CN104870321A

CN104870321A - Improved bottle

Info

Publication number: CN104870321A
Application number: CN201380067065.1A
Authority: CN
Inventors: C.科克斯; J.佩里
Original assignee: Abbott GmbH and Co KG
Current assignee: Abbott GmbH and Co KG; Abbott Laboratories
Priority date: 2012-12-20
Filing date: 2013-12-11
Publication date: 2015-08-26
Also published as: EP2935028A1; SG11201504373PA; US20160185496A1; MX2015008089A; WO2014099540A1; PH12015501345A1; BR112015014263A2; HK1214576A1; TW201433314A; CA2892515A1; JP2016501794A

Abstract

The invention provides an apparatus, which includes a bottle, a cap, and a tamper evident film. The bottle forms an opening having a lip that extends circumferentially around the opening. The cap is able to cover and seal the opening. The cap has a top with an outer surface, an inner surface, and a side wall. The outer surface and the side wall define a recessed region of the cap. The tamper evident film includes a perforated tear strip. The perforated tear strip is positioned to overlap a portion of the recessed region. The cap may also include a combination of micro knurls and/or micro knurls along the side wall of the cap. The lip may have a beveled profile able to interface with a gasket on the underside of the cap.

Description

Improvement bottle

The cross reference of related application

This application claims the preceence of the U.S.Provisional Serial 61/740,214 submitted on December 20th, 2012 and any rights and interests, its full content is incorporated to for reference herein.

Background technology

Bottle is used under various background.Such as, bottle can be used to store beverage or other class quasi-fluids.When the content of bottle can be consumed by the public, carry out measurement to guarantee that bottle is not opened.From the position of customer may buying bottling liquid, can wish to know whether bottle cap is opened before purchase bottled product.In some cases, bottle cap can be coated with tamper sealer, so that buyer can know whether bottle is being opened before.Usually, tamper sealer can be difficult to destroyed or remove.In addition, once tamper sealer is removed, according to the overall manual dexterity of the friction between bottle cap and the hand of user or user, user can be difficult to easily remove lid from bottle.

Although manufactured and employed various bottle, recognize in order that nobody manufactures or used invention described here before the present inventor.

Accompanying drawing explanation

Although use and to specifically note and explicit state claim of the present invention carrys out summary description book, recognize in order that will understand the present invention better by reference to the accompanying drawings from the following description of some example, in accompanying drawing, like reference numerals refers to similar elements and wherein:

Fig. 1 illustrates the transparent view of exemplary bottle;

Fig. 2 illustrates the plan view from above of the lid of the bottle of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 illustrates the transparent view of the bottom side of the lid of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 illustrates the transparent view of the bottle of the Fig. 1 removing lid;

Fig. 5 illustrates the enlarged side view of the bottle of Fig. 1;

Fig. 6 illustrates the Zoom Side transparent view of the bottle of Fig. 1; And

Fig. 7 illustrates the side cross sectional drawing of the antelabium of the bottle of Fig. 1.

Accompanying drawing is not attempted to limit by any way, and can expect can realizing various embodiments of the invention in other modes various, comprises in accompanying drawing those that there is no need to illustrate.Included and the accompanying drawing forming a specification sheets part shows many aspects of the present invention in specification sheets, and be used from the explanation principle of the invention with specification sheets one; But should be appreciated that, the invention is not restricted to shown definite setting.

Detailed description of the invention

The following explanation of some example of the present invention should not be used to limit the scope of the invention.From following explanation, those skilled in the art will be apparent to other examples of the present invention, feature, aspect, embodiment and advantage, and following explanation is the one for realizing in optimal mode that the present invention conceives by illustration.To recognize, the present invention can have other different and obvious aspects, and these all do not deviate from the present invention.Therefore, accompanying drawing and explanation should be counted as being actually schematic and not be restrictive.

