EP2704961A1 - Bouchon pour un col de récipient - Google Patents
Bouchon pour un col de récipientInfo
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- EP2704961A1 EP2704961A1 EP12718666.6A EP12718666A EP2704961A1 EP 2704961 A1 EP2704961 A1 EP 2704961A1 EP 12718666 A EP12718666 A EP 12718666A EP 2704961 A1 EP2704961 A1 EP 2704961A1
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- skirt portion
- skirt
- ribs
- axial
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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
- B65D41/00—Caps, e.g. crown caps or crown seals, i.e. members having parts arranged for engagement with the external periphery of a neck or wall defining a pouring opening or discharge aperture; Protective cap-like covers for closure members, e.g. decorative covers of metal foil or paper
- B65D41/02—Caps or cap-like covers without lines of weakness, tearing strips, tags, or like opening or removal devices
- B65D41/04—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers secured by rotation
- B65D41/0407—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers secured by rotation with integral sealing means
- B65D41/0414—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers secured by rotation with integral sealing means formed by a plug, collar, flange, rib or the like contacting the internal surface of a container neck
- B65D41/0421—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers secured by rotation with integral sealing means formed by a plug, collar, flange, rib or the like contacting the internal surface of a container neck and combined with integral sealing means contacting other surfaces of a container neck
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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
- B65D41/00—Caps, e.g. crown caps or crown seals, i.e. members having parts arranged for engagement with the external periphery of a neck or wall defining a pouring opening or discharge aperture; Protective cap-like covers for closure members, e.g. decorative covers of metal foil or paper
- B65D41/02—Caps or cap-like covers without lines of weakness, tearing strips, tags, or like opening or removal devices
- B65D41/04—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers secured by rotation
- B65D41/0485—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers secured by rotation with means specially adapted for facilitating the operation of opening or closing
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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
- B65D41/00—Caps, e.g. crown caps or crown seals, i.e. members having parts arranged for engagement with the external periphery of a neck or wall defining a pouring opening or discharge aperture; Protective cap-like covers for closure members, e.g. decorative covers of metal foil or paper
- B65D41/32—Caps or cap-like covers with lines of weakness, tearing-strips, tags, or like opening or removal devices, e.g. to facilitate formation of pouring openings
- B65D41/34—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers provided with tamper elements formed in, or attached to, the closure skirt
- B65D41/3423—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers provided with tamper elements formed in, or attached to, the closure skirt with flexible tabs, or elements rotated from a non-engaging to an engaging position, formed on the tamper element or in the closure skirt
- B65D41/3428—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers provided with tamper elements formed in, or attached to, the closure skirt with flexible tabs, or elements rotated from a non-engaging to an engaging position, formed on the tamper element or in the closure skirt the tamper element being integrally connected to the closure by means of bridges
Definitions
- the present invention relates to a cap for a container neck.
- the invention is concerned with plastic plugs, which comprise a tubular skirt adapted to be removably attached around the free end ring of the neck of a container, typically by screwing-unscrewing. It is therefore, among others, screw caps that are very commonly used to seal bottles of mineral water or other food liquids.
- DE-A-14 82 569 which may be considered as the state of the art closest to the invention, provides an example of this: this document thus discloses a plug including a tubular skirt including, successively along the central axis of the latter, a first skirt portion, internally provided with a removable screw thread on the outer surface of a container neck, and a second skirt portion comprising:
- the object of the present invention is to provide an improved cap which, while being detachably attached to a current container neck, that is to say on a container neck whose ring has a small dimension axial, is easier to handle, especially to open, for users.
- the invention relates to a cap for a container neck, as defined in claim 1.
- One of the basic ideas of the invention is, in a way, to seek to add, axially between the bottom wall of the plug and the axial portion of the skirt, which is internally arranged to cooperate with the free end ring a container neck for removable attachment purposes, an axial skirt portion specific to the invention, in order to increase the overall outer surface of the skirt: thus, even in the presence of a neck collar; container having a small axial dimension, manipulations of the cap are facilitated because the fingers of the user have a large axial extent to the outer surface of the skirt for gripping and driving the cap.
- the cap thus has a more attractive appearance, due to its increased overall volume in the opposite direction to the closed container neck.
