FR3050188A3 - DISPENSING DEVICE AND BOTTLE ON WHICH IT ADAPTS - Google Patents

Abstract

The dispensing device according to the invention comprises at least one tubular wall (13) which defines a first mouth (11) and a second mouth (12) of opposite ends, and the size of the first mouth (11) being larger. than that of the second mouth (12), the bottle (20) having a bottle body (21) surmounted by a crown (22) which defines a bottle mouth (23) being provided to be sealed by means of a plug (24) extractable. The second mouthpiece (12) is adapted to be coupled tightly and hermetically to the ring gear (22) by means of a coupling configuration, the bottle (20) and the dispensing device (10) remaining coupled in succession, allowing the passage a liquid contained in the bottle (20) to the dispensing device (10) through the mouth of the bottle (23) and the second mouth (12) which has a larger size than the crown (22) allowing the inserting at least part of this ring (22) into the dispensing device (10) through the second mouth (12), while remaining coupled thereto.

Description

DISPENSING DEVICE ADAPTABLE TO BOTTLE

DESCRIPTION

Field of the art

This invention relates to the field of dispensing devices that can be coupled to a bottle as a funnel or bottomless cup, which allows drinking or serving the contents of this bottle through this dispensing device away from the mouth of the bottle. State of the art

In the state of the art known elements such as funnel can be coupled to the crown of a bottle to drink or distribute its contents.

These known elements comprise a tubular wall which defines a first mouth, wider and intended to drink or serve, and a second mouth, narrower and intended to be coupled to the mouth of the bottle by means of its insertion partly to the inside this mouth of the bottle, producing its hermetic coupling.

The optimum configuration for a funnel for filling the bottle would be the one described above, but in this case the intended use is that of emptying the bottle, so it is more appropriate to insert the crown of the bottle in the dispensing device, instead of doing it upside down, so that there are no possible cracks or joints in the intended direction in which the liquid will flow, which could cause losses of liquid.

Furthermore, in known documents, as the second mouth is narrower than the mouth of the bottle, and therefore narrower than the bottle crown that defines the mouth of the bottle, it proves impossible to couple the device distribution on the body of the bottle in the inverted position, a portion of the bottle remaining inserted in the dispensing device and at the same time this crown and the corresponding cap remaining accessible through the second mouth, because as the second mouth is more small size, the crown and the cap can not pass through it and become accessible.

Brief description of the invention

A dispensing device connectable to a bottle, wherein the dispensing device comprises at least one tubular wall that defines a first mouth and a second mouth of opposite ends, and the size of the first mouth being larger than that the size of the second mouth, and wherein this bottle comprises a bottle body surmounted by a crown which defines a bottle mouth, the mouth of the bottle being designed to be sealed by means of an extractable cap.

Thus, this tubular wall defines an inner hollow accessible from two mouths of opposite ends, one being larger than the other, and therefore this dispensing device having a configuration similar to that of a funnel.

It will be understood that a mouth is a closed profile edge which delimits an exterior of an interior, for example in this case the first and second mouths delimit the outside of the dispensing device from its inside, contained by the tubular wall. This mouth also includes a portion of the tubular wall adjacent to this closed profile edge.

Furthermore, it will be understood that the bottle has an inner chamber delimited by bottle walls, this inner chamber being accessible through this mouth of the bottle. The crown is the part of the wall of the bottle that surrounds this mouth of the bottle, which may not be very long, or may extend to form a bottle neck. Normally this mouth of the bottle, and therefore this crown, will have a circular cross section. The corresponding cap may be of any kind known in the market, for illustrative purposes are indicated cork stoppers inserted into the mouth of the bottle, those folded sheet around the crown, those which are screwed, those of heat-sealed plastic, etc.

As novelty it is proposed that the second mouthpiece is intended to be coupled fit and hermetic to the crown, the bottle and the distributor device remaining coupled in succession, allowing the passage of a liquid contained in the bottle to the dispensing device to through the mouth of the bottle and the second mouth; the second mouth being larger than the crown allowing insertion at least in part of this ring in the dispensing device through the second mouth, while remaining coupled.

