Cover Member, Method of Producing One Such Member and Dispenser Comprising One Such Member

• US 20080296309A1
• Filed: 10/02/2006
• Published: 12/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aptar France S.A.S (AptarGroup Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Valois SAS (AptarGroup Incorporated)
• Inventors: Jourdin, Gilles, Mesnil, Cedric
• Application Number:
  US12/089,079
• Publication Number:
  US 20080296309A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 220/694
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 11/1049 Attachment arrangements comprising a deformable or resilient ferrule clamped or locked onto the neck of the container by displacing, e.g. sliding, a sleeve surrounding the ferrule
• CPC Class Codes: B21D 51/44 Making closures, e.g. caps folded of thin metal foils in the way of making paper caps B31D5/00; making closures in conjunction with applying same B67B

Abstract

A covering member (1) for mounting on a fastener ring (2), the ring and the covering member co-operating with each other to form a fastener device for fastening a dispenser system (3), such as a pump or a valve, on a receptacle neck (40), the covering member presenting a general configuration that is substantially cylindrical and that includes an outside wall (14) and an inside wall (15) for coming into clamping contact around the ring (2), the inside wall forming an array of grooves (16, 17) hollowed out in a base zone (151), the grooves extending in at least two different directions.

Claims

1. A covering member (1) for mounting on a fastener ring (2), the ring and the covering member co-operating with each other to form a fastener device for fastening a dispenser system (3), such as a pump or a valve, on a receptacle neck (40), the covering member presenting a general configuration that is substantially cylindrical and that includes an outside wall (14) and an inside wall (15) for coming into clamping contact around the ring (2), the inside wall forming an array of grooves (16, 17) hollowed out in a base zone (151), the covering member being characterized in that the grooves extend in at least two different directions.

2. A covering member according to claim 1, in which at least two grooves (16, 17) cross in such a manner as to form at least one intersection (18) of grooves.

3. A covering member according to claim 1, in which one fraction of the grooves (16) extends in a first direction, and another fraction of the grooves (17) extends in a second direction that is transverse to the first direction.

4. A covering member according to claim 1, in which the grooves extend in such a manner as to form a grid of lozenge shapes.

5. A covering member according to claim 1, in which the grooves extend in a repetitive pattern.

6. A covering member according to claim 1, in which the grooves are formed by displacing material, such that the grooves are bordered by lumps of displaced material that project from the base zone (151).

7. A method of manufacturing a covering member according to claim 1, the method comprising the following steps:

a) making a covering member by stamping metal; and

b) machining the grooves by removing material.

8. A method of manufacturing a covering member according to claim 5, the method comprising the following steps:

a) making a covering member by stamping metal; and

b) machining the grooves by displacing material.

9. A fluid dispenser comprising a receptacle, a dispenser system, and a fastener device that integrates a covering member according to any preceding claim.

10. A fluid dispenser according to claim 9, in which the base (151) presents an inside diameter that is slightly less than the outside diameter of the fastener ring, such that the material constituting the ring creeps into the array of grooves.