EP1485315B1 - Dispositif d'ouverture pour recipients a couvercle rotatif - Google Patents

Dispositif d'ouverture pour recipients a couvercle rotatif Download PDF

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EP1485315B1
EP1485315B1 EP02703437A EP02703437A EP1485315B1 EP 1485315 B1 EP1485315 B1 EP 1485315B1 EP 02703437 A EP02703437 A EP 02703437A EP 02703437 A EP02703437 A EP 02703437A EP 1485315 B1 EP1485315 B1 EP 1485315B1
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Rolf Hefti
Walter Ruffner
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    • 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
    • B67B7/18—Hand- or power-operated devices for opening closed containers for removing threaded caps

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  • the invention relates to a kitchen tool for opening rotary lids of containers such as glasses and bottles according to the preamble of patent claim 1.
  • Rotary lids are often e.g. Hard to open for older people.
  • the force required for opening is not available to some.
  • the necessary friction between the hand and the edge of the lid is often not accessible without tools.
  • This rotary lid opener has two lever-like handles and a clamping device formed by three jaws for clamping a rotating lid.
  • the jaws are spaced apart from a center between the jaws. Their distance to the center is changeable.
  • the rotary lid opener further has a guide disc connected to the one handle with three linear guide rails, and one connected to the other handle, with respect to the guide disc rotatable adjusting disc with three converging circular guides.
  • Each movable jaw is movably mounted in the linear guide rail. With a guide part, it engages in the circuit guide on the adjusting disk. As a result, the distance between the clamping jaw and the center can be changed by changing the angle between the handles.
  • a disadvantage of this rotary lid opener is that the required changes in angle in order to hold different sized lid, despite steep slope of the circuit guides are very large. This is counteracted by the fact that one of the handles is designed to be adaptable and can assume different positions with respect to the disk connected to it.
  • the lid radius is given by three jaws for clamping a rotating lid.
  • the jaws are spaced apart from a center between the jaws.
  • there is at least one movable jaw whose distance from the center can be changed. This allows switching from one lid radius to another.
  • all three jaws are equally movable. This results in a smaller path for the single jaw for the same range of different radii of lids.
  • the movable jaw is arranged on a jaw carrier which is movably mounted on a guide disc.
  • the jaw carrier acts with a relation to the Guide disc rotatable adjusting disc together so that the distance between the jaw to the center by a relative rotation between the adjusting and the guide disc is changeable.
  • Such a rotational movement is very easy to perform, so that even technically awkward people can make an adjustment of the lid opener to a certain radius of a rotating lid.
  • For performing the rotational movement may be connected to the adjusting a rotary handle, or there may be two pincer-like mutually pivotable lever on the handle whose relative movement, e.g. has a gear drive, a relative movement of the guide disc and adjusting disc result.
  • the jaw carrier is guided linearly in a guide rail on the guide disc.
  • a guide member is present, which engages in a spiral guide on the adjusting.
  • a spiral guide can be provided that the guide parts of several jaw carrier engage in one and the same spiral guide. This allows a stronger formation of the channel walls of the spiral guide. For a uniform merging of the three jaws but is advantageous for each movable jaw carrier, a separate spiral guide available.
  • the adjusting disc under the influence of the pressed apart when opening a lid jaws not yielding to the pressure, the inclination of the spiral must not exceed a maximum inclination. If the spiral guide is guided at regular intervals to the adjacent revolutions of the spiral, the inclination of the spiral guide decreases from the inside to the outside. So that the number of revolutions of the adjusting disc for adjusting the clamping jaws from the smallest to the largest radius is as small as possible, the spiral guides are not guided with the geometrically smallest possible inclination from the inside to the outside. Nevertheless, the slope is advantageously lower outside than inside.
  • the spiral guide in the areas in which the jaws are at a suitable distance from the center to be able to reach a certain lid radius be flatter than in the other areas.
