WO2021142521A1

WO2021142521A1 - Lid for fitting to bottle mouths, with element for guiding fluid through a gasification device, for the carbonation of liquids

Info

Publication number: WO2021142521A1
Application number: PCT/BR2020/050578
Authority: WO
Inventors: Alvaro Augusto FERNANDES FILHO
Original assignee: Fernandes Filho Alvaro Augusto
Priority date: 2020-01-17
Filing date: 2020-12-23
Publication date: 2021-07-22
Also published as: BR202020001057U2

Abstract

The invention relates to replacing conventional lids (O) of bottles (GE) containing carbonated liquids or liquids to be carbonated, by means of the lid (1) in both design variants (1a) and (1b) thereof. The lid (1), in design versions (1a) and (1b) has, on the internal face (5) of the top (6) thereof, a central weak point (7). The lid (1a) incorporates a cylindrical recess (8) around this central weak point (7), on said internal face (5). The lid (1b) incorporates an annular flange (9) around the aforementioned central weak point (7), on said internal face (5), for coupling to the corresponding annular groove (12) in the projecting rim (11) of a stopper (10), with a body (13) with a portion of reduced diameter and recessed wall (14), open through a central hole (15) and delimited by supports (16), from which extends a lower tubular neck (17). In both versions (1a) and (1b), after being screwed onto the bottle (GE) and during the screwing on of a gasification device (D), the perforator (PE) thereof penetrates, through the weak point (7) aligned with the cylindrical recess (8) or the stopper (10), so that it is in direct communication with the dip tube (P). The fluid coming from a gas injector assembly (C) passes through the gasification device (D) and through the perforator (PE) thereof, being guided from the cylindrical recess (8) or the stopper (10) and injected into the bottle (GE) to carbonate the liquid contained therein.

Description

ADAPTABLE COVER FOR BOTTLE NOZZLES, WITH FLUID DIRECTING ELEMENT THROUGH A GASIFYING DEVICE, FOR THE CARBONATION OF

LIQUIDS

[001] This descriptive report refers to the patent application for a utility model for an improvement made in the screw cap on bottles containing beverages to be carbonated or already carbonated, which occurs through a specific aerating device.

[002] The cap, injected in plastic, in addition to the internal threads of its skirt for the threading in the standard nozzle of the bottle, also has in its skirt, external threads to receive the threading of the gasifier device.

[003] As a novelty to the project, the lid is injected with the inner face of its top forming a central weakening point. In addition, it receives, in one version, a cylindrical housing for fitting the fisherman's tip and, in another version, it also receives a bung for fitting the fisherman's tip.

[004] The cap, with these adaptations simplifies and makes its use even more comprehensive as it can be threaded either on bottles whose original caps already contain the fish tube or for bottles whose original caps do not contain the fish tube, covering and making flexible, therefore , the use of the gasifier device for the carbonation of beverages that have already been bottled or that are in consumption and that you want to carbonate.

Technique Comments

[005] As you know, currently beverages are practically all carbonated, such as soft drinks, wines, water, in short, countless types of liquids except, for example, some types of natural juices (stored in packages long life). One problem that arises, however, is the loss of carbonation in the beverage stored in the bottle. Therefore, several devices have been created for this gas replacement, as taught in the patent document of 2005, PI 0501913-3, entitled "PORTABLE BEVERAGE GASIZER", which, despite the title is not exactly portable, being equipped of compartment/reservoir receiving a drink to be carbonated, connected by tube to the C02 cylinder, with a tap so that, after carbonated, the drink is served by a tap of the container itself.

[006] A truly portable device was created by the same inventor as the application to be described later. It is the document BR 102014025747-0 entitled "DEVICE TO SERVE AERED LIQUID WITH VALVE FOR INTRODUCING C02", filed in 2014. Images of this device are also included as an example, as Figure 1 for the new order to be described further forward. As seen in the image on the left of this figure 1, the cap (9) (replacement of the original bottle cap) has a central hole (8) to which a retaining valve (13) housed in an internal mug (14) is aligned, both mounted internally on the skirt of this cover (9), and said inner mug (14), by a neck receives the coupling of the end of the fishing tube (15). After replacement of the original cover, this cover (9) is threaded on the mouth of the The bottle, as seen in the image on the right, and then, through the external threads of its skirt, receives the threading of the gasifier device (1). The latter, through its breaker pin (12), removes the retaining valve (13) releasing the hole central (8) so that the gas coming from the injector assembly (not shown), passes through the inner mug (14) and is directed by the fishing tube (15) into the bottle. [007] Despite being a portable and highly effective set, the cover (9) of this BR 102014025747-0 order must receive the central hole (8), in a different stage of the injection and also receive additional elements such as the valve (13 ) and retaining mug (14), requiring assembly and bringing relatively higher costs.

