EP3212517B1 - Behälter mit einstückigem kopfteil - Google Patents

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EP3212517B1
EP3212517B1 EP15763200.1A EP15763200A EP3212517B1 EP 3212517 B1 EP3212517 B1 EP 3212517B1 EP 15763200 A EP15763200 A EP 15763200A EP 3212517 B1 EP3212517 B1 EP 3212517B1
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sleeve part
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Bernd Hansen
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Kocher Plastik Maschinenbau GmbH
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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
    • B65D1/023—Neck construction
    • B65D1/0238—Integral frangible closures
    • 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
    • B65D1/023—Neck construction
    • B65D1/0246—Closure retaining means, e.g. beads, screw-threads
    • 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
    • B65D1/0261—Bottom construction
    • B65D1/0276—Bottom construction having a continuous contact surface, e.g. Champagne-type bottom
    • 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
    • B65D17/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers specially constructed to be opened by cutting or piercing, or by tearing of frangible members or portions
    • B65D17/06—Integral, or permanently secured, end or side closures
    • 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
    • B65D49/00—Arrangements or devices for preventing refilling of containers
    • B65D49/12—Arrangements or devices for preventing refilling of containers by destroying, in the act of opening the container, an integral portion thereof
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C49/00—Blow-moulding, i.e. blowing a preform or parison to a desired shape within a mould; Apparatus therefor

