Plastic container product
11376192 · 2022-07-05
Assignee
Inventors
- Michael Spallek (Ingelheim, DE)
- Johannes Geser (Gerlingen, DE)
- Alexander HAMMER (Gaildorf, DE)
- Alexander Beier (Oberrot, DE)
- Michael SCHULTES (Fichtenau, DE)
Cpc classification
B65D51/002
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B65D47/103
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
A61J1/05
HUMAN NECESSITIES
International classification
B65D1/02
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
Abstract
A plastic container product, particularly produced according to a blow-moulding, filling and sealing method, includes a container body having a container content and a head part (12) connected to the container body. The head part defines a removal region (14) closed by a head membrane (16) with joint seam (38) that passes through a surface (20) spanned by the head membrane (16) and that separates at least two penetrable regions (22, 24) on the free front side (26) of the head membrane (16), for the removal of the content. The joint seam (38), observed from the free front side (26) of the head membrane (16), has a seam line (36) that at least partially deviates from an imaginary straight line (32), extends inside the surface (20), is longer than the straight line (32) and at least partially encompasses the penetrable regions (22, 24).
Claims
1. A plastic container product producible by a blow molding, filling and sealing method, the container product comprising: a container body containing contents; a head part adjoining the container body; an extraction area delimited by the head part; a head membrane closing the extraction area of the head part and having a free end face; a connecting seam on the head membrane extending through a surface spanning the head membrane, the connecting seam having a seam course at least partially deviating from a rectilinear course, extending on the head membrane and being longer than the rectilinear course; and first and second penetrable areas being in the head membrane, being separated by the connecting seam and being at least partially encompassed by the connecting seam, the first and second penetrable areas being defined by separate closed geometric figures within the free end face and spaced from one another by areas of the free end face outside of the closed geometric figures, the first and second penetrable areas being more easily pierced than the areas of the free end face outside of the closed geometric figures.
2. A plastic container product according to claim 1 wherein the connecting seam extends from a first edge point to an opposite second edge of the head membrane and reinforces and at least partially supports against unwanted indentation of the head membrane.
3. A plastic container product according to claim 1 wherein the seam course of the connecting seam indicates positions of the penetrable areas on the head membrane.
4. A plastic container product according to claim 1 wherein the seam course extends along an alternating curved course.
5. A plastic container product according to claim 4 wherein the alternating curved course is a single sinusoidal wave having a wave trough and a wave peak each receiving one of the first and second penetrable areas therein.
6. A plastic container product according to claim 1 wherein the connecting seam comprises a parting line formed during molding of the head part during the blow molding, filling and sealing method, the connecting seam extending between and to opposite sides of the head part and merging into a mold parting line of the container body resulting from molding tools.
7. A plastic container product according to claim 1 wherein the connecting seam extends between and merges into seams in the head part at opposite points of the connecting seam; and centers of the penetrable areas are on a straight line connecting the opposite end points.
8. A plastic container product according to claim 1 wherein the connecting seam extends between and merges into seams in the head part and opposite end points of the connecting seam; and centers of the penetrable areas are spaced from a straight line connecting the opposite end points and delimiting first and second parts of a surface area of the head membrane entirely containing the first and second penetrable areas, respectively.
9. A plastic container product according to claim 8 wherein the straight line is tangential to outer peripheries of the first and second penetrable areas.
10. A plastic container product according to claim 1 wherein the head membrane has a circular outer circumference; the seam course has a wave form with a wave trough and a wave peak and with a center point between the wave trough and the wave peak; and the connecting seam extends to diametrically opposite end points on the circular outer circumference, the center point being at an intersection of a first straight line extending between the opposite end points and a second straight line extending perpendicular to the first straight line and being diametrical to the circular outer circumference.
11. A plastic container product according to claim 1 wherein the seam course has a wave form with a wave trough and a wave peak with a point therebetween, a tangent line through the point and applied to the wave through and the wave peak forming an angle of 10 to 90 degrees with a straight line extending between opposite point end points of the connecting seam.
12. A plastic container product according to claim 11 wherein the angle is 30 to 70 degrees.
13. A plastic container product according to claim 12 wherein the angle is 40 to 60 degrees.
14. A plastic container product according to claim 1 wherein the seam course has a wave form with a wave trough and wave peak and with straight sections between the wave form and opposite end points of an outer circumference of the head membrane.
15. A plastic container product according to claim 1 wherein the connecting seam has a seam length at least twenty percent longer than a length of a diameter of a circular outer circumference of the head membrane.
16. A plastic container product according to claim 15 wherein the seam length is at least thirty percent longer than the length of the diameter.
17. A plastic container product according to claim 1 wherein the first and second penetrable areas have a penetrable wall thickness thinner than an average wall thickness of the head membrane outside of the first and second penetrable areas.
18. A plastic container product according to claim 17 wherein the penetrable wall thickness is between 0.10 mm to 0.40 mm.
