ES2233229T3 - SECURITY CLOSURE OF ORIGIN FOR A TRANSPORT CONTAINER. - Google Patents

Abstract

Safety lock of origin (1) for a transport container (11), in particular a transport container for fruit preparations, raw materials for the preparation of beverages or the like, with a lid (2) for closing an opening (22 ) of the transport container (11), the cover (2) comprising a screw thread (5) for screwing into an opening pipe (13) of the transport container (11), and the cover (2) being provided with several tabs (9) distributed through its contour, which have a passage hole (10) to place a seal security element (21), and being placed in the opening (22) of the transport container closed by the lid ( 2) a seal safety element (21) that cannot be released without deterioration in one of the tabs (9) and in a support place (19) in the transport container (11), characterized in that the support place (19) is arranged in an adjustment arm (18) in the opening pipe (13), in part on a lever (18) to adjust the free internal cross-section of the opening pipe (13), and the tabs (9) are placed on the cover (2) so that one of the tabs in the opening ( 22) closed by the lid (2) of the transport container (11) it is at a distance as small as possible from the support place (19), another tongue being provided respectively between four tabs (4) displaced respectively 90 °.

Description

Source security lock for a container Of transport.

The invention relates to a safety lock of origin for a transport container, in particular for a transport container for the preparation of beverages, materials premiums for beverage preparations or the like, with a lid for closing of an opening of the transport container, according to preamble of claim 1.

Publication BE 663209A shows a closure of security of origin, in which a ring is placed through a top. The ring has two openings through which you can push a seal insurance which in turn can be placed to through a support projection.

Publication BE 367408A shows insurance of seal for a container that is driven by a hook, which it is provided in the opening pipe, and a tongue in the top.

Transport containers, such as stainless steel reusable containers, which are used for transport of raw materials and fruit preparations, present normally a filling and extraction tubing that closes for transport with a blind cover. This blind cover, so general a plastic hood, it has both the closing function source security for first use insurance as well as of a sterile closure. After cleaning or filling of the container, this opening pipe, from here Also called the outlet, it is treated with steam. Of this mode a foam sponge is inserted into the exit hole that It is impregnated with a disinfectant. After screwing the Blind lid is placed over this lid, as well as over the area of the exit hole, a shrink foil and then it shrink

A disadvantage of this system from the point of view of the original security closure is that the shrink foil if necessary, it can be removed without notice and it can also be removed put back. This applies in particular when the sheet is not sufficiently inverted above the exit hole area and / or has not been shrunk hard enough. It can also think that the blade moves away slightly and then it is replaced on another sheet. Another disadvantage is that these closures conventional require the use of additional devices of shrinkage that work with propane / butane gas, which have to be stored considering costly precautions of security.

The objective of the present invention is to this in making available a security lock of origin that allow to reliably recognize the manipulations in the closing Home security and can be used easily.

This objective is achieved through a closure of security of origin with the characteristic features of the claim 1. Advantageous embodiments are the object of the subordinate claims.

Because the lid is provided with tabs that have a passage hole to install the insurance element precinct, a security lock of origin is made available which is manufactured simply, whose manufacture is only insignificantly more expensive than the manufacture of the known cover Without these tabs. In addition to cast iron sheets and appliances Relevant shrinkage with propane / butane gas are not necessary. This makes high security possible, for example, by the disappearance of the danger of fire when operating the devices of shrinkage In addition to installing the seal insurance on the tongue passage hole it is possible to create a closure of security of origin safe against tampering.

With the opening closed by the lid of the transport container, the seal insurance element is not can be removed without damage to the tongue and placed in a place of support in the transport container. This opening can be, for example, an inlet or outlet opening with tubing of opening. By placing at the same time the element of seal security, which cannot be removed, both on the lid and also for example on the wall of the container is made a source security lock easily and can be Reliably recognize in particular lid manipulations, such as the unauthorized uncovering of the opening of the transport container

According to the invention one of the tabs is placed on the lid so that it is in the opening closed by the lid of the transport container at a distance what as small as possible of the support place in the container wall of the transport container. This way you can It is especially easy to guarantee the closing insurance function. In the cover designed as screw closure, in which one of the tabs are placed especially near the support place it is assured that with the attempt to unscrew the lid the seal insurance element, that is, for example, a seal, immediately it is under tension and by continuing to turn it tear.

According to the invention, the lid also has a screw thread to screw into an opening pipe of the transport container A mechanically stable closure of a opening, for example of the outlet opening of a container of transport, takes place in known systems often by screwed caps on the screw thread of a pipe opening that is placed in the wall of the container housing Of transport. By having the lid also a screw thread correspondingly adapted, the new insurance system with help the original security lock according to the invention can be easily use, without special transformation measures, for known transport container.

