EP2146908B1 - Cap for receptacle forming an additive reservoir - Google Patents

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EP2146908B1
EP2146908B1 EP08805528A EP08805528A EP2146908B1 EP 2146908 B1 EP2146908 B1 EP 2146908B1 EP 08805528 A EP08805528 A EP 08805528A EP 08805528 A EP08805528 A EP 08805528A EP 2146908 B1 EP2146908 B1 EP 2146908B1
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Marguerite Deperrois
Vincent Deperrois
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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
    • 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
    • B65D51/28—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes with auxiliary containers for additional articles or materials
    • B65D51/2807—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes with auxiliary containers for additional articles or materials the closure presenting means for placing the additional articles or materials in contact with the main contents by acting on a part of the closure without removing the closure, e.g. by pushing down, pulling up, rotating or turning a part of the closure, or upon initial opening of the container
    • B65D51/2814—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes with auxiliary containers for additional articles or materials the closure presenting means for placing the additional articles or materials in contact with the main contents by acting on a part of the closure without removing the closure, e.g. by pushing down, pulling up, rotating or turning a part of the closure, or upon initial opening of the container the additional article or materials being released by piercing, cutting or tearing an element enclosing it
    • B65D51/2842—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes with auxiliary containers for additional articles or materials the closure presenting means for placing the additional articles or materials in contact with the main contents by acting on a part of the closure without removing the closure, e.g. by pushing down, pulling up, rotating or turning a part of the closure, or upon initial opening of the container the additional article or materials being released by piercing, cutting or tearing an element enclosing it said element being provided with a preformed weakened line

