EP1799581B9 - Device for dispensing containers - Google Patents
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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
- B65D51/00—Closures not otherwise provided for
- B65D51/24—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes
- B65D51/28—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes with auxiliary containers for additional articles or materials
- B65D51/30—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes with auxiliary containers for additional articles or materials for desiccators
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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
- B65D47/00—Closures with filling and discharging, or with discharging, devices
- B65D47/04—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps
- B65D47/06—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps with pouring spouts or tubes; with discharge nozzles or passages
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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
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- B65D51/24—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes
- B65D51/244—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes provided with oxygen absorbers
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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
- B65D83/00—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents
- B65D83/04—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, or spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills
- B65D83/0409—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, or spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills the dispensing means being adapted for delivering one article, or a single dose, upon each actuation
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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
- B65D2583/00—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents
- B65D2583/04—For dispensing annular, disc-shaped or spherical or like small articles or tablets
- B65D2583/0472—For dispensing annular, disc-shaped or spherical or like small articles or tablets characterised by the dispensing action
- B65D2583/0477—For dispensing annular, disc-shaped or spherical or like small articles or tablets characterised by the dispensing action the container is maintained in the same position during the dispensing of several successive articles or doses
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- the invention relates to a dispensing arrangement for receiving, storing and dispensing of products which are sensitive to vapor, gas or powdery constituents of the ambient atmosphere, containers whose filling and dispensing opening can be sealed tightly against the ingress of ambient atmosphere.
- the dispenser assembly has been provided with a dispensing device, the outlet opening in the passage cross-section is dimensioned so that the contents can escape only in a throttled amount, so that accidental overdosed quantity delivery can be avoided.
- the delivery of tablets can also be influenced by a reduction in the cross section of the delivery opening.
- the invention has for its object to provide a dispensing arrangement for receiving, storing and dispensing of steam, gas or powdery components of the ambient atmosphere sensitive filling certain container whose filling and dispensing opening is tightly closed against ingress of ambient atmosphere, which on the one hand facilitates the metered removal of Be Zellerhellguts from the container and moreover ensures that the contents in the container is subject to the complete release no unwanted physical or chemical changes.
- the dispenser assembly has a dispensing aid which can be inserted into the filling and dispensing opening of the respective container with a dispensing opening whose passage cross-section decreases compared to the passage cross-section of the filling and dispensing opening of the container is that, and that the Aus thoroughlytssel a in sealed container with the container interior in connection receiving area For a chemical and / or physical protective effect against the material potentially damaging to the contents acting substances of the ambient atmosphere unfolding material.
- the metering and protective function for the filling material are thus integrated into the dispensing aid which can be inserted into the filling and dispensing opening of the container, so that similar containers, for example by screw caps and - optionally still closed by a protective film to be removed during initial use, such as bottles or Tubes, with a larger capacity depending on the type of contents without or with the dispenser arrangement according to the invention are used.
- the dispensing aid expediently has the contents in the intended delivery position -. when overturning in a downwardly facing position of the discharge opening - leading to the discharge port shape.
- the receiving area of the dispensing aid can then advantageously be formed by a receiving space filled with the protective material which, via a material impermeable to the contents of the ambient atmosphere, permeable to the container filling material and the protective material, is in contact with the container interior ,
- the receiving area of the dispensing aid may e.g. each formed by at least one separately prepared, with the protective effect unfolded material and sealed by a permeable to the potentially damaging components wall section, held on or in the Austre kau silk capsule.
- the receiving area of the dispensing aid can also be formed by a solid body containing the protective material unfolding the protective effect.
- the receiving area of a related to the Be Daveerinnem the protective effect unfolding material bound containing area of the delivery aid itself is formed.
- the production of the dispensing aid as a whole from a material containing the protective effect unfolding bound material is conceivable by the dispensing aid, for example by injection molding of a protective material unfolding the material bound containing thermoplastic compound material is produced.
- the dispensing opening of the dispensing aid can be designed as a metering opening for the contents to be dispensed, for example by the abovementioned reduction in comparison to the filling opening of the container itself.
- the discharge opening may also be provided with a portioning mechanism for the contents.
- the discharge opening can also be equipped with a manually operable separation mechanism for the lumpy product.
- the protective-action-unfolding material has hydroscopic, i. water adsorbing properties, said material, for example, from bulkable hydroscopic particles, such as silica gel, zeolite or the like. having formed particles.
- activated carbon or a porous filter material with the requirements matched pore size come into question.
- the design can be made so advantageous that the clear cross section of the discharge opening in the Aus flowssel thanks at least equal to or slightly larger than the diameter of the tablets filled in the container , Dragées or the like, that in the region of the discharge opening in the circumferential direction offset from each other several double-armed locking levers are pivotally mounted about in each case at a right angle to the longitudinal center axis and tangent to the circumference of the discharge opening axes, which are biased under resilient bias to an end position in which the container interior facing away from the container inner mouth of the discharge opening from the outside offset radially projecting into the clear interior of the discharge opening, and that containing the protective effect-containing material containing capsule or the protective effect unfolding material bound containing body as the wall of the discharge opening surrounding, displaceable in the direction of the container interior in the Aus summarizet Vietnamese stored and accessible from the container outer side annular body is formed, which comes so in a shift in the
- the design is such that light cross-section of the discharge opening in the dispensing aid is at least equal to or slightly larger than the diameter of the tablets, dragees or the like filled in the container, that of the unfolding with the protective effect Material filled receiving space forming area of the dispenser assembly between two end positions resiliently pivotable in a through hole in which the outer plug-shaped wall of the Aus name Anlagen forming ramp-like inclined extending wall is arranged and that from the outside of the wall of the receiving space, a projection into the discharge opening, which its passage cross-section so narrowed that the individual components of the contents are retained by the projection in its unverschwenkter position against passage, while the projection in the other hand elastically fede Rnd pivoted second position of the receiving space is withdrawn from the clear cross-section of the discharge opening, so that a container inside before in the Unschwenkten position of the receiving space held single component can pass through the discharge opening.
- the receiving space has then expedient the shape of an approximately centrally disposed within the obliquely inclined wall passage opening arranged elongated container of vapor, gas and liquid-impermeable material whose peripheral wall has in the region of their end pointing out of the container inside a closed bottom surface, while their opposite ins Container interior facing end side is closed after introduction by a protective effect unfolding material in Be intuitiveerinnem enclosing steam, gas, or liquid-permeable wall.
- the receiving space formed as an elongated container then preferably has a cylindrical circumferential wall, which is connected via at least one elastically deformable connecting portion pivotally connected to the edge of the passage opening in the inclined wall of the Ausre kau kau.
- the dispensing aid is advantageously at least partially made of thermoplastic material, wherein it can then be formed in the last-exposed embodiment including the receiving space for the protective effect-unfolding material forming container as a whole integral injection molded part.
- FIGS. 1 to 3 is a designated in its entirety with 10 embodiment of a dispensing aid shown, which is in the wall of the filling or dispensing opening of a - not shown - container can be used.
- a dispensing aid shown, which is in the wall of the filling or dispensing opening of a - not shown - container can be used.
