JP3142212U - Bottle funnel - Google Patents

Abstract

[PROBLEMS] To facilitate the quick transfer of liquid oil by preventing the oil from being scattered during transfer by facilitating the deaeration of the air in the bottle during transfer, which was a drawback of conventional funnels with screws. Provide a bottle funnel.
A funnel having a wide mouth portion and a narrow mouth portion, which is connectable to a bottle mouth portion of a plastic bottle or the like by a screw, and a funnel in which a screwed cap 2 having a deaeration port 3 is integrated with the funnel. .
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Description

The present invention relates to a bottle funnel for use in transferring a liquid to a bottle such as a PET bottle.

In recent years, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles, that is, PET bottles (hereinafter referred to as bottles) have been widely used as containers for soft drinks and tea. The bottle after using the contents is collected as resource waste, and is also reused as a container for storing new contents.
On the other hand, in general households, oil and the like used for tempura are conventionally solidified and discarded into combustible garbage, but for the purpose of effective utilization, recovery as a resource is being promoted.
Used tempura oil (hereinafter referred to as waste oil) becomes viscous due to the deterioration of the oil or contains solids such as deep-fried rice cake, so the liquid transfer from a wide-mouthed container to a bottle, etc. It's not easy. In order to transfer liquid from a wide-mouthed container containing waste oil to a bottle, it is complicated to have an assistant bring a funnel.
Various ideas have been conceived in order to avoid such complications and facilitate the work. For example, Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2 propose a cap with a joint for connecting a funnel and a bottle or a funnel with a cap. Patent Document 3 proposes to attach a threaded funnel also serving as a measuring instrument to a bottle.
However, when trying to transfer waste oil to a bottle using a conventionally proposed threaded funnel, the waste oil blocks the inlet of the bottle, and the air in the bottle cannot be degassed, so the transfer takes a very long time. Take it. Also, it was found that when the air in the bottle was degassed, troubles such as blowing up the waste oil and splashing it around were generated. Furthermore, after removing the waste oil, when removing the funnel and connection cap, a little waste oil left in these leaks to the outside of the bottle inlet, and the waste oil adheres to the shoulder of the bottle, so-called It was found that troubles such as “oil dripping” caused the shoulders to become dirty.
JP 2008-007200 A JP 2002-012296 A Japanese Patent No. 3494364

  The first of the problems of the present invention is the disadvantage of the conventional threaded funnel, which facilitates the degassing of the air in the bottle during the transfer, thereby preventing the waste oil from scattering during the transfer. The object is to provide a funnel for a bottle that allows transfer. A second object of the present invention is to provide a bottle funnel that prevents the bottle inlet from being soiled after transfer. Furthermore, it is preferable to provide a bottle funnel that can separate solids in waste oil during transfer.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention has found that the above problems can be solved all at once by integrating a threaded cap and a funnel and at the same time providing a degassing port in the threaded cap, and has completed the invention. Is.
That is,
(1) A funnel composed of a wide mouth portion and a narrow mouth portion, which is connectable to a bottle mouth portion of a plastic bottle or the like with a screw, wherein a screwed cap having a deaeration port is integrated with the funnel. Bottle funnel.
(2) The funnel for bottles according to (1), wherein a narrow mouth portion at the tip of the funnel protrudes from the lower surface of the threaded cap.
(3) The bottle funnel according to (1), wherein a threaded cap having a deaeration port and a funnel are integrated in a slidable state.
(4) The bottle funnel according to (1), wherein a filter capable of separating solids is provided in the wide mouth portion at the top of the funnel.

  The present invention makes it easy to degas the air in the bottle during transfer, which is a drawback of conventional threaded funnels, and prevents waste oil from scattering during transfer, enabling quick transfer. Can be provided. In addition, it is possible to provide a funnel that prevents “oil sagging” contamination of the bottle inlet after transfer. Furthermore, preferably, it becomes possible to provide a funnel in which solids in waste oil can be separated during liquid transfer.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
As is well known, the bottle has a small-diameter bottle mouth opening at the top through a main body and a shoulder portion with a gradually decreasing diameter. A male screw is formed on the outer periphery of the bottle mouth. Bottles are sold in a state filled with contents such as soft drinks and tea and covered with a cap having a female screw. The material, diameter, screw pitch, etc. of the male and female threads of the bottle mouth are standardized and compatible with various bottles. Polyethylene is mainly used as the material.

FIG. 1 shows a funnel in which a threaded cap and a funnel are integrated, which is an example of the present invention.
In FIG. 1, the funnel 1 has a wide opening 1a at the top and a narrow opening 1b at the bottom. The threaded cap 2 is attached to the narrow mouth portion 1b of the funnel 1 so as to be integrated with the funnel.
The attachment position of the threaded cap 2 to the narrow part 1b of the funnel 1 is not particularly limited, but for the purpose of suppressing “oil dripping” as described later, the tip of the funnel narrow part 1b is connected to the threaded cap 2. It is preferable to be attached so as to protrude from the lower surface.
The length (L in FIG. 1) of the tip of the funnel narrow port protruding from the lower surface of the threaded cap 2 is usually preferably 0.5 to 10 cm. From the viewpoint of “oil sagging” suppression and ease of use, the length L of the funnel narrow end is more preferably 1 to 5 cm.