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  • the invention relates to a container, in particular consisting of a plastic material and produced by a blow molding, filling and sealing method, with the features in the preamble of claim 1.
  • a container is in EP 228 662 disclosed.
  • Plastic containers which are manufactured in a blow molding, filling and sealing process (BFS process), as for example in EP 2 269 558 A1 described and known in the professional world under the name "bottelpack® system", are for food and luxury products and in medicine with great advantage for the packaging of pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, enteral nutrition and medical devices, such as rinsing and dialysis solutions and the like used.
  • the one-piece design of the container neck part and the head part closing off the removal opening on the neck part in the blow molding process has the advantage that the container contents have exclusive contact with a polymer forming the container material, typically a plastic such as LDPE, HDPE or PP. In this way, in the case of containers produced and filled in this manner, the germ reduction / sterility of the container contents can be ensured for longer periods of time.
  • a polymer forming the container material typically a plastic such as LDPE, HDPE or PP.
  • the separation area over which the head part is formed on the neck part is carried out in such containers as a predetermined breaking point at which the head part for a removal operation from the neck portion is solvable.
  • a container of the type mentioned which has as an opening or Aufrpionyak an actuating element in the form of a user operable sleeve part which surrounds the neck portion and at least parts of the head part in the manner of an outer ring in its standby position, which is operable by the user and in an actuated state releases the separation area by tearing the predetermined breaking point.
  • EP 0 228 662 A2 discloses a container, in particular made of a plastic material and produced by a blow molding, filling and sealing method, with a container body for receiving a fluid and a subsequent to the container body neck portion having at its free end a discharge opening for the fluid, the is closed by a head portion via a separation portion, which is detachable by releasing the movable portion by releasing the separation portion for releasing the discharge opening from the neck portion.
  • the invention has the object to improve a container of this genus in terms of particularly good performance characteristics on.
  • the invention is characterized in that the sleeve part has flexible bearing fingers on its free end face, which come with screwing of the sleeve part in the lower handle with a projection on the head part, and take with unscrewing the sleeve part with dissolved separation area the headboard that the guide track is formed on the outside of a head part encompassing the annular collar extending between the separation area and an annular groove , which forms the space for receiving the bearing fingers on the head part, and in that on the inner peripheral side of the annular collar there is an inwardly projecting towards the separation area and adjacent to this reinforcing rib.
  • the inwardly projecting towards the separation area and on this subsequent reinforcing rib is present on the inner peripheral side of the annular collar.
  • the sleeve part has on its free end side flexible bearing fingers which come with screwing of the sleeve part in the lower handle with a projection on the head part, the sleeve part can be brought by partial screwing into a standby position, wherein the sleeve part secured by snapping the bearing fingers on the head part, but is rotatable relative to this.
  • the guide track for the actuation movements of the sleeve part is formed on the outside of the head part encompassing annular collar which extends between the separation region and an annular groove which forms the space for receiving the bearing fingers on the head part, is a boundary wall of the annular groove as vollumfnature Advantage for the support of the investment fingers available. It is further provided that the sleeve part is guided from the unactuated state to the release area releasing actuated state at least partially in contact with a guideway, which is part of the abZutumbleden headboard. This ensures that the sleeve part is aligned coaxially with the head part is, so that a relation to the mentioned prior art uniform loading of the separation area is achieved when loosening. Even with removal openings relatively large opening diameter with a correspondingly extended separation area thereby a secure tearing operation over the entire circumference of the removal opening is ensured.
  • an external thread arranged on the neck part and an internal thread which can be brought into engagement with the sleeve part can be provided on the sleeve part for actuating the sleeve part, it being possible to detach the release region releasing the discharge opening by screwing on the sleeve part.
  • the arrangement can be made such that upon screwing the sleeve part of the separation area is thereby solved that a contact shoulder of the sleeve part under engagement with the head part this entrains to release the separation area.
  • the arrangement can be made so that by unscrewing the sleeve part in unresolved separation area, the bearing fingers in engagement with the projection of the head part of this under release of the Take separation area with you.
  • the outer diameter of the annular collar may correspond to the inner diameter of the neck portion in the region of its external thread, and the annular collar may have an axial extent whose length corresponds to the axial length of the annular groove measured over its smallest diameter.
  • the abutment shoulder of the sleeve part engages over the end of the annular collar at the upper end of the guideway.
  • the contact surface of the sleeve part thereby forms a full-surface enclosure of the annular collar of the head part, so that in the transmitted over the contact shoulder actuating or Abrmony an abutment is formed which prevents radial deflection of the separation region of the head portion under the action of the actuating force and thereby a special safe Tear-off guaranteed.
  • the reinforcing rib can form a wedge shape, viewed in cross-section, at least when the sleeve part is unactuated, whose longest transverse limb ends in the direction of the neck part at the separating region and is arranged parallel spaced apart from another boundary line terminating the reinforcing rib.
  • the discharge opening of the neck portion may be bounded by an annular bead which projects in the direction of the unactuated sleeve portion over the separation area projecting with its largest cross-sectional dimension of the separation area.
  • the arrangement may further be such that the outer contour of the sleeve part is provided in the direction of the outlet of the bearing fingers with a slope which is adapted to an inclined position of the bearing fingers. In the initial position with only partially screwed sleeve part, ie before reaching the standby position, thereby forming the slope of the sleeve part a continuation of the investment fingers and essentially gentle and thus visually and haptically responsive transition to the top of the headboard.
  • the present embodiment of the container according to the invention on a container body 1 in the form of a plastic bottle, based on a central main axis 3, has a square cross-section with rounded corners and is designed to hold a liquid with a capacity of 150 ml ,
  • a coaxial to the axis 3 neck part 5 is formed, the diameter of which corresponds approximately to half the width of the main part 1 and the outside is provided at approximately half the length with an external thread 7.
  • the neck portion 5 in its upper region at a small axial distance from the uppermost thread of the external thread 7 an annular surface 9 which extends in the direction of the axis 3 upwardly inclined radially inwardly and at the upper end in an upward and to the axis 3rd diverging outwardly extending end surface 11 merges whose end edge surrounds the removal opening 13 of the neck portion 5.
  • an outwardly slightly projecting edge bead 15 is formed at the edge of the removal opening 13.
  • a head portion 17 as an integral part of the neck portion 5, wherein the bead 15 together with a reinforcing rib 19, which is located at the facing end of the head portion 17 forms a separation area in which the Junction between edge bead 15 and reinforcing rib 19 forms a predetermined breaking point at which the head part 17 for a removal operation for releasing the removal opening 13 from the neck portion 5 is detachable.
  • the reinforcing rib 19 is located as a radially inwardly projecting, wedge-shaped projection at the end of a collar 21 whose outer side forms a cylindrical jacket surface 23, at the upper end of a radial length of the cylinder jacket surface 23 delimiting step surface 25 is formed radially inwardly into a subsequent annular groove 27 of the head part 17 extends.
  • the upper end of the annular groove 27 is by a radially outwardly projecting, flange-like Limited projection 29, which merges into the upper end surface 31 of the head part 17.
  • a sleeve part 35 which has a female thread 37 in a circular-cylindrical longitudinal section and a longitudinal corrugation 39 on the outside, can be screwed onto the external thread 7 of the neck part 5.
  • an inclined surface 41 which reduces the outer diameter of the sleeve part 35 in the direction of the upper free end face.
  • a ring of bearing fingers 43 extends to the upper end side, wherein the bearing fingers 43 are inclined to the axis 3 out.
  • the sleeve part 35 forms on the inside a contact shoulder 45 in the form of a ring surface lying in a radial plane.
  • the Fig. 3 shows the sleeve member 35 in a partially screwed-on initial position in which the abutment shoulder 45 is at a distance from the step surface 25 on the annular collar 21 and the bearing fingers 43 extend to the upper end surface 31 of the head part 17.
  • the Fig. 4 shows the state in which, after further screwing the sleeve member 35 is in a standby position, in which the bearing fingers 43 are snapped below the projection 29 in the annular groove 27 of the head portion 17.
  • the sleeve part 35 has in this case moved so far down that a circular cylindrical, inner bearing surface 47, which is located in the region of the inclined surface 41 on the sleeve part 35, in full contact with the outer cylindrical surface 23 of the annular collar 21.
  • the cylinder jacket surface 23 thereby forms for the sleeve part 35 a guideway on which the sleeve part 35 is guided during its axial movement when screwing.
  • the contact surface 47 of the sleeve member 35 at the through the cylinder jacket surface 23 of the annular collar Slides 21 formed guide wall, the contact shoulder 45 of the sleeve portion 35, which engages over the step surface 25 of the annular collar 21, the head portion 17, so that the predetermined breaking point at the separation region 15, 17 ruptures and the removal opening 13 is free, s. Fig. 5 where this state is shown.
  • the Fig. 6 shows the sleeve member 35 in a position in which after the opening or tearing off the sleeve member 35 from the in Fig. 5 partially unscrewed position shown.
  • the head part 17 is taken by the lower grip of the bearing fingers 43 on the projection 29, so that when completely unscrewing the head part 17 is removed together with the sleeve part 35 while the head part 17 is captively secured to the removed sleeve part 35.
  • the head part 17 is available without the intervention of the operator if a subsequent re-screwing should be desired in order to be screwed on again together with the sleeve part 35.
  • the opening process can also be achieved by unscrewing the sleeve part 35 from the ready position (FIG. Fig. 4 ) are made out, wherein the contact fingers 43 take in the upward axial movement of the head part 17 in the lower handle with the projection 29 for an upward tear-off movement.

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CN201420720014.6U CN204568328U (zh) 2014-11-26 2014-11-26 容器
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