TW201332847A - Bottle cap with assembly function - Google Patents

Abstract

A bottle cap especially including a connecting structure is disclosed in the invention. The connecting structure of the bottle cap is configured to connect with another connecting structure of another bottle cap. A plurality of bottle caps disclosed in the invention can be assembled together by the connecting structures thereof to form different items with different types according to different users who have various thinking. Therefore, the bottle cap is recyclable and is able to use as an element of an assembly toy in order to solve environment problems generated by traditional bottle caps which are discarded after using.

Description

Cap with combined function

The present invention relates to the design of a bottle cap, and more particularly to a bottle cap having a combined function.

Generally speaking, the bottle cap is mostly matched with the bottle body, and the contents of the bottle body are enclosed in the bottle body, and the bottle cap is opened during use. The contents of the bottle are drinking water, which is infiltrated with various beverages that can generate bubbles or natural or artificial additives. The cap can be opened once or multiple times. The caps are mainly made of plastic materials, while others are made of metal. In general, the cap has a rounded appearance, and the internal thread can be screwed or unscrewed with the external thread of the neck of the bottle. Apart from this feature, there have been no improvements so far.

Bottles and caps for such water or other beverages are a reusable resource that requires careful recycling. But in fact, recycling can't be done completely, and recycling to any product still consumes energy.

The invention provides a bottle cap having a combined function, the cap includes not only a cover body having a receiving groove which can be covered or screwed to a bottle body, but further has a splicing structure, the splicing structure is configured to be The splicing structure of the other cap is spliced together, thereby achieving the purpose of splicing an article by using two or more caps.

Preferably, the splicing structure comprises at least one card block and at least one card slot, and the card block is configured to be inserted into and removed from the card slot of the assembled structure of the other bottle cap. The card block protrudes from a surface of the cover body, and the card slot is located on the other surface of the cover body, and the two surfaces face in different directions. In addition, the card block and the card slot may be co-located on the same surface of the cover body.

Preferably, the splicing structure comprises at least one solid upright and/or at least one hollow upright.

Preferably, the cover of the cap of the present invention has an internal thread formed on the inner wall surface of the receiving groove, and the splicing structure includes a plurality of studs protruding from the top surface of the cover, the studs being configured to be capable of being configured Inserting and unplugging into the receiving groove of the cover of the other cap, and when the studs are located in the receiving groove of the cover of the other cap, the outer walls of the studs each have a partial abutment The internal thread of the cover of the other cap.

Preferably, the top cover of the cover of the bottle cap of the present invention has a puzzle unit. When a plurality of the caps of the present invention are horizontally spliced and the top surface thereof forms a plane, the cover has a puzzle piece of each bottle cap. The pattern formed by the splicing of the units.

Preferably, the block, the solid column and the stud in the bottle cap of the present invention each have a plurality of elongated ribs on the outer side wall thereof to facilitate the assembly and detachment of the caps.

Further details of the invention and more detailed technical and functional descriptions will be disclosed in the following description.

The first and second figures show a first embodiment of the bottle cap of the present invention, the cap comprising a cover 1 and a splicing structure. The bottom surface 11 of the cover body 1 has a receiving groove 110. Preferably, the cover body 1 further has an internal thread 112 on the inner wall surface of the receiving groove 110. As shown in the third figure, the internal thread 112 can be screwed to the external thread on the inlet and outlet portion 21 of a bottle 2. Wherein, when the inlet and outlet portion 21 of the bottle 2 has a non-external thread configuration, the internal thread 112 needs to be replaced by other combinations to enable the cap to be combined or fastened by the combined structure. The inlet and outlet portion 21 of the bottle 2 is detached from the inlet and outlet portion 21.

