WO2012145590A2 - Joint pour applications à température élevée et méthodes de fabrication de celui-ci - Google Patents

Joint pour applications à température élevée et méthodes de fabrication de celui-ci Download PDF

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WO2012145590A2
WO2012145590A2 PCT/US2012/034394 US2012034394W WO2012145590A2 WO 2012145590 A2 WO2012145590 A2 WO 2012145590A2 US 2012034394 W US2012034394 W US 2012034394W WO 2012145590 A2 WO2012145590 A2 WO 2012145590A2
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cap
seal
plastisol
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Steven T. Cook
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Dayton Systems Group Inc.
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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
    • B65D53/00—Sealing or packing elements; Sealings formed by liquid or plastics material
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D—WORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS OR PROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D51/00—Making hollow objects
    • B21D51/16—Making hollow objects characterised by the use of the objects
    • B21D51/38—Making inlet or outlet arrangements of cans, tins, baths, bottles, or other vessels; Making can ends; Making closures
    • B21D51/44—Making closures, e.g. caps
    • B21D51/46—Placing sealings or sealing material
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D—WORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS OR PROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D51/00—Making hollow objects
    • B21D51/16—Making hollow objects characterised by the use of the objects
    • B21D51/38—Making inlet or outlet arrangements of cans, tins, baths, bottles, or other vessels; Making can ends; Making closures
    • B21D51/44—Making closures, e.g. caps
    • B21D51/50—Making screw caps
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C70/00—Shaping composites, i.e. plastics material comprising reinforcements, fillers or preformed parts, e.g. inserts
    • B29C70/68—Shaping composites, i.e. plastics material comprising reinforcements, fillers or preformed parts, e.g. inserts by incorporating or moulding on preformed parts, e.g. inserts or layers, e.g. foam blocks
    • B29C70/78—Moulding material on one side only of the preformed part
    • B29C70/80—Moulding sealing material into closure members
    • 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
    • B65D53/00—Sealing or packing elements; Sealings formed by liquid or plastics material
    • B65D53/02—Collars or rings

