WO1998011007A1

WO1998011007A1 - Process for handling packages with their lids

Info

Publication number: WO1998011007A1
Application number: PCT/MX1997/000028
Authority: WO
Inventors: Jorge Luis Leija Cordero
Original assignee: Jorge Luis Leija Cordero
Priority date: 1996-09-12
Filing date: 1997-09-05
Publication date: 1998-03-19
Also published as: MX9604069A; AU4401697A

Abstract

Process for handling packages in an industrial scale, by means of mechanical adhesive means such as of the hook and loop type arranged at the external surface of the lids, plugs or the body of the packages on the one hand and the mechanical adhesive means of the hook and/or loop type, complementary to that of the lids or packages, arranged at one point of the handling system used to transport the packages, on the other hand. The handling systems are to the only movable part of the handling industrial process, since they are the ones which are moved with the load adhered thereto by means of the mechanical adhesive means from one point to another. Basically, the novelty of the invention is the molding at the external surface of the lids or the packages, of a mechanical and physical adhesive system which is not tacky and which does not easily loose its adhesive property and can handle heavy weights. Such physico-mechanical adhesive means can be built-in by molding at the time of fabrication of the plastic lids or packages, but it can also be applied after the fabrication of such parts, by means of self-adhesive strips.

Description

1 PROCEDURE FOR HANDLING PACKS WITH LIDS.

DESCRIPTION

1.- THE SPHERE OF THE TECHNOLOGY TO WHICH IT APPLIES.

This patent application refers to a procedure for handling containers, by means of the mechanical adhesive dθ hooks and / or curls placed on the outer surface of the lids or the caps of the containers,

5 on the one hand; and the mechanical adhesive of hooks and / or curls, complementary to the one with the covers or plugs, placed at some point of the manipulator system to be used to transport the containers, on the other hand.

This patent application also includes the search for protection for some of the products that 1 «we propose based on the use of the system with mechanical adhesive of curl and hook, such as screw caps or pressure caps of the containers, which they will carry the adhesive on the outer surface (FIG. 10), the body of the containers (FIG. 1 1) that will also carry the mechanical hook and loop adhesive on the outer surface: the manipulative systems (FIGS. 8 and 9), which carry the adhβrente at the end that will make contact with the caps, pins or nails manipulators (FIGS.15 and 16), the, _r which bear the mechanical adhesive on the outside of the head or upper end; The beverage vending machine (FIG 14), which will have a disk with hook or curl adherent on one of its faces, this disk with mechanical adherent, will serve as a manipulative means of the containers inside the machine and also as a system product provider, and the plastic lid for aluminum cans or cans or tin foil (FIGS. 12 and 13), which will have the mechanical hook and nzo molded _r x _→ . the outer surface

This industrial procedure, if accepted by the manufacturers, will represent a huge saving in production costs, since it eliminates the use of very expensive machines and high maintenance costs; It also represents an increase in productivity, allowing huge increases in production speeds, without fearing the product losses that would arise today from

-> r work at the speeds that this system allows.

Mechanical hook and loop adhesives are complementary to two elements, that is, one part without the other does not work to adhere to something else, since each of the two parts of the adhesive (the hooks or , the curls) only adhere to its complement and any other surface will be discriminated and, the adhesive power will not be presented

For clarity, I will say that something with an adherent of any type of hooks (FIGS 1, 2 and 3) will not adhere to anything else if it does not have the complementary physical adherent of curls (FIG 4) or

5 diamond pattern (FIG 5), and vice versa, things with a physical adherent of curls or a diamond pattern will not adhere to anything that does not have a hook adhesion, hence the two parts that make up the mechanical hook adhesive and curl, one, any of them, will go in the lids (or in the body of the containers) and the complementary one will go in the manipulative system, these two parts, when joined together, physically adhere to each other, being able to transport the container to the desired site

1 0 Technically the physical or mechanical hook and loop adhesives are known as active connector and passive connector respectively and work by physical coupling (FIG 6) of the hooks with the curls, that is, the many hooks, generally millimeter, already placed either in the lids or in the manipulative system that you plan to use, they are locked with the many curls, also generally millimetric, that are in the complementary object (be they the lids or the manipulator system) with which it is possible to lift the entire container (lid and body of the container) and transport it to the place and in the desired position To separate the lid from the manipulator system, it will be enough to apply a force slightly greater to the joint and provide it, to increase the speed and accuracy of the separation, with special speed and inclination The mechanical hook and loop adhesive or diamond pattern can also be installed on the body of the containers (FIG. 1 1)

