US20080257857A1 - Anti-Tampering Beverage Container Made of Plastic Material Such as Pe, Pet, Pvc or the Like - Google Patents

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US20080257857A1
US20080257857A1 US12/089,656 US8965606A US2008257857A1 US 20080257857 A1 US20080257857 A1 US 20080257857A1 US 8965606 A US8965606 A US 8965606A US 2008257857 A1 US2008257857 A1 US 2008257857A1
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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
    • B65D1/00—Containers having bodies formed in one piece, e.g. by casting metallic material, by moulding plastics, by blowing vitreous material, by throwing ceramic material, by moulding pulped fibrous material, by deep-drawing operations performed on sheet material
    • B65D1/02—Bottles or similar containers with necks or like restricted apertures, designed for pouring contents
    • B65D1/0223—Bottles or similar containers with necks or like restricted apertures, designed for pouring contents characterised by shape
    • B65D1/0292—Foldable bottles
    • 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
    • B65D79/00—Kinds or details of packages, not otherwise provided for
    • B65D79/005—Packages having deformable parts for indicating or neutralizing internal pressure-variations by other means than venting
    • B65D79/008—Packages having deformable parts for indicating or neutralizing internal pressure-variations by other means than venting the deformable part being located in a rigid or semi-rigid container, e.g. in bottles or jars
    • B65D79/0081—Packages having deformable parts for indicating or neutralizing internal pressure-variations by other means than venting the deformable part being located in a rigid or semi-rigid container, e.g. in bottles or jars in the bottom part thereof
    • 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
    • B65D79/00—Kinds or details of packages, not otherwise provided for
    • B65D79/005—Packages having deformable parts for indicating or neutralizing internal pressure-variations by other means than venting
    • B65D79/008—Packages having deformable parts for indicating or neutralizing internal pressure-variations by other means than venting the deformable part being located in a rigid or semi-rigid container, e.g. in bottles or jars
    • B65D79/0084—Packages having deformable parts for indicating or neutralizing internal pressure-variations by other means than venting the deformable part being located in a rigid or semi-rigid container, e.g. in bottles or jars in the sidewall or shoulder part thereof
    • 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
    • B65D2203/00—Decoration means, markings, information elements, contents indicators
    • B65D2203/04—Level indicators
    • 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
    • B65D2401/00—Tamper-indicating means
    • 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
    • B65D2501/00—Containers having bodies formed in one piece
    • B65D2501/0009—Bottles or similar containers with necks or like restricted apertures designed for pouring contents
    • B65D2501/0018—Ribs
    • B65D2501/0036—Hollow circonferential ribs

