US3122261A - Capseals for container closures - Google Patents

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US3122261A
US3122261A US182339A US18233962A US3122261A US 3122261 A US3122261 A US 3122261A US 182339 A US182339 A US 182339A US 18233962 A US18233962 A US 18233962A US 3122261 A US3122261 A US 3122261A
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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
    • B65D39/00—Closures arranged within necks or pouring openings or in discharge apertures, e.g. stoppers
    • B65D39/08—Threaded or like closure members secured by rotation; Bushes therefor
    • B65D39/082—Bung-rings and bungs for bung-holes
    • B65D39/084—Separated bung-rings made by one element

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  • This invention relates to capseals for container closures and particuiarly to such capseals as are customarily used for the sealing of closures employed on barrels and drums.
  • capsealing barrels and drums it is desirable to employ capseals which are tamperproof, i.e., cannot be removed without being sufiiciently destroyed as to make that removal obvious and are also leakproof.
  • a high degree of perfection has heretofore been achieved in this art by means of metal capseals which have effective gaskets secured therein and which capseals are internally scored to facilitate their removal.
  • the capseal of this invention is formed as a combination of a cap constructed of a synthetic plastic material, of which low density polyethylene is a non-limiting example, and a metal sealing ring carried thereby.
  • the cap of inverted cup shape, forms a cover over the closure by itself.
  • the sealing effect is achieved by the crimping in of the metal ring overlying the cap to effect sealing engagement of the cap with respect to the container closure.
  • capseal principally of plastic
  • metal capseals for use in the sealing of neck type drum closures.
  • the cap When the proper plastic is used it forms its own gaskethig portion.
  • the cap need not be completely destroyed to enable access to be gained to the container contents. Instead it is merely necessary to out off the top portion protruding above the metal ring, leaving the skirt portion in place seated against the closure neck. This provides a secondary seal about the losure neck.
  • the skirt of the cap does not need to be removed it can be equipped with ears for use in carrying identifying indicia.
  • Another object is to provide a capseal which will eliminate prior factors affording the possibility of injury to workmens hands upon removal.
  • Another object is to provide a chemically resistant capseal for use in the shipment of chemicals.
  • a further object is to provide a capseal wherein additional sealing between the container and closure is ef fected, which sealing remains effective even after the expandable portion of the capseal has been removed for providing access to the contents of the container.
  • a still further object is to provide a capseal which also provides a permanent tag ring.
  • FIG. 1 is a top plan view of the cap element of the capseal in accordance with the invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a vertical section taken on lines 2-2 of FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 3 is atop plan view of the sealing ring of the capseal.
  • FIG. 4 is an elevation partly in section of the sealing ring of FIG. 3.
  • FIG. 5 is a fragmentary vertical section, greatly enlarged, of portions of the cap element and sealing ring in assembled relation.
  • FIG. 6 is an elevation partly in section of a drum closure flange container wall assembly for reception of the capseal of the invention.
  • FIG. 7 is a view similar to FIG. 6, with the capseal positioned on the flange ready for sealing.
  • FIG. 8 is a full elevational view of the PEG. 7 construction, with the sealing ring crimped into place to complete the capsealing.
  • FIG. 9 is an enlarged fragmentary vertical section of the left hand portion of FIG. 8, showing the inclusion of a closure plug.
  • FIG. 10 is an enlarged fragmentary vertical elevation of the right hand portion of FIG. 8, showing a tag attached to the ear.
  • FIG. 11 is a fragmentary exploded view of a portion of FIG. 8 but with the protruding top portion of the capseal removed;
  • FIG. 12 is a fragmentary elevational view showing the commencement of the cut for effecting the removal of the top portion of the capseal.
  • the capseal of the invention is made up of a cap member, generally indicated at l which is molded from a synthetic plastic material, such as polyethylene, and a metal sealing ring generally indicated at 2.
  • the plastic cap member -1 comprises a flat disc-like top 3 and a stepped laterally extending skirt, generally indicated at 4.
  • the upper portion 5 of the skirt inclines slightly inwardly from the top corner 5a thereof to the lower portion 5b.
  • An intermediate horizontal annular portion 6 extends outwardly from the bottom of the portion 5 and turns into a lower vertically downwardly extending wall 7.
