WO2008011916A1 - Système de conteneur pour liquide - Google Patents

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WO2008011916A1
WO2008011916A1 PCT/EP2006/064708 EP2006064708W WO2008011916A1 WO 2008011916 A1 WO2008011916 A1 WO 2008011916A1 EP 2006064708 W EP2006064708 W EP 2006064708W WO 2008011916 A1 WO2008011916 A1 WO 2008011916A1
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Florian Troesch
Simon Troesch
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Florian Troesch
Simon Troesch
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Priority to PCT/EP2006/064708 priority Critical patent/WO2008011916A1/fr
Priority to EP06778005A priority patent/EP2043923B1/fr
Priority to AT06778005T priority patent/ATE513763T1/de
Priority to US12/374,876 priority patent/US20100000887A1/en
Publication of WO2008011916A1 publication Critical patent/WO2008011916A1/fr

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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
    • 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
    • B65D51/2821—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 blister, a capsule or like sealed 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
    • 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
    • B65D81/3205—Separate rigid or semi-rigid containers joined to each other at their external surfaces

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  • the present invention departs from needs which have been recognized in context with beverage containers, especially beverage bottles, which may be refilled. Nevertheless, the following considerations are mutadis mutandis valid for containers other than for beverages.
  • Bottles for beverages with a removable sealing cap and which may be refilled are widely known and used, especially in sport activities.
  • the container - the bottle - is customarily made of a plastic material as from PET or of a metal as especially of aluminum or is possibly made of a compound material.
  • Such beverage bottles have a sealing and removable cap which may be removed or opened so as to refill the container.
  • the cap is customarily provided with a drinking valve arrangement which prevents liquid from pouring out when the container with its cap is not in drinking use.
  • Such beverage containers are often refilled during the sport activities. E.g. when cycling, mountaineering, jogging etc. such containers are refilled underway, e.g. at fountains. Thereby, it would often be desirable to add to the refilled liquid, especially to water, a taste or another substance as e.g. substances to make an isotonic beverage. Nevertheless, once the container has been emptied and underway it is either not possible to refill such container with a desired liquid/substance mixture or it is necessary to interrupt the activity, as e.g. to stop cycling, for preparing the liquid/substance mixture. It is an object of the present invention to provide a container system whereat the above need is practically resolved.
  • a liquid container system which comprises a container with a sealing cap to refill the container with a liquid.
  • the system further comprises at least two, preferably more than two mini-receptacles provided at the cap and/or at the container.
  • the mini-receptacles are respectively filled with a substance.
  • Each or a predetermined number of the mini-receptacles may selectively be opened into the container by a man manipulation from the external of the container and/or cap. Thereby, the substance contained in the selected mini-receptacle is freed into the liquid.
  • the respective mini-receptacle is broken open and its substance is admixed to the liquid.
  • this allows to replace a consumed liquid/substance mixture of beverage with water, whereat, by opening a respective mini- receptacle, there is admixed the desired substance.
  • mini-receptacles are integrated in the cap and the cap comprises a manipulator to selectively open a mini-receptacle into the container.
  • mini-receptacles are integrated in the container which is e.g. realized by integrating blister-like mini-receptacles into the wall of the container, which are broken open into the interior of the container by increased pressurizing of such blisters.
  • mini-receptacles are part of an exchangeable magazine device which is removably applied to the container and/or to the cap. Thereby, whenever the content of the mini-receptacles is consumed, a new set or magazine of such mini-receptacle is mounted to the container or the cap.
  • the mini-receptacles contain different substances.
  • the mini-receptacles contain foodstuff substances.
  • the addressed mini-receptacles contain concentrated foodstuff substances, so that with a small amount of such substance in the addressed mini-receptacles a desired taste or mixing ratio may be reached in the liquid of the container.
  • the mini- receptacles contain liquid and/or powderous substances, whereby some of the mini-receptacles may contain a liquid and some other may contain a powderous substance. It has to be mentioned that it is absolutely possible to admix to the liquid in the container substances which are present in two or more than two of the mini-receptacles, so as to realize a more complex substance mixture or so as to increase the concentration of one substance in the respective liquid.
  • the cap has a drink valve which is especially suited when the system according to the present invention is a bottle system for beverages as used for outdoor- or sport-activities.
  • the addressed container is of a plastic material as of PET, is of a metal, thereby especially of aluminum or is of a compound or laminated material .
  • Fig. 1 in a perspective view a first embodiment of the system according to the present invention, whereat mini-receptacles are magazine-applied to a bottle body;
  • Fig. 2 schematically a cross-sectional representation through a part of the embodiment of fig. 1;
  • Fig. 3 a part of the container's wall of a further embodiment of the system according to the present invention, whereat mini-receptacles are integrated into the container's wall;
  • Fig. 4 in a simplified and perspective view, a part of a further embodiment of the system according to the present invention, whereat mini-receptacles are applied in the cap area;
  • FIG. 5 schematically and simplified, a cross-sectional representation of the embodiment as of fig. 4 with mini-receptacles integrated in the cap;
  • Fig. 6 in a representation in analogy to that of fig. 5, an embodiment, wherein the mini-receptacles are carried by a separate exchangeable magazine.
  • Fig. 1 shows a beverage bottle system according to the present invention, whereat a magazine of mini-receptacles is applied to the container itself.