Thus, and in accordance with the proposed invention, the second mouthpiece is larger in size than the crown of the bottle, this crown being able to pass through this second mouthpiece, producing at least a part insertion and a hermetic coupling between the mouthpiece. second mouth and the outer perimeter of this crown. This hermetic coupling will occur by means of coupling configurations provided in this second mouthpiece.

According to an alternative implementation, this ring comprises a protruding neck flange, and this tight and hermetic coupling occurs between the second mouth and the neck flange by means of a coupling configuration provided on the inner face of this second. mouth.

It will be understood that a neck flange is an annular portion of the crown which protrudes in a radial direction, producing a widening of this ring.

Preferably this neck flange will be removed from the distal end of the crown closest to the mouth of the bottle, leaving an inter-space.

This coupling can occur by means of the coupling configurations described above which may have, for example, an annular groove, a channel or a slot provided inside the second mouthpiece, complementary to the protruding profile of this flange. neck, or a protuberant ring or step intended to remain pressed against this neck flange.

Furthermore, it is proposed that the ring comprises an outer thread and wherein the plug comprises an inner thread complementary to the outer thread. This external thread may be accompanied by the neck flange described above, and in this case the thread will be less protruding from the crown than the neck flange, this thread being preferably located between the neck flange and the distal end of the neck. the crown closest to the mouth of the bottle.

It will be understood that the second mouth can remain coupled also to the external thread of the ring, instead of being to the neck flange described above, this coupling configuration is therefore a net.

Preferably the stopper will be an independent element of the dispensing device. This allows the opening and closing of the mouth of the bottle are independent of the use or position of the dispensing device.

According to an additional implementation of this invention, the second mouthpiece is also adapted to be coupled to the crown, the bottle remaining at least partially inserted into the dispensing device through the first mouth. Thus, if previously it has been defined that when coupling the dispensing device to the bottle, the two elements remain in succession, now it is proposed that, the two elements being coupled, the body of the bottle remains at least partly inserted into the dispensing device through the first mouth, that is to say that body of the bottle having passed through the first mouth to mate with the second mouth through its crown.

In this configuration, the dispensing device is inverted and coupled around the body of the bottle for its transport and storage, the dispensing device also remaining united to the bottle through the crown and the second mouth.

Furthermore, it is proposed that, the body of the bottle being at least partly inserted into the dispensing device, the ring and the cap remain protruding from the second mouth and accessible from outside the dispensing device. This makes it easy to handle the cap without having to extract the dispensing device from its storage and transport position.

Another optional feature is that, the bottle being at least partly inserted in the dispensing device, a base portion of the bottle opposite the crown remains protruding from the first mouth and accessible from outside the dispensing device. This characteristic requires that the length of the body of the bottle is greater than that of the dispensing device.

In another implementation, the bottle being at least partly inserted into the dispensing device, the tubular wall of the dispensing device remains adjacent and superimposed on the portion of the bottle inserted inside the dispensing device. This means that the geometry of the tubular wall reproduces the geometry of at least a part of the body of the bottle, allowing that, in the storage and transport position, there is no empty space between this tubular wall of the device dispenser and the body of the bottle, or that there is only a weak game.

Preferably the coupling between the dispensing device and the ring occurs by elastic deformation of at least a portion of the second mouth, and preferably the bottle and / or the dispensing device are made of a plastic material.

The geometry of the constituent elements of the invention can be defined by means of some of the following descriptions, or one of their possible combinations: the first mouth is circular or elliptical; • the second mouth is circular; The geometry of the distributor device corresponds to a body of revolution or to a body of revolution truncated by a plane inclined with respect to the axis of revolution, this truncated plane defining the first mouth; • a cross section of the dispensing device made between the first and second mouths is circular; The geometry of at least a majority of the dispensing device corresponds to a frustoconical body or truncated pyramid or truncated bell-shaped or spherical cap having the truncated pole or a truncated paraboloid or a truncated hyperboloid the first and second mouths are parallel.

It will be understood that references to the geometric position, such as parallel, perpendicular, tangent, etc. allow deviations of up to ± 5 ° from the theoretical position defined by this nomenclature. Other features of the invention are apparent in the following detailed description of an exemplary implementation.

