WO2011096415A1

WO2011096415A1 - Measuring cap and liquid container

Info

Publication number: WO2011096415A1
Application number: PCT/JP2011/052101
Authority: WO
Inventors: 尾崎　行雄; タケル川上; 哲宏大沢
Original assignee: 花王株式会社
Priority date: 2010-02-02
Filing date: 2011-02-02
Publication date: 2011-08-11
Also published as: JP2011178466A; JP5336529B2; AU2011211774B2; CN102741130B; MY165239A; AU2011211774A1; CN102741130A; CN104528140B; CN104528140A

Abstract

A measuring cap (1, 1A, 1B, 1C) is provided with an outer cylinder portion (2) to be screwed onto a mouth of a container body, a bottomed inner cylinder portion (3) located inside of the outer cylinder portion (2), an annular wall (5) for closing a portion between an end of the outer cylinder portion (2) and a cylindrical wall (4) of the inner cylinder portion (3), and an annular seal portion formed to project from the inner surface of the annular wall (5). The inner cylinder portion (3) comprises a discharge portion (9) which is bent to have an approximately V-shaped cross section and is formed at a portion of the cylindrical wall (4). The upper and lower portions of the cylindrical wall (4) of the inner cylinder portion (3) substantially have the same shape, with the annular wall (5) defining a border between the upper and lower portions.

Description

Measuring cap and liquid container

The present invention is a meter that is detachably mounted as a lid on a container body containing a liquid such as a liquid detergent, a liquid softener, a bleaching agent, etc., and is used to measure the liquid in the container body or to apply and use a small amount at a time. The present invention relates to a cap and a liquid container.

Used as a lid on the container body containing liquids such as liquid detergents, liquid softeners, bleaching agents, etc., and is used for measuring the amount of liquid in the container body or dividing the appropriate amount and applying it in small portions. There is a measuring cap. As a method of using this measuring cap, first, the liquid is poured from the container main body into the measuring cap, and the liquid is transferred from the measuring cap to, for example, a washing tub, or the liquid transferred to the measuring cap is adhered to a soiled part of the washing item. . Such a measuring cap has a double structure having an inner cylindrical portion and an outer cylindrical portion of the measuring cap in order to facilitate the measurement of the liquid and to transfer the liquid in the measured cap little by little. There is one in which an outer flange-like flange piece is provided at the lower end of the cylinder wall or the heights of the inner cylinder part and the outer cylinder part are adjusted (for example, see Patent Documents 1 and 2).

Also, there is a measuring cap that is easy to measure and move by making the bottom side of the measuring part polygonal and the input / output part (opening side) polygonal on the inner surface (see, for example, Patent Document 3).

JP-A-8-48348 JP 2001-171704 A JP 2000-62817 A

However, in the measuring caps of

Patent Documents

1 and 2, the inner cylinder part into which the liquid is poured is formed in a cylindrical shape or the like. A large amount of liquid also flowed out around the soiled part of the product, and it was difficult to pour out an appropriate amount of liquid only to the part of the washed product. The measuring cap of Patent Document 3 has a hexagonal shape on the inner surface side of the inner cylinder portion. Therefore, the capacity in the cap is reduced, and the cap is increased to measure a large amount of liquid, or a plurality of times of measuring. Is required. Moreover, although the inner surface side of the entrance / exit portion has a hexagonal and angular apex, the outer surface shape is circular, so that it is difficult to pour out little by little to a target location such as a soiled portion of the wash.

An object of the present invention is to provide a measuring cap and a liquid container capable of easily and reliably pouring a liquid only to a portion such as a soiled part of a wash even when the viscosity of the liquid is high.

The first aspect of the present invention includes an outer cylinder portion screwed into the mouth portion of the container body, a bottomed cylindrical inner cylinder portion located inside the outer cylinder portion, and an end portion of the outer cylinder portion. An annular wall that closes between the cylindrical wall of the inner cylindrical portion, and an annular seal portion that is formed on the inner surface of the annular wall with a protrusion, and the inner cylindrical portion is a part of the cylindrical wall The cylindrical wall of the inner cylinder part is formed in substantially the same shape with the annular wall as a boundary. The gist is that it is a measuring cap.

