Classifications

• • 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
  • B65D51/00—Closures not otherwise provided for
  • B65D51/24—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes
  • B65D51/28—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes with auxiliary containers for additional articles or materials
  • B65D51/2807—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes with auxiliary containers for additional articles or materials the closure presenting means for placing the additional articles or materials in contact with the main contents by acting on a part of the closure without removing the closure, e.g. by pushing down, pulling up, rotating or turning a part of the closure, or upon initial opening of the container
  • B65D51/2814—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes with auxiliary containers for additional articles or materials the closure presenting means for placing the additional articles or materials in contact with the main contents by acting on a part of the closure without removing the closure, e.g. by pushing down, pulling up, rotating or turning a part of the closure, or upon initial opening of the container the additional article or materials being released by piercing, cutting or tearing an element enclosing it
  • B65D51/2828—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes with auxiliary containers for additional articles or materials the closure presenting means for placing the additional articles or materials in contact with the main contents by acting on a part of the closure without removing the closure, e.g. by pushing down, pulling up, rotating or turning a part of the closure, or upon initial opening of the container the additional article or materials being released by piercing, cutting or tearing an element enclosing it said element being a film or a foil
• • 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
  • B65D81/32—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 for packaging two or more different materials which must be maintained separate prior to use in admixture
  • B65D81/3216—Rigid containers disposed one within the other
  • B65D81/3222—Rigid containers disposed one within the other with additional means facilitating admixture

