US20100301047A1 - Hygienic protection for beverages' containers - Google Patents

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US20100301047A1
US20100301047A1 US12/675,865 US67586508A US2010301047A1 US 20100301047 A1 US20100301047 A1 US 20100301047A1 US 67586508 A US67586508 A US 67586508A US 2010301047 A1 US2010301047 A1 US 2010301047A1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47G—HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT
    • A47G19/00—Table service
    • A47G19/22—Drinking vessels or saucers used for table service
    • A47G19/2205—Drinking glasses or vessels
    • A47G19/2211—Lip- or moustache-protecting devices for drinking glasses; Strainers set in a movable or fixed manner in the glasses
    • A47G19/2216—Sanitary lip guards mounted on the rim
    • 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
    • B65D1/22—Boxes or like containers with side walls of substantial depth for enclosing contents
    • B65D1/26—Thin-walled containers, e.g. formed by deep-drawing operations
    • B65D1/265—Drinking cups
    • 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
    • B65D2517/00—Containers specially constructed to be opened by cutting, piercing or tearing of wall portions, e.g. preserving cans or tins
    • B65D2517/0001—Details
    • B65D2517/0098—Means for preventing dust contacting pouring opening, e.g. a cover over the tear panel

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  • the present invention refers to the technical field of containers for beverages in general and in particular it refers to a hygienic protection to prevent external contact contamination and similar.
  • containers for cold or hot drinks are well known. These could include coffee' cups or glasses in general, and in particular the entire category of one-time disposable glasses or containers.
  • the present protection device for beverage's containers in general, particularly for plastic, paper, cardboard and similar disposable glasses and characterized by the fact that it comprises at least an annular collar comprising lateral walls and an upper junction base connected to them defining so an annular site.
  • the annular collar is appropriate to bind, by means of said annular site and in a removable way, on the upper edge of the glass in such a manner to protect it from external contaminations.
  • the annular collar so realized can therefore be easily applied on the glass as a common lid.
  • the grip will be guaranteed by the annular site that will receive the upper edge of the glass and a portion of the wall's height constituting the same glass.
  • annular geometry of the collar simply seen as a crown or annular configuration not exclusively circular but also with other shapes, allows exclusively the protection of the edge of the glass and of its wall's portion directed to the following contact with the lips during the use.
  • the annular collar thus, is realized with the lateral external and internal wall that are complied with the shape of the wall. In this way it is obtained a constructive solution that is practically universal and adaptable, in each case, to each different geometry of the container.
  • a first possible solution provides advantageously that the upper junction base comprises;
  • the plastic glass presents kind of a collar close to its upper edge on the side of the internal wall.
  • the present device provides that the first annular portion is connected to the internal wall by means of a projection that gets extended in a radial way from the internal wall towards said first portion defining a step.
  • the upper junction base comprises an annular cup of predetermined radius R 3 and emerging from both the external and internal lateral walls defining a second new conformation of receiving site.
  • This solution is particularly advantageous when the upper edge of the glass is conformed according to a circular profile.
  • the upper junction base comprises a junction with a profile that is almost rectilinear. In this manner, also in this case, the collar will fit perfectly on the edge of the glass.
  • annular collar applies on the upper edge of the glass allowing to the receiving site to contain completely in its inside the upper edge of the glass realizing a snap engage of the collar on said edge.
  • opportune means of disjunction that comprise:
  • the notches are placed in correspondence of both the sides of the tongue. Moreover the height of the notches can coincide to the entire height of the annular collar.
  • the present device can be produced separately or already integrated in the disposable glasses.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 show in a prospective view the application phases of the protective device on the glass
  • FIG. 3 shows a section plane of the device applied on the glass and of its geometry according to a first possible constructive configuration
  • FIG. 4 shows in detain a section of the device according to said first configuration
  • FIG. 5 shows a possible version of the device still according to the first constructive configuration
  • FIGS. 6 and 7 show respectively a detailed section of the device and a section plane of the same applied on a glass, in a second constructive version
  • FIG. 8 shows a third possible configuration of realization of the device in one of its application phases on the glass while FIG. 9 shows the removing phase of the same.
  • FIG. 10 shows a detail of application of the device on the container.
  • FIG. 1 and FIG. 3 it is therefore described an appropriate device able to resolve all the above said inconvenient.
  • annular collar 1 is realized through a couple of lateral walls ( 3 , 4 ) connected to each other by an upper junction base 5 , in a way to realize an annular site 6 .
