EP3148891A1

EP3148891A1 - Secure container and securing method

Info

Publication number: EP3148891A1
Application number: EP15731703.3A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Sandrine Rancien; Jérôme MOURAO
Original assignee: Arjo Solutions SAS
Current assignee: Edgyn SAS
Priority date: 2014-05-28
Filing date: 2015-05-28
Publication date: 2017-04-05
Also published as: FR3021637A1; WO2015181761A1; FR3021637B1

Abstract

The present invention relates to a secure container (10), having a neck (11) provided with a sealing member (30) and a security sleeve (20) including a shell made of a heat-shrinkable material, said sleeve being shrunk onto the neck and extending exclusively below the sealing member when the container is vertical with the sealing member towards the top or being partially covered by the sealing member, the security sleeve having at least one security element (50).

Description

"Secure container and method of securing. "

The present invention relates to the field of packaging and in particular the security devices for authenticating and / or identifying a container with a collar, and more particularly but not exclusively a container such as a bottle of wine or wine. a spirit, or a bottle of perfume or medicine.

The identification and / or authentication and / or traceability information is most often conveyed on a label affixed to the container, on the skirt of a capsule or via a direct printing on the container. This visible information is thus directly exposed to potential attacks by fraudsters whose purpose is to alter and / or modify the content of this information.

Many ways of securing a container using a sleeve have already been proposed.

Thus, US Pat. No. 6,254,139 B1 discloses a sleeve for securing a bottle, comprising an envelope made of a heat-shrinkable material, carrying a holographic element. The opening of the sleeve, to access a closure device covered by it, deteriorates the holographic element.

GB Patent Application 2 273 492 A discloses a heat-shrinkable sleeve for use as a tamper evidence, carrying a holographic image visible from the outside. This sleeve is perforated along a line so as to make it difficult to remove without deterioration.

European Patent EP 0 812 451 B1 discloses a heat-shrinkable film of tabular form, carrying an optical writing providing an optically variable effect. The conditions of use of such a tabular film are not specified.

The application WO 2014/023919 A1 discloses a cap for a container such as a bottle, having a label placed inside the cap in an intermediate opening zone.

EP 0 929 886 B1 discloses a heat-shrinkable cylindrical safety sleeve disposed on a closure member and including a hologram.

EP 0 585 076 discloses a holographic safety device consisting of a thermoplastic film and an adhesive, for example in the form of a heat-shrinkable sleeve. European Patent EP 1 901 969 B1 discloses a closure device comprising a screw cap, a tubular member of heat-shrinkable plastic material, which covers a side surface of the screw cap.

The patent application FR 2 754 375 describes a shrink sleeve made of plastic, intended to be affixed to the neck of a bottle, partially covering the cap. The sleeve is provided with a holographic element and a tear strip. The holographic element is partially glued to the glass of the bottle, and pulling the tear strip during a legitimate opening or attempted tearing, residual fragments of the latter remain on the bottle. This device is relatively complex in manufacture.

GB Patent Application 2,298,391 discloses a heat-shrinkable film, which may take the form of a sleeve, having a substrate including a holographic element and layers of adhesive. This film is intended to be inserted between an object and its packaging, so as to highlight an alteration thereof.

In addition, security labels such as those marketed by the companies Prooftag or Tesa Scribos, allow the traceability of bottles through the presence of a unique identifier. They are sometimes positioned astride the overcap and the neck of the bottle to provide a guarantee of inviolability. To remove the capsule from the bottle without damaging it and to access the wine, it is then necessary to remove the said label, making the adulteration of the wine more difficult. Nevertheless, these labels are relatively easily peelable and repositionable using known means, without altering either the capsule or the label itself.

In addition, the known security means apply to the bottle already closed by a closure member, and do not allow traceability very upstream, before the filling of the bottles or just after.

There remains, therefore, a need for container security that is compatible, if desired, with a follow-up thereof before the filling operation and their closure.

The invention aims to further improve the means for securely and securely authenticate containers with a closure device, in particular bottles of wine closed by a capsule, by providing a means of authentication and / or identification and / or traceability and a guarantee of inviolability, allowing reliable detection of any fraudulent or abnormal manipulation of the container and / or its contents and / or information carried by the container and / or the sleeve, and this before the filling operation of the container if desired.

