WO2013073933A1 - System for enhancing outflow properties of a bottle - Google Patents

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WO2013073933A1
WO2013073933A1 PCT/NL2012/000071 NL2012000071W WO2013073933A1 WO 2013073933 A1 WO2013073933 A1 WO 2013073933A1 NL 2012000071 W NL2012000071 W NL 2012000071W WO 2013073933 A1 WO2013073933 A1 WO 2013073933A1
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Martin VAN RIJNSBERGEN
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Van Rijnsbergen Martin
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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
    • B65D47/00—Closures with filling and discharging, or with discharging, devices
    • B65D47/40—Closures with filling and discharging, or with discharging, devices with drip catchers or drip-preventing means
    • 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
    • B65D41/00—Caps, e.g. crown caps or crown seals, i.e. members having parts arranged for engagement with the external periphery of a neck or wall defining a pouring opening or discharge aperture; Protective cap-like covers for closure members, e.g. decorative covers of metal foil or paper
    • B65D41/62—Secondary protective cap-like outer covers for 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
    • B65D47/00—Closures with filling and discharging, or with discharging, devices
    • B65D47/04—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps
    • B65D47/06—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps with pouring spouts or tubes; with discharge nozzles or passages
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67B—APPLYING CLOSURE MEMBERS TO BOTTLES JARS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; OPENING CLOSED CONTAINERS
    • B67B5/00—Applying protective or decorative covers to closures; Devices for securing bottle closures with wire
    • B67B5/03—Applying protective or decorative covers to closures, e.g. by forming in situ
    • B67B5/036—Applying protective or decorative covers to closures, e.g. by forming in situ the covers being heat-shrinkable
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67B—APPLYING CLOSURE MEMBERS TO BOTTLES JARS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; OPENING CLOSED CONTAINERS
    • B67B7/00—Hand- or power-operated devices for opening closed containers
    • B67B7/02—Hand- or power-operated devices for opening closed containers for removing stoppers
    • B67B7/04—Cork-screws
    • B67B2007/0458—Means for cutting sealing capsules

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  • the outflow ring has similar shapes at its both sides, comprising a common (central) inside opening (bore) and, at both sides (i.e. at its top side and at its underside), an anti-drip surface surrounding the inside opening, the surface of the inside opening and each anti-drip surface forming a sharp outflow edge (without a substantial radius) having a sharp angle a of 90° or less, preferably 30° ⁇ a ⁇ 65° and more preferably 3 ⁇ 4 45°. Also, at both sides, an annular safety cavity surrounds the anti-drip surface.
  • the socket member When a socket member is used instead of a (shrinkable) bottle capsule, the socket member, preferably, comprises a detachable cover, lid or cap, arranged for detachably covering the outflow ring's inside opening and thus the content (wine) of the bottle.
  • the cover, lid or cap facilitates pushing down the socket member over the bottleneck in an easy and hygienic way by exerting downward pressure upon that cover, lid or cap.
  • Figure 2 shows the embodiment shown in figure 1, cooperating with a heat shrinkable capsule 11 and bottle 1.
  • the capsule 11 is intended and arranged for covering the bottle's corked (with cork 7) outflow opening 3.
  • the outflow ring 2 is fit for being inserted into said capsule's interior 12 and the bottle capsule 11 is fit to receive the outflow ring 2 in its interior 12. After the outflow ring 2 has been inserted - before bottling- into the capsule, e.g.
  • the cork 7 can be removed by inserting a standard corkscrew in the cork 7 via the hole made in the capsule 11 by cutting away its cover part 14 and the central hole 4 in the outflow ring 2. The cork 7 then can pulled out via said openings while the outflow ring remains tightly on its place by means of the remaining parts of the shrunken capsule 11. After the cork 7 has been removed, the wine or beverage can be poured out, where the anti-drip outflow ring 2 prevents any undesired dripping of the wine or beverage.