- the portion of skirt "added” between the bottom wall and the neck fastening skirt portion has arrangements to effectively block the axially in line with the neck of the container, in the form of one or several surfaces which abut axially against the free end of the neck, to prevent the skirt portion "added” can be axially driven radial view of the neck ring.
- the "added" skirt portion does not consist in a simple massive extension, which would pose, in particular, point problems.
- ribs when these ribs are present on the outer cylindrical surface of the skirt portion specific to the invention, they are advantageously grasped by the fingers of the user to drive the plug, and / or, when these ribs are present on the inner cylindrical surface of the specific skirt portion of the invention, they participate advantageously in the axial locking of this skirt portion.
- these ribs make it possible to manufacture the skirt portion specific to the invention so that this portion of the skirt has, outside the ribs, a moderate radial thickness, for example having a value of the same order as the radial thickness of the neck fastening skirt part, and whatever the axial dimension of the part skirt specific to the invention.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a first embodiment according to the invention
- FIG. 2 is an axial section of the cap of Figure 1, the left half of this section showing the cap alone, while the right half of this section has the plug closing a container neck;
- FIG. 3 is a partial section along the line III-III of Figure 2;
- FIG. 4 is a section along the line IV-IV of Figure 3;
- FIG. 5 is a section along the line V-V of Figure 3;
- FIG. 6 is a view similar to FIG. 3, illustrating a variant of the first embodiment, according to the invention.
- FIG. 7 is a perspective view of a second embodiment of a plug according to the invention.
- FIG. 8 is an axial section of the plug of Figure 7, the left half of this section showing the cap alone, while the right half of this section shows the plug closing a container neck;
- Figure 9 is a partial section along the line IX-IX of Figure 8.
- FIG. 10 is a section along the line X-X of Figure 9.
- Figures 1 1, 12 and 13 are views similar to Figure 9, respectively illustrating three variants of the second embodiment.
- FIG. 1 to 5 a plug 1 adapted to be removably attached to a neck 2 of a container to plug the neck.
- the neck 2 is integral with the rest of the container, especially when the latter is a glass or plastic bottle, or adapted to be secured permanently to a wall of the container, at an opening crossing this wall.
- the plug 1 has a generally tubular shape, the central longitudinal axis is referenced XX.
- the neck 2 has a generally tubular shape, the central longitudinal axis coincides with the axis XX when the plug 1 closes the neck.
- the cap 1 is oriented relative to the axis XX, considering that the terms “lower” and “low” describe a portion of the plug which is directed axially towards the container when the plug closes the collar 2 of this container. Conversely, the terms “superior” and “high” correspond to an axial direction of opposite direction. Similarly, the term “interior” qualifies a portion of the cap 1 which is directed transversely to the X-X axis, while the term “outside” corresponds to a transverse direction in the opposite direction.
- the neck 2 comprises a generally cylindrical body or ring 3 with a circular base, centered on an axis coinciding with the axis X-X when the plug 1 closes the neck.
- the upper axial end 4 of the ring 3 is free, being open on the outside, while at its opposite axial end, the ring 3 opens into the rest of the container.
- the ring 3 delimits a rim 4A, at which the product contained in the container is intended to be poured and which is connected to the outer side face 3A of the ring 3 by an outer edge 4B.
- This outer face 3A of the ring 3 is provided, successively from top to bottom, a helical thread 5, a heel 6 and a flange 7, which all extend radially projecting outwardly.
- the plug 1 has a generally tubular shape, centered on the axis XX.
- the plug 1 is open at its lower end and is closed at its upper end by a bottom wall 10 which, in the embodiment considered here, is generally flat, presenting a Discoidal shape centered on the XX axis.
- a bottom wall 10 which, in the embodiment considered here, is generally flat, presenting a Discoidal shape centered on the XX axis.
- From the outer peripheral portion of the bottom wall 10 extend downwardly both an outer tubular skirt 20, which will be described in detail hereinafter, and an inner annular lip 30, both centered on the outside.
- XX axis From the outer peripheral portion of the bottom wall 10 extend downwardly both an outer tubular skirt 20, which will be described in detail hereinafter, and an inner annular lip 30, both centered on the outside.
