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
  • 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
  • B65D51/2857—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 displacing or removing an element enclosing it
  • B65D51/2864—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 displacing or removing an element enclosing it the element being a plug or like element closing a passage between the auxiliary container and the main container
• • 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
  • B65D51/2821—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 a blister, a capsule or like sealed container

Definitions

• This invention relates to a closure for metering a liquid substance separately packaged in this closure into a container equipped therewith.
• closures There are several such closures have become known. They can be screwed like an ordinary screw cap on the external thread of a bottle or container neck. The first time you unscrew a capsule inside the cap is opened, so that their contents fall into the bottle. Only then the cap is completely unscrewed from the nozzle and removed, so that the bottle is ready for pouring.
• the conventional solutions are expensive to manufacture. They consist of a plurality of complicated molded parts.
• the object of this invention is to provide such a closure, which consists of a minimum of two to four parts, which can also be aseptically filled with the separate liquid if necessary, and the dosing of the separate substance in the container in the course the first opening visually and acoustically spectacular effect by injecting the substance into the container liquid.
• a closure for metering a separately packed in this closure liquid substance in a container equipped therewith which contains an outgassing liquid, consisting of a socket sleeve and airtight from above on the same matching rotary cap, wherein the liquid substance between the socket sleeve and the rotary cap is included, and which is characterized in that the socket sleeve holds over an inner projection of a projecting into the container neck cup , which has at least one hole down, which is dimensioned so small that at the same pressure above and below this hole, the liquid substance in this cup does not flow through the hole in the container due to their capillarity, and when unscrewing the rotary cap with entrainment of the socket sleeve from the container neck due to pressure equalization between the container interior and ambient air, the liquid substance is pressed as a result of increased pressure in the rotary cap through this at least one hole from the cup into the container.
• Figure 1 A longitudinal section through the upper part of a container or a bottle and the first variant of the closure with which it is equipped, in the initial closed position of the closure;
• Figure 2 A plan view of the cross section of the closure along the plane A-A in
• FIG. 1 A first figure.
• FIG. 3 a top view of the cross-section of this closure along the plane A-
• Figure 4 A longitudinal section through the upper part of a bottle and this
• FIG. 5 a plan view of the cross section of this closure along the plane AA in FIG. 1 after a further rotation of the rotary cap, with the substance capsules thus opened;
• Figure 6 A longitudinal section through the upper part of a bottle and this
• FIG. 7 shows a second variant of the closure, in the initial closed position of the closure
• FIG. 8 This second variant of the closure is broken down into its four individual parts
• FIG. 10 This second variant in a longitudinal section after opening the cup filled with the separate substance
• FIG 11 The socket sleeve, the piercing and cutting ring and the substance cup of this second closure variant seen obliquely from above;
• Figure 1 shows a longitudinal section through the upper part of a bottle as a container and the closure, in the initial state of the closed closure.
• the closure essentially consists of only two parts, namely a socket sleeve 1 and a rotary cap 2 which can be placed on it.
• the socket sleeve 1 is screwed with its internal thread 3 onto the external thread 4 of the bottle or container neck 5.
• the outside of the socket sleeve 1 is smooth, and the associated inside of the rotary cap 2 is also made smooth, so that a full fit is guaranteed.
• a guarantee strip 18 is formed, which forms a projection on the bottle or container neck 5 wraps around and slightly behind, so that the socket sleeve 1 can only be unscrewed when first the tamper-evident band 18 is torn away from its lower edge or the socket sleeve 1 is rotated so vigorously that tears the tamper-evident band 18.
• the socket sleeve 1 contains approximately at half the height of an inwardly projecting projection 6, is formed from the inner edge of down against a cup 7, which fits with its outer wall into the interior of the bottle neck 5.
• the bottom 8 of this cup 7 is executed here inclined towards its center downwards, and in the center it has an opening in the form of a hole 9 or a slot, so that, so to speak, a funnel is formed. It is essential that the cup bottom 8 drops everywhere towards the opening, no matter where the opening or the hole 9 is located.
• an upwardly projecting collar 10 is integrally formed on the same from its inner edge, which forms the upper edge region of the cup 7.
