JP2000335659A - Drinking container - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a drink such as juice or the like drinkable to the last drop in suction drinking with a straw by a sick person or the like in a lying position, and to prevent the drink from spurting out from the straw event when an exrernal force is applied. SOLUTION: A drinking container A is formed of an external cup-like container main body 10 having a shape-keeping property and a drink filling container 20 made up in flexibility in shape out of a soft material and arranged in a polymerized two-layer stuck to and held at a brim part 11 of the container main body. Thereby, formation of an air space in the drink filling container 20 arising from suction drinking can be prevented, and the suction drinking can be made at any time without allowing a drink to remain even when the container is in a tilted or an upside-down position and furthermore, a buffering property against an external force can be ensured because of the flexibility in shape of the drink filling container 20 against the shape-keeping property of the container main body 10, and spurting of the drink can be prevented regardless of ways of handling the drinking container A.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a drinking container used for sucking and drinking beverages such as juices and jelly beverages with a straw.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a drinking container for sucking and drinking a beverage with a straw of this kind,
For example, brick containers, cup containers, those using a sealed container such as a sheet molded container are known, but these are for drinking by suction through a straw, the beverage is reduced in the drinking container by a certain amount of drinking Sometimes, if the container is not maintained in the upright state, it tends to be difficult to suck and drink the remaining amount.For example, in the case of a sick person, a cared person, an infant or the like lying on a bed, the patient remains lying down. The problem remains that suction and drinking cannot be performed without leaving a residual amount, and as is typically seen in brick containers, depending on the material of the drinking container, the drinking container may be slightly stronger during suction and drinking. When the drinking container is subjected to an external force such as gripping, the pressure will cause the beverage to fly out in a scattered manner through the straw, and care must be taken in handling the drinking container during suction drinking. Problem that has been left with.

The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and a problem to be solved is to always keep the remaining amount even when the container is in a non-erected state, including a state in which the container is tilted and falls. It is an object of the present invention to provide a drinking container that can be sucked and drunk without leaving it, and that can prevent the possibility of the beverage jumping out as much as possible regardless of the handling of the container.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, there is provided a container body having a shape retaining property on the outside so as to facilitate display sale, storage, and the like, and the container body is retained inside by a suction force for suction and drinking. By arranging a soft beverage filling container so as to have a shape flexibility that shrinks to a volume corresponding to the volume, and by configuring a drinking container with a structure of two layers of polymerization, the air space in the beverage filling container accompanying suction drinking can be reduced. To prevent formation
In addition to enabling continuous suction and drinking in the non-erected state, the flexibility of the shape of the beverage filling container with respect to the shape-preserving container body ensures buffering of external force, and prevents the beverage from jumping out of the container body due to external force. In other words, the invention according to claim 1 is a container for sucking and drinking a beverage through a straw, wherein the container has an outer container main body having shape-retaining properties, and is disposed inside the container main body. A soft beverage filling container, wherein the soft beverage filling container is partially adhered and held on the suction and drinking side of the container body, and the beverage filled portion excluding the adhesive holding portion is not adhered to the inner surface of the container body. It is arranged in two layers of adhesive polymerization, and has a shape flexibility in the container main body which shrinks the volume of the beverage filling container according to the amount of suction and drinking by the straw. And vessels, the invention according to claim 2,
In addition to the above, the initial volume of the container body and the beverage filling container is made as identical as possible to prevent the expansion of the drinking container and to easily and surely mass-produce the drinking container,
The non-adhesive polymerized two-layered arrangement in the beverage filling container can be peeled off from the inner surface of the container body by the suction force of vacuum suction and / or the pressing force of compressed air release from the sheet or film for forming the beverage filling container. The drinking container according to claim 1, wherein the container is formed by close contact molding.
The invention according to claim 3 is also effective in reducing the shrinkage of the beverage filling container by making the straw suitable for suction and drinking in addition to the above, and setting the suction site at a position near the suction and drinking side of the beverage filling container. The drinking container is provided with a straw which can be opened and closed or a separately attached straw, which is installed integrally with the drinking container, so that the straw is a suction drinking side in the beverage filling container. The drinking container according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a single or a plurality of suction holes are provided on a side surface at a longitudinally intermediate position so that the vicinity is a beverage suction position. The gist of the invention is to solve the above problems.

