EP3921245B1 - Stöpselverschluss - Google Patents
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- EP3921245B1 EP3921245B1 EP20700030.8A EP20700030A EP3921245B1 EP 3921245 B1 EP3921245 B1 EP 3921245B1 EP 20700030 A EP20700030 A EP 20700030A EP 3921245 B1 EP3921245 B1 EP 3921245B1
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- 229920001903 high density polyethylene Polymers 0.000 description 7
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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
- B65D47/08—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps with pouring spouts or tubes; with discharge nozzles or passages having articulated or hinged closures
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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
- B65D47/08—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps with pouring spouts or tubes; with discharge nozzles or passages having articulated or hinged closures
- B65D47/0804—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps with pouring spouts or tubes; with discharge nozzles or passages having articulated or hinged closures integrally formed with the base element provided with the spout or discharge passage
- B65D47/0833—Hinges without elastic bias
- B65D47/0838—Hinges without elastic bias located at an edge of the base element
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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
- B65D2547/00—Closures with filling and discharging, or with discharging, devices
- B65D2547/04—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps
- B65D2547/06—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps with pouring spouts ot tubes; with discharge nozzles or passages
- B65D2547/063—Details of spouts
Definitions
- Leakage of product during shipping of consumer goods can be a costly problem.
- the problem is particularly acute in the realm of e-commerce where individual bottles may be shipped directly to consumers. It is somewhat easier to ensure intact shipment of large numbers of bottles together from a manufacturer to a distributor and/or retailer than it is to secure the product from leakage during shipment of individual bottles to consumers. Likewise, transport of a container by a consumer after it has been opened can be an issue and result in product leakage.
- One type of closure for consumer goods such as shampoos, body washes, skin creams, etc. is the flip top closure which typically comprises two pieces, a base piece which is attached directly to the container, and a cap which is hingedly attached to the base and which rotates between an open and a closed position. While it is important that the consumer can remove the cap from the base without use of Herculean strength, it is also important that the cap not open due to forces generally encountered in shipping.
- a closure having a hinged lid connected to a base.
- the closure includes a latching mechanism which includes a pin having a bead which is said to engage in the manner of a barb behind an edge in the dispensing opening.
- Suffa US 2006/231518 is directed to a closure cap having a lower part and an upper part connected by a hinge.
- a stopper is located on an underside of the closure cap.
- the stopper may include an annular collar which interacts with a corresponding annular groove in a connection piece. Or it may include longitudinal ribs which in the closed position of the closure cap come in contact with a top side of a holding part and act as retention means.
- a sealing cylinder includes a sealing bead 43.
- the invention is directed to a closure, especially useful for e-commerce and to the closure combined with a bottle or other container.
- the base of the closing can be integral with the container.
- the closure comprises a cap base which can be releasably fastened to a container, the cap base including an opening.
- a cap is movably attached to the cap base and is suitable, when it is in a closed position, for preventing egress of a liquid from the container through the cap base opening.
- Portions of the cap base constitute a barrier which together with the cap are suitable for preventing egress of the liquid from the container.
- the cap has a depending plug extending therefrom which is received within an opening in the cap base when the cap is in the closed position.
- the opening is formed within a cylindrical opening wall.
- extending outwardly from the depending plug at its end distal from the cap are one or more barb flaps.
- the barbs are pushed up against the wall of the plug and are received within a recess in the cylindrical opening wall.
- the bar flaps abut an upper wall of the recess such that extra force is required to open the cap, e.g., during shipping.
- cap When the cap is closed it is further secured by a locking flap on the cap which snaps into and is received within a recess on the cap base.
- the cap is preferably attached to the cap base using a living hinge.
- the barb flaps are preferably attached to the plug cylinder wall using living hinges.
- Closure 10 comprises cap base 12 and cap 16.
- Cap base 12 includes top surface 14 and cylindrical skirt 13 depending from the top surface.