19. A plastic container product according to claim 17 wherein the penetrable wall thickness is between 0.15 mm to 0.35 mm.
20. A plastic container product according to claim 17 wherein the penetrable wall thickness of the first and second penetrable areas are different.
21. A plastic container product according to claim 1 wherein the first and second penetrable areas have different surface areas.
22. A plastic container product according to claim 1 wherein the connecting seams protrudes outwardly toward an environment in a direction away from the container body or inwardly in a direction toward the container body.
23. A plastic container product according to claim 1 wherein a cap part is connected to the head part and has externally detachable first and second tabs overlapping the first and second penetrable areas, respectively.
24. A plastic container product according to claim 23 wherein the cap part comprises piercing parts position on a line offset at an angle of less than seventy degrees relative to a straight line extending between end points of the connecting seam on an outer circumference of the head membrane.
25. A plastic container product according to claim 24 wherein the angle is less than fifty degrees.
26. A plastic container product according to claim 25 wherein the angle is less than thirty degrees.
27. A plastic container product according to claim 23 wherein the cap part contacts to the connecting seam, the connecting seam being on a free end face of the head membrane.
28. A plastic container product according to claim 1 wherein the head membrane is convexly curved.
29. A plastic container product according to claim 1 wherein the container product is formed of polyethylene, polypropylene, a polypropylene copolymer or a polypropylene blend.
30. A plastic container product according to claim 1 wherein the connecting seam curves around opposite sides of a line extending through centers of the first and second penetrable areas.
31. A plastic container product producible by a blow molding, filling and sealing method, the container product comprising: a container body containing contents; a head part adjoining the container body; an extraction area delimited by the head part; a head membrane closing the extraction area of the head part and having a free end face; a connecting seam on the head membrane extending through a surface spanning the head membrane, the connecting seam having a seam course at least partially deviating from a rectilinear course, extending on the head membrane, being longer than the rectilinear course and extending along an alternating course; and first and second penetrable areas being in the head membrane, being separated by the connecting seam and being at least partially encompassed by the connecting seam, the alternating curved course being a single sinusoidal wave having a wave trough and a wave peak each receiving one of the first and second penetrable areas therein.
32. A plastic container product producible by a blow molding, filling and sealing method, the container product comprising: a container body containing contents; a head part adjoining the container body; an extraction area delimited by the head part; a head membrane closing the extraction area of the head part and having a free end face; a connecting seam on the head membrane extending through a surface spanning the head membrane, the connecting seam having a seam course at least partially deviating from a rectilinear course, extending on the head membrane and being longer than the rectilinear course, the connecting seam extending between and merging into seams in the head part at opposite points of the connecting seam; and first and second penetrable areas being in the head membrane, being separated by the connecting seam and being at least partially encompassed by the connecting seam, centers of the penetrable areas being on a straight line connecting the opposite end points.
33. A plastic container product producible by a blow molding, filling and sealing method, the container product comprising: a container body containing contents; a head part adjoining the container body; an extraction area delimited by the head part; a head membrane closing the extraction area of the head part and having a free end face, the head membrane having a circular outer circumference; a connecting seam on the head membrane extending through a surface spanning the head membrane, the connecting seam having a seam course at least partially deviating from a rectilinear course, extending on the head membrane and being longer than the rectilinear course, the seam course having a wave form with a wave trough and a wave peak and with a center point between the wave trough and the wave peak, the connecting seam extending to diametrically opposite end points on the circular outer circumference, the center point being at an intersection of a first straight line extending between the opposite end points and a second straight line extending perpendicular to the first straight line and being diametrical to the circular outer circumference; and first and second penetrable areas being in the head membrane, being separated by the connecting seam and being at least partially encompassed by the connecting seam.
34. A plastic container product producible by a blow molding, filling and sealing method, the container product comprising: a container body containing contents; a head part adjoining the container body; an extraction area delimited by the head part; a head membrane closing the extraction area of the head part and having a free end face; a connecting seam on the head membrane extending through a surface spanning the head membrane, the connecting seam having a seam course at least partially deviating from a rectilinear course, extending on the head membrane and being longer than the rectilinear course, the seam course having a wave form with a wave trough and a wave peak with a point therebetween, a tangent line through the point and applied to the wave through and the wave peak forming an angle of 10 to 90 degrees with a straight line extending between opposite point end points of the connecting seam; and first and second penetrable areas being in the head membrane, being separated by the connecting seam and being at least partially encompassed by the connecting seam.
35. A plastic container product according to claim 34 wherein the angle is 30 to 70 degrees.
36. A plastic container product according to claim 35 wherein the angle is 40 to 60 degrees.
37. A plastic container product producible by a blow molding, filling and sealing method, the container product comprising: a container body containing contents; a head part adjoining the container body; an extraction area delimited by the head part; a head membrane closing the extraction area of the head part and having a free end face; a connecting seam on the head membrane extending through a surface spanning the head membrane, the connecting seam having a seam course at least partially deviating from a rectilinear course, extending on the head membrane and being longer than the rectilinear course, the seam course having a wave form with a wave trough and wave peak and with straight sections between the wave form and opposite end points of an outer circumference of the head membrane; and first and second penetrable areas being in the head membrane, being separated by the connecting seam and being at least partially encompassed by the connecting seam.