[0005]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the drawings, wherein A is a drinking container provided with an attached straw 30 for sucking and drinking a beverage with a straw 30. The container A is provided with an outer container main body 10 having shape retaining properties, and a soft beverage filling container 20 arranged inside the container main body 10.

In this embodiment, the outer container body 10 has a cup shape made of, for example, paper, and has an upper end opening bonded to a rim 11 formed on the outer periphery of the upper end opening. This is sealed and provided with a hermetic seal 12 made of a laminated film provided with a straw insertion port 13 so as to form a suction and drinking side.

The soft drink filling container 20 is made of a resin sheet or film 21 made of a single resin sheet or film of a thermoplastic resin such as low-density polyethylene or polypropylene or a composite film such as a laminated film of a thermoplastic resin. In the configured drinking container A, a bag-shaped inner container is formed, and the beverage can be filled.

The soft beverage filling container 20 is partially adhered and held on the suction and drinking side of the container body 10 and the beverage filled portion excluding the adhesive holding portion is not adhered to the inner surface of the container body 10. Are arranged in two layers of
The container has a shape flexibility within the container body 10 that shrinks the volume of the beverage filling container 20 in accordance with the amount of suction and drinking by the straw 30.

That is, in this embodiment, the beverage filling container 20 is used.
In this example, the upper end edge of the cup-shaped container body 10 is partially adhered to the edge 11 on the upper end opening side of the cup-shaped container body 10 serving as the suction and drinking side, and this is held in the container body A. On the other hand, the remaining beverage-filled portion except for the adhesive holding portion, that is, almost all of the beverage-filled container 20 is left unbonded to the inner surface of the cup-shaped container body 10 and is formed into a two-layered polymer. Place the container body 1
It has a cup-shaped bag shape that matches the shape of 0.

In the present embodiment, the non-adhesive polymerized two-layered arrangement in the beverage filling container 20 is achieved by applying the suction force of vacuum suction and / or the pressurized air discharge to the sheet or film 21 for forming the beverage filling container. The inner surface of the container body is peelably adhered to the inner surface of the container by pressure, and the peelable close contact molding of the present example is performed by using both the suction force of the vacuum suction and the pressing force of the compressed air release. Combined,
This is done so as to be integrally and tightly adhered to the container body 10 without impairing the releasability.

That is, in this embodiment, the mold 40 that can be sealed is used.
A pre-molded cup-shaped container body 10 is mounted in the inside, and a resin-based sheet or film 21 using a thermoplastic resin preheated to a temperature at which plastic molding can be performed is placed on the upper end opening, and suction is performed. Vacuum suction is performed so that the inside of the container body 10 is sucked from the bottom surface of the container body 10 through the hole 41. In this example, vacuum molding is performed and the resin sheet is sealed through the air nozzle 42 while the mold 40 is sealed. To release the compressed air to the upper surface of the film 21 and use the suction force of the vacuum suction as the main molding means, and the pressurizing force of the compressed air as the auxiliary molding means to form and mount it on the container body 10. In addition, at the same time as the molding, the container body 10 is adhered to the rim 11 of the container body 10, that is, in this example, the vicinity of the position of the rim 11 in the mold 40 is determined. By heat, by heat welding to the container body 10 the edges of the resin sheet or film 21, is as that performed the adhesive.

The above-mentioned vacuum suction uses the air permeability of the paper of the container body 10 to suction the inside of the container body, and discharges the compressed air directly to the resin sheet or film 21. The resin sheet or the film 21 can be beautifully integrated with the inner surface of the container main body 10 by being preferably adhered thereto and integrated.

