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EP0611356A1 - Tube container for paste comprising a refilling device locked by a screw cap. - Google Patents

Tube container for paste comprising a refilling device locked by a screw cap.

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EP0611356A1
EP0611356A1 EP93900253A EP93900253A EP0611356A1 EP 0611356 A1 EP0611356 A1 EP 0611356A1 EP 93900253 A EP93900253 A EP 93900253A EP 93900253 A EP93900253 A EP 93900253A EP 0611356 A1 EP0611356 A1 EP 0611356A1
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tube
refillable
end piece
paste container
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Jacques Benarrouch
Samvel Ovakimian
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D35/00—Pliable tubular containers adapted to be permanently or temporarily deformed to expel contents, e.g. collapsible tubes for toothpaste or other plastic or semi-liquid material; Holders therefor
    • B65D35/44—Closures
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D1/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers having bodies formed in one piece, e.g. by casting metallic material, by moulding plastics, by blowing vitreous material, by throwing ceramic material, by moulding pulped fibrous material or by deep-drawing operations performed on sheet material
    • B65D1/02—Bottles or similar containers with necks or like restricted apertures, designed for pouring contents
    • B65D1/06—Bottles or similar containers with necks or like restricted apertures, designed for pouring contents with closable apertures at bottom
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D35/00—Pliable tubular containers adapted to be permanently or temporarily deformed to expel contents, e.g. collapsible tubes for toothpaste or other plastic or semi-liquid material; Holders therefor
    • B65D35/02—Body construction
    • B65D35/10—Body construction made by uniting or interconnecting two or more components

Definitions

  • Dough container tube comprising a refill device locked by a screw cap.
  • the invention relates to a device for making rechargeable a tube used for packaging and dispensing of pastes such as toothpaste.
  • tubes intended for the packaging of pasta are well known; the tubes are essentially single-use products made up of a thin and flexible tube, either metallic or plastic; one end of the tube has a narrowing with a neck on which comes to adjust a plug which is generally screwed; the other end of the tube is first used to fill it with the dough to be packaged, then it is closed by crimping or welding.
  • the object of the present invention relates to a device allowing the reopening and reclosing of this tube with a wide opening, so that, when it is empty or insufficiently filled, it is possible to put dough back into it; indeed, if one wants to use a non-standard tube for single use (element of a compact toilet bag for example), there immediately arises a problem of restocking which is almost impossible to solve; hence the need to offer buyers toilet bags containing tubes that they can fill themselves and reload from the standard tubes they usually use; this concept of refillable tube helps to limit the consumption of packaging material for everyday products.
  • the concept of the rechargeable tube has already existed for several years; the tube is generally composed of a flexible plastic tube capable of resuming its initial shape, if possible without wrinkling, when the tube having been emptied, it is refilled; but the solutions used to date have drawbacks which it is advantageous to eliminate in order to simplify their implementation.
  • the known systems there is first a mechanical locking clamp of a tube whose bottom has been previously folded back on itself; this very simple system has the disadvantage of requiring a certain skill to put the clamp in place and it is an operation which is difficult to mechanize for the manufacturer of the tube who must put it in place first.
  • Another system easier to use, consists of the use of a plug with a cylindrical skirt forced into the tube; the drawback of such a system lies in the poor locking of the plug and tube assembly, resulting from the creep of the tube under tension, the diameter of which widens; so that when the tube is pressed the plug escapes from its housing.
  • the invention relates to a device for fitting, at the filling end of the tube, a plug which is correctly lockable and easy to handle.
  • Fig.1 shows a dough container tube according to the invention with the dispensing orifice facing down and the refilling orifice, in exploded view, to see the inside of the tube when the cap is in place.
  • Fig.2 shows, in partially exploded view, the part of the tube intended for its recharging in the case where the thread is molded at the same time as the tube.
  • Fig.3 shows an exploded view of the closure cap of the refilling orifice modified to also serve as the product dispensing orifice.
  • Fig.4 shows the part of the tube, intended for its recharging, with the end piece, into which the cap is screwed, when it is fixed by welding or gluing before its installation in the tube.
  • Fig.5 shows the part of the tube, intended for its recharging, with the tip, into which the cap is screwed, when it is fixed by snap-fastening.
  • the other end of the tube which may either have a neck distribution as shown in Fig.1, or include a crushing closure of the tube which is welded or crimped.
  • the device, object of the invention consists in equipping the filling end (1) Fig. 1 of the refillable tube (2) with a screw thread (3) either inside or outside the tube (2), leaving the largest possible filling passage (1), onto which a plug (4) is screwed. In what follows we will only describe the case of the internal thread.