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  • the present invention relates to a closure means of a packaging -a bottle- for a liquid -communment a drink- thanks to which one can bring to the liquid an organoleptic complement either mineral, or coloring, or finally taste.
  • the document FR 2 158 142 which reveals a hollow plug constituting an aroma tank, the base of the cap being formed of a perforable wall constituting the bottom of said tank and the top of the plug constituting a pusher able to push towards the said base wall a perforating member contained in The reservoir.
  • a dose is shaped into a hollow plug in which an externally actuated pusher (the top of the plug) makes it possible to tear a retention membrane of the additive product which is thus released into the receptacle adapted to receive the hollow plug.
  • the present invention proposes to overcome this disadvantage and offer the market a dose of additive in a packaging completely identical to a screw cap.
  • the external relief of the neck and the inner means of the lateral skirt of the capsule are nets. It is not outside the scope of the invention to provide a shoulder of the neck (under a ring for example) and crimping or snapping of the skirt on this ring.
  • the spacer is close to the skirt of the bowl, the bottom having in the vicinity of this place a line of weakness along its junction with the skirt .
  • a hinge line that allows to keep attached to the skirt the lid that forms the bottom once detached of the skirt.
  • the bowl is in its first aforementioned position, the periphery of the outer surface of the bottom of the bowl is circumscribed by the extreme edge of the skirt of the capsule and at most, at the level of this one.
  • the bowl is then practically inaccessible from the outside which is a guarantee of good performance of the dose cap against the blows, shocks and forces that it can undergo between its manufacture and its use.
  • the capsule and the bowl have corresponding second latching means which cooperate in maintaining the bowl in the capsule in a second relative axial position thereof when the bottom wall of the bowl is broken.
  • the pierced bowl is then held captive at the bottom of the capsule, which allows its maneuvering by the capsule when the stopper has more than a closing office and which ensures a seal between capsule and bowl while the liquid contained in the neck container is able to invade the tank between capsule and bowl.
  • These second latching means are constituted by a groove formed at the end of the skirt of the capsule near its bottom and by an outer bead bordering the free end of the skirt of the bowl.
  • the skirt of the bowl has a first axial section from its bottom, a first outer diameter smaller than the outer diameter of a second axial section which overcomes the first section up to at the free end of this skirt.
  • the difference between the diameters of the two sections of the skirt of the bowl is substantially equal to twice the thickness of the wall which forms it, the smallest diameter being substantially equal to the inside diameter of the aforesaid neck of the container and the length of the first section aforesaid is sufficient to allow the setting of the thread of the skirt with the thread of the aforesaid neck of the container prior to the thrust of the rim on the bowl.
  • the plug shown has a first part 1 forming a capsule with a bottom 2 and a side skirt 3 cylindrical or very slightly frustoconical flaring downwards, whose end 3a opposite the bottom 2 is provided with a internal thread 4 single or double thread. This end 3a is limited by an extreme edge 3b.
  • the skirt 3 of the capsule is provided with an inner relief 5, the section of which is made of a downwardly pointed crown tooth, which constitutes a first retaining means whose role will be described below.
  • the capsule has a second inner relief 6 which defines a slope 6a and a groove 6b, which also form a second retaining means.
  • the dose cap represented also comprises a second cup-shaped piece 11 with a substantially plane bottom 12 and a lateral skirt 13.
  • the bottom 12 carries, perpendicularly to its plane, a stud 14 which lies inside the skirt. 13 and extend beyond the end edge 13b of its free end 13a.
  • the axis of the stud 14 is off-center with respect to the general axis XX of the bowl.
  • the bottom 12 of the bowl has a line of weakness 15 which extends at the junction of this bottom with the skirt and which passes close to the foot of the stud 14.
  • the arc embraced by this line is substantially equal to the circumference of the bottom except for a fastener 16 which forms a flexible tongue of articulation to the skirt of the lid that constitutes the bottom 12 once the broken line of fragility.
  • the free end 13a of the skirt is provided externally with two superposed beads 17 and 18 which form both the latching means of the bowl 11 in the capsule 1 and sealing contact between the skirt 13 of this bowl and that 13 of the capsule.
  • the bead 17 cooperates with the relief 5 to snap the bowl into the capsule in a first relative axial position of these two elements.
  • the stud 14 constitutes a stop at the depression of the bowl 11 in the capsule 1 which limits this depression to the value necessary for the realization of the latching.
  • the figure 2 illustrates the cooperation of the upper bead 18 with the groove 6b of the capsule when the depression of the bowl in the capsule has been forced to the point of having partially detached the bottom 12 of the skirt 13 by the clearance of the spacer blocked by the bottom 2 of the capsule. This is the second latching of the bowl and the capsule in a second relative axial position of these elements.
  • the skirt 13 of the bowl 11 has two sections 13c and 13d.
  • the section 13c, the closest to the bottom 12 is of outside diameter d less than that D of the section 13d which overcomes it.
  • the diameter d will preferably be equal to that inside the threaded neck C of the main container to the contents of which it is desired to incorporate a liquid or powdery adduct.
  • the outside diameter D of the section 13d of the skirt 13 is in turn substantially equal to that inside the end 3a of the skirt 3 at the top of the thread 4.
  • the difference of the corresponding radii is substantially equal to the thickness of the skirt wall 13. In this way, a shoulder 19 is created to support the rim of the neck C under the section 13d of the skirt 13.
  • the bottom 12 of the bowl 11 is substantially at the edge 3b of the skirt 3 when skirt and capsule are in their first relative position and the axial length L of the section 13c is such that the thread 4 of the capsule can engage with the external thread of the neck C before there is contact between the rim of this neck and the shoulder 19.
  • the two components of the dose cap of the invention are made of injected plastic material. Before assembling them, the additive product concerned is placed in one or the other of the bowl or capsule and is snapped into their first relative position ( figure 1 ). It is then possible to manipulate the cap as a single piece to condition according to the sales strategies adopted according to the recipients of the product.
  • the user after removing the original cap of the neck C, undertakes to screw the dose cap of the invention on the neck from the position represented in FIG. figure 1 .
  • the screwing of the skirt 3 on the neck C causes the depression of the rim in the capsule by forcing the depression of the skirt 13 towards the bottom 2.
  • the bottom 12 of the bowl can not follow the movement of the skirt 13 because of the stud 14 which abuts against the bottom 2, and is detached from the skirt along the line of weakness 15.
  • the additive product contained in the cap then flows into the container.
  • the dose cap affects the shape shown in FIG. figure 2 in which it is totally empty.

Abstract

A dose cap for an additive for adding to a liquid contained in a container having a neck suitable for receiving a screw cap that includes a first part in the form of a cover possessing an end wall and a side skirt having its end remote from the end wall provided with an inside thread, and a second part in the form of a cup with an end wall and a side skirt, the cup and the cover possessing first snap-fastener device that co-operates to hold the cup in the cover in a first relative axial position with leaktight peripheral contact between them, a spacer extending inside the skirt of the cup from the end wall thereof towards the end wall of the cover to form an abutment limiting penetration of the cup into the cover beyond said first position, and said spacer including a device for breaking the end wall of the cup when the cap is forced to penetrate into the cover beyond said first position by thrust from the rim of the neck.

