EP2266883B1 - Verschluss für einen Flüssigkeitsbehälter - Google Patents

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EP2266883B1
EP2266883B1 EP10165369A EP10165369A EP2266883B1 EP 2266883 B1 EP2266883 B1 EP 2266883B1 EP 10165369 A EP10165369 A EP 10165369A EP 10165369 A EP10165369 A EP 10165369A EP 2266883 B1 EP2266883 B1 EP 2266883B1
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Guglielmo Ferrari
Silvia Ferrari
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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
    • B65D5/42—Details of containers or of foldable or erectable container blanks
    • B65D5/72—Contents-dispensing means
    • B65D5/74—Spouts
    • B65D5/746—Spouts formed separately from the container
    • B65D5/747—Spouts formed separately from the container with means for piercing or cutting the container wall or a membrane connected to said wall
    • 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
    • B65D2401/00—Tamper-indicating means
    • B65D2401/15—Tearable part of the closure

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  • the present invention refers to a closure for recipients containing liquid products, in particular but not necessarily liquid food products.
  • screw closing devices In order to close recipients containing drinks or other liquid food products, screw closing devices are known to be used, made up of two elements: a threaded cap, which actually closes and possibly seals the recipient, and an inner safety seal, arranged below such a cap.
  • the function of the inner safety seal is that of preserving the integrity of the liquid product contained inside the recipient until the recipient itself has been opened for the first time by the user.
  • a first known and common type of this kind of inner safety seal commonly used on recipients manufactured in plastic or cardboard containing for example milk, fruit juice, infusions or other non-alcoholic drinks, is made up of an aluminium film that is securely connected to the opening of the recipient.
  • the user In the act of opening the recipient for the first time, the user must manually breake or perforate the film, which normally remains partially fixed to the opening of the recipient itself, thus coming into contact with the liquid product.
  • breakable walls made of plastic material have been made, fixed to the opening of the recipient and positioned below the closing cap.
  • Such breakable walls are provided with a holding tab so that the user, after the cap has been opened for the first time, can completely extract them from the opening of the recipient, breaking their constraints that connect them to the latter.
  • Such a closure, with breahable wall is disclosed in US 2001/0015355 .
  • these walls provided with a tab can be completely extracted from the recipient, they require, in any case, a finger of the user to be inserted into the opening of the recipient itself to remove them, with consequent possibility of contamination of the liquid food product.
  • the general purpose of the present invention is therefore that of making a closure for recipients containing liquid products, in particular but not necessarily for liquid food products, which is able to solve the aforementioned drawbacks of the prior art in an extremely simple, cost effective and particularly functional manner.
  • one purpose of the present invention is that of making a closure for recipients containing liquid products that is able to form a safety seal for the recipient without such a safety seal coming into contact with the liquid product after its removal.
  • Another purpose of the invention is that of making a closure for recipients containing liquid products in which the removal of the safety seal, after the recipient has been opened for the first time, does not have to be carried out manually by the user.
  • a closure for recipients containing liquid products according to the present invention is shown, wholly indicated with reference numeral 10.
  • the closure 10 is configured for being applied to a generic recipient for liquid products (not shown), of the type made for example in recyclable cardboard and provided, on its upper wall, with an outlet hole for the liquid contained therein.
  • the closure 10 comprises a first cylindrical dispenser element 12 in the form of a sleeve ( figures 5-8 ), provided with an external thread 14 and with an annular base 16 configured so as to be fixedly connected, for example through heat coupling or through glueing, to the wall of the recipient at the relative outlet hole for the liquid contained therein.
  • the sleeve 12 thus forms a mouth through which it is possible to dispense the liquid contained inside the recipient.
  • the sleeve 12 of the closure 10 is internally obstructed by a breakable circular wall 18, having a perpendicular extension with respect to the rotation axis of the sleeve 12 itself and formed integral with it.
  • the breakable circular wall 18 is connected to the inner side surface of the sleeve 12 by means of a circumferential weakened line 20.
  • the breakable circular wall 18 thus acts as a safety seal for the closure 10, sealingly obstructing its mouth 12 until the recipient is opened for the first time, as shall be better specified hereafter.
  • the closure 10 also comprises a second cylindrical element 22, or covering cap ( figures 9-12 ), closed by an upper end 24 .
