Classifications

• • 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
  • B65D23/00—Details of bottles or jars not otherwise provided for
  • B65D23/08—Coverings or external coatings
  • B65D23/0885—Rigid shells for receiving the bottle or part of it
• • 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—Rigid or semi-rigid 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 or 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
  • B65D1/00—Rigid or semi-rigid 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 or 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
• • 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—Rigid or semi-rigid 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 or 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
  • B65D1/0292—Foldable bottles

Definitions

• the present invention relates generally to the field of containers for liquid food, and relates in particular to a product which comprises a bottle (typically plastic) and a liquid food such as non-gaseous mineral water.
• the invention also relates to an object which comprises the aforementioned product, and which can be easily handled by a consumer.
• plastic containers for liquid food and in particular thin-walled plastic bottles for transporting and delivering mineral water to a consumer who wants to consume water quality, with a flavor and a quality preserved.
• plastic containers or bottles are disclosed in WO201012956A1, WO201093602A2, EP1873067A1, or WO2014101957A1.
• bottles it may be advantageous (economically or ecologically) to minimize the thickness of these bottles, but it is necessary to provide that the bottle remains easy to handle, and does not deform or not too much when a consumer holds ( typically with a force of 20 newtons).
• This aspect is particularly important for bottles of small capacity (less than 2 L, preferably less than 1.5 L or even 1 L), because the latter are intended to accompany the consumer in his movements, and a risk of deformation (which leads to an overflow if the consumer strongly squeezes the bottle) must be minimal.
• the sleeve comprises a lower opening, which allows to easily insert the bottle, and the invention provides locking means for locking the bottle thus inserted, so that the consumer can handle the assembly via the sleeve which does not deform or little, and without the bottle falling.
• This rigidity function being carried over to the sleeve, this makes it possible to propose a thin-walled bottle which does not need to guarantee a high degree of rigidity, so that the quantity of material can be drastically reduced, up to 50% relative to to a bottle of the prior art. This limits the environmental impact because the bottle is disposable and recyclable, and the sleeve can be used many times.
• the locking is done by the consumer, that is to say the person who will consume the liquid food.
• the invention can be implemented by a user who is not the consumer.
• the locking means are a screw coupling
• the first portion of the bottle comprises at least one thread formed on at least a part of the body of the bottle
• the sleeve comprises at least one tapping arranged to cooperate with the thread of the bottle.
• Screw coupling is easy and convenient for the consumer.
• a thread on the body (cylindrical) of the bottle is also easy to achieve because it is one or more helical ribs that run along the body of the bottle, or along at least a portion of the body.
• the thread has a thread depth of at least 1 mm, preferably 1.5 mm, and even more preferably 2 mm. we can even consider a net depth of more than 2.5 mm. It is also possible to envisage a symmetrical or even asymmetric net profile in order to take downward efforts more effectively.
• the first portion of the bottle comprises at least two nets.
• a "screw” is then made with several threads, which makes it possible to increase the pitch and to reduce the number of revolutions necessary to be made by the consumer: locking is even faster.
• the locking means are a coupling by elastic interlocking
• the first portion of the outer sleeve comprises at least one protuberance arranged on an inner wall facing the opening, and the first portion of the bottle comprises at least one groove device arranged to fit on the protuberance of the outer sleeve. Locking is done simultaneously with the introduction of the bottle into the sleeve, preferably at the end of the stroke.
• the bottle comprises a neck
• the indexing means of the sleeve comprises at least one index or protrusion arranged to engage with a portion of the neck of the bottle.
• Such an index arranged at the neck limits the efforts on the locking means formed by threading or clipping / elastic interlocking on the body, by definition flexible.
• the sleeve comprises a necking opposed to the opening, and arranged to form an axial stop to the bottle received in the opening.
• Such an abutment allows intuitive use: simply push the bottle into the sleeve until the shrink, then to lock or lock the bottle.
• the sleeve has an opening at the necking, arranged to let a neck of the bottle received in the opening.
• wall or cylindrical portion is meant a portion of sleeve or bottle which has a lateral surface whose generatrices are parallel lines, and which follow a basic curve (defined by the intersection of the lateral surface with a plane perpendicular to an axial direction of the bottle) which is a closed curve.
• This closed base curve can be circular (a circle), oval (ellipse or any oval shape), square or rectangular, optionally with rounded corners.
• the bottle has an internal volume:
• the bottle is formed of polyethylene terephthalate (PET).
• PET polyethylene terephthalate
• the bottle comprises a body at least partly cylindrical.
• a polymeric material such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET), or polyamide (PA), or polycarbonate (PC), and optionally comprises a filler material such as fibers, or
