Sealing bolt
AssigneeThe European Union, Represented By the European Commission
InventorsMarco Sironi, Piercarlo Tebaldi, Paolo Timossi
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Abstract
A sealing bolt for sealing a container lid to a container body, the sealing bolt including: a first identity element configured so as to provide a first identification signal when sensed with an ultrasonic reading device; a second identity element configured so as to provide a second identification signal when sensed with an ultrasonic reading device; and a third identity element. The third identity element includes the first and second identity elements and a third identification signal is formed by the intersection points created by an overlap of the first and second identification signals. The invention also concerns a method for sealing a container lid to a container body using such a sealing bolt.
Claims17
A sealing bolt for sealing a container lid to a container body, said sealing bolt comprising:
- a first identity element configured so as to provide a first identification signal when sensed with an ultrasonic reading device;
- a second identity element configured so as to provide a second identification signal when sensed with an ultrasonic reading device;
- and
- a third identity element,
- wherein said third identity element comprises said first and second identity elements, a third identification signal being formed by the intersection points created by an overlap of said first and second identification signals.
A method for sealing a container lid to a container body, said method comprising:
- providing a container body and a container lid;
- providing a sealing bolt having a first identity element, a second identity element and a third identity element, said first and second identity elements providing first and second identification signals respectively when sensed with an ultrasonic reading device, a third identification signal being formed by the intersection points created by an overlap of said first and second identification signals;
- connecting said container lid to said container body;
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- connecting said sealing bolt between said container lid and said container body, such that said sealing bolt is at least partially broken if said container lid and said container body are separated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.