The invention responds to this need with a secure container, having a collar provided with a closure member and a safety sleeve comprising an envelope of a heat-shrinkable material, this sleeve being retracted on the neck and extending exclusively below the closure member when the container is vertical with the blocking member upwards, or being partially covered by the closure member, the safety sleeve having at least one safety element, preferably at least less partially visible to the naked eye from the outside.

Because the safety sleeve does not cover the closure member, it does not have to be put in place after the filling and / or capping operation.

Its possible presence on the cervix, prior to the capping operation, does not interfere with it.

For its installation, the heat-shrinkable safety sleeve is heated so that it retracts around the container, which ensures a good conformation to the relief of the coi. In addition, since the sleeve may be in direct contact with the material in which the neck is made, the sleeve may have good adhesion thereto, thus being more difficult to remove. If necessary, an adhesive layer may be applied between the neck of the container and the sleeve to provide enhanced cohesion between the two elements.

The safety sleeve may be partially covered by the closure member. This may make it even more difficult to attempt to remove the safety sleeve. In addition, this constitutes visual evidence, easy to discern, of the presence on the container of the safety sleeve before the closing operation.

Alternatively, the safety sleeve extends completely below the closure member, when the container is observed vertically with the closure member at the top. The safety sleeve can then extend in the continuity of the closure member on the neck. In such a case, the sleeve may have been put in place before or after the plugging operation. Such a variant is particularly suitable when the closure member is constituted by a sealing cap tamperproof ring, and in particular to the closure caps which are crimped on the neck. Such capsules comprise for example a fixed threaded portion intended to remain permanently on the neck of the bottle and a plug arranged to screw on the fixed part.

The invention makes it possible to convey and / or protect identification and / or authentication and / or traceability information on the container. The heat-shrinkable safety sleeve preferably contains this information on an inner face of the envelope, containing side, not accessible from the outside. This information is not exposed to potential fraud.

The security sleeve may carry, on an outer face, a masking layer at least partially covering an underlying information, accessible after removal of the masking layer. The masking layer may be a layer of an opaque coating to be scraped off.

The closure member may comprise a screw cap or alternatively a crimped capsule. By "closure member", it is necessary to understand the closure device which ensures once in place the preservation of the contents present in the container. The closure member may thus be different from a plug inserted into the neck of the bottle.

The capsule may comprise a tubular skirt partially covering the safety sleeve. This tubular skirt is typically made of metal or plastic, and it is connected to the rest of the capsule by a weakened zone. The rupture of this zone constitutes an opening witness.

The closure member may be covered with an over-capping capsule, which may or may not cover the safety sleeve.

The security element is preferably optically variable.

It may be advantageous that the security sleeve has on its inner face a control layer arranged to remain partly on the neck and remain partly on the sleeve in case of attempt to detach the sleeve. This can make it possible to highlight an attempt at fraud by cutting the sleeve and then reassembling it on a container. The control layer preferably comprises two distinct zones consisting of respective adhesives having different respective adhesion forces, one of these zones preferably being in the form of a pattern. Alternatively or additionally, the control layer has an internal cohesion force less than or equal to the adhesion force on the sleeve and the neck, so that the control layer delaminates in the event of an attempt to detach the sleeve. The sleeve may comprise at least one code, preferably two-dimensional, preferably visible in daylight, particularly of the "quick response" (QR) or Datamatrix type, this code comprising a link readable by a communicating device such as a phone, including Smartphone type, and allowing access to a website of a producer or a body certificate eur, through which any actor in the chain including the consumer can collect information on the content and proceed to a verification of an identifier directly written on the container or elsewhere on the sleeve and / or on a label and / or on another element carried by the container.

The container is preferably a bottle, in particular glass, preferably filled with a beverage such as wine.

The subject of the invention is also a method for securing a container, in particular a bottle of wine, comprising a neck, in which:

A safety sleeve according to the invention, as defined above, is put on the neck.

it causes the thermo-retraction of the sleeve,

optionally, the closure member is reported on the neck, if it is not already present on the neck of the container.

