Abstract: A distributor body comprises a housing having a bottom, a lateral wall secured to the bottom and a top end opposite to the bottom, and a dome sealingly fixed to the top end. The dome is rigid and formed of a plastics material and comprises a central annular portion having a minimal thickness between 1.2 and 4 mm, an upper annular portion and a lower annular portion. The lower annular portion sealingly fixes the dome to the top portion by direct axial fitment. The upper annular portion is adapted for receiving a distribution means such as a valve or pump. The distributor body can be used to dispense materials in the areas of cosmetology, pharmaceuticals, hygiene and foodstuffs.

Abstract: The invention relates to a unit made up of a cap and a receptacle with a neck made of plastics, the cap includes a base made of plastics, the base including a sealing member inside the neck which can be fixed on the neck simply by pushing and snapping it on. The base and neck, by longitudinal insertion, cooperate to prevent relative rotation. When the base is pushed onto the neck, insertion with a full cross-section is initiated, then forced insertion of the sealing member in the neck is initiated, and then the snapping on action is initiated. The cap of the invention is used to provide decorated tubes, with the cap oriented in a constant and definitive manner relative to the tubes.

Abstract: The invention concerns a process for the production and packaging of a bag-type dispenser comprising a casing surmounted by a dome, a sealed flexible bag fixed in said casing and dispensing means sealingly connected to said dome and to said bag characterized in that, prior to any other assembly and packaging operation, a dome of plastics material is produced by moulding, the dome comprising an internal tubular portion permitting sealing fixing thereon on to the upper end of a skirt forming the blank for the bag, and then said fixing is produced, thus providing a preassembled component, dome+skirt, the dome further comprising portions for fixing thereof respectively on to the upper end of the casing and to the dispensing means. The invention also concerns the resulting sub-assemblies and bag-type dispensers. The invention is used in the pharmaceutical, cosmetological, hygiene and foodstuff fields.

Abstract: The first object of the invention is a process for closing or sealing a flexible tube filled with a liquid, creamy or semi-pasty product (7), in which its skirt (2) is nipped below its open end so as to bring about a closure (10) allowing the escape of the air contained in the tube when the latter is transversely compressed and then after compression the closure (10) is transformed into a tight closure and the open end (17) of the tube is sealed. According to the invention, skirt (2) is nipped with elastically tightened parallel surfaces (10) and the skirt (2) is compressed to the right of the product contained (7), in such a way that the upper level of said product (7) remains below or at the lower limit of closure (10) and the end portion (17) of the tube (1) passing beyond said closure (10) is sealed, so as to avoid any pollution by the product deteriorating the seal. The second object of the invention is an apparatus for performing this process.

Abstract: The object of the invention is an aluminium or an alloy closure capsule adapted to be crimped onto the neck of a bottle and of which the ring comprises a shoulder, the skirt of this capsule comprising a retaining ring or peripheral rib which, after the capsule has been crimped onto the neck, will define with the portion of the skirt covering the top edge of the said shoulder of the neck an annular groove permitting guidance of a blade for cutting the capsule, and also a line of weakness consisting of a thinned peripheral zone situated in the bottom of the said groove. The invention also relates to the method of producing this capsule which is used for any closure of a bottle which has to have its capsule removed by means of a knife.

Abstract: A distributor for pasty products having a sliding piston and a distribution head. The distribution head has a tubular, deformable pumping member, an actuator acting on the pumping member and an expelling valve. An upper end of an upper tube of the pumping member forms an annual end edge. The expelling valve has a flexible disk with a periphery kept in engagement with the end edge of the tube by a central bearing member of the disk. The bearing member is connected to the actuator, the flexible disk and the end edge of the tube.

Abstract: According to the invention, the surface of a blank to be shaped into a product is decorated by marking on a test blank a plurality of reference points distributed over the entire surface of the test blank which will be affected by the shaping. The test blank is then shaped into a test product and the positions of the reference points are determined. A block of decoration to be obtained on the product is formed, and the positions of the reference points on the test product are located on the block. The decoration is then converted into a plurality of pixels of each inking color, and the position of each pixel with respect to the reference points on the test product is located. A corresponding pixel position with respect to the reference points on the test blank is also determined, and a film is prepared by printing the film with each pixel of the decoration reproduced in a location corresponding to the corresponding location on the test blank. At least one blank is then decorated with the film.

Abstract: The invention concerns a tube with a plastic neck and with a cover to be welded over the neck after its cap has been fixed, the cover having at least one projecting portion for pulling it off, with cap holding the cover while it is being sealed over the neck. The cover has one or more projecting tabs, at least one of which is used to pull off the sealed cover and the cover is deformable and has little or no resilience. The end of the cap has a shoulder to press the cover onto the neck, which shoulder is configured so that it does not bear on the burrs of the neck, and the neck and cap have space between them for the bent back projecting tab or tabs of the cover. The invention also concerns a method of sealing the tube by induction of ultrasonic welding. The invention is used for the packaging of toiletries, cosmetics or food products.

