US3858760A - Display cap for pressurized container - Google Patents

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US3858760A
US3858760A US361413A US36141373A US3858760A US 3858760 A US3858760 A US 3858760A US 361413 A US361413 A US 361413A US 36141373 A US36141373 A US 36141373A US 3858760 A US3858760 A US 3858760A
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Antonin Goncalves
Michel Desruet
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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
    • B65D83/00—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents
    • B65D83/14—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for delivery of liquid or semi-liquid contents by internal gaseous pressure, i.e. aerosol containers comprising propellant for a product delivered by a propellant
    • B65D83/16—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for delivery of liquid or semi-liquid contents by internal gaseous pressure, i.e. aerosol containers comprising propellant for a product delivered by a propellant characterised by the actuating means
    • B65D83/20—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for delivery of liquid or semi-liquid contents by internal gaseous pressure, i.e. aerosol containers comprising propellant for a product delivered by a propellant characterised by the actuating means operated by manual action, e.g. button-type actuator or actuator caps
    • B65D83/205—Actuator caps, or peripheral actuator skirts, attachable to the aerosol container
    • 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
    • B65D55/00—Accessories for container closures not otherwise provided for
    • B65D55/02—Locking devices; Means for discouraging or indicating unauthorised opening or removal of closure
    • B65D55/024—Closures in which a part has to be ruptured to gain access to the contents
    • 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
    • B65D83/00—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents
    • B65D83/14—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for delivery of liquid or semi-liquid contents by internal gaseous pressure, i.e. aerosol containers comprising propellant for a product delivered by a propellant
    • B65D83/16—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for delivery of liquid or semi-liquid contents by internal gaseous pressure, i.e. aerosol containers comprising propellant for a product delivered by a propellant characterised by the actuating means
    • B65D83/22—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for delivery of liquid or semi-liquid contents by internal gaseous pressure, i.e. aerosol containers comprising propellant for a product delivered by a propellant characterised by the actuating means with a mechanical means to disable actuation
    • B65D83/224—Tamper indicating means obstructing initial actuation, e.g. removable
    • B65D83/226—Tamper indicating means obstructing initial actuation, e.g. removable preventing initial depression of the actuator

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  • pressurized containers for storing various products such, for example, as cosmetic products or products for personal care are provided at their upper end with a sensing valve equipped with a push-button.
  • a sensing valve equipped with a push-button.
  • the push-button When the push-button is depressed by the finger of the user the product is dispensed in the form of a foam or a fine jet.
  • the tops of pressurized containers are frequently equipped with display and dispensing caps surrounding and/or replacing the push button.
  • Such a cap comprises a tongue against which the user presses to dispense the product. This tongue is protected or locked during storage and before use by sealing means which prevent dispensing until after the sealing means have been ruptured or removed. These sealing means arealso called safety strips.
  • the devices presently in use are relatively expensive because they require the molding of relatively complicated shapes from thermoplastic material.
  • This cap is provided with sealing means but is nevertheless relatively inexpensive because of the simplicity of the manner in which it is manufactured by molding from thermoplastic material.
  • a display cap adapted to be positioned at the top of a pressurized container of the aerosol bomb type, which container comprises at its upper end a dispensing valve the outlet tube of which is equipped with a push-button.
  • This cap is provided at its lower end with mounting means for positioning it with respect to the pressurized container and is characterized by the fact that it has in its upper end a channel median plane of which is substantially axial of the cap.
  • This channel has a width substantially equal to the width of the finger of the user and comprises an orifice in its bottom for receiving at least the upper part of the push-button.
  • the channel is closed at its top by sealing means attached to the lateral walls of the channel by weakened zones.
  • the channel in the cap is laterally defined by two walls parallel to the axis of the cap which are preferably flat and parallel to each other.
  • the cap is bounded externally by a lateral cylindrical surface.
  • the sealing member at the top of the channel is U-shaped in section, the two arms of the U being substantially parallel to, the lateral walls of the channel and attached to these walls by their upper edges.
  • the bottom of the U is substantially in contact with or in the neighborhood of the upper part of the pushbutton.
  • the sealing means has a length substantially equal to the length of the channel. That is to say, when the cap is defined by a cylindrical surface and has a circular base, this length is substantially equal to the diameter of the cap.
  • the sealing means at the top of the channel in the cap is a substantially flat strip potitioned between the two lateral walls at the channel. At the end of these walls the strip preferably has one of its ends bent toward the lower part of the channel.
  • the length of that part of the strip having its axis lying in the median plane of the channel is substantially equal to the length of the channel, that is to say, when the lateral surface of the cap is a cylindrical surface having a cir cular base it is substantially equal to the diameter of the cap.
