EP3060487B1 - Behälter mit einem sich ändernden querschnitt zwischen einer quadratischen kontur und einer rechteckigen kontur - Google Patents

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EP3060487B1
EP3060487B1 EP14796217.9A EP14796217A EP3060487B1 EP 3060487 B1 EP3060487 B1 EP 3060487B1 EP 14796217 A EP14796217 A EP 14796217A EP 3060487 B1 EP3060487 B1 EP 3060487B1
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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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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

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  • 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 section are thus known, provided with panels connected by slightly curved 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. the US patent US 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. the European patent application EP 2 473 413 (SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS).
  • the document US 2011/108515 discloses a container according to the preamble of claim 1. But these solutions both require an additional material for the manufacture of the container, which is contrary to the current specifications, which require on the contrary a decrease in the amount of material used.
  • a first objective is to provide a container with a better resistance to deformation, especially due to a depression accompanying the cooling of the content 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 container 1 in this case a bottle of plastics material such as PET.
  • the container has a capacity of 0.5 l, but this capacity could be of any suitable or known value, whether it is lower (typically 0.33 l or 0.25 l ) or higher (typically 1.5 l, or 2 l).
  • 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 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 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 or substantially equal (in the sense indicated above): The 1 ⁇ The 2 with: 0 , 95 ⁇ The 1 The 2 ⁇ 1 , 05
  • D2 is strictly greater than D1: D 2 > D 1 in the sense that: D 1 D 2 ⁇ 0 , 95
  • the distances D1 and D2 are in a ratio such that: 0 , 85 ⁇ D 1 D 2 ⁇ 0 , 95
  • this ratio is approximately 0.93: D 1 D 2 ⁇ 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. figure 4 , the rectangle in which the body 2 is located in cross-section in the vicinity of the neck 4 as in the vicinity of the bottom 5 is strictly included in the square in which the body 2 is located in cross-section in the vicinity of the neck 4 as in the vicinity from the bottom 5 (dashed on the figure 3 ).
  • the distances between the faces 9, 10 parallel two by two vary continuously along the axis X of the body 2, respectively of the value D (which can be considered maximum when the plane of the section considered is as close as possible from the upper or, conversely, lower end of the body 2 ) to the value D1, and from 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 in cross section near the shoulder (in the III-III plane) as in the vicinity of the bottom (in the III'-III 'plane), the facets 11 preferably form with the faces 9, 10 an angle A of 45 ° approx.
  • 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.
  • 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 may 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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  1. Behälter (1) aus Kunststoff, der einen Körper (2), welcher sich entlang einer Hauptachse (X) erstreckt, eine Schulter (3), welche sich in der Verlängerung des Körpers (2) auf einer Oberseite erstreckt, und einen Boden (5), welcher sich in der Verlängerung des Körpers (2) auf einer Unterseite erstreckt, umfasst, wobei der Körper vier Flächen (9, 10) umfasst, nämlich ein erstes Paar von Flächen (9), welche im Querschnitt zueinander parallel sind, und ein zweites Paar von Flächen (10), welche im Querschnitt zueinander parallel und zu den Flächen (9) des ersten Paares senkrecht sind, wobei die Flächen (9) des ersten Paares im Querschnitt sowohl in der Nähe der Schulter (3) als auch in der Nähe des Bodens (5) mit einem Abstand D beabstandet sind und die Flächen (10) des zweiten Paares im Querschnitt sowohl in der Nähe der Schulter (3) als auch in der Nähe des Bodens (5) mit einem Abstand D' beabstandet sind, der gleich oder im Wesentlichen gleich dem Abstand D ist, wobei die Werte von D und D' derart sind, dass 0 , 95 < D ′ D < 1 , 05
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     gilt, wobei dieser Behälter (1) dadurch gekennzeichnet ist, dass im Querschnitt in einem mittleren Bereich des Körpers (2) die Flächen (9) des ersten Paares mit einem ersten Abstand D1 beabstandet sind und die Flächen des zweiten Paares (10) mit einem zweiten Abstand D2 beabstandet sind, der von dem ersten Abstand D1 verschieden ist.
  2. Behälter (1) nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Abstände D1 und D2 in einem Verhältnis stehen, das zwischen 0,85 und 0,95 liegt.
  3. Behälter (1) nach Anspruch 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Abstände D1 und D2 in einem Verhältnis von ungefähr 0,93 stehen.
  4. Behälter (1) nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass wenigstens einer der Abstände D1 und D2 kleiner als der Abstand D ist.
  5. Behälter (1) nach Anspruch 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Abstände D1 und D2 beide kleiner als der Abstand D sind.
  6. Behälter (1) nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Körper schräge Facetten (11) umfasst, welche die Flächen (9, 10) verbinden.
  7. Behälter (1) nach Anspruch 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass im Querschnitt sowohl in der Nähe der Schulter (3) als auch in der Nähe des Bodens (5) die Facetten (11) mit den Flächen einen Winkel von ungefähr 45° bilden.
  8. Behälter (1) nach Anspruch 6 oder Anspruch 7, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass im Querschnitt im mittleren Bereich des Körpers (2) die Facetten (11) mit den Flächen (9) des ersten Paares einen Winkel bilden, der streng kleiner als 45° ist.
  9. Behälter (1) nach Anspruch 8, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass im Querschnitt im mittleren Bereich des Körpers (2) die Facetten (11) mit den Flächen (9) des ersten Paares einen Winkel zwischen 37° und 43° bilden.
  10. Behälter (1) nach Anspruch 9, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass im Querschnitt im mittleren Bereich des Körpers (2) die Facetten (11) mit den Flächen (9) des ersten Paares einen Winkel von ungefähr 40° bilden.
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