EP2275359B1 - Capuchon de bouchage - Google Patents

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EP2275359B1
EP2275359B1 EP09831489A EP09831489A EP2275359B1 EP 2275359 B1 EP2275359 B1 EP 2275359B1 EP 09831489 A EP09831489 A EP 09831489A EP 09831489 A EP09831489 A EP 09831489A EP 2275359 B1 EP2275359 B1 EP 2275359B1
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pouring
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Dimitriy Ivanovitch Pachomov
Nicolai Petrovitch Birucov
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Inostrannoye Chastnoe Proizvodstvennoye Unitarnoye
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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
    • B65D47/00—Closures with filling and discharging, or with discharging, devices
    • B65D47/04—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps
    • B65D47/20—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps comprising hand-operated members for controlling discharge
    • B65D47/24—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps comprising hand-operated members for controlling discharge with poppet valves or lift valves, i.e. valves opening or closing a passageway by a relative motion substantially perpendicular to the plane of the seat
    • B65D47/241—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps comprising hand-operated members for controlling discharge with poppet valves or lift valves, i.e. valves opening or closing a passageway by a relative motion substantially perpendicular to the plane of the seat the valve being opened or closed by actuating a cap-like element
    • B65D47/244—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps comprising hand-operated members for controlling discharge with poppet valves or lift valves, i.e. valves opening or closing a passageway by a relative motion substantially perpendicular to the plane of the seat the valve being opened or closed by actuating a cap-like element being rotated without axial translation, whilst transmitting axial motion to an internal valve stem or valve seat
    • 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
    • B65D49/00—Arrangements or devices for preventing refilling of containers
    • 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
    • B65D55/00—Accessories for container closures not otherwise provided for
    • B65D55/02—Locking devices; Means for discouraging or indicating unauthorised opening or removal of closure
    • B65D55/024—Closures in which a part has to be ruptured to gain access to the contents
    • 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 invention can be used in the food industry and relates to a closure for bottles according to the preamble of claim 1, which applied for storage and bottling strong beverages, providing indication of its opening and preventing re-filling of the bottles with off-grade alcohol products.
  • the closures of this type usually comprise a decorative metal or plastic casing with an element indicating first opening of the bottle, and a polyethylene cap with a discharge device, which extends upwards and opens while turning a decorative casing of the bottle.
  • a polyethylene cap with a discharge device, which extends upwards and opens while turning a decorative casing of the bottle.
  • the cap operates as a stop valve unit that closing an opened bottle and preventing thereby its contents from evaporation.
  • a drawback of this type of devices is complexity of the construction, insufficiently high level of protection from unauthorized opening, but also there is a probability of foreign objects falling into the open nozzle and the discharge tube after first opening of the bottle.
  • a discharge device is made as a sleeve with an annular projection with a thread, on which a cap with a nozzle is installed for discharging the liquid and splines on its external side surface.
  • a breakable unit is located on the face part of the decorative casing, and a shut-off sleeve is made with splines on the internal surface and installed in the decorative casing with a possibility of its mutual turning relatively to discharge sleeve and an interaction of its splines with splines of the cap for disclosing an axial removing and breaking of the breakable unit by nozzle.
  • Utility model UA 35550 U discloses a closure according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • Said closure comprises fixedly attached to each other external and seating bodies, a one-way valve unit with shut-off ball and sealing rings to provide a tight fitting on the neck of the container, a shaped extensible dispenser with a cap and discharge element made as a whole with a support body in the lower part and having arresters on the external cylindrical surface.
  • an extensible dispenser embosses shut-off element and control hatch of external cylindrical body, destroying spot-glued connection of the shut-off element and control hatch, correspondingly, with the cap and the external body. While rotating of the protective body in the reverse direction, lowering of a extensible dispenser and closing of a discharge element are carried out with the help of shut-off element of the cap.
  • Closing of the external orifice of the pouring sleeve after opening while exploitation envisages lowering of the pouring sleeve.
  • the exploitation of the device can be connected with a necessity of multiple rotation of the protective body in the reverse direction putting in motion all 3 movable elements of construction that increases the chance of jamming of the extensible system.
  • Using of the said shut-off element of the cap leads to its destroying and full its breaking while multiple opening and closing while exploitation.
  • the shut-off element doesn't provide tight and reliable closing of pouring hole, that can lead to pouring of the liquid while inclination of the bottle.
  • a base of the invention is carried out a problem of increasing of the sealing and reliability of closing the pouring hole of the extensible dispenser by changing the construction of the device, making an additional level of protection, increasing of the convenience while using the device.
  • a closure that is adapted to be applied to a mouth and neck of the container for liquid, comprising an external body with a face wall, on which there is a breakable unit, a seating body with fixing means to the container, that is mounted in the external body, and also a pouring assembly with an outlet, installed in the seating body, with a possibility of extension and separation of breakable unit
  • the closure additionally comprises an extensible cap, that is able to be disconnected while extensible position of the pouring assembly, and also means for extension of the cap with pouring assembly, made with a possibility of an axial forward movement of the cap, in the direction of opening relatively to the seating body, while rotational movement of the external body, evidencing about opening of the container, wherein the pouring assembly is provided with a pouring sleeve, on which surface there are made diametrically positioned lifting elements.
  • the closure consists of the external body 1, a seating body 2, installed in the external body, the extensible cap 3, pouring assembly, located in the seating body, which comprises pouring sleeve 4 and a discharge tube 5.
  • the external body 1 is made as a cylindrical sleeve element, on the end surface of which there is a breakable unit 6 with a possibility of removing it as a result of application physical force by pouring assembly while opening the container.
  • a breakable unit 6 On the internal surface of the external body 1 in the upper part, vertical stop projections 7 and grooves 8 are made, and also fixing elements 9 for connecting with the seating body 2 and for retaining of it in the axial direction.
  • the ribs 10 can be made for convenient using by claw of the consumer while opening.
  • the seating body 2 is made as through cylindrical sleeve and consists of 2 indivisible parts: upper 11 and lower 12.
  • fixing means 13, 14 are made for tight fitting on the neck of the container, and also there is an annular area 15, in the lower part of which an annular projection 16 with a throughput orifice 17 and with a tightening element 18 are made.
  • guiding bevel projections 19 are made, in the upper part of which angular portions with horizontal edge 20 and with vertical edge 21 are made.
  • the reverse locks 22 are made as extending bead, the edge of extending part of this bead is made clockwise in the direction of opening, on the external side surface of the seating body 2
  • the extensible removable cap 3 is made as a cylindrical cap with muffled upper face wall 23 and fitted on the pouring sleeve 4
  • the external cylindrical surface of the cap can be ribbed, and on the internal surface of its face wall a tightening annular projection 24 is made.
  • the removable cap 3 is installed on the pouring sleeve 4 with a possibility of multiple opening and closing of the container while partial using of the liquid, providing its sealing in any position of the container.
  • the removable cap 3 may be of a color contrasted to that of the external body 1, and also external cylindrical surface of the cap can be ribbed.
  • an extensible pouring assembly is made in the axial direction, consisted of the pouring sleeve 4, connected with the discharge tube 5 by indivisible connection.
  • pouring sleeve 4 is made with the outlet 25.
  • lifting elements 26 are made for interaction with bevel surfaces 19 of the seating body 2 during opening of the container.
  • the pouring sleeve 4 comprises one or more circumferential orifices 27 around the sleeve with a projecting element 28, formed between axially extending portions of the sleeve, what is more the projecting element is on the lower circumferential edge of one of the orifices.
  • the discharge tube 5 is made from elastic material and has a nozzle 29 with a through-pass channel 30, tightly fitted by tightening element 18 in the throughput orifice 17 of the annular projection 16, retaining sealing in any position of the pouring assembly and of the container.
  • an external annular portion 31 is made for engaging with the projecting element of the pouring sleeve 4 and for fixation in the axial direction.
  • the ribs of rigidity 34 are made between external wall 32 and internal wall 33 with a possibility of preventing the deformation during axial assembling with the pouring sleeve 4.
  • the given closure is assembled with all parts as a single unit.
  • the discharge tube 5 is tightly installing in the pouring sleeve 4, forming the pouring assembly, the removable cap 3 is fitting on the pouring sleeve 4.
  • Assembled construction is further installing in the seating body 2 and is fixing in the external body 1.
  • the closure is installing and fixing on the neck of the bottle by fixing means of the seating body 2.
  • the device works as following:
  • the removable cap 3 entirely goes out the limits of the external body 1 and can be opened for pouring the liquid from the container. While partial using of the liquid the cap 3 can be used repeatedly, retaining sealing in any position of the bottle.
  • stop element 22 which rigidly sets against the stop projections 7 and doesn't give an opportunity of reverse rotation of the external body 1.
  • All parts of the closure are made of ecologically friendly polymeric materials, such as polyethylene and polystyrene, using highly efficient thermoplastic automatic machines by injection molding in molds with a system of hot channels, and dies.
  • the bottle is closed by top-down pressing in a capping machine.
  • the proposed invention allows increasing the sealing of the closure with extensible pouring assembly during multiple exploitation of the container with liquid, to increase the security of closing of the pouring orifice of the extensible pouring assembly, and also provides additional level of unauthorized protection.

