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EP1853490B1
EP1853490B1 EP06705367A EP06705367A EP1853490B1 EP 1853490 B1 EP1853490 B1 EP 1853490B1 EP 06705367 A EP06705367 A EP 06705367A EP 06705367 A EP06705367 A EP 06705367A EP 1853490 B1 EP1853490 B1 EP 1853490B1
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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
    • B65D41/32—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
    • B65D41/34—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers provided with tamper elements formed in, or attached to, the closure skirt
    • B65D41/3495—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers provided with tamper elements formed in, or attached to, the closure skirt the tamper element being bonded or adhered to the container wall

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  • the invention relates to a closure cap for a container, wherein at least one predetermined breaking point is provided for guaranteeing a first opening. Furthermore, the invention relates to a container with such a cap and a method for producing such a container.
  • Packaging and containers are often provided with a so-called "first opening guarantee". Such a tamper-evident warranty indicates to the user of the container whether the container has ever been opened.
  • Tanks with a tamper-evident guarantee are used in particular in the pharmaceutical, cosmetics and food industries.
  • the tamper-evident guarantee can be realized, for example, by providing a cuff which encloses the cap and a part of the container and which must be torn to open.
  • a cuff which encloses the cap and a part of the container and which must be torn to open.
  • a relatively simple solution is to use a strip, e.g. from paper, to be glued to the cap and the container top, which penetrates the first time the cap is removed.
  • this solution has the disadvantage that it is not safe, because the strip can usually be detached without damage.
  • the strip can not always be optimally integrated into the optical product design and, in particular, can be cheap and unprofessional.
  • U.S.-A-3,904,061 For example, there is known a cap for a container having a cap body and a seal extension with a weld body for welding to the container. There is provided a predetermined breaking point for breaking a connection between the cap body and the weld body.
  • a cap for a container having a cap body and a sealing appendage with a welding body for welding to the container, wherein a frangible portion is provided, which is formed for interrupting a connection between the cap body and the weld body.
  • the EP-A1-0 181 271 discloses a closure cap having a closure cap body and a seal extension, wherein the seal extension comprises a weld body for welding to a tube. There are predetermined breaking points are provided, which serve to interrupt a connection between the cap body and the weld body.
  • U.S.-A-4,640,427 For example, there is described a cap for a container having a cap body and a seal extension with a weld body for welding onto the container. It is provided a predetermined breaking point in the form of a transverse tear line.
  • GB-A-2 366 790 For example, there is known a cap for a container having a cap body and a weld body for welding to the container. It is provided a predetermined breaking point in the form of a thin tissue.
  • the U.S.-A-4,702,383 discloses a cap, according to the preamble of claim 1, which can be screwed onto a container via a thread and to which a clamping ring is rigidly attached, the seal extensions with welding bodies for Welding has on the container, which are provided with predetermined breaking points in the form of cutouts.
  • Out GB-A-2 314 495 is a cap for a container known, which is provided with a tear-off, which is connected via a small breakable bridge with the tear-off tab. To open the lock, the bridge is broken and the pull tab is released. When detaching the tear-off, welding points are broken, resulting in destruction of membranes and opening of the container.
  • closure cap having a closure cap body and a sealing extension with a welding body for welding to the container, wherein the at least one predetermined breaking point is formed for interrupting a connection between closure cap body and welding body.
  • a removal means is provided which removes connecting agent residues of the connection between the closure cap body and the weld body from the weld body. This is done by cutting off or shearing off these residues by means of the removal means during rotation of the closure cap body relative to the fixed, attached to the container welding body in the ⁇ ffungsnavieri the cap.
  • protruding residues of the bonding agent are removed, which is advantageous in particular in the case of eye drops or other liquids or ointments to be applied to the human or animal body, since this avoids the risk of injury from the residues.
  • Fig. 1 shows an example of a closure cap 1 according to the invention.
  • the closure cap 1 has a closure cap body 2 and a seal extension 3.
  • the cap body 2 for example, has substantially the shape of a cone or is cylindrical and has a longitudinal central axis about which when opening the with the Closure cap sealed container, the rotation of the cap takes place.
  • the outer surface has the cap body, for example, has a corrugation 8, which serves to improve the grip. It also has one or two or more burrs 7. Such a projection 7 can be used to align the closure cap during rotation with respect to its axis.
