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US20010035392A1 US09/840,905 US84090501A US2001035392A1 US 20010035392 A1 US20010035392 A1 US 20010035392A1 US 84090501 A US84090501 A US 84090501A US 2001035392 A1 US2001035392 A1 US 2001035392A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D1/00—Containers having bodies formed in one piece, e.g. by casting metallic material, by moulding plastics, by blowing vitreous material, by throwing ceramic material, by moulding pulped fibrous material, by deep-drawing operations performed on sheet material
    • B65D1/02—Bottles or similar containers with necks or like restricted apertures, designed for pouring contents
    • B65D1/0223—Bottles or similar containers with necks or like restricted apertures, designed for pouring contents characterised by shape
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D79/00—Kinds or details of packages, not otherwise provided for
    • B65D79/005—Packages having deformable parts for indicating or neutralizing internal pressure-variations by other means than venting
    • B65D79/008—Packages having deformable parts for indicating or neutralizing internal pressure-variations by other means than venting the deformable part being located in a rigid or semi-rigid container, e.g. in bottles or jars
    • B65D79/0084—Packages having deformable parts for indicating or neutralizing internal pressure-variations by other means than venting the deformable part being located in a rigid or semi-rigid container, e.g. in bottles or jars in the sidewall or shoulder part thereof
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D2501/00—Containers having bodies formed in one piece
    • B65D2501/0009—Bottles or similar containers with necks or like restricted apertures designed for pouring contents
    • B65D2501/0018—Ribs
    • B65D2501/0036—Hollow circonferential ribs
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D2501/00—Containers having bodies formed in one piece
    • B65D2501/0009—Bottles or similar containers with necks or like restricted apertures designed for pouring contents
    • B65D2501/0081—Bottles of non-circular cross-section

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  • the present invention relates a bottle-type plastic container that can be charged with liquid contents at a higl temperature.
  • JP-A-07-172,423 discloses a bottle-type plastic container wherein an inward deflection of the barrel portion is absorbed by absorption grooves having an arcuate cross-section.
  • a bottle-type plastic container comprising a barrel portion and an opening in one end region of the barrel, for allowing liquid contents to be charged into the container and discharged therefrom; said barrel portion having a generally polygonal cross-section that is defined by a plurality of substantially flat walls, and further having a plurality of part-cylindrical corner walls extending contiguously between said flat walls; said flat walls each having a shape that is deflected inwards as the liquid contents charged into the container at a high temperature is cooled, to thereby absorb a pressure drop within the container; and said corner walls each having a center line of curvature that extends in parallel with a longitudinal direction of the container, and having a radius of curvature that decreases as the pressure drop is absorbed by the deflection of the flat walls.
  • each of the corner walls of the barrel portion has a center line of curvature that extends in parallel with a longitudinal direction of the container, and has a radius of curvature that decreases as the pressure drop is absorbed by the deflection of the flat walls.
  • the corner walls of the barrel portion serve as a reinforcing column to provide an improved buckling strength of the container.
  • each of the flat walls has at least one reinforcing rib.
  • the reinforcing rib extends in a direction that is parallel to a surface on which the container is adapted to stand.
  • Such reinforcing ribs serve to prevent bulging out of the flat walls when the container is charged with contents, and serve to maintain the shape of the barrel portion upon the pressure drop within the container.
  • At least two of the flat walls forming part of the barrel portion are parallel to each other. It is preferred, in this connection, that the barrel portion has a generally square cross-section.
  • Such a cross-sectional geometry of the container ensures that, when a series of containers are successively transferred along a conveyor in a beverage factory, neighboring containers are brought into a stable contact with each other to realize an improved alignment stability.
  • FIG. 1 is a front view of the bottle-type plastic container according to one embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a view showing the container of FIG. 1 diagonally to the front;
  • FIG. 3 is a bottom view of the container of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along the line IV-IV in FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 5 is a schematic view showing the inward deflection of the barrel portion
  • FIGS. 6A to 6 C are schematic views showing an improved alignment stability of the container achieved by the present invention.
  • FIG. 7 is a sectional view similar to FIG. 4 but showing a bottle-type container according to another embodiments of the present invention.
  • FIGS. 1 to 4 there is shown a bottle-type plastic container according to one embodiment of the present invention.
  • the container includes a barrel portion 1 and an opening 2 in one end region of the barrel 1 , for allowing liquid contents to be charged into the container and discharged therefrom.