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Abstract

System for enhancing the outflow properties of a wine bottle (1) comprising an outflow ring (2) having an inside opening (4) and an anti-drip surface (5) surrounding the inside open¬ ing, the surface of the inside opening and the anti-drip sur¬ face forming a sharp outflow edge (6) having a sharp angle a of 90° or less, preferably about 45°. Moreover, a capsule (11) is provided, arranged for covering the bottle's outflow open¬ ing (3), where the outflow ring (2) is inserted into the bot¬ tle capsule's interior (12) before or during bottling. In¬ stead, a socket member (25) may be provided for interconnect¬ ing the outflow ring with the bottle's outflow opening. The ·. system, moreover, includes an apparatus (16) for cutting-off the cover part (14) of the bottle capsule (11), comprising an incision element (19) arranged to make a circular incision (15) into the capsule by turning the apparatus around the cap¬ sule.

Description

Title: System for enhancing outflow properties of a bottle
DESCRIPTION
The invention refers to a system for enhancing the outflow properties of a bottle, in particular a wine bottle.
One aim of the present invention is to provide a small compo nent (called "Droopy®") arranged to avoid any spilling of wine when it is poured out into the wineglass.
Another aim is to provide (wine) bottles with capsules (or caps) which are adapted to enhance the outflow properties. Still another aim is to provide a method for manufacturing such adapted bottle capsules.
Yet another aim is to provide a module for cutting off part of such an adapted bottle capsule in order to make an opening in it through which -after the cork has been pulled out- the content (wine) can flow out.
The system
According to the invention a system is provided for enhancing the outflow properties of a bottle, in particular a wine bottle, the system comprising an outflow device arranged to be installed on the bottle's outflow opening for enhancing the bottle's outflow properties, resulting into a mainly laminar, turbulence-free flow (see e.g. http : //en . wikipedia . org/wiki/- Laminar_flow) , preventing any dripping of the outflowing liquid. To that end the outflow device comprises an outflow ring having an inside opening and an anti-drip surface surrounding the inside opening, the surface of the inside opening and the anti-drip surface forming a sharp outflow edge having a sharp angle a of 90° or less, where, preferably, 30° < a < 65° and more preferably a * 45°.
The invention is based on the surprising discovery that if the outflow opening of a wine bottle is provided with a ring module having a sharp (i.e. not having any substantial radius) inner edge, drop formation is mainly reduced. Although drop formation is mainly reduced, however, may not entirely be ruled out, the outflow ring may, preferably, be provided with a drip collecting channel. In practice, a synergistic effect is achieved by the combination of a sharp inner (outflow) edge, a correct angle of inclination a of that sharp inner edge, and the position and shape of the (preferred) drip collecting channel. In this way, a drip-free outflow mouth is obtained.
System with capsule or socket member
Preferably, the system as introduced above includes a bottle capsule, intended and/or arranged for covering the bottle's outflow opening, where said outflow ring is fit for being inserted into said bottle capsule's interior while, vice-versa, the bottle capsule is fit to receive the outflow ring in its interior. Preferably, bottle capsules, to be used when bottling wine, include an outflow ring as presented above, with- in their interior.
Instead of mounting an outflow ring into the bottle capsules a socket member may be used for interconnecting the outflow ring with the bottle's outflow opening.
Capsule
The invention includes a bottle capsule to be used in the system, which bottle capsule is arranged to include the outflow ring within its interior, as well as a bottle capsule which -after the outflow ring being mounted into the bottle capsule's interior- includes said outflow ring within its interior . Mounting the ring into the capsule's interior may be performed by fixing the outflow ring in the capsule's interior by shrinking at least part of the capsule -in particular its top part- by applying heat to that part. Use may be made of an apparatus which is arranged for shrinking the capsule part by applying heat to that (top) part (which also could be called the capsule's bottom part, i.e. the side where the capsule is closed, opposite to the side where the capsule is open) .