2 0 The tangle of curls can be replaced by a rhomboidal weave (FIG 5) -tressed net type- of fine and resistant plastic floating threads so that they can also be molded out of the machine as a single piece with the lid or with the body of the container or with the manipulator system 2.- THE STATE OF THE KNOWN TECHNIQUE

Until now, entrepreneurs who use containers of any kind to contain and distribute their products 5 help, to move these containers from one point of their industrial plant, expensive engines to produce vacuum and through complicated systems that react to that vacuum they manage to grab the container and transport it, other industrialists use machines that, by means of mechanical and automatic systems, hold the containers using rings that open and close electrically according to the instructions of a program, and others, perhaps most, take advantage continuous transportation bands, for I take their products from one point to another, these three systems that I mention are those that predominate, so far, in the industrial sector and the three are more complicated and expensive than the system that I propose in this patent application.

Nowadays, nobody is using the mechanical adhesive of hook and curl on the outer surface of the 5 caps or of the caps or of the bodies of the containers and much less they are still using the covers, the caps or the body of the containers to move these from one area to another of the industrial plants or to display the containers at the point of sale or to sell the containers by means of automatic beverage machines or to select and separate the containers with adhesive hooks and / or curls of other solid waste from garbage, etc., all these functions will be feasible thanks to the method we propose and which we seek the patent

Mechanical adherent hook and loop systems have a lot of time to use in a number of things, mainly in the textile area, automotive in medical devices and as a closure system for various items, the best known are those sold by the Velero brand, which They were developed under a patent that is now in the public domain. The current administrators of the Velero brand seem to have patented improvements to the original system, going from the woven hook and cut in nylon to a type of hook injected or molded in plastic, with very specific purposes and uses that in fact do not include the Uses that we are exposing in this patent application 3.- DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION The invention consists of a method for handling containers in the manufacturing area by means of

20 mechanical adhesives of the so-called hook and curl placed on the top and outside of the caps (FIG. 10) or caps and / or on the body of the bottles or containers (FIG 1 1) under the environment of a novel concept and simpler than those known to date and with the help of manipulative systems (FIGS.8,9,19) which are elements of the process that can be moved or moved and that have at one end the complementary mechanical adhesive from which is using in the caps or plugs or in the

2 container body

In fact, the containers and lids can be of any size, shape and material and not only plastic. Although, depending on the type of plastic (there are many varieties of plastic that can be used with our technique), it can be the best material. to use, since there are some types of plastics that are easily molded in a special machine, even in sizes 1 millimeter; They are also economical, aseptic and non-toxic, and they are very durable and in the special case of the plastic caps of the current containers, they are much more practical than their predecessors - the sheet and cork covers as well as much easier to mold in its surface with the enhancement of the hooks or the curls or the weft of rhombuses Notwithstanding this freedom as far as the characteristics of the packages or of the

5 covers to be assembled with the manipulator system, it is necessary that the covers or, if necessary, the body of the containers, have the shape of the mechanical adhesive on its surface

There are two ways to apply the embossment with the physical hook and loop adhesion or rhomboid weft to the lids, the caps or the body of the containers one, is to manufacture the lids, the caps or the body of the containers with the mechanical adherent of hook and curl already molded in each piece (F1GS 10 and 1 1) By doing this, it is possible to configure both elements in one and the same piece (the piece itself and the mechanical hook and loop adhesive)

Negative molds of what you want to obtain as positive or fine product are used for its elaboration! and some of the many techniques that exist to make the plastic pass under the conditions required to said mold, which has the desired figure (which will finally present the shape of the hooks, curls or rhomboid weft attached to the molded part) thus allowing the machine to deliver the required parts already formed or molded to taste and, as I said, each piece will already have the corresponding part of the mechanical adhesive hook and / or curl or diamond pattern.

