CA1232215A - Sphereoidal bottle with stopper - Google Patents

Sphereoidal bottle with stopper

Info

Publication number
CA1232215A
CA1232215A CA000477871A CA477871A CA1232215A CA 1232215 A CA1232215 A CA 1232215A CA 000477871 A CA000477871 A CA 000477871A CA 477871 A CA477871 A CA 477871A CA 1232215 A CA1232215 A CA 1232215A
Authority
CA
Canada
Prior art keywords
container
stopper
opening
bottle
spheroid
Prior art date
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
Expired
Application number
CA000477871A
Other languages
French (fr)
Inventor
Maud Frizon
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)
Individual
Original Assignee
Individual
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
Filing date
Publication date
Application filed by Individual filed Critical Individual
Application granted granted Critical
Publication of CA1232215A publication Critical patent/CA1232215A/en
Expired legal-status Critical Current

Links

Classifications

    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45DHAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FOR COSMETICS OR COSMETIC TREATMENTS, e.g. FOR MANICURING OR PEDICURING
    • A45D34/00Containers or accessories specially adapted for handling liquid toiletry or cosmetic substances, e.g. perfumes
    • A45D34/02Scent flasks, e.g. with evaporator
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65DCONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D1/00Containers having bodies formed in one piece, e.g. by casting metallic material, by moulding plastics, by blowing vitreous material, by throwing ceramic material, by moulding pulped fibrous material, by deep-drawing operations performed on sheet material
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65DCONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D39/00Closures arranged within necks or pouring openings or in discharge apertures, e.g. stoppers
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65DCONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D39/00Closures arranged within necks or pouring openings or in discharge apertures, e.g. stoppers
    • B65D39/0005Closures arranged within necks or pouring openings or in discharge apertures, e.g. stoppers made in one piece
    • B65D39/0047Glass, ceramic or metal stoppers for perfume bottles or the like

Abstract

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE

A container assembly, favorably used as a perfume bottle, is generally spherical or sphereoid and opens from the bottom. A closure, preferably in the form of a ground-glass stopper, forms the base of the bottle.
To apply the perfume, a user can pick up the bottle and invert it, then remove the stopper and apply perfume from the stopper where desired onto the body. In a normal, resting orientation, the sphereoid bottle rests on the stopper, and the weight of the bottle serves to ensure that the bottle is securely closed.

Description

Jo Z3~

1 This invention relates to containers, especially bottles and the like suitable for holding perfume, facial lotions, cosmetic lotions, or other similar fluids. The invention is more particularly directed to a novel combination of a bottle of globular or generally spherical shape, and a stopper therefore which also serves as the base on which the bottle rests.
Eleretofore, mottles for dispensing perfume often comprise a bottle and a stopper therefore the stopper fitting a neck at the top of the bottle. Such bottles, although they can have a decorative appearance, necessarily and unescapably have the appearance of bottles. Thus, these bottles must rely on their ornateness of design to decorate a surface on which :
I.

~l23~

1 they rest. For example, a cosmetic bottle for a ladies' dressing table is often given a fancy stopper or an elaborate bottle design in an attempt to lend attractiveness to the dressing table's appearance.
It is an object of this invention to provide a container suitable for use as a perfume bottle and which provides a novel and surprising decorative appearance without detracting from its basic function of containing perfume or other liquid, and while permitting simple dispensing of the perfume or liquid.
It is another object of this invention to provide a bottle which is elegantly simple in its structure and appearance.

` ~232~

1 Accordingly, many desirable embodiments of this invention are constituted by the combination of a spheroid container and a mating stopper/base. The spheroid container which can be a sphere, an ovoid or egg shaped container, an elongated ellipsoidal container, or a "squashed"
spheroidal container, preferably formed Jo of blown glass, has a spheroid outer wall and a furrowed inner wall of similar shape. The container has a round opening at one side, that side forming the bottom of the container in its normal or resting orientation. The mating stopper has a stem fitting the opening and a flat surface forming the base on which the container assembly rests after the stopper is placed in the opening. In several preferred " ~232;~

l embodiments, the stopper/base includes a disc member unnatural formed with the stem, with the stem extending axially from the disc member.
When the bottle of this invention is used as a container for perfume, a cosmetic liquid, or another similar fluid, the invention can comprise, in combination, the container lo formed as a spheroid of transparent material, the stopper/base member, and a fill of the perfume or other fluid, preferably a generally transparent fluid. If the stem and the opening in the container have mating ground-glass surfaces, a good, reliable seal will be formed, and the perfume can be reliably stored without leakage in the container in its normal, stopper-downward resting I orientation. In that orientation, the ~3~22~;

