ES2303581T3 - CAPERUZA DEPOSITO SUCH AS AN AEROSOL PUMP. - Google Patents

Abstract

The cap (1) for an aerosol can has a suspension eye (2) extending vertically from its top but hinged (3) to allow it to fold flat against the top. The suspension eye is a flat loop which is formed in one piece with the cap and the hinge is formed by a thinned section between them.

Description

Tank cap such as a pump aerosol.

Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a hood tank such as an aerosol pump intended to be presented in an upright position according to the preamble of the first claim.

The containers of liquid products to be sprayed in the form of an aerosol pump they are used for multiple applications and in particular for the applications of life everyday

These spray pumps are sold, in general, by units Now these products are currently presented in cardboard boxes, upright or on shelves. But how The trend of sales techniques is to suppress each time plus the shelf display in favor of a suspended exhibition of rails or hooks, it would be desirable to be able to standardize this type of presentation for the largest number of products.

In the case of products packaged in containers of very particular way that do not allow the reception of a hook, the products are packaged in a plastic wrap (blister) provided of a hook or of a cut that allows the presentation of a exhibitor rod.

Such an exhibition is interesting in the case of products of relatively small dimension since it allows the Once the product is revalued by including a cardboard of presentation that bears the mark and explanations of use of product, etc ... without perceiving the increase in volume as a inconvenient. On the contrary, this increase in dimensions of the container by the blister is perceived as revaluation of the product.

But such exposure although also possible for Aerosol pumps are not interesting since it increases product dimensions, itself of dimensions already relatively big.

This increase in dimensions is not a annoyance only within the framework of the exhibition for sale but about Everything for the packaging of products for transport. In effect, currently such aerosol pumps are placed so juxtaposed in cardboard boxes to reduce the volume to be transported at a minimum This would not be the case if the bombs were placed in a plastic wrap, such as a blister. The advantage of the possibility of marketing the product in a hooked position would compensate for the extra cost associated with the increase in volume transport.

There is already according to US 4 714 671, a tank cap such as an aerosol pump, intended for stand upright suspended. The hood according to this document comprises a retractable hitch organ, made in the material of the hood. This collapsible organ is shaped like a flat loop with a hook hole. This hitch organ is performed in one piece with the hood material.

But this hooking body is done in the same thickness of the top of the hood so that when the hitch member leaves an opening 26 in the part top of the hood, be in a stowed position, that is, down in the thickness of the lid or lifted and hooked.

Now this important opening at the level of The spray pump valve is very easily accessible from the outside. This allows malicious people to squeeze on the valve of the aerosol pump that can thus be empty more or less importantly.

This situation is harmful to the customer I bought this pump without realizing its status. In the case of an aerosol pump containing state distributed products liquid or fog, for example paints, the liquid distributed by the valve thus actuated in a malicious way, runs the risk of degrading nearby or found products below the pump so hooked.

Now, they are precisely such bombs of spray those that run the risk of being subject to actions malicious and cause significant degradation to others exposed products.

This state of the art is more recent taken into account in the preamble of the first claim.

Object and advantages of the invention

The present invention aims at develop an aerosol pump hood that allows your exhibition in a hooked position in places of sale, without creating a supplementary volume, allowing the use of all Current packaging means of spray pumps and protection of the valve when the product is at the place of sale, to the Once it offers great accessibility to the product that remains hooked on its display.

To this end, the invention relates to a tank cap especially of type spray pump defined above, characterized by the characteristics of the claim 1.

The hood according to the invention has the same volume than that of a known hood, without a hitch. Do not therefore increases the overall size and volume of the spray pump

In placement position (storage and transport) the over-thickness created by the organ of retractable hitch down on the lid is negligible with respect of the usual dimensional tolerances available for the packaging of such products. It will not take any transformation of the packaging means. As the hood has the same height, the gripping means for placement within the Cardboard box and other operations are strictly the same as those used for pumps equipped with a hood classic

In a place of sale, the placement of the pump Aerosol equipped with such a hood is extremely simple. Simply remove the hitch organ and suspend the product of the exhibitor's rod. The product remains then perfectly accessible to the consumer who can take it by hand to examine it, read the instructions, etc ... without having to Remove it from the exhibitor.

According to another advantageous feature, the organ of hitch has the form of flat loop provided with a hole of Hitch made in one piece in the hood material being connected to it by a hinge formed by a material thickness reduction.

According to another feature, the hitching organ It is shaped like a flat hook made in one piece in the hood material being connected to it by a hinge formed by a reduction in material thickness.

This embodiment of the coupling device is particularly advantageous since the hood is made, for example  by injection of plastic material in one piece with a mold very easy.

The coupling devices according to the invention They can be open or closed hooks.

It is also possible to provide various organs of hitch of this type to be made in the folding lid for facilitate hooking to different types of rods or rails exhibitor.

Drawings

The present invention will be described in continued in more detail with the help of the drawings attachments in which:

- Figures 1-1 a 1-5 are respective side and top views of a first embodiment of a hood according to the invention with a loop-shaped hitching organ,

- Figures 2-1 a 2-5 are various side and top views of another embodiment of a hood according to the invention with an organ of open hitch.