- the dispensing aid 10 here has the shape of a cylindrically shaped over most of its height extension stopper 16, in which the drawing figures upper, in the intended insertion position in a container the Be bachelornem facing away from a radially slightly vor impartder annular projection 18 is provided, which at the onset of cylindrical plug portion 16 in the container serves as a stop for the intended insertion depth.
- annular recess 24 is formed in the plug 16, into which is inserted a complementary annular body 26 made of a compound material which may consist of a porous plastic matrix in which particles of e.g. are stored for water vapor or certain gaseous constituents of the ambient atmosphere adsorptive material.
- a complementary annular body 26 made of a compound material which may consist of a porous plastic matrix in which particles of e.g. are stored for water vapor or certain gaseous constituents of the ambient atmosphere adsorptive material.
- the outer surface of the annular body 26 made of the compound material and also a short outer section of the discharge opening 22 are in communication with the container interior via the discharge opening 22.
- the introduced during filling of the container with into the container interior ambient atmosphere or - when filled with a protective gas - this protective gas are thus constantly exposed to the adsorptive effect of the annular body with the container closed.
- a chemical action of in the container filling with introduced water vapor or a gaseous component can therefore not take place during the storage
- the plug 16 is suitably dimensioned with slight oversize of its outer cylindrical surface relative to the clear cross section of the mouth of the respective container and made of elastomeric plastic, so that it in the intended insertion position held with bias in the container mouth.
- FIGS. 4 to 7 a second embodiment of a pouring aid 10 according to the invention produced by injection molding of thermoplastic material, such as polyethylene, which likewise has the outer shape of a cylindrical plug 16 with an annular projection 18 acting as insertion limit.
- the inner end face 20 of the dispensing aid 10 is here - deviating from the funnel-shaped embodiment of the dispensing aid according to the FIGS. 1 to 3 - Formed as an inclined ramp surface on which the contents of an associated container to be removed, which again may consist of tablets or dragees or alternatively from a granular granules, in the intended removal position of the container with pointing downwards mouth laterally to the inner surface of the Peripheral wall of the plug 16 is guided.
- the discharge opening 22 is arranged in this embodiment, starting immediately from the lowest point of the ramp surface starting laterally within the peripheral surface of the plug and expediently re-sized in shape so that the contents is discharged individually or braked by the design of the size of the clear cross-section.
- the material which unfolds the chemical and / or physical protective action against the substance potentially damaging to the contents in the dispensing aid is contained here in a cylindrical receiving space 28 formed integrally in the dispensing aid in the form of a filling of hygroscopic particles, such as silica gel or zeolite particles , wherein the container interior facing open end face of the otherwise closed receiving space 28 by a porous and permeable to the filling pollutant permeable disc 34 - for example, porous or perforated cardboard material - is completed.
- hygroscopic particles such as silica gel or zeolite particles
- the size of the filling volume of the receiving space for the protective effect unfolding material - depending on the required adsorption capacity - is adaptable to different container sizes by changing the size dimensions of the receiving space.
- the outwardly facing end face of the receiving space is in the illustrated embodiment flush with the upper edge of the Aus flow Anlagen. Basically, this receiving space but also by appropriate extension of its peripheral wall such that the end face 32 is above the end edge of the plug part 16, be increased.
- the above-described central central arrangement of the receiving space for the protective effect unfolding material has the advantage that the filling of the dispensing aid with the protective effect unfolding material can be performed on the filling and sealing stations developed for the filling of so-called desiccant sealing plug. Notwithstanding the embodiment according to the FIGS. 1 to 3 However, in the removal of filling material must be ensured here that the discharge opening 22 is rotated in a position in which it is located in the lower edge region of the container held in the dispensing position.
- the protective effect deploying material is here again - according to the embodiment according to the FIGS. 4 to 7 -
- the discharge opening 22 surrounding hollow annular housing 42 which open on its side facing the container interior and after loading with the protective effect unfolding material an annular porous disc 44 is closed.
- the closed by the annular disc 44, filled with the adsorptive material housing 42 thus corresponds functionally to the annular body 26 of the embodiment according to the FIGS. 1 to 3 ,
- the housing 42 is held displaceably in the plug 16 by a limited distance in the direction of the longitudinal central axis of the container.
- FIG. 8 is shown in the left half of the illustration, the housing 42 in the starting position and in the right half in a contrast inserted into the container interior position.
- the above-mentioned separating mechanism for tablets 52 filled in the container can be actuated such that a single tablet is dispensed through the dispensing aid with each depression.
- the separating mechanism 40 has in the illustrated case a total of four at the same angular intervals in the circumferential direction in the transition region of the end wall 20 to the discharge opening 22 slit-like recesses 46 to each in a perpendicular to the longitudinal central axis and tangential to the peripheral wall of the discharge opening 22 extending axes pivotally mounted double-armed locking lever 48, the under spring bias in the in FIG. 8 are biased in the left half of the drawing figure shown end position, in which projecting the Be fiscalerinnem projecting out of the slot-like recesses in the discharge opening 22, while the opposite ends of the locking lever are retracted into the slot-like recess. If the annular housing 42 in the right half of FIG.
- FIGS. 10 to 12 a container 12 is also shown for receiving tablets as a product, in the open mouth of a fourth embodiment of a - in the FIGS. 13 to 16 Separately illustrated - Aus performhne 12 is used, which is a further development of the above in connection with the FIGS. 4 to 7 described embodiment.
- a container 12 is also shown for receiving tablets as a product, in the open mouth of a fourth embodiment of a - in the FIGS. 13 to 16
- - Aus order silk cookie 12 is used, which is a further development of the above in connection with the FIGS. 4 to 7 described embodiment.
- the essential difference of the fourth embodiment of the embodiment according to the FIGS. 4 to 7 is that - also the outer shape of a plug 16 having - Aus present Vietnamese is provided with a separating mechanism.
- This separating mechanism has a projection 23 which protrudes from the outside of the wall of the cylindrical receiving space 28 arranged centrally in the dispensing aid 12 into the projection 23 in its clear passage cross section corresponding to the cross section of a dispensing opening 22 corresponding to tablets to be separated, thus narrowing the passage cross section of the dispensing opening 22, that the next following, from Be Miltonnem ago in the discharge port supplied tablet 52 can not pass through the discharge port 22.
- Such a passage and thus the delivery of this tablet is possible only when the projection 23 is withdrawn from the clear cross section of the discharge opening 22.
- the receiving space 28 is cut free over most of the circumference of its outer wall with respect to the ramp-like inclined wall 20, that is arranged movably within a passage opening 29 in the trained as an inclined ramp surface wall 20 of the Austrezz 12.
- Only in the direction of the discharge opening 22 facing wall region of the receiving space via a narrow connecting portion 31 is integrally connected to the wall 20 of the release aid 10.
- This connecting portion 31 is formed sufficiently elastically deformable to pivot the receiving space 28 from the normal starting position, in which the projection 23 protrudes into the discharge opening 22 in a position in which the originally into the clear interior of the discharge opening 22 projecting part of the projection 23rd the clear passage cross section of the discharge opening 22 is free.
