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WO2010040154A2
WO2010040154A2 PCT/ZA2009/000085 ZA2009000085W WO2010040154A2 WO 2010040154 A2 WO2010040154 A2 WO 2010040154A2 ZA 2009000085 W ZA2009000085 W ZA 2009000085W WO 2010040154 A2 WO2010040154 A2 WO 2010040154A2
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Johannes Lodewikus Whitehead
Edward Noel Leach
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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
    • B65D81/00—Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents
    • B65D81/36—Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents
    • B65D81/361—Modular elements with complementary shapes, interengageable parts or the like
    • 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
    • B65D67/00—Kinds or types of packaging elements not otherwise provided for
    • B65D67/02—Clips or clamps for holding articles together for convenience of storage or transport

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  • This invention relates to liquid containers, ball sports equipment and toys and educational toys.
  • Games with balls are universally popular and have been so for all recorded history, most usual are round (spherical) balls such as soccer balls, tennis balls, squash balls, golf balls, baseball balls, balls used in volley ball and netball and many other balls which each may or may not be specific to the game usually played with them, oval balls (prolate spheroidal balls) are used in the game of rugby, and so on.
  • round (spherical) balls such as soccer balls, tennis balls, squash balls, golf balls, baseball balls, balls used in volley ball and netball and many other balls which each may or may not be specific to the game usually played with them
  • oval balls prolate spheroidal balls
  • the popularity of ball games seems to never decline, indeed to increase and the world cup soccer for example is causing a rising excitement for this game.
  • a container for liquids that can be assembled with like containers in to a ball shape.
  • the container may constitute a generally -hedron shape with one end truncated and a spherical surface opposite the truncated end with the truncated end provided with closable opening.
  • a -hedron shaped container for purposes of reference and description, includes three or more equal number of surfaces, planes and ends, to provide a, tetrahedron, pentahedron etc. It will be appreciated that a sphere can be divided into a different number of similar segments, of which a tetrahedron is the most preferred for purposes of this invention.
  • Each other end of the tetrahedron may be provided with an attachment means for attaching to similar means of three or more other similar containers.
  • the closable opening of the container may include a threaded neck for threadedly receiving a cap.
  • the attachment means may be in the form of a quarter of a cylinder formation contiguous with two surfaces and along one side of that end of the tetrahedron.
  • the round part of the quarter of the cylinder may be provided with a thread, protrusion or notch, which together with three other quarters of similar containers forms a threaded cylinder extending radially away from the centre of an assembled ball. It will be appreciated that a notch or protrusion provided on the quarter of a cylinder will allow a threaded cap to be fitted in a snap lock manner and/ or a friction fit.
  • the threaded neck and threaded cylinder may have a similar thread for receiving the same cap. In the first case it closes the container in the other case four containers are connected to each other.
  • the free end of the quarter of a cylinder formation may be short of the surface of the spherical surface so that a cap will be below or flush with the surface of an assembled ball.
  • fluids such as sports drinks or drinks on promotion can be presented in the form of a ball, which ball can be disassembled into eight containers and the liquid taken. Afterwards, the ball can be assembled and used to play with.
  • the containers can be sold separately and collected by a person and/ or combined with another person's container(s) to form a ball to play with. It will be appreciated that, apart from being a novel promotional tool, empty containers usually discarded can now be used to form one of the most popular toys or sports equipment, a ball.
  • the assembly and disassembly of a ball also requires an educational and entertaining problem to be solved.
  • the attachment means is in the form of a segment of a bottle cap receiving formation.
  • Each segment of a bottle cap receiving formation is provided with a thread or notch, which together with three other formations of similar containers forms a threaded or notched bottle cap receiving formation extending radially away from the centre of an assembled ball.
  • the closable opening of the container may include a threaded neck for.threadedly receiving a cap and the threaded neck and threaded bottle cap receiving formation have a similar thread for receiving the same cap.
  • a free end of the segment of the bottle cap receiving formation may preferably be short of the surface of the spherical side so that a cap, when screwed on, will be below or flush with the surface of an assembled ball.
  • Each segment of the attachment means for attaching to similar means of three or more other similar containers may be connected to a body for connection to the container, which body is separate from the container and connectable to the container.
  • the body may have a generally flat section conforming to the surface of the truncated end which body is provided with a hole there through for receiving the neck of a closable opening of the container there through.
  • the neck of closable opening may also be provided with a skirt formation about the neck and sloping towards the truncated surface.
  • the body for connection to the container also includes an attachment formation about the hole complementary to the skirt formation of the neck of the container to connect the body for connection to the container in a snap lock manner.
  • a ball which includes or comprises multiple containers for liquids, with means for disconnecting or detaching one or more of the containers for drinking from them and/or reconnecting them for playing with the ball.
  • An easily removable sleeve may be used to connect four quarter cylinders together where drinks are presented in the form of a ball, for easy disassemble of the ball.
  • liquid is used herein for convenience and the containers can also hold any fluent material, e.g. particulate material that flows easily and the use of the term “liquid” herein must be understood to comprehend also such materials.
  • Figure 1 is a view of a soccer ball according to one embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG 2 shows the ball with three containers removed
