US20060006130A1 - Sealing/pouring combination with security seal - Google Patents

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US20060006130A1
US20060006130A1 US10/524,940 US52494005A US2006006130A1 US 20060006130 A1 US20060006130 A1 US 20060006130A1 US 52494005 A US52494005 A US 52494005A US 2006006130 A1 US2006006130 A1 US 2006006130A1
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Frank Romer
Michael Hase
Markus Kebben
Martin Albers
Frank Mertens
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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
    • 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
    • B65D41/32—Caps or cap-like covers with lines of weakness, tearing-strips, tags, or like opening or removal devices, e.g. to facilitate formation of pouring openings
    • B65D41/34—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers provided with tamper elements formed in, or attached to, the closure skirt
    • B65D41/3442—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers provided with tamper elements formed in, or attached to, the closure skirt with rigid bead or projections formed on the tamper element and coacting with bead or projections on the container
    • B65D41/3447—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers provided with tamper elements formed in, or attached to, the closure skirt with rigid bead or projections formed on the tamper element and coacting with bead or projections on the container the tamper element being integrally connected to the closure by means of bridges

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  • the invention relates to a pour cap with a tamper indicator according to the introductory clause of claim 1 .
  • a pour cap with a tamper indicator is known.
  • the wall of a closure cap is formed with a tamper-indicating ring to which it is connected by frangible webs and which is formed with an undercut that is fitted with the neck region of a container when the cap is mounted on the neck of the container.
  • the tamper-indicating ring forms in some known closure caps an axial extension of the cap wall, as in DE 1,955,047. In other known arrangements the tamper-indicating ring extends beyond the radial outer surface of the cap.
  • the tamper-indicating pour cap according to the invention does not have a tamper-indicating ring, since the tamper-indicating function is integrated into the wall of the cap, that is there is a limited cut-out wall part that can be separated by a predetermined force from the rest of the cap wall so as to eliminate a blocked condition between the wall part and the neck and allow the cap to be taken off the neck like a standard cap.
  • the cut-out wall part is positioned, for esthetic reasons, in the plane of the cap wall edge and for this reason is not subjected to any particular forces during manufacture or transport of the cap that might separate the wall part from the rest of the cap wall.
  • the invention proposes that the neck have an annular retaining rim that is engageable with a flat projection of the cap in the latched position.
  • the appearance of the cap is improved in that the projection can be made so flat that it generally fills the cutout in the cap wall to the point of not being readily noticed and thus does not form an actual hole in the cap wall.
  • the invention makes it possible to manufacture the cap and the container neck efficiently by injection molding with an appropriate plastic such as polyethylene, polystyrol, polypropylene, and the like and demolding the cap will not be complicated by the provision of a tamper-indicating ring.
  • a two-part stabilizing system can be used in order to hold the cut-out wall part together in a predetermined position during assembly and to thus prevent damage to the webs during initial installation. Further advantageous embodiments of the invention are described in the claims.
  • FIG. 1 is an overall view of a tamper-indicating cap according to an embodiment of the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a longitudinal section through the cap of FIG. 1 ;
  • FIG. 3 is a section taken along line III-III of FIG. 2 ;
  • FIG. 4 is a longitudinal section of the entire cap assembly according to the invention.
  • FIG. 5 is a large-scale sectional view of a detail of the tamper-indicating cap according to the invention.
  • the tamper-indicating cap shown in the drawing is identified generally at. 1 and the container neck at 2 .
  • the neck 2 can be the mouth of a container, a separate welded-on part, or a wholly separate part.
  • the neck 2 has a generally tubular shape with a through going passage 3 that forms an inlet opening allowing access to the interior of a container.
  • the neck 2 is provided with an external screwthread 4 that fits with a complementary internal screwthread 5 in a wall 6 of the cap 1 so that the cap 2 can be screwed onto the neck 2 , which action seals the passage 3 .
  • the screwthread 5 can be continuous or have, as shown, discontinuous flights.
  • a rim 7 projects outwardly from the neck 2 level with a cutout 8 in the wall 6 of the cap 1 , so that when the cap 1 is screwed all the way onto the neck 2 a portion of the rim 7 is exposed at the cutout 8 as shown in FIG. 4 .
  • the rim 7 has a radially or nearly radially extending lower engagement face 9 that can engage with a projection 10 carried on a part 11 cut out of the wall 6 of the cap 1 in order to prevent rotation of the cap 1 in the unscrewing direction.
  • the wall part 11 is formed unitarily with, relative to a screwing-on direction, leading and trailing webs 12 and 13 by means of which the wall part 11 is connected with adjacent regions of the cap wall 6 .
  • the wall part 11 has a lower edge 14 that is level with a lower edge 15 of the cap wall 6 .
  • the lower edge 14 can be recessed in the wall 6 .
  • One of the webs 12 or 13 namely the web 12 that leads in the screwing-on direction, is so constructed that when stressed beyond a predetermined limit it breaks so that the wall part 11 in this location loses it connection with the cap wall 6 and no longer locks the rim 7 on the neck 2 to the projection 10 . If desired, several such webs 12 can be provided.
  • the other web 13 that trails the wall part 11 can be constructed so that the stresses encountered in normal use are not sufficient to break it and the wall part 11 remains connected at its trailing end with the cap wall 6 . Instead, the wall part 11 can bend outward about the web 13 in order to completely free the projection 10 from the rim 7 when the web 12 is broken through.
  • the wall part 11 partially freed from the cap wall 6 remains on the cap 1 without presenting an environmental problem. It is however also possible to make the web 13 frangible. In this case the wall part 11 is completely broken off the cap wall 6 .
  • the wall part 11 has as shown in FIG. 1 preferably a generally rectangular shape. It is delimited at its lower axial end by the lower edge 14 and on its upper axial end by an upper edge 16 that, like the lower edge 14 , extends angularly.
  • the upper edge 16 is connected with the projection 10 via a reduced-thickness connecting web 17 that makes it possible for the projection 10 to be deformed elastically outward when it is upwardly engaged by the rim 7 so that the projection 10 can pass the rim 7 when the cap 7 is screwed on without tearing the web 12 . Nonetheless the connecting web 17 is sufficiently strong that the projection 10 will push upward against the lower face 9 of the rim 7 without, folding over when an axially opposite force is exerted on it.
  • the projection 10 is elongated somewhat angularly parallel to the upper edge 16 of the wall part 11 or, if desired, can be shorter than it.
  • An upper edge of the projection 10 has a face 18 that is flat and that extends parallel to the lower face 9 of the rim 7 so as to flatly engage same.
  • a lower face 19 of the projection 10 forms an angled slide face so that the projection 10 can slide over the rim 7 when the cap 1 is screwed onto the neck 1 , the lower face 19 extending in the normal rest position of the projection 10 upwardly and inwardly at an angle.
  • the wall part 11 is formed near its upper edge with an angularly extending and outwardly projecting reinforcing rib 20 that can fit with a complementary elongated groove or jaw of a holding tool of an automatic (unillustrated) screwing-on device in order to support the wall part 11 radially when screwing it on so that it is not pushed radially outward too much and the web 12 is not prematurely broken.
  • Other similar stabilizing means can also be provided.
  • FIG. 3 shows a pair of wall parts 11 with projections 10 diametrally opposite each other.
  • a further web can be provided parallel to it near the upper edge as shown at 21 in FIG. 1 .
  • the web 21 also serves to stabilize the wall part 11 .
  • the wall part 11 that is unitary with the wall 6 of the cap 1 forms a tamper indicator that shows the end user clearly that there has been no manipulation of the cap 1 so long as the connection between the wall part 11 and the cap wall 6 is intact.
  • the screw mount provided in the illustrated embodiment of the invention is used on a pourer, the invention is not restricted to such a mount. It can also be used on a push-on or force fit.
  • the projection and/or the wall part carrying it can be, if desired, so flat that when seen from the side the recess in the cap wall is almost filled in order to improve the appearance of the cap.