When user buys the product be stored in bottle, usual bottle is packaged tamper sealer, and obtain the content of bottle user before, this tamper sealer needs to be removed.Fig. 1 shows the exemplary bottle (100) with lid (110) and main body (120).Sealing member (104) covers a part for described lid (110).Sealing member (104) comprises the plastics or other elastomer films that cover described lid (110).Sealing member (104) comprises the perforation tear tape (105) that the side along sealing member (104) extends.Although in exemplary version, tear tape (105) extends fully along the side of sealing member (104), will be appreciated that tear tape (105) can only a downward part along sealing member (104) extend.In addition, the tear tape (105) of exemplary version has rectangular shape, but will be appreciated that and can use one, this area those of ordinary skill after having read instruction here by apparent triangle, V-arrangement, rounded shapes or other suitable shape arbitrarily.Tear tape (105) is connected to the remainder of sealing member (104), thus user can tearing bar (105) to make tear tape (105) depart from sealing member (104).Will be appreciated that can storing fluid in main body (120).Fluid can be beverage or other fluids arbitrarily, wherein can wish to place tamper sealer lid (110) is upper.Lid (110) has general cylindrical shape shape and engagement body (120), as shown in fig. 1.Main body (120) has elongate curved shape, so that user easily can catch main body (120).Lid (110) and main body (120) can be made up of plastics or other similar materials, but will be appreciated that can use can any suitable material of storing fluid.Hereafter lid (110) and main body (120) will be specifically discussed further.

The amplification plan view of lid (110) has been shown in Fig. 2.Lid (110) comprises flat top (112) and sidewall (114).Lid (110) has circular floor area, but will recognize that lid (110) can have operationally covers and the floor area of any appropriate of the main body (120) of sealing bottle (100).In some versions, lid (110) can operate to form gas tight seal with the main body (120) of bottle (100).Flat top (112) is round-shaped and converges with sidewall (114).Sidewall (114) has cylindrical shape and is positioned such that sidewall (114) extends relative to flat top (112) less perpendicular ground.The flat top (112) of exemplary version comprises multiple mark (116), and it is shaped as points out anti-clockwise arrow.To recognize that mark (116) can be used to show that rotatable cover (110) removes the appropriate direction of lid (110) from main body (120) to user.Such as, in shown version, mark (116) shows that lid (110) should be rotated in the counterclockwise direction, but will be appreciated that mark (116) can point to clockwise direction.In addition, in exemplary version, mark (116) is shaped as broad arrow, but will be appreciated that mark (116) can have the shape of any appropriate, comprises narrow arrow, triangle or other shape arbitrarily.In some versions, necessity does not comprise mark (116).

The flat top (112) of lid (110) is recessed in lid (110), as Fig. 1-2 can find out slightly.To recognize, the notch characteristic of flat top (112) can operate to allow easily to remove the sealing member (104) that can cover described lid (110).Although the major part that exemplary version shows for the skin area of flat top (112) is the flat top (112) caved in, but will be appreciated that, the smaller portions of flat top (112) can cave in, comprise half or other suitable parts arbitrarily of such as proper part below tear tape (105), flat top (112), as one, this area those of ordinary skill can be apparent when reading and instructing herein.Such as, the flat top (112) of depression can allow user more easily to locate his or her finger to remove from the sealing member (104) be communicated with lid (110) tear tape (105) of boring a hole.Before tear perforation tear tape (105), period or afterwards, because the flat top (112) of depression provides small gap, so his or her finger or finger nail can be wedged into below perforation tear tape (105) by user for finger or finger nail.Then user can pull simply and removes remaining perforation tear tape (105) from lid (110) and remove sealing member (104).Although illustrated a kind of depression level suitably of flat top (112) in Fig. 1-2, will be appreciated that darker or more shallow depression can be used to flat top (112) if one, this area those of ordinary skill is by apparent.In addition, lid (110) can cave at the specific part of top (112), and unnecessaryly caves in whole top (112).

