Patent ID: 9688443
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: B65D

Claim:
1. A packaging combination for accommodating and dispensing a viscous or granular filling material, the packaging combination comprises: a tubular casing having a first end, a second end and a central axis extending through the first and second ends, wherein the tubular casing is tightly filled with filling material and closed at its first and second ends by closure clips; and a dispensing system including a dispensing device having a passageway extending through the dispensing device with an inlet opening at its one end and an outlet opening at its other end for guiding and dispensing the filling material in a dispensing direction, and being attached to the first end of the tightly filled tubular casing, wherein the first end of the tubular casing extends inside the passageway of the dispensing device; wherein the dispensing system further comprises a dispensing cap having an attachment end and a dispensing end, which is reversibly attachable to the outlet opening of the dispensing device by its attachment end, by turning of the dispensing cap relative to the dispensing device in a circular movement about the central axis, wherein the dispensing cap includes a cap member formed therewith having at least one cutting element for opening the tubular casing at its first end as the at least one cutting element undergoes the same amount of relative circular movement about the central axis as the circular movement of the dispensing cap including the cap member relative to the dispensing device, wherein the cap member has a central axis, an opened end, a closed end, and a space therein between the opened and closed ends sized to receive a portion of the first end of the tubular casing including the closure clip, with the opened end having an annular shape and terminating in an annular surface facing towards the tubular casing, arranged at the attachment end of the dispensing cap and coaxially aligned to the central axis, with its opened end directed towards the tubular casing, and wherein the at least one cutting element is attached to the annular surface of the cap member such that the turning of the dispensing cap including the cap member relative to the dispensing device in a circular movement about the central axis causes the portion of the first end of the casing including the closure clip to be cut off from the tubular casing by the at least one cutting element and received in the space of the cap member.