Bottles and jars – Closures – Frangible member or portion
Patent
1981-07-07
1983-07-05
Norton, Donald F.
Bottles and jars
Closures
Frangible member or portion
B65D 4148
Patent
active
043913830
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to improvements in capping capsules and more particularly, although not exclusively, of the type described in the applicant's French Pat. No. 76 06230, granted Aug. 13, 1979 on an application filed Feb. 27, 1976.
Devices of the above mentioned type are particularly appreciated when provided with a tearable strip enabling their opening without the use of an instrument such as a knife. The setting of such a tearable strip creates necessarily a fragile zone due to the fact that said strip is connected to the skirt of the capsule by rupture lines of reduced thickness which have a low resistance to damage. Rupture of the capsule often occurs around these lines when it is positioned by setting over the neck of a bottle and more particularly if this setting is carried out by exerting considerable effort on the bottom of the capsule.
The improvements of the present invention aim to remedy these drawbacks in order to obtain a tearable strip:
does not collapse during the positioning of the capsule and avoids the rupture of the tear lines which define it;
prevents a faulty tear-off of the guarantee strip, that is to say which avoids a tear that would not follow the crimping lines;
increases the grip on the tearable strip when the user takes hold of it.
According to the invention, the strip of the capping capsule is provided with spaced vertical ribs, the thickness of which decreases rapidly to reach zero at both edges that define the rupture lines of said strip.
The attached drawing given by way of example will enable a better understanding of the invention, of its characteristics and advantages:
FIG. 1 is a partly sectioned elevation view of a capping capsule whose tearable strip comprises the improvements according to the invention.
FIG. 2 is a partial section of the capsule on a large scale.
FIG. 3 is a view similar to the one of FIG. 1 but showing the beginning of the tearing-off of the guarantee strip.
FIG. 4 illustrates on a large scale the way in which the ribs according to the invention prevent a faulty tear-off of the guarantee strip.
FIG. 1 shows a capping capsule 1 which is intended to be placed on the neck of a bottle in order to cover it, to constitute a guarantee element for its contents, and/or to decorate it. The capsule which is illustrated is similar to the one which is the subject of the aforesaid French patent, but the invention may of course be applied to any capsule provided with a tearable strip.
The capsule illustrated in FIG. 1 comprises a tubular body or skirt 2 which is closed at one of its ends by a bottom part 3 whose junction to the skirt is provided with holes 4 intended to permit air to escape during the positioning of the capsule. A rib 5 is provided inside the skirt 2 to enable the capsule 1 to be fixed on the bottle neck by a snap action of the rib under the ring of the neck.
A tearable guarantee strip 6 is provided in the skirt between the rib 5 and the bottom part 3. As more particularly illustrated in FIG. 2, the strip 6 being connected to the skirt by means of two peripheral grooves situated in the thickness of the skirt on the inside thereof. These grooves define crimping lines 7, 8 and have a triangular shaped cross-section so that the guarantee strip is actually connected to the skirt by only two thin edges, one of them 6a being integral with the strip 6 and the other one 2a being integral with the skirt 2.
When such a capsule has to be positioned on the neck of a bottle by axial action on its bottom part 3, it is easily understandable that the pressure causes the collapse of the strip 6 and usually the breaking of the crimping lines 7, 8 at the edges 2a, 6a.
According to the invention, the innerside of the tearable strip is provided with vertical ribs 9 spaced from each other and whose thickness aims at increasing the moment of inertia of the cross-section of the strip 6 in order to avoid the distortion of said strip by positioning of the capsule when an axial strain is applied on the bottom part 3. The thickness of the ribs 9 depends upon the t
REFERENCES:
patent: 3109547 (1963-11-01), Wood
patent: 4066181 (1976-03-01), Robinson et al.
patent: 4076140 (1978-02-01), Perne
Norton Donald F.
Societe Nouvelle de Bouchons Plastiques S.N.B.P.
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