According to the first aspect, since the inner cylinder part is partially provided with the extraction part having a substantially V-shaped cross section, when the user pours the liquid from the inner cylinder part of the measuring cap, A small amount can be extracted, and the liquid poured out from the measuring cap can be poured out only to a part such as a dirty part of the washing, and an appropriate amount of liquid can be easily and reliably attached to the part such as a dirty part of the washing. Further, when the pouring part having a substantially V-shaped cross section is formed by two flat surfaces in the axial direction, the visibility of the weighing scale is improved.

The angle of the pouring part having the V-shaped cross section may be in the range of 50 ° to 150 °.

Further, the cylindrical wall of the inner cylindrical portion may have a cylindrical portion having an arc-shaped cross section in a portion other than the pouring portion having the V-shaped cross section.

Further, the pouring part having a V-shaped cross section may have two connected flat surfaces, and the end portions of the two flat surfaces and the end portion of the cylindrical portion may be connected.

According to the above configuration, since the end on the side opposite to the substantially V-shaped cross-sectional portion where two flat surfaces are continuously provided is connected to the end of the cylindrical portion having a substantially arc-shaped cross section, It becomes easy to pour the liquid toward the top of the V-shaped portion of the dispensing portion.

The gist of a second aspect of the present invention is a liquid container comprising a container main body that contains a liquid and the above-described measuring cap that is detachably attached to the mouth of the container main body.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a measuring cap according to the first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the measuring cap of FIG. 1 as viewed from the dispensing portion side. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken along line III-III in FIG. FIG. 4 is a schematic explanatory view of an inner cylinder portion having a dispensing portion of the measuring cap of FIG. FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a liquid container equipped with the measuring cap of FIG. FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the container body of the liquid container with the measuring cap of FIG. 1 removed. FIG. 7 is a sectional view taken along line VII-VII in FIG. FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view showing a modified example in which a cap is attached to the container body via an inner stopper. FIG. 9A is an explanatory view when measuring the performance by inclining the measuring cap according to the first embodiment of the present invention and discharging the liquid from the substantially V-shaped extraction portion, and FIG. It is explanatory drawing at the time of inclining the measurement cap of a comparative example, and pouring out the liquid from the circular shaped extraction part, and measuring performance. FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram comparing the performance evaluation of the above-described measuring caps. FIG. 11A is a perspective view of a cap according to the second embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 11B is a perspective view of the cap as seen from the dispensing portion side, and FIG. 11C is FIG. 11B. It is sectional drawing which follows a middle XIc-XIc line. FIG. 12 is a schematic explanatory view of an inner cylinder portion having a dispensing portion of a measuring cap according to the third embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

[First Embodiment]
1 is a perspective view showing a measuring cap according to a first embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the cap as seen from the dispensing portion side, and FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along line III-III in FIG. 4 is an explanatory view of the inner cylinder portion having the extraction portion of the cap, FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the liquid container with the cap attached, and FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the container main body of the liquid container with the cap removed. 7 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line VII-VII in FIG. 5, and FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view showing a modification in which a measuring cap is attached to the container body via an inner plug.

As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, 5, and 7, the measuring cap 1 includes an outer cylinder portion 2 that is screwed into the mouth portion 21 of the container body 20 of the liquid container 100 that stores the liquid A, and an outer cylinder portion. 2, an inner wall 3 having a bottomed cylindrical shape integrally formed in a double cylinder shape, and an annular wall 5 that closes between the end of the outer cylinder 2 and the cylindrical wall 4 of the inner cylinder 3. And an annular seal portion 6 formed integrally with the protrusion on the inner surface of the annular wall 5. The annular seal portion 6 includes a contact 7 made of an annular rib, and an inner ring 8 made of an annular wall that protrudes from the contact 7 inside.