Indeed, the closure member may in some cases already be present on the neck when the safety sleeve is put in place.

The closure member may be formed on the neck, in particular when the closure member is a screw cap. In a variant, the closure member is formed before it is placed on the neck, in particular when the closure member is a crimped capsule, comprising, for example, a fixed plastic part defining a thread and a cap screwed onto the part. fixed.

The closure member may partially cover the safety sleeve during its introduction. In particular, the tabular skirt of the capsule, located under the weakened zone which is broken at the opening, can cover by its lower part the safety sleeve.

The safety sleeve preferably comes directly into contact with the material of the neck, that is to say the glass of the bottle when the container is a bottle of wine or spirits. The security sleeve is arranged in such a way that, after its retraction, any attempt to fraudulently extract the sleeve in place visibly alters the sleeve and / or the information that it conveys and / or the element of security he wears. The safety sleeve is preferably placed at the earliest in the production line. Thus, attempts at adulteration and counterfeiting before labeling can be more easily avoided.

The safety element or elements present on the safety sleeve may have a so-called first, second or third level security feature.

"First-level security" means a security element visible to the naked eye, in daylight or artificial light, without the use of a particular device. These first-level security elements may be first-level elements with an optically variable effect, such as, for example, interferential platelet particles, magnetic or otherwise, liquid and / or oriented and / or photonic crystals, a holographic element or a network. of lenses in combination with an underlying pattern.

"Second-level security" means a safety element that is always visible to the naked eye, but only with a relatively simple device, such as a lamp emitting in the ultraviolet (UV) or infrared (IR) or a magnifying glass or decoder tool type optical filter or a polarizing filter. These second-level security elements are for example luminescent, that is to say have a specific emission in the visible under the illumination of a Wood lamp emitting in the UV for example at a wavelength of 365 nm . These second level elements can also be anti stokes elements, that is to say have a specific emission in the visible under the illumination of an IR pointer for example at a wavelength of 980 nm. Second-level security is also understood to mean security that can be revealed by heat and / or friction.

By "third-level security", it is necessary to understand a security element requiring for its detection a dedicated detection device. These security elements are for example capable of generating a specific signal when they are subjected, simultaneously or not, to one or more sources of external stress. This signal is processed and analyzed by a dedicated detection device for the purpose of authenticating or identifying the element. These security elements comprise, for example, tracers or materials in the form of active materials, particles or fibers, capable of generating a specific signal when these tracers are subjected to a mechanical stress, thermal, optronic, electrical, magnetic or electromagnetic.

The security element or elements of the sleeve may be in the form of an impression, a wire, a flat strip, a foil or a patch, being affixed to the inside or outside of the sleeve . The safety element (s) of the sleeve can also be integrated in the mass of the polymer jacket of the heat-shrinkable sleeve.

The security element (s) may be in. particular printed on the inner face of the safety sleeve in contact with the neck of the container, especially when the sleeve is obtained from a folded film on itself followed by a meeting of two free edges. This film, before folding, can be printed by well known printing processes, such as gravure, screen printing, flexography or offset or inkjet. In a preferred embodiment, the film is printed with first, second and / or third level security inks in a portion of the sleeve that will remain visible after retraction of the sleeve on the container to be protected.

The security sleeve preferably comprises security prints which are made so that they remain visible and / or detectable after retraction of the sleeve on the container, relying on anamorphosis techniques.

The at least one first-level security element present on the security sleeve, in particular its lower part, may be elements with an optically variable effect, such as, for example, interferential platelet particles, magnetic or otherwise, liquid and / or oriented crystals. and / or photonic, a holographic element or a lens array in combination with an underlying pattern. The second level security element (s) present on the security sleeve, in particular its lower part, may be elements that are invisible to the naked eye under daylight but visible under particular wavelength lighting.

The safety sleeve may also comprise thermochromic elements, in particular liquid crystals and / or pigments and / or thermochromic dyes, which can change appearance at at least one predefined temperature. The container can then comprise at least one information associated with the elements theiraochromiques, informing on the temperature of change of appearance of the thermochromic elements, qualitatively and / or quantitatively, and thus on the temperature of the container and approximately that of its contents.