According to the invention it is placed in the opening tubing an adjustment arm on which it is arranged The place of support. An adjustment arm is understood here also in particular a lever for section adjustment free internal transverse of the opening pipe which, by example, adjust a turn valve inside the tubing of opening for the regulation of the free flow of passage. Since the adjustment arm represents a projection on the upper surface of the tubing, the seal safety element can be fixed, selecting the appropriate dimensions, easily to this adjustment arm

One of the tabs is placed on the cover of so that it can only be removed from the support place without deterioration of the seal element of the seal, so that the cover follows closing the opening of the transport container. With this is given, in a simple and safe way, the closing insurance function in particular against an unauthorized uncovering, since the lid does not it can be unscrewed from the opening or removed from any other way. Since this would lead to a deterioration of the element of seal insurance, which can be recognized simply by Dictate the status of the seal insurance. This way I don't know you can fill or empty anything without noticing the opening of the container.

In a very advantageous embodiment also presents the seal insurance element an area in form loop that has been driven, for example crossed originally, also through the tongue hole and is  placed in the opening tubing around the lever, the length of the loop being selected in turn so that the seal security element cannot be removed without deterioration. An original security closure of this type can be place quickly and safely in openings, for example in the exit holes of known transport containers.

To continue preventing manipulation both of the cover as well as in particular a change of the element of seal insurance, cover and / or insurance element are provided of the seal preferably with features for its ID. This can for example be a logo print of company with a continuous number to be able to determine in all moment to which transport container for example has been awarded What seal number.

In the closures of twist employees, that is, covers with screw thread, the tabs are advantageously placed at the ends of the side wall of the lid that indicate towards the container. Thanks to the tabs being placed on the end of the lid can be taken by hand a lid of this type in a simple way and in this way it is not more difficult to handle than a conventional lid without tabs placed further.

Several tabs are placed distantly each other on the side wall of the lid. With screw caps screw is the advantage that by screwing the cover over different opening tubing of transport containers one of the tabs placed is near the position of support.

The following will explain in detail the invention from the embodiment shown in the figures. Show the:

Figure 1 a top view of a lid of a origin security closure according to one of the examples of embodiment according to the invention,

Figure 2 a sectional view along the line II-II of the safety lock cover of origin according to figure 1,

Figure 3 a schematic side representation of an original security lock placed in a container of transport according to figures 1 and 2 and

Figure 4 a schematic view from the front of a security lock of origin placed in a container of transport according to figure 3.

First described in detail below a original security lock from figures 1 and 2.

The security lock of origin represented in figure 1 in a plan view from above and in figure 2 in a cross-sectional side view along the line II-II of Figure 1 is referred to as a whole with 1. Includes a cover 2 for screwing into a screw thread of rotational symmetry of an opening pipe. Cap 2 is also configured as a hood. Vertically with respect to the upper wall 3, largely flat, of the lid 2 on the lateral margin of the upper wall 3 the lateral wall is formed 4 surrounding in a circle.

As shown in figure 1, the wall lateral 4 contains four cavities arranged in the contour outside each one at a distance of 90º, which extend to the along the entire depth T of the side walls 4 vertically with respect to the upper wall 2. These cavities 35 they serve to splice a so-called hook key with which the closure hood 1 can be tightened or released into the tubing of opening. On the inner side of the side wall 4 a screw thread 5 which is sized so that it can be screw on a counter nut that is placed on the surface exterior of a cylinder-shaped opening tubing of a transport container

Also inside a lid 2 of type hood is fitted a shutter collar 6 whose front surface 6a acts in conjunction with an O-shaped ring seal 6b inside the tubing. The surface 7 of the wall upper 3 of the cover 2 comprises an elevation 8 representing a  feature for the identification of the lid. This identification feature can also of course have another way or be completely expendable.

At the lower end of the side wall 4 of the cover 2 are placed through the contour of the side wall 4 distributed in the embodiment example eight tabs 9 of same way. The tabs 9 are located from the lateral margin 4 of the lid 2 out and has a hole 10 to introduce a security element of the seal. The drill 10 is approximately at the center of the surface of each tongue 9. In the contour of the side wall 4 are placed between two attached slits 35 respectively two tabs 9. The tabs 9 thus have the same distance from each other. The lid is cast with tabs on a piece of hard plastic. By of course the lid can also be made of other materials not elastic like metals.

The following is described in detail from Figures 3 and 4 a safety lock of origin 1 placed in a transport container 11 used as transport container.

Figure 3 also shows a schematic view. of a cross section through a part of a container of transport 11 of this type in which a closure of security of origin 1 of figures 1 and 2; and figure 4 a view schematic from in front of the transport container 11. The transport container 11 is essentially a hollow container in parallelepiped shape with a wall 12. Approximately vertical with respect to the surface of the wall 12 a separate opening tubing 13 forming the filling opening and extraction 22 of the transport container 11. At the end of the opening tubing 13 is placed on the outer side a counter 15.

In this counter nut 15 it is screwed as closing of the lid 2 the safety lock of origin 1 and closes the container opening 22. The lid 2 of the safety lock origin 1 shutter, through the ring shutter 6b mounted on a slot 24 in the form of a circle and the surface of the collar 6a, the opening 22 of the opening tubing 13.