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  • Closures For Containers (AREA)
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  • Sealing Of Jars (AREA)

Claims (1)

  1. Capuchon de bouchage adapté pour être monté sur l'orifice et le goulot d'un récipient destiné à des liquides, comprenant un corps externe (1) muni d'une façade, sur laquelle il y a une unité fragile (6), un élément servant de base (2) avec des moyens de fixation au récipient, qui est monté sur le corps externe (1); un ensemble distributeur muni d'un orifice (25), qui permet d'être étiré et séparé de l'unité fragile (6), un couvercle étirable (3), qui peut être enlevé de l'ensemble distributeur étant en position étiré; moyen d'étirage du couvercle avec l'ensemble distributeur, préparé de manière qui lui permet un mouvement axial en avant dans la direction de l'orifice relativement à l'élément servant de base, alors que le mouvement rotatif du corps externe manifeste l'ouverture du récipient, caractérisée en ce que l'ensemble distributeur est muni d'un manchon distributeur (4), sur la surface duquel il y a des éléments d'élevage (26) diamétralement disposés dans le cadre de l'élément servant de base (2).
EP09831489A 2008-12-12 2009-11-26 Capuchon de bouchage Not-in-force EP2275359B1 (fr)

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EA200802321A EA012805B1 (ru) 2008-12-12 2008-12-12 Укупорочное устройство с выдвижной индикацией вскрытия
PCT/EA2009/000010 WO2010066263A1 (fr) 2008-12-12 2009-11-26 Capuchon de bouchage avec un couvercle coulissant

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WO2010066263A1 (fr) 2010-06-17
WO2010066260A1 (fr) 2010-06-17
WO2010066261A1 (fr) 2010-06-17
WO2010066259A1 (fr) 2010-06-17
EA012805B1 (ru) 2009-12-30
ATE549263T1 (de) 2012-03-15
WO2010066262A1 (fr) 2010-06-17
EP2275359A1 (fr) 2011-01-19

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