Classifications

• • 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
  • B65D35/00—Pliable tubular containers adapted to be permanently or temporarily deformed to expel contents, e.g. collapsible tubes for toothpaste or other plastic or semi-liquid material; Holders therefor
  • B65D35/44—Closures
• • 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
  • B65D41/00—Caps, e.g. crown caps or crown seals, i.e. members having parts arranged for engagement with the external periphery of a neck or wall defining a pouring opening or discharge aperture; Protective cap-like covers for closure members, e.g. decorative covers of metal foil or paper
  • B65D41/02—Caps or cap-like covers without lines of weakness, tearing strips, tags, or like opening or removal devices
  • B65D41/04—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers secured by rotation
  • B65D41/06—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers secured by rotation with bayonet cams, i.e. removed by first pushing axially to disengage the cams and then rotating
• • 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
  • B65D41/00—Caps, e.g. crown caps or crown seals, i.e. members having parts arranged for engagement with the external periphery of a neck or wall defining a pouring opening or discharge aperture; Protective cap-like covers for closure members, e.g. decorative covers of metal foil or paper
  • B65D41/02—Caps or cap-like covers without lines of weakness, tearing strips, tags, or like opening or removal devices
  • B65D41/16—Snap-on caps or cap-like covers
• • 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
  • B65D41/00—Caps, e.g. crown caps or crown seals, i.e. members having parts arranged for engagement with the external periphery of a neck or wall defining a pouring opening or discharge aperture; Protective cap-like covers for closure members, e.g. decorative covers of metal foil or paper
  • B65D41/02—Caps or cap-like covers without lines of weakness, tearing strips, tags, or like opening or removal devices
  • B65D41/16—Snap-on caps or cap-like covers
  • B65D41/17—Snap-on caps or cap-like covers push-on and twist-off
• • 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
  • B65D51/00—Closures not otherwise provided for
  • B65D51/24—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes
  • B65D51/249—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes the closure being specifically formed for supporting the container