  • the tube (2) When the tube (2) is obtained by injection, it is technically possible to obtain the thread (3) directly by injection; the threaded neck (5), of small diameter, used to extract the dough from the tube, has a male thread while the thread (3), from the filling orifice (1), into which is screwed a plug (4 ) is a female thread; under these conditions a screw cap (6) of conventional type may be suitable for closing the tube of the side (7) for the extraction of the product and a plug (4) with male thread closes it on the side (1) of the filling. It is also possible, when the tube is obtained by injection, to manufacture a tube (8) Fig.2 having at one end (9), a female internal thread (10) in the tube (8) into which a plug will be screwed (4) Fig.
  • this plug Fig.3 may further include a ribbed collar (13) to facilitate its screwing on the end (9) Fig.2 of the tube (8) and its unscrewing; the tube (8) is closed, at the other end, by a thermal weld as for the other plastic tubes; filling is done by unscrewing the neck assembly Fig. 3 product extraction plug, then when this assembly is screwed back, it is sufficient to extract the product by unscrewing the extraction plug;
  • the advantage of such a system is to be able to use traditional filling lines if one wants to deliver the already filled tube for a first use.
  • the filling neck is made by the provision of an intermediate piece (15) of annular shape, comprising a female thread (16), fixed permanently and sealingly, at the filling end (14) of the tube; a plug (4) Fig.1 as described above makes it possible to close the tube Fig.4 once it is filled;
  • this end piece (15), of annular shape comprises a cylindrical outer part (17) comprising a chamfer (18) at its lower end, so as to be fitted into the end (14) of the tube and comprise at the upper end a collar (19) whose width is for example the thickness (20) of the tube on the end (21) of which it comes to bear; then the end piece (15) can be fixed by known techniques such as thermal spot welding or ultrasonic or friction, gluing or latching; the choice of materials is then made accordingly.
  • the end piece (15) made of a material compatible from the point of view of the welding with the material of the tube, can be force-fitted and thermally welded through the wall (22) of the tube, at the height of the fitting, in an area of sufficient size to prevent the end piece (15) from escaping .
  • Friction welding can be obtained by putting the end piece (15) in rotation so as to obtain for example the welding of the flange (19) on the end (14) of the tube; this latter solution will nevertheless require a particular development allowing the flexible tube to be maintained during the welding phase so that it does not twist.
  • Snap-fastening can be obtained by making at least one protrusion (23) Fig.
  • the wall of the tube (31) takes its place and comes to block the end piece (25) to prevent it from coming out again, while the flange (29) abuts on the end (32) of the tube (31) to prevent the tip (25) from sinking further; it is preferable to provide a device for controlling the relative orientation of the tube (31) and the end piece (25) for their automatic assembly; it may be for the tube a notch (33) opening on its upper edge (32), produced simultaneously with the hole (30) intended for the snap-fastening, which makes it possible to know the position of the tube (31), which is associated with a mark (34) located on the nozzle (25); the mark (34) and the notch (33) can be designed to serve as guide so that when they fit into each other, at the time of fitting, the protuberance (23) is correctly oriented in line with the bore (30).
  • the plug (4) Fig.1 which is the same as that used in the configurations described in Fig.4 and Fig.5 has a male threaded cylindrical part (35) Fig.1 which is screwed into the end piece (15) Fig. 4 or (25) Fig.5; this threaded part (35) Fig.1 is integral with a cylindrical part (36), the diameter of which is slightly greater than the outside diameter of the tube (2) in the case described in Fig.1 and of the flange (19) Fig. 4 or (29) Fig.5 of the nozzle, and whose cylindrical wall (37) is striated to allow a good grip for screwing and unscrewing; the lower part (38) of this striated cylindrical part abuts on the upper part of the collar (19) Fig.4.
  • the assembly of the plug (4) Fig.1 and the endpiece (15) Fig.4 comprises a braking or locking device preventing its untimely unscrewing; the upper part of the collar (19) may for example include a device (38) for locking the plug (4) Fig.
  • the two-part stopper described in Fig.2 can also be fixed on flexible cylindrical tubes comprising at one end an end piece (19) Fig.4 or (25) Fig.5 and which can be closed at the other end by welding obtained, as described above, by crushing the tube, or crimping or any other means of closure.
  • the plug assembly system (4) with the female screw thread (3) is taken as an example because other known systems can be used, in particular systems making it possible to obtain an assembly correctly locked in a quarter turn using for example threads interrupted, or applied to a conical surface, or a bayonet fixing system.