Brief description of the figures

The foregoing advantages and features will be better understood from the following detailed description of an exemplary implementation with reference to the accompanying drawings, which should be taken by way of illustrative and non-limiting example, in which: FIG. 1 shows an exploded view in longitudinal section of a portion of a bottle, a dispensing device, and a stopper; FIG. 2 shows the same elements of FIG. 1, the dispensing device being coupled to the bottle in succession; FIG. 3 shows the same elements shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the dispensing device being coupled to the bottle in the storage and transport position, the remaining dispensing device surrounding a portion of the body of the bottle. FIG. 4 shows a schematic drawing of a user using the dispensing device, coupled in succession to a bottle, to drink the contents of this bottle through the first mouth; FIG. 5 shows an alternative implementation of the coupling configuration of the second mouthpiece, the latter being a step intended to remain against the neck flange, pressed by the interference between the edge of the second mouthpiece and the body of the bottle .

Detailed description of an example implementation

Fig. 1 shows an implementation of this invention of non-limiting illustrative nature, in which appears a portion of a bottle 20, provided with a bottle body 21 which defines an inner chamber, and a ring 22 which surrounds a mouth bottle 23 through which the inner chamber of the bottle is accessible. In this implementation, this ring 22 has the shape of a cylindrical pipe and on its outer cylindrical face, a neck flange 25 is superposed in the form of a flat ring which extends in radial direction protruding from this outer face of the crown 22 arranged at a distance from the mouth of the bottle 23, and an external thread 26 intended to be complementary to an internal thread 27 of a plug 24. The union of the plug 24 with the bottle 20 by means of these nets 26 and 27 provides a hermetic seal of the inner chamber of the bottle 20. Furthermore, in this implementation the flange of the neck 25 exceeds both the outer thread 26 that the plug 24 coupled to the outer thread 26, as it can be seen in FIG. 3.

Fig. 1 also shows a dispensing device 10 which, in this implementation, has a bell-shaped cut having a truncated end whose geometry corresponds to a body of revolution.

This dispensing device 10 is formed by a tubular wall 13 which encloses an interior space and whose two ends remain open through a first mouth 11 and a second mouth 12, defined in the end portions of the tubular wall 13, adjacent to the edges. closed profile of this tubular wall 13.

The first mouth 11 is wider than the second mouth 12, and is intended to drink through it, approaching the mouth of the user, or serving a liquid.

On the contrary the second mouth 12 is narrower than the first mouth 11, and it is intended to be coupled fitted to this ring 22 of the bottle 20, providing a hermetic seal, allowing the passage of a fluid from the bottle 20 to the dispensing device 10 through the mouth of the bottle 23 and the second mouth 12.

The second mouth 12 is wider than the ring 22 of the bottle 20, so that this ring 22 can be inserted inside the dispensing device 10 through this second mouth 12, the bottle 20 and the dispensing device 10 remaining connected. in succession, as shown in FIG. 2.

This adjusted coupling is obtained by means of complementary coupling configurations provided in the ring 22 and in the second mouth 12. In this implementation, shown in FIGS. 1, 2 and 3, these coupling configurations comprise an annular groove 15 provided on the inner face of the second mouth 12, and an outer edge protruding from this flange of the neck 25, this annular groove 15 being complementary to this edge of the flange. neck 25 which would remain housed adjusted within this annular groove 15. To produce the coupling and decoupling will require an elastic deformation of the second mouth 12 or the flange of the neck 25.

Alternatively, coupling configurations are considered different to those described above, such as for example the configuration shown in FIG. 5, wherein this coupling configuration comprises a step arranged on the inner face of the second mouthpiece 12, and wherein the edge of the second mouthpiece is at a distance from this step intended to remain in contact with the body of the bottle 21 this step pressing against the flange of the neck 25, producing a seal.

