US20050173370A1 - Closure device for a container and a container equipped with one such device - Google Patents

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US20050173370A1
US20050173370A1 US10/507,644 US50764405A US2005173370A1 US 20050173370 A1 US20050173370 A1 US 20050173370A1 US 50764405 A US50764405 A US 50764405A US 2005173370 A1 US2005173370 A1 US 2005173370A1
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Philippe Odet
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D51/00—Closures not otherwise provided for
    • B65D51/24—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes
    • B65D51/244—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes provided with oxygen absorbers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D41/00—Caps, e.g. crown caps or crown seals, i.e. members having parts arranged for engagement with the external periphery of a neck or wall defining a pouring opening or discharge aperture; Protective cap-like covers for closure members, e.g. decorative covers of metal foil or paper
    • B65D41/02—Caps or cap-like covers without lines of weakness, tearing strips, tags, or like opening or removal devices
    • B65D41/04—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers secured by rotation
    • B65D41/0407—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers secured by rotation with integral sealing means
    • B65D41/0414—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers secured by rotation with integral sealing means formed by a plug, collar, flange, rib or the like contacting the internal surface of a container neck
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D41/00—Caps, e.g. crown caps or crown seals, i.e. members having parts arranged for engagement with the external periphery of a neck or wall defining a pouring opening or discharge aperture; Protective cap-like covers for closure members, e.g. decorative covers of metal foil or paper
    • B65D41/02—Caps or cap-like covers without lines of weakness, tearing strips, tags, or like opening or removal devices
    • B65D41/04—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers secured by rotation
    • B65D41/0435—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers secured by rotation with separate sealing elements
    • B65D41/045—Discs

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  • the invention relates to a device for closing a container and to a container equipped with such a device.
  • the invention does the opposite of these approaches by proposing a stopper provided with a sealing skirt and which makes it possible to adapt to the presence of oxygen or another gas in its vicinity.
  • the invention proposes to solve the problem of tightness of the closure device by distinguishing the gases by their nature, and by responding thereto by solutions adapted to each of them.
  • the invention relates to a closure device for a container provided with a neck, this device comprising a stopper provided with an inner skirt adapted to come into abutment against the internal radial surface of this neck and, at the level of its base, with a first layer of material impermeable to one or more predetermined gases and with a second layer made of a material adapted to absorb one or more predetermined gases, preferably a material adapted to absorb the oxygen, characterized in that the first and second layers are arranged, with respect to the base of the stopper, so that one of them covers the other.
  • the inner skirt performs its role of tight abutment against the internal surface of the neck efficiently, in particular concerning the tightness with respect to CO 2 , while the combination of the first and second layers makes it possible to absorb the oxygen coming from the product located in the container, the first layer making it possible to isolate the second layer from the outside, with the result that the absorbent material does not risk being saturated by a gas traversing the base of the stopper.
  • one of the layers may cover the other directly or indirectly, i.e. with the interposition of matter, particularly the material of the base of the stopper.
  • a closure device may incorporate one or more of the following characteristics:
  • the invention relates to a container for liquid, for example a bottle made of plastics material, equipped with a closure device as described previously.
  • a container for liquid for example a bottle made of plastics material, equipped with a closure device as described previously.
  • FIG. 1 is an axial section of a closure device in accordance with the invention mounted on the neck of a bottle in accordance with the invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a view on a larger scale of detail II in FIG. 1 .
  • FIG. 3 is a view similar to FIG. 1 for a closure device in accordance with a second form of embodiment of the invention.
  • the closure device 1 shown in the Figure comprises a stopper 2 connected to a tamper-evident band 3 by a breakable part 4 .
  • the device is provided to be mounted on the neck G of a bottle B, this neck being provided with an external thread G 1 , while the stopper is provided with an internal thread 21 of corresponding shape.
  • the base 22 denotes the base of the stopper 2 .
  • the base 22 On its internal face 23 , i.e. its face turned towards the inside of the neck G, the base 22 is provided with a skirt 24 centred on the axis of symmetry X-X′ of the device 1 and presenting an external bead 25 provided to come into abutment against the internal radial surface G 2 of the neck G.
  • An annular rib 26 is formed on the face 23 , being centred on axis X-X′. This rib defines a zone Z 26 in the form of a disc in which are affixed two layers 5 and 6 on the face 23 of the base 22 .
  • the first layer 5 is constituted by ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH) and is deposited on the face 23 by any appropriate process.
  • the second layer 6 is formed in a material absorbing oxygen, for example as described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,279,350.
  • the layer 6 may be overmoulded in the zone Z 26 once the layer 5 has been placed in position, which makes it possible to efficiently maintain the layer 5 in position.
  • it may be question, for example, of iron in pulverulent form, of compounds including iron, such as iron salts, ascorbic acid or cobalt stearate.
  • the layer 6 is made in the form of a disc fixed on the base 22 , it may be made of glucose oxydase and/or glucose catalase in order to reduce the free oxygen present in the neck G by an “enzymatic” method.
  • the second layer 6 is protected with respect to the oxygen located outside the device 1 , with the result that the layer 6 does not risk being saturated with oxygen to the point of not being able efficiently to absorb the possible gaseous emissions coming from the liquid contained in the bottle B.
  • these layers do not interfere with the neck G and do not risk being crushed or torn, particularly at the end of screwing or at the beginning of unscrewing of the stopper 2 .
  • the device 101 of this embodiment comprises a stopper 102 connected to a tamper-evident band 103 by a breakable part 104 .
  • This device differs from the preceding one in that the first, oxygen-impermeable layer 105 is formed by a coating affixed on the external surface 128 of the base 122 of the stopper 102 , while the second layer 106 is affixed against the internal face 123 of this bottom 122 .
  • the layer 105 thus covers the base 122 of the stopper 102 which itself covers the layer 106 .
  • a skirt 124 provided with a bead 125 comes into abutment against the neck G of a bottle B, while the layer 106 can efficiently absorb the oxygen contained in the neck G, as it is isolated from the outside atmosphere both by the skirt 124 and by the layer 105 .
  • the layers 105 and 106 extend in particular over the whole central zone of the base 122 , i.e. that part of the base located radially inside the skirt 124 .
  • the coating layer 105 may comprise a silica oxide, a varnish or a lacquer. It may also be made by metallization.
  • the layers 5 and 105 might equally well be made of polyvinyl chloride (pvc), polyvinylidene chloride (pvdc), ethylene vinyl alcohol (evoh), polyamide (pa), polyethylene naphthalate (pen), polyvinyl alcohol (pva), acrylate copolymer of polyacrylnitrile (pna) type, polymethylmethacrylate (ppma), butadiene copolymer, styrene, bi-oriented polypropylene (bopp) or of a mixture based on these products.

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FR0203135A FR2837173B1 (fr) 2002-03-13 2002-03-13 Dispositif de bouchage d'un recipient et recipient equipe d'un tel dispositif
DE02/3135 2002-03-13
PCT/FR2003/000794 WO2003076294A1 (fr) 2002-03-13 2003-03-12 Dispositif de bouchage d'un recipient et recipient equipe d'un tel dispositif

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