JP2008228843A - Granular object storage vessel - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To permit a fixed quantity of granular objects such as tablets to be taken out with as high probability as possible without touching them by hand by reversing and inverting the vessel up side down, and by returning the vessel to an erect posture and furthermore permit a fixed quantity of tablets to be taken out even by one hand without touching them. <P>SOLUTION: The granular object storage vessel has a vessel body 20, a lid body 10 threadedly attached to the mouth portion 21 of the vessel body 20, and a granular object storage section 30 sticking to the inside of the top plate 11 of the lid body 10 by using a double-sided adhesive sheet 40. The granular object storage section 30 is made up of a first concave portion 31 and a second concave portion 32 facing each other with a prescribed clearance interposing between them and integrated by a connecting portion 33. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

The present invention relates to a container that is useful when a granular material such as a tablet is accommodated and taken out quantitatively. More specifically, the present invention relates to a granular material storage container in which a fixed amount of tablets can be taken out by inverting a container storing tablets and the like with the lid side down and returning the container to its original upright shape again.

  Appropriate amounts of one-time intake are determined for luxury items, supplements, drugs, and the like. These are formed in the form of granules or tablets or capsules, stored in a container, and taken out from the container for use. Tablet containers are required to be light-shielding and moisture-proof. A commercially available bottle-type container that stores tablets, granular drugs, seasonings, and the like includes a container body that stores articles and a lid that closes the opening.

The measuring member 2 having a size that can be inserted into the inside of the bottle from the opening of the medicine bottle 6 is provided with a measuring part 3 that can accommodate a predetermined number of tablets 7 on the upper surface of the measuring member 2. The weighing member 2 is supported by being suspended from the back surface of the lid 5 at a predetermined distance from the back surface of the lid 5 of the medicine bottle 6. Then, with the lid 5 on the vial 6, the vial 6 is inverted, returned to its original state, and shaken a few times to measure the tablet 7 having a predetermined size and shape by a predetermined amount. It can be accommodated in the measuring part 3 of the member 2. Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 09-276375 proposes that the tablet 7 accommodated in the measuring unit 3 of the measuring member 2 together with the cover 5 is taken out from the medicine bottle 6 by opening the cover 5 in this state.
JP 09-276375 A

However, in Patent Document 1, the medicine bottle 6 is inverted upside down and tablets are dropped irregularly to accommodate a desired number in the measuring section. Therefore, the desired number of tablets is not always accommodated in the concave portion 3a. In particular, when the cross-sectional shape of the concave portion 3a forms a substantially U-shaped concave portion, the tablet may rebound by hitting the surface of the measuring portion or the bottom surface or edge of the concave portion 3a, and there is a risk that the probability of being securely stored in the concave portion 3a may be reduced. was there.
If the pill bottle 6 is full of tablets, it is highly probable that the tablets will enter all the concave portions 3a. However, when the remaining amount of tablets becomes small, it is necessary to invert the medicine bottle many times and repeat upside down to upright. Still, there was no guarantee that tablets could enter all the concave portions 3a.

An object of the present invention is to make it possible to take out a granular material such as a tablet without touching it by inverting the container upside down and then returning it to an upright state. Furthermore, it aims at taking out fixed quantity of a tablet, without touching with one hand.

A first granular material storage container according to the present invention comprises a container main body, a lid attached to the mouth of the container main body, and a granular material container disposed inside the top plate of the lid, The granular material container is characterized by comprising a first concave portion and a second concave portion facing each other at a predetermined interval, whereby the container is inverted upside down and then brought back upright. Granules such as tablets can be taken out only in a fixed amount by performing a series of operations once. It is hygienic because it can be taken out without touching the drug. If the screw part of the lid can be loosened with one hand, the tablet can be taken out with one hand.

Furthermore, the first granular material storage container according to the present invention is characterized in that the granular material storage part is adhered to the inside of the top plate of the lid, and thereby, the medicine bottle and seasoning already deployed in the home. It can be retrofitted to food bottles. Moreover, the user can select the presence or absence of the fixed quantity taking-out function of a granular material by bundling the bottle and the granular material container in a separated state.

  Furthermore, the first granular material storage container according to the present invention is characterized in that at least one of the concave portion diameter or the concave sectional shape is different between the first concave portion and the second concave portion, By making the diameter of the first concave portion larger than the diameter of the second concave portion as desired, the establishment of accommodating the granular material in the granular material accommodating portion is further increased.

  Furthermore, the first granular material storage container according to the present invention is characterized in that the lid body can be opened and closed with one hand by a hinge mechanism, and includes a hook-shaped (arc-shaped) connecting portion, and the connecting portion Is preferably arranged on the side provided with the hinge. Thus, the tablet that has entered the second concave portion by the opening operation of the lid stays on the connecting portion or enters the first concave portion, and does not spill out from the granular material storage portion. As a result, a fixed amount of tablets can be easily taken out with one hand.