- Skirt 13 includes semicircular recess 40, which is shaped to receive a locking flange on the cap, as will be explained hereinafter.
- Below recess 40 and is finger access recess 42 which permits the consumer readily to unlock cap 16.
- Cap 16 is movable and pivotably attached to cap base 12 by living hinges 18. Placing cap 16 in the open position reveals opening 24 in top wall 60 of cap base 12. It will be apparent that top wall 60 will constitute a barrier to egress of liquid from a package to which closure 12 has been fastened.
- Cap 16 includes platform 22. Platform 22 includes depending cylindrical plug 26. Cap cylindrical sidewall 28 depends from platform 22.
- Plug 26 includes cylindrical wall 80 depending from the underside of lid 16. At the end of wall 80 opposite that at which it is attached to cap 16 are two barb flaps 82. Although the invention is illustrated herein as having two barb, flaps those of ordinary skill could readily determine whether other numbers would be preferred in a particular application, e.g., one, three, four, etc.
- Barb flaps 82 are connected to cylindrical wall 80 by thin plastic hinges 84 which permit the flaps to move relative to cylinder wall 80.
- barb flaps 82 are disposed at an angle to the cylindrical wall, e.g., of about 45-90 degrees to the longitudinal axis of the plug for the right hand flap seen in Fig. 3 ., especially from 65 to 80 degrees.
- Cylindrical wall 80 includes longitudinal slits 86 which permit the diameter of the wall to decrease as needed to fit snugly within opening 24 and wall 88. Cylindrical plug 26 is surrounded by sealing ring 100.
- cap sidewall 28 includes a recessed locking flange 38.
- locking flange 38 snaps into and is received within recess 40 to help lock the lid 16 closed.
- Opening 24 in base 14 is defined by cylindrical wall 88.
- Cylindrical wall 88 includes at its end distal to the opening a recess 90.
- the cap is seen in the open position in e.g., Fig. 2 and the cylindrical plug 26 is shown in Fig. 3 in the cap's open configuration.
- the consumer wishes to close the package, he rotates the cap closed on hinges 18.
- barb flaps 82 contact cylindrical wall 88 and are bent toward wall 80.
- barb flaps 82 are accommodated within recess 90, preferably at an angle of 100-180 degrees, as seen in Fig. 5 , especially from 110-175 degrees, most preferably from 120-170 degrees again with respect to the longitudinal axis of the plug.
- the consumer will receive package 11 including closure 10 and bottle 74.
- the consumer To open the package, the consumer inserts his or her finger into recess 42 and lifts upwardly to pull flange 38 up out of recess 40 and open lid 16.
- the consumer exerts the extra force needed to overcome the resistance caused by the abutment of flap 82 against upper wall 94, thereby causing flaps 82 to turn downwardly away from cap platform 22 permitting cylindrical wall 80 to be moved upwardly through opening 24 as cap 16 is opened.
- flaps 82 will, due to the resiliency of the hinge line 84, return to the angle shown in Fig. 3 .
- the closure 10 of the invention will be fastened to bottle 74 or other container, as is evident from Fig. 1 .
- Fasteners (not shown) will typically be present on the underside of the closure and may include screws or snap fit mechanisms such as debossments, embossments, etc. Mating screws or other fastening structures can be present on the bottle neck.
- cap 16 and locking flange 38 are in their closed, locked positions, such as may be seen in Fig. 1 .
- locking flange 38 is received within recess 40 and cylindrical plug 26 is tightly and lockingly releasably received within opening 24.
- the diameter of plug 26 may be slightly greater than that of opening 24 to provide a snap fit. Plug 26 together with cap base 12 prevent egress of liquid from bottle 74 or other container.
- Transport via e-commerce often entails shipping products in individual packages which may be less secure than the product pallets often used by manufacturers in transporting large numbers of products.
- the present closure affords an extra measure of protection against inadvertent opening of the cap in response to the additional stresses to which packages are subjected during e-commerce transport.