In the drinking container A thus formed,
The container body 10 is configured such that the beverage filling container 20 is partially adhered and held to the rim 11 on the suction / drinking side, while the beverage filling portion is disposed in a non-adhesive polymerized two-layer state with respect to the inner surface of the container body 10. Therefore, after the beverage is supplied to this, it can be brought into a shipping state by performing sealing with the sealing seal 12, and therefore, the consumer can use the straw insertion port 13 of the sealing seal 12 with the laminated film, The straw 30 is inserted and inserted so as to break the exposed resin film layer so as to close it.
If the beverage is sucked and drunk, the straw insertion port 13 resiliently holds the straw 30 in an airtight state, thereby enabling suction and drinking while preventing the inflow of air. The container body 10 has a shape flexibility in which the volume of the beverage filling container 20 is shrunk in accordance with the amount of suction and drinking, and the drinking container includes a bed of a sick person, a cared person, an infant or the like. The suction and drinking without leaving the remaining amount in the non-erected state of A becomes possible.

At this time, the drinking straw A is attached to the drinking straw A separately.
Is provided with a single or a plurality of suction holes 31 on the side surface at a longitudinally intermediate position so that the vicinity of the suction and drinking side in the beverage filling container 20 is a beverage suction position. Is, for example, a hollow pipe-shaped one whose length is slightly longer than the drinking container A, so as to prevent immersion into the drinking container A at the time of insertion and insertion, and in the state of the insertion and insertion, A single suction hole 31 is provided in the side surface located near the insertion opening 13 at the upper side on the inside, so that a beverage can be introduced from the suction hole 31 on the side surface, and the suction and drinking can be performed. It is.

That is, the straw 30 has two holes, the suction hole 31 and a pipe through-hole penetrating in the longitudinal direction of the tip, and the introduction of the beverage at the time of suction and drinking is carried out in the airtight beverage filling container 20. The hole on the suction and drinking side, that is, the side near the insertion slot 13 of the straw 30, ie, the suction hole 31
Therefore, the suction and drinking and the shrinkage of the beverage filling container 20 can be accurately performed.

Although the illustrated example is as described above, the container body may be a brick container, a gable container, a bottle container, for example, an animal, a plant, etc. In addition to the above-mentioned paper, a resin film laminated and bonded to paper, various thermoplastic resins, metals, etc., it is processed so as to have shape retention properties by using materials, and the shape is also preserved. It can be made of an appropriate shape and material processed to have shape.

As the beverage filling container, a soft resin material having a shape flexibility capable of securing the above-mentioned shrinkage due to the suction and drinking can be widely used. As for the arrangement, in addition to the method of molding and mounting the resin sheet or film to the container body using the suction force of the vacuum suction and / or the pressing force of the compressed air release as described above, the resin sheet or the film is previously molded into a bag shape. Non-adhesion by a method of inserting a beverage filling container into the above-mentioned container body in a state of being inserted, and further, for example, applying heat molding in a state in which two resin-based sheets or films for the container body and for the beverage filling container are superposed and arranged. This may be performed by a method of performing simultaneous molding of states.

When the beverage filling container is mounted using the suction force of the vacuum suction and / or the pressurizing force of the compressed air release, when the container body is a non-permeable material, for example, the container body such as the bottom thereof Part of the container main body, such as opening the bottom plate after installing the beverage filling container by vacuum suction, so that it is convenient to perform suction, and also to the bottom etc. A single or a large number of ventilation holes may be provided, and the blocking measures may be appropriately performed as needed.

In addition, vacuum suction is performed by itself,
It is possible to use the compressed air release together with the compressed air release pressure as described above, but in this case, it is also possible to open a part of the container body in the same manner, or to open the vent hole as described above. For example, a container body side may be provided with an air bleeding measure, and a part of the beverage filling container may be subjected to post-processing and a closing measure as required after the container is mounted.

The partial holding of the beverage filling container to the container main body is performed on the suction and drinking side of the drinking container, that is, in the case of the cup body in the container main body or the beverage filling container, for example, in the case of the above-mentioned edge portion, brick In the case of a container-shaped thing, a gable container-shaped thing, an upper surface part, the above-mentioned blow-molded bottle-shaped thing, a sheet-formed thing, for example, in the case of an animal, a plant or the like, in the vicinity of a suction port, etc. The suction and drinking site appropriately selected according to the shape of the container, the end portion, the surface, etc., may be performed by bonding means including the above-mentioned heat welding, and at this time the beverage filling in the beverage filling container It is necessary to prevent the parts from being adhered to each other so as not to impair the shape flexibility due to the shrinkage.

