JP2009184709A - Container with hinged cap - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a container with a hinged cap which allows the content to be visually easily taken out. <P>SOLUTION: This container with a hinged cap includes a cap body 4 of a hinged cap 3 mounted on the opening 2 of a container body 1, a lid base part 5 mounted rotatably on the cap body and a lid body 6 for opening/closing the cap body with a hinge with a pulling strip as a fulcrum. (a) The cap body includes an inner tube 10 threadedly engaged or fitted onto the opening of the container body, an outer tube 11 with an engaging groove and a nozzle part 14 upwardly extending from the inner tube. (b) The lid base part has a circular fitting part 17 fitted rotatably on the outer peripheral of the nozzle part of the cap body. (c) The lid body has a needle body 18 at its center. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a container with a hinge cap that is attached to the mouth of a tube container or bottle container (hereinafter referred to as “container body”), and more specifically, the lid body is wide open to the lid base or the side of the container body. The present invention relates to a container with a hinge cap that is fixed with a feeling of engagement and that allows easy positioning of the container body and the lid.

Conventionally, a hinge cap is attached to the mouth of the container body by a method such as screwing or fitting, and the lid can be opened and closed with one-touch operation with a finger of one hand. There are containers that can be fixed. As a conventional container with a hinge cap, there exists a container with a hinge cap shown, for example in FIGS. The hinge cap 50 is screwed into the mouth portion 52 of the container body 51, and a spout 58 having a flange portion formed on the top surface of the hinge cap 50 is fitted into the mouth portion 52. The spout 58 having this flange portion is opened and closed by the engaging cylinder 53 of the lid 54 so that the contents can be extracted. The hinge cap 50 includes a main body and a lid body 54. As shown in FIG. 10, the hinge cap 50 main body and the lid body 54 are integrally connected by a hinge 55. As shown in FIGS. 12 and 13, a main body locking portion 56 protruding outward is formed on the side wall of the main body of the hinge cap 50, below the hinge 55. A lid locking portion 57 projecting upward is formed in the gap of the hinge 55 of the hinge. When the lid body 54 is opened, the lid body 54 rotates around the hinge 55, and the main body locking portion 56 and the lid engagement are formed. The stop 57 is engaged. The lid 54 is engaged with and fixed to the main body locking portion 56 (see Patent Document 1).
Japanese Patent No. 3387035

However, such a conventional container with a hinge cap has the following problems.
(1) As shown in FIG. 13, the lid 54 is formed with a lid locking portion 57 protruding upward between the left and right hinges 55, and the side wall of the main body of the hinge cap 50 below the hinge 55. Since the main body locking portion 56 is formed, in such a hinge cap 50, the hinge cap 50 main body and the lid locking portion 57 are related to the manufacturing mold for forming the main body locking portion 56. It is impossible to form a hinge with a tension band at the connecting portion of the lid 54, and the hinge 55 also has a drawback that it must be provided separately on both sides with its central portion opened.
(2) The hinge cap 50 main body and the lid 54 are connected to each other by a hinge 55 that is opened at the center and separated on both sides, and no tension band is provided. When the lid 54 is first lifted upward with a finger and opened, the lid 54 opens only at about 80 to 90 ° (angle α in FIG. 11), but does not automatically open largely. There is a drawback that the operation of taking out contents cannot be visually seen due to the fact that 54 becomes an obstacle.
(3) Since the general consumer cannot hold the container body by hand, the lid cannot be rotated in an easy-to-open direction, so that the container body cannot be aligned with the lid and the usability is poor. was there.
The present invention has been made paying attention to such a problem, and the hinge cap lid opens greatly by integrally providing a hinge with a tension band at the connecting portion between the lid and the lid base. Therefore, the contents can be easily taken out, and the lid is fixed to the lid base or the side of the container body with a feeling of engagement, and the lid is rotated in a direction that is easy to open. An object of the present invention is to provide a container with a hinge cap that can be easily aligned with the container body.

  In order to solve this problem, the solving means of the invention described in claim 1 includes a cap body of a hinge cap attached to the mouth of the container body, a lid base portion rotatably attached to the cap body, and the lid And a lid that is connected to the body base via a hinge with a tension band and opens and closes the opening of the cap body with a hinge with a tension band as a fulcrum, and (a) the cap body is screwed into the mouth of the container body or It consists of an inner cylinder to be fitted, an outer cylinder having an engagement groove, and a nozzle part extending upward from the inner cylinder. (B) The lid base is rotatably engaged with the outer periphery of the nozzle part of the cap body. (C) The lid body is a container with a hinge cap characterized by having a needle body at the center thereof.

According to a second aspect of the invention, the lid opens at a large angle of 180 ° or more around the hinge with the tension band, and gives an engagement feeling when getting over the engagement groove of the cap body. It is a container with a hinge cap characterized by having the engaging protrusion to do.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a hinged cap container characterized by using a normal hinge instead of the tension band hinge.

   According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a hinge cap container, wherein the lid body does not have a needle body.

   According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a hinge cap-equipped container characterized in that the container body has a closing membrane at the mouth.

   According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a hinged cap container characterized in that the cap body and the container body are integrally formed.