In this embodiment, the splicing structure includes a plurality of blocks 101, 121 and a plurality of card slots 111, 120. The blocks 101 are one-to-one corresponding to the card slots 111 of the splicing structure of another identical cap, and each block 101 is configured to be inserted into and pulled out of the other cap The corresponding card slot 111 of the splicing structure (the same applies to the card slots 121 and the card slots 120). Once any of the blocks is inserted into the corresponding card slot, the two will be temporarily stuck together and will not be separated at will, but the two can be separated by force. Each of the card blocks may be designed to be identical or partially identical or different, and each of the card slots may be designed to be identical or partially identical or different. Moreover, the shape of each card block and each card slot is not limited, as long as the card block can be correspondingly inserted into the corresponding card slot, so as to achieve the purpose of splicing combination. In addition, the splicing structure can also have only one card block and one card slot.

In any case, the splicing structure on the bottle cap of the present invention can be used for splicing the splicing structure on another bottle cap of the present invention, and finally achieves the purpose of splicing an article using a plurality of caps of the present invention, for example, forming a Toy car or a puzzle.

In more detail, the card blocks 101 are located on the top surface 10 of the cover body 1. The card slots 111 are located on the bottom surface 11, and each of the card blocks 101 can be correspondingly inserted and pulled corresponding to the other bottle cap. Inside the card slot 111. The card blocks 121 and the card slots 120 are corresponding to the respective side faces 12 of the cover body 1 , and each side surface 12 has a card block 121 and a card slot 120 . Thus, a plurality of the caps of the present invention can be spliced up and down by the card blocks 101 of the top surface 10 and the bottom surface 11 of the cover 1 and the card slots 111, as shown in FIG. The card blocks 121 of the side surface 12 of the cover body 1 and the card slots 120 are spliced together in a horizontal direction (ie, front and rear splicing, or left and right splicing, or front and rear splicing, as shown in FIG. 7). The fourth and sixth figures show two different aspects of the splicing of the caps of the present invention. In other words, the same number of caps of the present invention can be spliced into more different types according to different thinking of the user. State.

The eighth figure shows a plurality of aspects of the splicing of the cap of the present invention, in which the caps of the present invention are spliced into a pattern 3. This pattern 3 is a top surface 10a which is previously decomposed into a plurality of puzzle pieces 31 and printed on the lid body 1a of each bottle cap. The puzzle unit 31 may also be selected as an inner wall of a cavity which is previously engraved or engraved on the mold of each cap, such that in a plastic injection molding process, the formed cap is ejected by the die, and the cover 1a is Top surface 10a. There will be a puzzle unit 31 protruding or recessed. The cover 1a in this embodiment can be identical to the cover 1 described above, but preferably has the above-mentioned block 101 and the card slot 111, and only the above-mentioned block 121 and the card slot 120. Further, each of the caps may have any color to indicate math or characters or letters, and is not limited to the aforementioned puzzle unit 31.

The ninth and tenth views show a second embodiment of the bottle cap of the present invention, the cap comprising a cover 4 and a splicing structure. The cover 4 is substantially the same as the cover mentioned in the first embodiment. However, the splicing structure includes a solid column 40 and a hollow column 41 disposed on the cover 4, and the solid column 40 is The inside of the hollow column 41 of the splicing structure that can be inserted and pulled into another identical cap (the tenth figure). Once the solid uprights 40 are inserted into the interior of the hollow uprights 41, the two are temporarily snapped together and are not free to separate, but can be separated by force. As shown in the tenth figure, the splicing combination of the two can be accomplished by using the solid uprights 40 on the cap of the present invention to fit the hollow uprights 41 on the other cap. In this example, the solid post 40 protrudes from the outer top surface of the cover 4, and the hollow post 41 protrudes from the inner bottom surface of the cover 4, except that the positions of the two are interchangeable. In addition, the number of the solid column 40 and the hollow column 41 is not limited to one, and may be multiple, and the shape may be a cylinder, a triangle, a hexagon or other shapes.

