CA1167005A - Container, especially disposable containers for beverage concentrates, with a preferably magnetic reusable dosing device, which can be attached to its opening - Google Patents

Container, especially disposable containers for beverage concentrates, with a preferably magnetic reusable dosing device, which can be attached to its opening

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CA1167005A
CA1167005A CA000385278A CA385278A CA1167005A CA 1167005 A CA1167005 A CA 1167005A CA 000385278 A CA000385278 A CA 000385278A CA 385278 A CA385278 A CA 385278A CA 1167005 A CA1167005 A CA 1167005A
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Hartmann Nelzow
Karlheinz Farber
Anton Deininger
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67BAPPLYING CLOSURE MEMBERS TO BOTTLES JARS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; OPENING CLOSED CONTAINERS
    • B67B7/00Hand- or power-operated devices for opening closed containers
    • B67B7/24Hole-piercing devices
    • B67B7/26Hole-piercing devices combined with spouts
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67DDISPENSING, DELIVERING OR TRANSFERRING LIQUIDS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B67D3/00Apparatus or devices for controlling flow of liquids under gravity from storage containers for dispensing purposes
    • B67D3/0003Apparatus or devices for controlling flow of liquids under gravity from storage containers for dispensing purposes provided with automatic fluid control means
    • GPHYSICS
    • G01MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01FMEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME
    • G01F11/00Apparatus requiring external operation adapted at each repeated and identical operation to measure and separate a predetermined volume of fluid or fluent solid material from a supply or container, without regard to weight, and to deliver it
    • G01F11/10Apparatus requiring external operation adapted at each repeated and identical operation to measure and separate a predetermined volume of fluid or fluent solid material from a supply or container, without regard to weight, and to deliver it with measuring chambers moved during operation
    • G01F11/12Apparatus requiring external operation adapted at each repeated and identical operation to measure and separate a predetermined volume of fluid or fluent solid material from a supply or container, without regard to weight, and to deliver it with measuring chambers moved during operation of the valve type, i.e. the separating being effected by fluid-tight or powder-tight movements
    • G01F11/14Apparatus requiring external operation adapted at each repeated and identical operation to measure and separate a predetermined volume of fluid or fluent solid material from a supply or container, without regard to weight, and to deliver it with measuring chambers moved during operation of the valve type, i.e. the separating being effected by fluid-tight or powder-tight movements wherein the measuring chamber reciprocates
    • G01F11/16Apparatus requiring external operation adapted at each repeated and identical operation to measure and separate a predetermined volume of fluid or fluent solid material from a supply or container, without regard to weight, and to deliver it with measuring chambers moved during operation of the valve type, i.e. the separating being effected by fluid-tight or powder-tight movements wherein the measuring chamber reciprocates for liquid or semiliquid

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Abstract

Abstract of the Disclosure:
Container assembly for beverage concentrates, including a container having an opening formed therein, a carrier disposed in the opening, a membrane-type seal disposed in the opening sealing the carrier to the container, a reusable measuring device having an end section for attachment to the container at the opening, at least one tab projecting from the end section for punching through the seal, and at least one barbed hook disposed on the at least one tab being solidly snappable-in on the carrier when attaching the measuring device to the container at the opening, the measuring device being detachable from the container after being attached exclusively by pulling the carrier from the opening.

Description

- --The invention relates to a container, especially a disposable container for beverage concentrates, with a prefçrably magnetic-.
ally-actuated,reusable measurer, attached to the opening of the container, the end section of the measurer adjoining the container opening being provided with at least one pro3ection for punching thnn~h a De~brane- like seal seated in the container opening.

As i9 known in the pertinent art, there exist containers of this type, which in most cases can be reused without any dif~iculties, if after consuming their original conten~s and removing a measurer which i9 usually mounted at the opening by a screw connection, they are refilled and in due course closed by a ~ ~ .
suboequent reattachment of the measurer. There is a danger assoclated with~such devices however, in that ins~ead of a high-grade concentrate having qpecific quality properties, one of a lower quality is filled into the container by mistake or even mlsuse. For the consumer therefore, with container~ of the dis-closed type, the expected uniform quality of a beverage pre-pared in an automatic beverage machine is not always guaranteed.