Fig. 3 illustrates the lid (110) be reversed.Sidewall (114) comprises multiple little protuberance (118) and multiple large protuberance (122).Large protuberance (122) refers to the comparatively large texture part of sidewall (114) substantially, and little protuberance (118) refers to the texture part of less more " microcosmic " of sidewall (114) substantially.In addition, belleville washer (124) is positioned on the inner side of flat top (112).Lid (110) also comprises screw thread (126), its with main body (120) on thread complementary consequently cover (110) and can be screwed in main body (120) by screw thread.Little protuberance (118) vertically extends along sidewall (114), and in exemplary version, little protuberance (118) comprises the rib that six uniform intervals of coupling between large protuberance (122) is opened.Will be appreciated that little protuberance (118) can have more than or be less than the rib of six.Will be further understood that, although the little protuberance (118) in shown version comprises vertical rib, level, cornerwise or its any combinations of ribs also can be used to little protuberance (118).In addition, little protuberance (118) does not necessarily comprise rib.In other cases, dolly dimple, cross line, grid can be used or user can be allowed more easily to catch and other suitable textures any of swivelling cover (110).Large protuberance (122) in exemplary version comprises the even setting of circumference around the larger rib of sidewall (114).Large protuberance (122) is also illustrated as the basic width along lid (110) and extends.In exemplary version, large protuberance (122) is all spaced apart and between the large protuberance (122) of Adjacent pairs, be placed with the little protuberance (118) of equal amount around lid (110).But, will be appreciated that the little protuberance (118) and large protuberance (122) that any appropriate can be used to arrange.Such as, more large protuberance (122) or more little protuberance (118) can be placed in lid (110) a region around and less large protuberance (122) and less little protuberance (118) be placed in around another region of lid (110).In addition, will be appreciated that the little protuberance (118) not necessarily must placing equal amount between large protuberance (122).Little protuberance (118) and large protuberance (122) also not necessarily must be uniformly placed around lid (110).Can the large protuberance (122) of large concentration degree be used at some parts and use the large protuberance of less concentration degree in other parts.

To recognize, attempt to turn on lid (110) along with user to remove lid (110) from main body (120), little and large protuberance (118,122) friction of increase can be provided, thus grasp to unscrew lid (110) relative to main body (120) rotatable cover (110) preferably for user provides.To recognize further, in many cases, different user is unnecessary grasps lid (110) in a similar manner.Such as, user can grasp lid (110) by making his or her finger and thumb hold lid (110).Another user can by torsion lid (110), to remove from main body (120), his or her palm to be placed on securely before lid (110) flat top (112) upper and make it point along to swell (122) greatly and little protuberance (118) is caught thus attempts to open lid (110) downwards.Will be appreciated that as one, this area those of ordinary skill is apparent when reading the instruction at this, other the suitable modes grasping and remove lid (110) can be used.In fact, will be appreciated that both the large protuberance (122) of use and little protuberance (118) can realize in the ability covering the suitable grasping on (110) by adding users.

Belleville washer (124) covers the inboard portion of flat top (112).In exemplary version, belleville washer (124) comprises rubber or flexible plastic material.But, will be appreciated that as one, this area those of ordinary skill is apparent when reading the instruction at this, any materials being suitable for forming gas tight seal between lid (110) and main body (120) can be used.In addition, although the packing ring (124) shown in exemplary version is dish type, will be appreciated that and also can use ring washer.Screw thread (126) extends rotatably around the inner side of lid (110).Screw thread (126) can operate into the screw thread (134) being substantially complementary to main body (120), so that lid (110) can be rotated thus remove lid (110) from main body (120).Will be appreciated that, although exemplary version uses packing ring (124) between main body (120) and lid (110), but other exemplary version can not comprise packing ring (124), so that main body (120) and lid (110) directly contact with each other to form sealing, and this can comprise gas tight seal.In some exemplary version, be different from flat top (112), the interior section of lid (110) can have on the contrary wave tops, plug type top or arbitrarily other suitable top shape form sealing between lid (110) and main body (120), as one, this area those of ordinary skill when reading instruction here by apparent.

