Patent ID: 6382450
Filing Date: 2002-05-07
Classification: B65D,Y10S

Abstract:
Packaging device for a fluid product, liquid product or pasty product, comprising:a container intended to contain said product, a neck of the container being equipped with a head for dispensing the product; a cap intended to at least partially cap said head; a system for relative positioning of at least one first external ornamental feature carried by the cap with respect to at least one second external ornamental feature carried by the container in a predetermined relative position, said system for relative positioning being a magnetic system for automatic relative positioning upon closure and comprising a first and a second permanently magnetized magnetic means for generating interacting magnetic fields, said first magnetic means being carried by the cap and said second magnetic means being carried by the container in a location such that the first and second magnetic means face each other when the container is in the closed position, the first magnetic means having at least two opposed magnetic poles on a first face facing toward the second magnetic means, the second magnetic means having a second face facing said first face and having complementing magnetic poles, a location of the poles of each said first and second magnetic means being determined with respect to a location of the external ornamental features so as to automatically obtain the predetermined relative positioning of said external ornamental features upon closing the container; the container comprising a part surrounding the neck, said part having a first annular housing capable of containing the second magnetic means, and the cap comprising a second annular housing capable of containing, at a base of the cap, the first magnetic means so that upon closure, the first magnetic means circumscribes the head for dispensing and sits atop the second magnetic means with a small gap.