The appearance of the thermochromic elements, for example their coloration or their transparency, varies according to the temperature to which they are subjected. The process of varying the appearance of the thermochromic elements is preferably reversible. The information may correspond to the numerical value of the change of appearance temperature of the thermochromic elements.

The security sleeve may also include an RFID device comprising an integrated circuit, with or without an integrated battery, with or without a microprocessor, with or without a sensor, for example temperature recording.

The safety sleeve may comprise the following security elements, alone or in combination:

dyes and / or luminescent pigments and / or interferential pigments and / or liquid crystal pigments, especially in printed form or mixed with a constituent material of the sleeve,

components, dyes and / or photochromic or thermochromic pigments, arranged so as to indicate the temperature of the container and therefore approximately that of its contents, in particular in printed form or mixed with a material constituting the envelope of the sleeve,

a multilayer film interfere! el,

a structure with variable optical effects based on interferential pigments or liquid crystals,

a birefringent or polarizing layer,

a diffraction structure,

an embossed image,

a partially reflective refractive element,

a foil metallized, goniochromatic or holographic,

a layer with a variable optical effect based on interferential pigments or on liquid crystals,

particles or agglomerates of pigment particles or dyes of the HI-LITE type, visible or non-visible, in particular luminescent, security fibers, in particular metallic, magnetic (with soft magnetism and / or hard), or absorbing, or excitable with ultraviolet, visible or infrared, and in particular the near infrared (N1R),

an automatically readable security having specific and measurable luminescence characteristics (eg fluorescence, phosphorescence), light absorption (eg ultraviolet, visible or infrared), Raman activity, magnetism, microwave interaction , RF interaction, X-ray interaction or electrical conductivity.

The security sleeve may comprise at least one visible authentication element, such as, for example, a holographic foil, OVI type variable optical effect security prints, or authenticatable recognition elements dispersed in the material of the sleeve.

The security sleeve may also comprise at least one identifier of the unit identification code type having a tracking and traceability function (function called "Track & Trace" in English), such as for example a two-dimensional unidirectional bar code. , of the EAN128 barcode type, or a two-dimensional bidirectional bar code of the Datamatrix type or an alphanumeric code entered in the clear. This code may or may not be encrypted. This identifier or code may be marked by any means and preferably by means of a visible iridescent ink or an invisible ink containing, for example, UV luminescent pigments, or particles visible when excited by a radiation whose lengths of The waves belong to the visible as described in the documents EP 1 307 520 and EP 1 864 113, thus realizing a tracking and traceability function as well as an authentication function.

The sleeve may also include at least one visible two-dimensional code type "quick response" (QR) or Datamatrix, for addressing, via a communicating device such as a phone (such as Smartphone type) a producer's website. or the certifying body through which any actor in the chain including the consumer will be able to collect information on the content and carry out a verification of the identifier written on its bottle.

The security sleeve may also have, especially at the level of the security element and / or the identifier, an opaque appearance providing a contrast sufficient in particular for the automatic authentication of the security element and / or the automatic identification of the identifier.

Preferably, the sleeve has at the level of the unit identification code and / or code one or two dimensions, a sufficient contrast to allow its automatic reading. This contrast can be provided by a localized printing or over the entire surface, preferably on the inner face of the sleeve in contact with the neck opposite the code. This contrast can be brought in particular by an opaque printing having a different color from that used for marking.

The jacket of the sleeve can be made of one of the following plastics: PVC, HR PVC, PET, PETG, PS, OPS (oriented polystyrene), OPP (oriented polypropylene), TPEG, TPE S, PLA (polylactide acid) , EPS (Expanded PS). Preferably, a material and a thickness are selected that provides strength to the cut so that the sleeve is not cut or sheared during the usual handling of the container.

The safety sleeve may have on its inner or outer surface a primer or varnish or an adhesive, for example hot-activatable allowing increased adhesion between the safety sleeve and the collar and / or between the safety sleeve and a cap of on - possible clogging.

The security element or elements of the sleeve may be located on the internal face of the sleeve, that is to say the face that is in contact with the container, in order to be protected against wear or deterioration and to avoid the possibility to access it during attempts to falsify. The sleeve is then preferably made of a transparent material, so that such security elements are visible or optically detectable through the material of the sleeve.

