Container sealing device

• US 10,086,980 B2
• Filed: 01/24/2014
• Issued: 10/02/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2013
• 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
• Application Number:
  US14/762,417
• Publication Number:
  US 20150321798A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,712 Days
• Field of Search: 215256, 215253, 215 49, 215277, 215252, 215329, 215 44, 215 45, 220277, 222 81, 222 83
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2251/0015 of the 41-type
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2251/0087 of the 47-type
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 39/0052 made in more than one piece B65D39/02, B65D39/04, B65D39/06, B65D39/08 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 39/08 Threaded or like closure members secured by rotation; Bushes therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 47/106 with devices for removing frangible parts of the pouring element or of its closure
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 47/123 with internal parts
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 51/228 a major part of the inner closure being removed from the container after the opening

Abstract

An object is to provide a container sealing device which can perform an opening of an inner plug with a clear opening feeling. An inner plug 10 is assembled in advance to an upper closure 20 by using a second screwing part 52. At this time, since an assembling interval between a separation part 12 and the upper closure 20 can be adjusted by tip end parts 16t and 20u of a cylindrical part 16 which are first stoppers and the small-diameter cylinder part 20d, the second screwing part 52 can be brought into a lock state of being screwed to the deepest position or a state close to that. In opening the plug, the first screwing part 51 is loosened the second screwing part 52 is tightened, and the separation part 12 can be rapidly and reliably separated from a body part 10b of the inner plug 10.

Claims

1. A container sealing device provided with an inner plug and an upper closure and enabling attachment and detachment of the upper closure by a first screwing part provided between the upper closure and a container or the inner plug, wherein:

the inner plug has a body part releasably coupled to a separation part such that an opening is formed when the separation part detaches from the body part;

the upper closure has a support part for the separation part provided in the inner plug;

the separation part is coupled to the support part by a second screwing part provided between the support part and the separation part;

the second screwing part is in a reverse thread relation with respect to the first screwing part; and

a first stopper is provided between the separation part and the upper closure, wherein the separation part is screwed onto the second screwing part to a depth that the first stopper forms a contact between an upper end of the separation part and the upper closure and/or a lower end of the support part and the separation part, thereby preventing significant further advancement of the separation part onto the second screwing part,

wherein a second stopper is provided forming a contact between the upper closure and the body part of the inner plug, and wherein the second stopper is provided at a lower end of a second inner cylinder part provided at the upper closure.

2. The container sealing device according to claim 1, wherein the support part has a first inner cylinder part extending downward from a lower surface of a ceiling wall of the upper closure, the separation part has a cylindrical part extending upward from a sealing body connected to the body part of the inner plug, and the second screwing part is provided between the first inner cylinder part of the support part and the cylindrical part of the separation part.

3. The container sealing device according to claim 2, wherein the second screwing part has a male thread formed on an outer side surface of the first inner cylinder part of the support part, and wherein a female thread formed on an inner side surface of the cylindrical part of the separation part.

4. The container sealing device according to claim 1, wherein the first stopper is provided at least at either one of a lower end of the first inner cylinder part provided at the support part and an upper end of the cylindrical part extending upward from the sealing body provided on the separation part.

5. The container sealing device according to claim 1, wherein the upper closure has a recess part in which a tip end of the cylindrical part extending upward from the sealing body of the separation part is accommodated.

6. The container sealing device according to claim 1, wherein a score is provided between the body part of the inner plug and the separation part.

7. The container sealing device according to claim 1, wherein the body part of the inner plug is configured to be not deformed by the second stopper.

8. The container sealing device according to claim 1, wherein the second stopper extends in a first direction, and wherein the body part extends in a second direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction.

9. The container sealing device according to claim 1, wherein the second stopper is configured to maintain an interval between the body part of the inner plug and the upper closure.

10. The container sealing device according to claim 1, wherein the second stopper has a bottom surface facing the inner plug, and wherein the bottom surface contacts the body part of the inner plug.