  • the container according to the present invention may be comprised of appropriate synthetic resin, typically polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resin.
  • PET polyethylene terephthalate
  • the container may be comprised of polyamid resin, polycarbonate resin, polyacetal resin, polybuthylene terephthalate resin or other synthetic resin having a sufficient resistance to chemicals.
  • the container may be formed by known molding process, such as a biaxial orientation blow molding process or a direct blow molding process.
  • the barrel portion 1 has a generally polygonal cross-section, i.e., a square cross-section in the illustrated embodiment.
  • the polygonal cross-section of the barrel portion 1 is defined by a plurality of substantially flat walls 3 , as well as a plurality of part-cylindrical corner walls 4 extending contiguously between the flat walls 3 .
  • Each flat wall 3 has a shape that is deflected inwards, i.e., toward the longitudinal axis of the container, as the liquid contents charged into the container at a high temperature is cooled to a room temperature. Such deflection of the flat walls 3 serves to absorb a pressure drop within the container. It is preferred that each flat wall 3 has at least one reinforcing rib 5 that extends horizontally when the container is standing on a support, such as a conveyor in a beverage factory or a table at home. These reinforcing ribs 5 effectively prevent bulging out of the flat walls 3 when the container is charged with contents, and serve to maintain the shape of the barrel portion 1 upon the pressure drop within the container.
  • each corner wall 4 has a center line of curvature that extends in parallel with a longitudinal direction of the container, and a radius of curvature R that decreases to a smaller radius R′ as the pressure drop is absorbed by the deflection of the flat walls 3 .
  • the square cross-sectional geometry of the container includes two pairs of flat walls 3 forming part of the barrel portion 1 , wherein opposed flat walls 3 of the adjacent containers are parallel to each other. It is thus possible to ensure that, when a series of containers are successively transferred along a conveyor in a beverage factory, neighboring containers are brought into a stable contact with each other to realize an improved alignment stability.
  • the unique cross-sectional geometry of the container according to the present invention also provides a practical advantage that, when a series of containers are successively transferred along a conveyor in a beverage factory, neighboring containers are brought into a stable contact with each other to realize an improved alignment stability.
  • FIG. 7 A modified embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIG. 7, wherein the barrel portion of a plastic container is enclosed by a heat shrink label 6 .
  • the part-cylindrical corner wall 4 of the barrel portion 1 are directly connected to each other by the shrink label 6 whereby the corner walls 4 functioning as reinforcing columns are further reinforced by the beams that are formed by the heat shrink label 6 . It is thus possible to realize a further improved bucking strength of the container.
  • the present invention provides an improved bottle-type plastic container that can be charged with liquid contents at a high temperature, and that exhibits a sufficient buckling strength against a load applied to the container in its longitudinal direction, even after the cooling of the contents and the resultant pressure drop within the container.
  • the improved container according to the present invention can be highly efficiently produced at a low cost, without requiring substantial changes to existing facilities.

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A bottle-type plastic container has a barrel portion and an opening at one end region of the barrel, for allowing liquid contents to be charged into the container and discharged therefrom. The barrel portion has a generally polygonal cross-section defined by a plurality of substantially flat walls, and a plurality of part-cylindrical corner walls extending contiguously between the flat walls. The flat walls each has a shape that is deflected inwards as the liquid contents charged into the container at a high temperature is cooled, to absorb a pressure drop within the container. The corner walls each has a center line of curvature extending in parallel with a longitudinal axis of the container, and a radius of curvature that decreases as the pressure drop is absorbed by the flat walls.