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Abstract

Le tube (2) conteneur de pâte rechargeable comporte du côté opposé au goulot (5), distributeur de produit, un orifice (1) de grande dimension fermé par un bouchon vissé (4) permettant de remplir à nouveau le tube (2), quand il est vide, avec n'importe quel autre tube conteneur de pâte du commerce. L'utilisateur peut disposer ainsi de tubes distributeurs de pâte de dimension appropriée à l'usage qu'il veut en faire.The tube (2) refillable paste container has on the side opposite the neck (5), product distributor, a large orifice (1) closed by a screw cap (4) allowing the tube (2) to be refilled, when it is empty, with any other paste container tube on the market. The user can thus have paste dispenser tubes of the appropriate size for the use he wishes to make of them.

Description

Tube conteneur de pâte comprenant un dispositif de rechargement verrouillé par un bouchon vissé.  Dough container tube comprising a refill device locked by a screw cap.
L'invention concerne un dispositif permettant de rendre rechargeable un tube servant à conditionner et à distribuer des pâtes telles que le dentifrice.  The invention relates to a device for making rechargeable a tube used for packaging and dispensing of pastes such as toothpaste.
L'emploi des tubes destinés au conditonnement des pâtes est bien connu; les tubes sont essentiellement des produits à usage unique composés d'un tube mince et souple, soit métallique, soit plastique; une des extrémités du tube comporte un rétrécissement avec un goulot sur lequel vient s'ajuster un bouchon qui est généralement vissé; l'autre extrémité du tube sert d'abord à son remplissage avec la pâte à conditionner, puis elle est fermée par sertissage ou soudure. L'objet de la présente invention concerne un dispositif permettant la réouverture et la refermeture de ce tube avec une ouverture large, afin que, lorsqu'il est vide ou insuffisamment rempli, on puisse y remettre de la pâte; en effet, si on veut utiliser un tube hors standard à usage unique (élément d'une trousse de toilette compacte par exemple), il se pose immédiatement un problème de réapprovisionnement qui est à peu près impossible à résoudre; d'où la nécessité de proposer aux acheteurs des trousses de toilette contenant des tubes qu'ils pourront remplir eux-mtme et recharger à partir des tubes standards qu'ils utilisent habituellement; ce concept de tube rechargeable contribue à limiter la consommation de matériau d'emballage pour les produits de consommation courante. Le concept du tube rechargeable existe déjà depuis plusieurs années; le tube est généralement composé d'un tube en matière plastique souple susceptible de reprendre sa forme initiale, si possible sans froissures, lorsque le tube ayant été vidé, on le remplit à nouveau; mais les solutions utilisées à ce jour présentent des inconvénients qu'il est avantageux de supprimer pour en simplifier la mise en oeuvre. Parmi les systèmes connus, il existe d'abord une pince de verrouillage mécanique d'un tube dont le fond a été préalablement replié sur lui-même; ce système très simple présente l'inconvénient de nécessiter une certaine habileté pour mettre la pince en place et c'est une opération qui est difficilement mécanisable pour le fabricant du tube qui doit la mettre en place le premier. Un autre système, plus facile d'emploi, consiste en l'utilisation d'un bouchon à jupe cylindrique enfoncé à force dans le tube; l'inconvénient d'un tel système réside dans le mauvais verrouillage de l'assemblage du bouchon et du tube, découlant du fluage du tube sous tension, dont le diamètre s'élargit; si bien que lorsqu'on presse le tube le bouchon s'échappe de son logement. L'invention concerne un dispositif permettant de mettre en place, à l'extrémité de remplissage du tube, un bouchon correctement verrouillable et de manipulation simple. The use of tubes intended for the packaging of pasta is well known; the tubes are essentially single-use products made up of a thin and flexible tube, either metallic or plastic; one end of the tube has a narrowing with a neck on which comes to adjust a plug which is generally screwed; the other end of the tube is first used to fill it with the dough to be packaged, then it is closed by crimping or welding. The object of the present invention relates to a device allowing the reopening and reclosing of this tube with a wide opening, so that, when it is empty or insufficiently filled, it is possible to put dough back into it; indeed, if one wants to use a non-standard tube for single use (element of a compact toilet bag for example), there immediately arises a problem of restocking which is almost impossible to solve; hence the need to offer buyers toilet bags containing tubes that they can fill themselves and reload from the standard tubes they usually use; this concept of refillable tube helps to limit the consumption of packaging material for everyday products. The concept of the rechargeable tube has already existed for several years; the tube is generally composed of a flexible plastic tube capable of resuming its initial shape, if possible without wrinkling, when the tube having been emptied, it is refilled; but the solutions used to date have drawbacks which it is advantageous to eliminate in order to simplify their implementation. Among the known systems, there is first a mechanical locking clamp of a tube whose bottom has been previously folded back on itself; this very simple system has the disadvantage of requiring a certain skill to put the clamp in place and it is an operation which is difficult to mechanize for the manufacturer of the tube who must put it in place first. Another system, easier to use, consists of the use of a plug with a cylindrical skirt forced into the tube; the drawback of such a system lies in the poor locking of the plug and tube assembly, resulting from the creep of the tube under tension, the diameter of which widens; so that when the tube is pressed the plug escapes from its housing. The invention relates to a device for fitting, at the filling end of the tube, a plug which is correctly lockable and easy to handle.