Abstract: The invention concerns a distributor for pasty material. A pushbutton member (101) is provided with a distribution conduit (105) having a lateral outlet. The pushbutton member being slidable longitudinally with respect to a guide means (110) which is fixed with respect to the body of the distributor. The distribution conduit being sealingly connected to an element for carrying the flow of pasty material to the conduit (105). The pushbutton member (101) acting on a spring-action element causing it to be returned to the released position, and on a compression element forming part of the element for carrying the flow of pasty material. The distributor is characterised in that it includes a masking element (113) which is fixed with respect to the body of the distributor (116). The element leaving the outlet orifice (116) of the distribution conduit (105) open when the pushbutton member (101) is depressed and masking the orifice (116) when the pushbutton member (101) is released.

Abstract: The process according to the invention relates to the packaging of lids cut out in a press combined with a stacker. According to the process, the guide rods of a delivery magazine are covered by a substantially cylindrical casing which simultaneously surrounds the stacked lids while at the same time immobilizing the stack transversely to itself with a slight clearance therebetween, the casing comprising support means for resting on the moving supports at the bottom of the stack of lids and stop means for retaining the bottom of the stack borne by the casing. The retaining means are optionally completed by one or more associated retaining means. The stack of lids covered in this way is then removed from the delivery magazine and the casing is sealed with caps which offer an added measure of protection.

Abstract: The invention concerns a tube for the distribution of a paste with stripes in which the head 1 which is connected by moulding to the skirt 4 of the tube has an inner skirt 8 which is in one piece with said head 1, which skirt 8 having flow openings 13, 14 for the stripe product, which skirt 8 has pairs of inner longitudinal ribs 17, 18, 22 for guiding the stripe product, disposed on respective sides of said openings 13, 14 and extending towards the top of the neck portion 7. The head of the tube is of a double skirt configuration, its outer skirt 16 forming the outside of the neck portion 7 and its inner skirt 8 extending from the top 5 of the head 1 and forming the inside of the neck portion 7 and the discharge duct 8 for the pasty product. Flow openings 13, 14, 15 are disposed in part at least above the notional extension of the slightly inclined rear surface 10 of the shoulder 2.

Abstract: The invention concerns a process for the production of a container (46) or tube (45) fitted with a pump (1) for the distribution of a liquid or creamy product, said pump (1) bearing an annular fixing rim (2), the periphery of which is of plastics material at least at its surface wherein: (a) the pump (1) is disposed between tools which sealingly clamp the rim (2) and contain the pump (1) with clearances limiting the rise in temperature thereof in the moulding operation; (b) the body or the skirt (19) is disposed around a tool, the upper end thereof projecting beyond same; (c) the assembly of tools is disposed in such a way as to form an annular moulding space which is fed by way of a plurality of injection ducts and connects said annular rim (2) to the projecting end of said body or skirt (19); and (d) molten plastics material is injected into said annular moulding space by way of said ducts, the assembly is left to cool and the resulting tube (25) is removed from the mould.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of a lead-based capping cap, in which preparation takes place by rolling of an alloyed lead metal strip covered on each of its two faces by an alloyed tin film, characterized in that a multilayer plastics material strip is prepared having an adhesive plastics material surface layer and at least two successive layers of a plastics material from the group of polyolefins, grafted polyolefins and terpolymers; the two strips are joined by applying the adhesive face of the plastics material strip to one of the two faces of the metal strip, thus giving a complex strip, and from said complex strip is cut a blank and the latter is converted into a cap internally coated with plastics material. The invention also relates to the capping caps, or cap overseals, obtained, internally having at least two plastics material layers. These caps are used for over-capping the corks of wine, alcohol or spirit bottles.

Abstract: The invention concerns a tube with a plastic neck and with a cover to be welded over the neck after its cap has been fixed, the cover having at least one projecting portion for pulling it off, with cap holding the cover while it is being sealed over the neck. The cover has one or more projecting tabs, at least one of which is used to pull off the sealed cover and the cover is deformable and has little or no resilience. The end of the cap has a shoulder to press the cover onto the neck, which shoulder is configured so that it does not bear on the burrs of the neck, and the neck and cap have space between them for the bent back projecting tab or tabs of the cover. The invention also concerns a method of sealing the tube by induction or ultrasonic welding. The invention is used for the packaging of toiletries, cosmetics or food products.

Abstract: A distributor for pasty products comprises a body having a tubular body (4) with a cylindrical barrel (5), a piston (7) with a flexible flared-out top lip (8) sliding in the barrel (5) and a top carrying an orifice through which the pasty product can pass, and also having a distribution head fixed on the tip. Pasty product is directed and expelled by a suction and compression effect. According to the invention, in order to allow air to be evacuated when the piston is being inserted into the tubular body (4), this body (4) comprises a transverse inner relief (35) having a minimal inside diameter which is 0.5 to 1.5 mm less than the inside diameter of the barrel (5) and, preceding it, a flared-out inlet zone (36) having an engagement diameter at least equal to the outside diameter of the flexible lip (8), the outside diameter of the middle part (40) of the piston (7) being at least 0.4 mm smaller than the minimal inside diameter of the relief (35).

Abstract: In a dispenser, a tubular body carrying on its top a suction valve for suction of a pasty produce into a compression chamber, a distribution head between the chamber and a distribution pipe, a central orifice in the top surrounded by a bearing surface forming the seat of the suction valve, an actuator including the distribution pipe and a duct fitting the top of a deformable cap which defines the compression chamber; the deformable cap including a deformable web and an upper tube carrying a flexible lip forming a valve with the bottom of the duct for expelling the product into pipe.