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EP0598172B1 - Récipient et couvercle, réalisés en particulier par emboutissage d'une feuille de matière plastique - Google Patents

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EP0598172B1
EP0598172B1 EP93103552A EP93103552A EP0598172B1 EP 0598172 B1 EP0598172 B1 EP 0598172B1 EP 93103552 A EP93103552 A EP 93103552A EP 93103552 A EP93103552 A EP 93103552A EP 0598172 B1 EP0598172 B1 EP 0598172B1
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Hans Zettner
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  • the invention relates to a lid and a plastic container, wherein the lid is provided with a clamping edge which is at the bottom and which engages under a protruding neck of the container, the upper wall of the Lid runs largely flat and out to the edge is pulled and provided stacking means located outside the top wall which are a distance between when stacking several lids ensure the adjacent upper walls, of which stacking means several are provided that are spaced from each other and behind each other arranged and embossed in the downward clamping edge and as radially inward indentations are formed.
  • Such a container with Lid which is the subject of the preamble of claim 1, is disclosed in US 3,447,714.
  • lids are machined by a machine at high speed The stack was removed and placed on the containers to be sealed. It is it is very important that the lids are unstacked properly and not at the same time several lids are pulled off the stack. So you have very effective ones Steps and the like are provided as stacking aids on these lids, although fulfill the intended purpose very well, but also a large proportion occupy the top wall of the lid.
  • the invention has for its object a cover of the type mentioned to design that a perfect denesting is guaranteed and nevertheless no unnecessarily large part of the top wall has to be used for this.
  • the stacking means are completely independent of the top wall of the lid trained so that this is not affected.
  • Indentations are drawn in so far that they are below the outer Boundary edge of the top wall and thus serve as a stacking means.
  • FIG. 1 in FIG. 1 denotes a container deep-drawn from a plastic film, which shows a seal edge 2.
  • a sealing edge 2 Plastic existing sealing film 3 sealed.
  • the sealing edge 2 is on its outer edge with a circumferential attachment bent downwards 4 provided on which a lid 5 hooks.
  • This cover 5 consists of a flat top wall 6 to which a clamping edge 7 projecting downwards is molded. From the clamping edge 7 a clamping bead 8 protrudes inwards caught under approach 4. From the surface of the clamping edge 7 are Underneath the top wall indentations 9, which are in the Support the container when it is in place on the sealing edge 2.
  • the recesses 9 are supported on the upper wall of the respective underlying lid, whereby between the top walls there is a distance between two adjacent lids, which is mutual Stucking prevented.
  • a cover 55 with an inside of the Clamping edge 57 lying and inwardly drawn clamping bead 58, which is drawn in so far that it is below the outer one Boundary edge of the top wall 56 is.
  • This clamping bead 58 consists of individual, lying in a circumferential bead sections, which from the Are pushed out inwards.
  • This cover 55 is also located Top wall 56 on a sealed sealing film 3 of the container 1 and the clamping bead 58 is supported under the circumferential approach 4 of the sealing edge 2 from.
  • At the lower end of the clamping edge 57 is an outward Circumferential surface 51 formed, which has no support function, but for easier to grasp the lid placed on the container.
  • the shape of the Cover 65 largely that of the example of Figure 4, but is the peripheral edge 76 of the top wall 66 is pulled up slightly from its level.
  • the Clamping bead 68 which again consists of individual bead sections, leaned on top of each other when stacking several lids 65 hoisted peripheral edge 76 of the lid below, while he is placed on a container under its circumferential approach 4 takes hold.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Closures For Containers (AREA)
  • Blow-Moulding Or Thermoforming Of Plastics Or The Like (AREA)
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Claims (3)

  1. Couvercle et récipient en matière plastique (1), le couvercle (5, 55, 65) étant pourvu d'une bordure de serrage (7, 57, 67) s'étendant vers le bas, qui s'engage sous un appendice (4) faisant saillie du récipient (1), la paroi supérieure (6, 56, 66) du couvercle (5, 55, 65) s'étendant de façon notablement plane et étant tirée vers l'extérieur jusque dans la zone de bordure, et où sont prévus des moyens d'empilage (9, 58, 68) placés à l'extérieur de la paroi supérieure, qui, lors de l'empilage les uns sur les autres de plusieurs couvercles, assurent le maintien d'un espacement entre les parois supérieures voisines, où parmi ces moyens d'empilage, plusieurs étant prévus, disposés à distance les uns des autres et les uns derrière les autres et emboítes dans la bordure de serrage (7) s'étirant vers le bas et réalisés sous la forme d'anfractuosités (9, 58, 68) tournées radialement vers l'intérieur, caractérisés en ce que, lorsque le couvercle est à l'état appliqué sur le récipient (1), les anfractuosités (9, 58, 68) prennent appui sur la bordure (2) sous-jacente, respectivement l'appendice (4) du récipient (1).
  2. Couvercle et récipient en matière plastique selon la revendication 1, caractérisés en ce que les anfractuosités (9, 58, 68) s'étendent vers l'intérieur, de manière à être placés au-dessous de l'arête de délimitation extérieure de la paroi supérieure (56, 66), et servir ainsi de moyens d'empilement.
  3. Couvercle et récipient en matière plastique selon la revendication 2, caractérisés en ce que l'arête de délimitation extérieure (76) de la paroi supérieure (66) s'étend vers le haut, au moins légèrement à partir du plan de la paroi supérieure (66).
EP93103552A 1992-11-19 1993-03-05 Récipient et couvercle, réalisés en particulier par emboutissage d'une feuille de matière plastique Expired - Lifetime EP0598172B1 (fr)

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DE4238890A DE4238890A1 (de) 1992-11-19 1992-11-19 Deckel, insbesondere aus einer Kunststoffolie tiefgezogener Deckel

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