After the outflow ring has been mounted in the capsule, the complete set may be mounted over the bottleneck, thus covering the bottle's outflow opening after the bottle had been filled with wine and -in most cases- closed by a cork. In this configuration, i.e. the bottle filled with wine, closed with a closure cork and provided with a capsule having an outflow ring mounted in its top (when bottom-up) side, the capsule (including outflow ring) is heat shrunk over the (corked) bottle's outflow opening. In this form the wine bottles, closed by a cork and provided with a capsule with a "built-in" outflow ring, may be sold to the customers.
Capsule cutter
To facilitate that customers can easily remove the capsule bottom covering the outflow opening of the wine bottle with- out, however, removing the outflow ring which is mounted within the capsule, a cutting-off apparatus is provided, which is arranged for cutting-off the covering top part of the bottle capsule in the system outlined above. The cutting- off apparatus comprises a cavity which is arranged to enve- lope at least part of the capsule, as well as an incision element, located in said cavity and arranged to make a circular incision into the capsule wall by turning round the apparatus and the capsule relative to each another.
Outflow ring
To facilitate that the outflow ring can easily be inserted and mounted into the bottle capsule, it is preferred that the outflow ring has similar shapes at its both sides, comprising a common (central) inside opening (bore) and, at both sides (i.e. at its top side and at its underside), an anti-drip surface surrounding the inside opening, the surface of the inside opening and each anti-drip surface forming a sharp outflow edge (without a substantial radius) having a sharp angle a of 90° or less, preferably 30° < a < 65° and more preferably ¾ 45°. Also, at both sides, an annular safety cavity surrounds the anti-drip surface.
The outflow ring is interchangeable and fit for multiple use. The diameter of the common (central) opening of the outflow ring is (somewhat) larger than the diameter of the outflow opening of the bottle in order to be sure that any obstruction of the (laminar) outflow of the liquid in the interface of the ring and the bottle -which could cause the formation of drips- is prevented. Besides, the central opening in the outflow ring needs to offer sufficient room for the cork in the bottleneck to pass when the cork is pulled out with a corkscrew. Socket member
When a socket member is used instead of a (shrinkable) bottle capsule, the socket member, preferably, comprises a detachable cover, lid or cap, arranged for detachably covering the outflow ring's inside opening and thus the content (wine) of the bottle. Besides, the cover, lid or cap facilitates pushing down the socket member over the bottleneck in an easy and hygienic way by exerting downward pressure upon that cover, lid or cap.
Hereinafter the invention will be elucidated on the basis of some exemplary embodiments, with reference to some figures. shows a preferred embodiment of an outflow ring arranged to be installed on the outflow opening of a bottle;
Figure 2 shows the embodiment shown in figure 1, cooperating with a capsule and a bottle;
Figure 3 shows an exemplary embodiment of a tool for cutting a top part of the bottle capsule;
Figure 4 shows an exemplary embodiment of a socket member which may be used for cooperation with the outflow ring shown in figure 1, instead of using a capsule;
Figure 5 shows an embodiment of a tool for facilitating the shrinking process of a capsule having an outflow ring mounted in it.
Figure 1 shows an embodiment of the system according to the invention for enhancing the outflow properties of a bottle, in particular a wine bottle 1. The system comprises an outflow ring 2 arranged to be installed on the bottle's outflow opening 3 for enhancing the bottle's outflow properties. The outflow ring has a central inside opening 4 and an anti-drip surface 5 surrounding the inside opening 4. The surface of the inside opening 4 and the anti-drip surface 5 forms a sharp (not radiused) outflow edge 6 having a sharp angle a of 90° or less, preferably 30° < < 65° and more preferably α ¾ 45° as in the outflow ring 2 shown in figure 1. The outflow ring's inside opening 4 corresponds to the bottle's outflow opening 3, however is somewhat larger to facilitate the extraction of a cork 7 which may be pressed into in the bottle.
