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Definitions

• the invention relates to a lid for a container and moreover a container with lid, wherein the container has a container wall, a container bottom and a container opening with an opening edge and the lid disposed on the radially inner side of the opening edge and can be snapped or clamped at the opening edge is.
• Such a container with lid may, for example, be a paint can, the container opening having a radially inwardly projecting opening edge from the container wall, in which the lid is fastened by clamping or snapping.
• Containers for other goods, especially liquid goods come into consideration, which have an opening edge, sitting on the radially inner side of the lid.
• the opening edge can, such. As in the already mentioned paint box, projecting inwardly from the container wall and may serve to leave the goods in the container Good, eg paint, paint and the like upon movement of the container does not readily pass through the container opening. Furthermore, an inwardly projecting edge allows stripping liquid container goods, such as paint, varnish and the like, from a tool, for example a brush.
• the lid or the container may have any cross-sectional shape, in particular a round, oval, square or any rectangular cross-section.
• Such containers are usually opened by being attacked in a tool on the opening edge of the container under an annular edge flange of the lid and this is solved by prying with the aid of the tool from the opening edge of the container. If the container is closed again with the lid, it is not possible to detect, apart from any small traces of the lever tool, whether the lid has already been removed or not.
• the invention has for its object to provide a lid or a container with a lid with a display that clearly indicates whether the lid has been raised or released by a container or not.
• the lid has at its radially outer edge region an opening portion through which a serving as a lever tool can extend through the lid edge, and below the opening portion, an edge of the lid is provided under the free Attack the end of the lever tool on the lid and by pivoting the tool against the edge of the lid this is at least partially lifted from the container, and the edge of the opening portion has at least one part, the tearable when inserting the tool in the opening area or when levering the lid or tearable.
• the opening portion of the lid with the tearable portion thus serves as a tamper-evident seal for a container sealed with a lid.
• the opening region is formed as a passage opening in the edge region of the lid, through which a suitable tool for levering the lid can extend.
• the passage opening may have a pointing to the radial outside of the lid edge, which is designed as a narrow web and thus is tearable when lifting the lid.
• the passage opening may be in the form of a slot extending in the circumferential direction of the cover.
• the opening area may be closed by a cover before insertion of a tool, which is connected via connections to the edge of the opening area and arranged and designed so that a candidate lever tool not without tearing off the connections in the opening area can be inserted to the inside attack edge of the lid for the lever tool.
• the opening region which is originally closed by the cover, may have an edge section facing the radial outer side of the cover.
• the edge portion may also be in the manner, e.g. as a narrow web, be formed that it is tearable when Abhebein the lid by the tool.
• the radially outer edge region of the cover is designed in the form of a substantially radially extending flange, which is adjoined radially inwardly by a cross-sectionally substantially V-shaped region, with a substantially lent axially extending annular part with an outside recess whose radially outward edge forms the engaging edge of the lid for the lever tool.
• the indentation may point radially inward. de crooked.
• the indentation may have, at its end pointing away from the radially extending flange of the cover, a radially outwardly directed annular projection, which on the outside merges into an inwardly inclined surface.
• the outside recess of the axially extending annular part of the lid serves to engage an inwardly directed projection on the inside of the container to be closed with the lid in the region of the container opening.
• the lid can thus be attached to the opening edge of the container opening by a snap connection.
• the lid with the substantially axially extending annular part can also be clamped onto the radially inward edge of the container opening.
• the cooperating with the container opening annular part of the lid is expediently slightly conical.
• the adjoining the radially outwardly directed annular projection or immediately adjacent to the inwardly facing crank inwardly inclined surface is used when placing the lid on the inner edge as a guiding and centering.
• An axial annular flange may be formed on the end of the inclined surface facing away from the edge region of the cover.
• annular, conical, radially inwardly and axially towards the edge region of the lid extending portion is provided which substantially extends to the height of the edge region of the lid, so that the cross section of the lid is designed from its edge region of substantially V-shaped.
• This V-shaped region is followed by an axially inwardly cranked section via a substantially trapezoidal section middle portion of the lid.
• the outer edge of the radially extending flange of the lid to the outside may be inclined in the direction of the radially extending portion of the V-shaped portion.
• the inclined outer edge of the lid serves to prevent a tool being used to pry up the lid between the peripheral area of the container opening against which the radially extending flange of the lid rests or with very little play is spaced, and can grip the outer edge of the radially extending flange of the lid.
• the sloped course of the rim further prevents the tool from engaging the outer upper edge of the rim to lift the edge portion of the lid and penetrate between the outer edge of the lid and the rim area of the container opening.
• a container having a lid with the above-described embodiments wherein the container has a container wall, a Be structurierbo- and a container opening with an opening edge, wherein the lid disposed on the radially inner side of the opening edge and on the inside of the container in this snaps or is clamped.
• the container opening has an inwardly extending edge against which abuts the radially outer edge of the lid.
• the radially inwardly extending edge of the container opening on the inside passes into a flange inclined to the container bottom, which has a distance from the engaging edge of the lid for the lever tool, so that the lever tool with its free end between the flange and the Attacking edge is plugged through and can attack under the attack edge.
