EP0708030A2 - Ohne Werkzeug zu öffnender Flaschenstopfen - Google Patents

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EP0708030A2
EP0708030A2 EP95402149A EP95402149A EP0708030A2 EP 0708030 A2 EP0708030 A2 EP 0708030A2 EP 95402149 A EP95402149 A EP 95402149A EP 95402149 A EP95402149 A EP 95402149A EP 0708030 A2 EP0708030 A2 EP 0708030A2
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stopper
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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
    • B65D39/00—Closures arranged within necks or pouring openings or in discharge apertures, e.g. stoppers
    • B65D39/16—Closures arranged within necks or pouring openings or in discharge apertures, e.g. stoppers with handles or other special means facilitating manual actuation
    • 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
    • B65D41/58—Caps or cap-like covers combined with stoppers

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  • the invention relates to a device for capping a bottle, capable of being opened by a simple manual operation of the user without any instrument such as a corkscrew or bottle opener.
  • plugging devices of this type which generally use metal screw caps provided with an internal disc making it possible to seal the closure.
  • the bottle is opened by unscrewing the cap, usually accompanied by a rupture of a tamper-evident ring.
  • the rupture of the tamper-evident ring produces sharp edges at the breaking points which can be injurious.
  • the production of such devices is particularly expensive, both as regards the unit cost of the part and the operating cost of the bottling line, which operates at a much slower rate than conventional chains with cork closure.
  • One of the aims of the invention is to remedy these drawbacks by proposing a closure device which does not require any accessories to open it, and which is particularly economical to produce.
  • the device of the invention can make use of a cork stopper, generally perceived by the public as reserved for quality products. It will be seen in this regard that the invention nevertheless makes it possible to use a cork stopper at a lower cost than conventional stoppers, thus avoiding increasing the final cost of the product.
  • the closure device of the invention is characterized in that it essentially comprises an outer sleeve and a hollow cylindrical inner tube, these two elements being coaxial and secured at their top by a common partition covering the neck of the bottle, the internal surface of the sleeve being applied against the external surface of the wall of the neck of the bottle and the external surface of the tube being applied against the internal surface of this same wall, the tube also trapping a stopper in the internal volume which '' it defines, the plug protruding from the tube in an axial direction so as to be applied sealingly against the internal surface of the wall of the neck, the radial and axial dimensions of the projecting part and of the trapped part of the stopper and of the tube, as well as their respective coefficients of friction with respect to the inner wall of the neck, being chosen such that a combined traction and rotation force exerted on the sleeve by taking hold of the latter and transmitted to the tube causes a correlative drive in traction and rotation of the stopper in the neck, stopper and
  • the stopper is a cork or agglomerated cork stopper
  • the material and dimensions of the stopper can in particular be chosen so that the natural expansion of the projecting part after removal of the stopper prevents the latter from being replaced. in the neck.
  • the tube and the sleeve, for their part, can be made of a plastic material, in particular a recyclable plastic material such as a recyclable PVC.
  • the partition is open in the central part so as to allow the insertion by force of the stopper from above on a bottle previously provided with a device without its stopper.
  • the tube, the sleeve and their common partition can constitute a one-piece assembly.
  • the sleeve may include a peripheral rupture initiation between an upper part secured to the sleeve and an elongated lower skirt covering the neck of the bottle.
  • Figure 1 is an external view showing the appearance of the closure device of the invention as it is presented to the user before opening.
  • Figure 2 is a sectional view showing the internal structure of this device.
  • Figure 1 shows the appearance of a bottle 1 whose neck 2 has been closed by a device according to the invention. As can be seen, this aspect is substantially identical to that of a bottle closed with a conventional cork, which makes the device commercially suitable for traditional products such as quality wines.
  • the closure device comprises an upper part 3, hereinafter designated “sleeve”, intended to be gripped by hand by the user, and extended along the neck 2 of the bottle by an adjoining part 4 in the form of a skirt, it is separated by breaking initiators 5 making it possible to ensure the inviolability of the closure.
  • FIG. 2 shows the internal structure of the device: the sleeve 3 is integral with an inner tube 6 penetrating into the neck of the bottle and connected to the sleeve by a horizontal partition 7 in the form of a disc; all of the elements 3, 6 and 7 is preferably produced in a single piece, for example by injection molding of a suitable plastic material such as PVC, preferably recyclable PVC.
  • the element 6 is a cylindrical tube forming a ferrule, enclosing a stopper 8, preferably a cork stopper. Typically, in the axial direction, only an upper part 9 of the stopper is trapped by the tube 6, the projecting lower part 10 coming into contact with the inside of the neck of the bottle so as to provide the desired closure.
  • the opening of the bottle is done as follows.
  • the user grasps the sleeve 3 with one hand and drives it in a combined movement of rotation and upward traction, which has the effect of breaking the fracture initiator 5 and causing in this same movement the inner tube 6, integral with the sleeve, and the cap 8, integral with the tube 7 (the dimensions of the cap and of the inner tube and the relative coefficients of friction of the cap with this tube and with the neck of the bottle are chosen so that the cap 8 and tube 6 remain essentially integral in this movement, while the projecting part 10 of the stopper 9 slides on the inner surface of the neck of the bottle).
  • this method of capping can be made irreversible not only by the primers 5 which reveal any attempt to open, but also by choosing for the stopper 10 a quality of cork and dimensions such that, a few moments after opening, the projecting part 10 has a natural expansion preventing any replacement of the cap in the neck.
  • the closure device of the invention has many advantages.
  • cork stoppers or cork agglomerate of small dimensions, shorter than the traditional stoppers having to be extracted with a corkscrew and therefore more economical.
  • corking of the bottles can be carried out on conventional bottling lines, which are much less costly to implement than the bottling lines placing metal screw caps.
  • the partition 7 is open upwards in the central part, it is possible to insert the stopper therein by an operation of the same nature as the insertion of a cork stopper into the neck of a bottle.
  • the bottling is then done in two stages, namely firstly the laying or the overmolding, on the neck of the bottle, of the one-piece plastic part comprising the sleeve 3, the skirt 4, the tube 6 and the partition 7 then, in a second step, the vertical insertion of the plug 8 by force into the central opening of the partition 7, which results in the configuration of FIG. 2; the upper part can be optionally hidden by gluing a circular label on top of the assembly thus formed.

