EP3590863B1 - Récipients d'emballage à témoin d'ouverture - Google Patents

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EP3590863B1
EP3590863B1 EP19184670.8A EP19184670A EP3590863B1 EP 3590863 B1 EP3590863 B1 EP 3590863B1 EP 19184670 A EP19184670 A EP 19184670A EP 3590863 B1 EP3590863 B1 EP 3590863B1
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Frédéric MICHON
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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
    • B65D43/00—Lids or covers for rigid or semi-rigid containers
    • B65D43/02—Removable lids or covers
    • B65D43/0202—Removable lids or covers without integral tamper element
    • B65D43/0204—Removable lids or covers without integral tamper element secured by snapping over beads or projections
    • B65D43/021—Removable lids or covers without integral tamper element secured by snapping over beads or projections only on the inside, or a part turned to the inside, of the mouth
    • 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
    • B65D43/00—Lids or covers for rigid or semi-rigid containers
    • B65D43/02—Removable lids or covers
    • B65D43/0235—Removable lids or covers with integral tamper element
    • B65D43/0237—Removable lids or covers with integral tamper element secured by snapping over beads or projections before removal of the tamper element
    • B65D43/0254—Removable lids or covers with integral tamper element secured by snapping over beads or projections before removal of the tamper element only on the inside, or a part turned to the inside, of the mouth of the container
    • 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
    • B65D2401/00—Tamper-indicating means
    • B65D2401/10—Tearable part of the container
    • 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
    • B65D2543/00—Lids or covers essentially for box-like containers
    • B65D2543/00009—Details of lids or covers for rigid or semi-rigid containers
    • B65D2543/00824—Means for facilitating removing of the closure
    • B65D2543/00833—Integral tabs, tongues, handles or similar
    • B65D2543/00842—Integral tabs, tongues, handles or similar outside of the lid

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  • the present invention relates to packaging containers essentially comprising a separate container and a separate lid, said container being provided with a base and a peripheral wall opening into an opening which can be closed off by the lid. More specifically, it relates to packages the opening of which is secured, which means within the meaning of the present description that the operation of opening such a package can only be done by actuating a device which leaves a witness indicator. of said opening, an indicator which is unalterable by users after it has been "triggered". In other words again, once the container has been opened for the first time, it becomes obvious, even if it is closed, that the container has already been opened.
  • This may relate to containers for packaging and storing edible products such that it is preferable that the container is provided with tamper-evident features to prevent unauthorized access to the food contents of the container.
  • tamper-evident features to prevent unauthorized access to the food contents of the container.
  • the idea is that everyone can instantly know that the container has never been opened until now.
  • a double problem is therefore posed: first of all, to set up an effective locking system for the lid on the container, and then to ensure that when an unlocking occurs, it is obvious at the first attempt. eye.
  • the container is designed to be reclosable after first use.
  • the guarantee of prior inviolability must not in fact prevent the authorized user, the one who has become the owner of the container and has been able to legitimately open it, from then doing what he sees fit without the technical constraints related to the inviolability do not in any way interfere with normal uses of this type of container, and in particular the possibility of multiple openings / closings.
  • the containers of the invention can be made of plastic materials, in particular but not exclusively transparent, for example by thermoforming, their design must also take into account other requirements, for example mechanical, underlying specific technical characteristics aimed in particular at ensuring lightness and rigidity appropriate to the final case.
  • the packaging of the invention can also be made, at least partially, of other materials, for example bio-sourced materials.
  • the cover can in particular be provided in cardboard, with or without window (s), in bio-sourced pulp or in any other material that is mechanically suitable and suitable for the content to be packaged.
  • the packaged products when they are of a food nature, they may exude liquids or be packaged with liquids, and it is therefore important in many cases to provide at least some degree of sealing.
  • the very design of the containers particularly in terms of the shapes given to the containers and to the lids in the mechanical connection zones, is therefore carried out with a view to a relative hermeticity of the closure.
  • the packaging containers according to the invention comprising a container provided with a bottom and a peripheral wall opening into an opening which can be closed by a separate cover, comprise mutual securing means consisting of profiles or peripheral edges s 'nesting one inside the other and fitted to the container and the cover.
  • mutual securing means consisting of profiles or peripheral edges s 'nesting one inside the other and fitted to the container and the cover.
  • the profile specific to the container has a peripheral annular groove except on at least one angular sector equipped with a radial protuberance of planar appearance protruding outwards from the container.
