EP2331418A1 - Cap with a cut weakening line and method for making said cap - Google Patents
Cap with a cut weakening line and method for making said capInfo
- Publication number
- EP2331418A1 EP2331418A1 EP09755992A EP09755992A EP2331418A1 EP 2331418 A1 EP2331418 A1 EP 2331418A1 EP 09755992 A EP09755992 A EP 09755992A EP 09755992 A EP09755992 A EP 09755992A EP 2331418 A1 EP2331418 A1 EP 2331418A1
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- Prior art keywords
- skirt
- axis
- line
- removable
- neck
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Classifications
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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
- B65D55/00—Accessories for container closures not otherwise provided for
- B65D55/16—Devices preventing loss of removable closure members
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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
- B65D41/00—Caps, e.g. crown caps or crown seals, i.e. members having parts arranged for engagement with the external periphery of a neck or wall defining a pouring opening or discharge aperture; Protective cap-like covers for closure members, e.g. decorative covers of metal foil or paper
- B65D41/32—Caps or cap-like covers with lines of weakness, tearing-strips, tags, or like opening or removal devices, e.g. to facilitate formation of pouring openings
- B65D41/34—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers provided with tamper elements formed in, or attached to, the closure skirt
- B65D41/3442—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers provided with tamper elements formed in, or attached to, the closure skirt with rigid bead or projections formed on the tamper element and coacting with bead or projections on the container
- B65D41/3447—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers provided with tamper elements formed in, or attached to, the closure skirt with rigid bead or projections formed on the tamper element and coacting with bead or projections on the container the tamper element being integrally connected to the closure by means of bridges
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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
- B65D41/00—Caps, e.g. crown caps or crown seals, i.e. members having parts arranged for engagement with the external periphery of a neck or wall defining a pouring opening or discharge aperture; Protective cap-like covers for closure members, e.g. decorative covers of metal foil or paper
- B65D41/32—Caps or cap-like covers with lines of weakness, tearing-strips, tags, or like opening or removal devices, e.g. to facilitate formation of pouring openings
- B65D41/46—Snap-on caps or cap-like covers
- B65D41/48—Snap-on caps or cap-like covers non-metallic, e.g. made of paper or plastics
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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
- B65D2401/00—Tamper-indicating means
- B65D2401/15—Tearable part of the closure
- B65D2401/30—Tamper-ring remaining connected to closure after initial removal
Definitions
- the present invention relates to a cap for a container neck, and a method of manufacturing such a cap.
- the invention relates, in general, to plugs comprising a skirt which surrounds the neck of a container and a lower part of which, when it is considered that this neck extends vertically with its upwardly directed mouth, is intended to to remain around the neck after the first opening of the cap and is in particular in the form of a tamper-evident band.
- the remainder of the skirt that is to say its upper part, is provided removable relative to the neck, while being initially connected to the lower non-removable portion of the skirt by frangible bridges, distributed along the periphery of the skirt and able to be broken at the first opening of the cap.
- frangible bridges distributed along the periphery of the skirt and able to be broken at the first opening of the cap.
- the weakening line formed by these bridges serves as a witness of this first opening, for the attention of users.
- the nature of the removable connection between the upper skirt portion and the container neck is indifferent, so that the invention also aims, for example, the so-called “snap" caps, it that is to say the plugs able to be clipped around the neck, that the caps screwed.
- the invention is more particularly concerned with plugs whose line of weakness is cut off, that is to say which comprises a succession of through-cuts, cut through the wall of the skirt and along its periphery, of to define, between two successive notches, one of the aforementioned frangible bridges.
- Achieving the line of weakening by cutting rather than molding is preferred because it is more economical and more practical since it does not require the use of complex molds, provided for example with drawers.
- a weakening line obtained by cutting is traditionally provided to extend over the entire periphery of the skirt and in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the skirt, which limits the possibilities of arrangements of the caps, to the difference of the plugs whose line of weakening is obtained by molding, such molded lines can include including a portion of non-breakable material which connects permanently removable skirt portion to the non-removable skirt portion, even when the closure is open, as proposed in US-A-5 215 204.