  • weakened zones which permit the attachment of the sealing strip to the lateral walls of the channel by using any appropriate conventional means, for example, by forming lines of very thin material in the neighborhood of the junction between the safety strip and the walls of the channel. The user may easily tear the material along these lines.
  • connecting pins which are spaced from each other and have a relatively small section so that they may easily be broken by the user at the moment he wats to utilize the pressurized container.
  • the means for attaching the cap according to the invention at its lower end may be of any type.
  • a cap may be used in which the mounting means consists of a flange or rim at the lower part of a central cylinder, said flange snap-fitting onto a rim at the top of the pressurized container on which the cap is mounted.
  • This latter rim may be one formed by crimping the cap of the container to the container wall or one which connects the lateral wall of the pressurized container to the frustoconical upper part of the container.
  • the central cylinder which carries the mounting rim at its lower edge may be connected to the lower surface of the top of the cap and/or on the lower surface of the lower wall of the channel.
  • the cap according to the invention is exceedingly easy to mold because the channel in its upper part is easy to form in a molding process. It follows that the mold to be used is simple and relatively inexpensive. Moreover, the cap according to the invention, when equipped with its sealing strip, has a very attractive appearance. Finally, the cap according to the invention is adapted to be mounted on pressurized containers of a conventional type equipped with any type of push-button, since the provision of an appropriate orifice in the bottom of the channel in the cap makes this cap adaptable to any pressurized container.
  • the sealing strip is U-shaped in section, it is not possible to operate the pressurized container without tearing this strip, since the presence of that part of the strip which rests on the upper surface of the pushbutton prevents any pressure on this upper surface.
  • a flat strip having a bent-back end is used, the
  • the strip may be positioned at a distance from the upper surface of the push-button such that the user has access to only one side of the push-button. If the dispensing nozzle of the push-button is on the side which is bent down, fluid may be ejected by pressing on the pushbutton, but this only projects the product against the bent portion. If, on the contrary, the dispensing nozzle of the push-button is directed in the opposite direction, ejection takes place in the direction of the hand of the user who is operating the push-button. It follows that, in these two cases, pressure on the push-button cannot result in convenient use so long as the flat strip is in place.
  • Such a device does not prevent emptying of the container but does prevent the convenient use of the container as long as the safety strip is positioned above the channel. It will be seen that the two types of sealing means provided in the two embodiments hereinbefore described both permit the desired results to be obtained. That is to say, they both prevent normal utilization of the pressurized container while that container is equipped with the sealing means.
  • FIG. 1 is an'axial sectional view taken through the top of a pressurized container equipped with a cap according to the invention, with the sealing means in place;
  • FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the container and cap of FIG. lafter removal of the sealing means
  • FIG. 3 is a sectional view of the detail surrounded by the circle A in FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 4 is an axial sectional view taken through a second embodiment of the cap according to the invention, in position on a pressurized container, and equipped with a sealing strip;
  • FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing the sealing strip on the cap of FIG. 4.
  • reference numeral 1 indicates the pressurized container on which the cap according to the invention is mounted.
  • the pressurized container 1 comprises in the upper part of its lateral wall a neck 2 produced as indicated in French application Ser. No. 72-03048, filed Jan. 31, I972.
  • the cap according to the invention has a lateral cylindrical surface 3, the lower part of which terminates in a flange 4, which resiliently engages in the neck 2 to attach the cap to the upper part of the pressurized container 1.
  • the product stored in the container 1 is dispensed by means of a valve 5 positioned at the top of container 1 in the central part of a valve-carrying top 6. This top is attached to the lateral wall of the container 1 by an annular crimped joint 7.
  • the valve 5 comprises an outlet tube which carries a push-button 8 which dispenses the product through a nozzle 9.
  • the lateral cylindrical wall 3 of the cap according to the invention terminates at its lower end in the flange 4 and at its upper end in a flat upper surface 10 perpendicular to the axis of the cylindrical wall 3.
  • a channel 11 is located in the upper part of the cap according to the invention. This channel has a U-shaped section and is laterally defined by two parallel walls 12. which are also parallel to the axis of the cap. The plane equidistant between the two lateral walls of the channel contains the axis of the lateral cylindrical surface 3 of the cap.
  • the bottom of the channel consists of a flat surface 13 perpendicular to the axis of the cylindrical surface 3.
  • an orifice 14 which admits the push-button 8 so that the spray nozzle 9 is above the level of the bottom 13.
  • the sealing strip which is associated with the cap which hasjust been described is strip 15 which has a U- shaped section.
  • the bottom of the U rests on the top of the push-button 8 and the upper edges of the U are bent so as to lie substantially in the plane of the upper surface 10, to which they are connected along a thin line 16.