  • the portion 5b is recessed inwardly at 8 all the Way around its circumference, resulting in substantial reduction of the wall thickness at this position. This facilitates removal of the upper portion of the cap member as will be pointed out more fully hereinafter.
  • the lower vertical wall portion 7 is substantially thicker than the portion 5. Its outer surface 9 is cylindrical but its inner surface 9a is contoured to initially generally conform to the neck and flange head to which it is to be applied. The formation and wall thickness provide selfgasketing characteristics as will be pointed out.
  • the cap member is further provided with cars it which are formed as a continuation of the skirt 4- and extend outwardly from the lower edge 11 thereof. One or both of these ears may be perforated as at 12, for the attachment thereto of a suitable tag or label 13 as shown in FIG. 10. Though preferably two ears 10 are provided only one, or more than two can be provided as desired.
  • the sealing ring is an annular metal member of inverted L shape in cross-section with an inwardly projecting horizontal upper shoulder portion 14 which extends from a vertical extending cylindrical skirt.
  • the shoulder 14 terminates at its inner periphery in a free end face 14a.
  • the ring 2 is preferably formed of tin plate it may also be formed of aluminum or an alloy thereof.
  • FIG. shows the capseal 1 and sealing ring 2 in assembled'relationship.
  • the sealing ring has to be snapped over the plastic cap member since, from the FIG. 5 showing, the end face 14a of the shoulder 14 is on a somewhat shorter radius than the top corner 5a of the'cap.
  • the cap is sufficiently resilient to allow this snapping to be effected but, also, serves to retain the ring in assembled relationship.
  • the horizontal shoulder 14 seats down on the horizontal portion 6 with the end face 14a lying across and substantially closing off the groove 8 at the lower end of the side wall 5.
  • the skirt 15 and the wall portion 7 it will be seen that initially the wall portion 15 has its inner surface 15a spaced somewhat outwardly of the outer surface. 9 of the wall 7. The space'shown in P16.
  • FIG. 6 shows a drum closure flange and'container wall assembly ready for application of the capseal assembly.
  • An internally threaded flange 16 ' is pressed into an embossing in the drum stock 17 with the upper rim of thefiange beaded outwardly at 1-8 and overlying the upper end of the drum stock neck 1711.
  • FIG. 7 shows the closure assembly of FIG. 6 with the capseal assembly loosely applied thereto and before the metalsealing ring is crimped into sealing position.
  • the special shape of the inner surface 9a of the lower vertical skirt wall 9 places the appropriate thicknesses of material of the cap skirt 9 in position around the bead 13 and below that bead in opposition to the surface of the container wall neck 170.
  • a substantial gap still remains between the ring skirt 15' and the capskirt 9. Though this gap, particularly the intermediate part thereof, may be momentarily substantially closed up as the thicker portion of the cap skirt 7 is snapped past the head 18, it opens again when the complete'capseal is fully seated in the FIG. 7 position.
  • the cap skirt 9 is contoured, as best' seen in FIG. 5, with an enlarged portion which, even in the uncrimped positions, tends to swell in beneath the lower end of 15a of the flange head 13. This subsequently serves 'as an additional gasketing andsealing but initially serves to'hold the capseal in effective seated position over the closure flange assembly, ready for application of the crimping tool thereto.
  • FIG. 9 also includes a screw threaded closure plug 24 having a slightly enlarged head 21 engaged with the inner surface of the flange bead 18 at its lower edge 22 and thus confining the plug gasket 23 on its seat 24 and between the position 22 and the uppermost thread of the threaded side wall 16a of the closure flange 16.
  • the closure plug is not contacted by the capseal and the capseal may either, in some instances, form a complete closure without the closure plugor may, in its more common usage, form a secondary closing and sealing over the closure plug.
  • a capseal for container closures comprising a plastic cap having a disc-like top with a stepped laterally extending skirt therearound, said stepped skirt having an upper portion extending downwardly from said disc-like top, an intermediate horizontal portion extending outwardly from the bottom of said upper portion and a lower substantially vertical portion extending downwardly from said horizontal portion, said upper portion, near the lower end thereof, being circumferentially scored so as to enable tearing away of said disc-like top and said upper skirt portion, and a metal sealing ring having a substantially vertical skirt portion and an annular horizontal portion extending radially inwardly from the top of said skirt portion, said sealing ring being engaged over the conesponding intermediate horizontal portion and lower vertical portion of the cap skirt and being adapted to be crimped inwardly so as to compress said lower vertical portion of said plastic capseal into sealin' engagement with a container closure structure.