Definitions

• the invention relates to a new tube body with cap, and its use for the storage and use of thixotropic masses.
• a tube consists of a tube body and a closure.
• a tube body is an elongated, solid, but mouldable container containing soft substances such as e.g. Cream or toothpaste, but also food or technical masses may contain.
• the round or oval shell is usually made of plastic or sheet metal.
• the removal of the contents is an opening with a closure at one end. This usually round opening sits in the middle of the so-called. Tube shoulder and is closed by a so-called. Cap, which may be made of plastic or metal, for example.
• the content of the tube is generally made of soft substances, preferably of thixotropic masses.
• DE 196 39 124 A1 describes a tube closure with a cylindrical lower part (1) designed as a tube shoulder which has an outlet opening (2) on one end side and a closure cap (3) which can be applied to the lower part (1) the lower part (1) applied state, the outlet opening (2) closes, wherein the lower part (1) at its periphery recesses (4) which extend approximately over a quarter of the circumference and the axis (5) of the lower part (1) at an angle of 85 to 60 degrees, preferably 80 to 70 degrees, extend, and the closure cap (3) inside on its circumference protrusions (6) ("locking knobs") up, which in on the lower part (1) attached cap (3) engage in the recesses (4).
• DE 21 61 237 A1 describes a device for holding tubes and plastic bottles, in which both are equipped with an externally conically shaped, internally provided with mouthpiece and rest vertically in a holder made inside sucking the mouthpiece cone holder, wherein the mouthpiece with internal thread screwed on the threaded socket mounted in the base of the closure and thus the passage in the mouthpiece is blocked.
• DE 199 24 730 A1 describes a bayonet-type tube closure.
• Object of the present invention is to provide an upright tube in a stand, which allows to remove the tube at any time without opening process and just as easy to spend after use back into the stand, and this without drying out the tube and without large additional costs.
• a tube should, for example, be stably closed for transport.
• a guide for centering the tube body is mounted on the insertion into the cap.
• the guidance of the tube body into the closure cap is effected by guide elements in the inner part (recess) of the closure cap.
• This type of guide according to the invention has the advantage that the tube engages centered in the survey at the bottom of the levy and does not have to be closed at the same time.
• the known bayonet closure has, inter alia, two significant disadvantages which can be avoided by the closure according to the invention:
• the invention may be in the following preferred embodiments:
• latching cams are provided at the upper edge of the recess and at least one latching groove is provided at the outlet of the tube body,
• the sealing seat in the middle of the bottom of the cap may have a shape that is formed as a hemisphere, as a mandrel, as a cone or pyramid is.
• This sealing seat has a height of 0.5 to 10 mm, preferably from 2 to 5 mm in general, and engages in the open state of the tube in the outlet and seals the tube against leaking product and against the outside penetrating dirt.
• the tube body according to the invention with cap allows surprisingly to remove the tube at any time without opening process and just as uncomplicated to spend after use in the stand, and this without drying out of the tube and without large additional costs.
• the locking cams snap into the locking groove, so that the tube is stably sealed, for example, for transport.
• the outlet of the tube body is formed into a sealing cone, which engages in a sealing seat at the bottom of the cap, and its connection to the tube is designed as a centering, wherein in the cap movable mounted cap locking lugs are mounted, which engage in the closing of the tube in a groove above the sealing cone on the tube shoulder.
• the sealing seat at the bottom of the cap may be formed as a cylinder on which the sealing cone is seated. It can also be designed as a hemisphere, as a mandrel, as a cone or pyramid, which engage in the tube opening and thereby seal the tube contents.
• the tube body according to the invention with cap according to variant B allows, as in variant A, surprisingly, to remove the tube at any time without opening process and just as easy to spend after use back into the stand, and this without drying the tube and without large additional costs.
• the locking lugs movably connected with the cap and sealing seat via film hinges are moved from their stable end position into an open position into another stable position. End position in closed position brings and rest there in the locking groove on the tube body, so that the tube is sealed, for example, stable for transport.
• the opening of the tube takes place accordingly by pulling the tube body out of the closure cap, as a result of which the locking lugs movably connected to the closure cap and sealing seat via film hinges are tilted out of the closed stable end position into the open stable end position and thus release the tube body.
• the guide for centering the tube body may preferably be attached to the tube shoulder.
• Thixotropic compositions in the context of the present invention are "non-Newtonian liquids" which reduce the viscosity at a constant shear. After exposure to the shear stress, the initial viscosity is rebuilt.
• Both versions of the stud cap can be designed as a cylinder or, because of better stability, as a truncated cone, wherein the base can be circular or elliptical, so that the tube can stand upright safely in any case.
• the base of the tube cap corresponds in dimensions to the dimensions of the tube body. It generally has a lower diameter of 40 to 80 mm, with the preferred conical embodiment tapering it up to the dimension of the tube diameter of about 20 to 50 mm.
• the height of the tube cap is generally in the range of 20 to 50 mm.
• the tube cap with the individual elements can generally be produced in a customary injection molding method.
• the production of the tube body with the locking groove can also be carried out in a manner known per se, e.g. by injection molding, done.
• Figure 1 shows the variant A in the open state, ie in use position, Figure 2 in the transport position, respectively in front and in side view.
• number 1 designates the tube body and number 2 designates the closure cap, which has the locking cams (3.1) at the upper edge, which do not engage in the latching groove (4.1) in this position, but in the position of FIG.
• the tube shoulder is designed as a centering collar (5).
• the tube opening is sealed by the sealing seat (7).
• the bottom of the tube cap contains vents (6), which also serve to clean the tube cap.
• FIG. 3 shows the closure cap of variant B, in each case in transport position (3a) and use position (3b), the numbers being selected analogously to variant A: 1 and 2 denote tube body and closure cap, the sealing cone (3.2) and the cap locks (4.2) are here instead of groove and cam of the variant A, and centering collar (5), vents (6) and sealing seat (7) are analogous to variant A.
• the present invention also provides for the use of a tube body with a closure cap, whose base is circular or elliptical, wherein the base area is formed into a closed base and the opposite side of the closure cap to a recess for insertion of the tube body, Wherein at the upper edge of the recess either locking cam or a sealing cone with locking lugs and at the outlet of the tube body is mounted according to at least one locking groove,
• Semi-solid or liquid compositions in the context of the present invention may be thixotropic.
• Preferred within the scope of the present invention is the use of a tube body with closure cap for the storage and application of cosmetic preparations.
• Preferred cosmetic preparations in the context of the present invention may be pastes, creams or gels.
• Cosmetic preparations with thixotropic properties may e.g. Toothpastes, sun gels or creams.
• Preferred within the scope of the present invention is the use of a tube body with closure cap for storing and using technical materials with thixotropic properties.
• Technical materials with thixotropic properties can be, for example, sealing compounds and paint.
• Preferred within the scope of the present invention is the use of a tube body with closure cap for storing and using foods with thixotropic properties.
• Foods with thixotropic properties can be, for example, mustard, ketchup and honey.

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