US3603454A - Container for substance incorporating volatiles - Google Patents

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US3603454A
US3603454A US855541A US3603454DA US3603454A US 3603454 A US3603454 A US 3603454A US 855541 A US855541 A US 855541A US 3603454D A US3603454D A US 3603454DA US 3603454 A US3603454 A US 3603454A
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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
    • B65D81/00—Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents
    • B65D81/24—Adaptations for preventing deterioration or decay of contents; Applications to the container or packaging material of food preservatives, fungicides, pesticides or animal repellants
    • 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
    • B65D25/00—Details of other kinds or types of rigid or semi-rigid containers
    • B65D25/02—Internal fittings
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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  • ABSTRACT A container for a substance, which must retain a [54] CONTAINER F OR SUBSTANCE INCORPORATING necessary concentration of volatile constituents throughout storage and its useful life, includes a main container permeable to the volatiles and a depot element of a sealing material containing the volatile substance and which provides a sustained slow release thereof.
  • This depot element particularly intended for thin-walled plastic bottles permeable to volatiles, is shown in the following forms:
  • the invention relates to a container for the long term storage of substances, which must retain a necessary concentration of volatile constituents throughout storage, especially for such substances, which-after filling into the containerhave a certain concentration of these volatile constituents pass out through the walls of the container during storage.
  • Polyethylene with a very low wall thickness is used for many different purposes, and so that such containers may be squeezed in order to take out the contents; thus, either a direct ejection or atomization by means of a suitable spray nozzle device is achieved.
  • a direct ejection or atomization by means of a suitable spray nozzle device is achieved.
  • This invention solves the problem of developing a container for the long term storage of substances containing volatile elements by a simple procedure, which does not require expensive preparation of the container walls or selection of certain materials for the container or methods of closing the container. It is characterized as follows: a depot element is provided on the inside of the container which supplies the liquid in the container with the volatile parts.
  • the expression depot element herein means a storage element providing a sustained slow release of a volatile substance over a substantial period of time.
  • the depot element may advantageously be sized amply enough to supply volatile constituents sufficient to make up for the loss thereof occuring during storage.
  • these containers may be manufactured in different forms of technical realization, materials and closures and for all purposes because the continuous accepted loss of volatile elements, is steadily replaced from the depot.
  • the depot element may also be used to supply the contents of the container with the desired volatile constituents up to the end of the storage and useful life of the container.
  • the application of the invention especially relates to plastic bottles with a low wall thickness, above all polyethylene bot tles, which contain liquid substances with volatile oils and/or aromatizing agents.
  • the depot element may best be produced in the form of additional containers or in form of fusions, i.e. as a mixture of the volatile parts with formative substances which may be melted and hardened again without impairing the volatile parts, e.g. mixtures of volatile parts and waxes, resins, fats, natural and/or synthetic polymers with a volatiles content up to 50 percent of the weight.
  • the melts may be poured into the container and solidified in a thick layer on the wall or the bottom of the container.
  • the depot elements made out of the above mentioned fusions, may be produced in form of balls, granules, cylinders, etc. and then be placed into the container, either loose or fixed at the inner walls.
  • the amount of substances contained in the depot element or the share of melts may under certain circumstances be dimensioned so amply that the container may be refilled with the substance to be dispensed.
  • additional containers are used instead of depot elements made out of fusions or similar mixtures which maintain their form, the material and thickness of the wall have to be designed for the planned duration of effectiveness and storing time.
  • Such additional containers may also best be produced in form of balls, cylinders, pockets, or inner parts.
  • parts of the wall of the main container may be provided with suitable permeability for storing the volatile parts and may thus be used as the depot element.
  • a pocket or a hollow space in the wall of the container possibly accessible from the outside, is conceivable and during the manufacturing process volatile oils and/or aromatizing agents-volatile parts-may be poured into them. After that, the hollow spaces are sealed.
  • the depot element may, however, be useful to produce the depot element out of two or more single parts in form of a partition wall between the bottom and the rest of the container; in such a case the inner part of this wall may be produced from the same material as the container or as a separate inserted part of different material with a permeability adapted to suit the required service.
  • holding elements may be adjusted to the inner wall of the container, which can hold depot elements in the form of additional containers or hardened, molded parts.
  • a simple mushroom-shaped, one-piece holding element may be effectively provided at the inside of the container, upon which tubular depot elements may be affixed.
  • the depot element is produced in such a way that it can also supply the gaseous atmosphere in the container.
  • the depot element-in accordance with the prescribed position in the container may be situated at least partly outside of the liquid contents of the container.