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Die Erfindung betrifft eine Spenderanordnung für zur Aufnahme, Bevorratung und Abgabe von gegen dampf-, gas- oder pulvrige Bestandteile der Umgebungsatmosphäre empfindliches Füllgut bestimmte Behälter, deren Füll- und Abgabeöffnung gegen den Zutritt von Umgebungsatmosphäre dicht verschließbar ist.The invention relates to a dispensing arrangement for receiving, storing and dispensing of products which are sensitive to vapor, gas or powdery constituents of the ambient atmosphere, containers whose filling and dispensing opening can be sealed tightly against the ingress of ambient atmosphere.
Zur Erleichterung der dosierten Entnahme von in größerer Menge in einem Behälter enthaltendem Füllgut sind eine Vielzahl von Spenderanordnungen der unterschiedlichsten Ausgestaltung entwickelt worden, deren konstruktiver Aufbau unter Berücksichtigung der Art und der physikalischen Eigenschaften des im Behälter abgefüllten Füllguts entwickelt wurde. Im einfachsten Fall wurde die Spenderanordnung mit einer Abgabevorrichtung versehen, deren Austrittsöffnung im Durchlassquerschnitt so bemessen ist, dass das Füllgut nur in gedrosselter Menge austreten kann, so dass eine versehentlich überdosierte Mengenabgabe vermieden werden kann. Dies gilt sowohl für festes Granulat und pulverförmiges Füllgut ebenso wie für die bei Flüssigkeiten verwendeten Tropfeinsätze. Auch die Abgabe von Tabletten kann durch eine Verringerung des Querschnitts der Abgabeöffnung beeinflusst werden. Allerdings sind solche einfachen Lösungen, die Dosierung durch gedrosselte Abgabe ermöglichen, dann nicht einsetzbar, wenn eine genau mengenmäßige Dosierung bzw. eine Einzelabgabe von Tabletten gewährleistet werden muss. Für solche Fälle sind für granulat- und pulverförmiges Füllgut Dosierspender mit der Abgabeöffnung vorgeschalteten und wahlweise zum Behälterinnern und zur Abgabeöffnung umschaltbaren Dosierräumen bzw. für Tablettenspender mit Vereinzelungsmechanismus entwickelt worden, welche bei der Betätigung durch den Benutzer jeweils nur eine einzelne Tablette abgeben. Die bekannten Spenderanordnungen haben sich in der Praxis bewährt. Problematisch ist die Anwendung solcher bekannten Spenderanordnungen jedoch in solchen Fällen, in denen in größerer Menge im Behälter bevorratetes Füllgut seine Eigenschaft bei Zutritt von Umgebungsatmosphäre - beispielsweise infolge von Feuchtigkeitsaufnahme aus dem Wasserdampfgehalt der Luft oder infolge von Oxidation durch Luftsauerstoff - verändert. Insbesondere auf dem Arzneimittelsektor sind deshalb für Behälter zur Aufnahme von gegen Luftfeuchtigkeit empfindliche Präparate so genannte Trockenstoff-Verschlüsse entwickelt worden, welche neben dem hermetisch dichten Verschließen des Behälters eine Feuchtigkeit adsorbierende Wirkung durch eine in geschlossenem Zustand mit dem Behälterinnem in Verbindung stehende, mit einem Trocknungsmittel gefüllte Zelle bewirken. Da die Aufnahmekapazität der verwendeten Trockenmittel, wie Silikagel, Zeolithen etc. begrenzt ist, muss die Trockenstoffzelle in der Aufnahmekapazität für Trockenmittel der Menge des Füllguts und den zu erwartenden Öffnungszyklen angepasst werden. Bei Behälter mit größeren Füllvolumina wurden zur Vermeidung schädlichen Einwirkungen von Wasserdampf aus der Umgebungsatmosphäre gesonderte Trockenstoff-Kapseln oder -Kissen mit hinreichender Trocknungskapazität bei der Behälterfüllung ins Behälterinnere eingebracht.To facilitate the metered removal of bulk in a container containing contents a variety of dispensing arrangements of different design have been developed, the structural design was developed taking into account the nature and physical properties of the filled in the container contents. In the simplest case, the dispenser assembly has been provided with a dispensing device, the outlet opening in the passage cross-section is dimensioned so that the contents can escape only in a throttled amount, so that accidental overdosed quantity delivery can be avoided. This applies both to solid granules and pulverulent contents as well as to the drip inserts used in liquids. The delivery of tablets can also be influenced by a reduction in the cross section of the delivery opening. However, such simple solutions that allow dosing by throttled delivery, then not be used when a precisely quantitative dosage or a single dispensing of tablets must be guaranteed. For such cases, for granular and powdery filling dosing dispenser upstream with the discharge opening and optionally switchable to the container interior and the discharge opening Dosierräumen or tablet dispenser with separating mechanism have been developed, which upon actuation by the user each deliver only a single tablet. The known dispenser arrangements have proven themselves in practice. However, the use of such known dispensing arrangements is problematic in those cases in which in larger quantities in the container stored contents its property upon access of ambient atmosphere - for example due to moisture absorption from the water vapor content of the air or due to oxidation by atmospheric oxygen - changed. In particular in the pharmaceutical sector, so-called dry-material closures have therefore been developed for containers for receiving humidity-sensitive preparations, which in addition to the hermetically sealed sealing of the container, a moisture adsorbing effect by a closed state with the Behälterinnem related, with a desiccant effect filled cell. Since the absorption capacity of the desiccant used, such as silica gel, zeolites, etc. is limited, the dry cell in the absorption capacity for desiccant must be adapted to the amount of the product and the expected opening cycles. For containers with larger filling volumes separate dry matter capsules or pillows with sufficient drying capacity were introduced during container filling into the container interior to avoid harmful effects of water vapor from the ambient atmosphere.
Der Erfindung liegt die Aufgabe zugrunde, eine Spenderanordnung für zur Aufnahme, Bevorratung und Abgabe von gegen dampf-, gas- oder pulvrige Bestandteile der Umgebungsatmosphäre empfindliches Füllgut bestimmte Behälter, deren Füll- und Abgabeöffnung gegen Zutritt von Umgebungsatmosphäre dicht verschließbar ist, zu schaffen, welche einerseits die dosierte Entnahme des Behälterfüllguts aus dem Behälter erleichtert und darüber hinaus sicherstellt, dass das Füllgut im Behälter bis zur vollständigen Abgabe keinen unerwünschten physikalischen oder chemischen Veränderungen unterliegt.The invention has for its object to provide a dispensing arrangement for receiving, storing and dispensing of steam, gas or powdery components of the ambient atmosphere sensitive filling certain container whose filling and dispensing opening is tightly closed against ingress of ambient atmosphere, which on the one hand facilitates the metered removal of Behälterfüllguts from the container and moreover ensures that the contents in the container is subject to the complete release no unwanted physical or chemical changes.
