Single Piece Foil Bottle Cover with Offset Label
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Solution Overview
Problem
Bottles with narrow openings used in the food and non-food packaging industry face challenges in minimizing plastic material usage, optimizing manufacturing processes, and ensuring pouring convenience while reducing waste and environmental impact.
Innovation Solution
A liquid filled bottle design featuring a single piece of plastic material for both sealing and displaying information, where the label is integrated with the closing portion, allowing for a peelable foil to seal the opening and offset label information for easy reading, thereby reducing plastic usage and simplifying manufacturing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a separate sleeve label is used around the bottle body, then label information can be displayed, but the manufacturing process becomes more complex and additional plastic material is required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the label function with the closing portion by integrating a label portion directly into the foil structure. The label portion is formed as an extension of the closing portion from a single piece of foil, eliminating the need for a separate sleeve label and simplifying the manufacturing process while maintaining label information display capability
Solution Approach 2:
The closing portion is designed to serve multiple functions: it seals the bottle opening, provides structural support for removal, and incorporates the label portion for information display. This multi-functional design eliminates the need for separate components and reduces overall complexity
2Loss of information
If a sleeve label is used around the bottle body, then label information can be displayed, but additional plastic material and cost are required
Solution Approach 1:
The label portion is merged with the closing portion structure, both being formed from the same single piece of foil. This integration eliminates the need for additional plastic material that would be required for a separate sleeve label, thereby reducing both material quantity and associated costs
3Ease of manufacture
If the label is integrated into the closing portion, then manufacturing is simplified and material usage is reduced, but the label portion must be sufficiently large to display information
Solution Approach 1:
The label portion extends radially outward from the closing portion in a direction perpendicular to the sealing surface. This dimensional extension allows the label to display information without adding complexity to the manufacturing process, as the label portion is formed from the same single piece of foil through simple extension rather than additional components
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This design minimizes plastic material usage, enhances label integrity, simplifies manufacturing, and improves visibility of label information, especially for small capacity bottles, while allowing for reduced neck height and elimination of threads, thus addressing the need for cost-effective and environmentally friendly packaging solutions.
Implementation Method 1
a closing portion comprising a peelable foil sealing the opening of the bottle in an annular area
Data Source
AI summary
The liquid filled bottle includes a plastic bottle (1) and a cover member (C) sealing an opening (5) of the bottle, the cover member (C) including: —a closing portion (6) sealing the opening (5) of the bottle (1) in an annular area (6a), the closing portion having a circumference (8) defined by an outer edge of the annular area, the closing portion defining a first surface (S1) that is substantially planar and delimited by the circumference; and —a label portion (10) that defines a second surface (S2), the label portion (10) and the closing portion (6) being parts of a single piece foil, for instance a flexible plastic foil. The second surface (S2) is entirely offset relative to the annular area (6a), the ratio between the second surface (S2) and the first surface (S1) being at least 1:2, and preferably at least 1:1.