La Fig.1 représente un tube conteneur de pâte selon l'invention avec l'orifice de distribution tourné vers le bas et l'orifice de rechargement, en vue éclatée, pour voir l'intérieur du tube quand le bouchon est en place.  Fig.1 shows a dough container tube according to the invention with the dispensing orifice facing down and the refilling orifice, in exploded view, to see the inside of the tube when the cap is in place.
La Fig.2 représente, en vue partiellement éclatée, la partie du tube destinée à son rechargement dans le cas où le filetage est moulé en même temps que le tube.  Fig.2 shows, in partially exploded view, the part of the tube intended for its recharging in the case where the thread is molded at the same time as the tube.
La Fig.3 représente une vue éclatée du bouchon de fermeture de l'orifice de rechargement modifié pour servir aussi d'orifice de distribution du produit.  Fig.3 shows an exploded view of the closure cap of the refilling orifice modified to also serve as the product dispensing orifice.
La Fig.4 représente la partie du tube, destinée à son rechargement, avec l'embout, dans lequel vient se visser le bouchon, lorsqu'il est fixé par soudure ou collage avant sa mise en place dans le tube.  Fig.4 shows the part of the tube, intended for its recharging, with the end piece, into which the cap is screwed, when it is fixed by welding or gluing before its installation in the tube.
La Fig.5 représente la partie du tube, destinée à son rechargement, avec l'embout, dans lequel vient se visser le bouchon, lorsqu'il est fixé par encliquetage.  Fig.5 shows the part of the tube, intended for its recharging, with the tip, into which the cap is screwed, when it is fixed by snap-fastening.
Nous n'avons pas représenté pour les figures 2, 4, 5, l'autre extrémité du tube qui peut, soit comporter un goulot de distribution comme indiqué Fig.1, soit comporter une fermeture par écrasement du tube qui est soudé ou serti. Le dispositif, objet de l'invention, consiste à équiper l'extrémité de remplissage (1) Fig.1 du tube rechargeable (2) d'un pas de vis (3) soit intérieur, soit extérieur au tube (2), laissant le plus grand passage de remplissage (1) possible, sur lequel vient se visser un bouchon (4). Dans ce qui suit nous ne décrirons que le cas du pas de vis intérieur. Lorsque le tube (2) est obtenu par injection, il est techniquement possible d'obtenir le pas de vis (3) directement par injection; le goulot fileté (5), de petit diamètre, servant à extraire la pâte du tube, comporte un filetage mâle tandis que le filetage (3), de l'orifice de remplissage (1), dans lequel vient se visser un bouchon (4) est un filetage femelle; dans ces conditions un bouchon à vis (6) de type classique peut convenir pour fermer le tube du cûté (7) de l'extraction du produit et un bouchon (4) à filetage mâle vient le fermer du côté (1) du remplissage. Il est possible aussi, lorsque le tube est obtenu par injection, de fabriquer un tube (8) Fig.2 possédant à une extrémité (9), un filetage femelle interne (10) au tube (8) dans lequel viendra se visser un bouchon (4) Fig.1 avec un filetage mâle comme précédemment décrit, tandis que l'on fixe sur l'autre extrémité qui est ouverte une pièce supportant le goulot de d'extraction (5) du produit qui n'a pas pu âtre fabriqué au moment de l'injection; le choix entre ces versions est lié essentiellement aux problèmes de tenue mécanique des moules d'injection provoqués par les dimensions du tube. Dans le cas où il n'est possible que de faire un seul filetage (10) sur le tube (8), comme décrit précédemment, il est possible d'y fixer un bouchon de remplissage Fig.3 en deux parties comprenant, d'une part, un filetage mâle (11) qui vient se visser dans le filetage femelle (10) Fig.2 du tube (8), d'autre part, un goulot d'extraction (12) Fig.3 comportant un filetage mâle sur lequel vient se fixer le bouchon de l'orifice d'extraction; ce bouchon Fig.3 peut comporter en outre une collerette striée (13) permettant de faciliter son vissage sur l'extrémité (9) Fig.2 du tube (8) et son dévissage; le tube (8) est fermé, à l'autre extrémité, par une soudure thermique comme pour les autres tubes plastiques; le remplissage se fait en dévissant l'ensemble goulot Fig.3 bouchon d'extraction du produit, puis lorsque cet ensemble est revissé, il suffit pour extraire du produit de dévisser le bouchon d'extraction; L'avantage d'un tel système est de pouvoir utiliser des lignes de remplissage traditionnelles si on veut livrer le tube déjà rempli pour une première utilisation. Dans une