CN100491207C

CN100491207C - Container

Info

Publication number: CN100491207C
Application number: CNB2004800104768A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 罗志雄
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2003-04-18
Filing date: 2004-04-16
Publication date: 2009-05-27
Anticipated expiration: 2024-04-16
Also published as: CN2690303Y; FR2854134B3; HK1089737A1; IES20040186A2; US20040206766A1; CN1777536A; WO2004092027A1; KR20060011949A; HK1070239A2; AU2004229604A1; JP2004315090A; FR2854134A3; CA2522210A1

Abstract

A container comprises a main body and a lid. The main body comprises a periphery side wall around the edge portion. The edge turns outward along the whole length to have the first cross section. The lid has the surrounding edge portion which turns downward along the whole length to have a complementary second cross section in shape so as to seal the first cross section through the surface sealing joint with the first cross section. The lid edge portion comprises four side flaps which are folded inward and upwards to respectively provide a hook which is elastic and folding automatically to elastically press the outer surface of the main body side wall in a sharp angle degree so as to maintain the sealing joint. A space between the main body outer surfaces is formed by the lid edge portion. The hook passes through the space.

Description

Container

Technical field

The present invention relates to container, especially but be not limited to contain the container of food, its lid engages with described container body, to prevent unexpected unlatching.

Background technology

These containers are normally known, and as U.S. Patent No. 4,915, the 291 a kind of containers that disclose show in the accompanying drawings among Figure 10 and 11.This container has the tubular body 1 of vertical given cross-sectional plane basically, and it is provided with outside flange 2.Have box-like lid 3 cross section that is complementary, that be provided with inside flange 4 and 3 ' combination with 1, two of tubular body, be respectively applied for the top and the bottom of sealing main body 1.

The lid 3 of this container is safe, is inexpungible but do not destroy.Although security set is arranged, lid 3 is not a sealed engagement with main body 1, and this makes container be not suitable for holding the material that can leak, as powder or liquid.

The present invention is by providing improved container, attempts to alleviate or relaxes this shortcoming at least.

Summary of the invention

According to the present invention, a kind of container is provided, comprise main body and be used for sealing the lid of described body openings.Described main body has substrate and defines the peripheral sidewall of container from upright being used to of described substrate.Described peripheral sidewall defines the opening with circumferential edge portion, and described limit portion is to its whole length upset of outer, to have first cross-sectional plane.Described lid has the circumferential edge portion of overturning along its whole length downwards, to have at the second complementary in shape cross-sectional plane, seals described first cross-sectional plane to engage by the face seal with second cross-sectional plane.Described lid limit portion comprises at least two at the described lid aileron on the ipsilateral not, they can inwardly make progress folding, flexibly to open automatically, be used for pushing the outside face of described main body wall with acute angle angle elasticity, thereby maintenance sealed engagement, utilize the space between formation of described lid limit portion and described main body wall outer surface, described aileron passes described space.

Preferred described main body wall is outward-dipping with the acute angle angle to the top end of from.

Preferred described space has width, described aileron has the size of measuring from described lid limit portion, it is greater than described gap length, make when when described main body is removed described lid, when described aileron leaned against described main body wall outer surface, (over-centre) effect was outwards ejected can flexibly to utilize the center.

Further preferred described main body wall is outward-dipping with the acute angle angle to the top end of from.

In preferred embodiment, described lid limit portion upwards overturns before whole length upset downwards along it, thereby forms the circumferential rib that contains second cross-sectional plane.

More preferably described circumferential rib comprises inner side, and described inner side has the profile with the top shape complementation of the inside face of main body wall, is used for carrying out face seal with top shape and engages.

More preferably described lid limit portion is along its whole length upwards before the upset, and upset downwards connecting described circumferential rib, thereby forms the annular groove that is right after in circumferential rib.

Preferred described aileron is connected to described lid limit portion along its broken line by one, makes described aileron easily to fold.

Preferred described main body wall outer surface has coarse relatively surface structure, is used for and described aileron frictional engagement.

More preferably described main body is to be formed by paper mould.

Further preferred described lid is also formed by paper mould.