• an internal thread 12 is formed at the bottom of its cap lid 13, a nipple 14 is formed with external thread 15, which cooperates with the internal thread 12 on the stub 11 on this socket sleeve 1.
• a mandrel 16 is integrally formed on the underside of the cap lid 13, which closes the hole 9 in the bottom of the cup 7 sealingly in the starting position shown here.
• the mandrel 16 can taper slightly at the end, so that it achieves a good sealing effect in the hole 9.
• the external thread 15 and the associated internal thread 12 are formed so that the rotary cap 1 on the neck of the socket sleeve 1 is rotatable or unscrewable only over a certain range, after which the rotary cap 2 further loosens the socket sleeve 1 entrains or rotated, so that the socket sleeve 1 is then unscrewed from the thread of the bottle neck 5.
• FIG. 2 shows a plan view of the cross section of the closure along the plane AA in Figure 1. From the outside to the inside, you first see the rotary cap 2, then the socket sleeve 1 and finally the cup 7 on the socket sleeve 1. In the back of the cup 7 here two capsules 17 are visible, which ever contained by the liquid substance to be dosed.
• wings 19 are integrally formed on both sides, which are also formed on top of the cap lid of the lid cap 2, and which have seen on the top side facing counterclockwise side an edge 20 for piercing and cutting.
• ribs 21 are formed, which each have a piercing and cutting edge 22 on their facing from the top in the clockwise direction faces.
• two retaining strips 23 are formed on the inside of the cup 7.
• two clamping bars 24 are formed near the hole 9.
• the capsules 17 are blister packs of liquids or tubular bags filled with a liquid substance, which are produced and filled in a known manner.
• These capsules 17 can optionally be made oxygen-tight and water-vapor-tight, for example by being made of a laminate containing an aluminum layer. These capsules 17 are inserted from above into the cup 7 and are then inserted between the retaining strips 23 and the inner edge of the cup 7 and are held there by the clamping bars 24 which are elastically bent with inserted capsules 17 against the center of the cup 7 and due to their restoring force, press the capsules 17 against the inner wall of the cup.
• Figure 3 shows a plan view of this cross section of the closure along the plane AA in Figure 1, as this provides for an initial rotation of the rotary cap 2, with the resulting squeezing the substance capsules 17.
• the wings turn 19 with her. Because these are formed on top of the cap lid 13, a torque from the rotary cap 2 is transmitted to them and they therefore assets the capsules 17 first between the ribs 21 and pinch and then pierce with their lancing edge 20, the capsules 17 so that the capsules 17 burst and its content runs down.
• Figure 4 shows again a longitudinal section through the upper part of a bottle and the closure, which is now filled but directly with a liquid substance.
• the closure is shown at the moment after the mandrel 16 has been pulled out of the hole 9 with an initial rotation of the rotary cap 2 with respect to the socket sleeve 1.
• the internal thread 12 on the inside of the upper nozzle sleeve portion cooperates with the external thread 15 on the outside of the nipple 14 on the cover 13 of the rotary cap 2, whereby the rotary cap 2 is initially rotated relative to the same during initial rotation relative to the socket sleeve 1 and opposite to the same is moved up.
• the dome 16 is pulled on the cover 13 from the hole 9 in the cup 7 and the hole 9, which he previously closed sealing, is released.
• the rotary cap 2 is rotated further in the release direction, so it takes the socket sleeve 1, on which it sits. Thus, then rotates the rotary cap 2 together with the socket sleeve 1 and the socket sleeve 1 is unscrewed in the sequence of the bottle or container neck 5. After only a short rotation, the seal between the closure, ie between the socket sleeve 1 and the bottle or container neck 5 is repealed. The overpressure of the atmosphere prevailing in the bottle or container 26 is immediately dissipated by some gas escaping from the bottle into the atmosphere. This is indicated by the escaping gas bubbles 25 in FIG.
• Figure 7 shows a second variant of such a closure, which consists of a total of four parts, of which only two are visible here, namely the bottom tapered bottom 8 of the socket sleeve 1 and rotatably alsprellte on this socket sleeve 1 rotary cap. 2
• the bottom tapered bottom 8 of the socket sleeve 1 and rotatably aufprellte on this socket sleeve 1 rotary cap. 2 One recognizes at the bottom still the thorn 16, which protrudes from the hole 9.