As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, an inner plug 30 is attached to the mouth portion 21 of the container body 20 of the liquid container 100. When the outer cylindrical portion 2 of the measuring cap 1 is screwed into the mouth portion 21 of the container body 20, the contact 7 is pressed against the edge portion 31 a of the peripheral wall 31 of the inner plug 30, and the wall surface of the inner ring 8. Is in contact with the peripheral wall 31 of the inner plug 30, whereby each part is arranged so that the inside of the container body 20 is sealed.

In the liquid container 100 of the present embodiment, it is not always necessary to provide the inner plug 30 at the mouth portion 21 of the container body 20, but it is easy to pour liquid from the container body 20 into the measuring cap 1, and From the standpoint of preventing dripping due to pouring, an inner plug having a bowl-like pouring part 32 and a liquid return hole 33 at the base of the pouring part 32 as in the container body 20 shown in FIG. 30 is preferably provided in the container body 20. Note that, as in the liquid container 100A shown in the modified example of FIG. 8, the inner plug 30 is screwed into the mouth portion 21 of the container body 20 so that the inner plug 30 and the measuring cap 1A are screwed together. May be.

The measuring cap 1 according to the present embodiment is a double cylinder-shaped cap having an outer cylinder part 2 and an inner cylinder part 3, and the cylindrical wall 4 of the inner cylinder part 3 is partially V-shaped in cross section. It is characterized by having a pouring part 9 integrally formed by bending it. More specifically, in the measuring cap 1 according to the present embodiment, the cylindrical wall 4 of the inner cylindrical portion 3 is bent at two

plane portions

9a and 9a, which are partially continuous, so that the cross section is substantially V-shaped. This portion is a pouring portion 9 that is used as a liquid flow path when the liquid A is poured from the measuring cap 1. As shown in FIG. 4, the angle (θ) between two continuous

flat portions

9a, 9a of the extraction portion 9 having a substantially V-shaped cross section is set within a range of 50 ° to 150 ° (preferably Is in the range of 60 ° to 130 °, more preferably 90 ° to 120 °).

Two continuous

flat portions

9a, 9a of the pouring portion 9 of the cylindrical wall 4 are formed symmetrically with respect to the V-shaped top portion 9b as a boundary, and the bowl-like pouring of the container body 20 is performed. Due to the relationship with the size of the portion 32, the cylindrical wall 4 is formed in a size that fits within the diameter of the circumscribed circle of the cylindrical portion 10 having a substantially arc-shaped cross section.

The cylindrical wall 4 of the inner cylindrical portion 3 of the measuring cap 1 has a cylindrical portion 10 having a substantially arc-shaped cross section in a portion other than the pouring portion 9 having a substantially V-shaped cross section. Both ends of the cylindrical portion 10 having a substantially arc-shaped cross section are connected to the end opposite to the extraction portion 9 of the two continuous

flat portions

9a and 9a. And since the cylindrical part 10 is a cross-section substantially circular arc shape, when the extraction | pouring part 9 is inclined, the liquid A becomes easy to gather in the V-shaped top part 9b of the extraction | pouring part 9, and the extraction property is easy. It has come to improve. Further, a sufficient capacity can be ensured without enlarging the inner cylinder part more than necessary.

As shown in FIG. 1, the cylindrical wall 4 of the inner cylinder part 3 is formed in substantially the same shape in the vertical direction with the annular wall 5 as a boundary. That is, the inner cylinder part 4 on the opening end 3a side and the bottom part 3b side of the inner cylinder part 3 protrudes in the axial direction from the outer cylinder part 2 with the annular wall 5 as a boundary, and the inner cylinder part 3 on the opening end 3a side The outer shape and inner shape of the cylindrical wall 4 and the outer shape and inner shape of the cylindrical wall 4 of the inner cylindrical portion 3 on the bottom 3b side are formed in substantially the same shape. The cylindrical wall 4 of the inner cylinder part 3 can be formed in a substantially uniform thickness over the entire circumference.