Description of drawings

By way of example, the Fig. 1 to 9 in describes the present invention in more detail in conjunction with the accompanying drawings now, wherein:

Fig. 1 is the top perspective according to the embodiment of container of the present invention, and described container has main body and is used for sealing the lid of described main body;

Fig. 2 is the decomposition diagram of container among Fig. 1, has shown its main body and lid respectively;

Fig. 3 is the schematic top plan view of main body described in Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is the side cross-sectional view of the IV-IV along the line of main body described in Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is another side cross-sectional view of the V-V along the line of main body described in Fig. 3;

Fig. 6 is the schematic top plan view of covering described in Fig. 2;

Fig. 7 is the side cross-sectional view of the VII-VII along the line of lid described in Fig. 6;

Fig. 8 is another side cross-sectional view of the VIII-VIII along the line of lid described in Fig. 6;

Fig. 9 is the partial side view in cross section of container described in Fig. 1, and the relation of being bonded with each other between described lid and the main body has been described;

Figure 10 is the transparent view of container in the prior art, and described container has main body and is used for sealing the top and the bottom cover of described main body; And

Figure 11 is the side cross-sectional view of container among Figure 10, and the relation of being bonded with each other between described lid and the main body is described.

The specific embodiment

Referring to Fig. 1 to Fig. 9, shown and embodied container 10 of the present invention that described container 10 comprises the independent lid 200 that has open-topped main body 100 and be used for sealing described main body 100 openings.Main body 100 and lid 200 are by for example original paper mould moulding.Main body 100 has the substrate 110 and the peripheral sidewall with four sides 120 upright from the substrate one, that the while enlarges gradually of general square shape, be used for holding as food to define, especially contain the container of the materials such as food of liquid component (for example, fruit juice, flavoring or soup) or neat liquid.Described peripheral sidewall 120 is outward-dipping a little with about 15 ° of acute angles to the top end of from.

The sidewall 120 of main body defines the opening with circumferential edge portion 122, and described limit portion is to its whole length upset of outer, to have cross-sectional plane 122c.Clearer theory, body edge portion 122 is by outwards crooked glossily, then downward a little, and it is more shallow relatively inverted U-shaped to make cross section 122c have.

Described lid 200 is normally square, has the center panel 210 and one bonded assembly, around the periphery 220 of panel 210.Periphery 220 has circumferential edge portion 222, and it is along the upwards upset of its whole length, and upset to form the hollow ring rib 222R of the second cross-sectional plane 222C, is used for sealing the first cross-sectional plane 122c of body edge portion 122 downwards then.The second cross-sectional plane 222C has dark relatively inverted U-shaped shape, comprise with the first cross-sectional plane 122C on the top of complementary and coupling in shape, be used for carrying out face seal and engage with first cross-sectional plane.

The circumferential rib 222R of described lid 200 has relative inside and outside side, and they separate downwards a little.The inner side of described rib has the profile with the top shape complementation of the inside face 120A of main body wall 120, uses to carry out face seal with top shape and engage.Down, the outside of described rib is higher than the inboard of rib a little, and extends beyond described body edge portion 122, to form the annular space 223 around the outside face 120B of described main body wall 120.

Between the center panel 210 and circumferential rib 222R, periphery 220 210 upsets downwards along its length from panel originally upwards outwards overturning with in abutting connection with described rib 222R before the upset, form annular groove 224G thereby be right after then in circumferential rib 222R.The existence of groove 224G allows the adjacent inner side of described rib 222R to extend deeper into described container body 100 relatively.This has enlarged described lid limit portion 222 and described sealed engagement zone between the downward body edge portion 122 in the inside face 120A top of main body wall 120, thereby described lid 200 can more effectively seal described main body 100, prevents the leakage of liquid component.

Described lid limit portion 222 comprises four ailerons (or tab) 226 that lay respectively at described lid 200 opposite sides, they are connected to described lid limit portion 222 along dummy joint broken line 225 one separately, described dummy joint broken line is formed by the dotted line or the simple prefabricated folding line of for example perforated slot or impression, makes that aileron 226 is folding easily about these lines 225.Before described lid 200 was used, aileron 226 at first inwardly upwards folded among the described rib 222R along described line 225, thereby the 226H of hook (or button) separately is provided.Because the one along described broken line 225 connects, the hook 226H of described inside upset is flexibly flexible automatically.

The angled layout that makes progress of described hook 226H makes described lid 200 easily be located on the described main body 100.When the described body openings of described lid 200 sealings, the hook 226H of described lid 200 is when running into the limit portion 122 of described main body 100, and broken line 225 pivots along them are extruded contraction, thereby give way for described body edge portion 122, follow described body edge portion by described lid limit portion 222 sealed joints.In a single day described hook 226H is lowered past described body edge portion 122, they just utilize elasticity to rebound and trail immediately, thus with their distal ends/edges portions, under described body edge portion 122 inside position, bear against the inclined outer surface 120B of main body wall 120.

