JP2007302260A - Cap for beverage container and beverage container - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cap for a beverage container which easily replaces a water modifying member and whose structure is simple and easily manufactured, and the beverage container with this cap. <P>SOLUTION: The cap for the beverage container for arranging the water modifying member in the beverage container, is characterized in that it is equipped with a lid member and a clip member, wherein the lid member is fitted to the mouth of the beverage container, and the clip member is arranged in the inside of the lid member and the water modifying member is fitted so as to be freely attachable and removable to the clip member. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a cap for a beverage container, and in particular, a cap capable of water reforming of contents by attaching a water reforming member to the cap and capping the mouth of a beverage container body, and a beverage using the cap Related to the container.

In the case of drinking water such as tap water, the so-called khaki smell or lack of mellowness can be used to improve the drinking water by introducing activated carbon or ceramics having a water purification effect into the drinking water. It has been proposed to quality.
In addition, the types of modifiers and modifiers are not limited to water purification, and many proposals have been made for reducing water clusters and imparting negative ions and active hydrogen.

Such a water reforming member (hereinafter, the reforming material, the modifying agent and the like are collectively referred to as a reforming member) has a shape such as a pellet shape, a ball shape, and a stick shape. Since it also needs to be immersed in drinking water, it will be poured into a beverage container such as a plastic bottle.
However, when the reforming member is directly put into the beverage container, it accumulates at the bottom of the container, and the effective surface for reforming the drinking water decreases, or when the drinking water is poured out, it is discharged together from the mouth of the beverage container Is also likely to occur.
In addition, when it is desired to replace the reforming member, it must be taken out from the bottom of the beverage container. However, in the case of a beverage container such as a plastic bottle, the mouth is small and the mouth of the beverage container must be tilted downward. In addition, it is difficult to take out only the reforming member.

  Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 11-77026 discloses an exchangeable cap for an adsorbent filter agent. In addition to a male screw for attaching a cap attached to a beverage container, a cap portion having a female screw fitted to the mouth of a bottle container is provided. Not only is it necessary, but also the means for holding the water purification agent must be connected, the number of parts is large, the structure is complicated, and the manufacturing cost is high.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-77026

  The present invention has been made in view of the above technical problem, and an object thereof is to provide a cap for a beverage container and a beverage container having the cap, in which the water-reforming member is easily exchanged, the structure is simple and easy to manufacture. To do.

  The technical gist of the present invention is a cap for a beverage container for disposing a water reforming member in a beverage container, comprising a lid member and a clip member, and the lid member is attached to the mouth of the beverage container The clip member is disposed inside the lid member, and the water reforming member is detachably attached thereto.

The fact that the clip member is disposed inside the lid member means that the lid member and the clip member may be integrated or a separate member may be joined.
Therefore, a clip member may be retrofitted by welding or bonding to a commercially available lid member attached to a beverage container such as a commercially available plastic bottle, and a lid member with a clip member that matches the mouth size of a commercially available beverage container You may integrally mold using a resin material.
Attaching a lid member to the mouth of a beverage container means attaching it to the mouth portion of the beverage container by screwing, fitting or engaging so as to cover the mouth. Is not limited.

  The clip member can attach the cap to the mouth of the beverage container by inserting the water reforming member into the mouth of the beverage container with one end of the water reforming member engaged with the clip member. ing.

  The technical gist of the invention described in claim 2 is characterized in that the clip member has a holding piece, and the holding piece detachably holds one end of the water reforming member.

The technical gist of the invention described in claim 3 is that the lid member has a top plate portion and a cylindrical portion, the top plate portion closes one end of the cylindrical portion, and the clip member is inside the top plate portion of the lid member. The water reforming member is inserted into and removed from the opening of the cylindrical portion, and is attached to and detached from the holding piece.
Moreover, the drink container using the cap in any one of Claims 1-3 can modify | reform drink water only by accommodating drinking water in this drink container.

In the beverage container cap according to the present invention, one end of the water reforming member is sandwiched between the clip member provided on the lid member, and the cap can be easily applied to drinking water simply by attaching the cap to the mouth of the beverage container. Drinking water can be modified, the structure is very simple, and the manufacturing cost is low.
In addition, the water reforming member can be easily replaced.

Embodiments of a beverage container cap according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
Fig.1 (a) shows the perspective view of the Example of the cap for drink containers (it calls a cap hereafter), FIG.1 (b) shows an exploded view.
FIG. 3 shows a longitudinal sectional end view of the cap 10 holding the water reforming member 50 attached to the mouth portion 41 of the beverage container 40.
The cap 10 includes a lid member 20 and a clip member 30, and the lid member 20 includes a cylindrical tube portion 22 and a top plate portion 21 provided so as to close one end of the tube portion 22. An internal thread portion 22a is formed on the inner peripheral surface.
The lid member 20 can be attached so that the female screw portion 22a is screwed into the male screw portion 42 provided in the mouth portion 41 of a commercially available beverage container 40 such as a plastic bottle, and the mouth 41a of the beverage container 40 is closed.
The clip member 30 has an elastic pinching portion 32 and a clip base 31, and the elastic pinching portion 32 has a substantially cylindrical shape, and the hole portion serves as an insertion concave portion 34, and the flange base 31 is the elastic pinching portion 32. One end is provided with a flange shape.
The clip base 31 has a connection surface 31 a on the side opposite to the connection side with the elastic clamping portion 32.
The insertion recess 34 of the elastic clamping portion 32 is formed so that the opening direction is perpendicular to the connection surface 31 a of the clip base 31.
The elastic clamping part 32 cuts the end on the opposite side to the side where the clip base 31 is connected with a notch 32a in a direction perpendicular to the connecting surface 31a of the clip base 31, and forms a holding piece 33 between the notches 32a. ing.
The sandwiching piece 33 is arranged concentrically around the insertion recess 34, and is provided with a claw 33a projecting toward the insertion recess 34 at the tip so as to be elastically deformable in the radial direction of the insertion recess 34, respectively. It is formed.
The clip member 30 heat-bonds the connecting surface 31a to the inner surface 21a of the top plate portion 21 of the lid member 20 on the cylinder portion 22 side, and the opening direction of the insertion recess 34 is perpendicular to the top plate inner surface 21a. The lid member 20 is connected so as to be substantially parallel to the opening direction of the cylindrical portion 22.
The connection between the connection surface 31a of the clip member 30 and the top plate portion inner surface 21a of the lid member 20 is not limited to fusion. For example, the clip member 30 and the lid member 20 are integrally formed, The member 30 and the lid member 20 may be screwed or fitted.