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    BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
  • 1. Field of the Invention [0001]
  • The present invention relates a bottle-type plastic container that can be charged with liquid contents at a higl temperature. [0002]
  • 2. Description of Related Art [0003]
  • When a bottle-type plastic container is charged with liquid contents at a high temperature of 80-95° C., for example, it is generally inevitable that the shape of the container at its barrel portion changes due to a pressure drop within the container, which occurs as s result of cooling of the contents to a room temperature. Thus, JP-A-07-172,423 discloses a bottle-type plastic container wherein an inward deflection of the barrel portion is absorbed by absorption grooves having an arcuate cross-section. [0004]
  • It would be highly desirable that a bottle-type plastic container charged with liquid contents at a high temperature exhibits a sufficient buckling strength against a load applied to the container in its longitudinal direction, even after the cooling of the contents and the resultant pressure drop within the container. [0005]
    • SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
  • It is therefore a primary object of the present invention to provide an improved bottle-type plastic container that can be charged with liquid contents at a high temperature, and that exhibits a sufficient buckling strength against a load applied to the container in its longitudinal direction, even after the cooling of the contents and the resultant pressure drop within the container. [0006]
  • To this end, according to the present invention, there is provided a bottle-type plastic container comprising a barrel portion and an opening in one end region of the barrel, for allowing liquid contents to be charged into the container and discharged therefrom; said barrel portion having a generally polygonal cross-section that is defined by a plurality of substantially flat walls, and further having a plurality of part-cylindrical corner walls extending contiguously between said flat walls; said flat walls each having a shape that is deflected inwards as the liquid contents charged into the container at a high temperature is cooled, to thereby absorb a pressure drop within the container; and said corner walls each having a center line of curvature that extends in parallel with a longitudinal direction of the container, and having a radius of curvature that decreases as the pressure drop is absorbed by the deflection of the flat walls. [0007]
  • With the above-mentioned arrangement of the bottle-type plastic container according to the present invention, each of the corner walls of the barrel portion has a center line of curvature that extends in parallel with a longitudinal direction of the container, and has a radius of curvature that decreases as the pressure drop is absorbed by the deflection of the flat walls. Thus, after the container has been subjected to a pressure drop, the corner walls of the barrel portion serve as a reinforcing column to provide an improved buckling strength of the container. [0008]
  • Advantageously, each of the flat walls has at least one reinforcing rib. It this instance, it is preferred that the reinforcing rib extends in a direction that is parallel to a surface on which the container is adapted to stand. Such reinforcing ribs serve to prevent bulging out of the flat walls when the container is charged with contents, and serve to maintain the shape of the barrel portion upon the pressure drop within the container. [0009]
  • Also advantageously, at least two of the flat walls forming part of the barrel portion are parallel to each other. It is preferred, in this connection, that the barrel portion has a generally square cross-section. Such a cross-sectional geometry of the container ensures that, when a series of containers are successively transferred along a conveyor in a beverage factory, neighboring containers are brought into a stable contact with each other to realize an improved alignment stability.[0010]
    • BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
  • The present invention will be explained below in further detail, with reference to the preferred embodiments shown in the drawings, in which: [0011]
  • FIG. 1 is a front view of the bottle-type plastic container according to one embodiment of the present invention; [0012]
  • FIG. 2 is a view showing the container of FIG. 1 diagonally to the front; [0013]
  • FIG. 3 is a bottom view of the container of FIG. 1; [0014]
  • FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along the line IV-IV in FIG. 1; [0015]
  • FIG. 5 is a schematic view showing the inward deflection of the barrel portion; [0016]
  • FIGS. 6A to [0017] 6C are schematic views showing an improved alignment stability of the container achieved by the present invention; and
  • FIG. 7 is a sectional view similar to FIG. 4 but showing a bottle-type container according to another embodiments of the present invention.[0018]
    • DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
  • Referring now to FIGS. [0019] 1 to 4, there is shown a bottle-type plastic container according to one embodiment of the present invention. The container includes a barrel portion 1 and an opening 2 in one end region of the barrel 1, for allowing liquid contents to be charged into the container and discharged therefrom.
  • The container according to the present invention may be comprised of appropriate synthetic resin, typically polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resin. Alternatively, however, the container may be comprised of polyamid resin, polycarbonate resin, polyacetal resin, polybuthylene terephthalate resin or other synthetic resin having a sufficient resistance to chemicals. The container may be formed by known molding process, such as a biaxial orientation blow molding process or a direct blow molding process. [0020]
  • The [0021] barrel portion 1 has a generally polygonal cross-section, i.e., a square cross-section in the illustrated embodiment. The polygonal cross-section of the barrel portion 1 is defined by a plurality of substantially flat walls 3, as well as a plurality of part-cylindrical corner walls 4 extending contiguously between the flat walls 3.
  • Each [0022] flat wall 3 has a shape that is deflected inwards, i.e., toward the longitudinal axis of the container, as the liquid contents charged into the container at a high temperature is cooled to a room temperature. Such deflection of the flat walls 3 serves to absorb a pressure drop within the container. It is preferred that each flat wall 3 has at least one reinforcing rib 5 that extends horizontally when the container is standing on a support, such as a conveyor in a beverage factory or a table at home. These reinforcing ribs 5 effectively prevent bulging out of the flat walls 3 when the container is charged with contents, and serve to maintain the shape of the barrel portion 1 upon the pressure drop within the container.