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Aside from the above, there is the fact that with prior art containers ~here is a danger present of polluting the concentrate by inexpert refills, so that the consumption of a beverage pre-pared in that way can 'occasionally be a health hazard. It is accordingly an object of the invention to provide a container, especially a disposable container for beverage concentrates, with a preferably magnetically-actuated, reusable measurer attached to the opening of the container, which overcomes the hereinafore-mentioned shortcomings of the heretofore-kno~n devices of this general type,' and to do so in such a way that any inexpert and fraudulent manipulations of its contents are safely eliminated, and only the applicable'original concentrate can be used for preparing beverages in an automatic beverage machine. With the foregoing and other objects in view there is provided, in accordance with the invention, a container assembly for beverage'concentrates, comprising a container, especially a disposable`container, having an opening formed therein, a carrier disposed in the opening, a membrane-type seal disposed in the opening sealing th'e carrier to the container, a reusable measurin~ device, which is preferably magnetically actuated, having an end section for attachment to the container at tXe opening, at least one tab pro;ecting from th'e end section for punching through the seal, and at least one ba~bed hook disposed on the at least one tab being solidly snappable-in on the carrier when attaching the measuring device to the container 1~670~5 at ~.the.opening, the measuring device being detachable from .the container after being attached exclusively by pulling or.Fipping the carrier from said oDeniDg .

Based on developing a container according to the invention, the ripout of the carrier produced by the measurer detachment safely `
avoid~ any inexpert or even repeated misuse of the container .; becauge of the carrier destruction after its single usage. Such a container can therefore be reused only if it is filled in a plant authorized to sell the original concentrate and is pro-vided with a seal having a new carrier.

In accordance with another feature of the invention, the seal has a rim formed thereon, the barbed hook has a notch formed therein, and the carrier is in the shape of a star having a centrally-tisposed solid plate snappable intc the. notch and having ridges extended substantially radially from the plate to the rim.

Tn accordance with a further feature of the invention, the ridge~ have prefabricated breaking points formed therein, pre-ferably at the container opening edge, the . breaking points being destroyed upon removal of the measuring device.

In accordance with an added feature of the invention, the membrane-type seal has segmen.*al-type membrane sealing inter-spaces between the ridges,. the rim and the plate.

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In accordance with an additional feature of the invention, there is provided a cylindrical ram having a hollow space formed there-in, being axially shiftable in the' measuring device into an impact position and having an opening formed therein at an im-pact side thereof , the plate bein~ in the orm ~f an impact stop and seal for the opening formed in It~e ram.

In accordance with again another feature of the invention, the-plate has a cavity centrally provided therein forming a portion of the plate extended toward the hollow space in the .' ram, the por'tion being partially disposed in th'e hollow space in the ram when ~the' ram is in the impact position.

In accordance with again a fu~ther feature of the invention, .the. measuring device has a cylindrical projection fonmed thereon and ~the~ seal h~s a rim formed thereon at :the opening being fitted against the cylindrical pro;ection.

In accordance with a cancomitant feature of the invention, the cyli~drical projection has a flange formed thereon being tightly applied to the rim.

Other features which are considered as characteristic for the invention are set forth in the appended claims.

Although the invention is illustrated and described herein as embodied in container, especially a disposable container for , , - . , .
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700~i -beverage concentrates, with a preferably magnetically-actuated reusable'measurer attached to the opening of the container, it is nevertheless not intended to be limited to the details shown since'various modifications and structural changes may be made therein without departing from the spirit of the invention and within the'scope'and range'of equivalents of the claims.

The''construction and method of operation of the invention, how-ever, together w~th'additional objects and advantages thereof - will be'best understood from the following description of spe-cific embodiments whén read in connection with the accompanying drawings,- in whi'ch:' Fig. 1 is a simplified, fragmentary, diagrammatic cross-sectional view of a container for a beverage concentrate with a down-wardly-pointed opening, and a seal seated in its opening, on which a m~asurer is mounted; and Fig. 2 is a top-plan view of the seal and measurer component parts.

Referring now to the figures of the drawing and first parti-cularly to Fig. 1 thereof, it is seen that a container for a beverage concentrate which is designated with reference numeral 10, is formed in the shape of a plastic bottle, and that in the downwardly pointed opening thereof, a seal 11 is seated. The seal which projects into the interior of the container 10 has a ,~ . . . . . .

