Classifications

• • 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
  • B65D23/00—Details of bottles or jars not otherwise provided for
  • B65D23/06—Integral drip catchers or drip-preventing means
  • B65D23/065—Loose or loosely-attached drip catchers or drip preventing means

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a device absorbing the drops of liquid flowing on the outer wall of the neck of a bottle when the said bottle is straightened after having poured all or part of the liquid content, through the upper opening of said inclined bottle.
• Such devices are referred to as "drip collectors”.
• the present invention relates to a drip collecting device able to be adapted around the neck of an oil bottle.
• drip collecting devices constituted by a ring or a ring of absorbent material and / or porous absorbent material, which is arranged around the neck or neck of a bottle. Such devices are used to be adapted on the neck of wine bottles mainly.
• the absorbent ring is placed either just above the reinforcement or the collar which is usually found in the upper part of the neck and therefore resting on said reinforcement or said collar, is placed around said reinforcement or said collar, that is to say against its periphery and by marrying the periphery.
• this type of drip collecting device has not been used until now because it requires a larger absorbent strip size and said absorbent strip cannot be maintained by a sheet covering the cap and the neck to which it is pre-secured as in FR 2 506 372, or under the capsule crimped around the neck as in FR 1 427 978.
• This type of packaging of the neck is not usual in the case oil bottles.
• the absorbent material after use has an unpleasant greasy and sticky feel and a dirty and unpleasant appearance.
• the object of the present invention is to provide a drip collecting device comprising an absorbent material used in an appropriate manner to absorb the oil dripping along the neck of an oil bottle during its use, which is effective in terms of absorption, while having pleasant aesthetic and touch characteristics, and which can be used over a relatively long period of time, in particular at least one month, preferably two months.
• the present invention provides a drip collecting device capable of being adapted around the neck of an oil bottle, preferably near the upper opening, and if necessary, below the reinforcement or the upper flange. neck, of the type comprising a flexible absorbent and / or porous element, capable of being positioned around the neck and against its periphery; said device comprises a rigid wooden shell of oleophilic character, preferably of fatty essence, in the form of a collar capable of being adapted around said neck, said rigid shell ensuring the maintenance of an element of absorbent and / or porous flexible material capable absorb oil.
• a so-called olive wood shell is used in particular to adapt the device to a bottle of olive oil.
• the wooden shell keeps the absorbent element in place, which can thus be relatively large.
• the wooden shell can also serve as a support for decorative elements applied to its external surface. It also makes it possible to successively adapt several absorbent elements after use by reusing the same shell, taking account of the characteristics of the latter, in particular of washability, which will be explained below.
• the wooden shell with an oleophilic character that is to say capable of absorbing or impregnating with oil, in particular a shell of wood of fatty essence, such as olive wood, has technical effects. specifically advantageous in the case of the use envisaged for absorbing oil, as explained below.
• oily essence wood in particular olive wood, after drying, itself has significant oil absorption properties without leaving an unsightly mark or stain as may be the case for other wood species.
• the oil nourishes this type of wood and it skates and embellishes by applying oil, and therefore by oil absorption.
• wooden objects of fatty essence such as olive wood are maintained by applying oils.
• Olive wood and other fatty essences notably those of the oleaceae family, are relatively durable woods which contain oleoresins forming dark veins.
• said shell comprises a tubular wall with at its upper and lower ends, an upper annular rim and respectively a lower annular rim, thus forming a groove in which said strip of absorbent material can be detachably held. It is understood that the internal diameter of said upper and lower annular flanges must be equal, preferably slightly greater, to the maximum external diameter of the neck and in particular to the diameter of its reinforcement or possible upper flange.
• said absorbent element has a thickness such that when it is inserted into said groove between said upper and lower annular flanges, it exceeds said flanges, the depth of said groove being less than the thickness of said absorbent element and preferably greater than half the thickness of said absorbent element.
• said absorbent element protrudes from its support shell by its thickness and that said element is flexible, it is possible to slide the device according to the invention around the neck, passing, if necessary, at the level of the extra thickness in the upper part corresponding to a flange or a reinforcement, because the absorbent element can be temporarily compressed before resuming its initial shape and its expanded size and thus coming to marry the periphery of the current part of the neck of lower external diameter to that of the external diameter of said flange or reinforcement of the upper part of the neck.
• depth of the groove is meant the internal width of said annular flanges created by the difference between the internal radius of said annular flanges and the internal radius of said tubular wall.
• the groove defined as mentioned above ensures good maintenance of said absorbent element on the one hand and, on the other hand, promotes the absorption of oil in the first place by said element of absorbent material, the absorption in the wood of the hull itself intervening in the second place or in the event of sudden or excessive pouring causing a flow on the external wall of said hull.
• the absorbent element may consist of a ring or a band of initially rectangular absorbent material which is put in place by forming a ring or ring following the internal surface of the tubular wall.