Ausgehend von einer Spenderanordnung der eingangs erwähnten Art wird diese Aufgabe erfindungsgemäß dadurch gelöst, dass die Spenderanordnung eine in die Füll- und Abgabeöffnung des jeweiligen Behälters dicht einsetzbare Ausschütthilfe mit einer Abgabeöffnung aufweist, deren Durchlassquerschnitt im Vergleich zum Durchlassquerschnitt der Füll- und Abgabeöffnung des Behälters verkleinert ist, und dass die Ausschütthilfe einen bei dicht verschlossenem Behälter mit dem Behälterinnenraum in Verbindung stehenden Aufnahmebereich für eine chemische und/oder physikalische Schutzwirkung gegen die für das Füllgut potentiell schädigend wirkenden Stoffe der Umgebungsatmosphäre entfaltendes Material aufweist. Die Dosier- und Schutzfunktion für das Füllgut sind hier also in der in die Füll- und Abgabeöffnung des Behälters einsetzbaren Ausschütthilfe integriert, so dass gleichartige Behälter, beispielsweise durch Schraubdeckel und - gegebenenfalls noch durch eine beim Erstgebrauch zu entfernende Schutzfolie verschlossene Behältnisse, wie Flaschen oder Röhren, mit größerem Fassungsvermögen je nach Art des Füllguts ohne oder mit der erfindungsgemäßen Spenderanordnung verwendbar sind.Based on a dispensing arrangement of the type mentioned above, this object is achieved in that the dispenser assembly has a dispensing aid which can be inserted into the filling and dispensing opening of the respective container with a dispensing opening whose passage cross-section decreases compared to the passage cross-section of the filling and dispensing opening of the container is that, and that the Ausschüttthilfe a in sealed container with the container interior in connection receiving area For a chemical and / or physical protective effect against the material potentially damaging to the contents acting substances of the ambient atmosphere unfolding material. The metering and protective function for the filling material are thus integrated into the dispensing aid which can be inserted into the filling and dispensing opening of the container, so that similar containers, for example by screw caps and - optionally still closed by a protective film to be removed during initial use, such as bottles or Tubes, with a larger capacity depending on the type of contents without or with the dispenser arrangement according to the invention are used.
Die Ausschütthilfe weist zweckmäßig eine das Füllgut in der bestimmungsgemäßen Abgabestellung - z.B. beim Umkippen in eine in Abwärtsrichtung weisende Lage der Abgabeöffnung - zur Abgabeöffnung führende Form auf.The dispensing aid expediently has the contents in the intended delivery position -. when overturning in a downwardly facing position of the discharge opening - leading to the discharge port shape.
Das kann z.B. durch eine sich trichterartig zur Abgabeöffnung verjüngende oder auch eine rampenartig schräg geneigte Form erreicht werden.This can e.g. be achieved by a funnel-like tapering to the discharge opening or even a ramp-like inclined shape.
Der Aufnahmebereich der Ausschütthilfe kann dann mit Vorteil von einem mit dem die Schutzwirkung entfaltenden Material gefüllten Aufnahmeraum gebildet sein, der über eine für das Füllgut potentiell schädigende Bestandteile der Umgebungsatmosphäre durchlässigen, für das Behälterfüllgut und das Schutzwirkung entfaltende Material undurchlässigen Bereich mit dem Behälterinnern in Verbindung steht.The receiving area of the dispensing aid can then advantageously be formed by a receiving space filled with the protective material which, via a material impermeable to the contents of the ambient atmosphere, permeable to the container filling material and the protective material, is in contact with the container interior ,
Dabei kann der Aufnahmebereich der Ausschütthilfe z.B. von jeweils wenigstens einer gesondert hergestellten, mit dem Schutzwirkung entfaltenden Material gefüllten und durch einen für die potentiell schädigenden Bestandteile durchlässigen Wandabschnitt verschlossene, an oder in der Ausschütthilfe gehaltene Kapsel gebildet werden.The receiving area of the dispensing aid may e.g. each formed by at least one separately prepared, with the protective effect unfolded material and sealed by a permeable to the potentially damaging components wall section, held on or in the Ausschütthilfe capsule.
Alternativ kann der Aufnahmebereich der Ausschütthilfe auch von einem das die Schutzwirkung entfaltende Material gebunden enthaltende festen Körper gebildet sein.Alternatively, the receiving area of the dispensing aid can also be formed by a solid body containing the protective material unfolding the protective effect.
Dabei ist es sogar möglich, dass der Aufnahmebereich von einem mit dem Behälterinnem in Verbindung stehenden, das Schutzwirkung entfaltende Material gebunden enthaltenden Bereich der Ausschütthilfe selbst gebildet wird. Auch die Herstellung der Ausschütthilfe insgesamt aus einem das die Schutzwirkung entfaltende Material gebunden enthaltende Material ist denkbar, indem die Ausschütthilfe beispielsweise im Spritzgussverfahren aus einem das die Schutzwirkung entfaltende Material gebunden enthaltenden thermoplastischen Compound-Material hergestellt wird.It is even possible that the receiving area of a related to the Behälterinnem, the protective effect unfolding material bound containing area of the delivery aid itself is formed. The production of the dispensing aid as a whole from a material containing the protective effect unfolding bound material is conceivable by the dispensing aid, for example by injection molding of a protective material unfolding the material bound containing thermoplastic compound material is produced.
Die Abgabeöffnung der Ausschütthilfe kann - beispielsweise durch die oben erwähnte Verkleinerung im Vergleich zur Füllöffnung des Behälters selbst - als Dosieröffnung für das abzugebende Füllgut ausgebildet sein. Bei höheren Anforderungen an die Genauigkeit der Dosierung kann die Abgabeöffnung auch mit einem Portionierungsmechanismus für das Füllgut versehen sein.The dispensing opening of the dispensing aid can be designed as a metering opening for the contents to be dispensed, for example by the abovementioned reduction in comparison to the filling opening of the container itself. With higher demands on the accuracy of the dosage, the discharge opening may also be provided with a portioning mechanism for the contents.
Wenn im Behälter eine vorgegebene Menge von gleichartig geformten festen Einzelbestandteilen, wie Tabletten, Dragees u. dgl. als Füllgut enthalten ist, kann die Abgabeöffnung auch mit einem von Hand betätigbaren Vereinzelungsmechanismus für das stückige Füllgut ausgerüstet werden.If in the container a predetermined amount of identically shaped solid constituents such as tablets, dragees u. Like. As a product, the discharge opening can also be equipped with a manually operable separation mechanism for the lumpy product.
Im Falle von feuchtigkeitsempfindlichem Füllgut weist das Schutzwirkung entfaltende Material hydroskopische, d.h. wasseradsorbierende Eigenschaften auf, wobei dieses Material beispielsweise von schüttfähigen hydroskopischen Partikeln, beispielsweise Silikagel, Zeolith o.dgl. aufweisenden Partikeln gebildet wird.In the case of moisture-sensitive filling material, the protective-action-unfolding material has hydroscopic, i. water adsorbing properties, said material, for example, from bulkable hydroscopic particles, such as silica gel, zeolite or the like. having formed particles.
Bei Gefahr einer Beeinflussung der Eigenschaften des Füllguts durch andere gasförmige, z.B. oxidierende und/oder flüssige molekulare Bestandteile der Umgebungsatmosphäre wird ein entsprechende adsorptive Eigenschaften entfaltendes Material verwendet.At the risk of influencing the properties of the contents by other gaseous, e.g. oxidizing and / or liquid molecular constituents of the ambient atmosphere, a corresponding adsorptive properties unfolding material is used.
