Closure device with hooks in hooks having a sensory effect

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10273057-B2
Application number	US-201515520699-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 27, 2015
Priority date	Oct 31, 2014
Publication date	Apr 30, 2019
Grant date	Apr 30, 2019

Abstract

Device for closing the opening of a sack, in particular a sack made of flexible material, including a first element with hooks and a second element with hooks, the hooks (9) of the two elements engaging into one another to achieve the closure of the opening, each element with hooks including a base strip (7, 8) and hooks coming from the strip.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A device for closing an opening of a bag, especially a bag made of flexible material, comprising on a one hand a first element with hooks, and on a other hand a second element with hooks, the hooks of the two elements engaging into one another to achieve the closure of the opening, each element with hooks comprising a base strip and hooks extending from the strip, characterized in that the material or materials and/or the dimension or dimensions of the elements with hooks is/are chosen such that when the two elements with hooks are positioned with their respective hooks facing one another between an immobile structure and a mobile structure moving towards the immobile structure in order to compress the hooks of the two elements with hooks into one another, and a curve giving a compressive force applied by the mobile structure as a function of the movement of the mobile structure is traced, such that a curve is obtained that has a section that rises to a first local maximum (B), and next a section then falling to a local minimum (C), after which there is once again a rising section, and an energy well E BD , equal to a product of force F B at the first local maximum (B) times a distance (BD) of the first local maximum (B) at a point (D) of intersection of the curve with a horizontal straight line passing via the first local maximum (B), less a work W BD , i.e. ((F B ×BD)−W BD ) is greater than 0.7 times a work provided W AB by the mobile structure between a point (A) from which the force starts to rise to the first local maximum (B).

2. The device according to claim 1 , characterized in that the energy well E BD is 1.00 times greater than the work provided W AB by the mobile structure between a point (A) from which the force starts to increase to the first local maximum (B).

3. The device according to claim 1 , characterized in that the distance (BD) from the first local maximum (B) to the intersection point (D) of the curve with the horizontal straight line passing via the first local maximum (B) is greater than 0.45 mm.

4. The device according to claim 3 , characterized in that the distance (BD) from the first local maximum (B) to the point (D) of intersection of the curve with the horizontal straight line passing via the first local maximum (B) is between 0.5 mm and 2.0 mm.

5. The device according to claim 1 , characterized in that a force (F B ) of the curve at the first local maximum (B) is greater than two times a force (F e ) of the curve at the local minimum (C).

6. The device according to claim 5 , characterized in that the force (F B ) of the curve at the first local maximum (B) is greater than five times the force (F C ) of the curve at the local minimum (C).

7. The device according to claim 1 , characterized in that a force (F c ) is less than 7N.

8. The device according to claim 7 , characterized in that the force (F c ) is less than 5N.

9. The device according to claim 1 , characterized in that a absolute value of the slope of a straight line (AB) passing from point (A) from which the force starts to increase to the first local maximum (B) is strictly less than an absolute value of the slope of a straight line (BC) passing from the first local maximum (B) to the local minimum (C).

10. The device according to claim 1 , characterized in that at least one of the elements with hooks comprises hooks extending from a base strip, each hook comprising a part that forms a stem and a part that forms a head that protrudes laterally from the part forming the stem, and an arrangement is such that when the two elements engage into one another, the uppermost point of the head of each hook of said at least one of the hooking elements remains a given distance away from the base strip of the other element with hooks.

11. The device according to claim 10 , characterized in that the ratio of the given distance to the height of the stem is between 10% and 70%.

12. The device of claim 10 , wherein, characterized in that the ratio of the given distance to the height of the stem is between 20% and 50%.

13. The device according to claim 1 , characterized in that the two elements with hooks each comprise a base strip and hooks extending from the respective base strip, each element with hooks comprising a part forming a stem and a part forming a head that protrudes laterally from the part forming the stem and, when the bag is closed, an uppermost point of the each hook of one of the elements with hooks remains a distance away from the base strip of the other element with hooks, and vice versa.

14. The device according to claim 1 , characterized in that the hooks of at least one of the two elements with hooks, are arranged in a plurality of rows, and the distance between two adjacent hooks along a row is greater than or equal to the respective dimension of the hooks measured along said row.

15. The device of claim 14 , characterized in that the hooks of both of the two elements with hooks are arranged in a plurality of rows, and the distance between two adjacent hooks along a row is greater than or equal to the respective dimension of the hooks measured along said row.

16. The device according to claim 1 , characterized in that the first local maximum (B) is between 10 N and 35 N.

17. The device according to claim 16 , characterized in that the first local maximum (B) is between 15 N and 25 N.

18. The device according to claim 1 , characterized in that a “click” coefficient equal to the ratio of the square of the value of a force at point B to a value of the projection of the segment AB over a horizontal axis is between 100 and 500 N 2 /mm.

19. The device of claim 18 , wherein the “click” coefficient equal to the ratio of the square of the value of the force at point B to the value of the projection of the segment AB over the horizontal axis is between 150 and 500 N 2 /mm.

Assignees

• Aplix Sa

Inventors

• Freulon Arnaud Thierry Jean-Marie
• Mahe Anthony Bertrand Patrick

Classifications

• A44B18/0015

  Male or hook elements (A44B18/0007 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B65B61/188

  by applying or incorporating profile-strips, e.g. for reclosable bags · CPC title

• B65D33/25 Primary

  Riveting; Dovetailing; Screwing; using press buttons or slide fasteners · CPC title

• A44B18/0007 Primary

  in which each part has similar elements · CPC title

• A44B18/0053

  in which each part has similar elements · CPC title