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US 12,145,835 B2Granted
Delivering tap equipped with a system for placing, locking and orienting the tap on bag-in-boxes
AssigneeVitop Moulding S.R.L.
InventorDiego Nini
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Abstract
A dispensing tap (1) is described, including: a support and containment body (2) equipped with an elongated neck (I); a locking ring (3A, 3B) located externally around the elongated neck (I) of the body (2); and a cap (4) inserted inside the elongated neck (I) of the body (2). The body further includes a second central part (II), connected to the elongated neck (I), designed to operatively couple with the locking ring; and a third base zone (III), connected to the second central zone (II).
Claims5
A dispenser tap comprising:
- a support and a containment body equipped with an elongated neck;
- a Locking ring (LCKR) placed externally around the elongated neck of the containment body designed to be anchored to a cardboard box and rotatable by 90° in order to perform a locking of the dispenser tap with the cardboard box;
- and
- a first cap inserted inside the elongated neck of the containment body;
- wherein the containment body further comprises:
- a second central zone, connected to the elongated neck, designed to operatively couple with the Locking ring (LCKR);
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- a third base zone, connected to the second central zone, in which external connection geometries of the dispenser tap are located;
- wherein, in the second central zone, there are two opposing anchoring sectors, each 90° wide, where geometries of the two opposing anchoring sectors necessary for anchoring the Locking ring (LCKR) are obtained, on a same ring there being two remaining opposing sectors, always 90° wide, which, having a less pronounced anchoring tooth than a first two sectors, enable an assembly of the Locking ring (LCKR), allowing a passage of an anchoring teeth in coupling sectors placed at 90° on the Locking ring (LCKR), the second central zone further comprising a central rib which has a purpose of keeping the Locking ring (LCKR) in a correct position, favoring a correct 90° rotation of the Locking ring (LCKR) during an operative anchoring step, the second central zone comprising also a vertical rib geometry designed to cooperate with an internal tooth of the Locking ring (LCKR) and generate a stop area of the Locking ring (LCKR), the second central zone also including a first plane, the first plane allowing underlying horizontal planes to be anchored to the cardboard box, the second central zone also including a double contrast which allows the dispenser tap to lean on a flap the cardboard box and, in cooperation with the Locking ring (LCKR), definitively lock the dispenser tap, preventing the dispenser tap from coming out of an anchored position or collapsing.
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