version préférée de l'invention on part d'un tube en matière plastique Fig.4 acheté dans le commerce avec le goulot et le bouchon d'extraction déjà en place à l'une des extrémités du tube tandis que l'autre extrémité (14) est une paroi mince, de forme cylindrique, largement ouverte; le goulot de remplissage est fait par l'apport d'une pièce intermédiaire (15) de forme annulaire, comportant un filetage femmelle (16), fixée à demeure et de manière étanche, à l'extrémité de remplissage (14) du tube; un bouchon (4) Fig.1 comme décrit précédemment permet d'obturer le tube Fig.4 une fois qu'il est rempli; cet embout (15), de forme annulaire, comporte une partie extérieure cylindrique (17) comportant un chanfrein (18) à son extrémité inférieure, de manière à être emmanchée dans l'extrémité (14) du tube et comporter à l'extrémité supérieure une collerette (19) dont la largeur est par exemple de l'épaisseur (20) du tube sur l'extrémité (21) duquel elle vient s'appuyer; ensuite l'embout (15) peut être fixé par les techniques connues telles que la soudure par points thermique ou par ultra-sons ou par friction, le collage ou l'encliquetage; le choix des matériaux e.st alors fait en conséquence. A titre d'exemple, l'embout (15), constitué d'un matériau compatible au point de vue de la soudure avec le matériau du tube, peut être emmanché à force et soudé thermiquement à travers la paroi (22) du tube, à hauteur de l'emmanchement, suivant une zone de dimension suffisante pour empêcher l'embout (15) de s'échapper. La soudure par friction peut être obtenue en mettant l'embout (15) en rotation de manière à obtenir par exemple la soudure de la collerette (19) sur l'extrémité (14) du tube; cette dernière solution demandera néanmoins un développement particulier permettant de maintenir le tube souple pendant la phase de soudure pour qu'il ne vrille pas. La fixation par encliquetage peut être obtenue en faisant au moins une excroissance (23) Fig.5 sur l'extérieur de la jupe (24) de l'embout (25), comprenant une rampe (26) du côté du chanfrein (27) inférieur de l'embout (25) comme décrit Fig.4 et une butée (28) Fig.5 du côté de la collerette (29), qui viendra se loger au moment de l'assemblage dans un perçageWe have not shown for Figures 2, 4, 5, the other end of the tube which may either have a neck distribution as shown in Fig.1, or include a crushing closure of the tube which is welded or crimped. The device, object of the invention, consists in equipping the filling end (1) Fig. 1 of the refillable tube (2) with a screw thread (3) either inside or outside the tube (2), leaving the largest possible filling passage (1), onto which a plug (4) is screwed. In what follows we will only describe the case of the internal thread. When the tube (2) is obtained by injection, it is technically possible to obtain the thread (3) directly by injection; the threaded neck (5), of small diameter, used to extract the dough from the tube, has a male thread while the thread (3), from the filling orifice (1), into which is screwed a plug (4 ) is a female thread; under these conditions a screw cap (6) of conventional type may be suitable for closing the tube of the side (7) for the extraction of the product and a plug (4) with male thread closes it on the side (1) of the filling. It is also possible, when the tube is obtained by injection, to manufacture a tube (8) Fig.2 having at one end (9), a female internal thread (10) in the tube (8) into which a plug will be screwed (4) Fig. 1 with a male thread as previously described, while a part supporting the extraction neck (5) of the product which could not have been produced is fixed on the other end which is open. at the time of injection; the choice between these versions is essentially linked to the problems of mechanical strength of the injection molds caused by the dimensions of the tube. In the case where it is only possible to make a single thread (10) on the tube (8), as described above, it is possible to fix therein a filling plug Fig. 3 in two parts comprising, on the one hand, a male thread (11) which is screwed into the female thread (10) Fig. 2 of the tube (8), on the other hand, an extraction neck (12) Fig. 3 comprising a male thread on which is fixed the plug of the extraction orifice; this plug Fig.3 may further include a ribbed collar (13) to facilitate its screwing on the end (9) Fig.2 of the tube (8) and its unscrewing; the tube (8) is closed, at the other end, by a thermal weld as for the other plastic tubes; filling is done by unscrewing the neck assembly Fig. 