WO1996019388A1 - Fermeture garantie contre les manipulations - Google Patents

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WO1996019388A1
WO1996019388A1 PCT/AU1995/000858 AU9500858W WO9619388A1 WO 1996019388 A1 WO1996019388 A1 WO 1996019388A1 AU 9500858 W AU9500858 W AU 9500858W WO 9619388 A1 WO9619388 A1 WO 9619388A1
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Peter Kingsley Bayly
Mark Simon Bayly
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Amcor Limited
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  • This invention relates to a closure for a container and is particularly directed to a closure of resilient plastics material having one or more features which render it difficult to remove or open the closure in other than a normal manner.
  • Closures according to the invention may also include features that afford visual evidence that a closure has been opened. Closures of the type with which the invention is concerned are usually known as tamper proof closures.
  • the invention also encompasses a closure and a container when assembled together.
  • a closure according to the invention may be used to seal containers for foodstuffs and beverages wherein consumers can rest assured that a given container has not previously been opened by any other person.
  • the closures may be used for sealing containers made of a plastics material, for example of 830 ml. capacity and containing milk or liquid fruit juices.
  • the invention provides a closure of plastics material for a container, the closure including a sleeve for surrounding the neck of the container, the sleeve including a locking means for engaging a portion of the neck of the container, the locking means being hingedly connected to the sleeve, and movable to a locking position which effectively prevents separation of the sleeve from a neck of the container on assembly of the closure to the container.
  • the invention encompasses the use of a single locking means or plural locking means.
  • the locking means is (are) movable to its (their) locking position by physical contact between the locking means and a portion of the neck of a container which occurs during the assembly of the closure onto a container.
  • the locking means comprises an annulus having a conical form such that it depends inwardly and downwardly from the sleeve prior to the assembly or fitting of a closure according to the invention to a container.
  • the locking means may comprise a plurality of lugs that depend inwardly and downwardly from the sleeve.
  • a container for use with the invention will have a neck that is adapted to cooperate with the locking means.
  • the container neck may include a ledge which contacts the free end of the above described annulus (or free ends of the lugs) whereby such contact and the relative linear movement between a closure and container as they are being assembled rotates the annulus (or lugs) abut the hinge connection into a locking position.
  • the container neck also includes an "undercut" abutment (which may be provided by a -junction between an inwardly extending ledge and a wall of the container) such that a locking means, such as in the form of an annulus, can extend upwardly from the sleeve such that a free end face seats under the abutment so as to prevent separation of the sleeve from the container under normal conditions of use.
  • a closure having a locking means provides a tamper evident closure insofar as the difficulty of removing the closure from a container means that any such removal is only possible by breaking or damaging the locking means as will render the locking means of no effect if the sleeve is replaced onto the container.
  • the first aspect of the invention also includes an assembled closure and container.
  • a closure according to the invention also includes a container sealing diaphragm attached to the sleeve by a frangible connection, the diaphragm being removable upon breaking the frangible connection to open the container.
  • the diaphragm may include a means, such as a pull ring of relatively large diameter, for breaking the *
  • a closure as above described may comprise a one piece integrally moulded construction.
  • a closure according to the invention also includes a cover cap for snap-on engagement with the sleeve.
  • the sleeve is adapted to provide an upper sealing position and a lower sealing position thereon for the snap-on cover cap.
  • the cover cap may also be made of plastics material and moulded as a separate piece.
  • the diaphragm and the means for breaking the frangible connection pull ring are shaped such that, when intact with the sleeve, they allow the snap-on cover cap to engage with the sleeve in the upper sealing position only.
  • the container When the container is unsealed, that is when the diaphragm has been removed, it may be re ⁇ ealed by replacing the cover cap over the sleeve until it snaps into the lower sealing position thereon.
  • the position of the cover cap affords an indication of whether the sealing diaphragm of the closure has been removed.
  • the cover cap can only be in its upper position, whereas if the diaphragm has been removed, the cover cap will re ⁇ eal the container only when it is snapped on into its lower position.
  • the sleeve provides a "no-drip" pouring rim for the container.
  • a closure of plastics material for a container including a cup shaped portion for seating within the neck of a container for sealing the container, and a sleeve portion frangibly connected to the cup-shaped portion whereby when the closure is assembled on the container, the sleeve portion surrounds the neck of the container externally of the container and effectively cannot be removed therefrom without breaking the frangible connection.
  • cup-shaped portion seals the container by virtue of a snap fit engagement between the two.
  • a circumferential bead on the external surface of an upstanding wall of the cup-shaped portion, which is for engaging an internal undercut portion of the neck of a container, may be provided to establish the snap fit engagement.
