertion and locking of the tap onto the vessel. In fact, the high cardboard force is exploited, which has a cutting force, which makes highly stable and unmovable the tap onto the vessel even under extreme conditions (of the freezing or surgealing type).
- Finally, in order to solve the problem that the tap closing cover frees itself from the tap body and gets restrained onto the vibrator being present on the machine for inserting the tap onto the vessel, stopping the tap inserting cycle, a closing cover locking system onto the tap has been created, which is much more accurate and safe, and which guarantees the tap to remain with its cover closed even if subjected to vibrations of the tap supplying vibrator, which preferably provides an interference system between two small circular profiles being present on tap and cover, which, when closing, mutually cooperate; it is however possible to create numerous arrangements, similar to the shown one, which guarantee a perfect anchorage of the two parts, preventing their accidental opening.
- The above and other objects and advantages of the invention, as will appear from the following description, are obtained by a tap for food vessels as claimed in claim 1. Preferred embodiments and non-trivial variations of the present invention are the subject matter of the dependent claims.
- The present invention will be better described by some preferred embodiments thereof, provided as a non-limiting example, with reference to the enclosed drawings, in which:
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Figure 1 is a bottom perspective view of an embodiment of the tap according to the present invention in its opening position; -
Figure 2 is a top perspective view of an embodiment of the tap according to the present invention in its opening position; -
Figure 3 is a top perspective view of an embodiment of the tap according to the present invention in its closing position; -
Figure 4 is a perspective view of a vessel to which the tap of the invention can be applied; -
Figure 5 is a side sectional view of an embodiment of the tap of the invention coupled with a corresponding vessel; -
Figure 6 is a detailed view of the coupling area between tap and vessel inFig. 5 ; and -
Figure 7 is a side view of the tap ofFig. 2 . - With reference to the Figures, an embodiment of the tap 1 of the invention is described, in a form thereof adapted to be applied to a vessel of the box type, substantially of the parallelepiped type. For such purpose, the tap 1 is obviously shaped with a body with square shape, but it is as well obvious that the tap 1 of the invention can be made of any shape which allows it to be coupled with vessels of any shape and size.
- With reference to the Figures, the inventive tap 1 is adapted to be used with a
vessel 3 for foods in order to cover thevessel 3 through which foods are delivered. The tap 1 substantially comprises asupport body 5 equipped with at lest one delivering opening 7 for foods and with opening and closing means 9 of such delivering opening 7, hinged in 6 to thesupport body 5. - To guarantee an optimum seal with the
vessel 3, thesupport body 5 is further equipped withmeans vessel 3 itself. - In particular, but not in a limiting way, such connecting means 11, 12, 13 are composed of at least one
abutment projection 11 adapted to engage thewall 14 of thevessel 3 from inside thevessel 3 itself, of at least oneabutment wing 12 for thewall 14 from outside thevessel 3, and of at least onetooth 13 adapted to engage thewall 14 from outside thevessel 3. Function of theabutment projection 11 is avoiding that thevessel 3 wall deflects and therefore, once having inserted the tap 1 onto thevessel 3, thebent wall 14 can be overturned and go out of its engagement with the tap 1, such engagement being guaranteed by locking the end 14' of thevessel 3 withwing 12 andtooth 13. - In order to guarantee the best seal with
vessel 3, the at least onetooth 13 is adapted to engage the open end 14' of thewall 14 which is bent onto itself towards outside thevessel 3, as can be well seen from the Figures. - Moreover, the
body 5 of the tap 1 is equipped with seal means 16, 16' placed betweenbody 5 and opening/closing means 9 in order to close the opening 7 and prevent the access inside thevessel 3, after having opened the opening/closing means 9 till the seal means 16, 16' have been removed. - In an innovative way, the seal means 16, 16' are made in a single piece with the
body 5 of the tap 1. - Moreover, the seal means 16, 16' are equipped with a weakening
area 17 adapted to make it easier to remove the seal means 16, 16' from the tap 1 when a removal force is exerted onto the seal means 16, 16'. When the seal means 16, 16' are instead not extracted, such weakeningarea 17 is sealingly reinforced with a corresponding reinforcingrib 20, which will be better described below. - For such reason, in fact, the inventive tap 1 is further equipped with such reinforcing