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La présente invention concerne un moyen de bouchage d'un conditionnement -une bouteille- pour un liquide -typiquement une boisson- grâce auquel on peut apporter au liquide un complément organoleptique soit minéral, soit colorant, soit enfin gustatif.The present invention relates to a closure means of a packaging -a bottle- for a liquid -typiquement a drink- thanks to which one can bring to the liquid an organoleptic complement either mineral, or coloring, or finally taste.

ARRIERE PLAN DE L'INVENTIONBACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Il existe de nombreux dispositifs qui permettent d'introduire un additif dans un liquide, notamment un liquide alimentaire, lequel additif est contenu dans un bouchon qui vient prendre place sur le col de la bouteille contenant le liquide alimentaire.There are numerous devices that make it possible to introduce an additive into a liquid, especially a liquid food, which additive is contained in a stopper that comes to sit on the neck of the bottle containing the food liquid.

On citera par exemple le document FR 2 158 142 qui révèle un bouchon creux constituant un réservoir à arôme, la base du bouchon étant formée d'une paroi perforable constituant le fond dudit réservoir et le sommet du bouchon constituant un poussoir apte à pousser en direction de ladite paroi de base un organe perforateur contenu dans le réservoir.For example, the document FR 2 158 142 which reveals a hollow plug constituting an aroma tank, the base of the cap being formed of a perforable wall constituting the bottom of said tank and the top of the plug constituting a pusher able to push towards the said base wall a perforating member contained in The reservoir.

On citera également le document WO 2007/006414 une dose est conformée en un bouchon creux dans lequel un poussoir actionné par l'extérieur (le sommet du bouchon) permet de déchirer une membrane de rétention du produit additif qui est ainsi libéré dans le récipient apte à recevoir le bouchon creux.We will also mention the document WO 2007/006414 a dose is shaped into a hollow plug in which an externally actuated pusher (the top of the plug) makes it possible to tear a retention membrane of the additive product which is thus released into the receptacle adapted to receive the hollow plug.

Dans tous les dispositifs connus, la libération de l'additif passe par l'action sur un poussoir. Cette action peut être intempestive et ne pas être contrôlée de manière suffisante pour que le bouchon puisse être vendu séparément du récipient de liquide avec la garantie de son intégrité depuis le fabricant jusqu'à l'utilisateur. En outre, il est connu du document DE4411232 A3 un bouchon divulguant toutes les caractéristiques du préambule de la revendication 1.In all known devices, the release of the additive passes through the action on a pusher. This action can be untimely and not be sufficiently controlled so that the cap can be sold separately from the liquid container with the guarantee of its integrity from the manufacturer to the user. In addition, it is known from the document DE4411232 A3 a cap disclosing all the features of the preamble of claim 1.

OBJET DE L'INVENTIONOBJECT OF THE INVENTION

La présente invention se propose de pallier cet inconvénient et offrir au marché une dose d'additif dans un conditionnement totalement identique à un bouchon vissable.The present invention proposes to overcome this disadvantage and offer the market a dose of additive in a packaging completely identical to a screw cap.

RESUME DE L'INVENTIONSUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

L'invention a donc pour objet un bouchon-dose pour produit d'addition à un liquide contenu dans un récipient avec un col pourvu d'un relief extérieur apte à recevoir et retenir un bouchon. Ce bouchon est remarquable par la structure suivante :