  • the container may also include a shoulder on which the bottom edge surface of the sleeve portion seats when a closure is assembled on the container. This feature renders it difficult to access the bottom edge of the sleeve, for example in an attempt to prise the closure off a container without breaking the frangible connection.
  • the sleeve portion includes a lug for use in a normal opening operation for the closure.
  • the lug may be used as a lever to force the sleeve portion outwardly and upwardly of the container by finger pressure to break the frangible connection and thus allow removal of the cup-shaped portion from the container.
  • Preferably only a portion of the connection between the cup-shaped portion and sleeve portion is made frangible such that the sleeve portion will remain attached to the cup-shaped portion and act as a pull ring therefor to facilitate removal of the sealing cup-shaped portion on opening the container.
  • the frangible connection between the cup-shaped portion and the sleeve portion may be located adjacent an upper rim of the cup-shaped portion.
  • the frangible connection may be located in proximity to the upper rim but spaced therefrom such that the cup-shaped portion includes an annular rim, of inverted ⁇ -shape in cross section, which seats over the rim of the neck opening of the container.
  • the second aspect of the invention provides for a moulded one piece closure construction that is tamper proof to the extent that access to the closure for opening the container in other than a normal way is rendered very difficult and in any event will be evidenced by a breaking of the frangible connection between the cup-shaped portion and the sleeve portion.
  • the cup-shaped portion and the surrounding sleeve portion in combination, in use of the closure, ensure that the seal between the cup-shaped portion and a container cannot be broken without first breaking the frangible connection between the cup-shaped portion and the sleeve portion.
  • the invention in its second aspect includes the assembly of a closure and a container.
  • cup-shaped portion may be used to reclose a container, such reclosure being evident from the broken status of the connection between the cup-shaped and sleeve portions.
  • FIGURE 1 is a diagrammatic sectional view of portion of a closure, according to an embodiment of the first aspect of the invention, in place on the neck of a container;
  • FIGURE 2 shows a closure and cover cap according to an embodiment of the first aspect of the invention
  • FIGURE 3A shows the position of a cover cap of a closure as shown in Figure 2 prior to an initial unsealing of the closure;
  • FIGURE 3B shows the position of the cover cap of Figure 3A in its resealing position
  • FIGURE 4 is a diagrammatic sectional view of portion of a closure, according to an embodiment of the second aspect of the invention, in place on the neck of a container;
  • FIGURE 5 shows a closure according to an alternative embodiment (as shown in Figure 7) of the second aspect of the invention;
  • FIGURE 6A shows a closure as in Figure 5 assembled on a container
  • FIGURE 6B is a view similar to Figure 6A illustrating a closure that has been tampered with
  • FIGURE 7 is a view similar to Figure 4 showing an alternative embodiment of the second aspect of the inventio ;
  • FIGURE 8 illustrates a modified form of the embodiment illustrated in Figure 1.
  • a closure according to the invention in its first aspect as shown in Figure 1 includes a first part 1 and a separate second part 2, both of which are moulded from a resilient plastics material.
  • the first part 1 includes a sleeve 4 for surrounding the neck 5 of a container 6, which may also be made from a plastics material, and a diaphragm 7 (shown in dotted outline in Figure 1) for closure of the neck opening of the container 6.
  • the second part 2 is a cover cap which snap fits onto the sleeve 4 in either of two positions (as will be described below) .
  • a first position for the cover cap is shown in broken outline and the second position is shown in full block form in Figure 1.
  • sleeve 4 of the closure is formed with a depending flange 8 such that an annular recess 9 is defined within which the rim 10 of the neck 5 of container 6 is resiliently received thereby ensuring a sealing connection between sleeve 4 and neck 5.
  • the upper portion of sleeve 4 is also provided with a concavely formed recess 11 of relatively large width which is developed outwardly to a lower end 12 which is spaced outwardly to a greater extent than the upper end of recess 11 at a lip 13. Lip 13 protrudes outwardly around the upper edge of the sleeve 4 and acts as a drip breaker when fluid is poured from the container.
  • a second concave recess 14 is formed in sleeve 4 between recess 11 and an outwardly extending shoulder 15, which shoulder is provided by the upper surface of a lower portion of sleeve 4.
  • Recesses 11 and 14 define first and second sealing positions, respectively, for cover cap 2 as will be described in detail below.
  • the lower portion of sleeve 4 includes a locking means 16 in the form of an annular member of conical form that is hingedly fixed to sleeve 4 at 17.