  • the sealing extension 3 consists of a welding body 6 and preferably of a connecting means 4 between the closure cap body 2 and the weld body 6, preferably in the form of a web 4 or, as shown, two webs 4.
  • the seal extension 3 preferably has the shape of a disc, ie it is flat and its surface is essentially formed by two flat, in particular parallel, surfaces, a first inner for support and for welding to the container and a second outer surface as a contact surface for the welder. The inner surface, and possibly also the outer surface, but can also be curved to adapt to the container.
  • the disc is preferred, but not necessarily round, in particular it may also be straight at the connection to the connecting means 4.
  • the Anschauss redesign 6 can also be parallelepiped. It is located directly on the closure cap body 2 so that only minimal residues remain on the closure cap body 2 from the seal extension 3 after the first opening.
  • the inventive closure cap 1 is preferably formed in one piece. Furthermore, it is preferably an injection molded part made of plastic.
  • Fig. 2 shows a container 9 for closing with the inventive cap.
  • the container may be, for example, a tube or a bottle.
  • the container may be a Polyfoil® laminate tube.
  • the cap is placed on a spout 11 with an opening 10.
  • the container 9 preferably has a weld-on surface 12 Welding the weld body 6 on.
  • the weld-on area 12 is preferably formed by a neck of the container which has approximately the same diameter as the container-side end of the closure cap 1, ie in the range of plus / minus 1 mm.
  • Fig. 3 shows the container 9 FIG. 2 after he with the cap 1 off FIG. 1 was sealed and the seal extension 3 was welded to the welding surface 12 of the container 9.
  • the welding of the weld body 6 to the welding surface 12 is preferably carried out by means of ultrasonic welding.
  • the closure cap 1 is preferably designed such that during assembly at the predetermined breaking points 5 a buckling takes place, so that they break more easily during the initial opening. This can be achieved in particular in that the sealing extension 3 after the injection molding, as in FIG. 1 shown initially protrudes substantially radially and then bent in a substantially axial direction.
  • the closure cap 1 is held on the spout of the container 9 at least through the sealing extension 3.
  • Fig. 4 shows the container FIG. 3 After the cap 1 lifted and the predetermined breaking points 5 were severed.
  • Fig. 5 shows the container FIG. 4 after the cap 1 has been completely removed.
  • the seal extension 3 remains on the container 9.
  • the seal extension is preferably welded by means of ultrasound to the container.
  • other types of attachment are possible, for example, other welding methods, attachment by gluing or attachment by means of a snap mechanism.
  • FIGS. 6 to 10 show a preferred embodiment in which the closure cap is provided with a removal means for the connecting means.
  • the same reference numerals as used heretofore denote the same elements.
  • two webs 4 are again provided with predetermined breaking points 5 on the cap as connecting means 4 between cap 2 and welding body 6, but it could also be provided only a web 4 or, for example, a wider, band-shaped web.
  • a removal means 14 is arranged on the closure cap and attached thereto, in particular integrally formed with the closure cap 2.
  • the removing means is a cutting means or a shearing means and serves for the removal of the connecting means 4 from the welding body 6 by means of the closure cap 2.
  • FIG. 6 shows the closed position, in which the unimpaired seal indicates that the guarantee closure of the container 9 has never been opened.
  • FIG. 7 shows a position during opening, in which by rotation of the cap 2, the predetermined breaking point 5 of the connecting means 4 or in this example, the two predetermined breaking points 5 of the two webs 4 are broken, so that the closure cap 2 of the connecting means 4 and the two webs 4 is solved.
  • the removal means 14 rotated with the rotation of the closure cap 2 is in the position shown in FIG FIG. 7 about to contact the remaining on the weld body 6 connecting means 4.
  • the removing means is formed so that it forms a cutting edge or shearing edge for the connecting means 4, which cuts off or shears this from the weld body 6, when the cap is rotated further in the opening direction.
  • a weakening zone or provided in this example in each case between the webs 4 and the weld body 6 a slashing zone be, which facilitates the cutting or shearing of the connecting means 4 and the webs 4 or the cutting or shear area defined more accurately than without weakening zone.
