EP3060487A1 - Container with a cross-section which changes between a square contour and a rectangular contour - Google Patents
Container with a cross-section which changes between a square contour and a rectangular contourInfo
- Publication number
- EP3060487A1 EP3060487A1 EP14796217.9A EP14796217A EP3060487A1 EP 3060487 A1 EP3060487 A1 EP 3060487A1 EP 14796217 A EP14796217 A EP 14796217A EP 3060487 A1 EP3060487 A1 EP 3060487A1
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- Prior art keywords
- container
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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
- B65D1/00—Containers having bodies formed in one piece, e.g. by casting metallic material, by moulding plastics, by blowing vitreous material, by throwing ceramic material, by moulding pulped fibrous material, by deep-drawing operations performed on sheet material
- B65D1/02—Bottles or similar containers with necks or like restricted apertures, designed for pouring contents
- B65D1/0223—Bottles or similar containers with necks or like restricted apertures, designed for pouring contents characterised by shape
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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
- B65D79/00—Kinds or details of packages, not otherwise provided for
- B65D79/005—Packages having deformable parts for indicating or neutralizing internal pressure-variations by other means than venting
- B65D79/008—Packages having deformable parts for indicating or neutralizing internal pressure-variations by other means than venting the deformable part being located in a rigid or semi-rigid container, e.g. in bottles or jars
- B65D79/0084—Packages having deformable parts for indicating or neutralizing internal pressure-variations by other means than venting the deformable part being located in a rigid or semi-rigid container, e.g. in bottles or jars in the sidewall or shoulder part thereof
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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
- B65D2501/00—Containers having bodies formed in one piece
- B65D2501/0009—Bottles or similar containers with necks or like restricted apertures designed for pouring contents
- B65D2501/0018—Ribs
- B65D2501/0036—Hollow circonferential ribs
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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
- B65D2501/00—Containers having bodies formed in one piece
- B65D2501/0009—Bottles or similar containers with necks or like restricted apertures designed for pouring contents
- B65D2501/0081—Bottles of non-circular cross-section
Definitions
- Container with an evolutionary section between a square outline and a rectangular outline
- the invention relates to the field of thermoplastic containers such as PET, and more particularly, although not exclusively, the containers, such as bottles, which can be filled hot.
- a container is generally manufactured by blow molding or stretch blow molding of an injected preform, which is first heated on the run in a furnace equipped with radiant heating elements, then introduced hot into a mold provided with a cavity defining the counterweight. -print of the container.
- the temperature of the liquid during a hot filling frequently exceeds 60 ° C, and commonly reaches 90 ° C to 95 ° C (ie a temperature above the glass transition temperature of PET).
- An ordinary container has an insufficient mechanical strength which, during hot filling, would result in significant deformations resulting from the thermal shock that accompanies such a filling. In addition, during the subsequent cooling of the contents, the container would deform further, due to the internal depression accompanying the decrease in temperature.
- HR heat resistant
- the container is generally provided with deformable zones with controlled deformation.
- deformable zones with controlled deformation.
- Containers of approximately square cross-section are thus known, provided with panels connected by slightly convex facets arranged at the four corners of the square and intended to deform by flattening to absorb the accompanying depression. the cooling of the contents, cf. eg. US Pat. No. 7,699,183 (COCA COLA).
- the container tends to deform in a global manner, flattening from its initially square shape to a diamond shape in which the angles between the panels are no longer right. This results in a lack of rigidity of the container when taken in hand. This defect tends to worsen with the decrease in the amount of material used (which is the current general trend among container manufacturers, mainly for reasons of cost and evolution of anti-pollution standards).
- a first, obvious solution is to increase the thickness of the container.
- a second solution is to provide the container with a belt, cf. eg. European Patent Application EP 2 473413 (SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS).
- a first objective is to provide a container with better resistance to deformation, in particular due to a depression accompanying the cooling of the contents when it was introduced hot.
- a second objective is to propose a solution allowing the container to retain its general shape when it is subjected to an internal depression.
- a third objective is to provide a square section container that does not tend to adopt a diamond shape when subjected to an internal depression.