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  • the present invention relates to an anti-tampering beverage container made of plastic material such as PE, PET, PVC or the like intended to contain liquids and composed of a thin casing stretched and provided with a watertight closure cap.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide various structural shapes of containers allowing to clearly view a possible tampering action.
  • liquids contained in containers made of plastic material are generally kept under pressure mainly in order to give the container a certain rigidity, which pressure is obtained in various manners such as by the presence of dissolved CO 2 , presence of N 2 dissolved by liquid N 2 , generally compressed gases or by the necking down of full containers by heat changing the structure of the thermoplastic material.
  • the basic principle of the present invention is the fact of highlighting a change in the level of the contained liquid following a programmed change of the inner volume of the container, due to a change in pressure.
  • the concept is also valid for an inner pressure lower than the atmospheric pressure p a that can be obtained both by decreasing the temperature of liquids and by condensing residual vapours.
  • the invention relates to an anti-tampering beverage container made of plastic material such as PE, PET, PVC or the like intended to contain liquids and composed of a thin casing stretched and provided with a watertight closure cap according to what described hereinbefore, which container is made such to be with a containment volume that changes depending on the pressure difference between inner pressure and external pressure, particularly the atmospheric one and it has a reference for measuring the liquid level, so that with pressure changing inside the container changes of the liquid level are indicated due to the change of the containment volume so tampering actions being shown causing the container to be opened and so causing the inner pressure to change with respect to the original one under sealed condition.
  • plastic material such as PE, PET, PVC or the like intended to contain liquids and composed of a thin casing stretched and provided with a watertight closure cap according to what described hereinbefore
  • which container is made such to be with a containment volume that changes depending on the pressure difference between inner pressure and external pressure, particularly the atmospheric one and it has a reference for measuring the liquid level,
  • a preferred embodiment provides the container wall to be elastically extendable completely or for a part thereof in order to produce changes in the containment volume depending on the pressure difference between inner pressure and the one outside the container.
  • a particular embodiment of the invention provides an anti-tampering beverage container made of plastic material such as PE, PET, PVC or the like intended to contain liquids characterized in that it is composed of a thin casing stretched and provided with a watertight closure cap in whose side part, i.e. in the skirt, there are provided one or more annular folds like a general bellows whose axial sections, whose shapes being any appropriate ones, on one hand have a resting steady condition, i.e.
  • a further embodiment of the invention provides an anti-tampering beverage container made of plastic material (PE, PET, PVC or the like) intended to contain liquids and composed of a thin casing stretched and provided with a watertight closure cap, whose bottom has such a shape that it elastically gets deformed, bending towards the outside, causing the inner volume of the container to increase if its inner pressure P r increases and it elastically gets deformed bending towards the inside causing the inner volume of the container to decrease if its inner pressure decreases p r ⁇ p a , while such volume changes are highlighted by suitable level marks placed preferably at the neck region of the container at the filling level (L 0 ).
  • PE plastic material
  • PET PET, PVC or the like
  • an anti-tampering beverage container made of plastic material such as PE, PET, PVC or the like intended to contain liquids, characterized in that it is composed of a thin casing stretched and provided with a watertight closure cap, whose side surface, i.e. its skirt, is made such that at least a part of its sections, perpendicular to the longitudinal axis have a star-shape configuration, i.e.
  • an anti-tampering beverage container made of plastic material such as PE, PET, PVC or the like intended to contain liquids according to the present invention is composed of a thin casing stretched and provided with a watertight closure cap and it has a specific mark placed at the level of the container neck, and wherein said casing is made by different manners such as by adding suitable additives, by means of moulding temperatures and/or stretching rates in the mould programmed for obtaining a material having a modulus of elasticity E, enough low to highlight a change of the inner volume of the container when the inner pressure p r changes by means of said mark.
  • plastic material such as PE, PET, PVC or the like intended to contain liquids and composed of a thin casing stretched and provided with a watertight closure cap and provided with a suitable mark placed at the container neck and wherein said casing has sections of its side walls that are perpendicular to
  • FIG. 5 is a container 1 with a star-like section 8 normal to the longitudinal axis (a ⁇ a′):
  • FIG. 7 is a container 1 with not circular sections:
  • liquids contained in containers 1 made of plastic materials are generally kept under pressure mainly for giving the container 1 a certain rigidity, which pressure is obtained in various ways such as by the presence of dissolved CO 2 , presence of N 2 dissolved by liquid N 2 , generally compressed gases or by the necking down of full containers 1 by heat changing the structure of the thermoplastic material.
  • the basic principle of the present invention is the fact of highlighting a change in the level of the contained liquid following a programmed change of the inner volume of the container 1 , due to a change in pressure.
  • the concept is also valid for an inner pressure lower than the atmospheric pressure p a that can be obtained both by decreasing the temperature of liquids and by condensing residual vapours.
  • each one of these embodiments allows a change of the inner volume of the container 1 following a change of pressure p r that can be noticed by a corresponding change of the level l 0 .
  • the container 1 made of plastic material is molded from a standard preform inside a special mould at the negative side having one or more annular bellows-like folds 6 having an appropriate depth and angularity.
  • Folds 6 on the container 1 obtained from the mould, have a their own basic structural position and are not subjected to any external forces.
  • the increase in pressure p r >p a can be obtained by one of the usual methods already mentioned, whereas a decrease in pressure p r ⁇ p a can be preferably obtained by filling the container 1 with its contents that has been previously heated paying attention not to overcome the lowest temperature of the vitreous passage of the material followed by a cooling, even a natural one, that will lead to a condensation of residual vapours and to a decrease in partial pressures.
  • the mark 4 obtained directly in the mould or subsequently applied, will be brought to coincide with the provided filling level L 0 . Therefore it is obvious that said folds 6 have to be all under the lowest provided level.
  • the container 1 has a configuration of the bottom 5 that can be deformed.
  • This configuration is composed of a corrugated surface with concentric circles having waves with a suitable shape, in this case the mould will be more complicated. However surfaces tangent to ridges 7 both to the upper ones c s and to the lower ones c i will be placed above the supporting plane of the container 1 .
  • Such corrugated surface must have the possibility to get deformed along the longitudinal axis (a ⁇ a′) of the container 1 when the pressure changes, i.e. it will bend towards the inside if the pressure decreases p r ⁇ p a and it will bend towards the outside if the pressure increases p r >p a .
  • the bottom 5 in its central part is composed of a cup-like surface revolving about the longitudinal axis (a ⁇ a′) of the container 1 with the vertex faced towards the inside of the container 1 .
  • This shape is provided for deformations caused by an increase in pressure p r >p a .
  • the bottom 5 of the container 1 made of plastic material in its central part is composed of a cup-like surface revolving about the longitudinal axis (a ⁇ a′) with the vertex faced towards the outside of the container 1 .
  • This shape is provided for deformations caused by a decrease in pressure p r ⁇ p a .
  • considerations concerning changes in volume with the pressure changing as well as the ones concerning the mark 4 that is an integral part of the container 1 are always the same.
  • the container 1 made of plastic material such as PE, PET, PVC or the like is still made by a mould starting from a standard preform.
  • the container 1 has bellow-like folds 6 along the skirt, i.e. said folds 6 are parallel to the longitudinal axis (a ⁇ a′) of the container.
  • Said folds 6 can be also arranged along spirals rotating about the longitudinal axis.
  • the section of the skirt normal to the longitudinal axis (a ⁇ a′) therefore will have in both cases a corrugated or star-like shape 8 with a variable number of vertices.
  • there are problems about the mould that necessarily has to be composed of many pieces and also about time for manufacturing containers 1 .
  • except for the arrangement of bellows-like folds 6 nothing is changed as regards operation with respect to previous embodiments.
  • the problem of expanding the inner volume is not more solved by using shapes or structures aiding the change of volume such as in above mentioned embodiments.
  • the container 1 is made of a plastic polymer with a low modulus of elasticity. This polymer can take desired mechanical characteristics both for the presence of suitable additives and for different modes stretching the preform in the mould, the main influencing parameters being temperature and stretching rate. As in all previous embodiments, the increase in volume and its subsequent decrease following a possible tampering action are noticed by means of the mark 4 provided at the filling level L 0 .
  • anti-tampering container 1 made of plastic material can be made in various configurations provided that they satisfy the need of a considerable change in volume and so in the contained liquid depending on a small change in pressure. In all these embodiments said change of the level can be noticed by means of the mark 4 placed at the provided filling level.
  • two structure assemblies that are conceptually different one from the other are claimed in claim n. 15; the first one concerns different diameters of the skirt along the longitudinal axis (a ⁇ a′) mainly allowing axial changes of volume and the second one concerns skirt sections normal to the longitudinal axis (a ⁇ a′), that are different with respect to the circular ones, prevalently allowing radial changes in volume.

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