EP2417032B1 - Geleimter synthetischer korken und herstellungsverfahren dafür - Google Patents

Geleimter synthetischer korken und herstellungsverfahren dafür Download PDF

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EP2417032B1
EP2417032B1 EP10762562.6A EP10762562A EP2417032B1 EP 2417032 B1 EP2417032 B1 EP 2417032B1 EP 10762562 A EP10762562 A EP 10762562A EP 2417032 B1 EP2417032 B1 EP 2417032B1
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Miguel F. Escobar
Antonio Machuca
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65DCONTAINERS 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
    • B65D39/00Closures arranged within necks or pouring openings or in discharge apertures, e.g. stoppers
    • B65D39/0052Closures arranged within necks or pouring openings or in discharge apertures, e.g. stoppers made in more than one piece
    • B65D39/0076Plastic closures other than those covered by groups B65D39/0058 - B65D39/007
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65DCONTAINERS 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
    • B65D39/00Closures arranged within necks or pouring openings or in discharge apertures, e.g. stoppers
    • B65D39/16Closures arranged within necks or pouring openings or in discharge apertures, e.g. stoppers with handles or other special means facilitating manual actuation
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10TTECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T428/00Stock material or miscellaneous articles
    • Y10T428/29Coated or structually defined flake, particle, cell, strand, strand portion, rod, filament, macroscopic fiber or mass thereof
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  • the present disclosure relates to container closures using natural looking synthetic cork, as well as a method of making synthetic cork stoppers.
  • Such synthetic cork stopper comprises a synthetic cork bonded to a cap.
  • such synthetic cork may comprise a smooth cylindrical cork 10 having a shank 12 with a flat base portion 14 and a beveled or curved tip portion 16.
  • the flat base portion 14 is glued (note shaded adhesive area 17) to a cap portion 18 (e.g., plastic or wooden) to provide a synthetic cork with a cap useable by the user to remove and re-stopper the synthetic cork.
  • the present invention comprises a composite synthetic cork, wherein the flat bottom of the synthetic cork shank includes radial contouring, such that a larger contact area is provided for glue contact to the synthetic cork.
  • radial contouring comprises a spoked design on the bottom of the cork shank.
  • a cap hole is utilized in conjunction with the synthetic cork having radial contouring, the cap hole having side walls that only permit liquid glue to flow up the side of the radial contouring.
  • the cap hole having side walls that only permit liquid glue to flow up the side of the radial contouring.
  • such configuration provides a larger contact area where the glue is holding the cork compared to traditional designs. This increases the holding force of the cork to the cap and combines the traditional tensile gluing force with an additional shear gluing force.
  • the present disclosure relates to an improved synthetic cork, wherein a flat bottom of the synthetic cork shank includes radial contouring, such that a larger contact area is provided for glue contact to the synthetic cork.
  • the exemplary cork includes a shank portion 22, a base portion 24, and a beveled or curved tip portion 26.
  • the base portion 24 has a flat bottom 28, and at least one radial contour 30, which contour provides increased contact area relative to traditional smooth base portion designs.
  • such radial contouring 30 comprises a spoked design on the bottom of the cork shank.
  • FIGURES 5 and 6 illustrate exemplary caps 32 configured with a hole 34 sized to receive the base portion 24 of the synthetic cork.
  • the exemplary cap 32 of FIGURE 5 shows a hole 34 having smooth sidewalls 36.
  • the exemplary cap 32 of FIGURE 6 shows a hole 34 having contoured sidewalls 38.
  • FIGURES 7A and 7B illustrate an exemplary assembly of an exemplary cork and cap, wherein FIGURE 7A illustrates the cork and cap in a pre-installed configuration and FIGURE 7B illustrates the cork and cap in a post-installed configuration.
  • the cork is illustrated having radial contouring 30.
  • the cap 32 is illustrated with a hole configured to accept the cork, the hole having smooth sidewalls 36.
  • FIGURES 8A and 8B illustrate another exemplary assembly of an exemplary cork and cap, wherein FIGURE 8A illustrates the cork and cap in a pre-installed configuration and FIGURE 8B illustrates the cork and cap in a post-installed configuration.
  • the cork is illustrated having radial contouring 30.
  • the cap 32 is illustrated with a hole configured to accept the cork, the hole having smooth sidewalls 36.
  • at least a lower part 40 (near the base portion 24) of the shank portion 22 has an increased diameter relative to the cap hole 34.
  • this lower part 40 creates a seal 42 that prevents excess adhesive from exiting the adhesive contact area 44 for the adhesive in the installed configuration (note that with regard to FIGURE 7B , depending on the amount of adhesive used, it may be possible to get some excess adhesive 46 outside the edges of the cap hole 34 without such seal 42 in addition to retaining adhesive within the nominal adhesive contact area 44).
  • Such seal 42 not only serves to assist in adhesive retention in the nominal adhesive contact area 44 but also serves to provide a more aesthetically pleasing product.
  • caps are utilized in conjunction with the exemplary synthetic cork 20 having radial contouring 30, the cap hole having side walls that only permit liquid glue to flow up the side of the radial contouring.
  • such configuration provides a larger contact area where the glue is holding the cork compared to traditional designs. This increases the holding force of the cork to the cap and combines the traditional tensile gluing force with an additional shear gluing force.
  • Tensile stress develops when forces acting perpendicular to the plane of a joint are distributed uniformly over the entire bonded area. Shear stress results when forces acting in the plane of the adhesive try to separate the adherents.
  • the presently described caps advantageously combine both tensile and shear holding forces.
  • the synthetic cork component may comprise any acceptable synthetic cork material, and the cork may be formed by any convenient mechanism, including such materials and mechanisms as are-described in co-pending U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 11/640,999, filed December 19, 2006 and prior U.S. Provisional Application Serial No. 60/751,299 (In short, these applications describe methods of creating the random and irregular markings including molding the details directly into the surface of the stopper and extruding the synthetic material into a desired shape before passing it through forming cylinders or rollers that contain the negative of the desired surface texture, and which imprint the texture onto the material's exterior surface).
  • the radial contouring 30 of the cork base portion 24 may be molded therein or shaped via forming devices.