• a radially inwardly directed circumferential projection which is snapped into a recess of the substantially axially extending portion of the V-shaped portion of the lid and leaves the engagement edge free for the lever tool.
• the projection is T-shaped in cross-section.
• FIG. 1 shows a longitudinal section through an embodiment consisting of a container and a lid
• FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of the edge portion A in Fig. 1,
• FIG. 3 is a plan view of the lid of the container shown in Figures 1 and 2,
• FIG. 5 is a sectional view taken along the line C-C in Fig. 4,
• Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section through the lid shown in Fig. 3 and
• FIG. 7 is an enlarged view of the edge region D in FIG. 6.
• Figures 1 and 2 of the drawing show a container 1 with lid 2, wherein the container 1 has a container wall 3, a container bottom 4 and a container opening 5 with an opening edge 6.
• the cover 2 is arranged on the radially inner side of the opening edge 6 and can be snapped or clamped on the opening edge 6.
• the container 1 with lid 2 is a paint can, wherein the container 1 and the lid 2 are made by injection molding.
• the container opening 5 has a radially inwardly extending opening edge 6, on the radially inner side of the radially outer edge 7 of the lid 2 abuts.
• the cover 2 has an opening region 9 in its radially outer edge region 8.
• This opening area 9 serves for a lever tool for opening the lid to be introduced through it.
• the lid 2 has underneath its edge region 8, d. H. axially spaced from the edge region 8, an edge 10, under attack the free end of the lever tool on the lid and by pivoting the tool against the edge 10 of the cover 2 is at least partially lifted from the container 1.
• the edge of the opening portion 9 has at least a part 11 which is tearable when the lid is levered open by the lever tool.
• the condition of the part 11 indicates whether the cover 2 has not yet been detached from the container 1, in which case the part is undamaged, or if the cover 2 has already been detached from the container 1, in which case the part is at Lifting the lid 2 by the tool, wherein the tool is supported against the opening edge 6 of the container 1, is torn.
• the opening region 9 is formed in the form of a long hole extending in the circumferential direction of the cover 2, the part 11 of the edge of the oblong hole being shaped as a narrow web extending outside the opening region 9. If the lid is pushed through the lever mechanism lifted, this being supported against the part 11 and the opening edge 6 of the container 1, this leads to tearing of the part eleventh
• the radially outer edge region 8 of the cover 2 is formed in the form of a substantially radially extending flange, which is adjoined radially inwardly by a substantially V-shaped region in cross-section.
• This comprises a substantially axially extending annular part 12 with an outside recess 13, the radially outward edge 10 forms the engagement edge for the lever tool.
• the indentation 13 is formed as a radially inwardly pointing crank of the annular portion 12.
• the indentation 13 has at its end facing away from the edge region 8 of the lid 2 end a radially outwardly directed annular projection 14, which merges on the outside in an inwardly inclined surface 15.
• an axial annular flange 16 is integrally formed. From the annular flange 16 extends an annular, conical, radially inwardly and axially to the edge portion 8 of the lid 2 toward extending portion 17, which extends substantially to the height of the edge portion 8 of the lid 2.
• the cross section of the lid 2 is radially inwardly substantially V-shaped from its edge region 8.
• the V-shaped region is adjoined by an essentially trapezoidal section 18, an axially inwardly curved central region 19 of the cover 2.
• the outer edge 7 and formed as a narrow web portion 11 of the edge of the opening portion 9 of the lid 2 extends outwardly and downwardly inclined, as shown in Figures 6 and 7.
• the inclined course of the edge 7 and of the part 11 serves to ensure that a tool for prying open the lid 2 does not come between the opening edge 6 of the container opening 5, to which the edge region 8 of the lid 2 rests or is spaced with a very small clearance, and the outer edge 7 or the part 11 of the lid 2 can engage.
• the inclined course also prevents the lever tool from being able to engage the upper edge of the rim 7 in order to lift the edge region of the lid 2 and to penetrate between the outer rim 7 of the lid 2 and the opening edge 6 of the container opening 5.
• the lid 2 is connected to the container 1 in the following manner, which emerges in particular from FIG.
• the container 1 has at its opening end a separately molded plastic frame 20 which is snapped onto the opening end of the container 1.
• the frame 20 forms the radially inwardly of the container wall 3 projecting opening edge 6 of the container.
• the opening edge 6 is designed as a substantially radially extending annular flange which merges at its radially inner end into a container flange 4 inclined to the conical flange 21.
• the conical flange 21 has a distance from the edge 10 of the lid 2, which serves to attack the lever tool, so that the lever tool can be plugged with its free end between the conical flange 21 and the edge 10 and can attack under the edge 10.
• a radially inwardly directed annular projection 22 Arranged on the end of the conical flange part 20 facing the container bottom 4 is a radially inwardly directed annular projection 22 which can be snapped into the indentation 13 of the axially extending annular part 12 of the lid 2.
• the projection 22 is T-shaped in cross-section, with a radially extending annular ridge and an annular axial broadening, which snaps between the edge 10 and the projection 14 of the lid 2. Due to the T-shape of the projection 22 remains a gap between the edge 10 of the lid and the conical flange 21 of the frame 20, through which the tool can extend to below the edge 10 for lifting the lid 2.

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