- the object of the present invention is to improve in a simple and economical manner the manufacture of cut-off line caps, to have a plug whose removable skirt portion remains connected to the non-removable skirt portion after the first opening of the cap.
- the invention relates to a cap for a container neck, as defined in claim 1.
- the idea underlying the invention is to seek to improve existing methods and means for cutting in a plug a traditional line of weakness to, firstly, achieve this line of weakness on a portion only of the skirt so as to leave a non-breakable connection portion between the removable and non-removable skirt portions and, on the other hand, cut a second weakening line which extends over less than half of the periphery of the skirt.
- the notches of these first and second lines of weakness are distinguished from molded embodiments because they have, before the first opening of the stopper, contiguous edges which, in particular, thus prevent dust and dirt from reaching the inside. of the skirt via these weakening lines.
- the cutting of the second weakening line is quick and easy to achieve insofar as this weakening line extends into the removable skirt portion which, traditionally, has an axial dimension greater than the non-removable skirt portion , the latter being reduced most of the time to a thin strip of inviolability, for which the presence of the permanent restraint means around the neck limits the possibilities of development by cutting.
- the bridges of the first line of weakness break, while the connecting portion remains without being able to be driven upwards by the removable skirt portion. Because of the retention of the non-removable skirt portion around the container neck.
- the upward movement of the removable skirt part causes deformation of the strand interposed between the first and second lines of weakening, more precisely the deformation of the lateral portions of this strand arranged on either side of the connecting portion, by relative spacing of the edges of the or notches of the second weakening line.
- the plug according to the invention is as efficient as the plugs with weakening lines molded in the sense that the removable skirt portion remains connected to the non-removable skirt portion after the first opening of the plug, via of the aforementioned connecting portion, with the significant advantages that the molds for manufacturing the plugs according to the invention are less complex and less fragile, while including more molding cavities, than molds for manufacturing molded plug caps.
- the invention also relates to a method of manufacturing a plug for a container neck, as defined in claim 10.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a plug according to the invention, illustrating the plug placed around a container neck and in an open configuration;
- FIG. 2 is a longitudinal section of the cap before its first opening, the left and right halves of this figure illustrating the cap respectively before and after its introduction around the container neck;
- FIGS. 3 and 4 are sections respectively along the III-III and IV-IV planes of Figure 2, illustrating the cap before its introduction around the container neck;
- FIG. 5 is an elevational view of the plug placed around the container neck and being opened for the first time, the viewing direction of this figure corresponding to the arrow V shown in Figure 3;
- FIG. 6 and 7 are views respectively similar to Figures 3 and 4, illustrating a first embodiment of the plug according to the invention.
- FIGS. 8 and 9 are views respectively similar to Figures 3 and 4, illustrating a second embodiment of the plug according to the invention.
- FIGs 1 to 5 a plug 1 adapted to be removably attached to a neck 2 of a container.
- the plug 1 considered here by way of illustration is a plug fixed on the neck by screwing.
- the neck 2 is integral with the rest of the container, especially when the latter is a glass or plastic bottle as shown in Figure 1, or adapted to be permanently attached to a wall of the container, at an opening through this wall.
- the plug 1 and the neck 2 have respective generally tubular shapes, whose central longitudinal axes are substantially coincident, under the reference XX, when the cap is screwed onto the neck.
- the following description is oriented by considering that the terms “upper” and “top” correspond to a direction generally parallel to the axis XX and from the body of the container to its neck 2, that is to say say a direction directed towards the party Figures 1, 2 and 5, while the terms "lower” and “lower” correspond to an opposite direction.