Order object

[008] The same author of the aforementioned project brings an evolution to this lid that replaces the original lid of bottles containing carbonated beverages or that should be carbonated. For this cover, the reason for this patent application, the drilling of a hole in the top and the use of the retaining valve with its internal mug of the cover of the previous application, BR 102014025747-0, is eliminated.

[009] This is due to the proposed constructiveness, by which, by the mold design, a weakening point is obtained on the inner face of the top of the cover, around which a cylindrical housing is incorporated to engage the fisherman's tip. In another constructive option, also on the inner face of the top and also around the weakening point, a surrounding rib with a larger diameter is incorporated, for locking with a corresponding surrounding groove of the upper edge of a bung, which is also cast. by a lower tubular neck for hooking the angler's tip.

[010] After removing the conventional cap, the cap in question is threaded by its internal threads into the standard nozzle of the bottle and then, when receiving by its external threads the threading of the gasifier device, simultaneously the perforator of the latter pierces the cap by weakening point of its top, keeping it aligned either by the cylindrical housing (in one of the proposed versions) or by the bung (in the other proposed version), to the hooked end of the fisherman. Thus, after triggering a gas injector assembly coupled to the gasifier device, the fluid passes through its perforator penetrating the cylindrical housing or bung directly on the fisherman and from this into the bottle containing the drink to be carbonated.

[011] The two images of figure 1, as already explained, show the cover of the previous application, from the prior art, BR 102014025747-0. The images in figures 2 and 3 also refer to the state of the art, showing a gasifier device, with a sectional view.

[012] The figures listed below, 4 and 5, refer to the cover, reason for the patent application:

Figure 4 - shows the cover, in one of the versions with cylindrical housing. The cap is shown in top perspective from the top, to the side is shown in bottom perspective, and below is shown in A-A section, with the angler tip in line with the cylindrical housing;

Figure 5 - shows the lid, in the other version, with bung. The lid is shown in top perspective from the top, on the side it is shown in lower perspective aligned with the bung and, below and to the side, shown in BB cut aligned with the bung, in CC cut, whose lower tubular neck is aligned with the tip of the fisherman.

[013] The following figures, 6 and 7, refer to the cover assembly:

Figure 6 - shows, above, the removal of the conventional cap from the bottle. Once this is done, the lid in the version with the cylindrical housing (already engaged with the fisherman's tip) is threaded onto the bottle and, finally, the lid itself thus assembled is positioned to receive the threading of the specific gasifier device;

Figure 7 - shows, above, the removal of the conventional lid of the bottle. Once this is done, the lid in the version with the bung (already with its lower tubular neck engaged with the fisherman's tip), receives the locking with said bung, then the cover thus mounted is threaded onto the standard nozzle of the bottle and, finally, the lid itself thus assembled is positioned to receive the threading of the specific gasifier device. [014] The following figures, 8, 9 and 10, refer to the threading by the gasifier device, in the cover with the cylindrical housing version:

Figure 8 - shows the gasifier being aligned, by its internal threads, to the external threads of the cover;

Figure 9 - shows the threading simultaneously with the perforation of the weakening point of the top of the cap by the perforator of the gasifier device;

Figure 10 - shows the operation, when an injector assembly is coupled to the gasifier device for carbonation, with the passage of fluid through its perforator, which, as it is aligned with the cylindrical housing with the fisherman's tip engaged, injects the fluid inside the bottle .

[015] The following figures, 11, 12 and 13, refer to the threading by the gasifier device, on the lid with the version equipped with bung:

Figure 11 - shows the gasifier being aligned, by its internal threads, with the external threads of the cover;

Figure 12 - shows the threading simultaneously with the perforation of the weakening point of the top of the cover, by the perforator of the gasifier device;

Figure 13 - shows the operation, when the injector assembly is coupled to the gasifier device for cabonation, with the passage of the fluid through its perforator, which, since it is aligned to the bung with its lower tubular neck attached to the fisherman's tip, it injects the fluid into the bottle.