- the aforesaid lip 30 includes a free lower axial portion 31, which is connected to the bottom wall 10 by the remainder of the lip 30, forming an axial upper lip portion 32, and which is provided on its outer face with a radially protruding relief 33.
- This relief 33 extends continuously over the entire outer periphery of the lower lip portion 31, thus being adapted to bear tightly against the inner face 3B of the ring 3 of the container neck 2 when the plug 1 closes this neck, as in FIG. 2.
- this sealing relief 33 presents a contour in the form of olive, which generally leads to qualify the lip 30 of "lip-olive”.
- the skirt 20 includes two axial, tubular portions, centered on the axis XX and successive in the direction of this axis XX, namely a low skirt portion 40, which will be described in detail just after, and a portion of high skirt 50, which will be detailed later and which connects the lower part 40 to the bottom wall 10.
- the inner cylindrical surface 40A of the low skirt portion 40 is provided with a thread 41 radially projecting inwardly and complementary to the external thread 5 of the ring 3 of the container neck 2, thus allowing to the cap 1 to be screwed and unscrewed on the neck.
- the outer cylindrical surface 40B of this skirt portion 40 is provided with radially projecting ribs 42 which, as can be seen in FIG. each in length parallel to the X-X axis and which are distributed substantially uniformly around the outer periphery of the skirt portion 40.
- the low skirt portion 40 is extended, downwards, by a tamper-evident band 60.
- this band 60 has an annular shape substantially centered on the XX axis, its upper axial end being connected to the lower axial end of the skirt portion 40 by a peripheral weakening line 61 designed to break during the first opening of the plug 1.
- the weakening line 61 is located at an axial level which is positioned, both, below the lower end of the net 41 and above an inner relief, not shown in the figures, of the strip.
- this high skirt portion 50 consists, successively from bottom to top along the axis XX, of a low axial end 51 which connects the rest of the skirt portion 50 to the skirt portion. 40, an intermediate axial portion 52, which represents the largest axial portion of the skirt portion 50, and a high axial end 53 which connects the rest of the skirt portion 50 to the bottom wall 10.
- the low end 51 of the skirt portion 50 accommodates the diametrical dimensional change of the skirt 20, having a generally inwardly shouldered shape, as clearly visible on the In particular, as is apparent from FIG. 5, as well as from the left half of FIG. 2, the lower end 51 of the skirt portion 50 includes an inner shoulder 54, which runs over the entire inner periphery of this end
- this surface 54A which is turned towards the low skirt portion 40, runs over the entire inner periphery of the high skirt portion 50 and, in the embodiment considered in the figures, extends radially protruding inwardly from the high axial end of the low skirt portion 40.
- the aforementioned surface 54A is frustoconical, being centered on the X-X axis and converging towards the intermediate portion 52 of the high skirt portion 50.
- the aforesaid surface 54A is dimensioned, in particular as regards its radial dimension, to bear axially against the free end 4 of the ring 3 of the container neck 2 when the neck is closed by the plug 1, more specifically to abut against the edge 4B of this free end.
- the stopper 1 is prevented from being driven axially, with respect to the container neck 2, lower than it is in FIGS. 2, 4 and 5.
- the axial support of the skirt portion high 50 against the free end 4 of the ring 3 is preferably sealed, in the sense that the cooperation between the surface 54A and the edge 4B of the free end 4 forms a peripheral sealing line.
- the diametral dimensional reduction of the high skirt portion 50 with respect to the low skirt portion 40 implies that the outer cylindrical surface 52B of the intermediate portion 52 is located radially within the cylindrical envelope defined by the surface. 40B outer cylindrical portion of the low skirt portion 40, as clearly visible in Figure 5.
- the outer radial end 55A of each of these ribs 55 is situated at a radial distance from the axis XX, which is equal to or greater than at the radius of the outer cylindrical surface 40B of the low skirt portion 40: in this way, when the user applies his fingers around the skirt 20, each of these fingers can easily radially bear against, concomitantly, the skirt portion 40 and the ends 55B of the ribs 55 of the high skirt portion 50.
- This provides the user's fingers with a large axial extent to manipulate the skirt 20, in particular to drive it in rotation about itself around the axis XX for screwing or unscrewing purposes vis-à-vis the ring 3 of the container neck 2, in the sense that this axial extent is not limited to that of the low skirt portion 40, but adds to this last the axial extent essentially, or almost all of the high skirt portion 50.
