Patent ID: 7025229
Filing Date: 2006-04-11
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
1. An assembly provided with a package and an apparatus for the metered emptying of the package, which package contains viscous material and is at least partly manufactured from flexible sheet-like foil material, and which apparatus is provided with a frame with guide means and a substantially flat supporting surface for supporting the package, as well as with metering control means which, guided by the guiding means, can be moved, in a position substantially not changing as regards their orientation relative to the supporting surface, over and along the supporting surface, the emptying taking place by nipwise squeezing the package flat onto the supporting surface with the metering control means, starting from a first end in the direction of a second end, located opposite the first end, with at least one dispense opening to be opened by cutting away material of the package, the at least one dispense opening being situated on the supporting surface, and the metering control means being movable over the supporting surface as far as the at least one dispense opening, characterized in that the frame comprises a stationary part having a first supporting surface part and a part movable relative to the stationary part, having a second supporting surface part, wherein a first position, in which the movable part is coupled with the stationary part, the second supporting surface part is in line with and contiguous to the first supporting surface part and carries a part of the package including the at least one dispense opening, while in a second position, in which the movable part is also coupled with the stationary part, the second supporting surface part is offset relative to the first supporting surface part, the arrangement being such that in the second position, through a cooperation, secured against movement, of the stationary part and the movable part, the package is substantially sealingly closed off in the vicinity of the at least one dispense opening.