Universal Closure with Deformable Protrusions for Multi-Size Sealing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current market conditions for beverages with varying neck finishes require a universal closure that can fit multiple container opening sizes without spilling or contamination, while maintaining product integrity and freshness until dispensing.
Innovation Solution
A universal closure device with deformable depending protrusions, a plug seal, and tamper-evident features that securely fit various neck finishes, allowing for sealing engagement, torque application, and user-actuated dispensing, ensuring product retention and freshness.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a specific threaded closure is used for each container opening size, then sealing engagement is reliable, but the closure cannot fit multiple container sizes
Solution Approach 1:
The closure is designed with a universal structure that can accommodate multiple container opening sizes through deformable depending protrusions that adapt to different diameters, allowing one closure to serve multiple container types while maintaining sealing engagement
Solution Approach 2:
The closure incorporates flexible deformable depending protrusions that can dynamically adjust their shape and position to match different container opening sizes, enabling the closure to maintain reliable sealing engagement across various container dimensions
2Adaptability or versatility
If a universal closure fits various sized openings, then adaptability is improved, but sealing engagement and product retention may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The closure features localized deformable depending protrusions at specific positions on the inner diameter that can independently adjust to match the container opening size, ensuring proper sealing engagement and preventing spilling or contamination while maintaining universality
Solution Approach 2:
The deformable depending protrusions act as intermediaries between the closure and various container openings, adapting their shape to bridge the gap between the universal closure structure and specific container dimensions, thereby preventing harmful factors like spilling and contamination
3Reliability
If deformable depending protrusions are added to provide sealing engagement, then sealing capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The closure employs flexible deformable depending protrusions made from elastic materials that can bend and conform to different container opening sizes, providing reliable sealing engagement without requiring complex mechanical adjustment mechanisms or multiple separate 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
The universal closure effectively seals and retains products across different container sizes, preventing spills and contamination, while indicating tampering and protecting against accidental dispensing, ensuring product integrity and freshness until use.
Implementation Method 1
a flexible deformable depending radial protrusion of varying dimension in the inner diameter of the closure provides sealing engagement to the opening or neck of a container with differing diameters
Implementation Method 2
more than one flexible deformable depending rib placed in separation provide application and removal torque
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention relates to a universal closure capable of fitting various sized container openings in sealed engagement The present invention also relates a universal dispensing closure capable of fitting various sized container openings in sealed engagement and used to house a secondary supply or dose of product and when the closure is activated dispense the secondary product or dose into a receiving vessel to which it is attached.