  • Figures 3 to 9 are a series of views of one of the containers of the ball.
  • Figure 10 is a view of a rugby ball according to the invention.
  • Figure 11 shows the ball with two containers removed;
  • Figures 12 to 19 are a series of views of one of the containers of the ball.
  • Figure 21 is a bottom side view of the container showing a narrowed groove to provide a friction fir for a cap;
  • FIG. 22 and 23 shows two perspective views of another embodiment of the containers, in accordance with the invention.
  • Figures 24 to 26 shows a series of views of a body for connection of the attachment means to the container
  • Figures 27 shows a perspective view of the containers without the body for connection of the attachment means to the container.
  • Figure 28 shows a ball, in accordance with the invention.
  • the soccer ball 1 is made up of eight containers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 which are held together by six caps of which locations, in the form of threaded cylinders, for caps are at 10, 11, 12 and 13 and caps 12A and 13A are visible in the views.
  • Each container has at each of its three corners an attachment means in the form of a quarter of a cylinder formation within a groove, in the views of figures 1 and 2 grooves 23 and 24 of container 2 are seen, grooves 25, 26 and 27 of container 3 are seen, grooves 28 and 29 of container 4 are seen, groove 30 of container 5 is seen, describing a quarter circle and screw threaded; when the containers are brought together four quarter circle grooves of contiguous corners form a complete circle at the six positions on the ball surface and six screw caps hold all eight containers together.
  • the containers While the containers contain a liquid the caps are used to keep them closed, the containers can be supplied as loose containers; when the contents have been drunk the containers can be assembled and the caps used to hold them together as balls which can be used for informal play; caps 14, 15 ana I D are snown in figure 2 as examples of caps closing the containers.
  • each container has the general form of a tetrahedron, i.e. has four surfaces 17, 18, 19 and 20, truncated at one end 21, with the opposite surface 20 presenting a spherical surface which forms part of the spherical surface of the ball.
  • the truncated end 21 carries the neck 22 which is screw threaded and receives a cap to close the container.
  • Each of the three ends of the container has grooves 25, 26 and 27 (taking container 3 as an example of all eight).
  • the eight containers are thus identical with each other.
  • the surfaces of each container offer opportunity for advertising and promotional information, rules of the game, sports heroes etc. to be printed on them.
  • the containers are preferably made of PET (poly ethylene terephtalate), PETG, Polypropylene, HDPE and all other material suitable for injection moulding and/ or blow moulding.
  • the balls can be made to regulation sizes e.g. FIFA regulation size 4 etc.
  • a soccer ball with a 212 mm diameter would provide eight containers each of 540 millilitres capacity. Sizes 3 to 5 could be made to result in varying capacity of the containers. It is possible to implement the invention with a different number of containers per ball, e.g. six and it will be appreciated that there are other possibilities.
  • Figures 10 and 11 show the invention applied to the shape of a rugby ball; the ball is again made up of eight containers, but shaped to form the prolate spheroidal shape. Accordingly for economy of description the same reference numerals are used and the description of the spherical ball above is referred to, adapted merely to the change in shape.
  • Figure 20 shows a cap 28 which may be used to close the containers and hold the containers together to form a ball.
  • the caps are replaced so as to cause an air-tight closure of the containers to produce bounce in the ball when the containers are assembled, for play.
  • the balls may be transported assembled or as loose containers, either filed or not, as circumstances require.
  • the attachment means is in the form of a segment 40 of a bottle cap receiving formation for receiving a bottle cap 11.
  • Each segment 40 of a bottle cap receiving formation is provided with a threaded surface 42, which together with three other formations of similar containers 44 forms a threaded or notched bottle cap receiving formation extending radially away from the centre of an assembled ball.
  • the closable opening 46 of the container includes a thread 47 about the neck 48 for threadedly receiving a cap (not shown) and the threaded neck 48 and threaded bottle cap receiving formation have a similar thread for receiving the same cap.
  • a free end 50 of the segment 40 of the bottle cap receiving formation is preferably short of the surface of the spherical side 52 so that a cap, when screwed on, will be below or flush with the surface of an assembled ball.
  • Each segment 40 of the attachment means for attaching to similar means of three or more other similar containers are connected to a body 54 for connection to the container 44, which body is separate from the container and connectable to the container.
  • the body 54 has a generally flat section 56 conforming to the surface 58 of the truncated end of the container 44.
  • the body 54 is provided with a hole 58 there through for receiving the neck 48 of a closable opening of the container there through.
  • the neck 48 is also provided with a skirt formation 60 about the neck and sloping towards the truncated surface 58.
  • the body 54 for connection to the container also includes an attachment formation 62 about the hole 58 complementary to the skirt formation 60 of the neck 48 of the container 44 to connect the body 54 for connection to the container in a non reversible snap lock manner.
  • the container 44 is provided with a recess 64 for receiving the body 54 flush with the flat surfaces 66 of the container 44.

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Abstract

La présente invention concerne un emballage pour liquides qui peut être assemblé avec des récipients en forme d'un ballon. L'emballage est de préférence globalement en forme d'un tétraèdre avec une extrémité tronconique et une surface sphérique en regard de l'extrémité tronconique, l'extrémité tronconique étant munie d'une ouverture apte à être fermée. Chacune des autres extrémités du tétraèdre est munie d'un moyen d'attache pour être fixé à un moyen identique de trois autres récipients identiques.
PCT/ZA2009/000085 2008-10-02 2009-09-21 Ballon de jeu/à boire Ceased WO2010040154A2 (fr)

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ZA2011/02795A ZA201102795B (en) 2008-10-02 2011-04-14 Liquid containers that can be assembled into a play ball shape

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ZA2008/08400 2008-10-02
ZA200808400 2008-10-02

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