Hier kann beispielsweise Aktivkohle oder ein poröses Filtermaterial mit den Erfordernissen angepasster Porengröße in Frage kommen.Here, for example, activated carbon or a porous filter material with the requirements matched pore size come into question.
Wenn die erfindungsgemäße Spenderanordnung zur dosierten Einzelausgabe von Tabletten, Dragees o. dergl. bestimmt ist, kann die Ausgestaltung mit Vorteil so getroffen sein, dass der lichte Querschnitt der Abgabeöffnung in der Ausschütthilfe wenigstens gleich bzw. geringfügig größer als der Durchmesser der im Behälter abgefüllten Tabletten, Dragees oder dergleichen bemessen ist, dass im Bereich der Abgabeöffnung in deren Umfangsrichtung versetzt zueinander mehrere doppelarmige Verriegelungshebel um jeweils in einer rechtwinklig zur Längsmittelachse und tangential zum Umfang der Abgabeöffnung verlaufende Achsen verschwenkbar gelagert sind, die unter federnder Vorspannung in eine Endlage vorgespannt sind, in welcher ihre dem Behälterinneren abgewandte Enden von der behälterinneren Mündung der Abgabeöffnung aus zur Außenseite versetzt radial ins lichte Innere der Abgabeöffnung vorstehen, und dass die das Schutzwirkung entfaltende Material enthaltende Kapsel bzw. der das Schutzwirkung entfaltende Material gebunden enthaltende Körper als die Wandung der Abgabeöffnung umgebender, in Richtung des Behälterinnern verschieblich in der Ausschütthilfe gelagerter und von der Behälteraußenseite zugänglicher Ringkörper ausgebildet ist, welcher bei einer Verschiebung in Richtung des Behälterinneren an den Verriegelungshebeln derart zur Anlage kommt, dass diese im Sinne eines radialen Zurückziehens ihrer in die Abgabeöffnung vortretenden Enden verschwenkt und werden ,wobei die demgegenüber ins Behälterinnere versetzten Enden der Verriegelungshebel radial einwärts in eine in den lichten Querschnitt der Abgabeöffnung vorstehende Position verschwenkt werden.If the dispenser assembly according to the invention for single dosed dispensing of tablets, dragees o. The like. Is determined, the design can be made so advantageous that the clear cross section of the discharge opening in the Ausschütthilfe at least equal to or slightly larger than the diameter of the tablets filled in the container , Dragées or the like, that in the region of the discharge opening in the circumferential direction offset from each other several double-armed locking levers are pivotally mounted about in each case at a right angle to the longitudinal center axis and tangent to the circumference of the discharge opening axes, which are biased under resilient bias to an end position in which the container interior facing away from the container inner mouth of the discharge opening from the outside offset radially projecting into the clear interior of the discharge opening, and that containing the protective effect-containing material containing capsule or the protective effect unfolding material bound containing body as the wall of the discharge opening surrounding, displaceable in the direction of the container interior in the Ausschüttthilfe stored and accessible from the container outer side annular body is formed, which comes so in a shift in the direction of the container interior of the locking levers such that the be pivoted in the sense of a radial retraction of their protruding into the discharge opening ends and be, wherein the opposite ends of the container interior of the locking lever are pivoted radially inwardly into a projecting into the clear cross section of the discharge opening position.
Bei einem weiteren bevorzugten Ausführungsbeispiel der Erfindung ist die Ausgestaltung so getroffen, dass lichte Querschnitt der Abgabeöffnung in der Ausschütthilfe wenigstens gleich bzw. geringfügig größer als der Durchmesser der im Behälter abgefüllten Tabletten, Dragees oder dergleichen bemessen ist, dass der den mit dem die Schutzwirkung entfaltenden Material gefüllten Aufnahmeraum bildende Bereich der Spenderanordnung zwischen zwei Endpositionen federnd verschwenkbar in einer Durchgangsöffnung in der die äußere stopfenförmige Wandung der Ausschütthilfe bildenden rampenartig schräg geneigt verlaufenden Wandung angeordnet ist und dass von der Außenseite der Wandung des Aufnahmeraums ein Vorsprung in die Abgabeöffnung vortritt, welcher deren Durchtrittsquerschnitt derart verengt, dass die Einzelbestandteile des Füllguts vom Vorsprung in dessen unverschwenkter Position gegen Durchtritt zurückgehalten werden, während der Vorsprung in der demgegenüber elastisch federnd verschwenkten zweiten Position des Aufnahmeraums aus dem lichten Querschnitt der Abgabeöffnung zurückgezogen ist, so dass ein behälterinnenseitig vor dem in der unverschwenkten Position des Aufnahmeraums gehaltener Einzelbestandteil durch die Abgabeöffnung hindurchtreten kann.In a further preferred embodiment of the invention, the design is such that light cross-section of the discharge opening in the dispensing aid is at least equal to or slightly larger than the diameter of the tablets, dragees or the like filled in the container, that of the unfolding with the protective effect Material filled receiving space forming area of the dispenser assembly between two end positions resiliently pivotable in a through hole in which the outer plug-shaped wall of the Ausschütthilfe forming ramp-like inclined extending wall is arranged and that from the outside of the wall of the receiving space, a projection into the discharge opening, which its passage cross-section so narrowed that the individual components of the contents are retained by the projection in its unverschwenkter position against passage, while the projection in the other hand elastically fede Rnd pivoted second position of the receiving space is withdrawn from the clear cross-section of the discharge opening, so that a container inside before in the Unschwenkten position of the receiving space held single component can pass through the discharge opening.
Der Aufnahmeraum hat dann zweckmäßig die Form eines etwa mittig innerhalb der schräg geneigten Wandung vorgesehenen Durchgangsöffnung angeordneten langgestreckten Behälters aus dampf-, gas- und flüssigkeitsundurchlässigem Material hat, dessen Umfangswandung im Bereich ihres aus dem Behälterinneren herausweisenden Endes eine geschlossene Bodenfläche aufweist, während ihre gegenüberliegende ins Behälterinnere weisende Stirnseite nach Einbringung durch eine das Schutzwirkung entfaltenden Materials im Behälterinnem einschließende dampf-, gas-, oder flüssigkeitsdurchlässige Wandung verschlossen ist.The receiving space has then expedient the shape of an approximately centrally disposed within the obliquely inclined wall passage opening arranged elongated container of vapor, gas and liquid-impermeable material whose peripheral wall has in the region of their end pointing out of the container inside a closed bottom surface, while their opposite ins Container interior facing end side is closed after introduction by a protective effect unfolding material in Behälterinnem enclosing steam, gas, or liquid-permeable wall.
Der als langgestreckter Behälter ausgebildete Aufnahmeraum weist dann bevorzugt eine zylindrische Umfangswandung auf, welche über wenigstens einen elastisch verformbaren Verbindungsabschnitt verschwenkbar mit dem Rand der Durchgangsöffnung in der schräg geneigten Wandung der Ausschütthilfe verbunden ist.The receiving space formed as an elongated container then preferably has a cylindrical circumferential wall, which is connected via at least one elastically deformable connecting portion pivotally connected to the edge of the passage opening in the inclined wall of the Ausschütthilfe.