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  1. Korken (20) zum Installieren in einem Kappenloch (34), der einen Schaftabschnitt (22) umfasst, der einen Spitzenabschnitt (26) und einen Basisabschnitt (24) hat, wobei der Basisabschnitt (24) eine radiale Kontur (30) aufweist, wobei die radiale Kontur (30) erhöhte radiale Oberfläche im Vergleich zu einem glatten radialen Basisabschnitt bereitstellt, und mindestens der untere Teil (40) des Schaftabschnitts (22) benachbart zu dem Basisabschnitt (24) einen erhöhten Durchmesser im Vergleich zu dem Durchmesser des Basisabschnitts (24) hat, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Korken synthetisch ist und dass der Basisabschnitt (24) die radiale Kontur (30) in einer vorinstallierten Auslegung aufweist.
  2. Synthetischer Korken (20) nach Anspruch 1, wobei der Spitzenabschnitt (26) eine abgeschrägte oder gebogene Spitzenkontur aufweist.
  3. Synthetischer Korken (20) nach Anspruch 1, wobei die radiale Kontur (30) eine radiale Auslegung mit Speichen ist.
  4. Synthetischer Korken (20) nach Anspruch 1, wobei der Basisabschnitt (24) einen flachen Boden (28) aufweist.
  5. Synthetischer Verbundwerkstoffkorkstöpsel, umfassend:
    einen Kappenabschnitt (32), der ein Loch (34) hat, und
    einen synthetischen Korken (20) nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, der einen Schaftabteil (22) umfasst, der einen Spitzenabschnitt (26) und einen Basisabschnitt (24) hat, die bemessen sind, um innerhalb des Lochs (34) des Kappenabschnitts aufgenommen zu werden, wobei der Basisabschnitt (24) eine radiale Kontur (30) aufweist, wobei die radiale Kontur (30) erhöhte radiale Oberfläche im Vergleich zu einem glatten radialen Basisabschnitt bereitstellt und wobei der Durchmesser des mindestens einen unteren Teils (40) des Schaftabschnitts (22) neben dem Basisabschnitt (24) größer ist als der Durchmesser des Lochs (34) des Kappenabschnitts (32), um eine Abdichtung (42) mit dem Kappenabschnittloch (34) bereitzustellen.
  6. Synthetischer Verbundwerkstoffkorkstöpsel nach Anspruch 5, wobei ein Abschnitt (40) des synthetischen Korkschafts (22) neben dem synthetischen Korkbasisabschnitt (24) gegen einen Abschnitt von Wänden des Kappenabschnitts (32) außerhalb des Durchmessers des Lochs (34) des Kappenabschnitts (32) abdichtet, um klebend innerhalb des Lochs (34) des Kappenabschnitts (32) zu halten.
  7. Synthetischer Verbundwerkstoffkorkstöpsel nach Anspruch 5, wobei der Kappenabschnitt (32) glatte Wände (36) innerhalb des Kappenabschnittlochs (34) aufweist.
  8. Verfahren zum Herstellen eines synthetischen Verbundwerkstoffkorkstöpsels, umfassend:
    Bereitstellen eines Kappenabschnitts (32), der ein Loch (34) hat;
    Bereitstellen eines synthetischen Korkens (20), der einen Schaftabschnitt (22) umfasst, der einen Spitzenabschnitt (26) und einen Basisabschnitt (24) hat, die bemessen sind, um innerhalb des Lochs (34) des Kappenabschnitts (32) aufgenommen zu werden, wobei der Basisabschnitt (24) eine radiale Kontur (30) aufweist, wobei die radiale Kontur (30) erhöhte radiale Oberfläche im Vergleich zu einem glatten radialen Basisabschnitt bereitstellt; und
    Kleben des synthetischen Korkbasisabschnitts (24) in die Bohrung (34) des Kappenabschnitts (32).
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