WO2010040153A1 - Ballon pour jouer assemblé à partir de huit contenants de liquide identiques - Google Patents

Ballon pour jouer assemblé à partir de huit contenants de liquide identiques Download PDF

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WO2010040153A1
WO2010040153A1 PCT/ZA2009/000023 ZA2009000023W WO2010040153A1 WO 2010040153 A1 WO2010040153 A1 WO 2010040153A1 ZA 2009000023 W ZA2009000023 W ZA 2009000023W WO 2010040153 A1 WO2010040153 A1 WO 2010040153A1
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Edward Noel Leach
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Whitehead, Johannes, Lodewikus
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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
    • 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
    • B65D81/36—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 adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents
    • B65D81/361—Modular elements with complementary shapes, interengageable parts 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
    • B65D67/00—Kinds or types of packaging elements not otherwise provided for
    • B65D67/02—Clips or clamps for holding articles together for convenience of storage or transport

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  • This invention lies in the field of liquid containers, ball sports equipment and toys and educational toys..
  • Games with balls are universally popular and have been so for all recorded history, most usual are round (spherical) balls such as soccer balls, tennis balls, squash balls, golf balls, baseball balls, balls used in volley ball and netball and many other balls which each may or may not be specific to the game usually played with them, oval balls (prolate spheroidal balls) are used in the game of rugby, and so on.
  • round (spherical) balls such as soccer balls, tennis balls, squash balls, golf balls, baseball balls, balls used in volley ball and netball and many other balls which each may or may not be specific to the game usually played with them
  • oval balls prolate spheroidal balls
  • the popularity of ball games seems to never decline, indeed to increase and the world cup soccer for example is causing a rising excitement for this game.
  • a container for liquids that can be assembled with like containers in to a ball shape.
  • the container may constitute a generally tetrahedron shape with one end truncated and a spherical surface opposite the truncated and with the truncated end provided with closable opening.
  • a tetrahedron shaped container for purposes of reference and description, includes four surfaces, four ends and six linear sides.
  • Each other end of the tetrahedron may be provided with an attachment means for attaching to similar means of three other similar containers.
  • the closable opening of the container may include a threaded neck for threadedly receiving a cap.
  • the attachment means may be in the form of a quarter of a cylinder formation contiguous with two surfaces and along one side of that end of the tetrahedron.
  • the round part of the quarter of the cylinder may be provided with a thread, protrusion or notch, which together with three other quarters of similar containers forms a threaded cylinder extending radially away from the centre of an assembled ball. It will be appreciated that a notch or protrusion provided on the quarter of a cylinder will allow a threaded cap to be fitted in a snap lock manner and/ or a friction fit.
  • the threaded neck and threaded cylinder may have a similar thread for receiving the same cap. In the first case it closes the container in the other case four containers are connected to each other.
  • the free end of the quarter of a cylinder formation may be short of the surface of the spherical surface so that a cap will be below or flush with the surface of an assembled ball.
  • fluids such as sports drinks or drinks on promotion can be presented in the form of a ball, which ball can be disassembled into eight containers and the liquid taken. Afterwards, the ball can be assembled and used to play with. Also, the containers can be sold separately and collected by a person and/ or combined with another person's container(s) to form a ball to play with. It will be appreciated that, apart from being a novel promotional tool, empty containers usually discarded can now be used to form one of the most popular toys or sports equipment, a ball. The assembly and disassembly of a ball also requires an educational and entertaining problem to be solved.
  • a ball which includes or comprises multiple containers for liquids, with means for disconnecting or detaching one or more of the containers for drinking from them and/or reconnecting them for playing with the ball.
  • An easily removable sleeve may be used to connect four quarter cylinders together where drinks are presented in the form of a ball, for easy disassemble of the ball.
  • liquid is used herein for convenience and the containers can also hold any fluent material, e.g. particulate material that flows easily and the use of the term “liquid” herein must be understood to comprehend also such materials.
  • Figure 1 is a view of a soccer ball according to the invention
  • FIG. 1 shows the ball with three containers removed
  • Figures 3 to 9 are a series of views of one of the containers of the ball
  • Figure 10 is a view of a rugby ball according to the invention
  • FIG 11 shows the ball with two container removed
  • Figures 12 to 19 are a series of views of one of the containers of the ball.
  • Figure 20 is a view of a cap used to close the containers and to hold the containers together to form a ball.
  • Figure 21 is a bottom side view of the container showing a narrowed groove to provide a friction fir for a cap.
  • the soccer ball 1 is made up of eight containers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 which are held together by six caps of which locations, in the form of threaded cylinders, for caps are at 10, 11, 12 and 13 and caps 12A and 13A are visible in the views.
  • Each container has at each of its three corners quarter of a cylinder formation within a groove, in the views of figures 1 and 2 grooves 23 and 24 of container 2 are seen, grooves 25, 26 and 27 of container 3 are seen, grooves 28 and 29 of container 4 are seen, groove 30 of container 5 is seen, describing a quarter circle and screw threaded; when the containers are brought together four quarter circle grooves of contiguous corners form a complete circle at the six positions on the ball surface and six screw caps hold all eight containers together.
  • the containers While the containers contain a liquid the caps are used to keep them closed, the containers can be supplied as loose containers; when the contents have been drunk the containers can be assembled and the caps used to hold them together as balls which can be used for informal play; caps 14, 15 and 16 are shown in figure 2 as examples of caps closing the containers.
  • each container has the general form of a tetrahedron, i.e. has four surfaces 17, 18, 19 and 20, truncated at one end 21, with the opposite surface 20 presenting a spherical surface which forms part of the spherical surface of the ball.
  • the truncated end 21 carries the neck 22 which is screw threaded and receives a cap to close the container.
  • Each of the three ends of the container has grooves 25, 26 and 27 (taking container 3 as an example of all eight).
  • the eight containers are thus identical with each other.
  • the surfaces of each container offer opportunity for advertising and promotional information, rules of the game, sports heroes etc. to be printed on them.
  • the containers are preferably made of PET (poly ethylene terephtalate), PETG, Polypropylene, HDPE and all other material suitable for injection moulding and/ or blow moulding.
  • the balls can be made to regulation sizes e.g. FIFA regulation size 4 etc.
  • a soccer ball with a 212 mm diameter would provide eight containers each of 540 millilitres capacity. Sizes 3 to 5 could be made to result in varying capacity of the containers. It is possible to implement the invention with a different number of containers per ball, e.g. six and it will be appreciated that there are other possibilities.
  • Figures 10 and 11 show the invention applied to the shape of a rugby ball; the ball is again made up of eight containers, but shaped to form the prolate spheroidal shape. Accordingly for economy of description the same reference numerals are used and the description of the spherical ball above is referred to, adapted merely to the change in shape.
  • Figure 20 shows a cap 28 which may be used to close the containers and hold the containers together to form a ball.
  • the balls may be transported assembled or as loose containers, either filed or not, as circumstances require.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un contenant pour des liquides qui peut être assemblé avec des contenants similaires pour prendre la forme d'un ballon. Le contenant constitue une forme généralement tétraèdre avec une extrémité tronquée et une surface sphérique opposée à l'extrémité tronquée, l'extrémité tronquée étant munie d'une ouverture pouvant être fermée. Chacune des autres extrémités du tétraèdre est munie d'un moyen de fixation à des fins de fixation à des moyens similaires de trois autres contenants similaires.
PCT/ZA2009/000023 2008-10-02 2009-03-13 Ballon pour jouer assemblé à partir de huit contenants de liquide identiques WO2010040153A1 (fr)

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