  • the cover has a peripheral edge which fits into said groove.
  • the cover comprises, in the radial extension of the peripheral edge, at least one tab and the container has, in each radial protuberance, a slot suitable for receiving the tab and means for releasing said tab. .
  • the invention proposes solutions which overcome these practical problems, by giving the user effective means for releasing the tab, and consequently allowing the container to be opened very easily.
  • the radial protuberance comprises means for releasing said tongue consisting of, on the one hand, a manually breakable zone arranged between an outer edge of the radial protuberance and the slot and, on the other hand, a tab projecting of the radial protuberance, in a direction substantially oriented along the axis of the slot, said tab having a first lateral edge oriented in the extension of the breakable zone of linear appearance.
  • the solution of the invention comprises a tab provided specifically for this purpose, associated with a single breakable seal, a tab which makes it possible to tear said seal by easily exerting a corresponding force, since the exercise of a clamp by two fingers is performed under good conditions at said tab. This also makes it possible to raise the periphery of the radial protuberance after rupture of the seal to facilitate the release of the tab.
  • the tab has a second lateral border of appearance parallel to the first lateral edge and extending an edge of the radial protuberance oriented parallel to the axis of the slot.
  • the tab is an extension of the zone of the radial protuberance separating the slot from its free edge, and the tearing force applied to the breakable zone of fragility is then maximum with minimal effort for the user.
  • the tab may have means of ensuring the firmness of its grip, of the notching type. The user's fingers, when they grasp it, do not slip and the grip is therefore well secured, allowing good exercise of the traction aimed at the liberating tearing of the tab of the cover.
  • the axis of the slot is oriented in a direction parallel or tangential to the wall of the container at the level of the radial protuberance.
  • the tear tab therefore protrudes from said protuberance in a direction which is in reality parallel or tangential to the real or virtual curve of the rim of the container in this region.
  • the tab has a non-return relief. This relief does not oppose the insertion of the tongue in the slot, which however requires a passage more in force and in friction, but it makes the reverse operation almost impossible.
  • the profile of the container further comprises, from the bottom towards the opening, successively a shoulder and an undercut preceding the annular groove, the cover comprising a base bearing on the shoulder and an annular peripheral edge framing a profile s 'adapting to the undercut
  • the radial protuberance of the container which is located in the portion of the periphery without a groove, is therefore used for the implementation of mechanical means of opening on the one hand, and guarantee of inviolability on the other hand.
  • the tongue fitted to the cover which is the tool allowing it to be detached from the container by traction in a direction which is initially generally perpendicular to the opening that it closes, is inserted into the slot of the radial protuberance, precisely preventing the exertion of traction in this direction. There is therefore locking of one on the other, by locking the tab on the container, if no action is taken via the release means mentioned.
  • the cover / container securing profile which falls within the container comprises an undercut having a mechanical “clipping” function and secondarily participating in the sealing of the container.
  • the annular peripheral edge of the cover can overcome a peripheral profile comprising an annular groove able to fit into contact with the undercut of the container, putting the materials constituting these two components under tension to fulfill the two aforementioned functions of securing and hermeticity, at least relative.
  • the peripheral profile of the cover can then be located between said annular peripheral edge and the base consisting of a solid surface with a flat appearance bordered by by said profile, which makes the cover capable of completely closing off the volume of the container when it is fixed on the container.
  • the cover may simply consist of an element of planar appearance, for example of cardboard or more generally of any material, in particular bio-sourced.
  • the container may then not include a profile with undercut, but be simplified at this level.
  • the container may also include, according to one possibility, an upper rim overhanging the groove, which has an annular flange of parallel appearance to the bottom and is limited at its two ends by two oblique flats connecting the annular flange to each radial protuberance.
  • the container may include, in the vicinity of the bottom, stiffening ribs aimed at making gripping of the container easier in an area subject to handling, without being forced to increase the thickness of the material used.
  • These ribs can then for example take a semi-paraboloidal shape and protrude towards the interior of the container, each causing a cutout in the bottom and a cutout of the peripheral wall contiguous to the bottom in the extension of the bottom cutout.
  • This volume of semi-paraboloidal appearance has a rounding in several dimensions or planes, namely in the dimension of the axis of the container and in the plane of the bottom, this multidimensional curvature resulting in reinforcing the mechanical strength of this region in response to external constraints arising during handling of the container.