  • a capseal for container closure comprising a cap member and a sealing ring for securing said cap member in place on a closure member, said cap member and sealing ring being assembled together in a manner to retain them together in shipment, said cap member having a disclike top with a laterally extending stepped skirt therearound, said skirt being formed with a circumferentially disposed weakened portion of reduced cross-sectional area so as to enable tearing away of said disc-like top at said skirt weakened portion, said sealing ring surrounding a lower portion of said stepped cap skirt for clamping said cap skirt about a container closure structure, said sealing ring having an inwardly flanged portion with a depending skirt therearound, said cap skirt having a portion between said cap top and said step recessed radially inwardly to retain said sealing ring in place on said cap during shipment.
  • a capseal for container closures comprising a cap member and a sealing ring for securing said cap member in place on a closure member, said cap member and sealing ring being assembled together in a manner to retain them together in shipment, said cap member having a disclike top with a laterally extending stepped skirt therearound, said skirt being formed with a circumferentially disposed weakened portion of reduced cross-sectional area so as to enable tearing away of said disc-like top at said skirt weakened portion, said sealing ring surrounding a lower portion of said stepped cap skirt for clamping said cap skirt about a container closure structure, said sealing ring having an inwardly flanged portion with a depending skirt therearound, said ring skirt being positioned in radially spaced relationship with respect to the lower portion of said cap skirt to permit expansion of said cap skirt upon application of said capseal to a container closure structure.
  • a closure combination for containers comprising a container wall formed with an opening therein and with a substantially cylindrical neck extending upwardly around said opening, a bushing fitted within said opening having an upper portion beaded outwardly over the outer end of said neck and a capseal secured in sealing engagement over said opening, said capseal comprising a cap member formed of resilient plastic material, said cap member having a disc-like top, with a skirt extending downwardly therearound, said top overlying said opening and said skirt being formed with an outwardly extending shoulder seated on said bead, the skirt of said cap continuing downwardly beyond said bead and being engaged with the side thereof and with said container neck below said bead, a metal sealing ring having a flange portion overlying said shoulder portion of said skirt and having a depending collar portion crirnped inwardly against the lower portion of said skirt below said shoulder portion, said collar portion of said ring securing the portion of said skirt therebeneath into tight sealing engagement with said bead and with the container neck portion below said head,
  • a capseal for container closures comprising a plastic cap having a disc-like top portion, a stepped laterally depending sklrt depending from and around said disc-like top, said stepped skirt having a substantially cylindrical upper wall portion depending downwardly from said disc like top portion, a substantially horizontal intermediate portion extending radially outwardly from the lower end of said upper wall portion, a substantially cylindrical lower wall portion depending downwardly from the outer periphery of said horizontal portion and terminating in a free edge, the lower end of said upper wall portion adjacent said horizontal intermediate portion being formed with a circumferentially disposed radially outwardly opening channel leaving a remaining wall portion of reduced cross-sectional area in back of said channel, said wall portion of reduced horizontal cross-sectional area acting as a weakened frangible section so as to enable tearing away or" said disc-like top and said upper wall portion, and an annular metal sealing ring having a substantially cylindrical skirt portion, an annular flange extending radially inwardly from the uppermost portion of said ring skirt

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CH184763A CH390143A (fr) 1962-03-26 1963-02-14 Capsule de scellement pour fermetures de récipients
GB8556/63A GB975865A (en) 1962-03-26 1963-03-04 Improvements relating to capseals for container closures
ES285740A ES285740A1 (es) 1962-03-26 1963-03-05 Perfeccionamientos en los medios de cierre
DK100363AA DK119045B (da) 1962-03-26 1963-03-05 Kapsel til beholderlukker.
FI630526A FI47746C (fi) 1962-03-26 1963-03-20 Säiliön sulkulaitteiden kapselikansi.

