JP2014008982A - Discharger mounting/de-mounting tool - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To propose a discharger mounting/de-mounting tool capable of reducing costs without deteriorating operations to mount/demount the discharger.SOLUTION: A discharger mounting/de-mounting tool for mounting/de-mounting a discharger 3 by turning the same together with a cap 3a such that the discharger 3 is screwed on a container 2 by fitting a fitting recess 14 mounted in a cap 3a having a fitting protrusion 3e on an outer circumference thereof and by turning the same together with the cap 3a. The discharger mounting/de-mounting tool is characterized: in that the fitting recess 14 is formed in an inner circumference of a side wall 10 having a side opening 11 acting as a mounting port for the cap 3a and extending along the outer circumference of the cap 3a; and in that the side wall 10 includes: a thinned portion 15 reducing thickness of the side wall 10 or extending through the side wall 10.

Description

  The present invention relates to an attachment / detachment tool for a discharger that is used when a discharger that discharges contents such as shampoo, rinse, and hairdressing material is attached to and detached from a container.

  As a discharge device that is mounted on a container for storing contents such as shampoo, rinse, hairdressing, etc. and discharges these contents, for example, a pump mechanism is provided and the pump mechanism is fixed by screwing the mouth of the container. Some are provided with a cap, and the cap is rotated to remove the dispenser from the container so that the contents can be refilled.

  Since such a dispenser can be easily removed, it is assumed that mischief such as the contents being replaced or extracted when placed in a store display or a facility such as a hotel, The present applicant has already proposed a liquid ejector in which a ratchet mechanism is provided at a screwed portion with respect to a container as a countermeasure for preventing such unauthorized use (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

JP 2004-344822 A

  By the way, there is a demand for low-priced products in the market, and this is the same in the field of dispensers equipped with such an unauthorized use prevention function. The price is further reduced without impairing the operation of attaching and detaching the dispenser. There is a strong demand for new products.

  An object of the present invention is to solve such problems, and an object of the present invention relates to a dispenser having an unauthorized use prevention function, and in particular, to an attachment / detachment tool for a dispenser used when attaching / detaching the dispenser. Attention is focused on the proposal of an improved attachment / detachment tool for a discharger that can reduce the cost without impairing the operation of attaching / detaching the discharger.

According to the present invention, a discharger is screwed onto a container and attached to a cap having a fitting convex portion on an outer peripheral surface thereof, and a fitting concave portion that fits the fitting convex portion is fitted and rotated together with the cap. A tool for attaching and detaching a discharger,
The fitting recess is provided on the inner peripheral surface of the side wall along the outer peripheral surface of the cap while having a side opening serving as an attachment port to the cap,
The dispenser attachment / detachment tool is characterized in that the side wall is provided with a thinning portion that reduces the thickness of the side wall or penetrates the side wall.

  The side wall includes a pair of side wall tip portions forming the side opening therebetween and a side wall main body portion connecting the side wall tip portions, and at least the side wall tip portion has a reinforcing rib projecting outward. It is preferable to provide.

  It is preferable that the reinforcing rib has a protruding amount that gradually decreases from the side wall tip toward the back side of the side wall main body.

  Preferably, the reinforcing rib is provided at the same height as the fitting recess.

  It is preferable to provide at least one vertical rib on the outer peripheral surface of the side wall tip.

  The material cost can be reduced by reducing the amount of material forming the tool, for example, a synthetic resin material, by reducing the thickness of the side wall or providing a lightening portion that penetrates the side wall of the attachment / detachment tool for the dispenser. Can be suppressed.

  The side wall is composed of a pair of side wall tip portions that form a side opening between the side walls and a side wall body portion that connects the side wall tip portions, and at least the side wall tip portions are provided with reinforcing ribs that project outward. In this case, the strength of the side wall tip can be increased by the reinforcing rib against the side wall tip that is relatively low in strength because the side opening is provided. Even if it is given, deformation or the like is unlikely to occur.

  When the reinforcing rib has a protruding amount that gradually decreases from the side wall tip toward the back side of the side wall body, the back surface of the side wall body having a relatively high strength from the side wall tip having a relatively low strength. Since the strength can be increased so that the strength of the entire tool is uniform toward the side, waste of material usage can be eliminated while effectively eliminating the possibility of deformation during attachment and detachment.

  When the reinforcing ribs are provided at the same height as the fitting recesses, the fitting recesses and the reinforcing ribs can be regarded as being integrally connected to form a wider reinforcing rib. Compared with the case where it is shifted and provided, the strength can be further increased while the amount of the material used is the same.