  • il comporte une première pièce en forme de capsule possédant un fond et une jupe latérale dont l'extrémité opposée au fond est pourvue intérieurement d'un moyen de fixation pour coopérer avec un relief du col.
  • il comporte une seconde pièce en forme de cuvette avec un fond et une jupe latérale, la cuvette et la capsule possédant des premiers moyens d'encliquetage qui coopèrent au maintien de la cuvette dans la capsule dans une première position axiale relative avec, entre elles, un contact périphérique étanche,
  • il comporte une entretoise s'étendant à l'intérieur de la cuvette depuis le fond de celle-ci en direction du fond de la capsule pour former une butée limitant l'enfoncement de la cuvette dans la capsule au-delà de cette première position,
    ladite entretoise constituant un moyen de rupture du fond de la cuvette lorsque l'enfoncement de cette dernière dans la capsule est forcé.
    Le réservoir du produit d'addition est ainsi constitué par l'emboitement étanche de deux demi coques qu'il est aisé de réaliser, de remplir et d'assembler de manière automatique après remplissage. L'invention constitue un conditionnement du produit efficace et capable de conserver son intégrité tout au long de la chaîne de sa distribution. Le bouchon qui en résulte est de nature à assurer une fermeture étanche du récipient avec lequel il coopère.
The subject of the invention is therefore a dose-stopper for an addition product to a liquid contained in a container with a neck provided with an external relief capable of receiving and retaining a stopper. This cap is remarkable for the following structure:
  • it comprises a first capsule-shaped part having a bottom and a side skirt whose opposite end to the bottom is internally provided with a fixing means for cooperating with a relief of the neck.
  • it comprises a second bowl-shaped part with a bottom and a side skirt, the bowl and the capsule having first latching means which cooperate to hold the bowl in the capsule in a first relative axial position with, between them, a sealed peripheral contact,
  • it comprises a spacer extending inside the bowl from the bottom thereof towards the bottom of the capsule to form an abutment limiting the depression of the bowl in the capsule beyond this first position,
    said spacer constituting a means of breaking the bottom of the bowl when the depression of the latter in the capsule is forced.
    The reservoir of the adduct is thus constituted by the sealed engagement of two half-shells that it is easy to perform, fill and assemble automatically after filling. The invention constitutes an effective product conditioning and able to maintain its integrity throughout the chain of its distribution. The resulting cap is such as to ensure a tight closure of the container with which it cooperates.

Dans un mode préféré de réalisation le relief extérieur du col et les moyens intérieurs de la jupe latérale de la capsule sont des filets. Ce n'est pas sortir du cadre de l'invention que de prévoir un épaulement du col (sous une bague par exemple) et un sertissage ou encliquetage de la jupe sur cette bague.In a preferred embodiment the external relief of the neck and the inner means of the lateral skirt of the capsule are nets. It is not outside the scope of the invention to provide a shoulder of the neck (under a ring for example) and crimping or snapping of the skirt on this ring.

Afin de rendre l'ouverture du réservoir et la libération du produit d'addition plus aisée, l'entretoise est voisine de la jupe de la cuvette, le fond comportant au voisinage de cet endroit une ligne de fragilité le long sa jonction avec la jupe. On peut même ajouter à la jonction du fond et de la jupe de la cuvette, à l'opposé de cette ligne de fragilité, une ligne d'articulation qui permet de conserver attaché à la jupe l'opercule que forme le fond une fois détaché de la jupe.In order to make the opening of the reservoir and the release of the adduct easier, the spacer is close to the skirt of the bowl, the bottom having in the vicinity of this place a line of weakness along its junction with the skirt . We can even add to the junction of the bottom and the skirt of the bowl, opposite this line of weakness, a hinge line that allows to keep attached to the skirt the lid that forms the bottom once detached of the skirt.

Un détail important de l'invention réside dans le fait que le diamètre extérieur de la jupe de la cuvette est sensiblement identique au diamètre en sommet de filetage de l'extrémité de la jupe de la capsule. Par cette disposition, on comprend que lors du vissage du bouchon dose sur le col fileté du récipient principal, le buvant de ce col pousse la cuvette dans le prolongement de la jupe de cette dernière, alors que l'entretoise s'oppose à ce que le fond se déplace avec la jupe, ce qui conduit au détachement de ce dernier d'avec celle-ci le long de la ligne de fragilité.An important detail of the invention lies in the fact that the outer diameter of the skirt of the bowl is substantially identical to the diameter at the threaded end of the end of the skirt of the capsule. By this arrangement, it is understood that during screwing of the dose cap on the threaded neck of the main container, the rim of this neck pushes the bowl in the extension of the skirt of the latter, while the spacer opposes that the bottom moves with the skirt, which leads to the detachment of the latter from it along the line of weakness.