- the neck 2 comprises a generally cylindrical body 4 with a circular base of axis X-X. At its upper end, this body 4 defines a rim 3 at which the liquid in the container is intended to be poured. As shown in the right part of FIG. 4, on the outside face of the body 4, the neck 2 comprises, successively from its rim 3, a thread 5 and a boss 6, both of which extend radially outwardly from the body.
- the plug 1, considered screwed on the neck 2 is open at its lower end and closed at its upper end by a bottom wall 10, at the outer periphery of which extends axially downwardly a tubular skirt 12 centered on the XX axis and circular base.
- the cap here advantageously comprises a lip 14 which extends axially downwards from the bottom wall 10, centrally on the axis XX, inside the outer skirt 12.
- the skirt 12 is provided with an internal thread 16 which extends radially inwardly of the main wall of the skirt, in a manner complementary to the thread 5 of the neck 2.
- the cooperation of the threads 5 and 16 makes it possible to screw and unscrew the skirt 12 around the collar.
- the outer face of this skirt is provided with elongate ribs 18 which extend parallel to the axis XX. These ribs 18 allow the user to more easily grip the stopper 1.
- the skirt 12 is adapted to separate into two distinct parts, namely an upper portion 12i, integral with the bottom wall 10, and a lower portion 12 2 initially connected to the upper portion 12i at a weakening peripheral line 20 located axially in the current portion of the skirt.
- the skirt portion ⁇ 2 ⁇ is intended to be completely disengaged from the neck 2, so that this portion 12i internally carries the screw thread 16 and externally the ribs 18.
- the skirt portion 12 2 is, in turn, intended to remain around the neck 2.
- this portion 12 2 is provided internally with pallets 22 which extend radially inwardly projecting from the inner surface of the skirt 12 and which are located generally in the same plane perpendicular to the axis XX, being distributed over the entire periphery of the skirt.
- pallets 22 which extend radially inwardly projecting from the inner surface of the skirt 12 and which are located generally in the same plane perpendicular to the axis XX, being distributed over the entire periphery of the skirt.
- the weakened line 20 is generally placed in a plane perpendicular to the axis XX and has peripheral notches, here seven in number and respectively referenced 24 ⁇ to 24 7, which each pass radially right through the wall of the skirt 12. These notches 24 ⁇ 24 7 shall succeed along the line 20, ie, along the periphery of the skirt. Each pair of two notches immediately successive delimits, between the two notches of the pair, a frangible bridge that connects, in the direction of the axis XX, the skirt portions 12i and 12 2 .
- the six bridges present here, successively referenced 26 1 to 26 6 are distributed substantially uniformly over the total length of the weakening line 20.
- the weakening line 20 does not extend over the entire periphery of the skirt 12 but, on the contrary, is interrupted by a portion 28 of the skirt connecting the skirt portions 2 ⁇ and 12 2 .
- This portion of skirt 28 is generally inscribed in the same plane perpendicular to the axis XX, in which is inscribed the line of weakness 20, separating, along the periphery of the skirt, the two notches 24i and 24 7 respectively located at two ends 20A and 20B of the weakening line 20.
- the skirt portion 28 is located on the side of the plug 1 considered to be the rear side of this plug, in the measure where this side is intended in service to be directed away from the user.
- the skirt portion 28 extends around the axis XX on an angle ⁇ 28 which, in the embodiment considered in FIGS. 1 to 5, is approximately 50 ° but which, in practice, has a value between 5 and 90 ° preferably between 40 and 70 °.
- the skirt portion 28 includes, at each of its two peripheral ends 28A and 28B, a non-frangible bridge 30i, 3O 2 formed integrally with the skirt portions 12i and 12 2. Next to the periphery of the skirt, the bridges and 3Oi 3O 2 are separated by a slot 32 radially through from one side to the wall of the skirt 12.
- ju p 1 2 comprises a second peripheral weakening element 34, distinct from the weakening line 20.
- this weakening line 34 is inscribed in a plane perpendicular to the axis XX, being delimited in the removable skirt portion 12i, so that, as shown in Figure 2, a non-breakable strand 36, consisting of a peripheral fragment of the wall of the skirt 12 and belonging to the removable skirt portion 12 1; is interposed in the direction of the axis XX between the weakening lines 20 and 34.