  The solving means of the invention described in claim 7 is a container with a hinge cap, wherein the container body is one selected from a laminated tube container, an aluminum tube container, a resin tube container, or a bottle container.

According to the present invention, a hinge with a tension band can be integrally provided at the connecting portion between the lid and the lid base, and the lid can be opened at a large angle around the hinge with the tension band. Can be fixed, so that the contents can be easily removed. Furthermore, there is an effect that the lid body is rotated in the direction in which it is easy to open, and the alignment with the container body is easy.

  Hereinafter, an example of an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  1 and 2 are drawings showing Embodiment 1 of the present invention. 1 and 2, reference numeral 1 denotes a container body that is a tube container or a bottle container. A mouth portion 2 is formed from a squeezable body portion through a shoulder portion, and a male screw is formed on the outer periphery of the mouth portion 2. Has been. 3 is a hinge cap. The hinge cap 3 includes a cap body 4, a lid base 5, and a lid 6. The hinge cap 3 is securely fixed to the mouth portion 2 of the container body 1 by fitting the inner cylinder 10 of the cap body 4 to the mouth portion 2 of the container body 1 by screwing or undercut. . As shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the lid base 5 and the lid 6 include an outer wall 8 formed on the outer peripheral edge of the lid 6 and an outer cylinder 9 formed on the outer peripheral edge of the lid base 5. It is connected by a hinge 7 with a tension band. And it rotates centering on the hinge 7 with a tension band, and opens and closes the opening part of the nozzle part 14 of the cap main body 4. FIG. Note that the lid base 5 and the lid 6 are manufactured by integral molding with a single mold.

  The cap body 4 is formed with an inner cylinder 10 formed with an internal thread, which is engaged with an external thread on the outer periphery of the mouth 2 of the container body 1, and an outer cylinder 11 formed on the outer side thereof. An engagement groove 12 is formed in a ring shape on the top surface of the top surface of the outer cylinder 11. As shown in FIGS. 7A and 7B, the engagement protrusion 12 formed on the lid body 6 gets over the wall 12 a of the engagement groove 12 of the cap body 4 and engages with the engagement groove 12. When this occurs, a feeling of engagement is generated. FIG. 7A is an enlarged cross-sectional view showing the state before the engagement protrusion 13 gets over, and FIG. 7B is an enlarged cross-sectional view after the engagement protrusion 13 gets over. Then, at the same time as the engaging protrusion 13 gets over the wall 12 a of the engaging groove 12, the lid body 6 is fixed to the side portion of the outer cylinder 11 of the cap body 4.

Further, the cap body 4 is formed with a nozzle portion 14 extending upward from the inner cylinder 10, and the opening of the nozzle portion 14 is fitted with a flange-like fitting cylinder 15 of the lid 6, so that the nozzle portion The 14 openings are closed. And the opening part of the nozzle part 14 is open | released by opening the cover body 6 by hand. A needle body 18 is formed on the opposite side of the top surface of the flange-like fitting cylinder 15 of the lid body 6. In addition, as shown in Example 2 of FIG. 3, the aspect in which a needle body is not formed may be sufficient.
Further, a circular engagement portion 17 of the lid base 5 is rotatably engaged with a mouth protrusion 16 formed on the outer periphery of the nozzle portion 14, and the container main body 1 and the cap main body can be rotated with one hand. 4, the lid 6 and the lid base 5 can be freely rotated to a desired position with the opposite hand. At this time, the lid base 5 rotates while sliding on the top surface of the cap body 4 in the circumferential direction.

  In the present invention, as shown in FIG. 5, when the lid body 6 is opened so as to be slightly lifted by hand, the lid body 6 is automatically opened by an angle close to the angle β around the hinge 7 with the tension band. Then, the lid 6 is pressed against the outer cylinder 11 of the cap body 4 with a finger. Then, when the engagement protrusion 13 formed on the lid body 6 is engaged so as to get over the wall 12a of the engagement groove 12 of the cap body 4, an engagement feeling is generated. The body 6 is widened and fixed by an angle β.

  Thus, in the first embodiment, in connection with the lid base portion 5 and the lid body 6 in the design of the mold, a mutual engagement protrusion is not formed in the vicinity of the coupling portion as in the prior art, and the hinge 7 with the tension band is formed. Since the lid body 6 is integrally provided, the lid body 6 is automatically opened largely by the action of the tension body by simply lifting the lid body 6 with a finger. That is, when the lid body 6 is first lifted slightly with a finger, it opens 5 to 45 °, and then it is opened 120 to 155 ° by the action of strongly pulling the lid body 6 of the tension body 10 upward, and finally the lid body by hand. 6 can be widely opened and fixed at β = 180 to 270 °, and the lid 6 is securely fixed to the outer cylinder 11 of the cap body 4. Therefore, it is possible to easily grasp the content extraction operation visually.