  • Further, each [0023] corner wall 4 has a center line of curvature that extends in parallel with a longitudinal direction of the container, and a radius of curvature R that decreases to a smaller radius R′ as the pressure drop is absorbed by the deflection of the flat walls 3.
  • The square cross-sectional geometry of the container includes two pairs of [0024] flat walls 3 forming part of the barrel portion 1, wherein opposed flat walls 3 of the adjacent containers are parallel to each other. It is thus possible to ensure that, when a series of containers are successively transferred along a conveyor in a beverage factory, neighboring containers are brought into a stable contact with each other to realize an improved alignment stability.
  • With reference to FIG. 5, when the container shown in FIGS. [0025] 1 to 4 is charged with liquid contents at a high temperature of 80-95° C., for example, and the contents then undergo a gradual cooling to a room temperature, the flat walls 3 of the barrel portion 1 are deflected inwards as shown by arrows, to thereby absorb a pressure drop within the container. Simultaneously, the radius of curvature R of the corner walls 4 between these flat walls 3 is decreased to a smaller radius R′ so that the corner walls 4 serve as a reinforcing column to provide an improved buckling strength of the container.
  • The unique cross-sectional geometry of the container according to the present invention, wherein at least two of the flat walls forming part of the barrel portion are parallel to each other, also provides a practical advantage that, when a series of containers are successively transferred along a conveyor in a beverage factory, neighboring containers are brought into a stable contact with each other to realize an improved alignment stability. [0026]
  • With reference to FIGS. 6A and 6B, when a series of conventional bottle-type plastic containers are successively transferred along a conveyor in a beverage factory, adjacent containers, of which the flat walls have been more or less subjected to bulging out, tend to be brought into a single line contact with each other thereby generating side forces as shown by arrows in FIG. 6A. As a result, the containers tend to be rotated about the respective center axes as shown in FIG. 6B, making it difficult to achieve an orderly alignment of the containers. On the other hand, according to the present invention, adjacent containers while being transferred along a conveyor are brought into contact with each other along two lines at the [0027] opposite corner walls 4, as shown in FIG. 6C, so that the orientation of the containers about the respective longitudinal axes can be maintained stably, thereby facilitating further processing and/or handling of the containers at a beverage factory.
  • A modified embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIG. 7, wherein the barrel portion of a plastic container is enclosed by a [0028] heat shrink label 6. In this instance, when the container is subjected to a pressure drop upon cooling of high temperature liquid contents, the part-cylindrical corner wall 4 of the barrel portion 1 are directly connected to each other by the shrink label 6 whereby the corner walls 4 functioning as reinforcing columns are further reinforced by the beams that are formed by the heat shrink label 6. It is thus possible to realize a further improved bucking strength of the container.
  • It will be appreciated that the present invention provides an improved bottle-type plastic container that can be charged with liquid contents at a high temperature, and that exhibits a sufficient buckling strength against a load applied to the container in its longitudinal direction, even after the cooling of the contents and the resultant pressure drop within the container. The improved container according to the present invention can be highly efficiently produced at a low cost, without requiring substantial changes to existing facilities. [0029]
  • While the present invention has been described above with reference to specific embodiments, it is needless to say that various changes and/or modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the invention. [0030]

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1. A bottle-type plastic container comprising a barrel portion and an opening in one end region of the barrel, for allowing liquid contents to be charged into the container and discharged therefrom;
said barrel portion having a generally polygonal cross-section that is defined by a plurality of substantially flat walls, and further having a plurality of part-cylindrical corner walls extending contiguously between said flat walls;
said flat walls each having a shape that is deflected inwards as the liquid contents charged into the container at a high temperature is cooled, to thereby absorb a pressure drop within the container; and
said corner walls each having a center line of curvature that extends in parallel with a longitudinal axis of the container, and having a radius of curvature that decreases as the pressure drop is absorbed by the deflection of the flat walls.
2. A bottle-type plastic container according to
claim 1
, wherein each of said flat walls has at least one reinforcing rib.
3. A bottle-type plastic container according to
claim 2
, wherein each of said at least one reinforcing rib extends in a direction that is parallel to a surface on which the container is adapted to stand.
4. A bottle-type plastic container according to
claim 1
, wherein at least two of said flat walls are parallel to each other.
5. A bottle-type plastic container according to
claim 1
, wherein said barrel portion has a generally square cross-section.
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