- this arrangement also allows a better centering of the plug 1 in the machines used to initially put it in place on the container neck 2, such only in a screw cone.
- each of the ribs 42 provided on the outer surface 40B of the low skirt portion 40 extends, in the direction of the axis XX, in the extension of a ribs 55, as clearly visible in Figure 1.
- the ribs 42 By dimensioning the ribs 42 so that their outer radial end extends in the axial extension of the outer radial end 55A of the associated rib 55, most, if not all, of the outer face of the skirt 20 produces , to the attention of the user, a feeling of homogeneous ribbed relief in the direction of the axis XX.
- the depth of the ribs 55 that is to say their radial dimension protruding vis-à-vis the outer cylindrical surface 52B of the intermediate portion 52 of the high skirt portion 50, is greater than that of the ribs 42 vis-à-vis the outer surface 40B of the skirt portion 40, as clearly visible in Figure 1. This results in a singular aesthetic.
- the thickness e52 of the intermediate portion 52 in other words the radial dimension of the latter, outside the ribs 55, which dimension separates one on the other hand the inner cylindrical 52A and outer 52B surfaces of the intermediate portion 52 is not equal to, but strictly less than the radial distance d20 between the outer cylindrical surface 40B of the low skirt portion 40 and the inner radial end of the surface 54A.
- the high skirt portion 50 can then be manufactured with a large axial dimension, thus making it possible to reinforce, as much as desired, obtaining a large overall axial extent for the skirt 20, with the advantages explained above, related to the manipulation of the plug 1. It will be noted that obtaining the large axial extent for the skirt 20 is achieved while the low skirt portion 40 is dimensioned axially to the fairest, in the sense that the thread 41 of this skirt portion 40 is provided to cooperate with the thread 5 while the latter has a small axial dimension, which is to say that the ring 3 is a ring having an axial dimension intentionally the smallest possible, echoing the considerations developed in the introductory part of this document.
- the plug 1 has the advantage of being able to be attached to the ring 3 while the latter has a small axial dimension, while offering the user a skirt 20 having a large axial extent for easy handling of the cap 1.
- the high skirt portion 50 has a total axial dimension of at least 50% or even 100% or more of the axial dimension of the thread 41 of the low skirt portion 40.
- the upper end 53 of the high skirt portion 50 is not bonded directly to the upper portion 32 of the lip 30, which would lead to limiting the bending capacity of this lip 30 used to press sealingly the relief 33 against the inner face 3B of the ring 3 of the container neck 2 when the neck is closed by the stopper 1.
- the inner cylindrical surface of the skirt portion 50 is radially distant from the upper portion 32 of the lip 30 over its entire axial dimension.
- the inner cylindrical surface 52A of the intermediate portion 52 of the high skirt portion 50 is provided with radially projecting ribs 57.
- the advantage of these optional ribs 57 is related to the fact that, in the direction of the axis XX, each of these ribs 57 extends to the axial level of the surface 54A, as clearly visible in FIGS. 2 and 4, so that each of these ribs 57 delimits, at its lower axial end, a surface 57A which, when the plug 1 closes the container neck 2 as in Figure 2, stops axially downwards against the free end 4 of the ring 3 of the container neck 2, more precisely against the rim 4A of this free end 4.
- the surface 54A and the surfaces 57A are arranged so that, when the plug 1 is screwed all the way around the container neck 2, the surface 54A interferes with the outer edge 4B of the free end 4 of this neck before the surfaces 57A bear against the rim 4A in this way, it promotes the waterproof support of the skirt portion 50 on the container neck 2, by the cooperation between the shoulder surface 54A and the end edge 4B of the neck, while, thanks to the cooperation subsequent between the surfaces 47A and the end rim 4A of the container neck, significantly reduces the risk that the skirt portion 50 flares radially outward, by sliding of the lower end 51 of the skirt portion 50 against the end edge 4B of container neck 2, resulting in particular from the application to the plug of an over-stress clamping.
- each of the ribs 57 is radially distant from the upper part 32 of this lip 30, as can be seen in FIG. 3.