The other way is by subsequently applying the shape of the hooks, the curls or the rhomboid net through independent tapes (FIG 17 and 18) that become glued by heat or by a

-and -s chemical adhesive to the lids, caps or the body of the containers, as well as to the handling systems

As I have said before, the way in which the mechanical adhesive systems of each lid or container body are joined is by assembly of physical characteristics (FIGS 6 and 7), that is, some of the many small (or large, since the size depends on the proportion that exists between the enhancement of the hooks r and the curls, with the weight and dimension of the product to be assembled) many small hooks that are in some points of the lids or of the containers are locked in some of the many small curls of the woven tangle that are in the manipulator system where they will have to be assembled and that to disengage both pieces you have to use a force slightly greater and opposite to that of the union The hooks are technically known as an active connector and curls as passive connector l All the covers (FIG 10) provided with the hook adherent system will have complementary manipulative systems (FIGS 8 and 9) (where you will assemble the cover) provided with the curl tangle system or with the rhomboid network system of fine and resistant plastic tensioned threads and vice versa, the covers with curls or with a diamond pattern will have manipulative systems against

5 hooks The manipulator systems are characterized by their mobility and the possibility of movement

The architecture or general design of the adherent body of each element - that is, the quantity and the way it will be placed, per square centimeter, the adherent system - will be molded based on two or three strips with mechanical adherent coating, either in vertically or horizontally, being able to cover mechanical hook and loop adhesive to the total surface to be assembled, depending on this or the fixing requirements

In general, the smallest caps to be joined are of a size ranging from 0 5 cm in height to 1 0 cm in diameter; while the elderly are up to 3 0 cm high by 5 0 cm in diameter, passing through all the intermediate size possibilities and at each point of the covers they are placed, depending on the fixing needs, from twenty to one hundred hooks in each centimeter square The traditional 5 smaller hooks are generally one millimeter high, half millimeter wide and one millimeter long; The curls will also be around twenty to one hundred per square centimeter and will also be one millimeter high and 0 7 mm long. These measurements may vary according to the fixing requirements and in proportion to the size of the piece to be assembled. 4.- DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS OR FIGURES 0 The design of the typical hook and loop mechanical adhesive system is divided, as is obvious, into the following two basic elements

Typical hook (FIG 1). It is a highlighted piece composed of four elements namely surface, trunk base and tip

These elements are not sectioned or separated from each other, but on the contrary, they are a single piece and their division is exclusively for descriptive purposes.

The surface (FIG 1 No 1) is the object to be assembled, that is the covers, the body of the containers or the manipulative systems

The base (FIG 1 No 2) is the lower part of the hook, which is attached to the surface or plane to be assembled and is characterized by being the slightly thicker part of the hook, this in order to have the necessary strength The leg resists the pull that is used to separate the hooks from the curls or the diamond pattern when the two parts of the mechanical adhesive are joined

The trunk (FIG. 1. No.3), which is the intermediate part of the hook, is between the base and the tip and is characterized by an angle, which can range from 10 degrees relative to the lift plane,

5 until reaching 170 degrees in the same relationship.

The tip (FIG. 1. No.4) or tips (FIG. 2) (FIG. 3) which is the part that ends at the top end of the hook and is characterized by a curve that varies in its pronunciation depending on the requirement of fixing that is desired. When more than two points split from the same trunk, we indicate the direction to which those points point in degrees of angles as if they were seen from above. We have so that when the trunk leaves more than one point, they are classified as follows: 2 points (F1G. 2) opposed by the vortex will be 180 degrees, in Figure 2 they can be marked with the points (F! G. 2 No.4) the tips of the same hook and it can be seen that one tip is slightly different from the other tip of the same figure 2, although they may also be the same or much more different as the design proposed for each use; at the point (FIG. 2. No.3) the common trunk can be seen, which c includes the base and the trunk of the same hook.

Three points (FIG. 3.) in opposite directions will be 120 degrees from each other; In Figure 3, the points (FIG. 3. No.4) point to each of the three points and the point (FIG. 3 No.3) points to the common trunk of the three. The number of points also influences the degree of attachment of the hook towards the curl. Typical curl (FIG 4.): It is a tangle of nylon fabric formed by curls or closed arches - by closed it is understood that the two ends of the curl ( FIG. 4. No.5) they are fixed to the surface (FIG. 4. No.1) base of the fabric - that when coming into contact with the hook, the nearest curls are locked with the tip of the hook. The curl has four elements: the surface to be joined (FIG 4 No 1), the base (FIG 4. No.5), the trunk (FIG. 4. No.6) and the tip (FIG. 4. No.7 ).

The surface (FIG. 4. No.1) is actually the body that you want to adhere to another that also has mechanical hook and loop adhesive.

The base or bases (FIG. 4. No.5), since in reality they are two bases because the curl is basically a closed arc whose two ends or bases are fixed to the surface of the object to adhere

The trunk (FIG. 4. No.6) characterized by being a flexible and closed arch that tends to guide the curved tip of the hook of the complementary piece was born the tip of the curl so that the hook does not leave , its interior.

