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Patent US6142344 - Housing and spout - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign inPatentsA package body 4, is provided with a spout 3 which is welded to an inner surface of a mouth portion of the body 4. The spout 3 has an outer periphery of a welding part 13 having a curved outer surface of a boat shape in a plan view at a seat 8, and the outer periphery of the welding part 13 is welded...http://www.google.com/patents/US6142344?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6142344 - Housing and spoutAdvanced Patent SearchTry the new Google Patents, with machine-classified Google Scholar results, and Japanese and South Korean patents.Publication numberUS6142344 APublication typeGrantApplication numberUS 09/362,699Publication dateNov 7, 2000Filing dateJul 29, 1999Priority dateJul 29, 1998Fee statusLapsedPublication number09362699, 362699, US 6142344 A, US 6142344A, US-A-6142344, US6142344 A, US6142344AInventorsShigeo KaiOriginal AssigneeKai; ShigeoExport CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (8), Referenced by (77), Classifications (11), Legal Events (3) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetHousing and spout
US 6142344 AAbstract
A package body 4, is provided with a spout 3 which is welded to an inner surface of a mouth portion of the body 4. The spout 3 has an outer periphery of a welding part 13 having a curved outer surface of a boat shape in a plan view at a seat 8, and the outer periphery of the welding part 13 is welded to the inner surface of the mouth portion. The spout 3 includes a projected piece 12 at an outer periphery above the seat 8. The package body 4 is accommodated within a housing provided with a casing 1 openable about a hinge 2. The body 4 is arranged within the casing 1 in an opened state, with the spout 3 being directed upwardly, and then the casing 1 is closed to accommodate the package body 4. The spout 3 is fixed by a fixture 5 which is dividable into two halves with a center hole. This hole has a groove 20 for fixing the projected piece 12 of the spout 3 from the outside in the combined state of the spout fixture 5, and with a curved surface 21 for fixing the periphery 13 of the spout 3. The spout fixture 5 is provided with projecting rows 18 at an outside portion which is fixed to the supporting hole 19. These projecting rows 18 are fitted into concave row grooves 23 formed in the inner wall of an opening portion 22 defined at the upper portion of the casing 1, and by closing the casing 1 the package body 4 is accommodated within the casing 1 and the spout 3 is fixed.
1. A housing comprising:a casing, said casing comprising a cylindrical body, which cylindrical body is of an entirely longitudinally elongated and bottomed cylindrical shape, is openable into right and left halves about the vertical direction, and has an opening at a top portion of said cylindrical body in its closed state, said casing being adapted to accommodate therein a package body provided with a spout having a projected piece at an outer periphery of an upper portion of said spout, by arranging said spout in said casing in the closed state of said casing, with said spout being directed upwardly, and by then bringing said casing into its closed state, concave row grooves formed to be made continuous along a peripheral direction of an inner wall of said opening provided at an upper portion of said casing in the closed state of said casing, and a spout fixture, adapted to be divided into right and left halves in plan view, and forming a spout supporting hole vertically extending through the center of said spout fixture in a combined state of its halves, said spout supporting hole having a groove for fixing from the outside said projected piece of said spout of said package body accommodated within said casing, and said spout fixture having, at its outer peripheral portion, projecting rows formed to be made continuous in the combined state of the halves of said spout fixture, and said spout fixture being attachable to said opening of said casing. 2. A housing of claim 1,wherein a spout fixture, which corresponds to an outer diameter size of the spout of said package body to be accommodated within said casing and has a groove adapted to fix from the outside a projected piece of said spout of said outer diameter size, is selectively attachable to said opening of said casing. Description
The present invention relates to a housing for accommodating therein a package body having a spout, and the spout to be attached to the package body.
As containers such as for mineral water and soft drink which are commercially available, there is used one made of hard synthetic resin such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET) having a volume of about 2 liters. These containers are fabricated by blow molding and called "PET bottle". However, this type of containers are problematic from an environmental viewpoint, since they are used as an alternative of a water bottle such as in hiking and discarded as they are to fields and mountains.
The present invention has been carried out in view of the conventional problems as described above, and it is therefore an object of the present invention to standardize a shape of a spout of a package body, and to provide a housing capable of accommodating a package body provided with a spout of any outer diameter and of allowing charging and discharging of the filler (such as soft drink and drinking water). It is also an object of the present invention to further ensure weldability of a spout to a package body.
FIG. 1(A) is a front view of a housing in a closed state for accommodating a package body adopting a spout according to the present invention;
FIGS. 1 through 5 relate to the best mode for carrying out the present invention. Namely, the housing according to the embodiment for attaching a spout 3 according to the embodiment: comprises a casing 1 of a relatively flat, entirely longitudinally elongated and bottomed cylindrical shape. This casing 1 is made of a hard synthetic resin material such as polypropylene, and is openable into right and left halves about the vertical direction (see FIG. 1(B)) in which the halves are coupled to each other by a hinge 2 in a manner openable thereabout. The casing 1 is provided with a stopper 7, by which the casing 1 in a split or opened state is integrated into a wholly cylindrical shape (see FIG. 1(A)).
The seat 8 has a curved outer surface for welding and forming a boat shape in a plan view having angles A of about 60° at right and left ends of the boat (see FIG. 4). The seat 8 is formed with, at the periphery of its upper end portion, the projected piece 12, which is formed of a flat plate having a thickness of about 1 mm and which has a similar boat shape in a plan view. Formed around an upper peripheral surface of the body part 9 of the spout 3 is a thread 17 for fitting to the cap 11. Why the seat 8 has a boat shape in a plan view is: to render the seat 8 to correspond to the mouth portion 50 of the package body 4 which has the relatively flat bag-like shape: and to increase a welding surface area to the mouth portion 50 as compared to a seat circular in a plan view, to thereby further ensure the welding.
Also the thickness of the body part 9 of the spout 3 can be adjusted to a variety of sizes depending on the usage, and the size of the seat 8 can be adjusted correspondingly thereto. However, it is preferable to constitute that the outer diameter of the seat 8 is increased in proportion to the thickness of the body part 9 such that the seat 8 and body part 9 are changed analogously to each other, except that: the projected piece 12 is projected from the seat 8 by about 1 mm, taking into consideration the relationship with the spout fixture 5 to be described later, to which the projected piece 12 is fixed; the height of the welding part 13 is about 10 mm; and the angles of both acute ends of the boat shape are set at about 60°.
In the above embodiment, each of the seat 8 of the spout 3 and the projected piece 12 formed at the upper end of the seat 8 has a boat shape in a plan view. However, these parts may have a rhombic shape in plan view instead of a boat shape, such that the modified seat 8 has similar projecting ridges 14 and longitudinal ribs 16 and they are welded to the mouth portion 50 of the entirely flat package body 4 as shown in FIG. 4(C).
According to the present invention, there can be obtained such an advantage that only one type of housing is required, since the spout is attached to the housing via spout fixture which is adapted such as to an outer diameter of the spout. Thus, only one type of metal mold for injection molding is required for manufacturing the casing, when metal molds for spout and spout fixture are provided, so that the cost for fabricating metal mold is reduced.
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