The open end 3a of the inner cylinder part 3 has only a pouring part 9 having a substantially V-shaped cross section, two

continuous plane parts

9a, 9a including the pouring part 9, or pouring, in order to improve the drainage of liquid. The entire circumference of the portion 9 and the cylindrical portion 10 may be partially expanded outward in a round shape (curved shape).

The diameter of the outer cylinder part 2 is formed so as to be easily gripped by the user. As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, a knurling can be formed on the outer surface of the cylindrical wall of the outer cylinder portion 2 to make it difficult to slip. As shown in FIG. 1, the inner cylinder portion 3 is appropriately scaled.

As shown in FIG. 5, the liquid container 100 includes a container body 20 that stores the liquid A, and a measuring cap 1 that is detachably attached to the mouth portion 21 of the container body 20. Examples of the liquid A include a liquid detergent containing a surfactant, a liquid softener, and a bleaching agent. The measuring cap 1 of the present embodiment is effective not only when the physical properties of the liquid are low viscosity, but also when the stringing and viscosity properties are high and the liquid is difficult to break. For example, this liquid A preferably has a viscosity at 25 ° C. of 50 to 2000 mPa · s (B-type viscometer, rotation speed 60 rpm, rotor No. 3), particularly 100 to 1000 mPa · s. The viscosity change with Vis (Vis (5 ° C) / Vis (25 ° C)) is preferably 1.5 or more and 8 or less.

When using the liquid container 100 of the present embodiment, first, the liquid A is poured out from the container body 20 into the inner cylindrical portion 3 of the measuring cap 1, and then the cap 1 is tilted as shown in FIG. Liquid A is poured into, for example, a dirty part of the wash. At this time, an extraction portion 9 having a substantially V-shaped cross section is provided in a part of the cylindrical wall 4 of the inner cylinder portion 3 by two continuous

flat portions

9a, 9a. A small amount can be extracted by the V-shaped top portion 9b of the letter-shaped pouring portion 9, and an appropriate amount of the liquid A can be easily and reliably poured and attached only to a portion such as a dirty portion of the washing.

In the measuring cap 1, the opening end 3a side and the bottom 3b side of the inner cylinder part 3 protrude in the axial direction from the outer cylinder part 2, respectively, and the outer shape and inner shape of the cylindrical wall 4 of the inner cylinder part 3 on the opening end 3a side. And the external shape and inner side shape of the cylindrical wall 4 of the inner cylinder part 3 by the side of the bottom part 3b are formed in the substantially identical shape. Therefore, the user of the measuring cap 1 can easily confirm the shape position of the dispensing portion 9 at a glance from when the measuring cap 1 is attached to the container body 20. When the liquid A is poured out using the measuring cap 1, the liquid A can be surely poured out from the pouring portion 9 of the measuring cap 1 little by little to a predetermined application location. The liquid A adhering to the inside of the cylindrical wall 4 of the inner cylindrical portion 3 is concentrated on the V-shaped top portion 9b of the pouring portion 9 through the flat portion from the arc-shaped portion, so that the liquid A is more reliably obtained. It becomes possible to collect. Since the open end 3a of the inner cylindrical portion 3 has an arc-shaped portion in the outer shape of the cylindrical portion 4, when the inner plug 30 is disposed on the container body 20, the open end 3a of the measuring cap 1 is The liquid A collected at the lowermost part of the stopper 30 can be recovered from the return hole 33.

Next, performance evaluation of the measuring cap 1 of the first embodiment of the present invention and the measuring cap K of the comparative example will be described with reference to FIGS.

<Measurement method>
With the liquid detergent as the liquid A in the measuring caps 1 and K, the amount of liquid dispensed when the measuring caps 1 and K were tilted at 20 ° from the horizontal state for 1 second was measured.