- a plastic container comprising a body which extends along a main axis, a shoulder which extends in the extension of the body of an upper side, and a bottom which extends in the extension of the body of a lower side, the body comprising four faces, namely a first pair of faces which, in section transverse, are parallel to each other, and a second pair of faces which, in cross section, are parallel to each other and perpendicular to the faces of the first pair, the faces of the first pair being spaced, in cross section near the shoulder as in the vicinity of the bottom, a distance D and the faces of the second pair being spaced, in cross section near the shoulder as in the vicinity of the bottom, a distance D ', this container etan such that:
- the faces of the first pair are separated by a first distance D1 and the faces of the second pair are separated by a second distance D2 different from D1.
- the distances D1 and D2 are in a ratio of between 0.85 and
- the distances D1 and D2 are in a ratio of approximately 0.93;
- At least one of the distances D1 and D2 is less than the distance D;
- the distances D1 and D2 are both less than the distance D;
- the body comprises facets in bevels connecting the faces
- the facets in cross-section near the shoulder as in the vicinity of the bottom, the facets form with the faces an angle of about 45 °; in cross section in said middle zone of the body, the facets form with the faces of the first pair an angle strictly less than 45 °;
- the facets form with the faces of the first pair an angle of between 37 ° and 43 °;
- the facets form with the faces of the first pair an angle of approximately 40 °.
- Figure 1 is a realistic front view showing a plastic container
- FIG. 2 is a side view of the container of Figure 1, rotated 90 ° with respect to this figure;
- Figure 3 is a cross section of the container of Figure 1, taken indifferently along the plane III-III or plane 111 '- 111';
- Figure 4 is a cross section of the container of Figure 1, taken along the plane IV-IV.
- a container 1 in this case a bottle of plastic such as PET.
- the container has a capacity of 0.5 I, but this capacity could be of any suitable or known value, be it lower (typically 0.33 I or 0.25 I). ) or higher (typically 1.5 I, or 2 I).
- the container 1 comprises several parts, namely a body 2, a shoulder 3 which extends in the extension of the body 2 from an upper end thereof, a neck 4 which overcomes the shoulder 3, and a bottom 5 which extends in the extension of the body 2 from a lower end thereof.
- the body 2 which forms the major part of the volume of the container 1, extends along a main axis X approximately connecting the geometric center of the neck 4 and that of the bottom 5.
- the X axis of the container defines a vertical direction, any plane orthogonal to the X axis being described as transverse and any direction perpendicular to the X-axis being qualified as radial.
- the shoulder 3 completes the volume of the container 1 and forms a substantially conical junction between the body 2 and the neck 4.
- the bottom 5 transversely closes the body 2 downwards.
- This container 1 obtained by blowing, or preferably by stretching, from a blank (that is to say a preform or an intermediate container having undergone a first non-definitive blowing) is particularly intended to be hot filled.
- the temperature of the filling liquid up to 95 ° C, a temperature that may be greater than the glass transition temperature of the container 1, depending on its material (remember that the glass transition temperature of the PET is about 80 ° C).
- the body 2 is symmetrical with respect to a median plane P located substantially midway from the ends of the body 2.
- the body 2 has, at the level of the median plane P, a belt 6 where the body 2 is bent, that is to say that its transverse dimensions are reduced.
- the belt 6 divides the body 2 into an upper section 7, which extends between the belt 6 and the shoulder 3, and a lower section 8, symmetrical with the section 7 greater than the median plane P, and which extends between the belt 6 and the bottom 5.
- the body has, in its upper section 7 as in its lower section 8, four faces which extend substantially vertically from the shoulder 3 (respectively bottom 5) to the belt 6, namely:
- a second pair of side faces 10, in cross section, are parallel to each other and perpendicular to the faces 9 of the first pair.
- the faces 9 of the first pair preferably have the same width, denoted L1.
- the faces 10 of the second pair also preferably have the same width, denoted L2.
- the widths L1 and L2 are advantageously equal to or substantially equal (in the sense indicated above):
- the distances D1 and D2 are in a ratio such that: Dl
- this ratio is approximately 0.93:
- the faces 9, 10 are inscribed in a rectangle contour whose sides have for respective lengths D1 and D2, the term "rectangle" meaning, as opposed to the square defined herein. above, that the ratio between its sides is greater than or equal to 5%.