The width w of the anti-drip surface, preferably, is > 1 mm. The outflow ring 2 comprises an annular safety cavity 8 surrounding the anti-drip surface 5. The outflow ring 2 has similar shapes at its both sides A and B, comprising a common inside opening 4 and, at both sides, an anti-drip surface 5 surrounding the inside opening 4, the surface of the inside opening 4 and each anti-drip surface 5 forming -at both side A and B- a sharp outflow edge 6 having a sharp angle a of 90° or less, preferably 30° < a < 65° and more preferably ~ 45°. At both sides A and B an annular safety cavity 8 is provided, surrounding the anti-drip surface 5, which safety cav- ity may include small (annular) gutters 9. The outflow ring may be provided with protrusions 10 for the benefit of mount¬ ing and tight fixation of the ring in any connection member, like a bottle capsule or capsule, fit to connect the outflow ring 2 to the neck of the bottle 1 and thus to the bottle's outflow opening 3.
Figure 2 shows the embodiment shown in figure 1, cooperating with a heat shrinkable capsule 11 and bottle 1. The capsule 11 is intended and arranged for covering the bottle's corked (with cork 7) outflow opening 3. The outflow ring 2 is fit for being inserted into said capsule's interior 12 and the bottle capsule 11 is fit to receive the outflow ring 2 in its interior 12. After the outflow ring 2 has been inserted - before bottling- into the capsule, e.g. by the capsule manu- facturing company or by the wine bottling company, into the capsule 11 via the capsule's open side (at the underside in figure 2), the outflow ring 2 may be fixed within the capsule 11 in the region 13 at the capsule's closed side (at the upside in figure 2) by local heating the (upside) capsule region 13 where the outflow ring 2 resides then, resulting in local shrinkage of the capsule wall in region 13 and thus a clamping and tight fixation of the outflow ring 2. The bottle capsule 11, including the outflow ring 2 in the region 13 of its interior 12, is used after bottling and corking the bottle 1 to cap the bottle 1 and, at the same time, to provide the bottle's outflow opening 3 with the outflow ring 2. Capping the bottle is performed by placing the capsule 11 (including the outflow ring 2 which was installed and fixed in it previously) over the corked bottleneck end 3, exerting some downward pressure on the capsule and applying heat to the capsule 11 over its entire side surface. In that way the capsule 11 is shrunk around the bottle's corked outflow opening 3.
It is noted here that individual capsules 11 may be traded including an outflow ring 2 installed within their interior 12. Such prepared (by the installed outflow ring 2) can be used by beverage or wine bottlers in their bottling process, after which the bottles are traded each including an outflow improving outflow ring according to the invention.
Figure 3 shows an exemplary embodiment of a tool 16 for cutting the closed top part 14 (figure 2) of the capsule 11 by making an incision in the capsule 11 along the dashed line 1 (figure 2) . The apparatus or tool 16 for cutting a top part 14 of the bottle capsule 11 -which tool 16 is part of the system according to the invention- comprises a cavity 17, surrounded by e.g. a shell or cap 18 arranged to envelope at least part of the capsule 11, as well as an incision element or blade 19, located in the cavity 17 and arranged to make a circular incision 15 into the capsule 11, following the dashed line in figure 2, by turning round the cutting tool 16 and the capsule 11 (and bottle 1) relative to each another. In that way the part of the capsule 11 which covers the outflow opening 3 can easily be removed. The outflow ring 2 , however, remains fixed on the bottle 1, held tight by the remaining part of region 13 below the incision line 15, which remaining part of region 13 is sufficiently large (high) to keep the outflow ring 2 in tight position due to the clamping force of the remaining (shrunken, after all) part of capsule region 13. Besides, the protrusions 10 (see figure 1), around which the capsule material has been shrunken, will anyway prevent the loosening of the outflow ring 2.
In the exemplary embodiment of the cutting tool 16 shown in figure 3 the incision blade 19 is mounted on or in a resilient or pivoting member 20, connected to the shell 18 via a narrowed, pivotal part 21, due to which the blade 19 can easily be moved inwardly to make the incision into the capsule 11. To facilitate the incision process an annular guiding ridge 22 is provided, as well as gripping ridges 23 and a central bore 24, via which the user of the cutting tool is able to press the tool 16 firmly to the bottle 1 and to keep in good touch with both the bottle 1 and the cutting tool 16. It is preferred that the blade 19 is replaceable using any (well known as such) click-on/click-off construction for the easy removal of a worn blade 19 and insertion of a new one.