[016] In accordance with the attached drawings, the "COVER ADAPTABLE TO BOTTLE NOZZLES, WITH FLUID DIRECTING ELEMENT THROUGH A GASIFYING DEVICE, FOR THE CARBONATION OF LIQUIDS", object of this present utility model patent application, constitutes from a lid (1) already used to replace the conventional lid (O) of bottles (GF) containing already carbonated beverage or beverage to be carbonated, with a lid (1) normally provided with internal threads (2) on its skirt (3), as well as equipped with external threads (4) .

[017] The lid (1) has two constructive variations (la), Fig. 4 and (lb), Fig. 5, having as a novelty, the conformation by the mold design, on the inner face (5) of its top (6 ), from a central weakening point (7).

[018] In addition, in one of the constructive variations (la), shown in Figure 4, around this weakening point (7), on the same inner face (5) a cylindrical housing (8) is incorporated around which it is formed a sealing ring. In another constructive variation (lb) for the cover (1), shown in Figure 5, around said weakening point (7), on the same inner face (5) an annular bead (9) is incorporated for locking a bung (10), whose protruding edge (11) is provided with an annular groove (12) and which, after reducing the diameter of its body (13) , which incorporates radial reinforcement ribs, has a recessed bottom (14) opened by hole central (15) and delimited by supports (16), from which a lower tubular neck (17) extends.

[019] Thus formed the cap (1), in the constructive version (la), as shown in figure 6, after removing the conventional cap (O) from the bottle (GF) containing carbonated liquid or to be carbonated, the fisherman's tip (P) is engaged in the cylindrical housing (8). Then, the cap (la) thus assembled, by its internal threads (2) is threaded to the standard neck of the bottle (GF), the angler (P) being engaged in the cylindrical housing (8) and immersed in the liquid inside the bottle. (GF). For carbonation, the external threads (4) of the lid (la) receive the threading of the gasifier device (D) which, during this step, simultaneously makes its perforator (PE) exceed the central weakening point (7) at the top ( 6) and strategically align it to the cylindrical housing (8). When a gas injector assembly (C) coupled to the gasifier device (D) is activated, the fluid is released by opening valves passing through the perforator (PE) and being injected from the cylindrical housing (8), forced by the fisherman (P ) to reach the liquid inside the bottle (GF).

[020] In the constructive version (lb) for the cap (1), as shown in figure 7, after removing the original cap (O) from the bottle (GF) containing carbonated liquid or to be carbonated, the fisherman's tip (P) is engaged with the lower tubular neck (17) of the bung (10). Then, the bung (10) is inserted and locked by coupling its annular groove (12) in the corresponding annular bead (9) of the inner face (5) of the top (6) of the cover (lb). Thus assembled, the cap (lb), by its internal threads (2) is threaded to the standard neck of the bottle (GF), against which, in this step, the protruding edge (11) of the bung (10) is simultaneously pressed, locking -o strongly, when then, from the lower tubular neck (17) the fisherman (P) is extended and immersed in the liquid inside the bottle (GF). For carbonation, the external threads (4) of the cover (lb) receive the threading of the gasifier device (D) which, during this step, simultaneously makes its perforator (PE) exceed the point of weaken (7) of the top (6) and strategically align it to the central hole (15) of the neck (17) of the bung (10), engaged with the fisherman's tip (P).

[021] When the gas injector assembly (C) coupled to the gasifier device (D) is activated, the fluid is released by opening valves passing through the perforator (PE) and injected from the central hole (15) of the bung (10 ), forced by the neck (17) towards the fisherman (P), reaching the liquid inside the bottle (GA).

[022] To serve the beverage (this step is just to illustrate the operation of carbonation), while the liquid is carbonated or after gas injection, both for the lid (la) and for the lid (lb), it remains the gasifier device (D) threaded, removing the nozzle of the injector assembly (C) from the orifice of its valve (V), when it then closes. To serve the drink, press the trigger (AC) of the gasifier device (D) whose liquid is removed from the bottle from the fisherman (P) passing through the housing (8) of the lid (la) or through the neck (17) of the bung (10) of the lid (lb), escaping through the perforator (PE), following through the horizontal duct (DH) of the gasifier device (D), and exiting through the nozzle.

