WO2010028243A1 - Système de fermeture de récipient comprenant un message caché - Google Patents

Système de fermeture de récipient comprenant un message caché Download PDF

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WO2010028243A1
WO2010028243A1 PCT/US2009/056038 US2009056038W WO2010028243A1 WO 2010028243 A1 WO2010028243 A1 WO 2010028243A1 US 2009056038 W US2009056038 W US 2009056038W WO 2010028243 A1 WO2010028243 A1 WO 2010028243A1
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stopper
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John Eagleton
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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
    • B65D39/00—Closures arranged within necks or pouring openings or in discharge apertures, e.g. stoppers
    • B65D39/0052—Closures arranged within necks or pouring openings or in discharge apertures, e.g. stoppers made in more than one piece
    • B65D39/0058—Closures arranged within necks or pouring openings or in discharge apertures, e.g. stoppers made in more than one piece from natural or synthetic cork, e.g. for wine bottles or the like
    • 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
    • B65D2203/00—Decoration means, markings, information elements, contents indicators

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  • the disclosure herein relates to vessel closure systems, particularly a vessel closure system incorporating a hidden message.
  • ATTY. DOCKETNO. EGTN -090811.00 IP CT users to have an enhanced experience by getting a bottle stopper and message with an individualized, or in some manner customized, written, audio or video message associated with a bottle of wine, either still or sparkling, or, as one skilled in the art would realize, any bottled item.
  • Wine stoppers with extensions or handles exist in the market and are used to temporarily seal a wine bottle after it has been opened. These wine stoppers are designed to preserve the wine after the original seal of the bottle has been opened and the cork or bottle stopper removed. These wine stoppers have handles or extensions that are attached to the cork or bottle stopper. The handles or extensions are outside of the bottle while the bottle stopper or cork is inside the bottle. Some of these wine stoppers have terms of endearment or logos on the handle or extension part of the wine stopper so that they are visible from outside the bottle.
  • the subject invention is different from existing vessel stoppers in many respects, but at least because it is based on a vessel stopper with a message enclosed where the stopper is inserted in the vessel at the time of manufacture and, in some embodiments, requires that the vessel stopper from the originally sealed vessel be removed in order to view the message.
  • the subject invention enhances the experience of opening the originally sealed vessel by providing the user with an experience of receiving a potentially individualized or otherwise custom message with the vessel.
  • the vessel closure system incorporating hidden message advances the state of the art with a variety of new capabilities and overcomes many of the shortcomings of prior devices in new and novel ways.
  • the vessel NEWPCTPATENTAPPLICATION In its most general sense, the vessel NEWPCTPATENTAPPLICATION
  • ATTY. DOCKETNO. EGTN -090811.00 IP CT closure system incorporating hidden message overcomes the shortcomings and limitations of the prior art in any of a number of generally effective configurations.
  • the vessel closure system incorporating hidden message demonstrates such capabilities and overcomes many of the shortcomings of prior methods in new and novel ways.
  • the vessel closure system incorporating hidden message provides a method for incorporating hidden messages in association with a stoppered vessel containing still or sparkling wine, or as one skilled in the art would realize, any beverage, foodstuff or other item which may be contained in a stoppered vessel.
  • the stopper of the system may have a stopper first portion and a stopper second portion.
  • the stopper second portion may further include a hidden message; and such message may take many forms, as will be described in exemplary embodiments, below.
  • the system also includes a vessel.
  • the message may include humanly visually- perceptible indicia applied to the stopper second portion
  • indicia would be commonly envisioned as language text, but could also be any form of code or symbolic devices, and in some embodiments, the indicia is not visually perceptible through the vessel wall.
  • the message included on the stopper second portion is at least partially in contact with the vessel wall neck portion inside surface.
  • the stopper second portion may be envisioned as a type of "collar" around part of the stopper first portion.
  • a collar may be of virtually any thickness equal to or less than the stopper diameter, and in detailed embodiments described below, various resiliency and porosity relationships within the stopper are described.
  • the stopper second portion may include stored, machine readable code.
  • such code could be represented in a large number of forms and embodiments, including such devices as chips and computer drives, having both read-only, and writable memory devices.
  • the stopper may have a stopper internal void and the stopper second portion may be at least partially contained in the stopper internal void.