  • locking means 16 being of conical form depends downwardly and inwardly from the hinge connection 17 (as shown by the dotted outline in Figure 1) .
  • Hinge 17 may be provided by a thinner section of the material of the closure.
  • Neck 5 of container 6 includes an outwardly directed ledge 20 and below that a recessed section 18 defined between an upper inwardly extending ledge 19 (that is an undercut abutment) and a lower outwardly extending shoulder section 21.
  • member 16 strikes shoulder 20 and is thus rotated about hinge 17 into an upwardly directed position.
  • locking member 16 rides over ledge 20 and along the neck until it enters recess 18 such that its free end seats under ledge 19 (as shown in full line form in Figure 1) .
  • the closure is effectively locked in place whereby sleeve 4 cannot be separated from neck 5 without breaking or damaging the locking means 16 or the container 6.
  • the invention includes use of a locking means other than in the form of an annular member 16.
  • a locking means other than in the form of an annular member 16.
  • a series of circumferential lugs could be provided which, as will be appreciated, will function in a like manner to the annulus 16 to lock the sleeve in place on the container.
  • Diaphragm 7 of the closure includes a wall portion 22 of conical form which extends to an upstanding central cylindrical wall portion having a circular top wall 23.
  • Conical portion 22 includes a part circumferential section 24 which is defined by a part circumferential frangible connection 25, the frangible connection being defined by a thin section of the material of the closure that remains consequent upon the forming of a part circumferential groove 26 in wall portion 22.
  • Groove 26 (and consequently frangible connection 25) extends more than 180° from a start position defined by a lug 27 which carries a pull ring 28. Pull ring 28 sits above the upper surface of section 22 and its upper surface lies substantially level with surface 23 of the central cylindrical portion.
  • Conical wall portion 22 is connected to sleeve 4 by a full circumference frangible connection 29 (which connection is of the same form as frangible connection 25) .
  • a container as sealed by the first part 1 of a closure according to the invention is openable by inserting a finger under pull ring 28 (the diameter of which may approximate the diameter of circumferential connection 29) and lifting it to exert sufficient force to break frangible connections 25 and 29 and continuing to apply sufficient force to ensure that the full circumference connection 29 breaks to thereby detach the diaphragm 7.
  • Diaphragm 7 may subsequently be discarded.
  • the second or cover cap part 2 of the closure includes an internal bead 30 adjacent the lower edge of the cylindrical wall of the cap. It also includes an annular wall 31 which depends from the inside surface of the top of the cap and which defines a space for receiving the cylindrical portion 23 of diaphragm 7.
  • cover cap 2 in Figure 1 shows the cap in its first or upper sealing position on closure part 1, which is the only position the cap can have when the diaphragm 7 is intact with respect to sleeve 4.
  • the shape of diaphragm 7 (specifically wall 23 and lug 27) prevents cover cap 2 from assuming a lower position on the sleeve.
  • a snap fit between the cap and sleeve 11 is established by pushing bead 30 of cap 2 over lip 13 of sleeve 4 until bead 30 seats in recess 11.
  • connection of diaphragm 7 to recess 11 supplies a sufficient reaction force to the upper portion of sleeve 4 to ensure there is a sufficiently resilient engagement between bead 30 and recess 11 to ensure an engagement between cap 2 and sleeve 4 in its upper position.
  • Cover cap 2 includes a lug 32 to facilitate its removal from its upper position on the closure (which position is illustrated in Figure 3A) for access to pull ring 28 in a normal opening operation.
  • cover cap 2 may be snap- fitted onto the closure to reseal the container.
  • the cover cap 2 will be in its second or lower position on the sleeve, as illustrated in Figure 3B.
  • Figures 3A and 3B it is readily discernible that the container has been resealed with the cover cap.
  • the cover position provides a visual indication that the seal has been broken and the diaphragm 7 discarded.
  • Figure 8 closure includes a sleeve 4 and a diaphragm 7 having a conical wall portion 22 which extends to an upstanding central cylindrical wall 123. However there is no circular top wall 23 as in the
  • FIG. 1 embodiment. Instead, upstanding cylindrical wall 123' extends upwardly from a central circular wall portion 23. Part circumferential section 24 is also modified in that an annular space 100' is included to provide for a depending circular ring on the inside of a cover cap (not shown). Frangible connections 29' and 25' are also formed at the upper surface of diaphragm 7 rather than the lower surface as illustrated in Figure 1. Otherwise the Figure 8 closure is generally the same as that shown in Figure 1. It will be appreciated that Figure 8 shows the closure in its as moulded condition prior to its assembly onto the neck of a container, thus the annular locking member 16 depends downwardly and inwardly from the hinge connection 17.
