US20100301002A1 - container cap forming a reservoir for additive - Google Patents

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US20100301002A1
US20100301002A1 US12/600,210 US60021008A US2010301002A1 US 20100301002 A1 US20100301002 A1 US 20100301002A1 US 60021008 A US60021008 A US 60021008A US 2010301002 A1 US2010301002 A1 US 2010301002A1
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Marguerite Deperrois
Vincent Deperrois
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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
    • B65D51/28—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes with auxiliary containers for additional articles or materials
    • B65D51/2807—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes with auxiliary containers for additional articles or materials the closure presenting means for placing the additional articles or materials in contact with the main contents by acting on a part of the closure without removing the closure, e.g. by pushing down, pulling up, rotating or turning a part of the closure, or upon initial opening of the container
    • B65D51/2814—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes with auxiliary containers for additional articles or materials the closure presenting means for placing the additional articles or materials in contact with the main contents by acting on a part of the closure without removing the closure, e.g. by pushing down, pulling up, rotating or turning a part of the closure, or upon initial opening of the container the additional article or materials being released by piercing, cutting or tearing an element enclosing it
    • B65D51/2842—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes with auxiliary containers for additional articles or materials the closure presenting means for placing the additional articles or materials in contact with the main contents by acting on a part of the closure without removing the closure, e.g. by pushing down, pulling up, rotating or turning a part of the closure, or upon initial opening of the container the additional article or materials being released by piercing, cutting or tearing an element enclosing it said element being provided with a preformed weakened line