  In the case where at least one vertical rib is provided on the outer peripheral surface of the side wall tip, when the tool is rotated together with the cap, the vertical rib functions as a mark indicating a part where the finger is hung and functions as a slip stopper, Moreover, it functions also as reinforcement of the side wall front-end | tip part. In addition, since the side wall is sandwiched from both sides by hooking a finger to the side wall tip provided with the vertical rib, the ejector attaching / detaching tool can be firmly tightened to the cap, and the rotation operation when attaching / detaching the cap can be performed. It can be done reliably.

Embodiment of the attachment / detachment tool for dispensers according to this invention is shown, (a) is a top view, (b) is a side view, (c) is sectional drawing in side view. It is a figure which shows the container with a dispenser in which the attachment / detachment tool for dispensers according to this invention is used by a side view and sectional drawing on the boundary of an axis. It is the side view and sectional drawing which show the state which attached the discharger attachment / detachment tool shown in FIG. 1 to the container with a discharger of FIG. The other embodiment of the dispenser attachment / detachment tool according to this invention is shown, (a) is a top view, (b) is a side view, (c) is sectional drawing in side view.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described more specifically with reference to the drawings.
1A and 1B show an embodiment of a detachable tool for a dispenser according to the present invention. FIG. 1A is a plan view, FIG. 1B is a side view, and FIG. 1C is a cross-sectional view in side view.
In addition, in this specification, the front end side of the attachment / detachment tool for the dispenser is a side where the side opening 11 in FIG. 1A is provided, and the back side is a side facing the side opening 11.

  1A to 1C, reference numeral 1A represents an embodiment of a detachable tool for a dispenser (hereinafter referred to as “tool”) according to the present invention. In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 1A, the tool 1A includes a side wall 10 that is provided along an outer peripheral surface of a cap of a later-described discharger and has an inverted C shape in plan view.

  The side opening 11 of the side wall 10 having an inverted C shape functions as an attachment port when attaching the tool 1A to the cap. Further, the side wall 10 includes a pair of side wall front end portions 12 that form a side opening 11 therebetween, and a side wall main body portion 13 that connects the side wall front end portions 12 to each other and has a semicircular shape in a plan view. Become. In the present embodiment, the side wall tip 12 has a bent portion 12a that extends from the semicircular side wall main body 13 and bends inward so as to narrow the opening width of the side opening 11, and this An inclined portion 12b extending so as to widen the opening width of the side opening 11 from the bent portion 12a is provided, thereby making it easy to attach the tool 1A to the cap, and once the tool 1A is attached, the tool 1A is It becomes difficult to come off.

  Reference numeral 14 in FIGS. 1A and 1C denotes a fitting recess. In the present embodiment, the fitting recess 14 protrudes inward from the lower end of the inner peripheral surface of the side wall 10 and has a plate shape, and the protruding tip portion (the inner edge of the fitting recess 14) is a flat surface. It has a shape that forms part of a regular octagon. Further, the side opening 11 side of the fitting recess 14 is formed with an inclined portion 14a extending so as to widen the opening width of the side opening 11 in the same manner as the inclined portion 12b described above. The fitting recess 14 is only required to be fitted to a fitting projection of the cap, which will be described later, and to rotate the cap in accordance with the rotation of the tool 1A. In addition to the shape based on the regular octagon described above Further, it can be a shape based on other polygons such as a triangle and a quadrangle.

  Here, the side wall 10 is provided with a thinned portion 15 that reduces the thickness of the side wall 10 or penetrates the side wall 10. In the present embodiment, as shown in FIGS. 1A to 1C, the thinned portion 15 has a notch shape in which most of the side wall body portion 13 is removed in the circumferential direction. The amount of material used to form 1A can be greatly reduced. Although not shown in the drawings, the thinned portion 15 may have a concave shape in which a part of the side wall 10 is recessed, and this concave shape may be on either the inner peripheral surface side or the outer peripheral surface side of the side wall 10. May be provided.

  Reference numeral 16 in FIGS. 1A and 1B denotes a reinforcing rib. In the present embodiment, the reinforcing rib 16 has a plate-like shape that protrudes outward from the lower end of the outer peripheral surface of the side wall 10, and the protruding tip portion (the outer edge of the reinforcing rib 16) is shown in FIG. In plan view, the portion of the side wall 10 corresponding to the side wall tip portion 12 is linear, and from there, the amount of overhang is gradually reduced toward the back side of the side wall body portion 13 to form a semicircular shape. It has become. Note that the volume of the reinforcing rib 16 is preferably smaller than the volume removed as the thinned portion 15 from the viewpoint of reducing the material used as the entire tool 1A.

  In the present embodiment, the fitting recess 14 and the reinforcing rib 16 are both provided at the same height in accordance with the lower edge of the side wall 10. Accordingly, it can be considered that a wider reinforcing rib having a width from the inner edge of the fitting recess 14 to the outer edge of the reinforcing rib 16 is formed.