  • no jamming between the guide part and spiral guide must be set, since they only need to be traversed in order to get from one standard cover radius to the next. Therefore, it is advantageous not to make the inclination of the spiral guide constant.
  • Figure 1 shows this from its underside.
  • the jaw 19 is shown with support member 45 twice, namely in an outermost 60 and an innermost position 50.
  • Figure 2 shows the same embodiment from its top.
  • the base 23 is made in one piece with a handle 13.
  • the base part 23 forms, in contrast to the base part of the first embodiment, the guide plate 31.
  • an adjusting plate 27 is rotatably mounted.
  • the adjusting plate 27 is provided with a rotary handle 41 which is non-rotatably connected to the adjusting plate 27 ( Figure 2).
  • the guide plate 31 has three interconnected in the center radial guide slots 43. In each guide slot 43 sits a support member 45 of the jaws 15,17,19.
  • Each support part 45 (FIGS. 7 and 8) has a retaining plate 47, with which it engages behind the edge of the guide slot 43.
  • the junction of the three guide slots in the center is expanded (Fig. 4) such that the retaining plates 47 can be pushed through the guide plate 31 at the junction.
  • the guide slots 43 themselves, however, are less wide than the retaining plate 47th
  • the retaining plate 47 Of the retaining plate 47 is a bolt 49, with which the support member 45 engages in a spiral guide 29 in the adjusting plate 27.
  • the support member 45 also has a translation guide 51 which is guided between the edges of the guide slot 43, and a slide plate 53 which rests on the guide track of the guide plate 27.
  • About the guide disc are the jaws 15,17,19. The jaws can be snapped on a support column 55 on the support member 45.
  • the adjusting disk 27 is composed of a spiral guide disk 57 and a rotary grip disk 59.
  • the spiral guide disk 57 In the spiral guide disk 57, three concentric spiral guides 29 are formed.
  • Each spiral guide 29 is a spiral trench. Radially, the three trenches lie alternately next to each other.
  • the three spiral guides are identical and only rotated by 120 degrees to each other.
  • the pitch of the spiral turns shown is the same size for the same angle change. This has the consequence that the inclination of the spiral guide 29 decreases from the inside to the outside. But the inclination can also be uniform, so that the slope increases according to the differences in length of each handling from the inside to the outside.
  • the inclination are decreasing and the incline is increasing.
  • a single spiral guide 29 (FIG. 9) may be present, into which all three carrier parts 45 engage.
  • This has advantageous in the areas in which the jaws are arranged in a suitable standard for rotating lid mass distance (broken circles 65, 66,67,68) to each other, a low inclination and in the transition region from a lid diameter to the next a much greater slope.
  • the pitch of the spiral guide can be practically zero over 240 degrees. Over subsequent 90 degrees, it can increase so far that one of the three jaws 15,17,19 is moved sufficiently far towards the center to achieve a clamping. The remaining 30 degrees serve the transition to the next lid size.
  • the transition area may be more than 30 degrees, so that the areas with very low inclination are twisted against each other. In the transition areas between the standard lid sizes no self-locking between spiral guide 29 and pin 49 is required. Therefore, in this area, the slope can be arbitrarily large.
  • FIG. 4 shows that the handle 13 and the guide disk 31 together form the base part 23.
  • the guide plate 31 is circular and has the three guide slots 43 for the support members 45. In the guide slots 43, the translation guides 51 are guided. Both sides of the guide slots 43 are Support ribs 61 formed. On these the adjusting plate 27 is located with the spiral guide 29.
  • the actual jaws 15 are shown in Figures 5 and 6. These are composed of a metal claw 73 and a spring member 75 made of plastic, in which the claw is taken.
  • the spring part 75 can be clipped onto the holding column 55 on the carrier part 45.
  • an S-shaped spring lip 77 is formed which resiliently yields the load when the jaw 15 is loaded when opening a rotary lid in the direction of arrow 79.
  • the jaw 15 is pivotable about the support column 55 for this spring-loaded movement.
  • the claw 73 has a toothed curve, with which it attacks the lid.
  • This rounding has a circular center, which is not concentric with that of the pivot center in the axis of the support column 55.
  • the circular center of the rounding is therefore mitverschwenkt, in the direction of the rotating lid. As a result, a clamping action between the claw 73 and rotating cover is ensured.