Inside the opening pipe 13 a butterfly valve 16 whose surface is placed corresponds to the inner free surface of cross section flow path of the opening tubing 13. Through a bearing 17 arranged radially with respect to the longitudinal axis of the opening pipe 13 in cylindrical shape can be rotated the pivot valve 16 between any parallel position or vertical to the longitudinal axis 13 to do so by turning the butterfly valve 16 able to change the cross section that can go through the flow inside the tubing of opening 13.

In figure 4 it is represented in the view from the front the opening pipe 13 not visible itself with rotary valve 16 and a shaft element 17 scratched for its illustration.

The bearing 17 is connected by the upper side of the opening tubing 13 a handle 19 of a lever 18 which points out. At whose end it points out from the wall 14 of the opening pipe is attached handle 19 to a lifting element 20. The effect of lever 18 is now that, by a rotation of lifting element 20, arranged at an angle 90º with respect to the handle 19, of the valve adjustment angle of butterfly 16, can be adjusted inside the tubing of opening 13.

In the embodiment shown in the Figures 3 and 4, the lifting element 20 points vertically from the wall of the container 12 outward, so in this case also the butterfly valve 16 is oriented along of the longitudinal axis of the opening tubing 13 and thus releases in largely the inner cross section of the tubing of opening 13 for a possible flow path.

Cover 2 of the original safety lock 1 it is thus screwed to the closure of the opening pipe 13 fixedly on the counter nut 15. There is also a tongue 9 'of the screwed cover 2, compared to the other tabs 9 placed on the other cover 2 very close to the handle 19 of the lever 18.  As recognized in Figure 4, in the front view towards the wall 12 of the container is this tongue 9 'something towards the left of the handle 19.

Through the hole 10 'is introduced completely a plastic seal element 21 Lasted. The insurance element of the seal 21 may for example be a non-elastic seal cord, which by means of a closure of Insert can be attached in a loop that cannot be loosened. its loop length cannot also be changed significantly without deterioration. Before the seal cord is attached by means of the insert element 23 in a loop with a given length, the cord precinct is first introduced completely through a opening 10 'of the tongue 9' and placed around the handle 19 of lever 18. The loop is then closed by means of the insert element 23.

With this the element of seal 21 secure both to the tongue 9 'of the closure of safety of origin 1 as well as the handle 19 of the lever 18 of the transport container 11. Alternatively it can be placed freely the seal element of the seal not only around lever 18 and insert it through the tongue hole 10 ', but also fixedly fix it to at least one of the two support elements. The length and nature of material of the loop of the seal 21 insurance element is selected in addition to so that the security element of the seal 21 cannot be removed above the handle 19 or otherwise the handle 19 which serves as  place of support in the transport counter 11, in order to remove the cover 2 of the opening pipe 13 by unscrewed

Thanks to that, when the lid 2 closes firmly the opening tubing 13, the tongue 9 'through which the security element of seal 21 is introduced, it is not placed on the right but as desired preferably something to the left of the handle 19 of the lever 18, it is ensured that with the attempt to unscrew the cover 2 the seal element of the seal 21 is put on tension immediately and by continuing to turn tears or deteriorates in another way. That is, the element of seal 21 is sized so that the cover 2 it can only be rotated without deterioration of the insurance element of the seal 21 while the lid continues to close the opening of the opening tubing 13.

Claims (5)

1. Safety lock of origin (1) for a transport container (11), in particular a transport container for fruit preparations, raw materials for the preparation of beverages or the like, with a lid (2) for closing an opening (22) of the transport container (11), the cover (2) comprising a screw thread (5) for screwing into an opening pipe (13) of the transport container (11), and the cover (2) being provided with several tabs (9) distributed through its contour, which have a passage hole (10) to place a seal security element (21), and being placed in the opening (22) of the transport container closed by the cover (2) a seal safety element (21) that cannot be released without deterioration in one of the tabs (9) and in a support place (19) in the transport container (11), characterized in that the place of support (19) is arranged in an adjustment arm (18) in the opening pipe (13), in pa Particular on a lever (18) for adjusting the free internal cross-section of the opening tubing (13), and the tabs (9) are placed in the cover (2) so that one of the tabs in the opening ( 22) closed by the lid (2) of the transport container (11) it is at a distance as small as possible from the support place (19), another tongue being provided respectively between four tabs (4) displaced respectively 90 °. 2. Security lock of origin according to claim 1, characterized in that the seal security element (21) has a loop-shaped area and the loop-shaped area is conducted through the passage hole (10) of the tab (9) and is placed around the adjustment arm (18). 3. Security lock of origin according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the cover (2) and / or the seal security element (21) are provided with distinctive marks for identification. 4. Safety lock of origin according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the tabs (9) are placed at the end pointing to the transport container (11) of the side wall (4) of the lid (2) . 5. Security lock of origin according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the tabs (9) are placed on the side wall (4) of the cover (2).