Spout cap, spout, and container with spout

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11897669-B2
Application number	US-202017290604-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 27, 2020
Priority date	Jan 31, 2019
Publication date	Feb 13, 2024
Grant date	Feb 13, 2024

Abstract

The spout cap of the present invention includes: a cap body that tubularly surrounds a mouth portion of a spout body, and is an injection molded article made of resin; and a sealing film that is bonded to one side in a penetration direction of the cap body and can be thermally bonded to a tip surface of the mouth portion. The cap body includes a tubular body portion, and a tab portion disposed outside in a caliber direction with respect to the body portion. The tab portion includes a tab base portion that projects outward in the caliber direction from the other side in the penetration direction of the body portion, and a tab body portion that extends from the tab base portion toward the one side in the penetration direction and faces the body portion on an outside in the caliber direction.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A spout cap comprising: a cap body that is an injection molded article made of resin, and tubularly surrounds a mouth portion of a spout body; and a sealing film that is a laminated film, and is bonded to one side in a tubular penetration direction of the cap body and can be thermally bonded to a tip surface of the mouth portion to seal the mouth portion of the spout body, wherein
the cap body includes a tubular body portion, and a tab portion disposed outside in a caliber direction of the body portion,
the body portion includes a tubular body portion main body and a pedestal portion projecting inward in the caliber direction from an inner peripheral surface of the body portion main body,
the body portion main body includes:
a pair of discontinuous slit portions, each extending in a circumferential direction of the body portion and penetrating in the caliber direction of the body portion;
a first small body portion located on the one side in the penetration direction with the pair of slit portions as boundaries; and
a second small body portion located on other side in the penetration direction with the pair of slit portions as the boundaries,

the pair of slit portions are located on the other side in the penetration direction with respect to the pedestal portion,
the sealing film is joined with a surface of the pedestal portion at the one side in the penetration direction,
the tab portion includes a tab base portion that projects outward in the caliber direction from the other side in the penetration direction of the body portion, and a tab body portion that extends from the tab base portion toward the one side in the penetration direction and faces the body portion on an outside in the caliber direction, and
the tab body portion is annular and can be deformed outward in the caliber direction of the body portion with respect to the tab base portion.

2. The spout cap according to claim 1 , wherein
the tab body portion includes a bifurcated portion extending to the one side in the penetration direction while branching in the circumferential direction of the body portion from the tab base portion, and a finger hook portion that joins both end portions on the one side of the bifurcated portion and is hooked by a finger, and
the finger hook portion is disposed outside in the caliber direction of the body portion with respect to the tab base portion.

3. The spout cap according to claim 2 , wherein the finger hook portion is disposed apart outward in the caliber direction of the body portion from the tab base portion.

4. The spout cap according to claim 2 , wherein
the body portion includes an arcuate arc portion that bulges outward in the caliber direction when viewed from the penetration direction, and
the finger hook portion also has an arcuate shape that bulges outward in the caliber direction when viewed from the penetration direction of the body portion, and is disposed apart outward in the caliber direction from the arc portion.

5. The spout cap according to claim 1 , wherein
the body portion includes a pair of breaking portions that breakably joins both sides in the circumferential direction with respect to the tab base portion and extends toward one side from the other side end in the penetration direction of the body portion, the pair of slit portions extending in the circumferential direction from the one side end of the pair of breaking portions, and a pair of intermediate joint portions that joins the first small body portion and the second small body portion between the pair of slit portions, and
the intermediate joint portion on an opposite side of the tab portion out of the pair of intermediate joint portions is a hinge portion.

6. A spout comprising the spout cap according to claim 1 and the spout body attached to a mouth portion of a container body.

7. A container with a spout comprising the spout according to claim 6 and the container body.

Assignees

• Hosokawa Yoko Kk

Inventors

• Tanaka Hideki
• Miyawaki Ryosuke

Classifications

• B65D47/36 Primary

  Closures with frangible parts adapted to be pierced, torn or removed, to provide discharge openings (caps with pierceable membranes B65D41/20, B65D41/50; arrangements of closures with protective outer cap-like covers or of two or more co-operating closures B65D51/18) · CPC title

• B65D75/5861

  Spouts (B65D75/5811, B65D75/5822 take precedence) · CPC title

• B65D2547/063

  Details of spouts · CPC title

• B65D55/024 Primary

  Closures in which a part has to be ruptured to gain access to the contents (B65D41/32, B65D43/0235, B65D55/022, B65D55/06 take precedence) · CPC title

• B65D47/38 Primary

  with piercing means arranged to act subsequently as a valve to control the opening · CPC title