Patent ID: 7866905

Claim:
A thrust-out type container for a rod-shaped article having a vertical direction and a diametric direction orthogonal to said vertical direction, said container comprising: a body adapted to thrust-out said rod-shaped article through an opening formed at a top thereof as viewed in said vertical direction; a cylindrical cap to be detachably put on said body and to close said opening; an outer cylinder, an inner cylinder and a carrier for a rod-shaped article all of which are included in said body and are sharing a center axis extending in said vertical direction and respectively allocated in such an order from the outside to the inside of said rod-shaped article container; a control cylinder, which is a square cylinder and is integrated with said inner cylinder and provided around said outer cylinder to be manipulated with said outer cylinder held immobilized to rotate said inner cylinder in the circumferential direction around said center axis to move said carrier for said rod-shaped article contained within said inner cylinder in said vertical direction so as to thrust out said rod-shaped article from said opening; and an intermediate cylinder, which is a square cylinder and is provided between said outer cylinder and said control cylinder as viewed in said diametric direction and has a top face and four peripheral walls surrounding said outer cylinder, wherein said peripheral wall of said intermediate cylinder has an upper portion and a lower portion, wherein said upper portion is formed so as to extend upward beyond an upper end of said control cylinder into an interior of said cap closing said opening and to be kept in close contact with an inner peripheral surface of said cap and said lower portion is formed so as to extend into an interior of said control cylinder and to be kept in close contact with an inner peripheral surface of said control cylinder, and said lower portion of said peripheral wall being snap-engaged with a coupling member adapted to couple said inner cylinder and said intermediate cylinder to each other so that these two cylinders adapted to be integrally rotated but said intermediate cylinder can not move in said vertical direction, wherein a lower portion of each of a pair of said peripheral walls opposing to each other among said four peripheral walls defining said intermediate cylinder is formed with two through-holes used for said snap engagement while said coupling member having a square flange dimensioned and shaped in conformity with the top face of said intermediate cylinder is formed with four hooks extending from said square flange and along an inside of said intermediate cylinder and adapted to be engaged respectively with said through-holes formed in said peripheral walls of said intermediate cylinder from said inside.