  • the weakening zone is in any case designed so that it does not yield when the closure cap is rotated to its opening instead of the predetermined breaking point, so that the opening of the guarantee closure is always accompanied by the destruction of the predetermined breaking point 5.
  • FIG. 8 shows the position of the closure cap, in which the connecting means 4 or the webs 4 has already been completely separated from the welding body by the removal means.
  • the now detached webs are denoted by 4 '.
  • the FIG. 9 shows the container 9 with it removed cap and it can be seen that the Verbidungsstoff 4 and the webs 4 are now largely removed from the weld body, so that protrude to this virtually no protruding remnants of the connecting means. This can be further improved if the end face of the weld body 6, to which the connecting means is connected to this, is a straight end side, so that the weld body is no longer circular, but only partially circular or square or rectangular.
  • FIG. 10 shows the cap 1 with its cap body 2 and the seal extension 3 with the weld body 6 and the connecting means 4. Further, the removal means 14 can be seen that is arranged on the cap body, that it is stationary with a welded body and rotating cap body 2, so in the situation as it results in a sealed container 9 at its opening, after a predetermined opening angle of rotation, the connecting means 4 separates from the weld body. Seen here are preferably provided Schwarzchungszonen 16 at the junction of weld body 6 and connecting means. 4

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  1. Capuchon (1) de fermeture d'un récipient, dans lequel pour la garantie d'une première ouverture il est prévu au moins un point (5) destiné à se rompre, dans lequel le capuchon (1) de fermeture a un corps (2) de capuchon de fermeture et un prolongement (3) formant scellé ayant un corps (6) de soudure pour le soudage au récipient (9) et le au moins un point (5) destiné à se rompre étant constitué pour interrompre une liaison entre le corps (2) du capuchon de fermeture et le corps (6) de soudure, caractérisé en ce que le capuchon (1) de fermeture a un moyen (4) de liaison entre le corps (2) du capuchon de fermeture et le corps (6) de soudure et un moyen (14) d'éloignement disposé sur le corps (2) du capuchon de fermeture, de façon à ce que, alors que le corps (6) de soudure est fixe et que le capuchon (1) de fermeture tourne lors de l'ouverture de la fermeture, le moyen (4) de liaison se sépare du corps (6) de soudure.
  2. Capuchon de fermeture suivant la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le moyen (4) de liaison est relié au corps (6) de soudure par une zone (16) d'affaiblissement.
  3. Capuchon de fermeture suivant l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'il est d'un seul tenant et est notamment une pièce moulée par injection.
  4. Capuchon de fermeture suivant l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le corps (6) de soudure est en forme de disque.
  5. Capuchon de fermeture suivant la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que le corps (6) de soudure est cylindrique ou parallélépipédique.
  6. Capuchon de fermeture suivant l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le corps (6) de soudure est relié au corps (2) du capuchon de fermeture par un moyen de liaison sous la forme d'une barrette ou de deux barrettes (4).
  7. Capuchon de fermeture suivant l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le au moins un point (5) destiné à se rompre est disposé directement sur le corps (2) du capuchon de fermeture.
  8. Capuchon de fermeture suivant l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'il a un filetage ou une bague à déclic.
  9. Capuchon de fermeture suivant l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'il a au moins une saillie (7) qui permet de diriger autour de son axe le capuchon de fermeture en ce qui concerne une rotation.
  10. Récipient ayant un capuchon de fermeture suivant l'une des revendications précédentes.
  11. Récipient ayant un capuchon de fermeture suivant la revendication 10, caractérisé en ce que le récipient (9) est un tube ou une bouteille.
  12. Récipient ayant un capuchon de fermeture suivant l'une des revendications 10 ou 11, caractérisé en ce qu'il a un col (12) pour le soudage du corps (6) de soudure, celui-ci ayant notamment sensiblement le même diamètre qu'une extrémité du capuchon (1) de fermeture se trouvant du côté du récipient.
  13. Récipient ayant un capuchon de fermeture suivant l'une des revendications 10 à 12, caractérisé en ce que le capuchon (1) de fermeture est conformé de façon à ce que, lorsque le récipient (9) est fermé, un soudage du corps (6) de soudure au récipient (9) n'est possible que si un coudage du au moins un point (5) destiné à se rompre est effectué auparavant.
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