1 bottle, filled with perfume or similar liquid, gives a unique, attractive appearance, and adds beauty to the ladies' dressing table or other place where it might be situated.
When it is desired to use the perfume or other fluid stored in the bottle, the bottle can be simply lifted and inverted r and the stopper remove Then, the stopper, which will be wet from having been immersed in the fluid, can be used to dab the perfume or other fluid directly onto the face or neck, or onto the finger to apply the perfume or other fluid. Thereafter, the stopper can be returned to the bottle and the bottle inverted and replaced on the dressing table. The weight of the bottle is sufficient to ensure that there is a good seal, and that there its I

Sue l no leakage past the ground-glass surfaces of the stopper and opening.
of course, the invention is not limited to spheroidal bottles and containers. It is within the scope of this invention for the container to be of any arbitrary shape, so long as the stopper serves as a base or pedestal thrower and the container normally lo reposes with the stopper downwards.
also, the container need not strictly be transparent.
The above and many other objects, features, and advantages of this invention will be more fully understood from the ensuing description, which should be considered in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a sectional elevation Al view of a perfume bottle ~32~

l according to a preferred embodiment of this invention;
Figure 2 is an exploded view showing the bottle (inverted) and the stopper therefore Figure 3 is a bottom plan view of this embodiment; and Figure 4 is a top plan view thereof.
With reference to the drawings, including all of Figures 1-4 a perfume bottle assembly according to this invention includes a bottle 10 of generally spherical shape having a spherical outer surface 12 and a generally spherical inner surface 14, the latter defining an inner spherical chamber 16, here shown about three-quarters filled with a liquid, such as perfume 18. A round opening 20 ~L232~5 l is disposed at the bottom of the bottle 10, if the latter is considered in its normal, resting orientation as shown in Figure 1. As shown in the exploded view in Figure 2, this opening 20 has a conical surface. Preferably, the bottle 10 is blown glass, and the conical surface of the opening 20 is ground so that it forms a good seal with a stopper 22 now to be described.
The stopper 22, as shown in Figure 1, forms a base for the perfume bottle assembly, on which the spheroid bottle 10 rests. This stopper 22 is preferably formed of glass, of the same type as used in the perfume bottle 10.
The stopper 22 has a frustroconical stem 24 having a ground-glass surface, as shown in Figure 2, and which mates with the corresponding surface of the opening I s 1 20. The stopper also has of a glass ; disc 26 formed unnatural with the stem 24, and oriented such that the stem 24 extends axially from one side of the disc 26. A flat surface of the disc 26 opposite the stem 24 forms the base on which the assembly rests. The spheroid bottle 10 thus has this position as its unique, stable position.
us shown in Figures 1 and 2, a section of the perfume bottle 10 surrounding the opening 20 is formed as a flat or planar surface 28. However, this surface 28 is an optional feature.
Normally, the bottle 10, filled with the perfume or other fluid 18, rests in the stopper-downward position as shown in Figure 1. To apply the perfume, the bottle is picked up and inverted to the orientation shown in I