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Claims (11)

  1. Dispositif pour ouvrir les couvercles tournants (11) avec
    - un manche de type levier (13) et
    - un dispositif de serrage formé par trois mâchoires de serrage (15, 17, 19) pour serrer un couvercle tournant,
    - lesquelles mâchoires de serrage (15, 17, 19) sont placées à un écart d'un centre entre les mâchoires de serrage, cependant qu'il existe au moins une mâchoire de serrage mobile (15, 17, 19) dont l'écart par rapport au centre est variable,
    - un disque de guidage (31), relié au manche, avec un rail de guidage linéaire (43) et
    - un disque ajustable (27) rotatif par rapport au disque de guidage (31) avec au moins un guidage en spirale (29)
    dispositif pour ouvrir les couvercles tournants pour lequel
    - la mâchoire de serrage mobile (15, 17, 19) est placée sur un support de mâchoire de serrage (45) qui est positionné mobile dans le rail de guidage linéaire (43) sur le disque de guidage (31) et
    - une pièce de guidage (49) existe sur le support de mâchoire de serrage (45) qui s'engrène dans le guidage en spirale (29) sur le disque ajustable (27)
    - si bien que le support de mâchoire de serrage (45) coopère avec le disque ajustable (27) rotatif par rapport au disque de guidage (31) de telle manière que l'écart de la mâchoire de serrage (15) par rapport au centre est variable par une rotation relative entre le disque ajustable (27) et le disque de guidage (31),
    caractérisé en ce
    - que le guidage en spirale (29) est incliné à plat dans les zones dans lesquelles les mâchoires de serrage (45) sont à un écart approprié par rapport au centre pour pouvoir couvrir un certain rayon du couvercle de telle manière qu'il se règle un autoblocage entre le guidage en spirale (29) et la pièce de guidage (49).
  2. Dispositif pour ouvrir les couvercles tournants selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les mâchoires de serrage (15, 17, 19) sont configurées de manière asymétrique et sont placées pivotantes dans les supports de mâchoires de serrage (45) de manière telle qu'une sollicitation de la mâchoire de serrage (15, 17, 19) qui intervient lors de l'ouverture d'un couvercle tournant entraîne un pivotement de la mâchoire de serrage (15, 17, 19) qui presse contre le bord du couvercle tournant.
  3. Dispositif pour ouvrir les couvercles tournants selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que chaque mâchoire de serrage (15, 17, 19) est placée sur un support de mâchoire de serrage mobile (45) et qu'il existe un guidage en spirale séparé (29) pour chaque support de mâchoire de serrage mobile (45).
  4. Dispositif pour ouvrir les couvercles tournants selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que le guidage en spirale (29) présente différentes inclinaisons et différentes pentes dans son cours.
  5. Dispositif pour ouvrir les couvercles tournants selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce qu'une manette tournante (41) est reliée au disque ajustable (27).
  6. Dispositif pour ouvrir les couvercles tournants selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 5, caractérisé en ce que chaque mâchoire de serrage (15, 17, 19) est composée d'une pièce élastique (75) en matière synthétique et d'une griffe (73) en métal qui est placée dessus.
  7. Dispositif pour ouvrir les couvercles tournants selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que chaque mâchoire de serrage (15, 17, 19) peut être clipsée sur un support de mâchoire de serrage (45).
  8. Dispositif pour ouvrir les couvercles tournants selon la revendication 7, caractérisé en ce que le support de mâchoire de serrage (45) comprend la pièce élastique encastrée par clipsage (75) avec la griffe (73) de telle manière qu'un soulèvement de la griffe (73) de la pièce élastique (75) par le support de mâchoire de serrage (45) est rendu impossible.
  9. Dispositif pour ouvrir les couvercles tournants selon l'une des revendications 6 à 8, caractérisé en ce qu'une lèvre élastique (77) qui coopère avec le support de mâchoire de serrage (45) est configurée sur la pièce élastique (75).
  10. Dispositif pour ouvrir les couvercles tournants selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce que le disque ajustable (27) est composé d'un disque de guidage en spirale (57) avec le guidage en spirale (29) et un disque à manette tournante (59) avec la manette tournante (41).
  11. Dispositif pour ouvrir les couvercles tournants selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce que pour la liaison du disque de guidage en spirale (57) et du disque à manette tournante (59) il existe des évidements sur l'un des disques dans lesquels s'engrènent des prolongements qui sont configurés sur l'autre disque.
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