De manière préférée, la cuvette est dans sa première position susdite, la périphérie de la surface extérieure du fond de la cuvette est circonscrite par le bord extrême de la jupe de la capsule et au plus, au niveau de celui-ci. La cuvette est alors pratiquement inaccessible depuis l'extérieur ce qui est un gage de bonne tenue du bouchon dose contre les coups, chocs et forces qu'il peut subir entre sa fabrication et son usage.Preferably, the bowl is in its first aforementioned position, the periphery of the outer surface of the bottom of the bowl is circumscribed by the extreme edge of the skirt of the capsule and at most, at the level of this one. The bowl is then practically inaccessible from the outside which is a guarantee of good performance of the dose cap against the blows, shocks and forces that it can undergo between its manufacture and its use.

Plus secondairement, il est préférable que la capsule et la cuvette possèdent en correspondance des seconds moyens d'encliquetage qui coopèrent au maintien de la cuvette dans la capsule dans une seconde position axiale relative de celles-ci lorsque la paroi de fond de la cuvette est rompue. La cuvette percée est alors retenue prisonnière au fond de la capsule, ce qui permet sa manoeuvre par la capsule lorsque le bouchon n'a plus qu'un office de bouchage et ce qui assure une étanchéité entre capsule et cuvette alors que le liquide contenu dans le récipient à col est à même d'envahir le réservoir entre capsule et cuvette.More secondarily, it is preferable that the capsule and the bowl have corresponding second latching means which cooperate in maintaining the bowl in the capsule in a second relative axial position thereof when the bottom wall of the bowl is broken. The pierced bowl is then held captive at the bottom of the capsule, which allows its maneuvering by the capsule when the stopper has more than a closing office and which ensures a seal between capsule and bowl while the liquid contained in the neck container is able to invade the tank between capsule and bowl.

Ces seconds moyens d'encliquetage sont constitués par une gorge ménagée à l'extrémité de la jupe de la capsule proche de son fond et par un bourrelet extérieur bordant l'extrémité libre de la jupe de la cuvette.These second latching means are constituted by a groove formed at the end of the skirt of the capsule near its bottom and by an outer bead bordering the free end of the skirt of the bowl.

Dans un mode particulier de réalisation de l'invention, la jupe de la cuvette possède une première section axiale à partir de son fond, d'un premier diamètre extérieur inférieur à celui extérieur d'une deuxième section axiale qui surmonte la première section jusqu'à l'extrémité libre de cette jupe. La différence entre les diamètres des deux sections de jupe de la cuvette est sensiblement égale au double de l'épaisseur de la paroi qui la forme, le plus petit diamètre étant sensiblement égal au diamètre intérieur du col susdit du récipient et la longueur de la première section susdite est suffisante pour permettre la prise du filetage de la jupe avec le filetage du col susdit du récipient préalablement à la poussée du buvant sur la cuvette.In a particular embodiment of the invention, the skirt of the bowl has a first axial section from its bottom, a first outer diameter smaller than the outer diameter of a second axial section which overcomes the first section up to at the free end of this skirt. The difference between the diameters of the two sections of the skirt of the bowl is substantially equal to twice the thickness of the wall which forms it, the smallest diameter being substantially equal to the inside diameter of the aforesaid neck of the container and the length of the first section aforesaid is sufficient to allow the setting of the thread of the skirt with the thread of the aforesaid neck of the container prior to the thrust of the rim on the bowl.

D'autres caractéristiques et avantages de l'invention ressortiront de la description donnée ci-après d'un exemple de sa réalisation.Other features and advantages of the invention will emerge from the description given below of an example of its embodiment.

BREVE DESCRIPTION DES DESSINSBRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Il sera fait référence aux dessins annexés dans lesquels :

  • la figure 1 est une vue en coupe du bouchon dose de l'invention dans son premier état avant usage,
  • la figure 2 est une vue identique de ce bouchon dans son deuxième état avec usage,
    les deux vues représentant le bouchon en coopération avec le col fileté d'un récipient tel qu'une bouteille.
Reference will be made to the accompanying drawings in which:
  • the figure 1 is a sectional view of the dose cap of the invention in its first state before use,
  • the figure 2 is an identical view of this plug in its second state with use,
    the two views representing the plug in cooperation with the threaded neck of a container such as a bottle.

