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Device for fixing in a container such as a metal can a device automatically extracting the straw, and its associated deviceRelated Patent Categories: Food Or Edible Material: Processes, Compositions, And Products, Product With Drinking TubeDevice for fixing in a container such as a metal can a device automatically extracting the straw, and its associated device description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20070042084, Device for fixing in a container such as a metal can a device automatically extracting the straw, and its associated device. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] The present application is a divisional of parent U.S. application Ser. No. 10/069,614, filed Sep. 10, 2002, which is a National Stage Application of International Application No. PCT/IB00/01205, filed Aug. 30, 2000. Further, the present application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. .sctn. 119 of French Patent Application No. 99/11190 filed on Aug. 31, 1999. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] 1. Field of the Invention [0003] The present invention relates to a method of positioning in a container, such as a can, a device for automatically extracting a straw, and its associated device. [0004] 2. Discussion of Background Information [0005] Numerous types of containers are commercially available: plastic bottles, glass bottles, metallic cans, cardboard packagings which can have various shapes allowing for the packaging of any type of liquid food products. [0006] These various containers have the disadvantage, for the user, of being either unhealthy when one wishes to drink straight from the container, or impractical depending on the shape and size of the neck, or the shape of the container itself. [0007] In the particular case of metallic cans or cardboard packagings used for diverse and varied beverages, such as beers, sodas, fruit juices, or milk, they are very unhealthy. Indeed, from the locations where they are produced, after the beverage has been packaged, they are transported and unloaded without any specific hygienic measure, and then sold to the consumer by a retailer who stores them without any particular hygienic precaution and handles them manually. During these various manipulations, various microbes, viruses, bacteria or dust can be deposited on the walls of the containers, which are ingested by the consumer when he places his lips on the container. [0008] Furthermore, in the particular case of metallic cans, and independently of hygiene problems, the consumer can be hindered when drinking the beverage by problems of ill-timed flow, which most often leaves stains on his clothes. [0009] Therefore, a device for automatically extracting a straw has been developed to equip the cylindrical metallic cans of the type having a container closed by a crimped cover, which includes opening means constituted of a push ring adapted to displace a precut tongue inward of the can. [0010] Such an extraction device is described, for example, in the published French Patent No. 2 772 731, and includes a straw-supporting member constituted by an elastically deformable retention arm, one of the ends of which is connected to a peripheral ring, and the other of which includes means for retaining the straw. The peripheral ring is adapted to be sandwiched between the cover and more particularly its crimping groove and the upper peripheral rim of the container, whereas the retention arm is tensioned before being displaceably positioned and placed in support on a fixed abutment affixed to the peripheral ring. Such a method, which consists of deforming the arm before it is positioned beneath the cover requires a complex, expensive, and unreliable assembly line, particularly in view of the imposed high filling rates. [0011] The present invention therefore proposes to resolve these disadvantages by proposing a device without fixed abutment for the deformed straw retention arm, and its embodiment method. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0012] According to one aspect of the invention, there is provided a method of positioning, in a can including a container closed by a cover, a device for automatically extracting a straw. The device is of the type which includes a straw-supporting member constituted by an elastically deformable retention arm adapted to be tensioned by elastic deformation. The arm includes a retention tube for the straw. The method is characterized in that it provides for tensioning the arm by the direct or indirect effect of the cover during the coupling of the cover to the device. [0013] The method includes the following preliminary steps: a. fixing or securing the straw to the retention arm to form an intermediate subassembly, namely, the straw-extraction device subassembly; and b. coupling of the intermediate subassembly to the cover to form a closure subassembly; the method may also include the following complementary steps: c. filling up the container with the desired beverage; d. positioning the closure subassembly in the container; e. crimping the cover on the container. [0014] According to another aspect of the invention, the method provides for tensioning the retention arm by the action of the cover on a projection affixed to the retention arm, or on the straw retained by the arm. [0015] The invention also relates to a device for extracting a straw adapted to implement the method, which comprises a straw-supporting member constituted by an elastically deformable retention arm, one of the ends of which is connected to a peripheral ring or annular ring, whereas the free end of the arm includes a mechanism for retaining the straw. [0016] According to another aspect of the invention, the mechanism for retaining the straw includes a retaining tube portion. Continue reading about Device for fixing in a container such as a metal can a device automatically extracting the straw, and its associated device... 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