US3231122A - Container with closure - Google Patents

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US3231122A
US3231122A US258871A US25887163A US3231122A US 3231122 A US3231122 A US 3231122A US 258871 A US258871 A US 258871A US 25887163 A US25887163 A US 25887163A US 3231122 A US3231122 A US 3231122A
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Timgren Torsti Carl Johan
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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
    • B65D41/02—Caps or cap-like covers without lines of weakness, tearing strips, tags, or like opening or removal devices
    • B65D41/16—Snap-on caps or cap-like covers
    • B65D41/17—Snap-on caps or cap-like covers push-on and twist-off
    • 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
    • B65D41/02—Caps or cap-like covers without lines of weakness, tearing strips, tags, or like opening or removal devices
    • B65D41/16—Snap-on caps or cap-like covers
    • B65D41/18—Snap-on caps or cap-like covers non-metallic, e.g. made of paper or plastics

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  • FIG.1 A first figure.
  • the present invention relates to a container with a closure, particularly, to an arrangement in which the closure is secured to a neck of the container by means of ribs or the like formed on opposing surfaces of the neck and the closure.
  • the ribs or the like are often constituted by screw threads.
  • a threaded closure has the disadvantage that it is easily unfastened.
  • a snap closure which might be used to overcome this disadvantage, involves the difficulty that when the co-operating closure elements are forced into engagement with each other, the wall of the container may collapse under the force exercised when, for economical reasons, such wall is not made thicker than is necessary for its normal function; this is particularly the case with containers of thermoplastic material. This difficulty is especially encountered with automatic sealing machines.
  • a container with a closure the closure being secured to a neck of the container by means of ribs or the like formed on opposing surfaces of the neck and the closure and engaging one behind the other, the ribs or the like being so shaped and positioned that, if the closure is pushed on to the neck within a range of certain relative positions of the neck to the closure, the said ribs or the like are capable of passing each other due to elastic deformation while contacting each other only locally and progressively along their lengths.
  • the neck or the closure can be flexible or made of flexible material to allow said elastic deformation.
  • both the neck and the closure are made of flexible material so that both can contribute to said elastic deformation.
  • the ribs preferably form closed rings located in planes at least one of which is inclined relative to the direction of the axis of the neck or the closure. If the planes containing the pairwise co-operating ribs or the like have substantially equal angles of inclination relative to the direction of the axis, the closure can be so turned relative to the neck after the ribs or the like have been snapped over each other, that these planes are parallel. In this position, the closure can practically no longer be pulled 0E, since this would require simultaneous deformation of the ribs or the like along their entire lengths extending around the neck.
  • the profile of a co-operating pair of ribs or the like is preferably such that the ribs engage each other more positively in the locked position than in the position before they are forced over each other.
  • the closure is preferably a cap.
  • a container with a closure cap having a neck around the outside of which is a rib form ing a ring in a plane which is inclined with respect to the axis of the neck, the closure cap having a similar rib on the inside, the plane of this similar rib being similarly inclined to the axis of the cap, the arrangement being such that when the closure cap is orientated relative to the neck so that the planes of their ribs are oppositely inclined, then the closure cap can readily be pushed on to the neck with the two ribs deformably engaging each other at two points, the closure cap then being rotatable to a position in which its rib engages below and along substantially the entire length of the rib of the neck.
  • FIGURE 1 shows in elevation a bottle-neck and a closure-cap before the closure-cap is applied
  • the invention is applied to a bottle and closure-cap.
  • a bottle-neck 1 of flexible synthetic material such as thermoplastic material
  • the rib 2 forms a ring disposed in a plane inclined relative to the axis of the bottle-neck.
  • a similar rib 4 is formed at the inner circumference of the closure-cap, which is made of similar material.
  • the closurecap is placed in such a position relative to the bottle-neck that the planes containing the ribs 2 and 4 are not parallel, preferably in the position in which the angles of inclination of these planes are just opposite, as shown in FIG- URE 1.
  • the ribs 2 and 4 will only contact each other locally, and will easily be deformed and make way for each other at the points of contact, so that the closure-cap can be forced on to the bottle-neck without much effort.
  • FIGURE 2 illustrates a position in which the ribs have already partly passed each other.
  • the closure-cap is already in its lowermost position.
  • the position according to FIGURE 3 is obtained, .in which the ribs 2 and 4 engage each other over their full lengths and firmly retain the closure-cap 3 on the bottle-neck 1.
  • the rib 4 has at its lower side a bevelled profile edge; at the upper side, however, a profile edge at right-angles to the direction of the axis of the bottle is provided.
  • the upper and lower sides of the rib 2 are also substantially at right-angles to the direction of the axis of the bottle. This arrangement facilitates the application of the closurecap and also renders it more diiiicult to pull the closurecap off again.
  • a container and closure cap said container having a neck, a rib around the outside of the neck forming a first endless ring in a plane inclined at an acute angle relative to the axis of the neck, a closure cap, a rib on the inside of the closure cap forming a second endless ring in a plane inclined to the axis of said cap at about the same angle as said plane of first ring to the axis of said neck, at least one of said neck and closure cap being flexible so that when the closure cap is oriented relative to the neck and the planes of their ribs are oppositely incline-d, the closure cap can be pushed on to the neck with the two ribs progressively 3 engaging each other at two points, at least one of said ribs having a chamferred edge to facilitate pushing of said cap onto said neck, said closure cap being rotatable to a position in which its rib engages below and along substantially the entire length of the rib of the neck to retain said closure cap on said neck.

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FR2646066A1 (fr) * 1989-04-20 1990-10-26 Geka Brush Georg Karl Gmbh Dispositif d'application de cosmetique, tel que fard a paupieres ou similaire
US5865331A (en) * 1994-02-10 1999-02-02 The Procter & Gamble Company Package with a lighweighted closure system
US20050011906A1 (en) * 2003-07-15 2005-01-20 Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. Storing and dispensing container for product
US20050139236A1 (en) * 2003-12-31 2005-06-30 Kool Lawrence B. Method for removing oxide from cracks in turbine components

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GB2313367A (en) * 1996-05-24 1997-11-26 Beeson & Sons Ltd Container closure assemblies with bidirectional opening
FR2760724B1 (fr) * 1997-03-14 1999-04-30 Oreal Recipient de type a capsule montee par claquage

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US2752060A (en) * 1955-02-16 1956-06-26 Warren N Martin Container closure
US3080991A (en) * 1960-02-26 1963-03-12 John J Fox Releasable bottle sealing caps

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US2752060A (en) * 1955-02-16 1956-06-26 Warren N Martin Container closure
US3080991A (en) * 1960-02-26 1963-03-12 John J Fox Releasable bottle sealing caps

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR2646066A1 (fr) * 1989-04-20 1990-10-26 Geka Brush Georg Karl Gmbh Dispositif d'application de cosmetique, tel que fard a paupieres ou similaire
WO1990012521A1 (de) * 1989-04-20 1990-11-01 Georg Karl Geka-Brush Gmbh Vorrichtung zum auftragen von kosmetika
US5865331A (en) * 1994-02-10 1999-02-02 The Procter & Gamble Company Package with a lighweighted closure system
US20050011906A1 (en) * 2003-07-15 2005-01-20 Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. Storing and dispensing container for product
WO2005016768A3 (en) * 2003-07-15 2005-04-14 Kimberly Clark Co Storing and dispensing container for product
US20050139236A1 (en) * 2003-12-31 2005-06-30 Kool Lawrence B. Method for removing oxide from cracks in turbine components

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