Fig. 4 illustrates the main body (120) of bottle (100).Main body (120) has waveform cylindrical shape substantially, and it has the waist (130) extended in the middle of main body (120).Waist (130) provides can by main body (120) region easily grasped.But, in other versions of bottle (100), unnecessaryly comprise waist (130).Bottle (100) has the bottleneck (136) leading to bottle neck (138).

Bottleneck (136) comprises ratchet and/or umbo region (132), and its part around bottleneck (136) extends, but will be appreciated that ratcheted section (132) fully can extend around bottleneck (136).The ratcheted section (132) of bottleneck (136) has along ratcheted section (132) isolated multiple straight rib.Will be appreciated that ratcheted section (132) can operate to provide better grasping when user catches bottle (100).Will be further understood that, ratcheted section (132) can operationally be used as interface engage such as manufacturing, fill and/or closed bottle (100) time the machine that can relate to and/or other devices.Along with lid (110) rotates, will recognize further, due to the swiped through ratcheted section of finger (132) of user when covering (110) and rotating, so ratcheted section (132) can be used as the tactile indicators of user's successfully rotatable cover (110).When user picks up bottle (100), ratcheted section (132) can also provide better grasping.

Fig. 5 shows the enlarged view of ratcheted section (132), it illustrates ratcheted section (132) and how is made up of the rib of roughly equi-spaced apart.In other exemplary version, ratcheted section (132) can comprise the rib separated more closely.In addition or alternatively, as one, this area those of ordinary skill is apparent when reading the instruction at this, other suitable texture forms of operationally auxiliary grip bottle (100) and/or lid (110) can be used.Such as, cross hatch or graininess texture can be used to ratcheted section (132) so that assisted user grasps or rotatable cover (110) further.In some versions, ratcheted section (132) circumferentially can extend around whole bottle (100).

Main body (120) limits and leads to bottle neck (140), and this bottle neck (140) operationally receives and is used for being stored in the fluid in bottle (100).In addition, bottle neck (140) can be used to topple over fluid from bottle (100).Antelabium (138) holds bottle neck (140), as shown in Figure 6.The lateral plan of antelabium (138) can be seen in Fig. 7.Also as shown in Figure 7, antelabium (138) has towards the tilted shape of the edge convergent of antelabium (138).Visible in version as shown, antelabium (138) can have fillet and tilted shape, but antelabium (138) also can have the sharp keen tilted shape with more cusp edge.When reading this instruction, one, this area those of ordinary skill will be apparent to the antelabium (138) of other suitable shapes.When covering (110) and being screwed in main body (120) by screw thread, packing ring (124) and antelabium (138) are formed and seal.Will be appreciated that, in some cases, because antelabium (138) has the profile that narrows from tilted shape, so less coefficient of static friction can be had the dividing range between antelabium (138) and packing ring (124) has flat profile compared to antelabium (138).Therefore, compared with when having a flat profile with antelabium (138), the sealing that rotatable cover (110) unclamps between antelabium (138) can need less power.In exemplary version, antelabium (138) is around the whole circumference tilt of antelabium (138).But will be appreciated that in some versions, the only part of the circumference around antelabium (138) of antelabium (138) can be tilt.Such as, antelabium (138) can be constructed such that the tilting zone of antelabium (138) and flat site replace around the circumference of bottle neck (140).When reading this instruction, one, this area those of ordinary skill will be apparent to other suitable antelabium (138) modification for reducing the friction between antelabium (138) and packing ring (124).

It should be understood that one or more of instruction described here, statement, embodiment, example etc. can with described herein other instruct, state, in embodiment, example etc. any one or more plant and combine.Therefore not should be isolated from each other referring to above-mentioned instruction, statement, embodiment, example etc.When reading this instruction, those of ordinary skill in the art will be apparent to the various appropriate ways that can combine in this instruction.Such amendment and distortion are attempted to be included within the scope of the claims.

