PROTECTED DEVICE FOR CORKING BOTTLES Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC B65D49/02 

FIELD: bottling.

SUBSTANCE: protected device for corking bottles incorporates a ring-like element arranged to abut on the bottle neck top edge and the neck opening inner space, a detachable seal or valve, a pipe-cap supporting the corking device casing with a cap part. The ring-cap is integrated with the aforesaid sealing element. The pipe-cap with an external closing cover gets fitted by its lower cylindrical part on the bottle neck outer surface. The pipe-cap is furnished with external structural elements arranged to hold down a break-off cover, a not-break-off cover with a break-off sealing belt or a metal cover with grips. For this a lengthwise groove to engage with the metal cover recess, a rib arranged along the edges to get into engagement with the mating ribs of the detachable cover and multiple ledges for engagement with inner irregularities of detachable sealing belt arranged between two outer ribs of the pipe-cap are arranged successively along the pipe-cap edges from top to center. Note that the pipe-cap features a smooth inner wall press-fitted in the ledges made on the casing lower edge flange for the pipe-cap to be radially locked.

EFFECT: simpler design of protected device ruling out concealed bottle opening.

3 cl, 33 dwg