  • the container of the invention essentially comprises a container 1 and a cover 2, which are configured to be able to be fixed to each other in a reasonably airtight manner, that is to say in this case with a seal reasonable, knowing that this is not the primary purpose of this type of packaging but that it is possible that the packaged products contain liquid phases which should then be retained.
  • the two components 1 and 2 of the container therefore comprise for this purpose peripheral profiles 4, 5 provided to achieve a mutual engagement putting in tension the constituent materials of the container.
  • the profiles 4, 5 are as much intended to achieve the mechanical fixing of one to the other as to ensure the level of airtightness mentioned above.
  • the container 1 comprises in particular an upper rim 15 which surrounds the opening 3, except on an angular sector clearly visible in figure 1 at the level of a radial protuberance 6 protruding from the container 1.
  • This radial protuberance 6 comprises a slot 7 and a tear tab 8, one of the side edges of which is oriented in the extension of a manually breakable zone 9, in the species a line of weakness obtained for example by punching / cutting in broken lines.
  • the cover 2 comprises a solid base 11, a peripheral edge substantially planar annular 12 from which a tongue 13 is extracted radially, the section 5 developing generally perpendicular to these two surfaces respectively of the base 11 and of the annular peripheral edge 12 and connecting them.
  • the tongue 13 is introduced into the slot 7, which is done all the more easily when the cover 2 is oriented vertically or at the very least in a direction close to the vertical, the tongue 13 being of course placed to the right of the slot 7.
  • the cover 2 is then closed on the container 1, by rotation about a fictitious axis formed by the linear support of the tongue 13 in the slot 7, until the profiles 4,5 mutually engage. This is what is represented in figure 3 .
  • profile 4 of the container 1 in the enlarged part to the right of the figure, it comprises, above the peripheral wall coming from the bottom 10 of this container 1, a shoulder 16 on which the base 11 of the cover 2, surmounted by an undercut 17 overhanging a vertical portion 18.
  • the radial protuberance 6 is, in the angular sector which does not have a rim 15 - which corresponds precisely to what is shown in the expansion of the figure 5 - connected to the undercut 17 via an inclined flat 14 '.
  • annular groove 14 which is itself replaced / extended, in the angular sector concerned by the enlargement to the right of the figure 5 , by the tab 13.
  • the upper rim 15 comprises, as has been mentioned, an annular flange of planar appearance which is connected, at the two ends of said angular section, to the protuberance 6 by flats 21.
  • the profile 5 of the cover 2 comprises an annular groove 19 which substantially matches the undercut 17 when the base 11 of the cover 2 is placed on the shoulder 16. It is the correspondence of shapes combined with the fit of the assembly. which allows the clipping of the cover 2 in the container 1 via the undercut 17 / annular groove connection 19. It also contributes to a form of sealing of the packaging, in combination with the support of the base 11 of the cover 2 on the shoulder 16, this support being done with a certain pressure coming from the aforementioned connection.
  • the operation is generally the same, with the exception of course of the clipping of the cover 2.
  • the configuration of the cover 2 is such that it simply consists of a solid flat disc 11 ′, of the edge circular peripheral 12 from which protrudes the same tongue 13. All the explanations developed previously regarding the locking of the tongue 13 in the slot 7 of the protuberance 6 apply mutatis mutandis.
  • the container of the invention also comprises stiffening means in the form of ribs 20 developing towards the interior of the volume of the container 1, and in the form of semi-paraboloidal shape in this case.
  • These internal ribs 20 have an imprint in the form of a cutout of the bottom 10 and of the side wall, in its portion connected to the bottom 10.
  • FIG 10 Another variant appears in figure 10 , the tongue 13 comprising in this configuration an additional relief 113 performing an anti-return function: once the tongue has been inserted into the slot 7, it is only difficult to remove, except of course for tearing the breakable area 9, this which improves the security of the assembly, the main objective of the invention.
  • Said relief protrudes from the face of the tongue which is oriented towards the container 1 when the cover 2 is closed on said container 1, that is to say downwards when the container is placed on a horizontal surface.
  • This figure also shows a slightly different design for the notching to facilitate and improve the grip.
  • the invention is not limited to the examples which are shown, but it also covers the variants of shapes, possibly of materials, without departing from the protected field.
  • plastic materials, cardboard, or any other materials, in particular bio-sourced are only non-exclusive possibilities, nor the fact that the cover is full (it may have openings, according to this which is contained in the container).

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