FIG. 2 shows a procedure for attaching a water reforming member to a cap, attaching it to a mouth of a beverage container such as a commercially available plastic bottle containing water, and immersing the water reforming member in the water in the beverage container for reforming. FIG.
As the water reforming member 50, for example, as shown in FIG. 2A, a water reforming material such as activated carbon formed in a substantially stick shape may be used.
The material of the water reforming member 50 is not limited as long as it is modified by, for example, adsorption, neutralization, mineral elution, removal of chalk, sterilization, etc. by immersing in water. Using, for example, charcoal, ceramics, magnetic materials, tourmaline, barley stones, shells, etc. using artificial or natural modified materials manufactured in a stick form or stored in a stick-shaped case Also good.
Also, the water to be modified is not necessarily limited to drinking water, and may be, for example, cosmetic water or a beverage other than water.
As the water reforming member 50, a member having a substantially stick-shaped one end as the sandwiched portion 51 and the retaining portion 51 having a locking groove 51a may be used.
The water reforming member 50 is inserted into the insertion recess 34 by elastically deforming the sandwiched piece 33 shown in FIG. 1 in the diameter-enlarging direction of the clamped portion 51 at one end, and the claw 33a is engaged with the locking groove 51a by elastic restoring force. By stopping, it can be easily attached to the clip member 30 as shown in FIG.
On the other hand, the water reforming member 50 is detached from the clip member 30 by holding the cylindrical portion 22 of the cap 10 and the side surface portion 52 of the water reforming member 50 so that the sandwiched portion 51 extends from the insertion recess 34 in the opening direction. The claw 33a can be easily detached from the locking groove 51a by pulling and elastically deforming the holding piece 33 shown in FIG.
The structure for holding the water reforming member by the clip member 30 is not limited as long as one end of the substantially stick-shaped water reforming member is inserted into the insertion recess 34 and held by an elastic force.

As shown in FIG. 2 (c), the cap 10 with the water reforming member 50 mounted in the insertion recess 34 is inserted into the mouth 41 a of the mouth portion 41 of the beverage container 40 from the opposite side attached to the cap 10 of the water reforming member 50. Insert.
Then, the female threaded portion 22a of the cap 10 is screwed into the male threaded portion 42 of the mouth portion 41 of the beverage container 40, and the water reforming member 50 is placed in the beverage container 40 as shown in FIG. 1, the mouth 41 of the beverage container 40 is closed and attached.
The beverage container 40 may not be a commercially available beverage container such as a plastic bottle, but may be a dedicated container set with the cap 10.
As shown in FIG. 2 (d), the water 1 immersed in the water reforming member 50 and stored in the beverage container 40 is reformed to a desired state by the water reforming action of the water reforming member 50. .
The cap 10, the beverage container 40 and the water reforming member 50 are washed by removing the cap 10 from the beverage container 40 and removing the water reforming member 50 from the clip member 30 of the cap 10. Since the cap 10 has a very simple structure as shown in FIG. 1, the clip member 30 is very small, and the space between the female screw portion 22a of the cylindrical portion 22 is sufficiently wide, it can be easily performed.
Since the engaging / detaching operation of the water reforming member 50 with respect to the cap 10 can be easily performed, the water reforming member 50 can be easily replaced with a new water reforming member when the water reforming action is reduced by repeated use.
Moreover, the attachment structure to the drink container main body of a cap does not need to be limited to a screw structure, A fitting type may be sufficient.

(A) shows the perspective view of the Example of the cap for drink containers which concerns on this invention, (b) shows an exploded view. The explanatory view of the procedure which modifies water using the cap for drink containers concerning the present invention is shown. The longitudinal cross-section end view of the state which attached the cap which engaged the water reforming member to the drink container is shown.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Water 10 Cap 20 for drink containers Lid member 21 Top plate part 21a Inner side surface 22 Cylinder part 22a Female thread part 30 Clip member 31 Clip base 31a Connection surface 32 Elastic clamping part 32a Notch 33 Nipping piece 33a Claw 34 Insertion recessed part 40 Drinking container 41 Beverage container mouth part 41a Beverage container mouth 42 Male thread part 50 Water reforming member 51 Clamping part 51a Locking groove 52 Side face part

Claims (4)

A cap for a beverage container for placing a water reforming member in the beverage container,
A lid member and a clip member;
The lid member is attached to the mouth of the beverage container,
A cap for a beverage container, wherein the clip member is disposed inside the lid member and the water reforming member is detachably attached thereto.   2. A cap for a beverage container according to claim 1, wherein the clip member has a holding piece, and the holding member detachably holds one end of the water reforming member. The lid member has a top plate portion and a tube portion,
The top plate closes one end of the tube,
The clip member is disposed inside the top plate portion of the lid member, and is configured to insert and remove one end of the water reforming member from the opening of the tube portion and to attach and detach it to the holding piece. 2. Cap for beverage container according to 2.   A beverage container comprising the beverage container cap according to claim 1.

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