- the weakening line 34 is constituted, over its entire length, by a single peripheral notch 38 which passes radially right through the wall of the skirt portion 12i. .
- the weakening line 34 extends, around the axis XX, on an angle ⁇ 34 which, in the embodiment of FIGS. 1 to 5, is approximately 135 ° but which, in practice, has a value strictly less than 180 ° preferably chosen between 60 ° and 175 °, preferably between 90 ° and 170 °.
- the angular positioning, around the axis XX, of the weakening line 34 is provided so that its two peripheral ends 34A and 34B are located, along the periphery of the skirt 12, on either side of the the portion of the skirt 28, without going beyond the frangible bridges respectively closest to the ends 28A and 28B of this portion 28 along the line of weakness 20, namely the bridges 26 1 and 26 6 .
- the ends 34A and 34B of the weakening line 34 are located vertically vertically or at a peripheral point of the notches 24 1 and 24 7. either bridges 26i and 26e, as is also the case for the embodiment considered here.
- strand 36 includes a running portion
- the skirt portion 28 and the weakening line 34 are centered on one another. other in the sense that the bisector of the angle ⁇ 28 occupies the same angular position, around the axis XX, as the bisector of the angle ⁇ 34 .
- the skirt portion 12 2 is retained, in the direction of the axis XX, around this neck by the boss 6 while the skirt portion ⁇ 2 ⁇ is spaced from the skirt portion 12 2 upwards.
- the weakening lines 20 and 34 are solicited jointly. More specifically, the skirt portion 28 immobilizes, with respect to the skirt portion 12 2 , the central portion 36i of the strand 36, while the lateral portions
- the user can then switch the skirt portion 12i backward, using the skirt portion 28 as a tilting hinge about an axis ZZ substantially orthoradial to the axis X and passing through the bridges and 3Oi 3O 2 as shown in Figure 1.
- the articulation of the skirt portion 28 in the manner of a hinge is facilitated by the presence of the notch 32 in the sense that the latter limits the constraints necessary to twist the bridges 3Oi and 3O 2 around ZZ axis.
- the skirt 12 is at the same time closed by the bottom wall 10 and provided with the lip 14, the threading 16, the ribs 18 and the pallets 22.
- This skirt is obtained in particular by molding a plastic material.
- both the weakening line 20 and the portion 28 are produced in the direction in which the first blade passes right through the wall. of the skirt 12 to cut the notches 2A ⁇ to 24 7 , as well as the notch 32.
- the weakening line 34 is made, by passing through this blade the wall of the skirt portion 12i so as to cut the notch 38.
- the cutting action by the first blade and the cutting action by the second blade are indexed both along the axis XX and angularly around this axis so as to obtain the appropriate relative positioning between, on the one hand, the weakening line 20 and the skirt portion 28 and, on the other hand, the weakening line 34.
- first and second blades are carried out either one after the other or, preferably, concomitantly, by driving the skirt 12 and these two relative to each other. cutting blades in rotation about the axis XX.
- FIGS. 6 and 7 show an alternative embodiment of the plug 1, referenced 100.
- the plug 100 is distinguished from the plug 1 only by its second weakening line, referenced 134.
- the other components of the plug 100 being identical to those cap 1, they carry the same alphanumeric references.
- the weakening line 134 consists of two peripheral notches 138 1 and 138 2 , which follow one another following the periphery of the skirt portion 12i, with interposition of a frangible bridge 140 connecting, in the direction of the axis XX, the strand 36 and the remainder of the skirt portion 12 ⁇ .
- This bridge 140 makes it possible to prevent, or at least to limit, the separation of the edges of the weakening line 134 during the demolding of the plug, as well as when the plug 100, after its manufacture, is assembled around the neck of container 2, in particular being force-fitted around the neck, until the pallets 22 are engaged under the boss 6.
