FR2780386A1 - Bottle stopper designed to prevent excessive release of gas with drink - Google Patents

Abstract

The stopper, for use especially with a bottle kept in a horizontal position, has a flexible tube (1) passing through it that can be closed by a pinching wheel (2) moved along a guide (3) or by a button connected to a screw knob. When the wheel or button is released the required quantity of liquid can be drawn from the bottle without losing an excessive amount of gas.

Description

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DESCRIPTION

  Technical Field: The present invention relates to a device, a simple design utensil which has the utility, for the function of preserving all the intestinal gases of a bottle of carbonated drink during the opening of the container in order to extract part or all the gaseous liquid content while preserving all the qualities of the remaining content: sparkling and fragrances, as in the first

  day of purchase on an indefinite period or defined by the expiration date of the soft drink.

  In summary: hermetic device preventing excessive depressurization of a bottle of carbonated drink

  during the sequential or total discharge of the liquid food content.

State of the prior art.

  Until now, any bottle of sugary or unsweetened soft drink: cola soda, natural soda,

  sparkling water, champagne or other sparkling wine, is equipped with a traditional cork.

  Each time a bottle is opened, a significant part of the properties of the drink evaporates in the ambient air, depleting it of its fragrances, its balanced taste qualities, its gaseous pressure and thus a crucial to its notoriety, its main gas, co2. Whenever you want to pour the sparkling, carbonated drink, the high internal pressure confining the

  content is reduced to atmospheric pressure outside the bottle.

  The co2 and the perfumes are lost, ad eternamin, expelled outside by the physical law of pressure rebalancing to the so-called normal pressure of the place. so the soft drink becomes flat

  in a few moments, excessively sweet. It is distorted. An imbalance sets in.

  None of the plugs, no process to date, allow the total consumption of the

  carbonated drink without loss of its sparkling, co2 + perfume.

  My invention makes it possible to obtain and consume this gaseous liquid food content in its entirety while retaining this internal pressure which confines the liquid food content.

  gas and its properties that make it famous. Of a very simple design, this invention can-

  be made at a lower cost and equip any bottle or container of sugary soft drink or

unsweetened.

  -2- Presentation on the ingenuity of the device This utensil is made up of two essential parts. One being an operable hermetic closure system, the other being a small curved tube which passes through the closure system and

  plunges into the upper concave part of a bottle of soft drink.

  Here is the description of my invention supported by drawings, not limiting, numbered for those

  presented. Figure 1, cross-sectional view, illustrates a representation of my invention. A curved tube, of thickness * e *, (1) plunges into the inner and upper concave part (A) or nearby depending on the bottle and crosses the upper part of my invention consisting of a sheave (2) of which the race is directed both by the guide (3) of the axis of the sheave present on either side of the sheave and laterally by the housing (4) where is nested the tube which opens to the outside (5 ). My cap device is applied to the neck (6) of the body of the bottle (7) by a traditional tightening which thus provides at this level, the first seal (B). The second seal (C) is made thanks to the existing thermofusion (monoblock) between the tube and the body of the stopper made of the same material e.g. polypropylene.The third seal is ensured by the pressure contact between the sheave (2) and the tube (1). By activating the sheave towards the body of the bottle, it pinches the tube (I) while not allowing any circulation of fluid. This sheave then remains

  blocked until a next manipulation (figure 2).

  Before opening the bottle, it must be laid down so that the end of the tube (1) is always submerged (N = level of the drink). To establish the flow regime of the gaseous liquid fluid. it suffices to apply a rotational movement, in the direction of the top of the neck, to the sheave which is released from its blocking with the crushed flexible tube (1) which then resumes its initial shape,

  original, activated by the pressure and volume of the gaseous liquid fluid (Figure 1).

  Figure 3, in cross section, illustrates another sealing system still coupled to the curved tube (1) one end of which is flush with the concave part (A) inside and top of the bottle. A small threaded stud (8) has at its end a stop and opening roller (9) which comes into contact with the flexible tube (1). The rotary manipulation of the stud allows the roller to pinch the tube (1) which prevents any flow of the gaseous liquid (Figure 4) or to free the circulation of the gaseous liquid (Figure 3) according to the conventional direction of rotation. The end of the tube (1) always submerged at level A (bottle lying). The thread will be wide enough to offer opening or closing by pinching, in a quarter turn (for reasons of convenience). The bottle is always lying down to keep the end of the tube (1) submerged and

  facilitates the transfer of the drink.

  Figure 5 Model H presents a new example, with a reminder: non-limiting series of examples. The

  tube (1) plunges into the bottom of the bottle flush with the bottom of the bottle (D).

  The opening and closing are carried out on the same principle (sheave and pinching) described above. Figure 5 model H ', the tube emerges from the top of the stopper for convenience, consumption or manufacture. These 2 models are to be used in vertical position with small

  bottles or containers of less than 45cl for consumption by mouth contact in H or H '.

Claims (1)

  1) Device for avoiding excessive degassing of a bottle of carbonated drink during its openings, bottle lying therefore, characterized in that it comprises a main body (M) crossed by a flexible tube (1) curved, borrowed by the carbonated drink (P), a movable sheave (2) whose axis is housed in a guide (3) ensuring or not pinching the flexible tube (1) when the sheave is actuated by the user2) Device according to claim 1 characterized in that the main body (M) made of the traditional material of the plugs (polypropylene, etc.) comprises a guide (3) which receives the axis of a sheave (2) and a thread (6) suitable for each neck3) Device according to claim I or 2 characterized in that a curved flexible tube (1) passes through the main body (M) from top to bottom. The curved low end located at the level of the part   upper and inner part of the concave part of the bottle (A). 4) Device according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the displacement of the sheave (2) in the direction of the bottle (7) pinches the flexible tube ( 1) who becomes   hermetic and immobilizes the sheave in this position. 5) Device according to claim 4 characterized in that the displacement of the sheave (2) in the direction of the upper part of the main body (M) releases the flexible tube (1) from the hermetic pressure previously exercised.