The tip (FIG. 4. No 7) which is the upper end of the arch and is where the tip of the counter or complementary hook is finally locked.

Both the hook and the curl we have just described are separated, that is, the hooks go in the lid and c the curls in the manipulator system or vice versa, which when joined together become locked (FIG. 6 and 7) and therefore, the lid and therefore, the container that is attached to the lid, will go where the manipulator system is directed, which obviously must be stronger than the weight of the products to be moved, since being the manipulator system, the only element movable from our packaging handling process, it must be powerful enough to displace, without problems, the load imposed on it. Q It is easy to distinguish that the design of the elements of a part of the adhesive is completely different from the design of the elements of the other part of the adhesive (while in one there are hooks in the other there are curls) that is, they are opposite; but their differences allow the coupling to occur, that is, they are complementary, so I say that the mechanical adhesive hook and loop systems are opposite and complementary or machimbrados.

I 5 Rhomboid thread (FIG. 5): It consists of small floating plastic filaments (FIG. 5. No.9) that as an open rhomboid weft, barely necessary and sufficient for the complementary hooks to pass through the internal area of the rhombus (FIG. 7), manages to stop, once the hook has passed through said interior space of the rhombus (FIG. 7. No.10), the tip of said hook (FIG. 7. No. 4) in order to lock it and thus achieve the union between the hooks and the rhombuses. To disengage them is enough, as with the tangle of curls, _n apply a force slightly greater than that of the union, but in the opposite direction.

The elements of the rhomboidal thread are: The surface to be joined (FIG. 5. No.1), The columns or base (FIG. 5 No.8) and The tips (FIG. 5. No.9).

The surface to be joined (FIG. 5. No.1) is actually the body or element that is intended to adhere to another that has a mechanical hook adhesive.

„,. The base (FIG. 5. No 8) are the elements that join the tensioned wires with the surface to be assembled and have the shape of columns, logs or small cylinders. They are placed at each angle of the rhombuses that form the tip-threads in the weft.

The tips (FIG. 5. No.9) or floating and tensioned threads or tip threads, which only have contact with the cylinders that make up the base and only at the angles of the rhombus, therefore, almost the entire tip or } Thread is in the air, thus allowing the tips of the hooks of the complementary part of the mechanical adhesive to be locked as they pass from side to side towards the neighboring rhombuses

Splicing mode between hooks and curls (FIG 6). This figure shows the way the hooks are locked (FIG. 6. No. 10) with the curls (FIG. 6. No. 11).

5 Splicing mode between hooks and diamond weft (FIG. 7): In this other figure it can be seen how the tips of the hooks (FIG. 7. No. 4) are locked with the tensioned threads (FIG. 7 No.9) of the rhomboidal weave which are separated from the surface (FIG. 7. No.1) to be joined by the columns (FIG. 7. o.8)

The manipulative systems: They are the only elements of the method of manipulation of containers with adhesive of hook and curl, that have movement. This movement is subject to various mechanisms and i are devices that manage to give manipulative systems the power to move through such mechanisms to where the manufacturer wishes. Their shapes can be varied, there are flexible and rigid Examples of flexible manipulative system is the movable band plush with curls (FIG 8) where (FIG 8. No.12) is the tangle of curls and at the point (FIG. 8. No. 13) one of the ways in which containers can be transported with the handling system is shown. plush or fabric band with curls. The band can also be hooks or diamond weft and then it would be semi-rigid

Mechanical, electrical or electronic arms (FIG. 9) are rigid models of manipulative systems and have the adhesive of hooks and / or curls at one end (FIG. 9. No.12), which is used to lock the covers or the body of the containers and thus be able to transport and handle them. They can have the dimension and shape that best suits the specific work they are going to develop. In (FIG. 9.) an example n of a horizontal manipulator system is shown, since it engages with the containers diagonally (FIG 9 No 14) and Once held, it is transported honzontally, although it may change in its path to the vertical position, until the desired site

Pins or nails with mechanical hook and / or curl adhesive on the upper outer part of the head (FIGS. 15 and 16) As can be seen in these figures, they consist of special nails or pins for use with this handling technique of containers, in the use of hook and loop adhesive only on the head of these elements (FIG. 15. No 15 and FIG 16. No 15) With the points (FIG 15. No.30 and FIG. 16 No.31 ) I intend to show the diversity of forms that can be given to these elements derived from the manipulative systems and which are characterized by having in the upper external face or head, the complementary part of the mechanical adhesive of hook and curl that is being used to manipulate the packaging