Die Ausschütthilfe ist mit Vorteil zumindest teilweise aus thermoplastischem Kunststoff hergestellt, wobei sie dann bei dem zuletzt herausgestellten Ausführungsbeispiel einschließlich des den Aufnahmeraum für das die Schutzwirkung entfaltende Material bildenden Behälters insgesamt als integraler Spritzgussteil ausgebildet werden kann.The dispensing aid is advantageously at least partially made of thermoplastic material, wherein it can then be formed in the last-exposed embodiment including the receiving space for the protective effect-unfolding material forming container as a whole integral injection molded part.
Die Erfindung ist in der folgenden Beschreibung in Verbindung mit der Zeichnung von vier Ausführungsbeispielen näher erläutert, und zwar zeigt bzw. zeigen:
- Fig. 1
- eine Seitenansicht eines ersten Ausführungsbeispiels einer erfindungsgemäßen Ausschütthilfe;
- Fig. 2
- eine Schnittansicht, gesehen in Richtung der Pfeile 2-2 in
Figur 1 ; - Fig. 3
- eine perspektivische Ansicht der in den
Figuren 1 und 2 gezeigten Ausschütthilfe, in welcher die sich trichterartig zur Abgabeöffnung verjüngende behälterinnere Stirnseite erkennbar ist; - Fig. 4
- eine Draufsicht auf die der Behälterinnenseite abgewandte Außenseite eines zweiten Ausführungsbeispiels einer erfindungsgemäßen Ausschütthilfe;
- Fig. 5
- eine Schnittansicht entlang der Pfeile 5-5 in
Figur 4 ; - Fig. 6 und 7
- perspektivische Ansichten der in den
Figuren 4 und 5 gezeigten Ausschütthilfe, in welchen die dem Behälterinnern zugewandte Innenseite bzw. die dem Behälterinnern abgewandte äußere Seite der Ausschütthilfe erkennbar ist; - Fig.8
- eine Schnittansicht durch ein drittes Ausführungsbeispiel einer in die Mündung einer als Schraubflasche ausgebildeten Behälter eingesetzten Ausschütthilfe mit einem Vereinzelungsmechanismus für im Behälter abgefüllte Tabletten;
- Fig. 9
- eine Einzelheit des Vereinzelungsmechanismus in perspektivischer Darstellung.
- Fig. 10
- eine Seitenansicht eines Behälters mit einem in dessen Mündung eingesetzten vierten Ausführungsbeispiel einer erfindungsgemäßen Ausschütthilfe;
- Fig. 11
- eine Draufsicht gesehen in Richtung des Pfeils 11 in
;Figur 10 - Fig. 12
- eine Schnittansicht mit der durch die Pfeile 12-12 in
veranschaulichten Schnittführung;Figur 11 - Fig. 13
- eine in der Blickrichtung der
entsprechende Draufsicht auf das vierte Ausführungsbeispiel der erfindungsgemäßen Ausschütthilfe in gegenüberFigur 11 vergrößertem Maßstab;Figur 11 - Fig. 14
- eine Schnittansicht gesehen in Richtung der Pfeile 14-14 in
Figur 13 ; - Fig. 15
- eine perspektivische Darstellung der in den
Figuren 13 und 14 gezeigten Ausschütthilfe mit Blickrichtung auf deren in der bestimmungsgemäßen Einsetzstellung in der Mündung eines zugehörigen Behälters äußere Stirnseite; und - Fig. 16
- eine perspektivische Darstellung der in
Figuren 15 gezeigten Ausschütthilfe mit Blickrichtung auf deren in der bestimmungsgemäßen Einsetzstellung in der Mündung eines zugehörigen Behälters behälterinnere Stirnseite.
- Fig. 1
- a side view of a first embodiment of a dispensing aid according to the invention;
- Fig. 2
- a sectional view, as seen in the direction of arrows 2-2 in
FIG. 1 ; - Fig. 3
- a perspective view of the in the
Figures 1 and 2 shown Ausschütthilfe, in which the funnel-like tapering container inner end face recognizable to the discharge opening; - Fig. 4
- a plan view of the inside of the container facing away from the outside of a second embodiment of a dispensing aid according to the invention;
- Fig. 5
- a sectional view taken along the arrows 5-5 in
FIG. 4 ; - 6 and 7
- perspective views of the in
FIGS. 4 and 5 shown Ausschütthilfe, in which the interior of the container facing inside or the container interior remote from the outer side of the dispensing aid is visible; - Figure 8
- a sectional view through a third embodiment of a dispensing aid used in the mouth of a container designed as a screw bottle with a separating mechanism for tablets filled in the container;
- Fig. 9
- a detail of the separating mechanism in perspective view.
- Fig. 10
- a side view of a container with a fourth embodiment inserted in the mouth of a dispensing aid according to the invention;
- Fig. 11
- a top view as seen in the direction of
arrow 11 in FIGFIG. 10 ; - Fig. 12
- a sectional view with the by the arrows 12-12 in
FIG. 11 illustrated sectioning; - Fig. 13
- one in the line of sight of the
FIG. 11 corresponding plan view of the fourth embodiment of the dispensing aid according to the invention in oppositeFIG. 11 enlarged scale; - Fig. 14
- a sectional view seen in the direction of arrows 14-14 in
FIG. 13 ; - Fig. 15
- a perspective view of the in the
FIGS. 13 and 14 shown Ausschütthilfe shown with a view of their in the intended insertion position in the mouth of an associated container outer end face; and - Fig. 16
- a perspective view of in
FIGS. 15 shown Ausschütthilfe with a view towards their in the intended insertion position in the mouth of an associated container container inside front page.