  • the stopper internal void may be in virtually any position relative to the first stopper portion and may be in actual or potential communication with an external surface of the stopper.
  • the stopper may include a stopper third portion cooperating with either or both the stopper first portion and/or the stopper second portion.
  • There is no particular volume relationship between the stopper internal void and the stopper second portion which may fully fill the stopper internal void or only partially fill the stopper internal void, and a puncture barrier may help protect the stopper void, and hence, the stopper second portion.
  • the vessel closure system incorporating hidden message disclosed herein enables a significant advance in the state of the art. Variations, modifications, alternatives, and alterations of the various preferred embodiments may be used alone or in combination with one another, as NEWPCTPATENTAPPLICATION
  • FIG. 1 is a cross-section of prior art related to vessel closure systems
  • FIG. 2 is a cross-section view of an embodiment of a stopper (100) as part of a vessel closure system (10) according to the instant invention
  • FIG. 3 is a cross-section view of an embodiment of a vessel closure system (10) according to the instant invention
  • FIG. 6 is an exploded cross-section view of an embodiment of a stopper (100) as part of a vessel closure system (10) according to the instant invention
  • FIG. 7 is an exploded cross-section view of another embodiment of a stopper (100) as part of a vessel closure system (10) according to the instant invention
  • FIG. 8 is a cross-section view of another embodiment of a stopper (100) as part of a vessel closure system (10) according to the instant invention
  • FIG. 9 is an exploded cross-section view of another embodiment of a stopper (100) as part of a vessel closure system (10) according to the instant invention.
  • FIG. 10 is a cross-section view of another embodiment of a stopper (100) as part of a vessel closure system (10) according to the instant invention.
  • the vessel closure system incorporating hidden message (10) disclosed herein provides a method for conveniently enclosing at least one hidden message is a stoppered vessel containing still or sparkling wine, or as one skilled in the art would realize, any beverage, foodstuff or other item which may be contained in a stoppered vessel.
  • a typical stoppered vessel from the prior art shown by way of example and not limitation only as a corked bottle, is seen in FIG. 1.
  • the vessel closure system (10) of the invention may include a stopper (100); having at least a stopper first portion (110) formed of a stopper first material having material properties that include a stopper first material resilience and a stopper first material porosity.
  • the stopper (100) may have at least one stopper first portion sealing surface (111), at least one stopper first portion top surface (112), and at least one stopper first portion bottom surface (114).
  • the system also includes, in cooperation with the stopper (100), a vessel (200) having at least a vessel wall (205) enclosing a vessel volume (240). There is at least a vessel opening (202) in the vessel wall (205) placing the vessel volume (240) in fluid communication with an ambient NEWPCTPATENTAPPLICATION
  • the vessel (200) may also have a vessel wall body portion (230) having a vessel wall body portion inside surface (232) and a vessel wall body portion outside surface (234).
  • the stopper (100) is at least partially containable within the vessel opening (202) and the stopper first portion sealing surface (111) may cooperate with the vessel neck portion wall (210) to reversibly seal the vessel opening (202) and thereby place the vessel volume (240) in reversible fluid communication with the ambient atmosphere.
  • the vessel closure system (10) is configured such that the stopper first portion (110) and the stopper second portion (150) are cylindrical and coaxial and the stopper first portion (110) has at least a first stopper first portion diameter (116) that is larger than at least one stopper second portion diameter (156).
  • This may, by way of example, allow for compression of the stopper first portion (110) greater than any compression of the stopper second portion (150) to improve the sealing qualities of the system.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates such an embodiment, when the stopper (100), not placed in the vessel (200), has a first stopper first portion diameter (116) that is larger than at least one stopper second portion diameter (156).
  • the stopper second portion (150) may be a relatively thin and relatively non- porous sheet material that is held between the stopper first portion (110) and the vessel wall neck portion inside surface (212).
  • stopper second material porosity is less than 10% and the stopper second portion (150) has a stopper second portion width (152), and a stopper second portion thickness (153), and wherein the stopper second portion thickness (153) is less than 20% of the stopper second portion width (152).