With the above configuration, the granular material storage container according to the present invention inverts the container containing the granular material such as a tablet upside down, and then stores the tablet etc. in a concave portion by a fixed amount by touching the hand. Without taking out tablets. Moreover, when the screw part of a cover body can be loosened with one hand, a tablet etc. can be taken out quantitatively with one hand. In the case of a lid that opens and closes hinges, tablets and the like can be taken out with one hand without touching.

The granular material storage container according to the present invention is as described above. A granular material container such as a bottle or a can is generally made of glass, resin, metal, or the like. Roughly speaking, each part of the container is composed of a container main body and a mouth part, a lid (cap) to be screwed or attached to the mouth part, a shoulder part, a trunk part, and a bottom part. The cross-sectional shape of the granular material storage container can be any shape such as a rectangle, a square, an ellipse, or a circle.

The granular material accommodating part arrange | positioned inside the top plate of a cover body consists of a 1st recessed part, a 2nd recessed part, and a connection part which oppose at predetermined intervals. The connecting portion integrally connects the first concave portion and the second concave portion, and when the inverted container is returned to the upright state, the tablet in the first concave portion is not mistaken for the second portion. It plays a role of guiding to enter the concave portion.
It is desirable that the granular material container is made of an injection-moldable member such as resin, glass, or metal. Of course, it is obvious that the metal plate may be pressed.

Obviously, the concave diameter of each concave portion may be arbitrarily set according to the number of tablets to be quantified. It is also the same that the cross-sectional shape of the concave portion may be arbitrarily set according to the outer shape and the fixed number of particles such as a mortar shape in addition to a hemispherical shape. Further, it is obvious that at least one of the concave diameter and the concave cross-sectional shape may be different between the first concave portion and the second concave portion.

The lid is made of a metal or a resin member, and the metal is formed by a pressing method and the resin is formed by a method such as injection molding. In the case where the lid is made of resin, the lid and the granular material container may be integrally formed. Of course, they may be molded individually and then combined. What is necessary is just to implement arbitrarily the integration means of a cover body and a granular material accommodating part, such as using an adhesive agent or a double-sided adhesive sheet.

The resin material which comprises a cover body and a granular material accommodating part is good as arbitrary. For example, in addition to ABS (acrylonitrile, butadiene, styrene), PS (polystyrene), etc., thermoplastic polyesters such as polyethylene terephthalate, polybutylene terephthalate, polyethylene naphthalate, polycarbonate, polyarylate, or copolymers thereof, these resins Or the blend with other resin is suitable, and ethylene terephthalate thermoplastic polyesters, such as polyethylene terephthalate, are especially suitable.
Further, acrylonitrile resin, polypropylene, propylene-ethylene copolymer, polyethylene and the like can also be used.

Hereinafter, the granular material storage container in one Example of this invention is demonstrated with drawing. FIG. 1 is a front view of a main part of a granular material storage container according to an embodiment of the present invention, a part of which is a cross-sectional view, FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of a granular material storage unit cut along FIG. 3 is a front view of a main part of the granular material storage container of FIG. 1 inverted upside down. FIG. 4 is a front view of the main part of the granular material storage container of FIG. 3 returned to an upright state. Fig. 5 is a partial cross-sectional view, Fig. 5 is a front view of an essential part of a granular material storage container according to another embodiment of the present invention, and Fig. 6 is another cross-sectional view of the present invention. Sectional drawing of the granular material accommodating part in an example, FIG. 7: shows sectional drawing of the granular material accommodating part which cut | disconnected FIG. 6 by cutting line S1-S1.

The granular material storage container 100 shown in FIGS. 1 to 4 includes a container body 20, a lid body 10 that is screwed into the mouth portion 21 of the container body 20, and a double-sided adhesive sheet 40 on the inner side of the top plate 11 of the lid body 10. It consists of the granular material accommodating part 30 adhere | attached using. The lid 10 is sealed using a rubber packing 15.
The granular material storage unit 30 includes a first concave portion 31 and a second concave portion 32 that are opposed to each other with a predetermined interval, and are integrated by a connecting portion 33.
FIG. 2 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing an example of the granular material container 30. In this case, PS resin is injection molded.