- the bridge 140 breaks to allow the relative spacing of the edges of the line of weakness 134.
- the breaking strength of the bridge 40 is low in that the bisector ⁇ 134 of the angle ⁇ i 34 passes through this bridge 140: thus, the bridge 140 is located angularly, about the axis XX, in the zone of the weakening line 134 where apply the strongest axial stresses when the cap 100 is opened.
- FIGS. 8 and 9 show another variant of the cap 1, referenced 200. The components of the cap 200 identical to those of the cap 1 bear the same alphanumeric references.
- the plug 200 is distinguished from the plug 1 by its second weakening line 234 which comprises three peripheral notches 238i, 238 2 and 2383, which follow one another along the periphery of the skirt portion 12i, with interposition of a frangible bridge 24Oi between the notches 238i and 2382 and another frangible bridge 24 ⁇ 2 between the notches 2382 and 2383.
- the bridges 24Oi and 24 ⁇ 2 keep closed the notches 238i to 238 3 during the demolding of the plug and its assembly at
- the value of the angle ⁇ 2 34 is greater than that of the angle ⁇ 34 .
- ⁇ 2 34 is approximately 165 °.
- the stopper 200 is also de ned from the stopper 1 by the angular dimensions of its first weakening line 220 and its connecting portion 228, as can be seen by comparing FIGS. 3 and 8, but it is noted that the structure, in as such, the weakening line 220 and the skirt portion 228 is similar to that of the weakening line 20 and the skirt portion 28 of the cap 1.
- the line of weakening 220 comprises seven notches 224i to 224 7 , respectively similar to the notches 24i to 24 7 , as well as six breakable bridges 226i to 226 6 , respectively similar to the bridges 26i to 26 6 .
- the skirt portion 228 successively comprises an end bridge 230i, a peripheral notch 232 and an opposite end bridge 23O 2 respectively analogous to the bridge 30i, the notch 32 and the bridge 3O 2 .
- the angle ⁇ 226 associated with the bridges 226i and 226 7 of the line 220 has a value greater than the angle ⁇ 26 , so that this angle ⁇ 226 has a value and an angular position around the axis XX , identical to the value and the angular positioning of the angle ⁇ 2 3 4 .
- angle ⁇ 228 associated with the skirt portion 228 has a value greater than that of the angle ⁇ 28 : in the embodiment shown in Figure 8, the angle ⁇ 228 is about 60 °.
- the skirt portion 228 and the weakening line 234 are sized so that the bridge 23Oi and the bridge 24Oi are aligned in the direction of the axis XX while the bridge 23O 2 and the bridge 24O 2 are themselves also aligned in this direction.
- the bridges 24O1 and 24O 2 break from the beginning of the drive up of the skirt portion 12i due to its unscrewing because these bridges are angularly positioned around the axis XX, vertical plumb with the most rigid zones of the skirt portion 228, namely the bridges
- the number of its notches, and therefore its bridges, may be different from that considered in the figures;
- skirt portion 28 or 2208 it may be devoid of the notch 32 or 232, which is to say that then this skirt portion consists of a single non-breakable bridge, which s' extends over the entire angle ⁇ 28 or ⁇ 228 and, therefore, can be described as a "wide bridge"; as regards the weakening line 34, 134 or 234, it may comprise more than two frangible bridges, such as bridges 24O 1 and 24O 2 , in particular if it is sought to enhance the resistance of this brace. line of weakening during demolding and assembly of the stopper around the container neck;
- the removable attachment of the plug 1, 100 or 200 on the neck 2 may be provided otherwise than by screwing, in particular by clipping, the skirt portion 12i then being internally provided with a clipping band, possibly fragmented into several separate clips, capable of being engaged with a protruding outer edge, provided at the upper end of the neck; and or
- the permanent restraint of the skirt portion 12 2 around the collar 2 can be obtained by other embodiments than the pallets 22.
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