In den
Die Ausschütthilfe 10 hat hier die Form eines über den größten Teil seiner Höhenerstreckung zylindrisch geformten Stopfens 16, an dessen in den Zeichnungsfiguren oberem, in der bestimmungsgemäßen Einsetzstellung in einem Behälter dem Behälterinnem abgewandten Rand ein radial etwas vortretender Ringvorsprung 18 vorgesehen ist, welcher beim Einsetzen des zylindrischen Stopfenteils 16 in den Behälter als Anschlag für die vorgesehene Einsetztiefe dient.The dispensing
In der Schnittdarstellung von
Im Bereich der Abgabeseite ist im Stopfen 16 eine ringförmige Ausnehmung 24 eingeformt, in welche ein komplementärer Ringkörper 26 aus einem Compound-Material eingesetzt ist, welches aus einer porösen Kunststoffmatrix bestehen möge, in welcher Partikel aus einem z.B. für Wasserdampf oder bestimmte gasförmige Bestandteile der Umgebungsatmosphäre adsorptiv wirkenden Material eingelagert sind. Es ist ersichtlich, dass die behälteräußere Stirnfläche des Ringkörpers 26 aus dem Compound-Material und auch noch ein kurzer äußerer Teilabschnitt der Abgabeöffnung 22 über die Abgabeöffnung 22 mit dem Behälterinnem in Verbindung stehen. Die beim Befüllen des Behälters mit ins Behälterinnere eingebrachten Umgebungsatmosphäre oder - bei Befüllung mit einem Schutzgas - dieses Schutzgas sind also bei geschlossenem Behälter ständig der adsorptiven Wirkung des Ringkörpers ausgesetzt. Eine chemische Einwirkung von bei der Behälterfüllung mit eingebrachtem Wasserdampf oder auch einem gasförmigen Bestandteil kann also während der Lagerzeit des Behälters nicht erfolgen, weil diese schädlichen Bestandteile adsorptiv im Ringkörper gebunden werden.In the region of the delivery side, an
Beim Öffnen des Behälters zum Zweck der Entnahme des Füllguts wird dann jeweils eine dem entnommenen Volumen des Füllguts entsprechende Menge von Umgebungsatmosphäre in den Behälter eingebracht. In dieser eingedrungene Umgebungsluft enthaltener Wasserdampf oder andere gasförmige schädliche Bestandteile werden dann aber nach dem Verschließen des Behälters wieder vom Ringkörper 26 adsorbiert, so dass eine Reaktion mit dem im Behälter zurückbleibenden Füllgut verhindert wird.When the container is opened for the purpose of removing the filling material, a quantity of ambient atmosphere corresponding to the removed volume of the filling material is then introduced into the container in each case. However, water vapor or other gaseous harmful components contained in this penetrated ambient air will then become available after the container has been closed adsorbed again by the
Um einen hinreichend festen Sitz des Stopfens 16 in der Mündung eines zugehörigen Behälters zu gewährleisten, ist der Stopfen zweckmäßig mit geringem Übermaß seiner äußeren Zylinderfläche gegenüber dem lichten Querschnitt der Mündung des jeweiligen Behälters bemessen und aus elastomerem Kunststoff hergestellt, so dass er in der bestimmungsgemäßen Einsetzstellung mit Vorspannung in der Behältermündung gehalten ist.In order to ensure a sufficiently tight fit of the
In den
Das die chemische und/oder physikalische Schutzwirkung gegen die für das Füllgut potentiell schädigend wirkenden Stoffe in der Ausschütthilfe entfaltende Material ist hier in einem mittig in der Ausschütthilfe integral ausgebildeten zylindrischen Aufnahmeraum 28 in Form einer Füllung von hygroskopischen Partikeln, wie Silikagel oder Zeolith-Teilchen enthalten, wobei die zum Behälterinnern weisende offene Stirnseite des im Übrigen geschlossenen Aufnahmeraums 28 durch eine poröse und für die das Füllgut gefährdenden Schadstoff durchlässige Scheibe 34 - beispielsweise aus porösem oder perforiertem Pappmaterial - abgeschlossen ist.The material which unfolds the chemical and / or physical protective action against the substance potentially damaging to the contents in the dispensing aid is contained here in a
Es ist ersichtlich, dass die Größe des Füllvolumens des Aufnahmeraums für das Schutzwirkung entfaltende Material - in Abhängigkeit von der geforderten Adsorptionskapazität - durch Veränderungen der Größenabmessungen des Aufnahmeraums an unterschiedliche Behältergrößen anpassbar ist. Die nach außen weisende Stirnseite des Aufnahmeraums liegt beim dargestellten Ausführungsbeispiel bündig mit dem oberen Rand der Ausschütthilfe. Grundsätzlich kann dieser Aufnahmeraum aber auch durch entsprechende Verlängerung seiner Umfangswandung derart, dass die Stirnfläche 32 oberhalb der Stirnkante des Stopfenteils 16 liegt, vergrößert werden.It can be seen that the size of the filling volume of the receiving space for the protective effect unfolding material - depending on the required adsorption capacity - is adaptable to different container sizes by changing the size dimensions of the receiving space. The outwardly facing end face of the receiving space is in the illustrated embodiment flush with the upper edge of the Ausschütthilfe. Basically, this receiving space but also by appropriate extension of its peripheral wall such that the
Die vorstehend beschriebene mittige zentrale Anordnung des Aufnahmeraums für das die Schutzwirkung entfaltende Material hat den Vorteil, dass die Befüllung der Ausschütthilfe mit dem Schutzwirkung entfaltenden Material auf den für die Befüllung von so genannten Trockenmittel-Verschlussstopfen entwickelten Füll- und Verschlussstationen durchgeführt werden kann. Abweichend vom Ausführungsbeispiel gemäß den
Das in
Das Schutzwirkung entfaltende Material liegt hier wieder - entsprechend dem Ausführungsbeispiel gemäß den
Im vorliegenden Fall ist das Gehäuse 42 jedoch um einen begrenzten Weg in Richtung der Längsmittelachse des Behälters verschieblich im Stopfen 16 gehalten. In
Durch das von der offenen Mündung des Halses 14 her möglichen Einschieben des Gehäuses 42 kann der oben erwähnte Vereinzelungsmechanismus für im Behälter abgefüllte Tabletten 52 derart betätigt werden, dass bei jedem Eindrücken jeweils eine Einzeltablette durch die Ausschütthilfe abgegeben wird.By inserting the
Der Vereinzelungsmechanismus 40 weist im dargestellten Fall insgesamt vier in gleichmäßigen Winkelabständen in Umfangsrichtung im Übergangsbereich der Stirnwand 20 zur Abgabeöffnung 22 vorgesehenen schlitzartigen Aussparungen 46 um jeweils in einer rechtwinklig zur Längsmittelachse und tangential zur Umfangswandung der Ausgabeöffnung 22 verlaufende Achsen verschwenkbar gelagerte doppelarmige Verriegelungshebel 48 auf, die unter federnder Vorspannung in die in
Es ist ersichtlich, dass auch in diesem Fall die adsorptive Wirkung des im ringförmigen Gehäuse enthaltenen Materials durch die poröse ringförmige Scheibe 44 auf den Innenraum der Flasche 12 einwirken kann.It can be seen that in this case too, the adsorptive effect of the material contained in the annular housing through the porous
In den
Der wesentliche Unterschied des vierten Ausführungsbeispiels zum Ausführungsbeispiel gemäß den
Es ist ersichtlich, dass im Rahmen der Erfindung Abwandlungen und Weiterbildungen der vorstehend in Verbindung mit Spenderanordnungen für mit Tabletten oder Dragees gefüllte Behälter beschriebenen Ausführungsbeispiele verwirklichbar sind. Solche Weiterbildungen können sich beispielsweise auf die Anpassung der Ausschütthilfe in Bezug auf die Dosierung beziehen, wenn das Füllgut nicht aus formstabilen festen Körpern besteht, sondern beispielsweise als Granulat oder pulverförmig vorliegt. Der Vereinzelungsmechanismus des zuletzt beschriebenen Ausführungsbeispiels ist dann durch ein in die Ausschütthilfe zu integrierende Portionierungseinrichtung für die in Frage stehenden Füllstoffe zu ersetzen. Solche Portionierungseinrichtungen sind an sich bekannt.It can be seen that modifications and developments of the embodiments described above in connection with dispensing arrangements for containers filled with tablets or dragees can be realized within the scope of the invention. Such developments may relate, for example, to the adaptation of the dispensing aid in relation to the dosage, if the filling material does not consist of dimensionally stable solid bodies, but is present, for example, as granules or in powder form. The separating mechanism of the embodiment described last is then by a in the dispensing aid to be integrated portioning device for the question Replace fillers. Such portioning devices are known per se.