  • the container 1 or bottle which may be of plastic material, of a metal as of aluminum or of a compound material, may thereby be of a laminated material, has, as shown in fig. 2, a number of openings 3 distributed along the wall 5 of the container.
  • a magazine band 7 which has a number of mini-receptacle blisters 9, each sealingly closed and filled with a substance 11.
  • the magazine band which may comprise e.g. thermically shrinkable or elastic plastic material is tightly applied to and around the external surface of the container 1 with the blisters 9 registering with the openings 3 in the wall 5 of the container 1.
  • the internal wall 15 which is freely exposed to the interior of container 1 once the magazine band is applied, is broken open, so that the substance 11 is dispatched into a liquid within container 1.
  • the outer wall 13 is thereby not damaged by such pressurizing.
  • the inner wall 15 of the blisters and thus of magazine band 7 may be of a rather stiff material, e.g. of a metalized foil possibly with a weakened area to facilitate controlled breaking up upon pressurizing outer wall 13.
  • the band 7 may easily be cut e.g. with a knife as shown in dashed line in fig. 1 at 17 and a replacement magazine band 7 may be applied and, for sealing closure, may e.g. be shrunk upon the container' s external surface by applying moderate heat e.g. by a hair dryer.
  • the beverage container 1 is closed with a removable cap 19, which is e.g. screwed upon the respective end of container 1 and which is provided with a drinking valve 21.
  • FIG. 3 A part of the wall of such container with integrated mini- receptacles is shown in fig. 3.
  • the wall of container 1 a section thereof being shown, is formed by an inner layer Ii.
  • Blisters are integrated into the wall of the container 1 by providing thinner layer areas 23.
  • the thinner layer areas 23 may have additionally weakened areas to facilitate breaking towards the interior of the container.
  • the external surface of the container 1, especially in the area, where the blisters areas 23 are provided, is covered with a foil l a which is more resistive to pressurizing than blister areas 23 of inner foil-like layer Ii.
  • the wall of the container 1 may be laminated from more than two foil-like members to realize the mini- receptacles integrated into such wall and allowing breaking open of such mini-receptacle towards and into the interior of the container, thereby maintaining the outer at least one foil according to l a of fig. 3 undamaged.
  • FIG. 4 there is schematically shown a part of a beverage container according to the present invention, whereat the mini-receptacles are provided integral or as a removable magazine in the area of a cap 30 and whereat selectively- one or more than one of these mini-receptacles may be opened towards and into the interior of the container by a manipulation at the cap.
  • Fig. 5 schematically shows in a simplified manner a cross-section through cap 30, whereby the mini-receptacles are integral to the cap and the cap per se acts as a mini-receptacle magazine.
  • the cap 30 comprises a basis 32 which is mountable to the container 1 as by a screw mount, a bayonet mount, etc. To fill up the container 1 the cap 30 in the example shown in figs. 4 and 5 is removed.
  • annular member 34 comprising a multitude of mini- receptacles 36 which thus are arranged coaxial to axis A of container 1 along the inner side of the basis part 32.
  • annular member 34 comprising a multitude of mini- receptacles 36 which thus are arranged coaxial to axis A of container 1 along the inner side of the basis part 32.
  • a coaxial guiding opening 38 In the upper part of basis part 32 there is provided a coaxial guiding opening 38, wherein a manipulator part 40 is slideably guided.
  • the manipulator part 40 may on one hand be linearly moved according to L, parallel to axis A of the cap 30 up and down and may, additionally, be rotated as shown with double-arrow R in fig. 4 and 5.
  • a breaking-up-finger 42 At one or possibly more than one distinct area along the periphery of manipulator part 40 and pointing towards the annular member 34 carrying the mini-receptacles 36, there is provided a breaking-up-finger 42.
  • the mini-receptacle 36 is broken open and its content is admixed to the liquid in container 1. Homogeneous mixture is achieved by respective shaking of the container.
  • the positions of the receptacles 36 may be marked at the rim of basis part 32 as shown at 44.
  • Opening 38 is sealed nevertheless allowing the respective linear and rotational movement of manipulator part 40, which may e.g. be realized with respective 0-ring seals between basic part 30 and manipulator part 40 (not shown) .
  • a spring action member may be provided biasing the manipulator part 40 outwards with respect to the basis part 32.
  • the customary drinking valve 46 is mounted on the manipulator part 40 the customary drinking valve 46.
  • fig. 6 there is shown in a representation in analogy to that of fig. 5 a part of the cap 30 for removably and exchangeably receiving a ring magazine 34 with mini- receptacles 36' .
  • a magazine 34' is residing on a ring- shoulder 48 at the basic part 32 and is removeably squeezed between the top end of container 1 and such shoulder 48.
  • the magazine 34' with the mini- receptacle 36' may be removed.
  • the substances which are contained in the receptacles may ⁇ be equal for all mini-receptacles or may be different.
  • the mini-receptacles for beverage appliances contain concentrated isotonic substances, taste substances, etc.
  • a desired mixture be it for drinking or for other purposes, may be realized by opening more than one of the mini-receptacles towards and into the interior of the container and admixing their content to the basic liquid content in container.
  • the principal of the present invention according to which there is provided at a container at least two, preferably a multitude of mini- receptacles, the content thereof being easily and selectably admixable to the content of the container, may be applied to other appliances than to beverage preparation.

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Abstract

Selon l'invention, afin d'ajouter au contenu d'une bouteille (1), après remplissage, une substance désirée telle qu'une substance gustative, on utilise de mini réceptacles (9) qui sont remplis d'une substance respective et qui sont brisés et ouverts dans le conteneur (1) par manipulation externe.
PCT/EP2006/064708 2006-07-26 2006-07-26 Système de conteneur pour liquide WO2008011916A1 (fr)

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EP06778005A EP2043923B1 (fr) 2006-07-26 2006-07-26 Système de conteneur pour liquide
AT06778005T ATE513763T1 (de) 2006-07-26 2006-07-26 Flüssigkeitsbehältersystem
US12/374,876 US20100000887A1 (en) 2006-07-26 2006-07-26 Liquid container system

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