1 - "ADAPTABLE COVER FOR BOTTLE NOZZLES, WITH FLUID DIRECTING ELEMENT THROUGH A GASING DEVICE, FOR THE CARBONATION OF LIQUIDS", consisting of a cap (1) normally used to replace the conventional cap (O) of bottles (GF ) containing beverage already carbonated or to be carbonated, working with a gasifier device (D) fed by a gas injector assembly (C), with a lid (1) normally provided with internal threads (2) on its skirt (3), as well as external threads (4), said cover (1) characterized by conforming, in a constructive variation (la), on the inner face (5) of its top (6), a central weakening point (7) around which , from this same inner face (5) a cylindrical housing (8) is incorporated.

2 - "ADAPTABLE COVER FOR BOTTLE NOZZLES, WITH FLUID DIRECTING ELEMENT THROUGH A GASING DEVICE, FOR THE CARBONATION OF LIQUIDS", according to claim 1, the cover (1) is characterized by optionally in another constructive variation ( lb), form, around said weakening point (7), on the same inner face (5), an annular bead (9) for coupling an annular groove (12) corresponding to the protruding edge (11) of a bung (10), with body (13) in diameter reduction and recessed wall (14), opened by a central hole (15) delimited by supports (16), from which a lower tubular neck (17) extends. ABSTRACT

"ADAPTABLE COVER FOR BOTTLE NOZZLES, WITH A FLUID DIRECTING ELEMENT THROUGH A GASIFYING DEVICE, FOR THE CARBONATION OF

LIQUIDS"

To replace the conventional lids (O) of bottles (GF) containing carbonated liquids or to be carbonated, by the lid (1) in its two constructive variations (l a) and (lb). The cover (1), in the constructive versions (1a) and (lb) has, on the inner face (5) of its top (6), a central weakening point (7). The cover (1a), around this central weakening point (7), on the same inner face (5) incorporates a cylindrical housing (8). The cover (1b), around said central weakening point (7), on the same inner face (5) incorporates an annular bead (9) for coupling the annular groove (12) corresponding to the protruding edge (11) of a bung (10), with body (13) in diameter reduction and recessed wall (14), opened by a central hole (15) and delimited by supports (16), from which a lower tubular neck (17) extends . In both versions (la) and (lb), after threading to the bottle (GF) and during the threading of a gasifier device (D), the perforator (PE) of the latter penetrates from the weakening point (7) being aligned to the cylindrical housing (8) or to the bung (10), in direct communication with the fisherman (P). The fluid coming from a gas injector assembly (C), passes through the gasifier device (D) and its perforator (PE), being directed from the cylindrical housing (8) or the bung (10), injected into the bottle (GF ) to carbonate the liquid contained therein.

Claims

1 - "ADAPTABLE LID TO BOTTLE NOZZLES, WITH FLUID DIRECTING ELEMENT THROUGH A GASING DEVICE, FOR THE CARBONATION OF LIQUIDS", made from a lid (1) normally used to replace the conventional lid (O) of bottles (GF ) containing beverage already carbonated or to be carbonated, working with a gasifier device (D) fed by a gas injector assembly (C), with a lid (1) normally provided with internal threads (2) on its skirt (3), as well as external threads (4), said cover (1) characterized by conforming, in a constructive variation (la), on the inner face (5) of its top (6), a central weakening point (7) around which , from this same inner face (5) a cylindrical housing (8) is incorporated.

2 - "ADAPTABLE COVER FOR BOTTLE NOZZLES, WITH FLUID DIRECTING ELEMENT THROUGH A GASING DEVICE, FOR THE CARBONATION OF LIQUIDS", according to claim 1, the cover (1) is characterized by, optionally, in another constructive variation ( lb), form, around said weakening point (7), on the same inner face (5), an annular bead (9) for coupling an annular groove (12) corresponding to the protruding edge (11) of a bung ( 10), with body (13) in diameter reduction and recessed wall (14), opened by a central hole (15) delimited by supports (16), from which a lower tubular neck (17) extends.