Definitions

• the present invention concerns a container lid for packaging, which comprises a closed compartment containing a flowable material, such as a sauce suitable for a salad or other product disposed in the container, when a sufficient external force to said lid and this is attached to the mouth of a corresponding container.
• a flowable material such as a sauce suitable for a salad or other product disposed in the container
• the utility model, public domain, ES-A-231221 proposes a container lid for boats intended to be applied to a boat or similar container, that may contain an article that, without being of a nature related to the content of the boat, must be supplied together with it.
• the content of said lid is a promotional item, such as a series of discs to be used as drawing templates.
• To access said article it is necessary to separate from the lid an auxiliary disk that serves as a base to support the article contained therein.
• the content of said lid can be a material capable of flowing, such as a sauce, nor that it be capable of being mixed with a second material contained in the canister where said lid is attached.
• the patent US2766796 proposes a receptacle that acts as a lid, capable of containing different vacuum packed products inside it, such as pharmaceutical or food products, which can be mixed, once extracted, with the contents of the container on which said receptacle is coupled.
• the receptacle used as lid and the container on which it is coupled occurs it is necessary to remove a lid of the receptacle at the top and also remove the receptacle from the container, that is to say that both the receptacle and the container are coupled in an indivisible manner, since the wall that separates them, the base of the receptacle, is not breakable.
• the patent US3662913 also proposes a lid that also serves as packaging, similar to that proposed by the present invention, but with the main difference that here the dividing wall of the lid and the container on which it is placed is not breakable , but must be removed manually, previously removing the lid of the container.
• the present invention proposes a container lid for packaging, which comprises a series of laminar walls that delimit a compartment, closed, containing a material capable of flow, such as a sauce.
• Said lid has a support configuration able to withstand a crushing of said compartment when it is resting on a surface. It also comprises a perimeter closure configuration adapted to be attached to the mouth of a corresponding container encompassing the compartment, and at least one weakened zone formed in a lower laminar wall, which serves as the base of the cover, adapted to be broken by a deformation of the compartment caused by the application of a sufficient external force, making possible by means of said rupture the pouring of said material capable of flowing into said container.
• the lid can also be used to store and preserve the material contained therein. , you can stack some covers on others without risk of breakage.
• the container on which the lid is placed could contain a second substance that would be mixed, in the container, with the material capable of flowing contained in the lid, once the lower laminar wall thereof was broken.
• FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of an embodiment of the cover proposed by the present invention in a situation prior to its union with a container
• Fig. 2 shows a perspective view of the lid of Fig. 1 once it has been attached to the container, and pressed inwardly
• Fig. 3 is a partial detail, enlarged and in side elevation, of a cross section of the lid and the container of Fig. 2
• Fig. 4 shows, in section, various caps as shown in Fig. 3 stacked on top of each other, illustrating a possible storage situation
• Fig. 5 shows a side elevational and sectioned view of the lid and the container of Fig.
• Fig. 6 is a view like that of Fig. 3 but for another embodiment with another closing perimeter configuration
• Fig. 7 shows a perspective view of the lid proposed by the present invention once it has been attached to a container, for another embodiment with a different shape of the lid
• Fig. 8 shows a perspective view, like that of Fig. 7, but for another embodiment example.
• Figs. 9 to 11 show variants of execution of the invention.
• the container lid for packaging proposed by the present invention comprises altogether an upper laminar wall 1; a lower laminar wall 2; at least one perimetral laminar wall 3, of low height in relation to the extension of said laminar walls upper and lower 1, 2, and extending between the upper and lower laminar walls 1, 2 delimiting a compartment 4, closed, containing a material capable of flow; at least one support configuration 5 formed in at least one of the upper or lower sheet walls 1, 2 and capable of making contact with the other of the laminar walls lower than 2.1 to resist a flattening of said compartment 4 when the same it is resting on a surface; a perimeter closure configuration 7 adapted to be joined to the mouth of a corresponding container 8 encompassing the compartment 4; and at least one weakened zone 6 formed in the lower laminar wall 2 adapted to be broken by a deformation of the compartment 4 caused by the application of a sufficient external force in order to pour said material capable of
• the lower laminar wall 2 comprises at least one lower expansion configuration 9 defined by a fold extending along a closed contour surrounding said weakened zone 6 and capable of deploying downward by the effect of said external force forming a pouring funnel terminated in said weakened zone 6 rotates when the lid is installed in the container 8.
• the upper laminar wall 1 comprises at least one upper expansion configuration 10 defined by a fold extending along a closed contour.
• said lower laminar wall 2 and said perimetral laminar wall 3 form a single sheet, which is stackable on other equal sheets, in a non-nestable manner, for storage and transportation.
• Figs. 3 in a preferred embodiment, said lower laminar wall 2 and said perimetral laminar wall 3 form a single sheet, which is stackable on other equal sheets, in a non-nestable manner, for storage and transportation.
• the cover proposed by the present invention is formed by a first sheet 20 integrating the upper laminar wall 1 and said closing perimeter configuration 7, and a second sheet 30 integrating the wall the lower laminate 2, the perimetral laminar wall 3, which is at least one, and a peripheral joining strip 12 joined to a lower face of said first sheet 20, said perimetric joining strip 12 being smaller than the closing perimeter configuration 7 , which is free.
• the subassemblies 20 and 30 can be automatically fed into a machine for manufacturing the container lid of the invention.
• the subassembly 30 has a configuration that allows its stacking without fitting between each of the units, partially introduced in the twin.
• the closing perimetric configuration 7 comprises a flat band adapted to be joined to a corresponding flat band 13 formed together with a mouth of the container 8.
• the closing perimeter configuration 7 comprises a groove adapted to receive snap-fitting a corresponding flange 14 formed together with a mouth of the container 8.
• FIG. 7 shows another example of embodiment in which two of the covers shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 are integrated as a subset in a single larger cover that covers both, each of said covers including a different material, or the same, allowing a greater or lesser dosage.
• the embodiments of Figs. 9 to 11 show various alternative embodiments of the cover according to the invention, with variants in the means for breaking one of the walls of the cover and support configurations resistant to crushing, offering differentiated areas for other functionalities (free area of the cover for another receptacle, etc.).
• the cover to which this invention refers can be defined in a generic way, contemplating the different implementations of the drawings, including the cited Figs. 9 to 11 as a body comprising altogether: - an upper wall 1, with at least one flexible portion (to allow the breaking of the other wall); - a lower wall 2; - at least one perimeter wall 3, of low height in relation to the extension of said upper and lower walls 1, 2, and extending between them delimiting a compartment 4, closed, containing a material capable of flow; - at least one weakened area 6 formed in the lower wall 2, adapted to be broken by a deformation of the compartment 4 caused by the application of a sufficient external force in order to pour said material capable of flowing into said container 8; - at least one support configuration 5 formed in at least one of the upper or lower laminar walls 1, 2 and capable of contacting the other lower or upper laminar walls 2, 1 with the other in order to effectively resist a crushing said compartment (4); and - a perimeter closure configuration 7, attached at least to the edges of one of the walls 1, 2, intended
• the lower wall is constituted by a heat-sealable film.
• the lower wall is formed by a membrane.
• the support configuration 5 is constituted by a plurality of partitions 30 or ribs that intersect along a common axis and that are arranged equally spaced. Such a configuration also contributes to providing stability when the lids are stacked as shown in Fig. 9c.
• said rib configuration 30 also provides a means for breaking the lower wall in all the variants of Figs. 9a 11.
• Figs. 9a 11 In the variant of Figs.
• the support configurations 5, formed on said peripheral wall 3, are at least two 5a, 5b and are constituted by generatrix ribs protruding from the outer face of said wall 3 of compartment 4, although they could also protrude from the inner side .
• a person skilled in the art could introduce changes and modifications in the embodiments described (in particular and as long as the lid has walls or portions that allow bending, it can take various forms and multiple contours) without departing from the scope of the invention as is defined in the appended claims.

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