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  • Sealing Of Jars (AREA)
  • Devices For Opening Bottles Or Cans (AREA)
EP95402149A 1994-09-29 1995-09-26 Ohne Werkzeug zu öffnender Flaschenstopfen Expired - Lifetime EP0708030B1 (de)

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FR9411632 1994-09-29
FR9411632A FR2725180A1 (fr) 1994-09-29 1994-09-29 Dispositif auto-extractible de bouchage d'une bouteille

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EP0708030A2 true EP0708030A2 (de) 1996-04-24
EP0708030A3 EP0708030A3 (de) 1996-06-19
EP0708030B1 EP0708030B1 (de) 1999-12-22

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FR2771714A1 (fr) * 1997-12-02 1999-06-04 Plasticork Bouchon pour recipient comprenant un corps et une tete peripherique
WO2004028915A1 (de) * 2002-09-19 2004-04-08 Alcoa Deutschland Gmbh Verpackungswerke Getränkeflasche und werkzeug zum öffnen derselben
JP2019043637A (ja) * 2017-09-05 2019-03-22 日本クロージャー株式会社 複合キャップ

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ES2265230B1 (es) * 2004-07-13 2007-12-01 Pablo Erice Irurita Proceso de cierre de botellas y capsula incorporable en dicho cierre.

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FR1145078A (fr) * 1956-04-06 1957-10-22 Bouchon-capsule
US4182458A (en) * 1978-03-13 1980-01-08 Milton Meckler Wine bottle stopper
FR2687376A1 (fr) * 1992-02-14 1993-08-20 Spp Sa Perfectionnement aux dispositifs de bouchage en matiere plastique injectee pour bouteilles dont le goulot est lisse et non filete.

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FR2771714A1 (fr) * 1997-12-02 1999-06-04 Plasticork Bouchon pour recipient comprenant un corps et une tete peripherique
WO2004028915A1 (de) * 2002-09-19 2004-04-08 Alcoa Deutschland Gmbh Verpackungswerke Getränkeflasche und werkzeug zum öffnen derselben
JP2019043637A (ja) * 2017-09-05 2019-03-22 日本クロージャー株式会社 複合キャップ

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ATE187946T1 (de) 2000-01-15
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ES2143022T3 (es) 2000-05-01
EP0708030B1 (de) 1999-12-22
DE69514070D1 (de) 2000-01-27

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