After the covering part 14 of the capsule 11 has been cut off and removed -where the outflow ring 2 remains tightly seated upon the bottle 1 in good connection with the bottle's outflow opening 3- the cork 7 can be removed by inserting a standard corkscrew in the cork 7 via the hole made in the capsule 11 by cutting away its cover part 14 and the central hole 4 in the outflow ring 2. The cork 7 then can pulled out via said openings while the outflow ring remains tightly on its place by means of the remaining parts of the shrunken capsule 11. After the cork 7 has been removed, the wine or beverage can be poured out, where the anti-drip outflow ring 2 prevents any undesired dripping of the wine or beverage. Figure 4 shows an exemplary embodiment of a socket member 25 which may be used for cooperation with the outflow ring shown in figure 1, instead a capsule 11. The socket member 25 comprises an upper cavity 26 in which an outflow ring 2 can be installed by pushing it into the cavity 26, where it is re- ceived and secured by the protrusions 10 which fall into cooperating annular grooves 27. The socket member 25 can be mounted over the outflow opening 3 of the bottle 1 (see figure 1) . The cork 7 can be pulled out from and re-inserted into the bottle's outflow opening via the central bore 29 of the socket member 25 and the central bore 4 of the outflow ring 2. The socket member 25 may include a simple detachable cover, lid or cap, not shown in the figures, arranged for de- tachably covering the outflow ring's inside (central) opening 4. The socket member 25 is thus arranged for interconnecting the outflow ring 2 with the outflow opening 3 of the bottle
1. It is preferred that the socket member 25 is made from any elastomeric material in order to provide that the socket member 25 can be mounted firmly and free of leakage over the outflow opening 3 of all relevant (wine) bottles.
Figure 5 shows an embodiment of a tool 28 which is arranged for facilitating the shrinking process of a capsule 11 having an outflow ring 1 mounted in it (see figure 2) . Besides, the tool 28 is arranged to make an embossment 29 into the top part 14 of the capsule 11 covering the outflow opening 3 of the bottle 1 (see figure 2) , which embossment 29 serves to improve the centering the cutting tool 16 which is arranged to cut-off the cover part 14 of the capsule 11.
The tool 28 comprises at least two legs 30 which are arranged to embrace the capsule 11 when placed over the bottle's outflow opening 3, before shrinking and to fix the capsule 11 around the bottle's neck. Besides, the tool 28 is arranged, by means of a protrusion 31, to make an embossment 29 into the top part 14 of the capsule 11 covering the outflow opening 3 of the bottle 1, which embossment 29 serves to improve the centration of the cutting tool 16 shown in figure 3. When the tool 28 is pressed upon the capsule 11 (including an out- flow ring residing within is (see figure 2) towards the bottle 1, the embossment 29 can be made in the covering wall 14 of the capsule 11, which embossment 29 extends inside the area of the central bore 14 of the outflow ring 2 residing in the capsule's bottom part 13/14 (or top part when the capsule 11 is mounted -with its bottom part 13/14 upside- on the bottle 1 and the bottle 1 is standing upright) . It is preferred that the embossment 29 is made together with the shrink-by- heat process, as the capsule material is (made) weak then. For shrinking the capsule it may be preferred to turn-over the bottle upside down in order to expose the capsule to any hot medium, e.g. to hot water. In order to hold -before the heat shrinking taking place- the capsule 11 on the bottleneck when the bottle 1 is turned-over upside down, the tool 28 is installed around the capsule 11, thus clamping, by means of the resilient legs 30 of the tool 28, including inside recesses 32, the capsule 11 to the bottleneck. In this way the capsule 11, including an outflow ring 1 mounted inside, can be put over the bottle's outflow opening 3 and bottleneck and securely attached to it by means of the clamping legs 30 of the tool 28, which tool 28, moreover, is used to make the embossment 29 in the capsule's covering wall 14 during heating of the capsule material. After the capsule 11 thus being fixed to the bottle 1, the bottle 1 may be brought into a position in which a heat fluid is applied in order to shrink the (heat shrinkable) capsule 1 tightly around the bottleneck of the bottle 1. Besides, the embossment 29 is pressed then into the capsule's bottom wall 14 by pressing the protrusion 31 into the capsule's bottom wall 14. Use can be made of a support member 33 for supporting the tool 28 (in upside down position then) upon any floor of the heating room (not shown) . After finishing the heating process the bottle may be repositioned (upside up) and the clamping tool 28 can be taken away.

