ES1062213U - Humidity control device in pure box (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Humidity control device in a cigar box, which is provided to know the humidity inside a cigar box and therefore to know at all times the state of the cigars themselves, is characterized because it is constituted from a core of cylindrical and hollow general configuration, which inside incorporates a sheet stained with cobalt chloride, the core having lateral openings that allow the communication of the interior and therefore of the sheet with the exterior; with the particularity that said block or core is applied on a hole provided for that purpose in one of the walls or covers of the cigar box itself, establishing a sealed closure with the outside and a communication with the interior environment of the box, a through the side openings of the block itself or core constituting the device, it being provided that the inner sheet is of a detectable material of moisture, whose color changes depending on the corresponding degree of humidity. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

Moisture control device in box cigars

Object of the invention

The present invention relates to a device of humidity control in cigar boxes, which is intended for its application in a hole established for that purpose in one of the walls or lid of a cigar box, allowing visualization to the user of the degree of humidity inside the box, and therefore provided an indicator of whether the cigars contained in the box are in conditions of optimum humidity or no.

Background of the invention

In the tobacco sector, and specifically in the preservation of cigars, a degree of humidity is necessary to that these are maintained in their optimal conditions of consumption.

Specifically, there are cigar boxes that they incorporate a hygrograph to know the degree of humidity in the inside, so that the application of hygrographs results sophisticated, so it is especially used in cabinets containers of large numbers of special cigars or a certain level or quality

In short, in the classic and traditional boxes of ordinary cigars, there are no means to detect the degree of humidity inside, therefore ignoring the conditions of the cigars, taking into account that the humidity so that a cigar remains in good condition must be greater than 50%, being considered optimal between 70 and 80%, and considered very low when it is less than 50%.

Description of the invention

The device that is recommended has been designed to solve the problem described above, based on a solution as simple as effective, since the device consists of a block or hollow core with side windows and a sheet inside, parallel to the bases of the aforementioned block or core, which will preferably be of cylindrical configuration, so that the sheet will be materialized by a paper tinted with cobalt chloride, which is a product that detects moisture, all in a way that said core or block is applied over a hole provided to the effect on one of the side faces or on the case lid itself cigar container, constituting a kind of valve unidirectional, establishing a tight seal with the outside but  establishing a communication with the interior, so that tinted sheet with cobalt chloride changes color depending on of the degree of humidity inside the box, which allows detect at first glance if the environment inside the box of cigars is dry or wet, or what is the same, know in everything moment if the degree of humidity is adequate to keep in good been the cigars or if on the contrary it is low and the cigars are "drying out".

The block or core that constitutes the device humidity control, is located in the hole of the box as if it were a plug, being perfectly coupled and preferably sealing with an adhesive, as a crown, with some sectors that indicate the degree of humidity and that will correspond to the different colors that the tinted sheet may present with cobalt chloride, so that this sheet is in contact with the interior environment of the box through the openings sides provided for that purpose in the device or block that It constitutes the same.

The fundamental advantage of the device of the invention is that the user is allowed to know in at all times the degree of humidity inside the box pure, without having to place the classic hygrograph, which is a very sophisticated device, both in regards to its constitution, like its assembly, without even being so exact in its measurement as the device of the invention.

Description of the drawings

To complement the description that is being performing and in order to help a better understanding of the characteristics of the invention, according to a preferred example of practical realization of it, is accompanied as part member of that description, a set of drawings where with illustrative and non-limiting nature, what has been represented next:

Figure 1.- Shows a representation according to an overview of a cigar box with the hole provided on the lid and the device of the invention in the position of be coupled in said hole.

Figure 2.- Shows an exterior detail of the application of the device over the hole of the lid represented in the previous figure, with a sealing crown with sectors indicative of the degree of humidity inside.

Figure 3.- Shows a detail in perspective internal application of the device, seeing the communication of the interior of such a device, that is to say of the tinted sheet of Cobalt Chloride, with the inner environment of the box.

Figure 4.- Shows, finally, a section diametral of the device in which the location of the tinted sheet with cobalt chloride and the communicating windows the inside of said device with the outside.

Preferred Embodiment of the Invention

As you can see in the referred figures, the device of the invention is constituted by a hollow body which determines a block or core (1) of cylindrical configuration, which is affected laterally from openings (2) that put in communication the hollow interior of the device (1) with the exterior, existing inside said sheet (3) materialized on a tinted paper of cobalt chloride, and that changes color with the degree of humidity.

Said device (1) is intended for application in a through hole (4) established in the corresponding cigar box (5), specifically in, for example, the lid of said box, such that the device (1) housed in that through hole (4) establishes a closure as if it were a cap, but keeping the sheet (3) in communication with the interior environment of the box in which it is applied, so that that sheet (3) stained with cobalt chloride detect moisture and change color, so that if there is moisture inside the box (5) the color of the membrane constituting the sheet (3) will be pink, while if there is no moisture inside the box (5), Then the membrane changes color and turns blue.

In application of the device over the hole (4) of the box (5), it is foreseen that in the tightness towards the exterior collaborate a sealing crown (6) with sectors (7) moisture level indicators, so that when observing the sheet (3) of one color or another, and that will logically correspond to one of the sectors (7), the degree of humidity inside the box, and therefore the state of the pure contents in it.

As already said throughout the present description, the device mounted on the hole (4) of the box (5), establishes a tight seal with the outside but allows communication with the interior through the openings sides (2) of the device itself, allowing to detect first sight if the internal environment of the cigar box is dry or it is wet, depending on the color of the sheet (3) integrated in the own device (1).

Finally say that the device described It can be applicable to both ordinary cigar boxes and boxes of high quality cigars, since its reliability has been conveniently experienced and verified, providing some data even more reliable than those offered by the classics hygrographs

Claims (3)

1. Moisture control device in a cigar box, which being provided to know the humidity inside a cigar box and therefore to know at all times the state of the cigars themselves, is characterized in that it is constituted from a core of general cylindrical and hollow configuration, which in its interior incorporates a sheet tinted with cobalt chloride, laterally presenting the core some openings that allow communication of the interior and therefore of the sheet with the outside; with the particularity that said block or core is applied over a hole provided for that purpose in one of the walls or lids of the cigar box itself, establishing a tight seal with the outside and a communication with the interior environment of the box, to through the lateral openings of the block or core constituting the device, having provided that the inner sheet is of a moisture detectable material, the color of which changes depending on the corresponding degree of humidity. 2. Moisture control device in cigar box, according to claim 1, characterized in that the sheet provided inside the core of the device is paper stained with cobalt chloride. 3. Moisture control device in a cigar box, according to previous claims, characterized in that optionally on the outside of the hole in which the constituent block of the device is located, a sealing crown is provided with sectors indicating the degree of humidity corresponding to the color acquired by the tinted sheet of cobalt chloride.