DESCRIPTION DETAILLEE DE L'INVENTIONDETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

Aux figures, le bouchon représenté comporte une première pièce 1 formant une capsule avec un fond 2 et une jupe latérale 3 cylindrique ou très légèrement tronconique en s'évasant vers le bas, dont l'extrémité 3a opposée au fond 2 est pourvue d'un filetage 4 intérieur à simple ou double filet. Cette extrémité 3a est limitée par un bord extrême 3b. En partie haute, la jupe 3 de la capsule est pourvue d'un relief intérieur 5 dont la section est en dent de sapin de pointe tournée vers le bas, qui constitue un premier moyen de retenue dont le rôle sera décrit ci-après. A la jonction entre le fond et la jupe, la capsule possède un second relief intérieur 6 qui définit une pente 6a et une gorge 6b, lesquels forment également un second moyen de retenue.In the figures, the plug shown has a first part 1 forming a capsule with a bottom 2 and a side skirt 3 cylindrical or very slightly frustoconical flaring downwards, whose end 3a opposite the bottom 2 is provided with a internal thread 4 single or double thread. This end 3a is limited by an extreme edge 3b. In the upper part, the skirt 3 of the capsule is provided with an inner relief 5, the section of which is made of a downwardly pointed crown tooth, which constitutes a first retaining means whose role will be described below. At the junction between the bottom and the skirt, the capsule has a second inner relief 6 which defines a slope 6a and a groove 6b, which also form a second retaining means.

Le bouchon dose représenté comporte aussi une seconde pièce 11 en forme de cuvette avec un fond 12 sensiblement plan et une jupe latérale 13. Le fond 12 porte, perpendiculairement à son plan, un plot 14 qui s'étant à l'intérieur de la jupe 13 et se prolonger au-delà du bord extrême 13b de son extrémité libre 13a. L'axe du plot 14 est décentré par rapport à l'axe général XX de la cuvette.The dose cap represented also comprises a second cup-shaped piece 11 with a substantially plane bottom 12 and a lateral skirt 13. The bottom 12 carries, perpendicularly to its plane, a stud 14 which lies inside the skirt. 13 and extend beyond the end edge 13b of its free end 13a. The axis of the stud 14 is off-center with respect to the general axis XX of the bowl.

Le fond 12 de la cuvette possède une ligne de fragilité 15 qui s'étend à la jonction de ce fond avec la jupe et qui passe à proximité du pied du plot 14. L'arc embrassé par cette ligne est pratiquement égal à la circonférence du fond à l'exception d'une attache 16 qui forme une languette souple d'articulation à la jupe de l'opercule que constitue le fond 12 une fois la ligne de fragilité rompue.The bottom 12 of the bowl has a line of weakness 15 which extends at the junction of this bottom with the skirt and which passes close to the foot of the stud 14. The arc embraced by this line is substantially equal to the circumference of the bottom except for a fastener 16 which forms a flexible tongue of articulation to the skirt of the lid that constitutes the bottom 12 once the broken line of fragility.

L'extrémité libre 13a de la jupe est munie extérieurement de deux bourrelets superposés 17 et 18 qui forment à la fois les moyens d'encliquetage de la cuvette 11 dans la capsule 1 et de contact étanche entre la jupe 13 de cette cuvette et celle 13 de la capsule. Comme représenté à la figure 1, le bourrelet 17 coopère avec le relief 5 pour assurer l'encliquetage de la cuvette dans la capsule dans une première position axiale relative de ces deux éléments. Le plot 14 constitue une butée à l'enfoncement de la cuvette 11 dans la capsule 1 qui limite cet enfoncement à la valeur nécessaire à la réalisation de l'encliquetage.The free end 13a of the skirt is provided externally with two superposed beads 17 and 18 which form both the latching means of the bowl 11 in the capsule 1 and sealing contact between the skirt 13 of this bowl and that 13 of the capsule. As represented in figure 1 , the bead 17 cooperates with the relief 5 to snap the bowl into the capsule in a first relative axial position of these two elements. The stud 14 constitutes a stop at the depression of the bowl 11 in the capsule 1 which limits this depression to the value necessary for the realization of the latching.

La figure 2 illustre la coopération du bourrelet supérieur 18 avec la gorge 6b de la capsule lorsque l'enfoncement de la cuvette dans la capsule a été forcé au point d'avoir partiellement détaché le fond 12 de la jupe 13 par le jeu de l'entretoise bloquée par le fond 2 de la capsule. Il s'agit là du second encliquetage de la cuvette et de la capsule dans une seconde position axiale relative de ces éléments.The figure 2 illustrates the cooperation of the upper bead 18 with the groove 6b of the capsule when the depression of the bowl in the capsule has been forced to the point of having partially detached the bottom 12 of the skirt 13 by the clearance of the spacer blocked by the bottom 2 of the capsule. This is the second latching of the bowl and the capsule in a second relative axial position of these elements.