- this radial spacing, noted ⁇ 57 in Figure 3 is provided greater than the radial dimension protruding from the relief 33 vis-à-vis the rest of the lip 30, so that, during the release of the plug 1, the relief 33 does not come scrub against the molding elements of the ribs 57, which would have the harmful consequence of scratching the relief 33 and thus compromise its sealing performance.
- the high skirt portion 50 includes an upper end 53' identical to the high end 53 of the skirt portion 50, a low end 51 ', in particular with an inner shoulder 54' delimiting an axial abutment surface 54A ', which is identical to the lower end 51, with its shoulder 54 and its surface 54A , of the part of the skirt 50, and an intermediate portion 52 ', which has both a thickness e52' identical to the thickness e52 of the intermediate portion 52 and an outer cylindrical surface 52B ', in particular with outer ribs 55 ', identical to the surface 52B, with its ribs 55, of the portion 52, but whose inner cylindrical surface 52A' is smooth, as can be seen in FIG.
- FIG. 6 shows a section identical to that shown in FIG. 5 for the plug 1 of FIGS. 1 to 5, which explains why, in FIG. 5, it is reported jointly the numerical references associated with the plug 1 and those associated with FIG. its variant of Figure 6.
- the components of the plug according to the variant of Figure 6, other than its high skirt portion 50 ' are identical to those of the plug 1 of Figures 1 to 5 and are therefore , the same numerical references.
- FIGS. 7 to 10 show a cap 101 capable of being removably attached around the container neck 2 in order to close the latter in substantially the same manner as the stopper 1.
- the stopper 101 is distinguished from the stopper 1 only by the upper part 150 of its skirt 120, whereas its bottom wall 1 10, the lower part 140 of its skirt 120, its sealing lip 130 and its tamperproof strip 160 are respectively identical to the bottom wall 10, to the lower skirt portion 40, to the sealing lip 30 and to the strip inviolability 60 of the stopper 1.
- These components which are in common between the plug 1 and the plug 101 will not be described further with regard to FIGS. 7 to 10, it being understood that, in the aforementioned figures, the elements of the plug 101 found identically in the plug 1 have the same numerical references as for the plug 1, increased by 100.
- the skirt portion 150 does not have a reduced diametral dimensioning with respect to the low skirt portion. 140, but, on the contrary, as clearly visible in FIGS. 8 and 10, the inner cylindrical 152A and outer 152B surfaces of the intermediate portion 152 of the skirt portion 150 extend respectively in the axial extension of the inner cylindrical surfaces 140A and 140b of the lower skirt portion 140.
- the lower end 151 of the skirt portion 150 merges, without radial discontinuity, in the axial alignment of the high 150 and low 140 skirt portions.
- the skirt portion 150 connects the remainder of this skirt portion 150 to the bottom wall 1 10 which, in view of the diametral dimensioning more important for the skirt portion 150 than for the skirt portion 50, has a diameter of outside larger than the outside diameter of the bottom wall 10 of the plug 1.
- the skirt 120 has, over substantially its entire axial dimension, a constant diametrical dimension, the outer face of this skirt 120 thus being able to be used over its entire axial dimension.
- outer cylindrical surface 152B of the intermediate portion 152 of the skirt portion high 150 is provided with optional ribs 155 radially outwardly projecting, which, in the direction of the axis XX, extend in the rectilinear extension of an optional associated rib 142 which projects radially from the surface outer cylindrical 140B of the lower skirt portion 140, these ribs 155 and 142 being regularly distributed, advantageously substantially uniformly, along the outer periphery of the skirt 120.
- each of the ribs 157 has, opposite to each other in the direction of the axis XX, an upper axial edge 157A, which connects the remainder of the rib 157 to the bottom wall 1 10 , being, in the exemplary embodiment considered in the figures, come integrally with this wall bottom, and a lower axial edge which, at least in its outer part, delimits a free surface 157B facing the lower skirt portion 140.
- each of the ribs 157 has a substantially rectangular contour in the direction of the length of which are opposite the radial edges of the rib, namely, on the one hand, an outer radial edge 157C which connects the remainder of the rib 157 to the inner cylindrical surface 152A of the intermediate portion 152 of the high skirt portion 150, being, in the embodiment considered in the figures, integral with this inner cylindrical surface 152A, and, on the other hand, an edge inner radial 157D which is free.