Description of various embodiments of the invention

According to figures 1-1 ... 1-5, a first embodiment of a hood of reservoir such as an aerosol pump comprises a body 1 that form the hood itself, with inner nerves 10 and peripheral clipping projections 11 that go behind the flange of rounded, usual setting of the top of the tank no represented in the drawings.

The upper part 12 of the body 1 comprises a loop-shaped hook-up organ 2 in the form of a loop hole 21 of triangular shape, with inclined sides 22, 23 which is end at a vertex 24 of obtuse angle that corresponds to the preferred hitch position on the display rod represented by the circle TP.

The coupling body is integrated into the part top 12 of the hood, connected by a hinge 3 made in the material, the coupling organ 2 and the body 1 being a single piece The hinge 3 is formed by a reduction in thickness of the material (see figure 1-2).

The loop-shaped hook-up organ 2 is a flat piece Its outer contour 25 is globally trapezoidal and occupies the largest extension compatible with contour 13 (figure 1-5) of body 1, to register inside of this contour without getting out so that the dimensions of the hole 21 be as big as possible while having a loop solid.

The coupling member preferably occupies a diametral position with respect to the upper part 12 of the body 1 of the cap so that the suspended product is in the position of Balance.

The upper part 12 of the hood comprises also a small protrusion 14, from the side to which it falls the hitch member 2 in the retracted position, to facilitate then the hitch to lift the hitch organ of your stowed position towards its hitch position, if the elasticity natural hinge 3 not enough to lift the organ of hitch.

Figure 1-2 which is a view side shows the cap of the hood installed on a rod of the exhibitor TP.

Figure 1-3 is a view lateral, in section showing the retracted position of the organ of hitch 2, folded against the upper part 12 of the body 1 of the cap around hinge 3. This figure shows that the excess thickness created above body 1 of the hood by the 2-down hitch organ is extremely small even negligible.

Figure 1-4 is a view. upper corresponding to Figure 1-1, which shows the diametral arrangement of the coupling and, above all, organ of its hinge 3 connected or part of the upper part 12 of body 1.

Figure 1-5 shows the depressed position of the hitch 2 against the upper part 12 of the hood body 1 (corresponding to the view in side section of figure 1-3).

Figures 2-1 a 2-5 show another embodiment of an organ in shape hook or open loop.

The different elements of this hood that correspond to the elements already described and represented in the Figures 1-1 ... 1-5 carry the same references completed with the suffix B.

The body 1C of the hood itself It also includes the organs 10C, 11C and the upper part 12C It carries the hook-up organ 2C in the form of an open hook or loop. The general shape of this hook is here close to that of loop 2 (Figure 1). The opening 21C of the organ 2C is triangular in shape. bordered by sloping sides 22C, 23C that meet at the vertex 24C to constitute the preferred hitch position, centered on the TP rod of the exhibitor.

The hook comprises an opening 26C relatively small, to be forced to deform the branch upper 27 of the organ hook 2C with respect to the base 28C connected by hinge 3C to the top 12C.

At the level of the opening 26C, the base 28C It comprises a 29C projection.

This embodiment provides a hook resistant to hold the load represented by the pump aerosol; prevents the hook and the product to which it belongs, run the risk of separating too easily from the TP rod when the hooked products of the TP rod are moved by a customer looking to read the label or examine the product exposed.

This 3C hitch body is lowered over the upper part 12C of body 1C as shown in the figure 2-3.

As in the other embodiments, the organ of 2C hitch is connected to the top 12C by hinge 3C in diametral position The 2C hitch organ is inscribed in the 13C contour of body 1C so as not to leave or create a volume supplementary.

The hooking organ under its different depicted, described and considerable embodiments may not only serve for the exhibition of a product such as a Aerosol pump in position attached to a rod or projection of display in a sales area, but also serve for the placing the product in a hooked position, taking into account that the object is bulky in relation to its height and that its vertical position is not always very stable especially when the Deposit is already very depleted.

Finally as the hood is performed in plastic material, if the folding hook bothers the user, it You can easily cut the hook at the hinge level.

Claims (5)

1. Tank cap such as pump spray intended to be exposed in an upright position, which understands a folding organ in the form of flat loop provided with a hook hole made in a single piece with the hood material, characterized because

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he hooking member (2) is connected to the upper part (12) of the cap by a hinge (3) to be able to flatten down on the top of the hood or stand up hitch and

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the hinge (3) is in diametral position with respect to the hood.

2. Tank cap according to claim one, characterized because the opening (21C) of the coupling element (2C) It has a triangular shape bordered by sloping sides (22C, 23C) that join at the vertex (24C) to constitute a position Preferred hitch centered on the exhibitor rod. 3. Tank cap according to claim one, characterized because the hitching organ (2C) has a form of hook with a relatively small opening (26C) comprising a protrusion (29C) at its base (28C). 4. Tank cap according to claim one, characterized because the upper part (12) of the body (1) of the hood comprises a shoulder (14) on the side to which it is lowered the coupling member (2) in the stowed position. 5. Tank cap according to claim one, characterized because the hitch member comprises a small tip made in the dough and that, when the hitch organ is Abate, is introduced in a small hole of the hood so that the hitch organ stay flat on top of the hood by pinched.