• all four parts of this closure variant are shown in an exploded view, lined up on the common axis of rotation. At the bottom you can see the nozzle sleeve 1. It is screwed after the assembly of the closure over the external thread of the neck of a container or a bottle, to which it has a not visible here internal thread.
• a piercing and cutting member 30 is shown here. This forms as it were a spoked wheel, wherein the Radaussenseite, that is, the Radlaufseite, is provided with an external thread 32. This external thread 32 fits to an internal thread on the nipple 14 in the interior of the rotary cap 2, as indicated by the arrow.
• this piercing and cutting member 30 serve to open the film on the substance cup, as will be explained.
• the substance container is shown here in the form of a substance cup 31. He is shown here in a fallen position, and accordingly he is sealed at the bottom with a film 27.
• This substance cup 29 may be made of oxygen-tight material, and then closed with an equally dense film 27, which allows aseptic filling.
• the rotary cap 2 which has in its interior a nipple 14 which is integrally formed on the underside of the lid of this rotary cap 2. This nipple 14 serves to receive the substance capsule 31. How these four elements of this second variant of the closure cooperate becomes clear with reference to FIG.
• FIG 9 this is a longitudinal section through the entire closure, in its initial closed position after installation.
• the rotary cap 2 is uploadedprellt by means of their grooves on those of the socket sleeve 1.
• the rotary cap 2 has at the bottom of its lid a nipple 14 which is equipped at the lower end with an internal thread 28.
• a guarantee strip 18 is formed, which first has to be torn away in order to open the closure on a container equipped with it.
• the rotary cap 2 is seated on the socket sleeve I 5 via a groove connection, which ensures its rotatability against the socket sleeve 1.
• the socket sleeve 1 carries on an inner projection 6 an open-topped cup 7, which tapers conically towards an outflow hole 9 below.
• the nipple 14 fits exactly into this cup 7.
• the internal thread 3 with which the socket sleeve 1 can be screwed onto a container socket with an external thread.
• the lancing and cutting member 30 is held over its own external thread.
• This piercing and cutting member 30 is designed as a spoke wheel and has upwardly directed cutting tips 29. On the tapered bottom of the cup 7 upwardly projecting support rods 33 are formed, which penetrate the spokes 34 of the piercing and cutting member 30.
• the lancing and Schneidorgang 30 is also provided with a centrally downwardly projecting mandrel 16 which is inserted through the hole 9 and closes this sealing. The function of the piercing and cutting member 30 is clear from Figure 10.
• the threaded connection to the nipple 14 must be designed so that upon rotation of the nipple 14 due to rotation of the rotary cap 2, the lancing and cutting member 30 is moved axially upward because it is prevented by the stationary support rods 33 from rotating with the nipple 14. But when this lancing and cutting member 30 is moved upward, so its cutting tips 29 pierce the film 27 of the substance cup 31 and cut it afterwards, as shown in the figure, so that the liquid substance in the substance cup 31 expires down and in the cup bottom above the hole 9 collects. By the upward movement of the piercing and cutting member 30 and the mandrel 16 has been pulled out of the hole 9 and this is now free. The liquid substance does not necessarily drain, however.
• the hole 9 can be made so small that due to the capillarity of the liquid substance is initially avoided that it drains through the hole, but only when a sufficient pressure gradient between the liquid substance and the interior of the container below the hole 9 is present ,
• FIG. 11 shows the socket sleeve 1, the piercing and cutting member 30 and the substance cup 31 seen obliquely from above.
• spokes 34 on the lancing and cutting member 30 The support rods 33 at the bottom of the cup 7 in the interior of the socket sleeve 1 protrude in mounting position between these spokes 34 of the lancing and cutting member 30 therethrough and therefore ensure its rotational position In the nipple 14.
• cutting tips 29 on the piercing and cutting member 30 above the edge of the socket sleeve 1 two pawls 35 are formed, and a stop element 35.
• This pressure difference causes the liquid substance, which is located above the hole 9, to be pressed vigorously under the pressure prevailing in the cup 7 through the hole 9 into the container interior, under a perceptible sharp sibilant.
• This injection can be observed when the container is made of transparent material, such as glass or PET, and the injection provides a visually spectacular spectacle.

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