Impact-protection device capable of being provided on a bottle
AssigneeVirbac
InventorsMichel Robin, Laurent Rodrigues, Arnaud Steiner, Benoît Berny
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Abstract
A device for protecting against shocks for a glass bottle is presented, having a body, a bottom and a distal portion successively comprising from the body, a shoulder, a collar and a neck, said device comprising a first cup engaging with the bottom and a second cup engaging with the shoulder, each of the cups having a projecting portion for damping shocks, along a transversal plane, beyond a zone of a larger diameter of the bottle. The projecting portion of at least one from among the first and the second cups includes a plurality of damping pads spaced apart from one another.
Claims25
A device for a bottle to protect against shocks, the bottle having a cylindrical body of revolution ended, the cylindrical body having a bottom at a first end and a distal portion at a second end opposite the first end, the body successively including, from the distal portion along a longitudinal direction of the bottle, a shoulder, a collar and a neck, the bottle having a zone with a larger diameter than another zone of the bottle, said device comprising:
- a first cup configured to engage with the bottom of the bottle;
- and
- a second cup configured to engage with the shoulder of the bottle, each of the first cup and second cup having a damping portion for damping the shocks, the damping portion projecting, along a transversal plane which is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, beyond the zone of the larger diameter of the bottle,
- wherein the damping portion of each of the first cup and the second cup includes a plurality of pads spaced apart from one another, the plurality of pads being regularly distributed in a discrete manner along the transversal plane,
- wherein the plurality of pads is made of an elastomer material,
- wherein the first cup and the second cup each include a base having an inner hollow portion of a circular cross-section along the transversal plane, the inner hollow portion being configured to engage the bottle by contacting with a circumferential surface of the bottle, and an outer portion carrying the plurality of pads, and
- wherein the plurality of pads is solid and the elastomer material a Shore A hardness between 20 and 95.
A device for a bottle to protect against shocks, the bottle having a cylindrical body of revolution ended, the cylindrical body having a bottom at a first end and a distal portion at a second end opposite the first end, the body successively including, from the distal portion along a longitudinal direction of the bottle, a shoulder, a collar and a neck, the bottle having a zone with a larger diameter than another zone of the bottle, said device comprising:
- a first cup configured to engage with the bottom of the bottle;
- and
- a second cup configured to engage with the shoulder of the bottle, each of the first cup and second cup having a damping portion for damping the shocks, the damping portion projecting, along a transversal plane which is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, beyond the zone of the larger diameter of the bottle,
- wherein the damping portion of each of at least one from among the first cup and the second cup includes a plurality of damping pads spaced apart from one another, the plurality of damping pads being regularly distributed in a discrete manner along the transversal plane,
- wherein the plurality of damping pads is made of an elastomer material,
- wherein the first cup and the second cup each include a base having an inner hollow portion of a circular cross-section along the transversal plane, the inner hollow portion being configured to engage the bottle by contacting with a circumferential surface of the bottle, and an outer portion carrying the plurality of damping pads, and
- wherein the plurality of damping pads has an inner cavity and the elastomer material has a Shore A hardness greater than 90.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.