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  • This disclosure relates to containers or cans of a wide variety of sizes, volume, etc. used in the food and beverage industry or in connection with other fluid products such as oil, paint, powders, etc. More particularly, this application relates to reclosable containers as disclosed in commonly owned US Patent Nos. 6,082,944 and 6,015,062, and to the disclosure of related published International Application W0 2006/072079, the disclosures of which are expressly incorporated herein by reference.
  • the disclosure is related to seals within a container cap having a general shape of an inverted cup that fits closely about and interacts with a container body having a neck.
  • the neck has a pour opening at its top and a plurality of thread lugs formed outwardly in the neck material at a predetermined spacing below the pour opening.
  • the thread lugs interact with a plurality of lugs extending inwardly from a perimeter of the cap and spaced about a lower rim of the cap to draw the interior surface or underside of the cap toward the pour opening and to complete a seal between the neck/body and cap.
  • compositions within the containers as may be required to accommodate the needs of properly packaging different contents of the container. Instead, it would be desirable to provide a seal that is useful for a wide variety of container contents and needs. Such needs may involve
  • the seal is typically extruded from pellets heated to approximately 340° F. The material was extruded into the cap, such as an aluminum cap, and then cold- formed with a tool to match a lip curl on the dome of the container.
  • the seal could be formed into an annulus or ring that only covers and seals on the lip curl, or could be formed into a disk to cover the center area of the cap with the form for the lip curl.
  • This seal worked very well and held high pressures, over approximately 140 PSI.
  • One problem was that the seal would not stick to the aluminum cap and could potentially fall out when the cap was removed from the can.
  • a coating material provided on the cap is designed to keep anything from sticking to it. The coating is in widespread use, and therefore changing the coating would be a difficult change over the entire industry.
  • an ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) copolymer material was extruded and supplied as a roll of material. Seals were blanked or cut from the EVA roll stock to form a flat disk.
  • the flat disk was generally oversized so that the disk would not fall out of the cap interior i.e., the perimeter edge of the oversized flat disk would interfere with the lugs provided on the cap and therefore be effectively retained within the cup-shaped cavity of the cap in a position where the seal would abuttingly engage the lip curl on the container.
  • the cost of this EVA material has recently substantially increased, thus requiring potential alternative options.
  • a method of forming a seal for a reclosable container having a removable cap that is selectively received over a pour opening formed in a can body including applying a seal material to an interior surface of the cap. If the seal is a plastisol, the method includes curing the plastisol at an elevated temperature in the cap. The seal is then cold-formed to the desired shape.
  • the seal can be formed into an annulus or ring that only covers and seals on the lip curl, or could be formed into a disk to cover the center area of the cap along with the desired form for the lip curl.
  • the seal works well at high pressures, as well as in vacuum situations, and is also applicable to high temperature environments.
  • a reclosable container has a body with a pour opening formed therein.
  • a removable cap is selectively received over the pour opening of the can body.
  • a seal is provided along at least a portion of an interior surface of the cap.
  • Figure 1 is a plan view of a conventional extruded seal.
  • Figure 2 is an elevational view of the seal of Figure 1.
  • Figure 3 is a plan view of an interior surface of a conventional lugged cap receiving the seal of Figure 1.
  • Figure 4 is a plan view of an interior surface of a conventional lugged cap receiving a seal disk.
  • Figure 5 is an elevational view of the seal disk of Figure 4.
  • Figure 6 illustrates the machinery for manufacturing the seal disk of Figure 4.
  • Figure 7 shows the scrap left from a web of the seal material as a result of the manufacturing of the seal disks.
  • Figure 8 is a plan view of a lugged beverage cap interior and illustrating the new seal formed therein.
  • Figure 9 is a view similar to figure 8 and showing the new seal formed in a larger food cap.
  • Figure 10 illustrates the applicator dispensing the fluidized plastisol along an interior face of the cap.
  • Figures 1 1 and 12 show the cold form tooling station that receives the cap from
  • Figure 13 shows an oven for baking a plastisol and/or pre-coat coating on the interior surface of the cap.
  • Figures 1 - 3 show a conventional extruded and cold-formed seal 100 received in a cup-shaped cap 110.
  • the seal 100 has a cross-sectional profile conducive to formation by extrusion and is typically formed into a generally C-shaped conformation 120 having an enlarged inner diameter and a space or gap 130 between opposite ends 132, 134 of the seal.
  • the seal 100 is reduced in diametrical dimension, i.e., the opposite ends 132, 134 abut against one another and form a circumferentially continuous seal member received in the cap interior.
  • the seal 100 is disposed at a location radially inward of the cap inner perimeter, and preferably dimensioned to engage the lip or outer curl of the can body.