Cap or plug with mechanical hook and / or curl adhesive (FIG 10). It basically consists of a new way of designing, molding and manufacturing the caps or caps of the various containers that are used to sell beverages of all kinds, as well as medicines, lubricating oils, beauty articles, etc. and is characterized by incorporating them into any point of the outer part of the body of the screw caps or pressure of the containers, the mechanical adhesive of hook and / or curl or diamond pattern. With the point (FIG. 10. No 15), the mechanical adhesive placed on the outer and upper surface of the cover or cap is indicated, as well as the one placed on the edge or side of the cover, both can be applied on the same piece or Can some cover model carry only mechanical adhesive on the upper surface or only on the edge or a combination of both, etc.

Figure 1 1 shows how the mechanical hook and loop adhesive or diamond pattern could be applied on the surface of the containers and with the point (FIG 1 1. No 15) some of the points where the mechanical adhesive hook and loop or diamond pattern

Figure 12 shows a cover model with hook and loop mechanical adhesive applications for aluminum containers or tin foil cans and Figure 13 illustrates the way in which, after opening the hole to extract the contents of that container remains locked the opening tongue to the surface of the lid by means of the adhesive of hook and diamond pattern or curls applied to the surface of the lid and of the tongue

These caps of the boats or cans, can be made of plastic so that the application of the adhesive or mechanical hook and rhomboidal weft or curl is molded in one piece with the lid. The inclusion of a plastic lid in an aluminum can or canister or tin foil is even more practical and safe than if the lid were also made of aluminum or tin foil. The lid should have both mechanical hook and loop adhesive (FIG 12. No 15 and FIG. 13. No.15) as a weft of rhombuses or curls (FIG. 12 No.12 and FIG. 13. No.12) in order to achieve two things one, to be able to handle the cans or Aluminum containers more easily with the help of manipulative systems with adhesive hooks and curls, and two, to be able to use a new and better can opening system, since the opening tab (FIG 12 No.20 and FIG 13 No .20) may only be detached by up to approximately ninety percent, as it is the percentage that is tightened or precut from the contour (FIG 12 No 7 and FIG 13. No.17) of the tongue This tongue is designed to keep the container closed until, by means of a pull applied to .. through the opening ring (FIG 12 No. 19 and FIG 13 No. 19) with determined and calculated nut. it is possible to detach the tongue from the plastic cover, but only as soon as the tiled line - this is approximately 90 percent - thus opening a hole (FIG 13 No 21) in the lid through which the liquid contained in the can, while the remaining percentage -10 percent roughly-

, - of the perimeter of the tongue that is not precut or tightened (FIG 12 No. 1 and FIG 13 No. 16) is also calculated not to detach with the pull, due to which the tongue is suspended to the plastic cover by middle of this part, the tongue can then be folded until the hooks that it has on its outer surface (FIG 12 No.15 and FIG 13 No.15) are locked with the curls or the rhomboid weft that is on the surface of the plastic cover (FIG 12 No 12 and FIG 13 No 12) In addition to the union achieved with -, r. the mechanical hook and loop adhesive, a protrusion of the plastic cover (FIG 12 No 18 and FIG 13 No 18) reinforces the containment of the tongue

With this way of opening the can, it is achieved that the consumer of the product does not throw away the tongue considering it a garbage, but allows him, at the same time to get rid of the hindrance that this could represent to take the content The only purpose of Figure 13 is show the appearance that a can already opened can be and the way the different elements of the lid would be related once the liquid orifice of the liquids was uncovered

Vending machine for glass, plastic or aluminum containers with lids provided with hooks and / or curls (FIG 14) This vending machine model is designed based on the use of containers with lids provided with mechanical adhesive hooks and / or curls or weft rhomboidal 0 The container (FIG 14 No.27) is handled, inside the machine first and then vertically as soon as the stage of delivery of the package to the buyer The horizontal displacement is in rows (FIG 14 No 23) By means of an electronic selector system or mechanic (FIG 14 No 24) the machine is indicated βl container (FIG 14 No 27) that the buyer wants and once the order is received, the machine pushes the entire row of containers that are behind the container