  • depot elements for various volatile parts may also be provided within one container; in this case the volatile parts in the depots are dimensioned correspondingly larger.
  • containers in form of boxes may also be provided with a depot element.
  • substances with volatile parts may be stored for a long time in inexpensive, easily producible containers; thereby the original composition is preserved almost unimpaired, and the desired concentration of volatile parts is maintained throughout use of the stored substance.
  • FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view in elevation of a poured form of this invention
  • FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view in elevation of a loose granular form of this invention
  • FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view in elevation of a loose spherical form of this invention.
  • FIG. Al is a cross-sectional view in elevation of an inserted and affixed form of this invention.
  • FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view in elevation of an annular dip tube form of this invention.
  • FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view in elevation of an elongated form of this invention extending above and below the liquid.
  • FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view in elevation of a hollow internal container form of this invention.
  • FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view in elevation of a partitioned form of this invention.
  • a fusion 2 was poured into a bottle-shaped container l as depot element, which covers the bottom and fits close to the inner walls of the container at the bottom.
  • This melt 2 partly consists of wax, to which the corresponding volatile parts were added in a molten state of the fusion.
  • the depot element is formed by a number of granules 3a, which float on the surface of the liquid a which is to be aromatized.
  • FIG. 3 shows the bottle-shaped container lb with a ballshaped molded piece 4!; as depot element, which may be produced as a melt mixture without coating or as additional container with filling.
  • FIG. 4 is shown at the bottom inside of the bottle-shaped container 1a a mushroom-shaped holder 50 on top of which a tube 6c is affixed as depot element.
  • This tube 60 may be either a hardened, molded piece with no outer coating or an additional container closed at the annular ends.
  • dip-tube 7d has been provided with a coating 8d in form of a thick-walled hollow cylinder, which forms the depot element. 7
  • FIG. 6 shows bottle-shaped container 1e with an additional container 9e as depot element, which has been filled with the volatile parts (e.g. volatile oils). After that the additional container 9e was sealed at the front ends. Its wall thickness is dimensioned according to the intended duration of effectiveness and storing time for replacing the volatile parts in the bottie-shaped container 1e once or several times. Since the additional container is also partly situated above the surface of the liquid, the gaseous space above the liquid We is also supplied with volatile parts.
  • the volatile parts e.g. volatile oils
  • FIG. 7 shows as depot element a truncated conical piece 12f, secured to the bottom of the bottle-shaped container lf which may either be fabricated as one piece of the same material as the wall or which may be fastened to the bottom of the container as an inserted piece of a different material.
  • the volatile parts are filled into the interior of the truncated conical piece 12f, and after that this piece is sealed by suitable closure means.
  • FIG. 8 a partition wall 11g of the same material or of one different from that of the container wall is placed above the bottom of the container lg, whereby a hollow space forms between the bottom and the wall 113, which may be filled with the parts for volatile replacement.
  • the whole surface of the partition wall works as depot element, causing an advantageous exchange between depot element and liquid 10 due to the substantial size of thediffusion or permeable surface.
  • a container for retaining a substance maintaining a necessary amount of volatile constituent throughout storage and useful life comprising a main container for said substance, said main container being permeable to said volatile constituent whereby said substance becomes depleted of said volatile constituent, a depot element for sustained slow release of said volatile constituent, said depot element being relatively small relative to said main container and being inserted therewithin, said depot element comprising a combination of said volatile constituent with a sealing material, said sealing material being capable of substantially retaining said volatile constituent stored therewithin but permitting a slow release thereof whereby said necessary amount of volatile constituent is retained within said container over a substantial period of storage or use, said depot element comprising a hollow container of said sealing material, said volatile constituent being disposed within said hollow container, said main container including a dip tube, said depot element comprising an elongated hollow cylinder, and said hollow cylinder comprising said di tube.
  • a container for retaining a substance maintaining a necessary amount of volatile constituent throughout storage and useful life comprising a main container for said substance, said main container being permeable to said volatile constituent whereby said substance becomes depleted of said volatile constituent, a depot element for sustained slow release of said volatile constituent, said depot element being relatively small relative to said main container and being inserted therewithin, said depot element comprising a combination of said volatile constituent with a sealing material, said sealing material being capable of substantially retaining said volatile constituent stored therewithin but permitting a slow release thereof whereby said necessary amount of volatile constituent is retained within said container over a substantial period of storage or use, a retaining element being disposed within said main container, said depot element being affixed upon said retaining element, said retaining element comprising a knobbed shaft, said depot element including an aperture slightly smaller than said knob in the relaxed condition of said depot element, and said knob being inserted within said aperture.

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