Cap, mold and manufacturing method of cap

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11905073-B2
Application number	US-202016823551-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 19, 2020
Priority date	Sep 22, 2017
Publication date	Feb 20, 2024
Grant date	Feb 20, 2024

Abstract

A cap comprises a cap body including a top plate portion and a skirt portion integrally provided with the top plate portion through a corner portion and screwed to a mouth portion of a can container, and a disk-shaped sealing member including a sliding layer which is provided separately from the cap body to face the top plate portion, includes a protrusion portion formed on an outer peripheral side of a portion opposed to the mouth portion when the cap body is screwed with the can container and gradually decreasing in thickness toward an outer peripheral edge, and slides on the top plate portion and a sealing layer which is integrally provided with the sliding layer and seals the mouth portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A cap comprising:
a cap body including a top plate portion, and a skirt portion integrally provided with the top plate portion through a curved corner portion having an annular shape, wherein the cap body is screwed to a mouth portion of a can container; and
a disk-shaped sealing member including a sliding layer which is provided separately from the cap body to face the top plate portion, the siding layer includes a protrusion portion formed on an outer peripheral side of a portion opposed to the mouth portion when the cap body is screwed with the can container, the protrusion portion gradually decreasing in thickness toward an outer peripheral edge, and slides on the top plate portion, the protrusion portion being an annular protruding shape inclined with respect to an axial direction of the sliding layer, and a sealing layer is provided on the surface on the opposite side of the surface facing the top plate portion of the sliding layer including the protrusion portion; and wherein an outer diameter of the sealing layer is either the same as an outer diameter of the sliding layer or larger than an outer diameter of the sliding layer.

2. The cap according to claim 1 , wherein an outer peripheral side of the sealing layer than a portion opposed to the mouth portion is thinner than a thickness of the portion opposed to the mouth portion.

3. The cap according to claim 2 , wherein the sliding layer includes a flat plate portion formed in a flat plate shape from a center to the outer peripheral side of the portion opposed to the mouth portion, a curved surface portion gradually decreasing in thickness from the outer peripheral side of the portion opposed to the mouth portion toward the outer peripheral edge, and the protrusion portion formed at the outer peripheral edge of a main surface of the curved surface portion on a side of the sealing layer and inclined with respect to an axial direction of the flat plate portion and a surface direction of a main surface of the flat plate portion.

4. A mold comprising:
a lower mold including a recess formed in a same shape as an outer shape of a top plate portion of a molded product constituting a cap body formed with the top plate portion and a skirt portion integrally provided with the top plate portion through a curved corner portion having an annular shape and an outer shape of at least a part of the corner portion;
a first upper mold which has an outer diameter equal to an inner diameter of the skirt portion or capable of preventing inflow of a resin material, includes a flat chamfered portion at a ridge portion between an end surface and an outer peripheral surface, and molds a sliding layer of a sealing member provided separately from the cap body, the flat chamfered portion forming a protrusion portion, the protrusion portion being an annular protruding shape inclined with respect to an axial direction of the sliding layer;
a second upper mold which has an outer diameter equal to the inner diameter of the skirt portion or capable of preventing inflow of a resin material, includes an end surface facing the lower mold, and molds a sealing layer of the sealing member onto and covering at least a portion of the protrusion portion of the sliding layer; and
wherein an outer diameter of the sealing member is either the same as an outer diameter of the sliding layer or larger than an outer diameter of the sliding layer.

5. The mold according to claim 4 , wherein the chamfered portion is provided in the first upper mold to face an outer peripheral side of the top plate portion than a portion opposed to a mouth portion of a can container when the cap body is screwed with the can container.

6. The mold according to claim 4 , wherein a depth of the recess is equal to a sum of a thickness of the top plate portion and a thickness of the sealing member.

7. A manufacturing method of a cap, comprising:
arranging a molded product in a recess of a lower mold, the molded product constituting a cap body formed with a top plate portion and a skirt portion integrally provided with the top plate portion through a curved corner portion having an annular shape, and the recess formed in a same shape as an outer shape of the top plate portion of the molded product and an outer shape of at least a part of the corner portion;
supplying a first resin material to the top plate portion;
molding the first resin material by a first upper mold having an outer diameter equal to an inner diameter of the skirt portion and including a flat chamfered portion at a ridge portion between an end surface and an outer peripheral surface to form a sliding layer of a sealing member provided separately from the cap body, the flat chamfered portion forming a protrusion portion, the protrusion portion being an annular protruding shape inclined with respect to an axial direction of the sliding layer;
supplying a second resin material to the sliding layer;
molding the second resin material by a second upper mold having an outer diameter equal to the inner diameter of the skirt portion and including an end surface facing the lower mold to form a sealing layer onto and covering at least a portion of the protrusion portion of the sliding layer; and
wherein an outer diameter of the sealing member is either the same as an outer diameter of the sliding layer or larger than an outer diameter of the sliding layer.

8. The manufacturing method of a cap according to claim 7 , wherein the chamfered portion is provided in the first upper mold to face an outer peripheral side of the top plate portion than a portion opposed to a mouth portion of a can container when the cap body is screwed with the can container.

9. The manufacturing method of a cap according to claim 7 , wherein a depth of the recess is equal to a sum of a thickness of the top plate portion and a thickness of the sealing member.

Assignees

• Daiwa Can Co Ltd

Inventors

• Araki Eiji
• Kawada Takashi
• Takagi Kenji

Classifications

• B65D41/045 Primary

  Discs (B65D41/0457 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B29C45/1671

  with an insert · CPC title

• B65D53/04

  Discs · CPC title

• B29L2031/565

  for containers · CPC title

• B65D2251/0015

  of the 41-type · CPC title