- the ribs 157 provide the axial stop down of the high skirt portion
- the lower surface 157B of each of the ribs 157 constitutes an axial abutment surface to the bottom for the skirt portion 150 and thereby for all the cap 101.
- the surfaces 157B of the ribs 157 are provided to bear axially against the rim 4A of the free end 4 of the ring 3 of the container neck 2.
- each of these surfaces 157B which are all inscribed in the same plane perpendicular to the axis XX, is extended towards the outside by an optional surface 154 inclined downwards, which is delimited by the inner part of the lower axial edge of the rib 157 and which bears on a local portion of the edge 4B of the free end 4 of the ring 3 when the container neck 2 is closed by the cap 101.
- the intermediate portion 152 of the portion of skirt 150 has, apart from the ribs 155 and 157, a thickness e152, that is to say a radial dimension, which is strictly smaller than the radial distance d120 between the outer cylindrical surface 140B of the low skirt portion 140 and the inner radial end of the abutment surfaces 157B as shown in FIG.
- each of the ribs 157 is not connected directly to the upper axial portion 132 of the sealing lip 130, but, on the contrary, is radially distant from this lip portion 132 over the entire axial dimension of this lip portion 132: similarly to what has been explained for the ribs 57 of the plug 1, this arrangement preserves the flexibility of the sealing lip 130.
- the cap 101 has substantially the same advantages as the cap 1, as regards its advantageous ability to provide a large axial extent for its skirt 120 while its lower skirt portion 140 is dimensioned axially to the fair, that is to say is provided to cooperate with the ring 3 while the latter has a particularly small axial dimensioning.
- the values proposed above for the axial dimensional ratio between the skirt portions 40 and 50 are also relevant for the skirt 120: in other words, advantageously, the skirt portion 150 has a total axial dimension equal to at least 50 %, or even 100% or more, of the axial dimension of the thread 141 of the low skirt portion 140.
- each rib 157 does not have, in section in a plane perpendicular to the axis XX, an outline which fits exactly with the rest of the generally rectangular outline of the rib 157, but, as shown in FIG. 9, has a swollen contour on either side of the main faces of the rib 57, that is to say opposite faces in the direction of the width of the substantially rectangular contour of the rib. That is to say that, overall, in section in a plane perpendicular to the axis XX, each rib 57 generally has a T-shaped contour, with the transverse bar of this T corresponding to the inner radial edge 157D.
- the inner radial edge 157D includes two bulges 158 and 159, which extend respectively projecting from the two main faces of the rib 157. These bulges 158 and 159 extend axially over the entire axial dimension of the rib. rib 157, in particular to its lower axial edge, thereby extending the abutment surface 157B in a direction orthoradial to the axis XX. In addition to extending the abutment surface 157B, these bulges 158 and 159 have the advantage of stiffening each rib 157 at level of its inner radial edge 157D.
- the stiffening effect produced by the bulge 158 is particularly useful in that this bulge 158 is protruding from the face of the rib 157, which is turned away from the direction, indicated by the curved arrow S in Figure 9, screwing the cap 101 around the neck of
- the opposing bulge 159 of each rib 157 also helps to limit flexural deformation of the rib.
- each of these ribs 157 'and 157 does not have, on its inner radial edge, two opposite bulges, such as the bulges 158 and 159, but a single bulge 158', 158" which is advantageously protruding from the main face of the rib 157 ', 157 "which is turned away from the direction of screwing S.
- a variant of the rib 157 which is referenced 157 "', consists in not providing any of the two bulges 158 and 159, but is different from the rib 157 in that the direction of the length of its contour Rectangular does not extend in a direction radial to the axis XX, but is inclined relative to this radial direction
- the aforementioned inclination is provided on the side of the radial direction above, which is turned away from the direction of screwing S.
- plugs 1 and 101 Various arrangements and variants of plugs 1 and 101, and their variants, described so far are also possible.
- the arrangements relating to the ribs 157, 157 ', 157 "and 157"' can be combined with one another; of course, all or part of these arrangements can be applied to the ribs 57 of the plug 1;
- this low skirt portion may be internally provided with one or more clips, provided to be wedged with an external relief projecting from the free end of the ring of the container neck.
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