11 and 12 show a third embodiment of the bottle cap of the present invention, the cap comprising a cover 6 and a splicing structure. The cover body 6 is substantially the same as the cover body mentioned in the first embodiment. However, the splicing structure includes a plurality of hollow protrusions 61a and a plurality of solid protrusions protruding from the top surface of the cover body 6. 61b, the protrusions 61a, 61b may preferably be 2, 3 or 4 in total. The cover body 6 has a receiving groove 60, and an inner wall thereof has an internal thread 601 which can be screwed to the external thread on the inlet and outlet portion 21 of the bottle 2. The positions of the protrusions 61a, 61b are within the range corresponding to the receiving groove 60, and each of the protrusions 61a, 61b has a contact wall 610, and two adjacent protrusions 61a, 61b. The distance W1 between the contact walls 610 is slightly greater than or equal to the inner diameter W2 of the receiving groove 60 of the cover 6, and therefore, as shown in the twelfth figure, when the cover 6 of the cap of the present invention is superposed on the present When inventing the top surface of the cover body 6 of another cap, the studs 61a, 61b on the cap are located in the receiving groove 60 of the cap 6 of the other cap, and each stud on the cap The contact wall 610 of the 61a, 61b is fastened against the inner wall of the receiving groove 60 of the cover 6 of the other cap (ie, the internal thread 601), so that the two caps are stuck together after the folding. It will not be separated at will, but it can be separated by force. The gap 611 between the adjacent two protrusions 61a, 61b is configured to be just enough for the opposite protrusion 61a or the protrusion 61b to be engaged, so that the group can be assembled as shown in the fifteenth figure. .

The thirteenth and fourteenth figures show an aspect in which a plurality of caps in the third embodiment are spliced, and only the same number of caps can be combined to change more styles. Narration. The fifteenth figure shows another aspect of the splicing composition of the cap in the third embodiment, in which one of the caps is inverted, and the studs 61a, 61b are inserted separately and inserted. In the corresponding gap 611, at this time, the effect of each gap 611 is equivalent to the above-described card slot. In this embodiment, the shape and structure of the receiving groove 60 of the cover body 6 of the bottle cap of the present invention can be maintained as the conventional bottle cap, and the change is only a few protrusions on the top surface of the cover body. It is quite simple and easy to have the advantage of reducing manufacturing costs. In addition, the shape of each of the studs may be a cylinder, a triangle, a hexagon, or other shapes. The studs may all be hollow (like the hollow post of the second preferred embodiment), or they may all be solid, or partially hollow, partially solid.

Preferably, the sixteenth and seventeenth views show another form of the block 101a of the first embodiment of the present invention, which further forms a plurality of elongated ribs 5 on the outer side wall of the block 101a, for example 2 or 4, in this way, the friction between each of the blocks 101a and the corresponding card slot 111 can be reduced to facilitate insertion and removal of the respective blocks 101a into the corresponding slots 111. The same method can also be implemented on the solid column 40 of the second preferred embodiment, so that the solid column 40 also has a plurality of elongated ribs, so that the solid column 40 can be inserted and pulled into the corresponding hollow. The purpose of the interior of the column 41. As for the studs 61a and 61b of the third embodiment, it is of course also possible to use the above-mentioned method to have a plurality of elongated ribs thereon, which will not be described.

Figure 18 is a view showing another form of solid stud 61c on the cap of the third embodiment of the present invention, the stud 61c being configured to be inverted and then inserted into the hollow of the other cap Inside the stud 61a.

19 and 20 are a plurality of card slots 111a of another form on the bottle cap of the first embodiment of the present invention. The card slots 111a are respectively located at respective corners of the cover body 1 and are substantially triangular in shape. In this case, the card block 101 on the other bottle cap can be correspondingly inserted and stuck in the card slots 111a for the purpose of splicing and combining with a plurality of caps. Compared with the card slot 111 shown in the second figure, the card slot 111a can effectively save the use of materials to reduce the manufacturing cost. In addition, the solid uprights and the studs in the second and third embodiments of the present invention can also be inserted and latched into the card slot 111a of this type, and are not described herein.

Further, the bottle cap of the present invention is preferably formed by plastic material in a plastic injection manner, but is not limited thereto, and may be made of a metal material. Further, the cover of the bottle cap of the present invention preferably has a square or rectangular shape, but may be a cylinder, a triangle, a hexagon or any other shape.