  • the annular site so obtained (look at FIG. 3 ), will receive in its inside a predetermined portion of the height of the glass's wall 7 comprising also its upper edge 8 .
  • FIG. 3 shows in detail a possible section of the annular collar comprising the external lateral wall 4 and the internal lateral wall 3 , which follow the profile of the glass.
  • the annular denomination of the collar is not exclusively limited to a circular geometry, but also to any geometry tracing the profile of the container.
  • the upper junction base 5 allows then to connect to each other the two walls by following approximately the profile of the upper edge 8 of the glass. In this way it is realized the annular site 6 receiving the wall's portion 7 of the glass and of the same upper edge 8 .
  • the height of the two lateral walls 3 and 4 can vary at someone's taste without having to move apart from the present inventive concept. In this way the collar will keep a height of the glass's wall 7 that is more or less wide including, naturally, its upper edge 8 .
  • the section of the collar can also comprise different shapes and geometries, according to the needs and specific applications and, hereinafter, are described few of the preferred ones.
  • the numbering has been increased of a hundred for each preferred described configuration only for the aim of clarity of interpretation and thus in an absolute not limitative manner.
  • the upper junction base 5 is adjusted in such a way to realize a receiving site 109 for the upper edge 108 of the glass as described later on.
  • a first annular portion 110 results emerging from the internal wall 103 upwards and projecting toward the outside of the glass according to a first convex profile of predetermined radius R 1 .
  • a second annular portion 111 is on the other hand emerging upward from the external wall 104 . Also this second portion results projected towards the outside of the glass according to a second convex profile of predetermined radius R 2 .
  • the two above mentioned portions are then joined to each other through a straightaway or with a predetermined radius of curvature third junction annular portion 112 . In this way it is realized the receiving site 109 for the upper edge of the glass.
  • the receiving site 109 has been described by dividing it in the above mentioned portions ( 110 , 111 , 112 ) exclusively for geometry's clearness and thus not limited for the present invention.
  • This first configuration results particularly advantageous in the case of disposable glasses which, often, present an upper edge 108 shaped as a curl.
  • the disposable glasses are all considered one-time glasses in general and commonly realize in materials as plastic, paper, cardboard, polyester and similar.
  • the disposable glasses in general, present a sort of step 113 (look at FIG. 5 ). For this reason it is then possible to modify the collar in a way that the first annular portion 110 is connected to the internal wall 103 through a portion 114 that gets extended annularly in a radial way from the internal wall towards said first annular portion 110 . Indeed, in this case the step can be used and utilized as a stopper step during the insertion of the collar.
  • a second preferred configuration of the invention provides on the other hand that the upper junction base 5 is realized with an annular cup shape 210 or similar with a predetermined radius R 3 .
  • the cup results, also in this case, projecting from both the external 204 and internal 203 lateral walls defining this way also this other new receiving site 209 .
  • a third preferred configuration of the invention (look at FIG. 8 ), preferably usable in all types of container for liquid as cups or glasses in general and thus not only disposable, comprises a very simple upper junction base 5 , or rather a junction 310 with a profile that is almost rectilinear to connect the two walls 303 and 304 .
  • disjunction 17 looks for example FIGS. 1 and 2 ). These last ones are needed to remove from the glass, at the time of its use, the protective collar.
  • a tear-off tongue 18 gets projected from a predetermined point of the external lateral wall 4 downward;
  • a plurality of notching 19 that can comprise the entire or a portion of the height of the collar and that define tear-off lines of predetermined steps.
  • the collar 1 can be applied on the upper edge 8 of the glass before exposing it to the public.
  • nothing would avoid the realization, for example, of disposable glasses already prearranged with the protective collar.
  • nothing thus, would avoid the realization at an industrial scale of disposable glasses already prearranged and packed with such protection. In this way, by simply taking them out from the package and by placing them in the specific dispensers, they result to be ready for the use without any risk of contamination.
  • the removal of the collar is also a simple operation. Operating simply on the tongue 18 by pulling it, there will be a tearing along the entire predefined tear-off line 19 allowing the complete removal of the collar.
  • the realization of the present device can consist, for example, in a material moulding. Zn the case of realization of the annular collar already integrated in the disposable glasses, it is then necessary to have a new additional phase of realization of the glasses that comprises the production and the following application of the collar on the glass within the production run of the glass.
  • the materials for the realization of the present device can then be, in an absolutely not limitative manner, all the materials suitable to have such protective function.

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