  • a first female screw thread 26 is formed, operatively coupled with the external thread 14 formed on the outer side surface of the sleeve 12.
  • a second female screw thread 28 having a smaller diameter and opposite screwing direction with respect to the diameter and screwing direction of the first female screw thread 26.
  • the second female screw thread 28 of the covering cap 22 is thus capable of engaging with a screw thread 30 formed integrally with the breakable circular wall 18 of the sleeve 12.
  • the screw thread 30, preferably made hollow inside has a smaller diameter and opposite screwing direction with respect to the diameter and screwing direction of the external thread 14 of the sleeve 12.
  • the circular wall 18, separated from the sleeve 12, and the relative screw thread 30 remain inserted inside the covering cap 22, without needing any manual intervention by the user to remove the safety seal, consisting of the circular wall 18 itself, and without such a safety seal accidentally being able to fall into the recipient and sink into the liquid contained therein, thus contaminating it.
  • the thread 14 of the sleeve 12 and that of the outer screw thread 26 is made with a different pitch and may also be made with a different length with respect to those of the screw thread 30 and of the inner female screw thread 28.
  • the pitch of both the screw thread 30 and of the inner female screw thread 28 of the covering cap 22 is longer and equal to double the pitch of both the thread 14 of the sleeve 12 and the outer screw thread 26 of the covering cap 22.
  • the length of all the threads present inside the closure 10 can vary according to the specific needs. Based upon the example embodiment illustrated in the figures, the length of both the screw thread 30 and of the inner female screw thread 28 of the covering cap 22 is considerably smaller than the length of both the thread 14 of the sleeve 12 and the outer female screw thread 26 of the covering cap 22, so as to allow the complete lifting and the consequent removal of the circular wall 18 from the sleeve 12 before obtaining the complete unscrewing of the covering cap 22 from the sleeve 12 itself.
  • the covering cap 22 can be connected, at its lower edge, to an anti-tampering ring 32 through a plurality of breakable bridge elements 34.
  • the first time the closure 10 is opened it will thus be characterised, apart from by the detachment of the circular wall 18 from the sleeve 12, also by the breaking of the bridge elements 34, caused by the rotation and by the lifting of the covering cap 22 and by the consequent detachment of such a covering cap 22 from the underlying anti-tampering ring 32, held by a projecting lip 36 formed below on the outer surface of the sleeve 12.
  • the anti-tampering ring 32 there are one or more wedge-shaped elements 38, preferably arranged evenly along the circumference of such an anti-tampering ring 32, which project radially inwards towards the sleeve 12.
  • the function of the wedge-shaped elements 38 is that of making it possible for the anti-tampering ring 32 to engage with the projecting lip 36 foreseen on the outer surface of the sleeve 12, so as to limit the axial movement of such an annular ring 32 with respect to the covering cap 22 when it is screwed onto the sleeve 12 itself and the closure 10 is still sealed.
  • annular sealing lip 40 can be formed projecting downwards ( figure 4 ), intended to be inserted inside the upper edge of the sleeve 12 itself to improve the seal of the closure 10.
  • the diameter of the annular sealing lip 40 is shorter than the diameter of the sleeve 12 in the respective contact area.