„ _R container chosen By moving the horizontal and individual bearings (FIG 14 No.22) located on the top rail (FIG 14 No 29) and from the center of which, a thin steel or plastic wire runs and unravels (FIG 14 No 28) which has a disc at the lower end (FIG 14 No.25) with mechanical adhesive of hooks and / or curls or rhomboidal weft (FIG 14 No 12) just on the face that makes contact with the mechanical adhesive of the lid of the container to be dispensed, said disk locks 1 then with the lid of the container, which once selected, causes the entire row to move forward due to which the other containers push it causing it to be out of the edge and, therefore, tend to fall, situation that It is controlled by the fine thread (FIG 14 No.28) that is systematically untangled from the center of the horizontal bearing (FIG. 14 No.22) thus allowing the container

5 Gently reach the capture area by the buyer (FIG 14. No.26), which only has to detach the container from the circle with mechanical adhesive hooks and / or curls or diamond pattern. Pin or transport nail with adhesive head of hook and / or curl: These are hybrid variations of manipulative systems and caps or caps, as can be seen in the case of the variant to move textile garments (FIG. 15) which It consists of a hook and / or curl adhesive head (FIG. 15. ig No.15) and a rectangular or triangular body with optional hook terminations (FIG. 15 No.30) to prevent the garment from falling. Likewise, in the pin or transport nail model with hook and / or curl adhesive head that we propose for the displacement of banana grooves (FIG 16) we see that it also has a hook and / or curl adhesive head (FIGS 16 and 19 No 15) but that has a curved body hook or hook type (FIGS. 16 and 19. No 31) which is the part that is introduced to the penca

1 r (FIG. 19. No.34) in order to lock it and move it

Figure 17 illustrates a tape with mechanical hook and / or curl adhesive or diamond pattern (FIG. 17 No.15) on the obverse and a chemical adhesive zone (FIG 17. No.32) or heat fusion or by ultrasound on the reverse Figure 18 shows a cross-section of a container lid in which the way Q is observed with a tape with hook and curl adherent or rhomboidal weft on the obverse (FIG 18. No.15 ) is applied to that cover by means of a chemical adhesive (FIG. 18 No.32), although this union could be by fusion by heat or by ultrasound

Figure 19 shows a manipulation or transportation system for pins or nails with head provided with adhesive hooks or curls or diamond pattern, where the point (FIG. 19. No. 35) is the 5 manipulator systems with mechanical adhesive in the lower part (FIG. 19 No. 12), which are locked with pins or nails provided with hooks or curls or rhomboidal weft in their head (FIG. 19. No. 15). In order to see the way the product is moved (FIG 19. No. 13), it is illustrated with four hook-type parts (FIG. 19. No. 31) the way in which the pins or nails provided with the head are attached and detached with adhesive hooks and / or curls or rhomboidal weft With the point (FIG. 19 No 33) a system of drawing is drawn ^ transportation of banana pencas (FIG. 19. No 34) based on manipulative systems of hook and curl or diamond pattern.

5.- THE BEST METHOD KNOWN TO EXECUTE THE INVENTION. The hooks, as well as the curls and the floating rhomboid weft of fine and resistant tensioned threads, can be molded with the help of a machine that uses one of the many methods that exist to make plastic articles with machines, namely: there are mechanisms that mold plastic parts by compression, by transfer, by injection, by extrusion, by blowing, by calendering, by thermoforming, by molding mud, by foaming, by rotational molding, etc. some methods are better than the others for manufacture of parts with the mechanical adhesive of hooks and curls or rhomboidal weft -s incorporated into the piece, but even those of less satisfactory results, can work even if only limitedly. The parts that are sought have mechanical adhesive hook and curl or diamond pattern since its manufacture, are the covers or plugs, manipulative systems, pins or transport nails with mechanical adhesive head and the contact disk of the vending machine. There are three ways to apply the mechanical hook and loop adhesive or rhomboidal weft in each of the 5 elements of the procedure subject to this patent application.

One is, manufacturing the covers with the structure of the adhesive of hook or curl or rhomboid weft already molded, as the same piece with the lid (FIG. 10), by means of some of the methods of manufacturing plastic parts mentioned above, another is, when the covers are manufactured smooth, that is, without hooks or curls on their surface as they are currently manufactured, and then the adherent system

, -, -s. mechanical hooks or curls or rhomboidal weft is placed by the manufacturer in the lids, in the caps or in the body of the containers, using a tape (FIG. 17) attached and independent against the object to be manipulated and joining it fusion by heat or ultrasound The attached tape must have the mechanical adhesive on the front (FIG. 17 No. 15), which must be complementary to the one installed in the manipulator system to be used The other way to apply the mechanical adhesive of hook and curl to