Par ailleurs on notera que la jupe 13 de la cuvette 11 comporte deux sections 13c et 13d. La section 13c, la plus proche du fond 12 est de diamètre extérieur d inférieur à celui D de la section 13d qui la surmonte. Le diamètre d sera de préférence égal à celui intérieur du col C fileté du récipient principal au contenu duquel on souhaite incorporer un produit d'addition liquide ou pulvérulent. Le diamètre extérieur D de la section 13d de la jupe 13 est quant à lui sensiblement égal à celui intérieur de l'extrémité 3a de la jupe 3 en sommet de filetage 4. La différence des rayons correspondants est sensiblement égale à l'épaisseur de la paroi de la jupe 13. De cette manière on crée un épaulement 19 d'appui du buvant du col C sous la section 13d de la jupe 13.Moreover, it will be noted that the skirt 13 of the bowl 11 has two sections 13c and 13d. The section 13c, the closest to the bottom 12 is of outside diameter d less than that D of the section 13d which overcomes it. The diameter d will preferably be equal to that inside the threaded neck C of the main container to the contents of which it is desired to incorporate a liquid or powdery adduct. The outside diameter D of the section 13d of the skirt 13 is in turn substantially equal to that inside the end 3a of the skirt 3 at the top of the thread 4. The difference of the corresponding radii is substantially equal to the thickness of the skirt wall 13. In this way, a shoulder 19 is created to support the rim of the neck C under the section 13d of the skirt 13.

Enfin ; dans l'organe représenté, le fond 12 de la cuvette 11 est sensiblement au niveau du bord 3b de la jupe 3 lorsque jupe et capsule sont dans leur première position relative et la longueur axiale L de la section 13c est telle que le filetage 4 de la capsule peut venir en prise avec le filetage extérieur du col C avant qu'il y ait contact entre le buvant de ce col et l'épaulement 19.Finally ; in the member shown, the bottom 12 of the bowl 11 is substantially at the edge 3b of the skirt 3 when skirt and capsule are in their first relative position and the axial length L of the section 13c is such that the thread 4 of the capsule can engage with the external thread of the neck C before there is contact between the rim of this neck and the shoulder 19.

Les deux composants du bouchon dose de l'invention sont réalisés en matière plastique injectée. Avant de procéder à leur assemblage, on place dans l'une ou l'autre de la cuvette ou de la capsule le produit additif concerné et on les encliquette dans leur première position relative (figure 1). Il est alors possible de manipuler le bouchon comme une pièce unique à condition-ner selon les stratégies de vente adoptées en fonction des destinataires du produit.The two components of the dose cap of the invention are made of injected plastic material. Before assembling them, the additive product concerned is placed in one or the other of the bowl or capsule and is snapped into their first relative position ( figure 1 ). It is then possible to manipulate the cap as a single piece to condition according to the sales strategies adopted according to the recipients of the product.

L'utilisateur, après avoir retiré le bouchon d'origine du col C, entreprend de visser le bouchon dose de l'invention sur le col à partir de la position repré-sentée à la figure 1. Après la prise des filetages, le vissage de la jupe 3 sur le col C provoque l'enfoncement du buvant dans la capsule en forçant l'enfoncement de la jupe 13 en direction du fond 2. Le fond 12 de la cuvette ne peut pas suivre le mouvement de la jupe 13 du fait du plot 14 qui bute contre le fond 2, et se détache de la jupe le long de la ligne de fragilité 15. Le produit additif contenu dans le bouchon se déverse alors dans le récipient. En fin de vissage, le bouchon dose affecte la forme représentée à la figure 2 dans laquelle il est totalement vide. Il continue cependant à jouer le rôle d'organe de bouchage efficace du récipient car l'étanchéité vis-à-vis de l'extérieur du récipient est assurée par la partie 13c de la jupe 13 enfoncée dans le col et par l'encliquetage du bourrelet 18 dans la gorge 6b réalisé de manière étanche. En outre, comme la cuvette est encliquetée dans la capsule dans sa seconde position, la manoeuvre de la capsule entraîne la manoeuvre de la cuvette dans et hors le col du récipient.The user, after removing the original cap of the neck C, undertakes to screw the dose cap of the invention on the neck from the position represented in FIG. figure 1 . After taking the threads, the screwing of the skirt 3 on the neck C causes the depression of the rim in the capsule by forcing the depression of the skirt 13 towards the bottom 2. The bottom 12 of the bowl can not follow the movement of the skirt 13 because of the stud 14 which abuts against the bottom 2, and is detached from the skirt along the line of weakness 15. The additive product contained in the cap then flows into the container. At the end of screwing, the dose cap affects the shape shown in FIG. figure 2 in which it is totally empty. However, it continues to play the role of effective closure member of the container because the sealing vis-à-vis the outside of the container is provided by the portion 13c of the skirt 13 pressed into the neck and by snapping the bead 18 in the groove 6b made in a sealed manner. In addition, as the bowl is snapped into the capsule in its second position, the operation of the capsule causes the maneuvering of the bowl in and out of the neck of the container.

