Improved aluminum bottle
AssigneeBerlin Packaging Italy S.P.A.
InventorEnrico CRIMALDI
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Abstract
An aluminum bottle for holding sparkling wines, prosecco, champagne and similar fizzy drinks. The aluminum bottle includes a neck which is joined in continuity to a bottle body through a shoulder. The bottle body extends downward from the shoulder to a bottom. The neck extends upward from the shoulder to a mouth made in a seamless single body with the bottle and through which the liquid/drink may be introduced into the bottle body. The mouth defines a seat for the insertion of a stopper and has an externally projecting protuberance configured to lock a cage over the stopper.
Claims8
1-7. (canceled)
An aluminum bottle in use for sparkling wines, prosecco, champagne and similar sparkling drinks, made in a seamless single body without additional sleeve elements, comprising a neck which is joined in continuity to a bottle body through a shoulder, the bottle body extending towards a bottom, wherein, at an end of the neck opposite a connection end to the bottle body, there is a mouth made in a seamless single body with the bottle and through which the liquid/drink may be introduced into the bottle body and defining a seat for the insertion of a stopper and for the clamping of a cage, said mouth comprising two portions defined by a first portion which extends starting from the end of the neck and a second portion which defines the mouth for the introduction of liquid into the bottle body and which extends from an end of said first portion, the first portion comprising an externally projecting protuberance with a circumferential extension and a frustoconical portion extending from said externally projecting protuberance with gradually decreasing diameters in the direction of a free end opposite the connecting end with respect to the end of the neck, and the second portion extending from an end of the frustoconical portion of the first portion and comprising an edge bent to define a collar with a circumferential extension and a circular cross-section, wherein the externally projecting protuberance is configured to lock the cage over the stopper, and the collar comprises an abutment for said stopper, the externally projecting protuberance of the first portion extends, from the end of the neck with a first section extending externally with respect to said end of the neck with gradually increasing diameters and an angle of inclination a comprised between 12° and 20° and with a second section extending from said first section to connect to the frustoconical portion, said second section connecting to the first section with a radius R3 equal to 1 mm and to the frustoconical portion with a radius R4 greater than R3 and equal
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