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US 12,252,314 B2Granted
Container and valve for a container
AssigneeHeineken Supply Chain B.V.
InventorsArie Maarten Paauwe, Bart Jan Bax, Harold Marcel Blom
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Abstract
Valve, comprising a base element and a snap ring or snap fingers extending there from, positioned around an opening through the base element, wherein within the snap ring or between the snap fingers a valve housing is provided, having at least one inlet opening and a spring loaded valve body, biased towards the base element and closing off the opening, wherein the valve body is operable through the opening for opening a fluid connection between the inlet opening or openings and the opening in the base element.
Claims15
A method of forming a container comprising a body and a neck, wherein—
- a mounting ring is mounted at the neck, which mounting ring comprises an opening having at least a first snap provision, wherein a valve is pressed into said opening, which valve is snap-fit into the opening by a second snap provision provided on the valve, cooperating with the first snap provision;
- or
- the neck defines an opening having at least a first snap provision, wherein a valve is pressed into said opening, which valve is snap-fit into the opening by a second snap provision provided on the valve, cooperating with the first snap provision,
- wherein the valve is provided for dispensing a beverage containing a gas from the container, wherein an inner surface part of the container adjacent the valve, especially an inner surface part of the container within the neck between the body and an inlet side of the valve is smooth and sloping towards the inlet side of the valve, such that foam is prevented from being trapped at the inner surface of the neck.
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A method of forming a container comprising a body and a neck, wherein
- a mounting ring is mounted at the neck, which mounting ring comprises an opening having at least a first snap provision, wherein a valve is pressed into said opening, which valve is snap-fit into the opening by a second snap provision provided on the valve, cooperating with the first snap provision;
- or
- the neck defines an opening having at least a first snap provision, wherein a valve is pressed into said opening, which valve is snap-fit into the opening by a second snap provision provided on the valve, cooperating with the first snap provision, wherein the valve is mounted in a closure ring, which closure ring is mounted to the neck, wherein the valve comprises a peripheral wall portion with at least one opening forming an inlet of an inlet side of the valve, wherein the at least one opening is preferably elongated is said direction of the body.
A method of forming a container comprising a body and a neck, wherein
- a mounting ring is mounted at the neck, which mounting ring comprises an opening having at least a first snap provision, wherein a valve is pressed into said opening, which valve is snap-fit into the opening by a second snap provision provided on the valve, cooperating with the first snap provision;
- or
- the neck defines an opening having at least a first snap provision, wherein a valve is pressed into said opening, which valve is snap-fit into the opening by a second snap provision provided on the valve, cooperating with the first snap provision, wherein the valve comprises a substantially truncated cone shaped inner surface part, extending around a valve housing of the valve, such that a first end of the truncated cone shaped surface part, furthest from the body, is closer to the housing of the valve than the opposite second end, whereas an inlet side of the valve comprises at least one opening extending through said housing.
A method of forming a container comprising a body and a neck, wherein
- a mounting ring is mounted at the neck, which mounting ring comprises an opening having at least a first snap provision, wherein a valve is pressed into said opening, which valve is snap-fit into the opening by a second snap provision provided on the valve, cooperating with the first snap provision;
- or
- the neck defines an opening having at least a first snap provision, wherein a valve is pressed into said opening, which valve is snap-fit into the opening by a second snap provision provided on the valve, cooperating with the first snap provision, wherein the valve comprises a snap ring or snap skirt, comprising a series of resilient snap fingers, which snap fingers preferably have or define a free edge, rounded such that said edge forms a substantially smooth transition to the or a further inner surface part when the valve is snap fit into a mounting opening of the neck or of a mounting ring mounted at the neck, wherein more preferably at said transition no crevice is present having a width larger than about 0.2 mm.
A method of forming a container comprising a body and a neck, wherein
- a mounting ring is mounted at the neck, which mounting ring comprises an opening having at least a first snap provision, wherein a valve is pressed into said opening, which valve is snap-fit into the opening by a second snap provision provided on the valve, cooperating with the first snap provision;
- or
- the neck defines an opening having at least a first snap provision, wherein a valve is pressed into said opening, which valve is snap-fit into the opening by a second snap provision provided on the valve, cooperating with the first snap provision, wherein the valve comprises a base element and snap fingers extending therefrom, positioned around an opening through the base element, wherein between the fingers a valve housing is provided, having at least one inlet opening and a spring loaded valve body, biased towards the base element and closing off the opening, wherein the valve body is operable through the opening for opening a fluid connection between the inlet opening or openings and the opening in the base element, wherein preferably the valve housing is snap fit into the base element.
A method of forming a container comprising a body and a neck, wherein
- a mounting ring is mounted at the neck, which mounting ring comprises an opening having at least a first snap provision, wherein a valve is pressed into said opening, which valve is snap-fit into the opening by a second snap provision provided on the valve, cooperating with the first snap provision;
- or
- the neck defines an opening having at least a first snap provision, wherein a valve is pressed into said opening, which valve is snap-fit into the opening by a second snap provision provided on the valve, cooperating with the first snap provision, wherein the valve is provided with a safety element in the container, catching the valve when being expelled by pressure in the container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.