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  1. A dose cap for an additive for adding to a liquid contained in a container having a neck (C) suitable for receiving and retaining a cap via an external portion in relief comprising a first part (1) in the form of a cover possessing an end wall (2) and a side skirt (3) and a second part (11) in the form of a cup with an end wall (12) and a side skirt (13), the cup (11) and the cover (1) possessing first snap-fastener means (5, 17) that co-operate to hold the cup (11) in the cover (1) in a first relative axial position with leaktight peripheral contact between them, a spacer (14) forming an abutment limiting penetration of the cup (11) into the cover (1) beyond said first position, said spacer (14) constituting means for breaking the end wall (12) of the cup (11) when the cap is forced to penetrate into the cover (1) beyond said first position by thrust from the rim of the neck, the cap being characterized in that the end (3a) of the side skirt (3) of the first part (1) thereof remove from the end wall (2) being provided internally with fastener means (4) for co-operating with the outside portion in relief on the neck, and in that the spacer (14) extending inside the skirt (13) of the caps (11) from the end wall (12) thereof towards the end wall (2) of the cover (1).
  2. A cap according to claim 1, characterized in that the outside portion in relief on the neck and the fastener means of the skirt of the cover are formed by screw threads.
  3. A cap according to claim 1 or claim 2, characterized in that the spacer (14) is adjacent to the skirt (13) of the cup, the end wall (12) having a line of weakness (15) in the vicinity of said location, the line of weakness extending along the junction between the end wall and the skirt (13).
  4. A cap according to claim 2 or claim 3, characterized in that the outside diameter of the skirt (13) of the cup (11) is substantially identical to the diameter at the crest of the thread (4) at the end (3a) of the skirt (3) of the cover (1).
  5. A cap according to any preceding claim, characterized in that when the cup (11) is in its above-mentioned first position, the periphery of the outside surface of the end wall (12) of the cup is surrounded by the end edge (3b) of the skirt (3) of the cover (1) and furthermore it is level therewith.
  6. A cap according to any preceding claim, characterized in that the cover (1) and the cup (11) possess corresponding second snap-fastener means (6b, 18) that co-operate to hold the cup (11) in the cover (1) in the second relative axial position thereof when the end wall (12) of the cup (11) has been broken.
  7. A cap according to claim 6, characterized in that the second snap-fastener means are constituted by a groove (6b) formed at the end of the skirt (3) of the cover (1) close to its end wall (2) and by an outside bead (18) bordering the free end (13a) of the skirt (13) of the cup (11) .
  8. A cap according to any preceding claim, characterized in that the skirt (13) of the cup (11) possesses a first axial section (13c) extending from its end wall (12), having a first outside diameter (d) that is less than the outside diameter (D) of a second axial section (13d) that surmounts the first section up to the free end (13a) of said skirt.
  9. A cap according to claim 7, characterized in that the difference between the diameters (d, D) of the two sections (13c, 13d) of the skirt of the cup is substantially equal to twice the thickness of the wall that forms the skirt, with the smaller diameter (d) being substantially equal to the inside diameter of the above-mentioned neck (C) of the container.
  10. A cap according to claims 2, 8, and 9, characterized in that the length (L) of the first above-mentioned section (13c) is sufficient to enable the thread (4) of the skirt (13) of the cover to engage with the thread of the above-mentioned neck (C) of the container.
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