  The attachment of the threaded cap 2 to the narrow mouth portion 1b of the funnel 1 may be that the narrow mouth portion 1b of the funnel 1 and the threaded cap 2 are directly bonded, or the threaded cap 2 and the funnel 1 However, they may be integrated in a slidable state (not shown). An advantage when the narrow opening 1b of the funnel 1 and the threaded cap 2 are integrated in a slidable state is that it is not necessary to rotate the funnel itself when it is attached to the bottle.

In the present invention, it is important that the threaded cap 2 has the deaeration port 3.
By having the degassing port 3 in the cap 2 with a screw, scattering of waste oil is prevented at the time of liquid transfer, and quick liquid transfer becomes possible.
The number and shape of the deaeration ports 3 are not particularly limited, but it is usually preferably 1 to 4 in view of ease of processing into the threaded cap 2. The shape is not particularly limited, such as a circle, a triangle, or a quadrangle, but a circle is preferable in terms of ease of processing.
FIG. 2 shows an example in which one deaeration port 3 is provided, and FIG. 3 shows an example in which two deaeration ports 3 are provided.
Although the opening area of the deaeration port 3 is not particularly limited as long as the air in the bottle can be deaerated, it is preferably 0.03 to 0.5 cm ² for the purpose of achieving a quick liquid transfer. .

In the present invention, as shown in FIG. 4, it is preferable that a filter 4 capable of separating solids such as fried rice cake is provided in the wide mouth portion 1 a at the top of the funnel. The attachment of the solid matter separation filter 4 may be fixed to the wide mouth portion 1a at the top of the funnel, or may be removable.
For the purpose of enabling the solid matter separation filter 4 to be washed or exchanged, it is preferably removable.

The material of the funnel 1 and the threaded cap 2 used in the present invention is not particularly limited, but is preferably a synthetic resin such as polyethylene resin, polypropylene resin, silicon resin, and Teflon resin. In addition, it may be metallic such as aluminum or stainless steel. The material of the funnel 1 and the threaded cap 2 need not be the same, but polyethylene resin is generally adopted as the material of the threaded cap, so that the funnel material is also made of polyethylene. From the point of view, it is preferable. However, a polypropylene resin having a high softening temperature or another material may be employed in consideration of the case where the waste oil is transferred at a high temperature of about 100 ° C.

Hereinafter, although an example explains the present invention, the present invention is not limited to this example.
A commercially available plastic bottle cap was bonded to a commercially available polyethylene funnel to produce a funnel in which the threaded cap shown in FIG. 1 was integrated. The diameter of the upper part of the wide mouth part of the funnel was 11 cm, the diameter of the narrow mouth part was 1 cm, the length of the narrow mouth part was 5 cm, and the length L of the narrow mouth part protruding from the lower part of the threaded cap was 1.5 cm.
One circular deaeration port having a diameter of 0.2 cm was drilled in the threaded cap.
This threaded cap-integrated funnel was fixed to an empty 2 liter pet mouth, and the time for injecting 1 liter of tempura oil (corn oil manufactured by Nisshin Oillio Group Co., Ltd.) from a wide-mouth frying pan container was measured. When the screw cap integrated funnel of the present invention was used, the time required to transfer 1 liter of oil was about 20 seconds.
For comparison, when a similar operation was performed using a screw-cap integrated funnel without a deaeration port, tempura oil was scattered when the air in the bottle escaped, and the time required for injection was about 120. Second.
As is apparent from this example, the time required for the injection is about one-sixth according to the present invention, and the scattering of oil to the periphery is also eliminated. In addition, “oil sag” around the PET bottle did not occur at all.

The present invention is effective for transferring waste oil from a wide-mouthed container to a bottle for the purpose of reusing waste oil or the like, but the purpose of use is not limited thereto. For example, when transferring liquor or sake-like sweet sake as well as water, the transfer can be easily and quickly achieved, and is extremely effective.

It is a conceptual diagram which shows the cross section of the funnel which integrated the threaded cap of this invention. FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram showing a case where a single deaeration port is circular in the A-A ′ plane of FIG. 1. FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram showing a case where there are two circular deaeration ports on the A-A ′ plane of FIG. 1. It is a conceptual diagram at the time of attaching a solid substance separation filter to the wide mouth part of the funnel.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1; Funnel 1a; Funnel's wide-mouthed part 1b; Funnel's narrow-mouthed part 2; Screw cap 3; Deaeration port 4;

Claims (4)

A funnel consisting of a wide mouth part and a narrow mouth part, which can be connected to a bottle mouth part of a plastic bottle or the like with a screw, wherein a screwed cap having a deaeration mouth is integrated with the funnel. funnel. The bottle funnel according to claim 1, wherein a narrow mouth portion at a tip of the funnel protrudes from a lower surface of the threaded cap. 2. The bottle funnel according to claim 1, wherein a threaded cap having a deaeration port and a funnel are slidably integrated with each other. The bottle funnel according to claim 1, further comprising a filter capable of separating solids at a wide mouth portion at an upper portion of the funnel.

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