A series of operations when only one tablet 50 is quantified in the second concave portion 32 will be described. As shown in FIG. 3, first, when the granular material storage container 100 is inverted upside down, the tablet 50 stored in the container main body 20 moves to the lid 10 side, and one of them is a first concave shape. The plurality of tablets 50 are stacked in the portion 31 or placed on the first concave portion 31.
Next, as shown in FIG. 4, when the granular material storage container 100 is quickly returned to the original upright state, one tablet 50 or a plurality of tablets that have been placed in the first concave portion 31. Falls and one tablet 50 or a plurality of tablets are placed on the second concave portion 32.
When a plurality of tablets are placed, if the granular material container 100 is shaken lightly to the left or right, the excess tablets that have been placed on top of each other are shaken off, leaving only one tablet 50 in the second concave portion 32. . Thereby, one target tablet can be quantified.

Thereafter, the screw of the lid 10 is loosened and opened to allow one tablet to be taken out without touching the hand. If the screw part of the lid can be loosened with one hand, the tablet can be taken out with one hand.

  In the above-described embodiment, it has been described above that at least one of the first concave portion 31 and the second concave portion 32 constituting the granular material accommodating portion 30 may be different in the concave portion diameter or the concave sectional shape. An example is shown in FIG. In this case, the diameter of the tip of the first concave portion 36 is extended in a bowl shape so as to be larger than that of the second concave portion 37. As a result, a larger number of tablets can be stored in the first concave portion 36 without fail.

It is also obvious that the configuration of the connecting portion 33 may be arbitrarily implemented. An example is shown in FIGS. In this case, the granular material container 630 integrally connects the first concave portion 631 and the second concave portion 632 facing each other at a predetermined interval with a hook-shaped connecting portion 633 (the cross section is an arc). It becomes. When the first and second recesses were hemispherical, the radius of the arc of the connecting portion 633 was made the same as the radius of the hemispherical recess.

By providing the hook-shaped connecting portion 633, the tablet that has entered the first concave portion 631 can be smoothly transferred to the second concave portion 632. That is, the granular material storage container 100 is first inverted and the tablet is placed in the first concave portion 631. Next, the granular material storage container 100 is returned to the original upright state. When returning to the upright state, the tablet that has been stored in the first concave portion 631 slides down in the bag of the connecting portion 633 and settles in the second concave portion 632. The speed at which the tablet slides down in the bag may be adjusted by adjusting the tilt angle and speed when returning the granular material storage container 100 to the upright position.
In addition, the granular material storage container 100 is once laid down substantially horizontally from the inverted state, and after confirming that the tablet is placed on the bowl-shaped connecting portion 633, the granular material storage container 100 is returned to the upright state, You may make it move to the 2nd recessed part 632 by sliding on a cage | basket.

  Further, as described above, the lid 10 may be opened and closed with one hand by a hinge mechanism in addition to opening and closing using screws. In the case of a lid using a hinge mechanism, it is preferable to dispose the connecting portion 633 on the side where the hinge is provided. As a result, the tablet that has entered the second concave portion 632 by the operation of opening the lid stays on the connecting portion 633 or enters the first concave portion 631 and does not spill from the granular material containing portion 630. As a result, a fixed amount of tablets can be easily taken out without touching with one hand.

The present invention is not limited to medicine bottles containing tablets, capsules, granules, etc., but can also be applied to containers containing seasonings such as salt and sugar, containers containing detergents, luxury products, supplements, and the like. In addition to the granular material, the object to be stored may be in the form of powder or liquid.

The principal part front view of the granular material storage container in one Example of this invention Sectional drawing of the granular material accommodating part which cut | disconnected FIG. 1 by cutting line SS The principal part front view of the state which inverted the granular material storage container of FIG. 1 upside down The principal part front view which returned the granular material storage container of FIG. 3 to the upright state The principal part front view of the granular material storage container in another Example of this invention. Sectional drawing of the granular material accommodating part in another Example of this invention. Sectional drawing of the granular material accommodating part which cut | disconnected FIG. 6 by cutting line S1-S1

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Cover body 11 Top plate 15 Rubber packing 20 Container main body 21 Port part 30,35,630 Granular substance accommodating part 31,36,631 1st recessed part 32,37,632 2nd recessed part 33,633 Connection part 40 Double-sided adhesive sheet 50 Tablet 100, 200 Granule storage container

Claims (5)

The container body includes a container body, a lid attached to the mouth of the container body, and a granular material container disposed inside the top plate of the lid body, and the granular material container is opposed to each other with a predetermined interval. A granular material container comprising a first concave portion and a second concave portion. The granular material container according to claim 1, wherein the granular material container is bonded to the inside of the top plate of the lid. 2. The granular material storage container according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the concave portion diameter and the concave sectional shape is different between the first concave portion and the second concave portion. The granular material storage container according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the lid body can be opened and closed with one hand by a hinge mechanism. The first concave portion and the second concave portion are opposed to each other with a predetermined interval, and the first concave portion and the second concave portion are integrally connected, and the first concave portion The granular material accommodation member provided with the adhesion | attachment means in the top outer surface side of the concave part.

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