WO2020154417A1 - Bouteille compressible réutilisable améliorée destinée à des fluides visqueux - Google Patents

Bouteille compressible réutilisable améliorée destinée à des fluides visqueux Download PDF

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WO2020154417A1
WO2020154417A1 PCT/US2020/014633 US2020014633W WO2020154417A1 WO 2020154417 A1 WO2020154417 A1 WO 2020154417A1 US 2020014633 W US2020014633 W US 2020014633W WO 2020154417 A1 WO2020154417 A1 WO 2020154417A1
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bottle
spout
refillable
way valve
shampoo
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Eric A. Williams
Lawrence M. Levenstein
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C.H. & I. Technologies, 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
    • B65D25/00—Details of other kinds or types of rigid or semi-rigid containers
    • B65D25/38—Devices for discharging contents
    • B65D25/40—Nozzles or spouts
    • B65D25/42—Integral or attached nozzles or spouts
    • B65D25/46—Hinged, foldable or pivoted nozzles or spouts
    • B65D25/465—Hinged, foldable or pivoted nozzles or spouts the spout being either flexible or having a flexible wall portion, whereby the spout is foldable between a dispensing and a non-dispensing position
    • 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
    • B65D1/00—Containers having bodies formed in one piece, e.g. by casting metallic material, by moulding plastics, by blowing vitreous material, by throwing ceramic material, by moulding pulped fibrous material, by deep-drawing operations performed on sheet material
    • B65D1/02—Bottles or similar containers with necks or like restricted apertures, designed for pouring contents
    • B65D1/06—Bottles or similar containers with necks or like restricted apertures, designed for pouring contents with closable apertures at bottom
    • 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
    • B65D1/00—Containers having bodies formed in one piece, e.g. by casting metallic material, by moulding plastics, by blowing vitreous material, by throwing ceramic material, by moulding pulped fibrous material, by deep-drawing operations performed on sheet material
    • B65D1/32—Containers adapted to be temporarily deformed by external pressure to expel contents
    • 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
    • B65D77/00—Packages formed by enclosing articles or materials in preformed containers, e.g. boxes, cartons, sacks or bags
    • B65D77/22—Details
    • B65D77/225—Pressure relief-valves incorporated in a container wall, e.g. valves comprising at least one elastic element
    • 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
    • B65D2205/00—Venting means