Under this air-proof condition of described container 10, described hook 226H crosses described space 223 with acute angle (about 45 °) and inwardly extends upward.Suppose that main body wall outer surface 120B is outside (and downwards) bevelled, described hook 226H is with the acute angle effect and be squeezed on the 120B of angled side walls surface, thereby promote and keep sealed engagement between described lid 200 and the described main body 100, stop and cover 200 and be removed from main body 100.In this, described sidewall surfaces 120B is made with the structure of relative rough surface, is used for and described hook 226H frictional engagement.

Described lid 200 can be easily, easily in an one bight or a side upwards open from described main body 100 by pulling.In this, described space 223 has width G, and described hook 226H has the size H that measures from described lid limit portion 222, and it is greater than gap length G.Therefore, when promoting described lid 200 from described main body 100, described hook 226H can flexibly utilize central role outwards to eject downwards, and their distal ends/edges portion grasps described main body wall outer surface 120B all the time in this process, thereby discharged main body 100.By crossing central role, described hook 226H pivots by " position, " center " angle, described hook 226H is in described " the compression maximum of position, " center " angle.

It is contemplated that target container 10 can be designed to have any shape that other is fit to, and for example comprises common rectangle, triangle or rounded bottom.The sidewall number of container body sidewall 120 does not limit, and the quantity of aileron/hook 226H does not limit yet.Therefore, under the situation of three side container bodies 200, accessory cover 200 can only have two (replacing three) different, the aileron 226H on for example adjacent (rather than relative) side.

The present invention only provides by embodiment, and various other improvement of described embodiment and/or change can be made by those skilled in the art, and do not break away from the scope of the present invention that accessory claim is determined.

Claims

1. container comprises:

Main body, described main body have substrate and define the peripheral sidewall of container from upright being used to of described substrate, and described peripheral sidewall defines the opening with circumferential edge portion, and described limit portion outwards overturns along the whole length of this limit portion, to have first cross-sectional plane; And

Seal the lid of the opening of described main body, described lid has the circumferential edge portion of overturning along the whole length of lid downwards, with have in shape with second cross-sectional plane of the first cross-sectional plane complementation, second cross-sectional plane by with described first cross-sectional plane of the face seal engaged closed of first cross-sectional plane;

Wherein, described lid limit portion comprises at least two at the described lid aileron on the ipsilateral not, described aileron can inwardly make progress folding, automatically trail with elasticity, be used for flexibly pushing the outside face of described main body wall with the acute angle angle, thereby the maintenance sealed engagement is utilized the space between formation of described lid limit portion and described main body wall outer surface, and described aileron passes described space and extends.

2. container according to claim 1 is characterized in that: described main body wall is outward-dipping with the acute angle angle to the top end of from.

3. container according to claim 1, it is characterized in that: described space has width, described aileron has the size of measuring from described lid limit portion, the described size that described aileron has is greater than described gap length, make when when described main body removes described lid, when described aileron leans against described main body wall outer surface, can flexibly utilize central role outwards to eject.

4. container according to claim 3 is characterized in that: described main body wall is outward-dipping with the acute angle angle to the top end of from.

5. container according to claim 1 is characterized in that: described lid limit portion upwards overturns before whole length upset downwards along it, thereby forms the circumferential rib that contains second cross-sectional plane.

6. container according to claim 5 is characterized in that: described circumferential rib comprises inner side, and described inner side has the profile with the top shape complementation of the inside face of main body wall, is used for forming face seal with described top shape and engages.

7. container according to claim 5 is characterized in that: described lid limit portion is along its whole length upwards before the upset, and upset downwards connecting described circumferential rib, thereby forms the annular groove that is right after in circumferential rib.

8. container according to claim 1 is characterized in that: described aileron is connected to described lid limit portion along its broken line by one, makes described aileron easily to fold.

9. container according to claim 1 is characterized in that: described main body wall outer surface has coarse relatively surface structure, is used for and described aileron frictional engagement.

10. container according to claim 9 is characterized in that: described main body is by the paper mould moulding.

11. container according to claim 10 is characterized in that: described lid is also by the paper mould moulding.