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DE20212541U DE20212541U1 (de) 2002-08-14 2002-08-14 Verschluss/Ausgiess-Kombination mit Originalitätssicherung
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PCT/EP2003/008543 WO2004022443A1 (de) 2002-08-14 2003-08-01 Verschluss/ausgiess-kombination mit originalitätssicherung

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US8490804B2 (en) 2007-10-31 2013-07-23 Obrist Closures Switzerland Gmbh Closure with movable tamper-evident member
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US4836050A (en) * 1982-11-22 1989-06-06 Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha Transverse type automatic transmission with two separate lay shaft elements
US4573601A (en) * 1983-06-01 1986-03-04 Wicanders Ab Screw cap with security ring
US4706828A (en) * 1986-09-19 1987-11-17 Kardon Industries Tamper resistant cap
US4726482A (en) * 1987-03-27 1988-02-23 Owens-Illinois Closure Inc. Tamper indicating package and molded plastic closure therefor
US4967920A (en) * 1989-06-26 1990-11-06 Continental White Cap, Inc. Partial tamper band
US4986430A (en) * 1990-05-29 1991-01-22 Continental Plastics, Inc. Tamper evident closure with tear out tab integrally molded without slides
US6000568A (en) * 1995-08-30 1999-12-14 Gv Engineering Pty Ltd. Tamper evident closure comprising folding skirt extensions
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US8490804B2 (en) 2007-10-31 2013-07-23 Obrist Closures Switzerland Gmbh Closure with movable tamper-evident member
US20110036839A1 (en) * 2009-08-17 2011-02-17 Gardner William A Screw-capsule for wine bottles
US11059633B2 (en) 2019-10-31 2021-07-13 Cheer Pack North America Flip-top closure for container

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