In a variant, at least one security element of the sleeve, and in particular a unit identification code, is located on the outer face of the sleeve; indeed, any personalized information that will be read with a dedicated reader can be marked on the sleeve by printing or engraving, after the retraction operation thereof.

The sleeve, before themioretraction, preferably has a cylindrical or conical shape. The length of the sleeve may be between 1 and 8 cm, preferably between 2 and 4 cm, for example equal to about 3 cm. The thickness of the sleeve may be between 40 and 100 μπι before retraction. According to another of its aspects, the invention also relates to the heat-shrinkable safety sleeve for implementing the method according to the invention.

The invention will be better understood on reading the following detailed description, non-limiting examples of implementation thereof, and on examining the appended drawing, in which:

FIG. 1 represents, in elevation, schematically and partially with partial longitudinal section, a container secured with a safety sleeve according to the invention,

FIG. 2 is a view similar to FIG. 1, of an alternative embodiment; FIG. 3 is a half-view in elevation of another variant;

FIG. 4 illustrates the possibility of locating a security element on the internal face of the sleeve,

FIG. 5 schematically and partially shows a masking layer, and

- Figure 6 illustrates the establishment of an overcap capsule on the closure member and the safety sleeve.

In the appended drawing, the actual proportions of the various constituent elements or their spacings have not always been respected, for the sake of clarity. In addition, some elements may not have been represented in contact with each other, while they are in practice.

The containers 10 shown in Figures 1 to 3 are bottles and contain a liquid, for example wine.

Each container comprises, according to the invention, a safety sleeve 20 closely surrounding the neck 11, under the neck 12 and the ring 13.

In all the examples illustrated, the sleeve 20 extends between the shoulder of the bottle, that is to say the flared portion which connects the neck to the barrel, and the neck 12.

In the example of FIG. 1, the bottle is closed by means of a closure member constituted by a screw cap 30.

Such a capsule known in itself is for example formed directly on the bottle and comprises in the lower part a tubular skirt 31 and in the upper part the plug 32 to be unscrewed, the two being connected by a weakened zone 33 intended to break during the opening. 'opening. The bottle has a thread 15 whose shape is matched by the cap 32. The latter houses a seal 36 compressed by the cap 32 against the upper edge of the neck 12.

The screw cap 30 is preferably made of metal, for example aluminum.

The safety sleeve 20 is, in the example of Figure 1, of substantially conical shape.

It comprises an envelope 27 of heat-shrinkable plastic material, preferably transparent, and at least one security element 50 carried by this envelope.

The safety sleeve 20 is partially covered by the tubular skirt 31, and protrudes from the lower edge thereof downwards by a distance d for example of between 3 and 70 mm, preferably between 10 and 30 mm.

The security element 50 is for example, as illustrated in FIG. 4, carried by the internal face 28 of the envelope 27.

The security element (s) 50 of the security sleeve 20 are preferably optically variable first level security elements, the invention not being limited to a particular type of security element.

Alternatively, or additionally, the security sleeve 20 comprises a security element in the form of a second-level security printing, invisible in the light of day but visible only under a wavelength of the UV, previously printed. on the inner side of the sleeve film before folding during manufacture, and a security element in the form of a third level tracer-based security print, detectable in the IR only with a dedicated, printed reader also on the inside of the film of the sleeve before folding.

The identification and / or authentication and / or traceability information carried by the heat-shrinkable sleeve can be printed on the internal face of the safety sleeve, in Indigo for example, with a visible or invisible ink having a specific luminescence response. , such as an ink that absorbs in the infrared for example. In addition, this printing can be masked with a blackout type OVI (Optical Variable Ink) under daylight. The information is made visible under specific lighting, such as under IR light, for example. The excited ink then passes through the blackout layer to become visible. The identification and / or authentication and / or traceability information may be personalized to the direct or indirect printing means and / or laser engraving means through the security sleeve on a layer previously deposited on the inner side of the safety sleeve and / or in the thickness of the safety sleeve, this layer posting laser-markable pigments or being metallized and de-metallized by the laser.