Definitions

  • Many consumer products such as creams, lotions, soaps, shampoos, etc.
  • the nature of such fluids are that they tend to physically collect across smallish orifices and entrap air during a physical transfer.
  • containers of these fluids are more easily filled or dispensed with the addition of a supplemental energy source (like static pressure from a propellant gas or centrifugal pump, or physical displacement like squeezing a bottle or from a displacement type pump).
  • the present invention is directed to a particular container generally characterized as a squeeze bottle that is used to dispense personal products such as hair shampoo and hair conditioner and the like.
  • Other materials, containers, and fluids are also within the scope of the invention.
  • a positive displacement metering device is typically used to transfer a set volume of hair shampoo or hair conditioner from a filling reservoir, through filling conduits, and through the open top of and into a squeeze bottle.
  • a filling probe is physically inserted into the receiving bottle's lower surface to fill from its bottom to its top, to avoid entrapping air in the shampoo or conditioner and thus reduce the opportunity for interfering with reliable and repeatable filling.
  • a cap or closure is installed.
  • a tamper-indicator like shrink film
  • a cap has an integral valve, so the cap doesn’t need to be removed when a consumer squeezes a bottle to dispense shampoo or conditioner from it. Integral valves are preferred, especially in a shower where a bottle and its cap are wet and slippery and a cap is easily dropped.
  • a smallish percentage of consumers refill a bottle from another larger bottle (“a refill”) however, the viscous properties of shampoo or conditioner make it time-consuming to refill by pouring with or without a funnel, or messy to refill by squeezing with or without some physical coupling between the bottles.
  • a refill typically significant amounts of shampoo or conditioner are lost to waste every product cycle, cycle after cycle, and a package / bottle must be disposed of as solid waste or enter the recycling stream.
  • a refillable and recyclable squeeze bottle is used to dispense the viscous product.
  • a volume of viscous liquid such as hair shampoo or hair conditioner is transferred from a filling container, through filling equipment, and through the bottom valve of and into a squeeze bottle.
  • a bottle is equipped with a valve on its upper end. It‘s not mandatory to install a top valve before a bottle is filled. If a top valve is installed before a bottle is filled, then the top valve is opened to vent air during filling.
  • a top valve may be integrated directly with a bottle (like installed by“snapping-in” to a plastic bottle), and it is not mandatory for a bottle to have an additional removable cap or closure. If an additional removable larger cap or closure is not installed, then a bottle with top and bottom valves that are smaller and more restrictive is less vulnerable to tampering or the introduction of foreign material.
  • a bottle is essentially“more-sealed” than a current bottle with a cap or closure.
  • a bottle After a bottle is filled, it’s not mandatory for it to have an additional removable cap or closure installed, but its top valve (like a“flip top” or“pop top” valve) is then closed. Sometimes a tamper-indicator (like shrink film) is applied.
  • a consumer opens the top valve and squeezes a bottle to dispense shampoo or conditioner from it, typically in a shower when a bottle and its cap are wet and slippery, it’ s not mandatory for it to have an additional removable cap or closure installed that would be easily dropped.
  • a local retail facility has a bottle refill system, then it is not mandatory for a consumer, retailer, or recycler to ship a bottle all the way back to a remote manufacturing or filling facility such as in a pre-addressed return mailer package. If a consumer refills a bottle at a local retail facility coincidental with a shopping trip, then certain additional costs for packaging (like the return mailer), transportation, and/or shipping are avoided.
  • FIG. 1 is an elevated, perspective view, partially in phantom, of the present invention
  • FIG. 2 is a cross sectional view of the embodiment of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a cross sectional view illustrating the direction of fluid ingress during filling.
  • FIG. 4 is a cross sectional view showing egress of the fluid by squeezing.
  • the present invention relates to a shampoo/conditioner squeeze bottle that is filled at a bottom surface and dispensed at an upper surface through, in a preferred embodiment, a non-threaded or non-removable flip valve.
  • Figure 1 illustrates a first embodiment of the present invention comprising a plastic shampoo or conditioner bottle 10.
  • the bottle 10 is plastic and is compressible ("squeezable") to allow a user to expel a viscous fluid such as shampoo or conditioner through a spout/port/opening on the upper end 12.
  • the bottle 10 is cylindrical with a base 14 at a lower end and a spout 16 on the upper end, where the spout 16 is preferably incorporated into a semi-permanent closure of the bottle 10.
  • the closure is press-fit into the upper end 12 of the bottle and includes flip top spout 16 that pivots open and closed (see Figures 1 and 2).
  • the closure 18 can also be integrally fit into the bottle 10 with the spout 16 snapped into place later or formed as part of the top of the bottle.
  • a recessed port 20 that includes a one-way valve 22 for introducing product into the bottle 10 during the filling process.
  • the valve 22 can be a ball check valve that allows fluid in, but will not allow fluid to escape when the bottle is squeezed (and thus pressurized).
  • the one way valve 22 may include first and second openings 34 for conveying fluid into the bottle's interior.
  • the recessed port 20 may be cylindrical extending up from the lowermost surface of the base 14 and include an engagement surface 24 to interface with a filling station (not shown). Arrows 26 show the direction of fluid flow into and through the bottle 10 as air is forced out through the spout 16.
  • the spout 16 is closed, the bottle 10 is disengaged from the filling station, the one way valve 22 closes the port 30 where product enters the bottle, and the shampoo or conditioner is ready to be dispelled for use. No residual product is lost, since the filling operation adds to any remaining product and the reuse of the bottle eliminates consumer packaging waste.
  • Figure 4 shows how the product is dispelled from the bottle 10.
  • the bottle is inverted and the spout 16 is opened to establish a path out of the bottle 10.
  • the valve 22 using a spring and ball as is known in the art, closes the port 30 to prevent product from exiting the ingress opening. Squeezing the bottle pressurizes the interior volume and forces product through the spout 16, as indicated by arrows 32. Since the closure 18 is integral with the bottle 10 in this embodiment, there is no fumbling with opening or closing the cap to refill the product and the entire unit is of a single construction. This bottle 10 can be used many times over, saving waste, packaging, lost residual product, and time.

Abstract

L'invention concerne une bouteille compressible réutilisable en plastique destinée à des fluides visqueux, tels qu'un shampooing et un après-shampooing, comprenant une fermeture non filetée et sensiblement fixe au niveau d'une extrémité supérieure qui comprend un bec verseur pivotant. La base de la bouteille comprend un orifice de remplissage doté d'une valve unidirectionnelle au niveau de la base destiné à l'introduction de produit/fluide visqueux pendant que la bouteille est purgée par le bec verseur. Le produit sort de la bouteille par compression de la bouteille pour mettre sous pression le contenu à travers le bec verseur, en même temps que la valve unidirectionnelle empêche toute fuite du fluide par la base. La bouteille peut être réutilisée de nombreuses fois ce qui représente une économie conséquente.
PCT/US2020/014633 2019-01-24 2020-01-22 Bouteille compressible réutilisable améliorée destinée à des fluides visqueux WO2020154417A1 (fr)

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