  • Figures 4 - 7 show a typical EVA seal 200 received in the interior of the cup- shaped cap 210, and mechanically held in position by an interference engagement between a peripheral portion or perimeter of the seal 200 and the lugs 212 that extend radially inward toward the cap interior.
  • the seal 200 is preferably cut from a continuous web 220 of seal material, and for example may have a thickness ( Figure 5) on the order of 0.035".
  • Figures 6 and 7 the web 220 of material proceeds through a blanking station 230 where cooperating tool surfaces cut or blank the individual seal disks 200 from the web.
  • a large amount of scrap material 240 remains once the individual seal disks 200 have been formed.
  • the cap 310 typically includes a coating on the interior surface.
  • This coating 350 allows a plastisol material (which is used for sealing) to stick to the cap 310.
  • plastisol is a suspension of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) particles in a plasticizer.
  • PVC polyvinyl chloride
  • the plastisol advantageously flows as a liquid and can be poured into a heated mold or is sufficiently viscous so as to be sprayed as in the present disclosure (and as will be further described below).
  • the plastisol is sprayed into a cap 310 (that is, sprayed on the interior surface of the cup-shaped cap) and then cold-formed.
  • the plastisol material is typically used for retort products, because the can and cap 310 will not be exposed to temperatures over 250° F during the retort process, that is, pasteurized products are typically processed below 165° F. Therefore, using the plastisol material for pasteurized products seems to exhibit good performance characteristics and passes the pasteurized tests, as well as exhibiting low on-off torques in attaching and removing a cap 310 from the associated container.
  • the plastisol is sprayed over the entire interior surface in one preferred method, but one skilled in the art will recognize that the spray may be more directed and only be applied to a portion of the interior surface of the cap.
  • a pre-coating 350 was found that when heated to 40° F for a predetermined time, (e.g., 11 min), would allow the pre-coating 350 to stick to the aluminum cap 310 and then the plastisol 300 would adhere to the pre-coating.
  • the plastisol 300 is then sprayed into the cap (on to the interior surface of the cup-shaped cap at a thickness of approximately 0.030-0.040" although other ranges might be used), heated to approximately 400° F for a preselected time (e.g., approximately 2 min.) to cure, and then cold-formed into a desired configuration.
  • a preselected time e.g., approximately 2 min.
  • These plastisol, cold-formed seals 300 perform well for pasteurized products with low on-off torques.
  • the plastisol seal 300 also out-performed the EVA disk used for cold fill beverages.
  • the plastisol cold-formed seal 300 held higher pressures with low on-off torques.
  • the plastisol seal 300 can be used for almost all products and the cost is significantly less than other seal alternatives.
  • the plastisol opens the possibility for new markets such as beer, where the plastisol, cold- formed seal 300 can also be used for cold fill products at a considerable savings for the can maker.
  • the process of applying the new plastisol, cold-formed seal of the present disclosure would be roughly the same for a steel or aluminum container/cap (after applying the pre-coat to the aluminum).
  • the process would include applying e.g., spraying, the plastisol into the cap 310, baking the plastisol after application to the cap (e.g., baking at approximately 400° F in an oven such as depicted in Figure 13) for a predetermined time (approximately 2 min.), and then cold forming the plastisol (in the tooling station of Figures 11 and 12 to form the final profile or configuration of the seal in the cap that cooperates with the body lip or curl of the can body.
  • the lugs of the cap engage the thread lug portions of the can body during relative rotation of the cap in first direction relative to the body, the cap is axially drawn into sealed abutting engagement with the outer end of the can body.
  • the EVA pelletized material is formed into an extrusion and a bead applied to the inner surface of the cap.
  • the extruded bead can be placed at a desired thickness and desired location.
  • the seal is cold-formed in a tooling station such as shown in Figures 11-12.

Abstract

L'invention concerne un joint et une méthode de formage d'un joint pour un récipient refermable comprenant un bouchon amovible qui est placé sélectivement sur une ouverture de déversement formée dans un corps de bidon. La méthode consiste à appliquer un plastisol sur une surface intérieure du bouchon, durcir le plastisol à une température élevée dans le bouchon, et former à froid le bouchon contenant le plastisol durci. Dans un autre mode de réalisation, un matériau joint en EVA est extrudé dans le bouchon et le joint est ensuite formé à froid dans le bouchon.
PCT/US2012/034394 2011-04-20 2012-04-20 Joint pour applications à température élevée et méthodes de fabrication de celui-ci WO2012145590A2 (fr)

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US14/113,153 US20140183197A1 (en) 2011-04-20 2012-04-20 Seal for elevated temperature applications and method of forming same
CA2833967A CA2833967A1 (fr) 2011-04-20 2012-04-20 Joint pour applications a temperature elevee et methodes de fabrication de celui-ci
MX2013012320A MX2013012320A (es) 2011-04-20 2012-04-20 Sello para aplicaciones de temperatura elevada y metodo para formar el mismo.

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