- _¡r the covers, to the body of the containers or to the manipulative systems, is also by means of a tape (FIG. 17) but now of the self-adhesive type, that is, a tape that carries on the obverse (FIG. 17. No. 15 ) the physical-mechanical adherent system (hooks or curls) and on the reverse a chemical adhesive (FIG 17. No. 32), so that this tape can be placed with the side of the chemical adhesive in contact with the smooth face of the cover where the adhesion of the curls or of the hooks is desired, resulting from the moment in which 1 glue the chemical side (FIG. 18. No. 32) of the tape to the cover, provided with the mechanical adhesive which will therefore be on the outside of the cover (FIG. 18. No. 15).

The mechanical adhesive of hook and curl can also be placed in the body of the containers (FIG. 1), either in its base, so that even if they are transported in movable belts they keep the balance better or in

5 any point on the outer body of the container as appropriate to the uses that this method may have. The number of hooks or curls needed, that is, the number of hooks or curls per square centimeter will be determined according to the specific needs of each application. As for the site and design of the placement of the adhesive it can be presented with hooks or curls only in the center of the lid or only in one half or only as a peripheral ring at the top of the lid or only in the edge from

1 0 the lid or the entire outer surface of the lid, or by vertical or horizontal strips on the body of the container, etc.

It is necessary at the time of designing the lids, the caps, the body of the containers or the manipulator system to calculate that the mechanical embossing or hook and loop or rhomboid weave, goes in proportion to the size and weight of the product to be handled and also the hooks go in proportion to the

.., - curls i b

Since the active elements (hooks), can be detached multiple times from the passive ones (curls or rhomboid weft) without losing adhesion properties to each other, it is favored that what used for the manufacturing process continues to serve during the distribution processes , sale and even recycling

2 r _ι In this patent application I propose that the tangle of nylon curls, could be replaced or aided by a grid or floating diamond pattern whose sides are thin strands of plastic and that because they are so thin they can be introduced to each hook where will have to be locked, this grid could be molded to leave in one piece with the lid, the cap, the body of the containers or with the manipulator system As regards the manipulative systems, these can be developed according to each

2 c specific application, being able to be of multiple capture or of individual capture, of vertical transportation or horizontal transportation, they can also be given the power to close or open containers by means of covers provided with hooks or curls. However, despite so many applications and configuration possibilities, what determines the handling systems and is a common factor in all of them is that the end or tip that comes into contact with the lid or the body of the container must have the adhesive complementary to 1 the one that presents the lid or the container, that is, if the lid had hooks, the manipulator system would have curls or diamond pattern and if the lid had curls or diamond pattern, the manipulator system would have hooks For the purposes of this patent application no matter the size, materials, or the shape of the lids, caps or containers, that is, they can be triangular, circular, rectangular, long, short, c thin or thick, hollow or solid, made of wood, plastic or metal, etc. since the most important thing is that at one point, in several or in any exterior part of each lid or each container body there is an embossing of the hook, the tangle of curls or the rhomboidal weft of fine threads and rigid in the form of a tensioned floating network

6.- THE POSSIBILITIES OF USE OR APPLICATION.

1-s The objective of the invention is to allow manufacturers (beverage bottlers in general packagers of beauty articles or of medicines or lubricating oils, etc.) to move their bottles or containers from one point to another of their industrial plant without having to use the expensive systems that predominate today in the sector, as well as distributing a more practical and functional package. In case the factory was made of items that do not use bottles and therefore do not use caps, there will be

-xr a specific model of the so-called "pins with mechanical adhesive head of hook and curl" for each application for which weight, volume and the delicate handling of each product is contemplated For example, if it were clothes, the pins they could be of the open staple type (FIG 15), that is, a rectangle without one of the long sides and with the mechanical adhesive of hook and curl in the middle and upper part of the long side that is had, the short sides or legs are introduced into the garment and as they may have turn or hook-shaped terminations, the garment is prevented from falling by gravity another example is the transfer of banana leaves (FIG 19 No 34), then the pin or nail to be used would be type hook (FIG 16 No.31) which was stuck in the upper part of the penca, the mechanical adhesive of curl or hook would go in the upper and outer part of the head of the nail or hook the body of which, in turn, it goes inside the penca, except obviously and the head of the nail or hook, which goes outside to be able to lock with the

2 c mechanical adhesive hook or loop of the manipulator system (FIG 16 No 35) and thus be transported