Compared with the traditional bottle cap, the cap of the invention not only has the function of covering or screwing into the inlet and outlet of a bottle, but also has a splicing function, so that it can be used as a combination toy (such as a building block toy or a jigsaw puzzle). For human use. Since the cap of the invention has the splicing function, so that it has the characteristics of being collectable and playable, it is not always discarded after being used like a conventional cap, thereby avoiding waste of resources.

In any event, anyone can obtain sufficient teaching from the description of the above examples, and it is understood that the present invention is indeed different from the prior art, and is industrially usable and progressive. It is the invention that has indeed met the patent requirements and has filed an application in accordance with the law.

1, 1a. . . Cover

10, 10a. . . Top surface

101, 101a. . . Block

11. . . Bottom

110. . . Receiving slot

111, 111a. . . Card slot

112. . . internal thread

12. . . side

120. . . Card slot

121. . . Block

2. . . bottle

twenty one. . . Import and Export Department

3. . . pattern

31. . . Puzzle unit

4. . . Cover

40. . . Solid column

41. . . Hollow column

5. . . Slender rib

6. . . Cover

60. . . Receiving slot

601. . . internal thread

61a, 61b, 61c. . . Tab

610. . . Contact wall

611. . . gap

The first and second figures are perspective views of the first embodiment of the bottle cap of the present invention.

The third figure is a cross-sectional view of the first embodiment when it is closed to a bottle.

The fourth figure shows a plurality of aspects of the splicing composition of the first embodiment.

Fig. 5 is a cross-sectional view showing the first embodiment when it is spliced up and down.

The sixth figure shows another aspect of the spliced composition of the first embodiment.

Fig. 7 is a bottom view of the first embodiment when it is spliced in the horizontal direction.

The eighth figure shows still another aspect of the splicing composition of the first embodiment, which is spliced to form a pattern.

Figures 9 and 10 show a second embodiment of the closure of the present invention.

The eleventh and twelfth drawings show a third embodiment of the bottle cap of the present invention.

Figures 13 to 15 show a plurality of aspects of the splicing composition of the third embodiment.

In the sixteenth and seventeenth views, another form of the block of the first embodiment is shown.

In the eighteenth aspect, another form of the stud of the third embodiment is shown.

In the nineteenth and twentyth aspects, another form of the card slot of the first embodiment is shown.

1. . . Cover

101. . . Block

120. . . Card slot

121. . . Block

Claims (10)

A bottle cap for covering an inlet and an outlet of a bottle, the bottle cap comprising:
a cover body having a receiving groove for receiving the inlet and outlet portions; and a splicing structure disposed on the cover body and spliced to the splicing structure of the other bottle cap. The bottle cap of claim 1, wherein the splicing structure comprises at least one card block and at least one card slot, the card block being configured to be inserted into and removed from the card of the assembled structure of the other bottle cap. groove. The cap of claim 1, wherein the splicing structure comprises at least one solid post. The bottle cap of claim 1, wherein the splicing structure comprises at least one hollow upright. The bottle cap of claim 1, wherein the cover body has an internal thread formed on an inner wall surface of the receiving groove, and the splicing structure comprises a plurality of protrusions protruding from a top surface of the cover body, The protruding post is configured to be inserted into and removed from the receiving groove of the cover of the other cap, and when the studs are located in the receiving groove of the cover of the other cap, the outer wall of the studs Each portion has an internal thread that abuts against the cover of the other cap. The bottle cap according to claim 2, wherein the card block protrudes from a surface of the cover body, the card slot is located on the other surface of the cover body, and the two surfaces face in different directions. The bottle cap according to claim 2, wherein the card block and the card slot are co-located on the same surface of the cover body. The bottle cap according to claim 1, wherein the receiving groove is located on a bottom surface of the cover body, and the top cover of the cover body has a puzzle unit. The cap of claim 1, wherein the cap has an internal thread formed on an inner wall surface of the receiving groove. The cap of claim 2, 3 or 5, wherein the block, the solid post and the stud each have a plurality of elongated ribs on an outer side wall thereof.