38. A plastic container product producible by a blow molding, filling and sealing method, the container product comprising: a container body containing contents; a head part adjoining the container body; an extraction area delimited by the head part; a head membrane closing the extraction area of the head part and having a free end face; a connecting seam on the head membrane extending through a surface spanning the head membrane, the connecting seam having a seam course at least partially deviating from a rectilinear course, extending on the head membrane and being longer than the rectilinear course; first and second penetrable areas being in the head membrane, being separated by the connecting seam and being at least partially encompassed by the connecting seam; and a cap part being connected to the head part and having externally detachable first and second tabs overlapping the first and second penetrable areas, respectively, the cap part including piercing parts position on a line offset at an angle of less than seventy degrees relative to a straight line extending between end points of the connecting seam on an outer circumference of the head membrane.
39. A plastic container product according to claim 38 wherein the angle is less than fifty degrees.
40. A plastic container product according to claim 39 wherein the angle is less than thirty degrees.
41. A plastic container product producible by a blow molding, filling and sealing method, the container product comprising: a container body containing contents; a head part adjoining the container body; an extraction area delimited by the head part; a head membrane closing the extraction area of the head part and having a free end face; a connecting seam on the head membrane extending through a surface spanning the head membrane, the connecting seam having a seam course at least partially deviating from a rectilinear course, extending on the head membrane and being longer than the rectilinear course; and first and second penetrable areas being in the head membrane, being separated by the connecting seam and being at least partially encompassed by the connecting seam, the first and second penetrable areas having a penetrable wall thickness thinner than an average wall thickness of the head membrane outside of the first and second penetrable areas.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
(1) Referring to the drawings that form a part of this disclosure and that are schematic and not to scale:
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
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(10) The container product shown in
(11) Viewed in the direction of
(12) The connecting seam 18, which is also referred to as sealed head seam in technical terms, thus extends from the one point E1 of the head part 12 to the opposite point E2 of the same head part and, as reinforcing means in the form of a protruding rib, at least partially provides support against the unwanted indentation of the entire head membrane 16 when an extraction device, such as a cannula or a piercing device 34, is applied for a subsequent extraction or addition procedure in relation to the content of the containers. Without such a rib-shaped reinforcing means or reinforcement, puncturing the head membrane 16 would essentially not be possible when the piercing tool 34 is applied as shown in
(13) Although the rib-shaped reinforcing seam 18 according to the representations in the prior art according to
(14) In the solution according to the invention as shown in
(15) As can also be seen from
(16) The head membrane 16 has a circular outer circumference. The fictitious connecting line 32 defines a fictitious center point Z based on a further fictitious connecting line 48, which is perpendicular to the rectilinear line 32, through which the wave 40 as shown in
(17) If, as shown in
(18) As is further apparent from
(19) The penetrable or puncturable areas 22, 24 on the head membrane 16 are selected to be largely equal in size in the exemplary embodiment shown in
(20) The connecting seam 38 on the individual head membrane 16 may protrude in the manner of a reinforcing rib at least partially outwardly towards the environment and/or in the direction of the interior of the container body 10. An outward protrusion for the known solution according to the
(21) In order to obtain the wave-shaped connecting seam 38, the molding tools in the case of a corresponding molding device have to be designed such that they have the required mold recesses and protrusions on their opposite end faces in order to obtain the wave form for the head part 12. Such a molding device for moving molding tools for generating pertinent head geometries in plastic containers having slide control is shown in DE 103 17 712 A1 by way of example. The waveform shown in the figures for the connecting seam 38 has proven to be particularly advantageous in terms of manufacturing. However, other waveforms can be selected, for example, in the manner of an S-shaped arc having different courses of the curve. Furthermore, meandering seam courses or zigzag seam courses can be implemented, if required. It is important to select the course of the seam of the connecting seam 38 such that the respective penetrable areas 22, 24 are at least partially enclosed in order to sufficiently stabilize them during piercing. The elongated course of the seam 36 results in an improved reinforcement of the otherwise soft plastic head membrane 16. More than two penetrable areas can be mounted on the head membrane 16 (not shown).
(22) The further embodiments of the head membrane 16 for a container product according to the invention as shown in the images in
(23) In the embodiment of a head membrane 16 shown in
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(25) In the exemplary embodiment according to
(26) As is apparent from the illustration of
(27) Furthermore, the solution according to the invention, as shown in particular in
(28) While various embodiments have been chosen to illustrate the invention, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications can be made therein without departing from the scope of the invention as defined in the claims.