US20120152885A1 - Variable-volume bellows bottle - Google Patents

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US20120152885A1
US20120152885A1 US13/391,879 US201013391879A US2012152885A1 US 20120152885 A1 US20120152885 A1 US 20120152885A1 US 201013391879 A US201013391879 A US 201013391879A US 2012152885 A1 US2012152885 A1 US 2012152885A1
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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
    • B65D2203/00—Decoration means, markings, information elements, contents indicators
    • B65D2203/02—Labels

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  • the idea consists of the manufacture of a bottle, large bottle or large can and/or any other kind of bellows-shaped container. Through this shape, the loss of pressure in the gas fluid contained is compensated, reducing or eliminating the air chamber that is formed as it is consumed.
  • the bellows-shaped container adjusts during content consumption to the volume of the remaining liquid in order to avoid that there is a volume of air within the same which could affect the organoleptic characteristics of the contained product.
  • bottles of this type are known, structured according to very different design lines, having as a fundamental problem the fact that once its content is consumed, they have a high volumetric occupation, which makes recycling them expensive, because it is necessary to have a considerably large space to accommodate said containers.
  • the current bottles once opened have a constant loss of the gas contained in the liquid, determined by the number of openings that the bottle has and the air chamber remaining in the same.
  • This air chamber is the one that causes the gas in the liquid to emigrate to that camera until compensating pressures. If the air chamber did not exist, every time we shut down the bottle the gas from the liquid could not emigrate anywhere.
  • PET Polyethylene Terephthalate
  • Variable-volume bellows bottle container proposed by the invention solves in a fully satisfactory manner the problems previously exposed in all and each of the discussed aspects. It also provides other benefits to the environment.
  • the preconized bottle will be obtained from PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate), PVC and/or any other product from the plastics industry, from petroleum derivatives or from degradable sugars and/or bellows-type deformed metal or feasible alloy, as well as combinations of metals and plastics in adhesion or not.
  • PET Polyethylene Terephthalate
  • PVC Polyethylene Terephthalate
  • any other product from the plastics industry from petroleum derivatives or from degradable sugars and/or bellows-type deformed metal or feasible alloy, as well as combinations of metals and plastics in adhesion or not.
  • Symmetric bellows symmetric or asymmetric flake, spiral bellows and/or any other kind of bellows that meets the specifications for the use which is determined.
  • planes there are nerves or ribs that fulfill the function of tensors.
  • FIG. 1 Shows a side elevational view of a variable volume container made in accordance with the object of the invention, in which it appears in operating situation, or maximum volume.
  • FIG. 2 Shows a view similar to that of FIG. 1 , but in which the container appears folded, in a minimum volumetric occupation arrangement.
  • FIG. 3 Shows a plant view of the device of the previous figure.
  • the bellows container allows us as it is used to remove the air chamber formed by reducing the total volume of the container. In the absence of air chamber, the gas contained in the liquid does not spread, it cannot compensate for internal tension of the gas. While the liquid will not have the gas at the opening pressure, it will not reach such low levels where the product has to be disposed of.
  • container for alcoholic or non-alcoholic soft drinks which are previously gasified or are naturally gasified, as well as for all types of gasified or non-gasified liquids, for use in the manufacture of chemicals, agrochemicals or industry in general.
  • a classic 2 thousand cubic centimeters container does not lose its form and/or its volume once used with the consequent increased cost in dry-weather flow and waste transport.
  • the bellows container decreases from 2 thousand cubic centimeters to 500 cubic centimeters, with consequent savings of 75 percent, over the original size.
  • FIG. 4 Determines the area of the label of 42.5 mm variable to the type of product and/or design.
  • the length plane of the label has 1 mm sine-shaped undulations to increase rigidity as if it were flat it would be weaker to the pressure of the gas.
  • the bottle is newly open and has a maximum fill level N 0 .
  • FIG. 6 Shows the partially empty bottle with a level N 1 and the formation of an air chamber CA, with a N 0 N 1 height. If we would close the bottle we would be in the standard system; and the gas dissolved in the liquid which at that moment is between 5-6 atmospheres would begin to escape from the liquid to the air chamber containing one atmosphere, trying to level pressures.
  • FIG. 7 Shows the bottle to which a slight pressure with the hand has been applied on the neck cone P zone. The bellows collapse until eliminating the air chamber CA and return to the initial level N 0 .
  • FIG. 8 The bottle is closed with its standard Threaded lid T, and thus return to the initial state of FIG. 1 .
  • the container or bottle of the invention is made from a tubular body ( FIG. 1 ), which as any standard bottle has the bottom closed ( FIG. 1.2 ), while its upper end has a neck or strangulation ( FIG. 1.3 ) finished in a mouthpiece ( FIG. 1.4 ), equipped with an external thread ( FIG. 1.5 ) over which the corresponding closure plug (T) is adapted, depicted in FIGS. 5 and 8 .
  • the invention focuses its characteristics in the fact that the tubular body ( FIG. 5 ) is affected mostly by a plurality of peripheral annular folds ( FIGS. 5 and 6 ) that confer to the tubular structure of said body a bellows-type, elastically deformable configuration, which in its deformation does not suffer any kind of plastic deformation, such that it can be carried from the position of FIG. 1 to the position of FIG. 2 without the container being structurally affected, as well as to any intermediate position, depending on the volume of liquid contained within it,
  • the bottle can have one or more sectors ( 7 ) that are not affected by the annular folds ( 6 ), such that they constitute formal and dimensionally suitable surfaces to receive on them the corresponding label of the product to be contained.

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