Metal Box Corporation

The Procter Gamble Company

The Wellcome Foundation Limited

Metal Box Public Limited Company

Christopher J Griffin

Nicholas B Verebelyi

David E Salmon

Brian L Ogden

Damian J Mycroft

Bernard H Oxborrow

Geoffrey Tucker

Nicholas B Verbelyi

Gerard M O'Brian

John A Perigo

Gerard M O'Brien

Ampoule holder

Combined bottle and cap

An ampoule holder comprises a body part 1 and a head part 2 which are connected together by a pair of hinge strips 3 and a breakage link 4. A glass ampoule 7 is inserted, stem first, through an opening 6 in the base of the body portion 1. The body of the ampoule is forced past inwardly extending projections 8 until the lower end of the ampoule snaps past these projections and the shoulder at the top of the body of the ampoule 7 abuts against the curved hinge parts 3. The base of the ampoule will then be raised above the projections 8. The stem 10 of the ampoule is gripped within the head portion 2 of the holder by internal ribs or spines 11, so that the neck 9 of the ampoule is aligned with the breakage link 4. In order to achieve access to the contents of the ampoule the holder is gripped in two hands and pressure is applied to a finger grip surface 13 of the head portion of the holder so that the breakage link 4 is fractured and the stem 10 of the ampoule is broken off at the neck 9 whilst the head portion 2 is folded back by means of the hinge strips 3.

Ampoule holders

Bottle

Container for food products

Cover for multipack of beverage cans

An apparatus for sealing cover attachments to the plastics couplers of multipacks of containers, comprising conveyor means for transporting a succession of the multipacks along a generally horizontal path, a reservoir for a plurality of the blanks, an applicator device operating in timed relation to the conveyor means to place blanks for the cover attachments individually upon the multipacks moving along the conveyor means so that tabs, which extend out from the plain portion of each blank, are disposed laterally in relation to the conveyor path and, along each side of the conveyor path, heating means for directing hot gas onto the tabs and onto the lateral surfaces of the coupler so as to render them heat-sealable together. The apparatus further comprises folding means for folding the tabs downwardly and pressure means for holding the tabs against the coupler to heat-seal the coupler and cover attachment together. The conveyor means comprises a locating side conveyor disposed to receive the multipacks with the blanks thereon downstream of the applicator means and having dog members arranged to engage individual multipacks between adjacent containers thereof, so as to locate the multipacks as they are carried in succession through the heating means, folding means and pressure means, each dog of the locating side conveyor being arranged to engage both a multipack and the respective blank thereon so as to locate the blank in relation to the multipack until the heat-seals have been made.

Multipacks of containers

Growing community of inventors

London, United Kingdom

Christopher J Griffin