3 product extraction plug, then when this assembly is screwed back, it is sufficient to extract the product by unscrewing the extraction plug; The advantage of such a system is to be able to use traditional filling lines if one wants to deliver the already filled tube for a first use. In a preferred version of the invention, we start with a plastic tube Fig. 4 purchased commercially with the neck and the extraction plug already in place at one end of the tube while the other end (14) is a thin wall, cylindrical in shape, widely open; the filling neck is made by the provision of an intermediate piece (15) of annular shape, comprising a female thread (16), fixed permanently and sealingly, at the filling end (14) of the tube; a plug (4) Fig.1 as described above makes it possible to close the tube Fig.4 once it is filled; this end piece (15), of annular shape, comprises a cylindrical outer part (17) comprising a chamfer (18) at its lower end, so as to be fitted into the end (14) of the tube and comprise at the upper end a collar (19) whose width is for example the thickness (20) of the tube on the end (21) of which it comes to bear; then the end piece (15) can be fixed by known techniques such as thermal spot welding or ultrasonic or friction, gluing or latching; the choice of materials is then made accordingly. For example, the end piece (15), made of a material compatible from the point of view of the welding with the material of the tube, can be force-fitted and thermally welded through the wall (22) of the tube, at the height of the fitting, in an area of sufficient size to prevent the end piece (15) from escaping . Friction welding can be obtained by putting the end piece (15) in rotation so as to obtain for example the welding of the flange (19) on the end (14) of the tube; this latter solution will nevertheless require a particular development allowing the flexible tube to be maintained during the welding phase so that it does not twist. Snap-fastening can be obtained by making at least one protrusion (23) Fig. 5 on the outside of the skirt (24) of the end piece (25), comprising a ramp (26) on the side of the chamfer (27) lower end of the end piece (25) as described in Fig.4 and a stopper (28) Fig.5 on the side of the flange (29), which will be housed during assembly in a hole
(30) effectué à travers la paroi du tube (31)', à hauteur de l'endroit où se trouvera l'excroissance (23) lorsque l'embout (25) sera en place sur le tube (31); lorsqu'on enfonce l'embout (25) dans le tube (31), la paroi du tube(30) made through the wall of the tube (31) ', up to the point where the protuberance (23) will be when the end piece (25) is in place on the tube (31); when the end piece (25) is pushed into the tube (31), the wall of the tube
(31) se déforme pour laisser passer l'excroissance (23) jusqu'à ce que cette dernière débouche dans l'ouverture (30) pratiquée dans le tube; à ce moment-là, la paroi du tube (31) reprend sa place et vient bloquer l'embout (25) pour l'empêcher de ressortir, tandis que la collerette (29) vient en butée sur l'extrémité (32) du tube (31) pour empêcher l'embout (25) de s'enfoncer davantage; il est préférable de prévoir un dispositif de contrôle d'orientation relative du tube (31) et de l'embout (25) pour leur assemblage en automatique; ce peut être pour le tube une encoche (33) débouchant sur son bord supérieur (32), fabriquée simultanément au perçage (30) destiné à l'encliquetage, qui permet de connaître la position du tube (31), qui est associé à un repère (34) situé sur l'embout (25); le repère (34) et l'encoche (33) peuvent être conçus pour servir de guidage de manière à ce que lorsqu'ils s'emboîtent l'un dans l'autre, au moment de l'emmanchement, l'excroissance (23) soit correctement orientée au droit du perçage (30). Le bouchon (4) Fig.1 qui est le même que celui utilisé dans les configurations décrites Fig.4 et Fig.5 comporte une partie cylindrique filetée mâle (35) Fig.1 venant se visser dans l'embout (15) Fig.4 ou (25) Fig.5; cette partie filetée (35) Fig.1 est solidaire d'une partie cylindrique (36), dont le diamètre est légèrement supérieur au diamètre extérieur du tube (2) dans le cas décrit Fig.1 et de la collerette (19) Fig.4 ou (29) Fig.5 de l'embout, et dont la paroi cylindrique (37) est striée pour permettre une bonne saisie pour le vissage et le dévissage; la partie inférieure (38) de cette partie cylindrique striée vient s'appuyer en butée sur la partie supérieure de la collerette (19) Fig.4. Dans une variante de l'invention, l'assemblage du bouchon (4) Fig.1 et de l'embout (15) Fig.4 comporte un dispositif de freinage ou de verrouillage empêchant son dévissage intempestif; la partie supérieure de la collerette (19) peut par exemple comporter un dispositif (38) de verrouillage du bouchon (4) Fig.1 lorsqu'il est vissé: on connaît avec une bonne précision la position du bouchon (4) lorsqu'il est vissé sur l'embout (15) Fig.4 on peut donc par exemple prévoir sur la collerette (15) une excroissance (19) qui viendra se loger en fin de vissage dans un creux de la partie inférieure (38) Fig.1 de la partie cylindrique striée (36) créant ainsi un point dur indiquant à l'utilisateur que le verrouillage est en place; on peut aussi imaginer une déformation volontaire en bout des filets du filetage femelle (16) afin d'assurer un freinage de l'assemblage. Le bouchon en deux parties décrit Fig.2 peut aussi se fixer sur des tubes cylindriques souples comprenant à une extrémité un embout (19) Fig.4 ou (25) Fig.5 et qui peuvent être, refermés à l'autre bout par soudure obtenue, comme décrit précédemment, par écrasement du tube, ou sertissage ou tout autre moyen de fermeture. Le système d'assemblage du bouchon (4) avec le pas de vis femmelle (3) est pris à titre d'exemple parce qu'on peut utiliser d'autres systèmes connus, notamment des systèmes permettant d'obtenir un assemblage correctement verrouillé en un quart de tour en utilisant par exemple des filets interrompus, ou appliqués sur une surface conique, ou un système de fixation à bayonnette. (31) is deformed to allow the protuberance (23) to pass until the latter opens into the opening (30) formed in the tube; at that time, the wall of the tube (31) takes its place and comes to block the end piece (25) to prevent it from coming out again, while the flange (29) abuts on the end (32) of the tube (31) to prevent the tip (25) from sinking further; it is preferable to provide a device for controlling the relative orientation of the tube (31) and the end piece (25) for their automatic assembly; it may be for the tube a notch (33) opening on its upper edge (32), produced simultaneously with the hole (30) intended for the snap-fastening, which makes it possible to know the position of the tube (31), which is associated with a mark (34) located on the nozzle (25); the mark (34) and the notch (33) can be designed to serve as guide so that when they fit into each other, at the time of fitting, the protuberance (23) is correctly oriented in line with the bore (30). The plug (4) Fig.1 which is the same as that used in the configurations described in Fig.4 and Fig.5 has a male threaded cylindrical part (35) Fig.1 which is screwed into the end piece (15) Fig. 4 or (25) Fig.5; this threaded part (35) Fig.1 is integral with a cylindrical part (36), the diameter of which is slightly greater than the outside diameter of the tube (2) in the case described in Fig.1 and of the flange (19) Fig. 4 or (29) Fig.5 of the nozzle, and whose cylindrical wall (37) is striated to allow a good grip for screwing and unscrewing; the lower part (38) of this striated cylindrical part abuts on the upper part of the collar (19) Fig.4. In a variant of the invention, the assembly of the plug (4) Fig.1 and the endpiece (15) Fig.4 comprises a braking or locking device preventing its untimely unscrewing; the upper part of the collar (19) may for example include a device (38) for locking the plug (4) Fig. 1 when it is screwed on: the position of the plug (4) is known with good precision when is screwed onto the end piece (15) Fig.4 we can for example provide on the flange (15) a protrusion (19) which will be housed at the end of screwing in a hollow in the lower part (38) Fig.1 the striated cylindrical part (36) thus creating a hard point indicating to the user that the lock is in place; one can also imagine a voluntary deformation at the end of the threads of the female thread (16) in order to ensure braking of the assembly. The two-part stopper described in Fig.2 can also be fixed on flexible cylindrical tubes comprising at one end an end piece (19) Fig.4 or (25) Fig.5 and which can be closed at the other end by welding obtained, as described above, by crushing the tube, or crimping or any other means of closure. The plug assembly system (4) with the female screw thread (3) is taken as an example because other known systems can be used, in particular systems making it possible to obtain an assembly correctly locked in a quarter turn using for example threads interrupted, or applied to a conical surface, or a bayonet fixing system.