1 Figure 2. Thereafter, the stopper 22 is twisted slightly and is removed from the opening 20. Then, the perfume or other fluid can be applied directly from the end of the stem 24 of the stopper 22, and the stopper 22 replaced in the opening 20~
The sealing of the bottle is obtained with ~lass~to-glass mating of bottle with stoppers which can be interchangeable with one another. For opening and closing the bottle, all that is needed is a slight twist of the stopper without pressing or knocking.
Although a specific embodiment is offered as an example, it will be understood that the bottle assembly of this invention can be any container which is transparent and generally spherical, possibly of an ovoid or ~,.Z32~5 1 flattened shape, or even of an onion shape, and which opens from the bottom.
- That is, with this invention, the closure forms the base of the round bottle If the bottle is used as a perfume bottle, the closure can be a groundless stopper; to apply the perfume, a user would merely pick up the bottle all invert it (so that the stopper is up) and remove the stopper.
The stopper will then have a drop or two of the perfume on it, and the user can touch this and then apply the perfume with her (or his) finger to the body where desired.
The design of this invention eliminates the need to shake the bottle to wet the stopper. Also, since the bottle rests on the closure, it is impossible to leave the closure slightly ` ~2:;~2'~

1 ajar, as the bottle weight itself closes it. Thus, any problem about evaporation of the perfume or other fluid is minimized, Moreover, the ground glass seal is kept wet because it is at the bottom, and there is a better seal than would otherwise be provided.
though the invention has been described hereinabove with reference to a single preferred embodiment, it should be apparent to those of ordinary swill in the art that many modifications and variations thereof could manifest themselves without departure from the scope and spirit of this invention as defined in the appended claims.

Claims (12)

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:
1. A container assembly of the type described comprising a spheroid transparent hollow container having an opening on one side thereof, and a stopper having a stem fitting said opening and a flat surface forming a base on which said container assembly rests when said stopper is in place in said opening to define a normal stopper-down position for said container, the container being of such shape that said normal, stopper-down position is a unique stable position.
. A container assembly as defined in claim 1, wherein said spheroid container has a flattened surface surrounding said opening, but a round surface extending elsewhere around the container.
3. A container assembly as defined in claim 1, wherein said container is substantially spherical and has a spherical chamber formed therein.
4. A container assembly as defined in claim 1, wherein said stopper stem and said opening have mating ground surfaces.
5. A container assembly as defined in claim 1, wherein said spheroid container is blown glass.
6. A container assembly as defined in claim 1, wherein said stopper is unitarily formed of a disc member and said stem projecting axially therefrom.
7. In combination, a container formed as a spheroid of transparent material having a spheroid chamber therewithin and an opening; a stopper-base member having a flat disc portion and a stopper stem projecting axially from said disc portion and snugly fitting into said opening to seal the same, the disc portion forming a base for the container on which said container rests with the stopper-base in place in said opening and oriented opening down such that the opening is at the bottom of the spheroid container; and a fill of a generally transparent liquid in said container, the container and fill of liquid being liquid in the opening down orientation.
8. The combination as defined in claim 7, wherein said container is formed of blown glass.
9. The combination as defined in claim 7, wherein said container and said stopper base are formed of glass, and said stem and said opening have mating ground-glass surfaces.
10. The combination as defined in claim 7, wherein said liquid is a perfume.
11. The combination as defined in claim 7, wherein said container is of such a shape that the opening-down orientation defines a unique stable position for the container.
12. A container assembly of the type described comprising a hollow container having an opening thereon, and a stopper having a stem fitting said opening and a flat surface forming a base on which said container assembly rests when said stopper is in place in said opening, said stopper thus forming a pedestal support for the container in a normal, opening-down position, wherein said container is of such a shape that the normal, opening-down position is a unique stable position.
CA000477871A 1984-10-23 1985-03-29 Sphereoidal bottle with stopper Expired CA1232215A (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
US66405284A 1984-10-23 1984-10-23
US664,052 1984-10-23

Publications (1)

Publication Number Publication Date
CA1232215A true CA1232215A (en) 1988-02-02

Family

ID=24664316

Family Applications (1)

Application Number Title Priority Date Filing Date
CA000477871A Expired CA1232215A (en) 1984-10-23 1985-03-29 Sphereoidal bottle with stopper

Country Status (12)