When illustrate and describing various embodiment of the present invention, in the case without departing from the scope of the present invention, one, this area those of ordinary skill can be implemented in the further improvement of the method and system that this describes by suitable amendment.Be referred to these may revise in multiple amendment, and those skilled in the art will be apparent to other amendment.Such as, example discussed above, embodiment, geometric configuration, material, size, ratio, step etc. are schematic and not necessarily.Therefore, scope of the present invention should be considered in the background of claims, and is construed as the details be not limited to described structure and operation shown in specification sheets and accompanying drawing.

Claims

1. an equipment, comprising:

A () forms the bottle of opening, wherein said bottle comprises the antelabium extended around described opening circumference;

B () is configured to cover and the lid of described opening described in gas tight seal in bottle, wherein said lid comprises the flat top with outside face and inside face, wherein said lid comprises sidewall further, and the outside face of wherein said flat top and described sidewall limit the sunk area of described lid; And

C () comprises the tamper sealer of perforation tear tape, wherein said perforation tear tape is oriented to a part for sunk area described in superimposition.

2. equipment according to claim 1, wherein said sidewall comprise multiple little protuberance at least partially.

3. equipment according to claim 1, wherein said sidewall comprise multiple large protuberance at least partially.

4. equipment according to claim 1, wherein said sidewall comprise the alternating pattern be made up of the little protuberance of the first quantity and the large protuberance of the second quantity at least partially.

5. equipment according to claim 4, the little protuberance of wherein said first quantity comprises about 5-6 the little protuberance for each the large protuberance in the large protuberance of described second quantity.

6. equipment according to claim 1, wherein said sunk area extends around the circumference of described lid.

7. equipment according to claim 1, wherein said sunk area comprises mark, and wherein said mark can operate into the arm for direction indicator with the described lid that rotates.

8. equipment according to claim 1, wherein said lid comprises further and can operate with against the packing ring covered described in described bottle seal.

9. equipment according to claim 8, wherein said packing ring has the disc-like shape of the interior section of the described flat top operationally covering described lid.

10. equipment according to claim 1, wherein said antelabium has slope profile, and this slope profile has wider substrate and narrower top, and the described narrower part of wherein said antelabium operationally engages described packing ring.

11. equipment according to claim 1, wherein said sunk area is become to be of a size of the major part of the face area comprising described flat top.

12. equipment according to claim 1, wherein said lid has general cylindrical shape shape and described bottle has the waveform shape of the waist extended with the circumference around described bottle.

13. 1 kinds of equipment, comprising:

A () operationally keeps the main body of fluid; With

B () operationally engages described main body and forms the lid of gas tight seal with described main body, wherein said lid comprises sidewall, the outside of wherein said sidewall there are multiple protuberances that the described sidewall along described lid extends at least partially, wherein said lid comprises and has round-shaped sunk area.

14. equipment according to claim 13, wherein said multiple protuberance comprises little protuberance and large both protuberances.

15. equipment according to claim 14, wherein said little protuberance and described large protuberance are opened along described lid uniform intervals.

16. equipment according to claim 14, wherein said little protuberance and described large protuberance extend along the circumference of described lid.

17. equipment according to claim 14, wherein said little protuberance and described large protuberance comprise the rib of the described sidewalls vertical extension along described lid.

18. 1 kinds of bottles, comprising:

A () operationally keeps the main body of fluid, wherein said main part limitation bottle neck, and this bottle neck has the oblique lips of the described bottle neck extension around described main body;

B () operationally engages the lid of described main body, wherein said lid comprises top, and wherein said top limits sunk area, and wherein said antelabium operationally forms gas tight seal with described lid.

19. bottles according to claim 18, wherein said lid be included in be positioned in described lid bottom side on and be configured to engage the packing ring of described oblique lips.

20. bottles according to claim 18, wherein said lid comprises a part with multiple little protuberance and multiple large protuberance.