• the sleeve is rigid, and not deformable when manipulated by the user. Consequently, such a rigid sleeve makes it possible to manipulate a thin, flexible and deformable bottle, which could not be handled alone without a proven risk of overflowing or falling from the user's hands.
• the strap according to the implementation above makes it possible to form a barrier to the bottle (strap stretched), and can pass the bottle, just by sliding the strap in the loop.
• the sleeve comprises means for recognizing the bottle, and / or communication means for sending information to the consumer, and / or a human machine interface arranged to receive a consumer order.
• the communication means comprise a screen, preferably a touch screen, and / or wireless communication means arranged to establish a connection with a portable electronic device, such as a telephone or a digital tablet, and / or
• a single sleeve is delivered for a batch of bottles.
• the filling is preferably performed cold (at less than 50 ° C), so that the bottle is not intended to compensate for a pressure / volume variation caused by a change in temperature during cooling.
• Figure 2 shows three views of a second embodiment of an object according to the present invention.
• Figure 1 shows three views of a first embodiment of an object according to the present invention, which comprises a bottle 1 1 closed by a cap 12 (thus forming a closed container which contains a liquid food), visible left view, and a visible sleeve 20 seen from the middle.
• the bottle 1 1 has a neck (closed by the cap 12), a neck, a substantially cylindrical body, a bottom, and contains a liquid food (non-gaseous mineral water for example).
• the substantially cylindrical body comprises a thread 1 1 1.
• the sleeve 20 comprises for its part an upper necking with an upper opening, a substantially cylindrical body, and a lower opening.
• the view of the middle of Figure 1 also shows a tapping 201 arranged on an inner wall of the sleeve 20 and thus visible in dashed lines.
• Figure 1 The right view of Figure 1 shows the bottle 1 1 which was introduced into the sleeve 20 by a consumer, and then screwed so as to come into abutment on the necking of the sleeve 20. As a result, the bottle 1 1 is locked on the sleeve 20, so that the consumer can hold the object (the sleeve 20 + the bottle 1 1 closed + the liquid contained) only by the sleeve 20.
• Figure 2 shows three views of a second embodiment of an object according to the present invention.
• the object to be held by a consumer comprises a bottle 1 1 A (left view of Figure 1), intended to be inserted into a sleeve 20A (visible view of the middle of Figure 2).
• the bottle 1 1 a is always closed by a cap 12, and also contains a liquid food (non-gaseous mineral water for example).
• the bottle 1 1 A comprises a peripheral groove 1 1 1 A in the upper part of its cylindrical body, and the sleeve 2A also comprises a peripheral groove 201 A which defines a protrusion on its inner wall, as shown in the lines dotted from the middle view.
• a stop in rotation between the bottle 11 A and the sleeve 20A in the form for example of an index or grooves, or grooves (complementary or not) between the bottle 11 A and the sleeve 20A, in particular at the upper opening of the sleeve 20A which is opposite the neck of the bottle 1 1 A, which is typically stiffer than the rest of the bottle 1 1 A.
• the sleeve 20 or 20A is preferably short enough, but long enough to be held by the consumer (at least ten centimeters long for example), while the bottle 1 1 or 1 1 A exceeds sleeve 20 or 20A to be inserted or removed easily.
• Velcro or a strap, or fastening strips hooks and textile loops
• a bottom of any shape for the bottle especially a flat bottom that allows you to put the object on a stable worktop if necessary, even if the bottle is very thin so very flexible.
• the bottom is concave in a relaxed state, and that the consumer, by pressing on it, can make it pass into an activated state so that the bottom has a convexity, which then makes it possible to place the object on a work plan.
• a pressure exerted by the liquid on the closed bottle with the activatable portion in the relaxed state is less than a pressure exerted by the liquid on the closed bottle with the activatable portion in the activated state.
• the bottle 11 or 1 1 A is formed of a thin-walled thermoplastic material.
• the material is preferably a polyester such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET), poly-trimethylene terephthalate (PTT), polyethylene furanoate (PEF) or poly-trimethylene furanoate (PTF). It is preferably shaped by an injection blow molding process ("Injection Blow Molding” in English) for example an injection stretch blow molding process (“Injection Stretch Blow Molding” in English). In these processes a solid preform is manufactured by injection of material in a mold then cooling, the preform is then heated to soften it, optionally stretched longitudinally with the aid of a rod, then stretched axially and longitudinally by blowing into a mold in the shape of the bottle.
• injection blow molding process injection blow molding process
• injection Stretch Blow Molding injection stretch blow molding process
• the thin wall is preferably such that the body of the bottle has a thickness in a range from 30 pm to 150 pm, for example in a range from 30 pm to 50 pm or from 50 pm to 70 pm or from 70 ⁇ m to 100 ⁇ m, or from 100 ⁇ m to 125 ⁇ m or from 125 ⁇ m to 150 ⁇ m, preferably in a range from 100 ⁇ m to 125 ⁇ m.
• the thickness mentioned is the thickness at at least one point of the body, preferably the average thickness over a portion representing at least 50% in length or at the surface of the body, preferably at least 80%, preferably the thickness average over the entire body.
• the bottom of the bottle can have a thickness slightly greater than that of the body, for example a thickness of up to 50% more than that of the body, for example up to 20% more.
• the bottom may also have a cup, typically corresponding to the bottom of the preform and its injection point.

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