Country Link
EP (1) EP0180286B1 (en)
JP (1) JPS61104956A (en)
AT (1) ATE39903T1 (en)
AU (1) AU577848B2 (en)
BR (1) BR8501897A (en)
CA (1) CA1232215A (en)
DE (1) DE3567428D1 (en)
DK (1) DK485285A (en)
ES (1) ES296552Y (en)
GR (1) GR852553B (en)
NO (1) NO854223L (en)
ZA (1) ZA852692B (en)

Families Citing this family (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE3418540A1 (en) * 1984-05-18 1985-11-21 Wella Ag, 6100 Darmstadt BOTTLE FOR LIQUID PRODUCTS
FR2615707A1 (en) * 1987-05-26 1988-12-02 Rivoire Mathilde Perfume bottle with housing for an accessory, particularly an associated diffuser
EP1368022B1 (en) * 2001-03-02 2007-06-20 Debiopharm S.A. Use of a vial containing an oxaliplatinum solution
AU2002951318A0 (en) * 2002-09-10 2002-09-26 Manley, David William A closure
DE10320345A1 (en) * 2002-11-12 2004-05-27 Boropal Technology Trading Gmbh Installation for producing glass stoppers for sealing wine bottles and sparkling wine bottles has a mold consisting of a base part with a recess, a central part having partial mold elements, and an upper part which closes the head portion
FR3035302A1 (en) * 2015-04-23 2016-10-28 Olfactive Body Object CONTAINING, IN PARTICULAR BOTTLE OF PERFUME, DECORATED

Family Cites Families (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB260261A (en) * 1925-10-24 1927-02-03 Raesfeld Jeanne De Gerson Improvements in or relating to bottles
FR790156A (en) * 1935-05-16 1935-11-15 Weinbrennerei Hch Raetsch A G Beverage containers
AT358982B (en) * 1976-04-12 1980-10-10 Schoeller Lebensmittel CONTAINER FOR PASTOESE SUBSTANCES

Also Published As

Publication number Publication date
JPS61104956A (en) 1986-05-23
AU4148285A (en) 1986-05-01
BR8501897A (en) 1986-05-06
ATE39903T1 (en) 1989-01-15
DK485285D0 (en) 1985-10-22
AU577848B2 (en) 1988-10-06
DE3567428D1 (en) 1989-02-16
ES296552U (en) 1987-11-16
ES296552Y (en) 1988-05-16
NO854223L (en) 1986-04-24
GR852553B (en) 1986-02-24
DK485285A (en) 1986-04-24
EP0180286A1 (en) 1986-05-07
ZA852692B (en) 1985-11-27
EP0180286B1 (en) 1989-01-11

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
USD366416S (en) Container sidewall and base
EP1072532B1 (en) Combination container
US4932542A (en) Beverage container having a dynamic ornament mounted thereto
US6200045B1 (en) Combination cosmetics package
CA1232215A (en) Sphereoidal bottle with stopper
USD307646S (en) Cosmetic powder container
US2917766A (en) Non spillable bottle
EP0439034A1 (en) A perfume bottle
US5025941A (en) Dome shaped closure cap
US5125537A (en) Dispensing device
JPH046658Y2 (en)
USD305945S (en) Combined container/bottle and cosmetic wand applicators or the like
USD307809S (en) Combined container/bottle and cosmetic wand applicators or the like
USD320095S (en) Combined container/bottle and cosmetic wand applicators or the like
USD319708S (en) Combined container/bottle and cosmetic wand applicators or the like
USD306919S (en) Combined container/bottle and cosmetic wand applicators or the like
KR800000919Y1 (en) Crown bottle cop
USD305946S (en) Combined container/bottle and cosmetic wand applicators or the like
JPH0211850Y2 (en)
USD318140S (en) Combined container/bottle and cosmetic wand applicators or the like
USD306502S (en) Combined container/bottle and cosmetic wand applicators or the like
USD306218S (en) Combined container/bottle and cosmetic wand applicators or the like
USD305811S (en) Combined container/bottle and cosmetic wand applicators or the like
USD306217S (en) Combined container/bottle and cosmetic wand applicators or the like
USD307337S (en) Combined container/bottle and cosmetic wand applicators or the like

Legal Events

Date Code Title Description
MKEX Expiry