Other very important applications are the use that consumers can give to the covers once the product is opened and used, among which its use in commercial promotions stands out through games that take advantage of the ability to adhere to the surface of the covers or promoting collections of the covers, since it is very easy to be able to join the covers and paste them on a plush board with curls or in a 1 board with hooks depending on the complementary adhesive that has the product, another application of the covers with mechanical adnrente of curl and hook, is in the display of the product in points of sale because the presentation of the container is facilitated, a more sena use the use of vending machines (FIG 14) with new ad hoc mechanism to the cover assembly with adherent mechanical hook _r and / or curl, it would also be possible to use this system in baskets or lugs adherent mechanical hook and / or curl so that consumers can transport empty containers at the same time, since the baskets with mechanical adhesive of hook and / or curl or rhomboid weft will adhere by means of the caps with complementary mechanical adherent, it can also be used to increase the load capacity in container delivery trucks, to virtually power

1 0 eliminate the need for container-containing boxes, since the bottles could adhere to modular plastic plates Likewise, and since the mechanical hook and loop adherents are complemenaπos and discriminatory of anything that does not have the complement, that is They are open to everything that does not have the complementary adhesive structure.This feature can be used to select and separate from the garbage all those containers that have mechanical adhesive, be they hooks or curls, the ic which if they would be trapped in the plush with curls or in the sieve with hooks, while all those materials that do not have mechanical adhesive of this type, not being caught by the plush or the sieve, would continue their way, thus achieving their easy selection and separation for subsequent recovery by recycling

Claims

_j

I consider as a novelty and as my property, what is contained in the following clauses

1) Procedure for handling products, mainly packaging, characterized by the use of the mechanical adhesive hook and loop, which is placed, on the one hand, on the outer face of the covers of

5 the containers and on the other hand in a suitable and functional place of the manipulator system, so that when joining both parts just where the mechanical adhesive of hook and curl is held, they are locked and can be moved to the manipulator system where desired and by consequence to the container

2) Procedure for handling products, mainly packaging characterized by the use of the mechanical hook and loop adhesive which is placed, on the one hand, on the outside of the body of the containers and on the other hand, in a suitable place and functional of the manipulator system, so that when joining both parts just where the mechanical adhesive of hook and loop is held, they are locked and can be moved to the manipulator system where desired and consequently to the container

3) Procedure for handling products, mainly packaging, characterized by the use of molded hook and loop mechanical adhesive, since its manufacture, on the outer surface of the plastic covers and c of the containers to be moved

4) Procedure for handling mainly packaging products characterized by the use of molded hook and loop mechanical adhesive, since its manufacture on the outside of the body of the plastic containers to be moved

5) Procedure for handling products, mainly containers, characterized by the use of the mechanical adhesive of molded hook and curl since its manufacture in plastic handling systems for containers to be moved

6) Procedure for the handling of products, mainly packaging characterized by the use of the mechanical adhesive αe hook and curl placed after its manufacture in the covers of the containers to move in the leather of the containers and in the manipulator system, by means of self-adhesive tapes

2 5 that have hooks or curls or rhomboid weave on the front and have a chemical contact adhesive on the back

7) Procedure for handling mainly packaging products, characterized by the use of i mechanical adhesive of hook and loop placed after its manufacture, in the covers of the containers to be moved, in the body of the containers and in the manipulator system, by means of adhesive tapes by heat fusion or ultrasound

8) Procedure for handling products, mainly containers, characterized by the use of the molded rhomboid mechanical adhesive c, since its manufacture, on the lids or on the body of the containers to be moved or on the manipulator systems

9) Procedure for handling products, mainly packaging, characterized by the use of the rhomboidal weft which is the passive and complementary part of the mechanical adhesive of hook and rhomboidal weft which replaces the curls as a passive connector and consisting of fine threads Tense floating, and sustained, at a certain height of the surface of the piece, by means of four cylinders or small columns placed at the points where said diamonds make angles

10) Procedure for handling mainly packaging products characterized by the use of mechanical hook and loop adhesive placed on the head of the nails or transport pins

1 1) Procedure for handling products, mainly containers, characterized by the use of mechanical hook and loop adhesive placed on the conveyor belt of products using nails or transport pins with hook adhesive head and / or curl or diamond pattern

12) Procedure for handling products, mainly containers, characterized by the use of mechanical hook and loop adhesive placed on the disk of the product supply system of the automatic vending machine for products in packages with covers provided with hook adhesive, curl or plot

„ _Λ rhomboidal