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  • the present invention relates to closure means for packaging—a bottle—for a liquid—typically a beverage—suitable for delivering an organoleptic, mineral, coloring, or taste complement to the liquid.
  • a dose is shaped as a hollow cap in which a pusher actuated from the outside (the top of the cap) serves to tear a membrane retaining the additive that is thus released into the container that is suitable for receiving the hollow cap.
  • the additive is released by acting on a pusher. That action can take place in untimely manner and without sufficient control to enable the cap to be sold separately from the liquid container and to guarantee that it remains intact all the way from the manufacturer to the user.
  • the present invention seeks to mitigate that drawback by providing the market with a dose of additive in packaging that is entirely identical to a screw cap.
  • the invention thus provides a dose cap for an additive to be added to a liquid contained in a container having a neck provided with an outside portion in relief suitable for receiving and retaining the cap.
  • the cap is remarkable in having the following structure:
  • said spacer constituting means for breaking the end wall of the cup when the cap is forced to penetrate into the cover.
  • the reservoir of additive is thus constituted by leaktight engagement of two half-shells that is easy to achieve, fill, and assemble in automatic manner after filling.
  • the invention constitutes effective packaging for the additive that is capable of maintaining its integrity throughout the distribution system.
  • the resulting cap is suitable for closing the container with which it co-operates in leaktight manner.
  • the outside portion in relief on the neck and the inside means on the side skirt of the cover are threads. It would not go beyond the ambit of the invention to provide a shoulder on the neck (beneath a ring for example) and to crimp or snap-fasten the skirt on said ring.
  • the spacer is adjacent to the skirt of the cup, the end wall having a line of weakness in the vicinity of said location, the line of weakness extending along the junction between the end wall and the skirt. It is even possible to add a hinge line at the junction between the end wall and the skirt of the cup, opposite from said line of weakness, thus enabling the disk formed by the end wall once it has become detached from the skirt to remain connected thereto.
  • the periphery of the outside surface of the end wall of the cup is surrounded by the end edge of the skirt of the cover, and furthermore it is level therewith.
  • the cup is then practically inaccessible from the outside, thereby ensuring that the dose cap responds well to the impact, shock, and forces it might suffer between being manufactured and being used.
  • the cover and the cup in more secondary manner, it is preferable for the cover and the cup to possess corresponding second snap-fastener means that co-operate to hold the cup in the cover in the second relative axial position thereof when the end wall of the cup has been broken.
  • the pierced cup is then held captive at the end of the cover, thereby enabling it to be moved with the cover when the cap serves only for closure purposes, and providing sealing between the cover and the cap when the liquid contained in the neck container is in a position to penetrate into the reservoir between the cap and the cup.
  • These second snap-fastener means are constituted by a groove formed at the end of the skirt of the cover close to its end wall and by an outside bead bordering the free end of the skirt of the cup.
  • the skirt of the cup possesses a first axial section extending from its end wall, having a first outside diameter that is less than the outside diameter of a second axial section that surmounts the first section up to the free end of said skirt.
  • the difference between the diameters of the two sections of the skirt of the cup is substantially equal to twice the thickness of the wall forming the skirt, with the smaller diameter being substantially equal to the inside diameter of the above-mentioned neck of the container and the length of the above-mentioned first section is sufficient to enable the thread of the skirt to engage with the thread of the above-mentioned neck of the container prior to the rim being thrust against the cup.
  • FIG. 1 is a section view of a dose cap of the invention in its first state prior to use
  • FIG. 2 is an identical view of the cap in its second state after use
  • the cap shown comprises a first part 1 forming a cover with an end wall 2 and a side skirt 3 that is cylindrical or very slightly frustoconical, flaring downwards, with its end 3 a remote from the end wall 2 being provided with inside tapping 4 having one or two threads.
  • This end 3 a is defined by an end edge 3 b .
  • the skirt 3 of the cover is provided with an inside portion in relief 5 of sawtooth section with a downwardly-directed tip, that constitutes a first retaining means forming a role that is described below.
  • the cover possesses a second inside portion in relief 6 that defines a slope 6 a and a groove 6 b that likewise form second retaining means.
  • the dose cap also has a second part 11 in the form of a cup having an end wall 12 that is substantially plane and a side skirt 13 . Perpendicularly to its plane, the end wall 12 carries a stud 14 that extends inside the skirt 13 and goes beyond the end edge 13 b of its free end 13 a .
  • the axis of the stud 14 is off-center relative to the general axis XX of the cup.
  • the end wall 12 of the cup possess a line of weakness 15 that extends at the junction between the end wall and the skirt and that passes close to the foot of the stud 14 .
  • the arc followed by this line of weakness is practically equal to the circumference of the bottom, with the exception of a connection 16 that forms a flexible hinge tongue to the skirt of the disk constituted by the end wall 12 once the line of weakness has been broken.
  • the free end 13 a of the skirt is provided on the outside with two superposed beads 17 and 18 that form both means for snap-fastening the cup 11 in the cover 1 and means for providing leaktight contact between the skirt 13 of the cup and the skirt 3 of the cover.
  • the bead 17 co-operates with the portion in relief 5 to snap-fasten the cup in the cover in a first relative axial position of these two elements.
  • the stud 14 constitutes an abutment against the cup 11 penetrating into the cover 1 , thereby limiting such penetration to the value needed for achieving snap-fastening.
  • FIG. 2 shows the co-operation between the top bead 18 and the groove 6 b in the cover when the penetration of the cup into the cover has been forced sufficiently to detach the end wall 12 in part from the skirt 13 as a result of the spacer being blocked by the end wall 2 of the cover. This is the second snap-fastening of the cup and the cover in a second relative axial position of these elements.
  • the skirt 13 of the cup 11 has two sections 13 c and 13 d .
  • the section 13 c closer to the end wall 12 , has an outside diameter d that is less than the outside diameter D of the section 13 d located thereabove.
  • the diameter d is preferably equal to the inside diameter of the threaded neck C of the main container having content to which it is desired to incorporate a liquid or powder additive.
  • the outside diameter D of the section 13 d of the skirt 13 is substantially equal to the inside diameter of the end 3 a of the skirt 3 at the crest of the tapping 4 .
  • the difference between the corresponding radii is substantially equal to the thickness of the wall of the skirt 13 . This serves to create a shoulder 19 for bearing against the rim of the neck C under the section 13 d of the skirt 13 .
  • the end wall 12 of the cup 11 is substantially level with the edge 3 b of the skirt 3 when the skirt and the cover are in their first relative position, and the axial length L of the section 13 c is such that the thread 4 of the cover can engage with the outside thread of the neck C before any contact is made between the rim of the neck and the shoulder 19 .
  • the two components of the dose cap of the invention are made of injection-molded plastics material. Before assembling them together, the additive in question is placed in one or other of the cup and the cover and they are snap-fastened together in their first relative position ( FIG. 1 ). The cap can then be handled as a single part for packaging in the manner appropriate to the sales strategy adopted as a function of the people for whom the product is intended.
  • the user screws the dose cap of the invention onto the neck starting from the position shown in FIG. 1 .
  • screwing the skirt 3 onto the neck C causes the rim to penetrate into the cover, forcing the skirt 13 to penetrate towards the end wall 2 .
  • the end wall 12 of the cup cannot follow the movement of the skirt 13 because the stud 14 comes into abutment against the end wall 2 , and the end wall 12 becomes detached from the skirt along the line of weakness 15 .
  • the additive contained in the cup then pours into the container.
  • the dose cap has the shape shown in FIG. 2 where it is completely empty.
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FR0703445 2007-05-14
FR0703445A FR2916187B1 (fr) 2007-05-14 2007-05-14 Bouchon pour recipient formant reservoir d'additif
PCT/FR2008/000615 WO2008152219A1 (fr) 2007-05-14 2008-04-30 Bouchon pour recipient formant reservoir d'additif

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ATE495116T1 (de) 2011-01-15
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