The security sleeve can be used to convey information storage means such as a chip, a magnetic strip and / or an optical memory. For example, a blackout layer having security elements for authentication purposes may be printed / deposited on the inside of the security sleeve for concealing an RFID chip and without an antenna.

The security element may comprise a code that is found elsewhere on or in the container, for example in the inner part of the closure member, so that the content can be authenticated once the container is open. The concealed code can also serve as an access key to a database which when accessed by this code, returns a ^2nd code that is registered elsewhere on or in the container. The 2 ^nd code received from the database and can be compared to a 2 ^ertie code on the container to authenticate the content.

The security sleeve 20 may further comprise a first level security element in the form of a variable optical effect printing type OVI, visible to the naked eye and previously printed on the outer face of the film of the sleeve before folding.

As mentioned above, the security sleeve 20 may comprise a unit identification code allowing a tracking function of the container, and consists for example of a two-dimensional bar code Datamatrix type. The unit identification code can be printed with a black ink on the outer face of the sleeve after retraction on the container, the printing providing sufficient contrast on the printing background of the sleeve 20 to allow its automatic reading. The film of the sleeve 20 can also be printed with an opaque and colored printing background and with inscriptions in the name of the castle. The security element 50 has been shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 with a substantially rectangular contour, but the invention is in no way limited to a particular form of security element.

The variant of Figure 2 differs from the example of Figure 1 in that the sleeve 20 is not covered by the closure member 30, the latter being either a tubular skirt screw cap 31 but a screw cap with tamper evident ring 39.

The spacing m between the lower edge of the capsule 30 and the upper edge of the sleeve 20 is for example between 3 and 30 mm, preferably between 5 and 10 mm.

In this example, the safety sleeve is located under the neck ring 13, on which the tamperproof ring 39 is engaged.

In the example of Figure 3, the closure member 30 is constituted by a crimped capsule, and no longer by a screw cap.

Such a capsule, known per se, comprises a part crimped on the neck 12, preferably molded of plastic, having a thread, the neck of the bottle being deprived, and a removable cap screwed onto this fixed part, being able to have an inner portion of plastic material, sealing and for screwing, and a metal outer portion formed with a tamper-proof ring at its base.

The safety sleeve 20 is not covered by the capsule and extends over a substantially cylindrical portion of the neck, itself having a cylindrical shape.

The spacing m between the capsule 30 and the sleeve 20 may be in the same range of values as that given above.

The safety sleeve 20 may have, as more particularly illustrated in Figure 5, a hidden information 55, covered by a masking layer 56, for example consisting of an opaque coating to be scratched.

for example, it is possible to print a scratch-off ink on the outer portion of the security sleeve 20, which will be scraped by the consumer to view underlying identification and / or authentication and / or traceability information.

The container may comprise, as shown in Figure 6, an overcap 70, for example pressed tin.

In this case, it is preferable that the safety sleeve 20 remains at least partially apparent, as illustrated, and that the security element 50 remains visible. Identification and / or authentication and / or traceability information may be personalized by means of direct or indirect printing and / or laser engraving means, through the security sleeve on a layer beforehand deposited on the inner side of the safety sleeve and / or in the thickness of the safety sleeve, this layer comprising pigments that can be laser-marked or metallized and de-metallized by the laser.

It may be interesting to make the safety sleeve with means to highlight an attempt to detach, especially from a fraudster who cut the sleeve and seek to remove and re-stick.

One possibility to create an interface layer for information on a detachment attempt may be to print the inner face of the sleeve with a pattern that appears on the container in case of detachment, for example the pattern "VOID".

For example, a first composition, in particular an ink, is printed or otherwise applied in the form of a first layer which is a text or a pattern, consisting of a solid area with text zones or of the pattern in reserve, then it comes to print or apply differently in the second pass with a second composition, including an ink, a text or pattern corresponding to the previous reservations. The first and second compositions have different adhesion forces to the sleeve, the second composition being for example a "detachable" ink, with low internal cohesion, for example. The deposits of the first and second compositions may be coated with a re-activatable glue at very low temperature.

Alternatively, the two compositions may consist of adhesives having different adhesion forces.