- the faces 9 of the first pair advantageously have the same length L1 '.
- the faces 10 of the second pair advantageously have the same length L2 '.
- At least one of the distances D1 and D2 is preferably less than the distance D; advantageously, the distances D1 and D2 are both less than the distance D, so that, as illustrated in FIG. 4, the rectangle in which the body 2 is registered in cross-section in the vicinity of the neck 4 as well as in the vicinity of the bottom 5 is strictly included in the square in which is located the body 2 in cross section in the vicinity of the neck 4 as in the vicinity of the bottom 5 (dashed in Figure 3).
- the distances between the faces 9, 10 parallel two by two vary continuously along the axis X of the body 2, respectively by the value D (which can be considered as maximum when the plane of the considered section is as close as possible to the upper end or, conversely, lower body 2) to the value D1, and the value D to the value D2.
- the width of the body 2 measured transversely decreases gradually - not abruptly - from the ends of the body 2 to its central zone.
- the body 2 further comprises facets 11 bevels connecting the faces 9, 10.
- the facets 11 form preferably with the faces 9, an angle A of about 45 °.
- this angle is not constant along the axis X of the container 1.
- the facets 11 form with the faces 9 of the first pair a first angle A1 strictly less than 45 °, while conversely the facets 11 form with the faces 10 of the second pair an angle A2 strictly greater than 45 °, complementary to the angle A1:
- the angle A1 is between about 37 ° (in which case the angle A2 is about 53 °) and about 43 ° (in which case the angle A2 is about 47 °).
- the angle A1 is about 40 ° (the angle A2 is then about 50 °).
- the facets 11 give the body 2 a substantially octagonal cross-section. However, by abuse of language, it can be described as square this section, given the significantly smaller width of the facets 11 before that of the faces 9, 10.
- the rectangular section of the body 2 in the median zone tends, under the effect of a depression in the container 1, to flatten further by decreasing the distance D1 and joint increase of the distance D2, without significant alteration. from the perpendicularity of the faces 9 to the faces 10.
- the dashed section of the body 2 has been shown in broken lines in FIG.
- This controlled deformation makes it possible to maintain the rigidity of the container 1, in particular during its handling, and also to preserve its aesthetics, the flattening of the body 2 in the central zone remaining imperceptible to the consumer.
- deformable panels 12 can be included in the faces 9, 10, so that absorb some of the deformations due to pressure variations in the container 1.
- stiffeners 13 may also be provided, especially on the facets 11 to limit the deformations thereof and thus promote the controlled deformation of the rectangular section of the body 2 in the central zone, as disclosed above.
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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FR1360348A FR3012115B1 (en) | 2013-10-23 | 2013-10-23 | CONTAINER WITH AN EVOLUTIVE SECTION BETWEEN A SQUARE CONTOUR AND A RECTANGULAR CONTOUR |
PCT/FR2014/052524 WO2015059381A1 (en) | 2013-10-23 | 2014-10-06 | Container with a cross-section which changes between a square contour and a rectangular contour |
Publications (2)
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EP3060487A1 true EP3060487A1 (en) | 2016-08-31 |
EP3060487B1 EP3060487B1 (en) | 2017-09-20 |
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EP14796217.9A Not-in-force EP3060487B1 (en) | 2013-10-23 | 2014-10-06 | Container with a cross-section which changes between a square contour and a rectangular contour |
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US (1) | US20160236845A1 (en) |
EP (1) | EP3060487B1 (en) |
CN (1) | CN105658529B (en) |
FR (1) | FR3012115B1 (en) |
WO (1) | WO2015059381A1 (en) |
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US10850905B2 (en) * | 2016-05-23 | 2020-12-01 | Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner Gmbh & Co. Kg | Hot-fill container having vacuum absorption sections |
WO2018125967A1 (en) | 2016-12-29 | 2018-07-05 | Graham Packaging Company, L.P. | Hot-fillable plastic container |
JP7162517B2 (en) * | 2018-12-18 | 2022-10-28 | 株式会社吉野工業所 | square bottle |
JP7551258B2 (en) | 2021-06-30 | 2024-09-17 | 株式会社吉野工業所 | Synthetic resin container |
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