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REVENDICATIONS
1-Tube conteneur de pâte rechargeable à partir d'une des extrémités (1) du tube (2) munie d'un orifice cylindrique de grand diamètre, comprenant un filetage femelle interne, dans lequel vient se visser un bouchon (4) par l'intermédiaire d'un filetage mâle, situé dans sa partie inférieure (35), caractérisé en ce que le filetage femelle (16) fait partie d'un embout (15) Fig.4 ou (25) Fig.5, de forme sensiblement annulaire, qui s'enfonce dans l'extrémité (14) du tube et qui est fixé à l'extrémité de remplissage (14) du tube, soit Fig.4 par soudure par point, soit Fig.4 par soudure par friction, soit Fig.4 par collage, soit Fig.5 par encliquetage. 1-Rechargeable paste container tube from one end (1) of the tube (2) provided with a large diameter cylindrical orifice, comprising an internal female thread, into which a plug (4) is screwed by the '' through a male thread, located in its lower part (35), characterized in that the female thread (16) is part of a nozzle (15) Fig. 4 or (25) Fig. 5, of substantially shaped annular, which is inserted into the end (14) of the tube and which is fixed to the filling end (14) of the tube, either Fig.4 by spot welding, or Fig.4 by friction welding, or Fig.4 by gluing, or Fig.5 by snap-fastening.
2-Tube conteneur de pâte rechargeable suivant la première revendication, caractérisé en ce que la fixation de l'embout (15) dans le tube (37) se fait par chauffage à travers la paroi (22) du tube (37) à hauteur de l'emmanchement.  2-Refillable paste container tube according to the first claim, characterized in that the attachment of the end piece (15) in the tube (37) is effected by heating through the wall (22) of the tube (37) up to the fitting.
3-Tube conteneur de pâte rechargeable suivant la première revendication, caractérisé en ce que la fixation de l'embout se fait par soudure soit par ultra-sons soit par friction par mise en rotation relative de l'embout (15) par rapport au tube permettant d'obtenir la soudure de la collerette (19) sur l'extrémité (21) du tube (37). 3-Refillable paste container tube according to the first claim, characterized in that the attachment of the end piece is made by welding either by ultrasound or by friction by relative rotation of the end piece (15) relative to the tube allowing to obtain the welding of the flange (19) on the end (21) of the tube (37).
4-Tube conteneur de pâte rechargeable suivant la revendication 1 caractérisé en ce que l'embout (15) comporte à sa base un chanfrein (18) permettant de faciliter l'introduction de l'embout (15) dans le tube (37), et une collerette (19) d'une largeur sensiblement égale à l'épaisseur (20) du tube (37) pour limiter son enfoncement dans le tube .  4-Refillable paste container tube according to claim 1 characterized in that the end piece (15) has at its base a chamfer (18) making it possible to facilitate the introduction of the end piece (15) into the tube (37), and a flange (19) of a width substantially equal to the thickness (20) of the tube (37) to limit its sinking into the tube.
5-Tube conteneur de pâte rechargeable suivant l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes caractérisé en ce que l'embout (15) comporte un dispositif de freinage ou de verrouillage du bouchon lorsqu'il est en position vissée. 6-Tube conteneur de pâte rechargeable suivant la première revendication caractérisé en ce que l'embout (25) et le tube (31) comportent pour l'encliquetage Fig.5 un dispositif de repérage en position (34) et (33), permettant le guidage correct des pièces lors de leur assemblage pour que l'excroissance (23) vienne directement se loger dans l'encoche (30). 5-Refillable paste container tube according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the end piece (15) comprises a device for braking or locking the plug when it is in the screwed position. 6-Tube refillable paste container according to the first claim characterized in that the end piece (25) and the tube (31) comprise for snap-fastening Fig.5 a locating device in position (34) and (33), allowing the correct guidance of the parts during their assembly for that the projection (23) comes directly to lodge in the notch (30).
7-Tube conteneur de pâte rechargeable suivant l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le bouchon Fig.3 comporte un goulot (12) de distribution du produit, de manière à ce que le remplissage du tube et la distribution du produit puisse se faire par la même extrémité du tube.  7-Refillable paste container tube according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the cap Fig.3 comprises a neck (12) for dispensing the product, so that the filling of the tube and the distribution of the product can be done by the same end of the tube.
8-Tube conteneur de pâte rechargeable suivant l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le bouchon comporte un système d'assemblage, formé de filet interrompus, ou formé d'un filetage conique, ou un système de fixation à bayonnette, permettant de le fixer en à l'extrémité du tube en faisant seulement une faible rotation.  8-Refillable paste container tube according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the stopper comprises an assembly system, formed of interrupted threads, or formed of a conical thread, or a bayonet fixing system, allowing it to be fixed at the end of the tube with only a slight rotation.
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