This dispensing device 10 is also intended to be turned upside down and coupled to the body of the bottle 21, by inserting the ring 22 and the upper part of the body of the bottle 21 through the first mouth 11 until this ring 22 passes through. the second mouth 12 and is coupled in the same manner described above, but in the inverted position, by means of this annular groove 15 and the neck flange 25. The result of this reverse coupling of the dispensing device 10 on the body of the bottle 21 is shown in FIG. 3, and corresponds to a transport and storage position of the dispensing device.

In this position, the tubular wall 13 of the dispensing device 10 remains superimposed and adjacent to the body of the bottle 21, parallel thereto, and the ring 22 and the stopper 24 protrude from the dispensing device 10 through the second mouth 12, therefore remaining accessible.

Claims (17)

1. - Dispensing device adaptable to a bottle, wherein the dispensing device (10) comprises at least one tubular wall (13) which defines a first mouth (11) and a second mouth (12) of opposite ends, and the size of the first mouth (11) being larger than that of the second mouth (12); and wherein said bottle (20) comprises a bottle body (21) surmounted by a crown (22) which defines a bottle mouth (23), said mouth of the bottle (23) being intended to be sealed by means of an extractable plug (24); characterized in that the second mouth (12) is adapted to be mated and sealed to the ring gear (22) by means of a coupling configuration, the bottle (20) and the distributor device (10) remaining coupled in succession, allowing passage of a liquid contained in the bottle (20) to the dispensing device (10) through the mouth of the bottle (23) and the second mouth (12), the second mouth (12) having a size larger than the ring gear (22) allowing at least part of this ring (22) to be inserted into the distribution device (10) through the second mouth (12), while remaining coupled thereto. 2. - Device according to claim 1 wherein the ring comprises a flange neck (25) protruding, the second mouth (12) comprises a coupling configuration on the inner face of the second mouth (12) and wherein this coupling adjusted occurs between this coupling configuration and this neck flange (25). 3. - Device according to claim 2 wherein said coupling configuration is an annular groove (15) provided on the inner face of the second mouth (12). 4. - Device according to claim 1,2 or 3 wherein the ring comprises an outer thread (26) and wherein the plug (24) comprises an inner thread (27) complementary to the outer thread (26). 5. - Device according to claim 1, 2, 3 or 4 wherein the plug (24) is independent of the dispensing device (10). 6. - Device according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the second mouth (12) is also adapted to be coupled fitted to the ring (22) the body of the bottle (21) remaining at least partly inserted into the device dispenser (10) through the first mouth (11) for transporting and storing the dispensing device (10) around the body of the bottle (21). 7. - Device according to claim 6 wherein the body of the bottle (21) being at least partly inserted into the dispensing device (10), the ring (22) and the plug (24) remain protruding from the second mouth ( 12) and accessible from outside the dispensing device (10). 8. - Device according to claim 6 or 7 wherein the body of the bottle (21) being at least partly inserted into the dispensing device (10), a base portion of the bottle opposite the ring (22) remains protruding the first mouth (11) and accessible from outside the dispensing device (10). 9. - Device according to claim 6, 7 or 8 wherein the body of the bottle (21) being at least partly inserted into the dispensing device (10), the tubular wall (13) of the dispensing device (10) remains adjacent and superimposed on the portion of the body of the bottle (21) inserted inside the dispensing device (10). 10. - Device according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the coupling between the dispensing device (10) and the ring (22) occurs by elastic deformation of at least a portion of the second mouth (12). 11. - Device according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the bottle (20) and / or the dispensing device (10) are made of a plastic material. 12. - Device according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the first mouth (11) is circular or elliptical. 13. - Device according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the second mouth (12) is circular. 14. - Device according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the geometry of the dispensing device (10) corresponds to a body of revolution or a body of revolution truncated by a plane inclined relative to the axis of revolution, this plane truncated defining, the first mouth (11). 15. - Device according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein a cross section of the dispensing device (10) made between the first and second mouths (11 and 12) is circular. 16. - Device according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the geometry of at least a majority of the dispensing device (10) corresponds to a frustoconical body or truncated pyramid or truncated bell-shaped or spherical cap with the truncated pole or truncated paraboloid or truncated hyperboloid. 17.- Device according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the first and second mouths (11 and 12) are parallel.