Thus, when the sleeve is shrunk hot, we end up with a set frozen. Any attempt to open or detach the sleeve will then cause the appearance of a text or pattern by the separation between the first layer leaving with the sleeve, and the text remaining on the neck.

It is also possible to provide the sleeve with a means making it possible to demonstrate a separation attempt as disclosed in the publication WO96 / 02434, in particular in FIG. 8, which describes a heat-shrinkable sleeve with a layer with a low internal cohesion, for example comprising aluminum particles, applied in the form of a pattern, for example "OPENED". In case of tearing of the sleeve, this layer separates into two parts, one of which remains on the container and the other with the sleeve. The pattern formed by this layer can be masked by a colored masking layer, and is not visible when the sleeve is in place on the neck. The invention is not limited to the examples which have just been described. In particular, it is possible to combine the particularities of embodiment of the various illustrated examples with non-illustrated variants.

The invention is in particular not limited to a particular type or form of container, or to a particular type of content.

The phrase "with one" should be understood as being synonymous with "having at least one".

Claims

1. Container (10) secured, having a neck (11) provided with a closure member (30) and a safety sleeve (20) having an envelope (27) of a heat-shrinkable material, this sleeve being retracted on the collar and extending exclusively below the closure member when the container is vertical with the closure member upwards or being partially covered by the closure member, the safety sleeve having at least one element security (50).

2. Container according to claim 1, the security element being at least partially visible to the naked eye from the outside.

3. Container according to claim 1 or 2, the safety sleeve being partially covered by the closure member.

4. Container according to claim 1 or 2, the safety sleeve extending completely below the closure member when the container is observed vertically with the closure member at the top.

5. Container according to any one of the preceding claims, the safety sleeve on an inner face (28) said security element, which is not accessible from the outside.

6. Container according to any one of the preceding claims, the security sleeve carrying on an outer face of a masking layer (56) at least partially covering an underlying information (55) accessible after removal of the layer masking.

7. Container according to claim 6, the masking layer being a layer of an opaque coating to be scraped off.

8. Container according to any one of the preceding claims, the closure member comprising a screw cap.

9. Container according to any one of claims 1 to 7, the closure member comprising a crimped capsule.

10. Container according to claim 3 and one of claims 8 and 9, the capsule comprising a tabular skirt (31) partially covering the safety sleeve, preferably a skirt remaining in place on the neck at the opening of the container.

1 1. Container according to any one of the preceding claims, the closure member being covered with an overcap capsule (70).

12. Container according to any one of the preceding claims, the security element (50) being optically variable.

13. Container according to any one of the preceding claims, being a bottle, in particular glass, preferably filled with an alcoholic beverage such as wine.

14. Container according to any one of the preceding claims, the security sleeve having on its inner face a control layer arranged to remain partly on the neck and remain partially on the sleeve in case of attempted separation of the sleeve, this layer control preferably comprising two distinct zones constituted by respective adhesives having different respective adhesion forces, one of these zones preferably being in the form of a pattern, and / or the control layer having an internal cohesion force of less than or equal to the adhesion force on the sleeve and the neck, so that the control layer delaminates in the event of an attempt to detach the sleeve.

15. Container according to any one of the preceding claims, the sleeve comprising at least one code, preferably two-dimensional, preferably visible in daylight, particularly of the type "quick response" (QR) or Datamatrix, this code comprising a link that can be read by a communicating device such as a telephone, of the Smartphone type in particular, and making it possible to access a website of a producer or a certification body, via which any actor in the chain including the consumer can collect information about the content and proceed to a verification of an identifier registered directly on the container or elsewhere on the sleeve and / or on a label and / or on another element carried by the container.

16. A method for securing a container, in particular a wine bottle, comprising a neck (1 1), in which:

a safety sleeve is put on the neck according to any one of the preceding claims,

the thermo-shrinkage of the sleeve is caused, optionally, the closure member is reported on the neck, if it is not already present, so as to obtain a secure container as defined in any one of the preceding claims.

17. The method of claim 16, the closure member being formed on the neck.

18. The method of claim 16, the closure member being formed before it is placed on the neck.

19. Method according to any one of claims 16 to 18, the closure member from partially covering the safety sleeve during its introduction.