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US3276617A (en) * 1963-09-04 1966-10-04 Leer Ind Ltd Van Container closure
US3684125A (en) * 1970-08-07 1972-08-15 American Flange & Mfg Container closure having sealing cap and fastening ring
US3923192A (en) * 1974-09-23 1975-12-02 Tom Walters Container aperture adaptors
US3987929A (en) * 1974-03-04 1976-10-26 Yamato Iron Works Co., Ltd. Cap seal for drum
US4164304A (en) * 1978-05-30 1979-08-14 The Continental Group, Inc. Closure for steel drums with blow molded liners
US5810190A (en) * 1997-06-27 1998-09-22 Atlanta Polyseal Ltd. Plastic bung seal
WO2001038177A3 (en) * 1999-11-19 2002-01-24 Rieke Corp Tamper-evident drum closure overcap
WO2007017852A1 (en) * 2005-08-10 2007-02-15 Pt. Prima Pack Steel Industri Protection ring for drum closure
USD564879S1 (en) 2007-07-17 2008-03-25 Rieke Corporation Plastic plug with overcap
US20090020530A1 (en) * 2007-07-17 2009-01-22 Baughman Gary M Plastic plug with overcap
US20090200259A1 (en) * 2008-02-08 2009-08-13 Baughman Gary M Plastic plug with overcap, including wrench and method
US20100301046A1 (en) * 2009-05-27 2010-12-02 Udo Schuetz Bung Stopper Closure For Bung-type Container
US20120138605A1 (en) * 2010-06-08 2012-06-07 David Alan Grundy Waterproof storage device
US20180290800A1 (en) * 2015-04-20 2018-10-11 Greif International Holding Bv Closure caps
US10301079B2 (en) 2014-09-03 2019-05-28 Sudarshan Madoprasad Saraf Hybrid plug and method of sealing a drum

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US3025988A (en) * 1959-07-20 1962-03-20 Owens Illinois Glass Co Non-removable closure

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US3276617A (en) * 1963-09-04 1966-10-04 Leer Ind Ltd Van Container closure
US3684125A (en) * 1970-08-07 1972-08-15 American Flange & Mfg Container closure having sealing cap and fastening ring
US3987929A (en) * 1974-03-04 1976-10-26 Yamato Iron Works Co., Ltd. Cap seal for drum
US3923192A (en) * 1974-09-23 1975-12-02 Tom Walters Container aperture adaptors
US4164304A (en) * 1978-05-30 1979-08-14 The Continental Group, Inc. Closure for steel drums with blow molded liners
US5810190A (en) * 1997-06-27 1998-09-22 Atlanta Polyseal Ltd. Plastic bung seal
WO2001038177A3 (en) * 1999-11-19 2002-01-24 Rieke Corp Tamper-evident drum closure overcap
US6360908B1 (en) * 1999-11-19 2002-03-26 Rieke Corporation Tamper-evident drum closure overcap
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WO2007017852A1 (en) * 2005-08-10 2007-02-15 Pt. Prima Pack Steel Industri Protection ring for drum closure
USD564879S1 (en) 2007-07-17 2008-03-25 Rieke Corporation Plastic plug with overcap
US20090020530A1 (en) * 2007-07-17 2009-01-22 Baughman Gary M Plastic plug with overcap
US20090200259A1 (en) * 2008-02-08 2009-08-13 Baughman Gary M Plastic plug with overcap, including wrench and method
US20100314391A1 (en) * 2008-02-08 2010-12-16 Baughman Gary M Plastic plug with overcap, including wrench and method
US8061543B2 (en) 2008-02-08 2011-11-22 Rieke Corporation Plastic plug with overcap, including wrench and method
US8066139B2 (en) 2008-02-08 2011-11-29 Rieke Corporation Plastic plug with overcap, including wrench and method
US20100301046A1 (en) * 2009-05-27 2010-12-02 Udo Schuetz Bung Stopper Closure For Bung-type Container
US20120138605A1 (en) * 2010-06-08 2012-06-07 David Alan Grundy Waterproof storage device
US10301079B2 (en) 2014-09-03 2019-05-28 Sudarshan Madoprasad Saraf Hybrid plug and method of sealing a drum
US20180290800A1 (en) * 2015-04-20 2018-10-11 Greif International Holding Bv Closure caps
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