<Use cap>
1. Measuring cap 1 (weighing capacity: 55 ml, measuring section inner diameter: φ38 mm, shape of the pouring section 9: substantially V-shaped cross section)
2. Measuring cap K (weighing capacity: 55 ml, measuring part inner diameter: φ38 mm, shape of the extraction part L: round cross section)
<Used liquid detergent>
1. Low viscosity liquid (10mPa · s)
2. Medium viscosity liquid (170 mPa · s)
3. High viscosity liquid (500 mPa · s)
Weighing capacity is 30g for each detergent <Measurement results>
In the case of a high-viscosity liquid such as Z shown in FIG. 10, the amount of liquid used in the measuring cap 1 having the pouring part 9 having a substantially V-shaped cross section is 26.5%, and the cross section has a round shape L. The amount of liquid used in the measuring cap K was 49%, and the amount of liquid used in the measuring cap 1 was evaluated to be about half (about 1/2) of the amount of liquid used in the measuring cap K.

[Second Embodiment]
FIG. 11 shows a measuring cap 1B according to the second embodiment of the present invention. In the first embodiment, the two

flat portions

9a, 9a continuous to a part of the cylindrical wall 4 of the inner cylindrical portion 3 form the extraction portion 9 having a substantially V-shaped cross section. In the second embodiment, a pour-out portion 9 'having a substantially V-shaped cross section is formed by two inwardly curved curved portions 9a' and 9a 'that are continuous with a part of the cylindrical wall 4 of the inner cylindrical portion 3. Yes. The second embodiment also has the same operations and effects as the first embodiment.

[Third Embodiment]
FIG. 12 shows a measuring cap 1C according to the third embodiment of the present invention. In the first embodiment, the two

flat portions

9a, 9a continuous to a part of the cylindrical wall 4 of the inner cylindrical portion 3 form the extraction portion 9 having a substantially V-shaped cross section. In the measuring cap 1 </ b> C, a pour-out part 9 ″ having a substantially V-shaped cross section is formed by two outwardly curved curved parts 9 a ″, 9 a ″ that are continuous with a part of the cylindrical wall 4 of the inner cylinder part 3. The measuring cap 1C according to the third embodiment can achieve the same operations and effects as those of the first embodiment.

The container body 20 used for the

caps

1, 1A, 1B, 1C and the

liquid containers

100, 100A of the above embodiments can be easily industrially manufactured by, for example, an injection molding method using a synthetic resin.

The measuring caps 1, 1A, 1B, and 1C of the above embodiments are measuring caps for liquid containers that contain various liquids such as a liquid detergent containing a surfactant, a liquid softening agent, or a bleaching agent. It is useful as a measuring cap used to measure a certain amount of high-viscosity liquid from a container body, or to aliquot and apply to a coated object such as laundry. Moreover, the liquid container provided with such a measuring cap is useful as various liquid containers, such as a liquid detergent containing a surfactant, a liquid softening agent, or a bleaching agent.

Claims

An outer cylinder that is screwed into the mouth of the container body;
A bottomed cylindrical inner cylinder located inside the outer cylinder; and
An annular wall that closes between the end of the outer cylinder and the cylindrical wall of the inner cylinder,
An annular seal portion formed on a protrusion on the inner surface of the annular wall,
The inner cylinder part has an extraction part bent into a V-shaped cross section formed in a part of the cylindrical wall,
The cylindrical wall of the inner cylinder portion is a measuring cap whose upper and lower shapes are formed in substantially the same shape with the annular wall as a boundary.
The measuring cap according to claim 1, wherein an angle of the pouring part having a V-shaped cross section is in a range of 50 ° to 150 °.
3. The measuring cap according to claim 1, wherein the cylindrical wall of the inner cylindrical portion has a cylindrical portion having an arcuate cross section in a portion other than the pouring portion having the V-shaped cross section.
The pouring part having a V-shaped cross section has two connected flat surfaces,
The measuring cap according to claim 3, wherein an end of the two flat surfaces and an end of the cylindrical portion are connected.
A container body for containing a liquid;
A liquid container comprising the measuring cap according to any one of claims 1 to 4, which is detachably attached to a mouth portion of the container body.