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  • E Young's modulus
  • S strain
  • porosity other than having, as one skilled in the art would know, adequate breathability to suit the contents of the vessel (200), there are also no particular requirements as to the porosity of the materials forming individual components of the stopper (100), other than the functional requirements previously delineated.
  • the stopper first material porosity is at least ten times as great as the stopper second material porosity.
  • suitable adhesives including suitable non-toxic adhesives appropriate for special circumstances such as in the beverage or foodstuff industries.
  • the hidden message may be humanly- perceptible indicia as part of the stopper second portion (150), such a stopper second portion NEWPCTPATENTAPPLICATION
  • (150) may to some extent include stored, machine readable code.
  • code could be represented in a large number of forms and embodiments, including such devices as chips and computer drives, having both read-only, and possibly writable memory devices.
  • the stopper (100) may have a stopper internal void (180) and the stopper second portion (150) may be at least partially contained in the stopper internal void (180), such as is seen in FIGS. 6-11.
  • Various illustrative embodiments of stopper internal voids (180) may be seen in FIGS. 6 and 7.
  • the stopper (100) may include a stopper third portion (190) that is at least in partial contact with the stopper first portion (110) and the stopper second portion (150), and those where there is a stopper third portion (190) that is at least in partial contact with the stopper second portion (150), as seen in FIG. 8.
  • the stopper internal void (180) may be at least partially bounded by the stopper first portion (110) and at least partially bounded by the stopper third portion (190), again as illustrated in FIG. 8.
  • the stopper internal void (180) may be at least partially bounded by a stopper third portion (190), as seen in FIG. 9. Variations on such embodiments are illustrated by way of example only in FIGS. 8-10.
  • stopper internal void (180) there is no particular volume relationship between the stopper internal void (180) and the stopper second portion (150) which may fully fill the stopper internal void (180) as illustrated in FIGS. 8 and 9, or only partially fill the stopper internal void (180), as illustrated in FIG. 10.
  • the stopper second portion (150) may fully fill the stopper internal void (180) as illustrated in FIGS. 8 and 9, or only partially fill the stopper internal void (180), as illustrated in FIG. 10.
  • stopper second portion (150) may be desirable, in some embodiments, to at least partially protect the stopper second portion (150) from the effects of certain vessel (200) opening technologies. For example, it may be desirable to at least partially protect the stopper second portion (150) from the depredations of a corkscrew, and it may desirable for the stopper first portion (110) and the stopper second portion (150) to have a stopper portion interface (160) that at least partially includes a puncture barrier (170).
  • the vessel closure system (10) includes a stopper (100) having a stopper internal void (180), and at least some of the following features.
  • a stopper first portion (110) formed of a stopper first material having a stopper first material resilience and a stopper first material porosity.
  • the stopper first portion NEWPCTPATENTAPPLICATION
  • the stopper (100) is at least partially containable within the vessel opening (202) and the stopper first portion sealing surface (111) cooperates with the vessel neck portion wall (210) to reversibly seal the vessel opening (202) and thereby place the vessel volume (240) in reversible fluid communication with the ambient atmosphere.
  • the stopper first portion sealing surface (111) cooperates with the vessel neck portion wall (210) to reversibly seal the vessel opening (202) and thereby place the vessel volume (240) in reversible fluid communication with the ambient atmosphere.

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L'invention concerne un système de fermeture de récipient (10) intégrant au moins un message caché. Le système (10) comprend un bouchon (100) qui obstrue de manière réversible un récipient (200), et place de manière réversible le récipient (200) en communication fluidique avec une atmosphère ambiante, le bouchon (100) ayant au moins une première partie (110) et une seconde partie (150) qui comprend un message caché. Le message peut être constitué d’indices perceptibles par l’œil humain (300), ou peut inclure en outre un code mémorisé, lisible par une machine. Le message peut être associé à l’une des surfaces du bouchon (100), ou peut au moins être partiellement contenu dans un vide de bouchon (180). Le message peut être inclus sur une fine bande de matériau contenu entre le bouchon (100) et l’intérieur d’un goulot de récipient (210). Dans certains modes de réalisation, la seconde partie du bouchon (150) peut être considérée comme un type de « collier », de diverses épaisseurs possibles, autour d’une partie de la première partie de bouchon (110) et les parties de bouchon (110, 150) peuvent adhérer grâce à un adhésif.
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