  • a linear notch 17 in alignment with the thin line 16 separates the edge of the sealing strip and the lateral wall 12 of the channel 11, which are connected by the thin zone 16.
  • the purchaser of the pressurized container is the beneficiary of a guarantee which is certain, so long as the sealing strip 15 is positioned above the channel 12.
  • the sealing strip 15 is positioned above the channel 12.
  • this pressure is impossible to apply because of the presence of the stiff strip 15 which strip rests on the upper surface of the push-button 8.
  • the cap may be completely removed by withdrawing the flange 4 from the neck 2.
  • FIG. 4 shows another embodiment of the cap according to the invention.
  • Reference numeral 23 indicates the lateral cylindrical surface of the cap. This lateral surface 23 extends to the top of a pressurized container 21.
  • the container 21 carries at its upper end a valve carrying number 26 crimped to the lateral wall by an annular crimped joint 27 and carrying in its central zone a dispensing valve 25.
  • the outlet tube of the valve 25 is provided with a push-button 28, in the lateral wall of which is mounted a nozzle 29.
  • the cylinder which constitutes the lateral wall 23 of the cap according to the invention is a right circular cylinder, the diameter of which is substantially equal to the diameter of the lateral wall of the pressurized container 21.
  • the cap according to the invention terminates at its upper end in a flat surface 30 and the upper part of the cap is provided with a channel defined by two lateral walls 32 and a bottom 33.
  • the two lateral walls 32 are parallel to each other and to the axis of the cylindrical surface 23.
  • the plane equidistant between the two walls 32 is an axial plane of the cylindrical surface 23.
  • the bottom 33 of the channel is pierced by an orifice 34 which receives the push-button 28.
  • a central cylinder 40 having a substantially circular section is connected to the lower surface of the channel bottom 33.
  • This cylinder 40 has at its lower end a mounting flange 41 which cooperates with the crimped joint 27 which is encircled by the lower part of the cylinder 40.
  • the cooperation between the crimped joint 27 and the flange 41 attaches the cap according to the invention to the top of the pressurized container 21.
  • the sealing strip 35 consists of a flat strip 42, one end 43 of which is bent down toward the bottom of the channel 43. The height of the bent down end 43 is less than the depth of the channel in the cap, that is to say, less than the distance which separates the bottom 33 from the upper surface 30 of the cap.
  • the strip is connected to the upper edges of the lateral walls 32 by connecting pins 44.
  • the strip 35 When the strip 35 is positioned above the channel as shown in FlG. 4, the user can introduce his finger into said channel from only one side. It follows that, regardless of the orientation of the nozzle of the push-button, projection of the products stored can take place only against the bent down tab 43, or against the lateral walls 32 of the channel, or in the direction of the hand of the user who is pressing on the push-button. It is thus impossible to use the pressurized container in a normal manner so long as the strip 35 is in position above the channel.
  • FIG. 5 shows in perspective such a strip 35 after it has been torn away.
  • the attachment of the cap to the pressurized container requires the molding of a central cylinder which requires a more complicated mold than the embodiment first described.
  • the cost of such a cap and safety strip remains relatively low.
  • the appearance of the cap in the embodiment of FIG. 4, after removal of the strip 35 is substantially the same as that of the first embodiment shown on FIG. 2.
  • Display cap for mounting on a pressurized container equipped with a dispensing valve at its upper end, which valve has an outlet actuated by a pushbutton, said cap comprising means at its lower end for attaching it to said pressurized container and a transverse channel in its upper end, the median plane of which channel passes substantially through the axis of the cap, said channel having a width substantially equal to the width of a human finger and an orifice in its bottom for admitting the upper part of the push-button, said cap further comprising a sealing strip across the top of said channel, said sealing strip having a U-shaped section, with the two arms of the U substantially parallel to the width of the channel and attached to the sides of said channel at their upper ends by a weakened zone, the bottom of the U being adjacent the top of the pushbutton.
  • cap as claimed in claim 1 in which the cap is externally defined by a lateral cylindrical surface.
  • the weakened zone by which the sealing strip is attached to sides of the channel comprises lines of thin material adjacent the junction between the sealing strip and the sides of the channel or connecting pins which are spaced from each other and may be broken when the sealing strip is removed.
  • a pressurized container and a dis play cap said pressurized container comprising in its upper part a dispensing valve equipped with a pushbutton and a display cap as claimed in claim 1 encircling at least part of the push-button.

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US20070034649A1 (en) * 2005-08-15 2007-02-15 Smith Scott E Ergonomic dispenser
US20170028421A1 (en) * 2014-04-08 2017-02-02 Qualipac Bottle
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