The straw can be installed integrally with the drinking container so that the tip cap can be freely opened and closed. At this time, similarly to the above, the long straw is set so that the vicinity of the suction and drinking side in the beverage filling container is the beverage suction position. A suction hole may be provided on the side surface at the middle position in the direction, and the suction hole may be a single or a plurality of suction holes including the case where the separately attached straw is used. When a plurality of suction holes are formed, the suction holes can be arranged side by side on the outer periphery of the straw, and can be arranged stepwise.

Further, the straw can be installed in the beverage filling container such that its tip is located in the middle in the depth direction by shortening the length thereof. However, when separately attached, it is preferable to provide an immersion prevention means such as a stopper on the side surface so as to prevent the immersion into the drinking container.

Further, in the practice of the present invention, the container body, the beverage filling container, the partial container, and the like may be used in molding the container body, including various molding means such as blow molding, sheet molding, and injection molding. The shape, structure and material of the adhesive holding means and the straws, the relationship between them, the addition thereto, the manufacturing method, and the like can be of various forms without departing from the gist of the invention.

[0024]

Since the present invention has been configured as described above,
According to the first aspect of the present invention, the container main body having a shape-retaining property is arranged on the outside, so that display sale, storage, and the like can be easily performed. By arranging a soft beverage filling container so as to have a shape flexibility that shrinks to a corresponding volume and having a structure of two layers of polymerization, it is possible to prevent the formation of an air space in the beverage filling container due to suction and drinking. In addition, it is possible to always drink and drink without leaving a residual amount even in the non-erected state, and to secure the cushioning of external force by the flexibility of the shape of the beverage filling container with respect to the shape-retaining container body, It is possible to provide a drinking container capable of preventing the possibility of the beverage jumping out as much as possible regardless of handling.

[0025] In addition to the above, the invention according to claim 2 makes the initial volumes of the container main body and the beverage filling container as identical as possible to prevent the expansion of the drinking container and to easily and surely mass-produce the drinking container. Can be done.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in addition to the above, the straw is made suitable for suction and drinking, and the suction portion is located near the suction and drinking side of the beverage filling container. Shrinkage can be performed efficiently and reliably.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of a drinking container.

FIG. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view showing a state of the drinking container at the time of suction and drinking.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory longitudinal sectional view showing an example of a method for manufacturing a drinking container.

[Explanation of symbols]

 A drinking container 10 container body 20 beverage filling container 30 straw 31 suction hole 40 mold 41 suction port 42 air nozzle

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A container for sucking and drinking a beverage with a straw, comprising: an outer container main body having shape retention properties; and a soft beverage filling container disposed inside the container main body, wherein the soft beverage filling is provided. The container is partially adhered and held on the suction and drinking side of the container body, and the beverage filling portion excluding the adhesive holding portion is arranged in a non-adhesive two-layered state with respect to the inner surface of the container body, and is suctioned by the straw. A drinking container characterized in that the container has a shape flexibility within a container main body, which shrinks the volume of the beverage filling container according to the amount of drinking. 2. A non-adhesive polymerized two-layered arrangement in the above-mentioned beverage filling container is obtained by applying a sheet or film for forming the beverage filling container to the inner surface of the container body by a suction force of vacuum suction and / or a pressing force of compressed air discharge. 2. The drinking container according to claim 1, wherein the container is formed by peeling and tightly contacting the container. 3. The drinking container according to claim 1, wherein the drinking container is provided integrally with a straw whose tip cap can be opened and closed or a separately attached straw, and the straw is located near a suction and drinking side in the beverage filling container so as to be a beverage suction position. The drinking container according to claim 1, wherein a single or a plurality of suction holes are provided on a side surface at a middle position in the longitudinal direction.