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Claims (6)

  1. Verschluss (10) für einen Behälter eines flüssigen Produkts, umfassend:
    - ein zylindrisches Spenderelement (12) in Form einer Hülse, das mit einem Außengewinde (14) versehen ist, wobei das zylindrische Spenderelement (12) intern durch eine zerbrechliche kreisförmige Wand (18) versperrt ist, die mit der Innenseitenfläche des zylindrischen Spenderelements (12) mittels einer in Umfangsrichtung angeordneten Schwächungslinie (20) verbunden ist, und
    - eine zylindrische Abdeckkappe (22), die durch ein oberes Ende (24) verschlossen ist und entlang ihrer Innenseitenfläche mit einem ersten Innenschraubgewinde (26) versehen ist, das funktional mit dem an der Außenseitenfläche des zylindrischen Spenderelements (12) gebildeten Außengewinde (14) koppelbar ist,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass
    das zylindrische Spenderelement (12) mit einer ringförmigen Basis (16) versehen ist, die derart ausgestaltet ist, dass sie fest mit der Wand des Rezipienten an dem betreffenden Auslassloch für die darin enthaltene Flüssigkeit verbunden ist, und dass innerhalb der zylindrischen Abdeckkappe (22) ein zweites inneres Innenschraubgewinde (28) vorgesehen ist, das einen kleineren Durchmesser und eine entgegengesetzte Schraubrichtung mit Bezug auf den Durchmesser und die Schraubrichtung des ersten Innenschraubgewindes (26) aufweist, wobei das zweite innere Innenschraubgewinde (28) mit einem Schraubgewinde (30) in Eingriff stehen kann, das einstückig mit der zerbrechlichen kreisförmigen Wand (18) gebildet ist, wobei das Schraubgewinde (30) einen kleineren Durchmesser und eine entgegengesetzte Schraubrichtung mit Bezug auf den Durchmesser und die Schraubrichtung des Außengewindes (14) aufweist, das an der Außenseitenfläche des zylindrischen Spenderelements (12) gebildet ist, um somit gleichzeitig das Losschrauben und das Anheben der zylindrischen Abdeckkappe (22) mit Bezug auf das zylindrische Spenderelement (12), sowie das Schrauben des Schraubgewindes (30) innerhalb des jeweiligen inneren Innenschraubgewindes (28) und das daraus folgende Ablösen der zerbrechlichen kreisförmigen Wand (18) von dem zylindrischen Spenderelement (12) durch Zerbrechen der in Umfangsrichtung angeordneten Schwächungslinie (20) zu erhalten,
    dass das Außengewinde (14), das an der Außenseitenfläche des zylindrischen Spenderelements (12) gebildet ist, und das erste Innenschraubgewinde (26) mit einer unterschiedlichen Steigung mit Bezug auf die Steigung des Schraubgewindes (30) und des zweiten inneren Innenschraubgewindes (28) gebildet sind,
    dass die Steigung des Gewindes sowohl des Schraubgewindes (30) als auch des zweiten inneren Innenschraubgewindes (28) länger als die Steigung sowohl des Außengewindes (14), das an der Außenseitenfläche des zylindrischen Spenderelements (12) gebildet ist, und des Gewindes des ersten Innenschraubgewindes (26) ist.
  2. Verschluss (10) nach Anspruch 1,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass
    das Außengewinde (14), das an der Außenseitenfläche des zylindrischen Spenderelements (12) gebildet ist, und das erste Innenschraubgewinde (26) mit einer unterschiedlichen Länge mit Bezug auf die Länge des Schraubgewindes (30) und des zweiten inneren Innenschraubgewindes (28) gebildet ist.
  3. Verschluss (10) nach Anspruch 2,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass
    die Länge des Schraubgewindes (30) und des zweiten inneren Innenschraubgewindes (28) kürzer als die Länge sowohl des Außengewindes (14), das an der Außenseitenfläche des zylindrischen Spenderelements (12) gebildet ist, als auch des ersten Innenschraubgewindes (26) ist.
  4. Verschluss (10) nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass
    die Abdeckkappe (22) an ihrem unteren Rand mit einem Manipulationsschutzring (32) durch eine Vielzahl von zerbrechlichen Brückenelementen (34) verbunden ist.
  5. Verschluss (10) nach Anspruch 4,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass
    der Manipulationsschutzring (32) an seiner Innenfläche mit einem oder mehreren keilförmigen Elementen (38) versehen ist, die radial nach innen in Richtung des zylindrischen Spenderelements (12) vorspringen, wobei die keilförmigen Elemente (38) den Eingriff des Manipulationsschutzrings (32) mit einer vorspringenden Lippe (36) zulassen, die an der Außenfläche des zylindrischen Spenderelements (12) vorgesehen ist.
  6. Verschluss (10) nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass
    an der Innenfläche des oberen Endes (24) eine ringförmige Dichtlippe (40) gebildet ist, die nach unten vorspringt und dazu dient, in den oberen Rand des zylindrischen Spenderelements (12) eingesetzt zu werden, um die Dichtung der Kappe (10) zu verbessern, wobei der Durchmesser der ringförmigen Dichtlippe (40) kürzer als der Durchmesser des zylindrischen Spenderelements (12) in der jeweiligen Kontaktfläche ist.
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