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il~;7005 cylindrical rim 12, which is equipped with a flange 13 abutting the opening rim of the container 10, and the rim 12 is.inter-connected with the flange 13 by a rim-bordering metal ring 14.
The end of the rim 12 of the seal ll facing away from the flange 13 supports a carrier, which is constructed in the shape of a star carrier with a centrally-seated solid plate lS. Extending from the plate lS are radially-disposed ridges 16, the outer ends of which are seated at the cylindrical rim 12 of the seal lI. For purposes of simplification, the ridges 16 are shown as lying in the drawing plane.At the transition of the ridges 16 to the rim 12 of the seal ll, a respective breaking point 17 is locatet, the function of which will be explained further below.
The interspaces between the ridges l~, the plate 15, and the rim of the seal 11 are sealed by segmental-type membranes, which for the sake of simplicity are omitted in the drawing. The mem-branes are used for the hermetic closure of the interior of the container 10.
In the opening of the container lO provided with the seal 11, a measurer or measuring device 18 is seated. The measurer is generally con~tructed as a hollow cylinder equipped in its interior with a ram 20 that is operationally guided by an electromagnet 19. The adjoining end of the container 10 is equippet with a cylindrical projection 21, which is plugged into the cylindrical rim 12 of the seal ll seated in the con-tainer opening,u~der a tight fit. The container 10 is further " , . ' ., . , ,- ' .......................... . .

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provided with a flange 23 tightly applied against the opening rim of the container 10 with an intermediately-disposed O-ring 22.
At the end of the measurer adjoining the container 10, the measurer is equipped with a plurality of projections 24, at the free ends of which barb-type holder devices in the form of spring-loaded notch-hooks are seated. I~en attaching the measurer 18 to the container 10, the projections 24 are used for punching through the seal 11 in the area of the melbranes seated between the ridges 16, and then on a deeper plug-in of the measurer.
they are used for punching into the opening of the container 10 for a spring-loaded lock-in at the rim of solid plate 15 and thus for anchoring the'measurer so as to be ready for use on the'container 10. In the illustrated embodiment example, the plate 15 serves as a stop and a seal for the hollow cylindrical ram 20 being axially shiftable in the measurer 18, the ram being open at the end thereof turned toward the plate 15. Upon excitation of the eIectromagnet 19, the ram 20 is lifted'into a position shown in the drawing by a broken line. It thereby impacts its top edge against the plate 15.

As is equally indicated in Fig. 1 by broken lines, the plate 15 can be'equipped at its center with a cavity which is disposed against the holIow space of the ram 20, and which projects from above into the'hollow space of the ram 20. ~ith the _g_ .

illustrated and described embodiment example, the respective volume of the beverage concentrate dispensed by the measurer during one stroke can be varied in a simple way, i.e, by varying the construction of the cavlty. Thus it is feasible to use the same measurer for obtaining various volumes with various beverage concentrates. By deviating from the shown and described embodiment,instead of a star carrier, any other carrier construction can also be provided, as long as it is suitable for giving ~he measurer 18 applied to the container 10 a solid base and for preventing an unauthorized and fraudulent reuse of the container 10 subsequent to consuming its original contents.
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Claims (8)

The embodiments of the invention in which as exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:
1. Container assembly for beverage concentrates,comprising a container having an opening formed therein, a carrier disposed in said opening, a membrane-type seal disposed in said opening sealing said carrier to said container, a reusable measuring device having an end section for attach-ment to said container at said opening, at least one tab projecting from said end section for punching through said seal, and at least one barbed hook disposed on said at least one tab being solidly snappable-in on said carrier when attaching said measuring device to said container at said opening, said measuring device being detachable from said container after being attached exclusively by pulling said carrier from said opening.
2. Container assembly according to claim 1, wherein said seal has a rim formed thereon, said barbed hook has a notch formed therein, and said carrier is in the shape of a star having a centrally-disposed solid plate snappable into said notch and having ridges extended substantially radially from said plate to said rim.
3. Container assembly according to claim 2, wherein said ridges have prefabricated breaking points formed therein, said breaking points being destroyed upon removal of said measuring device.
4. Container assembly according to claims 2 or 3, wherein said membrane-type seal has segmental-type membranes sealing interspaces between said ridges, said rim and said plate.
5. Container according to claim 2, including a cylindrical ram having a hollow space formed therein being axially shiftable in said measuring device into an impact position and having an opening formed therein at an impact side thereof, said plate being in the form of an impact stop and seal for said opening formed in said ram.
6. Container according to claim 5, wherein said plate has a . cavity centrally provided therein forming a portion of said plate extended toward said hollow space in said ram, said portion being partially disposed in said hollow space in said ram when said ram is in said impact position.
7. Container according to claim 1, wherein said measuring device has a cylindrical projection formed thereon, and said seal has a rim formed thereon at said opening being fitted against said cylindrical projection.
8. Container according to claim 7, wherein said cylindrical projection has a flange formed thereon being tightly applied to said rim.
CA000385278A 1980-09-09 1981-09-04 Container, especially disposable containers for beverage concentrates, with a preferably magnetic reusable dosing device, which can be attached to its opening Expired CA1167005A (en)

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