  Further, in this embodiment, at least one vertical rib 17 (six on one side in the illustrated example) is provided on the outer peripheral surface of the side wall tip 12 as shown in FIGS. 1 (a) and 1 (b). Yes. Thereby, when rotating this tool with a cap, this vertical rib 17 can be functioned as a mark which shows the site | part which applies a finger | toe, and can also be functioned as a slipper. Furthermore, since the side wall tip portion 12 can be made difficult to bend by the amount of the vertical rib 17 provided, it can also function as reinforcement of the side wall tip portion 12.

  Next, a dispenser to which the tool 1A of the present embodiment is attached and a container to which this dispenser is attached will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG. 2, the code | symbol 2 is a container which accommodates the contents. The container 2 includes a screw portion 2b in the mouth portion 2a connected to the content storage space M. Moreover, the code | symbol 3 is a discharge device provided with a pump mechanism. The ejector 3 engages the screw portion 3b of the cap 3a with the screw portion 2b and is held by the mouth portion 2a. By repeatedly pressing the pressing head 3c, the liquid in the housing space M of the container 2 is sucked and added. The pressure can be discharged from the nozzle 3d.

  Further, a fitting projection 3e (not shown, but a regular octagon in plan view) corresponding to the fitting recess 14 of the tool 1A is provided at the lower end of the cap 3a. Further, an outer cap 3f that surrounds the cap 3a and covers the fitting convex portion 3e is provided on the outer side of the cap 3a. In the example shown in FIG. 2, the outer cap 3f is integrally connected to a ring member 3g provided at the upper part of the cap 3a via a hinge 3h, and is retained by a holding member 3j provided at the upper part of the ring member 3g. ing. As a result, the outer cap 3f is rotatably held with respect to the cap 3a, and the fitting projection 3e is covered and concealed in a state before the hinge 3h is reversed, so that unauthorized removal of the discharger 3 is prevented. Is done. On the other hand, the outer cap 3f can invert the hinge 3h to expose the fitting convex part 3e, and the cap 3a can be rotated by fitting the fitting concave part 14 of the tool 1A here. .

  FIG. 3 shows a state in which the tool 1A of this embodiment is attached to the container with a dispenser shown in FIG. The tool 1A is inserted from the side of the cap 3a in a state where the hinge 3h of the outer cap 3f is inverted, and the fitting concave portion 14 is fitted into the fitting convex portion 3e. And the cap 3a can also be rotated and the discharger 3 can be removed from the container 2 by rotating the tool 1A while sandwiching the side wall tip 12 provided with the vertical ribs 17 from both sides. In order to attach the discharger 3 to the container 2, the reverse procedure may be performed.

  Fig.4 (a)-(c) shows other embodiment of the attachment / detachment tool for dispensers according to this invention. The tool 1B is obtained by omitting the reinforcing rib 16 from the tool 1A and lengthening the vertical rib 17, and the other parts are the same as the tool 1A. When it is not necessary to increase the strength as much as the tool 1A, the amount of material used can be further reduced by omitting the reinforcing rib 16 like the tool 1B.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, when attaching / detaching a dispenser provided with the function which prevents unauthorized removal, the attachment / detachment tool for dispensers which can reduce cost more without impairing the operation which attaches / detaches a dispenser can be provided.

1A, 1B Tool (Dismounting tool for dispenser)
2 Container 3 Discharger 3a Cap 3e Fitting convex part 10 Side wall 11 Side part opening 12 Side wall tip part 13 Side wall main part 14 Fitting concave part 15 Meat removal part 16 Reinforcement rib 17 Vertical rib

Claims (5)

The dispenser is screwed onto the container and attached to a cap having a fitting convex portion on the outer peripheral surface thereof, and a fitting concave portion that fits the fitting convex portion is fitted and rotated together with the cap to attach and detach the discharger. A detachable tool for the dispenser,
The fitting recess is provided on the inner peripheral surface of the side wall along the outer peripheral surface of the cap while having a side opening serving as an attachment port to the cap,
A detachable tool for a dispenser, wherein the side wall is provided with a thinning portion that reduces the thickness of the side wall or penetrates the side wall.   The side wall includes a pair of side wall tip portions forming the side opening therebetween and a side wall main body portion connecting the side wall tip portions, and at least the side wall tip portion has a reinforcing rib projecting outward. The ejector attachment / detachment tool according to claim 1, comprising:   The detachable tool for a dispenser according to claim 2, wherein the reinforcing rib has a protruding amount that gradually decreases from the front end portion of the side wall toward the back side of the side wall main body.   The detachable tool for a dispenser according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the reinforcing rib is provided at the same height as the fitting recess.   The dispenser attachment / detachment tool according to any one of claims 2 to 4, wherein at least one vertical rib is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the side wall tip portion.

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