- the adaptor and living hinge will typically be made of polypropylene or polyethylene. Post-consumer polypropylene may be included as well.
- the adaptor and/or living hinge may also be made from the hinge material described in Domoy et al. US Patent No. 9,637,626 , namely a molded article having a hinge, the molded article being a polymer, the polymer comprising a mixture of a first high-density polyethylene (HDPE) resin and a second HDPE resin, that is different than the first HDPE,
- HDPE high-density polyethylene
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Claims (4)
- Verschluss (10), der umfasst:a) eine Kappe (16) mit:b) einem Verschlussunterteil (12) mit einer Öffnung (24),c) wobei die Kappe einen nach unten verlaufenden Stopfen aufweist,dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass
der nach unten verlaufende Stopfen zumindest eine Zunge (82) aufweist, die von dem Stopfen radial nach außen verläuft, wenn die Kappe in der geöffneten Position ist, und dadurch, dass die zumindest eine Zunge (82) in der Weise verformbar ist, dass die Zunge beim Verschließen der Kappe (16) nach oben umklappt, wodurch die nach oben verlaufende Zunge mit der Öffnung (24) der Kappe einen Eingriff bereitstellt. - Verschluss nach Anspruch 1, wobei die Öffnung (24) durch eine zylinderförmige Wand (88) definiert ist.
- Verschluss nach Anspruch 2, wobei die Wand (88) eine Vertiefung (40) enthält, die die eine oder die mehreren Zungen (82) aufnimmt, wenn die Kappe (16) geschlossen ist.
- Verschluss nach Anspruch 3, wobei die Vertiefung (40) eine obere Wand enthält und wobei die eine oder die mehreren Zungen an der oberen Wand anliegen, wenn die Kappe geschlossen ist.
Applications Claiming Priority (2)
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EP19155612 | 2019-02-05 | ||
PCT/EP2020/050230 WO2020160858A1 (en) | 2019-02-05 | 2020-01-07 | Plug closure |
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EP3921245A1 EP3921245A1 (de) | 2021-12-15 |
EP3921245B1 true EP3921245B1 (de) | 2022-09-21 |
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US (1) | US20220097929A1 (de) |
EP (1) | EP3921245B1 (de) |
JP (1) | JP2022519279A (de) |
CN (1) | CN113329946A (de) |
BR (1) | BR112021013012A2 (de) |
CA (1) | CA3128058A1 (de) |
MX (1) | MX2021009312A (de) |
WO (1) | WO2020160858A1 (de) |
ZA (1) | ZA202104710B (de) |
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US20220151753A1 (en) * | 2020-11-16 | 2022-05-19 | Colgate-Palmolive Company | Personal Care Device |
USD1011922S1 (en) | 2020-12-07 | 2024-01-23 | Conopco, Inc. | Container with pump |
USD986743S1 (en) | 2020-12-07 | 2023-05-23 | Conopeo, Inc. | Container |
USD1001642S1 (en) * | 2020-12-07 | 2023-10-17 | Conopco, Inc. | Container |
USD1000280S1 (en) * | 2020-12-07 | 2023-10-03 | Conopco, Inc. | Container |
USD1026655S1 (en) | 2020-12-18 | 2024-05-14 | Conopco, Inc. | Bottle shoulder |
USD1012724S1 (en) | 2020-12-18 | 2024-01-30 | Conopco, Inc. | Bottle with pump |
USD1012717S1 (en) | 2020-12-18 | 2024-01-30 | Conopco, Inc. | Bottle |
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US20220097929A1 (en) | 2022-03-31 |
ZA202104710B (en) | 2023-01-25 |
EP3921245A1 (de) | 2021-12-15 |
JP2022519279A (ja) | 2022-03-22 |
WO2020160858A1 (en) | 2020-08-13 |
BR112021013012A2 (pt) | 2021-09-14 |
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