  • An example of a closure according to a second aspect of the invention includes a cup-shaped portion 51 for seating within a neck 81 of a container 54 for sealing the container and a depending sleeve portion 52 which is frangibly connected to the cup-shaped portion 51 at its upper rim surface as shown at 53.
  • the container 54 for use with the closure includes a flared non-drip pouring rim as defined by a sloping section 55 of the neck.
  • the neck 81 is inwardly and then downwardly directed to define an internal undercut 56, and is then outwardly stepped twice, the second step providing a shoulder 57 having a sharply defined extremity 58.
  • An upstanding annular wall 59 of cup-shaped portion 51 and depending sleeve portion 52 define a space for resilient receipt of the neck 81 of container 54.
  • Wall 59 includes on its external surface a bead 60 which, in the assembled position of the closure on a container, seats within the internal undercut 56. It will be appreciated that undercut 56 in conjunction with bead 60 provide for a sealing engagement between the closure and a container.
  • Sleeve portion 52 surrounds the neck 81 of the container externally thereof and depends downwardly from frangible connection 53 such that its bottom facing end surface lies directly adjacent the surface of shoulder 57, whereby that bottom facing surface cannot be readily accessed by a user.
  • the sleeve portion includes a lug 61 by means of which the sleeve portion may be levered upwardly to break the frangible connection 53 during a normal opening operation.
  • the frangible connection 53 may be constituted by a thin continuous section of the plastics material of the closure.
  • the frangible connection 53 may be formed by a series of thin section bridges of the plastics material.
  • the frangible connection 53 does not extend for the full circumference of the closure, rather a small portion of the connection between the cup- shaped portion 51 and the sleeve portion 52 is not made frangible so that the sleeve portion 52 will remain connected to the cup-shaped portion 51 and function as a pull ring therefor.
  • the combination of parts is such that for a normal opening operation or in the case of any unauthorised tampering, the frangible connection 53 will break relatively readily in comparison to, and thus prior to, the seal between the cup-shaped portion 51 and the neck 81 of the closure. Any tampering that may have occurred with the closure will thus be evidenced by the breaking of a portion or all of the frangible connection 53.
  • the seating of bead 60 in undercut 56 provides both a sealing engagement and retention of the closure in position on the container.
  • a feature of the closure is that the cup-shaped portion 51 includes a concave base wall portion 91.
  • the effect of the concave surface is that when a container is squeezed or an internal pressure is applied to the underside of the base wall portion 91 an outward force is applied against the seal formed by the undercut 56 of the neck 81 and the bead 60 of the cup-shaped portion 51, and this outward force improves the sealing of the closure against the neck.
  • Figure 7 shows a modification of the closure of Figure 4 wherein the cup-shaped portion 51 includes a rim 62, in the shape of an inverted U in cross section, which extends over the lip of the container neck.
  • Frangible connection 53 is thus spaced a short distance downwardly from the upper surface of the rim of the cup-shaped portion.
  • Figure 7 embodiment shows that the modification shown by Figure 7 allows for the cup-shaped portion to protect the pouring lip of the container when it is used to reseal the container.
  • Figure 6A illustrates a closure as shown in
  • Figure 7 assembled on a container 54 and Figure 6B shows the same closure that has been tampered with.
  • the tampering has caused a break in the frangible connection 53 as is clearly evident from Figure 6B.
  • Closures according to the invention for use with, for example, 830 ml. milk containers will have a nominal diameter of 38 ml.

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La présente invention concerne une fermeture en plastique pour récipient (54). Cette fermeture comporte d'une part, une partie en forme d'écuelle (51) que l'on peut placer à l'intérieur du col (81) d'un récipient (54) de façon à fermer hermétiquement ce récipient et d'autre part, une partie dépendante en forme de manchon (52) qui est reliée par un lien fragile à la partie en forme d'écuelle (51) au niveau de la surface de son bord supérieur comme cela est représenté en (53). Une paroi annulaire droite (59) de la partie en forme d'écuelle (51) et de la partie dépendante en forme de manchon (52) définit un espace permettant de loger, au moyen d'une déformation élastique, le col (81) du récipient (54). Sur sa surface externe, la paroi (59) comporte une boule (60) qui se loge à l'intérieur de l'évidement interne (56), lorsque la fermeture est en position d'assemblage sur le récipient. Il convient de remarquer que l'ensemble évidement (56) - boule (60) assure une prise pour la fermeture hermétique du récipient par le dispositif de fermeture.
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