Claims (24)
- Dispensing device for containers (12) intended for receiving, storing, and delivery of filling material, sensitive to vapour, gas, or powdery components of the surrounding atmosphere, whose filling and delivery opening is sealingly closable against the entry of the surrounding atmosphere,
characterised in that,
the dispensing device has a pouring aid (10), which can be sealingly inserted into the filling and delivery opening of the respective container (12), with a delivery opening (22), whose flow cross-section is reduced in comparison to the flow cross-section of the filling and delivery opening of the container (12), and that the pouring aid (10) has a receiving region connected with the interior of the container, when the container is sealed, said receiving area being for a material developing a chemically and/or physically protective effect against substances of the ambient atmosphere with a potentially damaging effect on the filling material. - Dispensing device according to Claim 1, characterised in that the pouring aid (10) has a shape on the interior of the container that in the intended delivery position leads the filling material inevitably to the delivery opening.
- Dispensing device according to Claim 2, characterised in that the pouring aid (10) has a shape that tapers in the manner of a funnel to the delivery opening (FIGS 1 to 3).
- Dispensing device according to Claim 2, characterised in that the pouring aid (10) has an obliquely inclined shape in the manner of a ramp (FIG 4).
- Dispensing device according to one of Claims 1 to 4, characterised in that the receiving region of the pouring aid (10) is formed by a receiving space (24) filled with a material developing the protective effect, where said receiving space is connected with the interior of the container via an area that is permeable for components of the surrounding atmosphere that are potentially damaging for the filling material, and is impermeable for the filling method in the container and the material developing the protective effect.
- Dispensing device according to one of Claims 1 to 4, characterised in that the receiving region of the pouring aid (10) is formed in each case by at least one enclosure (42) that is separately produced is filled with the material developing the protective effect, and is sealed by a wall section (44) permeable for the potentially damaging components, and is held at or in the pouring aid (10).
- Dispensing device according to one of Claims 1 to 4, characterised in that the receiving region of the pouring aid (10) is formed by a fixed body (26) containing, in bound form, the material developing the protective effect
- Dispensing device according to one of Claims 1 to 4, characterised in that the receiving region is formed by a region (28) of the pouring aid (10) itself connected to the interior of the container and containing in bound form the material developing the protective effect
- Dispensing device according to Claim 8, characterised in that the pouring aid (10) is formed overall from a material containing in bound form the material developing the protective effect
- Dispensing device according to Claim 9, characterised in that the pouring aid (10) is formed from a thermoplastic compound material containing in bound form the material developing the protective effect.
- Dispensing device according to one of Claims 1 to 10, characterised in that the delivery opening (22) is formed as a metering opening for the filling material to be delivered.
- Dispensing device according to Claim 11, characterised in that the delivery opening is provided with a portioning mechanism for the filling material.
- Dispensing device according to Claim 11, for a filling material composed of a predetermined quantity of similarly shaped solid individual components, such as tablets (52), sugar-coated tablets, and the like, characterised in that the delivery opening (22) is provided with a manually activated separating mechanism (40) for the pellet-like filling material.
- Dispensing device according to one of Claims 1 to 13, characterised in that the material developing the protective effect has hygroscopic, that is, water vapour adsorbing, properties.
- Dispensing device according to Claim 14, characterised in that the material developing the protective effect is constituted by pourable hygroscopic particles.
- Dispensing device according to Claim 15, characterised in that the material developing the protective effect is constituted by particles containing silica gel, zeolite, or similar.
- Dispensing device according to one of Claims 1 to 13, characterised in that the material developing the protective effect has adsorptive properties for gaseous and / or liquid molecular components of the ambient atmosphere.
- Dispensing device according to Claim 17, characterised in that the material developing the protective effect contains, at least in part, activated carbon.
- Dispensing device according to Claims 3, 6 or 7, and Claim 13, characterised in that the clear area of the delivery opening (22) in the pouring aid (10) is dimensioned to be at least equal to or marginally greater than the diameter of the tablets (52), sugar-coated tablets, or the like filled into the container, that in the area of the delivery opening (22) several double-armed locking levers (48), offset from each other in their circumferential direction, are mounted pivotally about respective axes extending at right angles to the longitudinal central axis and tangentially to the circumference of the delivery opening (22), and are biased under an elastic biasing force into an end position, in which their ends, facing away from the interior of the container, project from the container interior-opening of the delivery opening (22), offset to the exterior, into the clear interior of the delivery opening (22), and that the enclosure containing the material developing the protective effect, or the bodies containing in bound form the material developing the protective effect, is formed as an annular body (42) that surrounds the delivery opening (22), and is supported in the delivery opening (10) movably in the direction of the interior of the container, and is accessible from the exterior of the container, where said ring body when displaced in the direction of the interior of the container, engages the locking levers (48) in such a way that they are pivoted in the sense of a radial retraction of their ends projecting into the delivery opening (22), whereby the opposite ends of the locking levers (48), offset into the interior of the container, are pivoted radially inwards into a position projecting into the clear cross section of delivery opening (22).
- Dispensing device according to Claims 4, 5, and Claim 13, characterised in that the clear cross section of the delivery opening (22) in the pouring aid (10) is dimensioned to be at least equal to or marginally greater than the diameter of the tablets (52), sugar-coated tablets, or the like filled into the container, that the region of the dispensing device constituting the receiving space, filled with material developing the protecting effect, is arranged to be resiliently pivotable between two end positions in a through opening (29) in the wall (20) that is obliquely inclined in the manner of a ramp and constitutes the outer plug-shaped wall of the delivery aid (12), and that a projection (23) projects from the exterior of the wall of the receiving space (28) into the delivery opening (22) narrowing its flow cross-section such that the individual components of the filling material are held back from passing through by the projection (23) in its unpivoted position, whereas the projection (23), by contrast, in the elastically resilient pivoted second position of the receiving space (28) is retracted from the clear area of the delivery opening (22), such that an individual component, that is held in the interior of the container in front of the in the unpivoted position of the receiving space, can pass through the delivery opening (22).
- Dispensing device according to Claim 20, characterised in that receiving space (28) has the shape of an elongate container of material that is impermeable to vapour, gas, and fluid, and that is arranged approximately centrally within the obliquely inclined wall (20) of the provided through opening (29), and whose circumferential wall has a closed floor area (32) in the vicinity of its end facing out of the interior of the container, whilst its opposite end face directed towards the interior of the container, after filling, is closed by a wall (34), which encloses the material developing the protective effect in the interior of the container and is permeable for vapour, gas, and fluid.
- Dispensing device according to Claim 21, characterised in that the receiving space (28) formed as an elongate container has a cylindrical peripheral wall, which is pivotably connected by means of at least one elastically deformable connecting section (31) with the edge of the through opening (29) in the obliquely inclined wall (20) of the pouring aid (10).
- Dispensing device according to one of Claims 1 to 22, characterised in that the pouring aid (10) is produced at least in part from thermoplastic plastic material.
- Dispensing device according to one of Claims 20 to 22, and Claim 23, characterised in that the pouring aid (10), including the container constituting the receiving space (28) for the material developing the protective effect, is constructed in the form of a one-piece injection moulding.
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