Claims

CLAIMS (The system)
1. System for enhancing the outflow properties of a bottle (1), in particular a wine bottle,
the system comprising an outflow device (2) arranged to be installed on the bottle's outflow opening (3) for enhancing the bottle's outflow properties,
said outflow device comprising an outflow ring (2) having an inside opening (4) and an anti-drip surface (5) surrounding the inside opening, the surface of the inside opening and the anti-drip surface forming a sharp outflow edge (6) having a sharp angle a of 90° or less.
2. System according to claim 1, wherein 30° < a < 65°, preferably a « 45° .
3. System according to any preceding claim, wherein the outflow ring's inside opening
(4) corresponds to or is wider than the bottle's outflow opening (3) . . System according to any preceding claim, the width w of the anti-drip surface being > 1 mm.
5. System according to any preceding claim, said outflow ring comprising an annular safety cavity (8) surrounding said anti-drip surface (5) .
(The system including a capsule)
6. System according to any preceding claim, comprising a bottle capsule (11), intended and/or arranged for covering the bottle's outflow opening (3), said outflow ring (2) being fit for being inserted into said bottle cap- sule ' s interior (12) and said bottle capsule being fit to receive said outflow ring in its interior.
7. System according to claim 6, said bottle capsule includ- ing said outflow ring within its interior.
(The system including a socket member)
8. System according to any preceding claim 1-5, comprising a socket member (25) which is intended and/or arranged for interconnecting the outflow ring with the bottle's outflow opening .
(Capsule - apart)
9. Bottle capsule for a system according to any preceding claim 1-7, arranged for comprising said outflow ring within its interior.
10. Bottle capsule according to claim 9, comprising said outflow ring inserted into its interior.
11. Bottle capsule according to claim 10, said outflow ring being fixed in its interior by shrinking at least part (13) of it by applying heat to that part. (Capsule cutter)
12. Apparatus (16) arranged for cutting-off a cover part (14) of the bottle capsule (11) in a system according to claim 7, comprising a cavity (17) arranged to envelope at least part of the capsule, as well as an incision element (19), located in said cavity and arranged to make a circular incision (15) into the capsule by turning round the apparatus and the capsule relative to each another. (Outflow ring - apart)
13. Outflow ring for a system according to any preceding
claim 1-8.
14. Outflow ring according to claim 13, having similar shapes at its both sides, comprising a common inside opening and, at both sides (A,B), an anti-drip surface surrounding the inside opening, the surface of the inside opening and each anti-drip surface forming a sharp outflow edge having a sharp angle a of 90° or less, preferably 30° < ex
< 65° and more preferably a * 45°.
15. Outflow ring according to claim 14, comprising, at both sides, an annular safety cavity surrounding said anti- drip surface.
(Socket member - apart)
16. Socket member (25) for the system according to claim 8.
17. Socket member according to claim 16, comprising a detachable cover, lid or cap, arranged for detachably covering the outflow ring's inside opening.
(Capsule shrinking tool)
18. Tool (28) arranged for facilitating shrinking of a capsule according to claim 9 by applying heat, said tool comprising clamping means (30) for temporarily fixing the capsule to the bottle.
19. Tool according to claim 18, comprising means (31) for
making an embossment (29) into the capsule arranged to be used for centering the apparatus (16) according to claim 12 for cutting-off a cover part (14) of the bottle capsule (11) .
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