Container sealing device

• US 10,029,832 B2
• Filed: 12/03/2014
• Issued: 07/24/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tokan Kogyo Company Limited (Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Tokan Kogyo Company Limited (Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Isogai, Takamitsu
• Primary Examiner(s): Pickett, J. Gregory
• Assistant Examiner(s): WEINERTH, GIDEON R
• Application Number:
  US15/037,997
• Publication Number:
  US 20160288967A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,329 Days
• Field of Search: 215256, 215253, 215 49, 215251, 215329, 215252, 215 44, 215 45, 220277
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2251/0015 of the 41-type
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2251/0028 of the 51-type
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2251/0087 of the 47-type
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2251/009 of the 51-type
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 47/123 with internal parts
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 47/36 Closures with frangible parts adapted to be pierced, torn, or removed, to provide discharge openings B65D51/18 takes precedence; caps with piercable membranes B65D41/20, B65D41/50
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 51/18 Arrangements of closures with protective outer cap-like covers or of two or more co-operating closures B65D51/247 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 51/228 a major part of the inner closure being removed from the container after the opening
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 51/2814 the additional article or materials being released by piercing, cutting or tearing an element enclosing it

Abstract

A container sealing device includes a plug-opening mechanism part belonging to the inner plug 10 and the upper lid 20; and the plug-opening mechanism part has an upper-moving plug-opening mechanism A that opens the plug by rotating the upper lid 20 in a direction of loosening the upper lid with respect to the container 1 to thereby separate the separation part 12 from the body part 11 while holding the separation part 12 by a support part provided on an inner side of the upper lid 20; and a lower-moving plug-opening mechanism B that opens the plug by rotating the upper lid 20 in a direction of tightening the upper lid 20 with respect to the container 1 to thereby separate the separation part 12 from the body part 11 while holding the separation part 12 by the support part.

Claims

1. A container sealing device comprising:

an inner plug having a body part disposed integrally at a mouth part of a container and a separation part joined to the body part via a score and forming an opening by being separated from the body part;

an upper lid engaged with the separation part and screwed to the container or the body part so as to cover the inner plug;

a positioning mechanism that enables assembling of the inner plug to the upper lid such that a margin allowing tightening is provided between the upper lid and the inner plug when the inner plug is assembled to the upper lid, wherein the positioning mechanism has;

a convex part formed on either one of a lower surface of the upper lid and an upper surface of the inner plug, and a concave part formed at a facing spot on the other surface, and wherein the amount of rotation torque needed to tighten the upper lid is increased by press-fitting the convex part into the concave part; and

a plug-opening mechanism part belonging to the inner plug and the upper lid, the plug-opening mechanism part having an upper-moving plug-opening mechanism that opens the inner plug by rotating the upper lid in a direction of loosening the upper lid with respect to the container to thereby separate the separation part from the body part while holding the separation part by a support part provided on an inner side of the upper lid, and a lower-moving plug-opening mechanism that opens the inner plug by rotating the upper lid in a direction of tightening the upper lid with respect to the container to thereby separate the separation part from the body part while holding the separation part by the support part.

2. The container sealing device according to claim 1, wherein the support part of the upper lid and the separation part have projections which extend in a direction substantially perpendicular to an advance direction of the upper lid and which are formed on the support part and the separation part, respectively;

and are engaged with each other by riding over the projections of each other; and

the projections function at least as the upper-moving plug-opening mechanism.

3. The container sealing device according to claim 2, wherein:

the projections have a barb shape which facilitates pushing of the separation part into the support part rather than pulling out the separation part from the support part.

4. The container sealing device according to claim 1, wherein the plug-opening mechanism part serves as the upper-moving plug-opening mechanism and the lower-moving plug-opening mechanism and includes:

a first screwing part which is provided between a peripheral part of the upper lid and the container or the body part and which enables attachment and/or removal of the upper lid; and

a second screwing part which is provided between the support part of the upper lid and the separation part of the inner plug and which enables separation of the separation part from the body part during plug-opening, and wherein the second screwing part is in a threading relation opposite to the first screwing part.

5. The container sealing device according to claim 4, wherein:

in a state before plug-opening, a margin allowing tightening by the first screwing part is provided between the body part of the inner plug and the upper lid.