rib 20 placed inside thebody 5, in which thisrib 20 is adapted to reinforce the tap 1 seal onto thevessel 3 and also to support the tearing force of the seal means 16, 16' by abutting against thecylindrical projection 18. - In the preferred but not limiting embodiment shown, the seal means 16, 16' are composed of a
tearable ring 16 connected to a closing wall 16' adapted to be removed from the opening 7 when seal.means 16, 16' are removed from the tap 1. - Moreover, the ring-type seal means 16,16' are contained inside a
cylindrical projection 18 internal to thebody 5, whichcylindrical projection 18 performs, in addition to the function of protecting the seal means 16, 16', also a function against the disengagement of the opening/closing means 9, as will be described below. - In fact, the opening/closing means 9 are in turn equipped with a
cylindrical projection 22 adapted to be coupled with thecylindrical projection 18 of thebody 3 in order to prevent the undesired opening of the opening/closing means 9. - Still more, the opening/closing means 9 are equipped with at least one catching
wing 30 for opening and/or closing them. - And finally, as shown in the Figures, when the
vessel 3 is shaped as a parallelepiped, thebody 3 of the tap 1 must be of a square shape, each one of the four sides of thebody 3 being equipped with connectingmeans rib 20, as shown. Other different shapes of the tap 1, for connecting to corresponding vessels with different shapes, are obviously clear for a skilled person in the art, and fall within the scope of the invention, as pointed out by the following claims.
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- Tap (1) for a vessel (3) for foodstuff comprising a support body (5) equipped with at least one delivering opening (7) for foodstuff and with opening and closing means (9) of said delivering opening (7), said support body (5) being further equipped with means (11, 12, 13) for an unmovable restraining connection to said vessel (3), said connecting means (11, 12, 13) being composed of at least one abutment projection (11) adapted to engage a wall (14) of said vessel (3) from inside the vessel (3), with at least one abutment wing (12) for said wall (14) from outside the vessel (3), characterised in that said abutment wing is provided with at least one tooth (13) adapted to engage said wall (14) from outside the vessel (3) and said at least one tooth (13) is adapted to engage an open end (14') of said wall (14) which is bent onto itself towards the outside of the vessel (3).
- Tap (1) according to claim 1, characterised in that said body (5) of said tap (1) is further equipped with seal means (16, 16') placed between said body (5) and said opening/closing means (9) in order to close said opening (7) and prevent an access from inside the vessel (3) after having opened said opening/closing means (9) till a removal of the seal means (16, 16').
- Tap (1) according to claim 2, characterised in that said seal means (16, 16') are made in a single piece with said body (5) of said tap (1).
- Tap (1) according to claim 2 or 3, characterised in that said seal means (16, 16') are equipped with a weakening area (17) adapted to make it easier to remove said seal means (16, 16') from said tap (1) when a removal force is exerted onto said seal means (16, 16').
- Tap (1) according to claim 2, 3 or 4, characterised in that said seal means (16, 16') are composed of a tearable ring (16) connected to a closing wall (16') adapted to be removed from said opening (7).
- Tap (1) according to claim 5, characterised in that said ring-shaped seal means (16, 16') are contained inside a cylindrical projection (18) inside said body (5).
- Tap (1) according to any one of claims 2 to 6, characterised in that said tap (1) is further equipped with at least one reinforcing rib (20) placed inside said body (5), said at least one rib (20) being adapted to reinforce a seal of said tap (1) onto said vessel (3) and also to support a tearing force of said seal means (16, 16') through an abutment against said cylindrical projection (18).
- Tap (1) according to claim 6, characterised in that said opening/closing means (9) are equipped with a cylindrical projection (22) adapted to be coupled with said cylindrical projection (18) of said body (5) in order to prevent an undesired opening of said opening/closing means (9).
- Tap (1) according to claim 1, characterised in that said opening/closing means (9) are equipped with at least one catching wing (30) for opening and/or closing them.
- Tap (1) according to claim 1, characterised in that said vessel (3) is shaped as a parallelepiped, said body (5) of said tap (1) being of a square shape, each one of the four sides of said body (5) being equipped with the connecting means (11, 12, 13) and with a reinforcing rib (20).
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