• said absorbent strip has, before its insertion into said shell, a length slightly less than the internal perimeter of the tubular wall, (that is to say the perimeter defined by the internal surface of said tubular wall of the running part of said shell), and a thickness such that said absorbent strip when it is inserted in the form of a ring in said groove, is compressed and thus occupies the entire inner perimeter of said tubular wall 33 and forms folds against said neck around which it is adapted.
• the absorbent element is made of an oleophilic absorbent material.
• said absorbent material is a felt having preferably undergone a treatment to increase its oleophilic character. More particularly still, said felt made from wool and viscose, namely in particular a tangle of fibers of wool and viscose, and / or cotton.
• said absorbent element comprises felt preferably having a density of 150 to 200 g / m 2 / mm.
• the units "m 2 " relate here to the surface of the largest face of said strip and the "mm" refer to the thickness of the strip.
• the inventors have carried out tests with different materials and felts of different densities, and the optimal absorption properties also having regard to the necessary durability of said absorbent strip, are obtained by felts and, more preferably, felts of 150 at 200 g / m 2 / mm density, to absorb olive oil.
• FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of a device of the invention adapted around the neck of an oil bottle
• - Figure 2 shows a perspective view of a rigid shell
• - Figure 3 shows a horizontal sectional view just above a rigid wooden shell of the device according to the invention in which is inserted a strip of absorbent material 4, thus viewed from above when the device is inserted around a bottle neck;
• FIG. 4 shows an axial sectional view (XX 1 ) of the device according to the invention, equipped with an absorbent strip and arranged around a neck;
• FIG. 5 shows a schematic view of an absorbent strip before insertion into the shell
• FIG. 6 shows an absorbent felt ring, seen from above;
• FIG. 7 shows a sectional view along arrows F1 of the ring of Figure 6;
• FIG. 8 shows an axial sectional view (XX 1 ) of the device according to the invention, equipped with an absorbent ring and arranged around a neck.
• a drip collection device 1 adapted to be adapted around the neck 2 of a bottle of oil 2, near the upper opening, below a reinforcement 2 2 at the upper end of the neck comprising a thread intended to cooperate with a closure cap for the bottle (not shown).
• the device 1 is placed around a neck of an oil bottle, the main part 2 1 of which has a diameter varying from 3. to 3 3 mm and the reinforcement comprising said thread 2 2 has a diameter external, maximum 35 mm.
• Figure 4 there is shown an axial sectional view XX 'of a device according to the invention comprising a rigid shell 3 of olive wood in which a rectangular absorbent strip 4 has been inserted and pressed along the internal surface of a tubular wall of said groove 3 4 .
• FIG. 8 shows a view in axial section XX ′ of a device according to the invention comprising a rigid shell 3 in which an absorbent ring 5 of toric shape has been inserted in said groove 3 4 .
• the shell 3 comprises a tubular wall 3 3 , that is to say a wall made up of a section of tube with a cylindrical surface. Said tubular wall 3 3 ends at each end of the upper 3 1 and lower 3 2 annular flanges of internal diameter (D 3 ) reduced relative to the internal diameter (D 2 ) of said tubular wall 3 3 , said annular flanges 3 1 and 3 2 respectively forming the upper and lower openings of the device 1.
• tubular wall 3 3 and the annular flanges 3. ,, 3 2 have the following dimensions:
• the height H 15 mm of the shell 3 corresponds to the distance between the external faces of said annular flanges 3 1 and 3 2 .
• the dimensions given above are an illustrative but not limiting example. It is also possible to adapt around a neck 2 1 of usual size having an external diameter of 28 to 35 mm, a shell 3 having the following dimensions:
• the absorbent strip 4 inserted in the groove 3 4 which advantageously has the following characteristics and dimensions:
• the strip must have an initial length slightly less than the inside perimeter of said tubular wall 3 3 , but greater than the perimeter of the neck 2 1 between which it must be adapted.
• the strip 4 occupies the entire inside perimeter of the groove 34 and forms folds 4 1 on its face against the neck, which make it possible to keep it tight against said neck around from which it is adapted.
• FIG 3 there is shown a top view in section of a device 1 according to the invention with an absorbent strip forming folds 4., tightened around the neck 2 V
• the folds 4 1 are shown schematically beyond 1 'upper circular opening of the device 1 corresponding to the circumference 35 of internal diameter D 3 of the upper annular rim 3.,. These folds are pressed against the wall of the neck 21 which contributes to tightening the device around the neck 2, the device 1 thus remaining firmly in place.
• the annular flanges 3 1 and 3 2 also hold the absorbent strip 4 inside the groove 3 4 well in place.
• the absorbent ring 5 which can be used in place of the absorbent strip 4 will be made of the same material as said absorbent strip and will have the same thickness e 2 . Its dimensions will be such that when said ring is inserted into the groove 3 4 of the shell 3, it is compressed and occupies the entire inner perimeter of said groove.
• the thickness e 2 of the absorbent element 4, 5 is greater than the internal width I., of the annular edges 3. ,, and 3 2 and therefore exceeds these, the first drops flowing the along the neck 2 are directly absorbed by said absorbent element. Only the excess drops flowing first on the upper face of the upper annular rim 3 1 ( then along the -y- cylindrical external surface 3 6 of the tubular wall 3 3 are absorbed by the bowl constituting said annular flanges and tubular wall constituting the shell 3.
• a device as described above can absorb enough oil to require replacement of the felt element only after two months with household use, namely an absorption of at least 5 ml, more particularly of 5 to 7 ml.
• the external shape of the shell 3 has been described above as being a surface of revolution of circular section, but it is understood that other forms of the surface of the external envelope are possible such as surfaces of triangular, square section, or hexagonal, or others.
• the size of the shell 3 and of the device 1 in general can be adapted to the bottle or the bottle and to the quantity of liquid contained.
• the liquid contained in said bottle or flask can be oil or any other liquid fatty substance.

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