  FIG. 6 is a drawing showing Example 2 of the present invention. The difference from the first embodiment is an embodiment in which the needle body is not formed on the lid of the hinge cap. When the lid 26 is opened by slightly lifting it by hand, as shown in FIG. 6, the lid 26 is slightly larger than the angle β of the first embodiment by the amount of the needle body around the hinge with a tension band. It is fixed with a large angle. As shown in FIG. 6, the lid body 26 opens in the range of 5 to 45 ° when the lid body 26 is lifted a little with a finger at first, and then pulls the tension body lid body 26 strongly upward, as in the first embodiment. The action opens 120 to 155 °, and finally the lid 26 can be largely opened and fixed at γ = 180 to 270 ° by hand, and the lid 26 is securely fixed to the trunk of the container main body 21. Therefore, it is possible to easily grasp the content extraction operation visually.

  FIG. 4 is a view showing Embodiment 3 of the present invention, and the feature of this embodiment is an embodiment where the cap body 4 and the container body 1 are formed by integral molding. In Example 3, an embodiment having the needle body 38 and an embodiment (not shown) not having the needle body 38 are conceivable. The configurations of the lid and the lid base are the same as in the first embodiment.

The container body may be any of a laminated tube container, an aluminum tube container, a resin tube container, or a bottle container, and if the contents are use of a medicine or the like and storage is required, the container body An embodiment in which a closing membrane is formed in the mouth of the mouth may be used, and when the contents are not required to be preserved, an embodiment having a normal mouth without a closing membrane may be used.
In the case of a container body having a closure membrane, the contents can be extracted by removing the hinge cap from the container body, turning the needle body upside down, and piercing the sealing lid from above during use.

  FIG. 9 is a perspective view showing a hinge 7 with a tension band according to the present invention. The connection between the lid 6 and the lid base 5 according to the present invention is not limited to the hinge 7 with a tension band shown in FIG. Ordinary hinges 37 and 47 shown in (a) and (b) may be used. The hinge 7 with a tension band shown in FIG. 8 has a hinge 7a and tension bands 7b formed on both sides thereof, and the normal hinge shown in FIG. 10 instead of the hinge with a tension band is shown in FIG. 9 (a). A hinge 37 and two hinges 47 shown in FIG. 9B may be provided. These hinges are not provided with tension bands.

  The container with a hinge cap according to the present invention can be widely used as a tube or bottle container that can be widely filled with cosmetics, foods, pharmaceuticals, and the like.

The perspective view which shows Example 1 of the container with a hinge cap which concerns on this invention. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Front sectional drawing which shows Example 1 of the container with a hinge cap which concerns on this invention. Front sectional drawing which shows Example 2 of the container with a hinge cap which concerns on this invention. Front sectional drawing which shows Example 3 of the container with a hinge cap which concerns on this invention. In Example 1 of the container with a hinge cap which concerns on this invention, front sectional drawing which shows the state which opened and fixed the cover body. In Example 2 of the container with a hinge cap which concerns on this invention, front sectional drawing which shows the state which opened and fixed the cover body. The expanded sectional view (a) (b) which shows the state which the engagement groove | channel and engagement protrusion of the container with a hinge cap based on this invention engage. The perspective view which shows a hinge with a tension band in the container with a hinge cap which concerns on this invention. The perspective view (a) (b) which shows a normal hinge in the container with a hinge cap which concerns on this invention. The right side sectional view showing the conventional container with a hinge cap. Sectional drawing on the right side which shows the state which opened the cover body of the conventional container with a hinge cap. The rear view which shows the site | part of the hinge of the container with a conventional hinge cap. The expansion perspective view which shows the site | part of a hinge in the conventional container with a hinge cap.

Explanation of symbols

1, 21, 31 Container body 2, 22 Mouth part 3, 23, 33 Hinge cap 4, 24 Cap body 5, 27, 35 Lid base 6, 26, 36 Lid 7 Hinge with tension band 10 Inner cylinder 11 Outer cylinder 12 Engagement groove 13 Engagement protrusion 14 Nozzle part 17 Circular engagement part 18 Needle body 19 Closure membranes 37 and 47 Hinge

Claims (7)

A cap body of a hinge cap attached to the mouth of the container body, a lid base portion rotatably attached to the cap body, and the lid base portion and the tension band-attached hinge connected to each other. It consists of a lid that opens and closes the opening of the cap body as a fulcrum,
(A) The cap body includes an inner cylinder that is screwed or fitted into the mouth of the container body, an outer cylinder having an engagement groove, and a nozzle portion that extends upward from the inner cylinder.
(B) The lid base has a circular engagement portion that is rotatably engaged on the outer periphery of the nozzle portion of the cap body,
(C) A container with a hinge cap, wherein the lid body has a needle body at the center thereof. The lid body has an engagement protrusion that opens at a large angle of 180 ° or more around the hinge with a tension band and gives an engagement feeling when getting over the engagement groove of the cap body. The container with a hinge cap according to claim 1. The container with a hinge cap according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a normal hinge is used instead of the hinge with a tension band. The container with a hinge cap according to claim 1, wherein the lid body does not have a needle body. 5. A container with a hinge cap according to claim 1, wherein the container body has a closing membrane at the mouth. 6. The container with a hinge cap according to claim 1, wherein the cap body and the container body are integrally formed. The container with a hinge cap according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the container body is a container selected from a laminated tube container, an aluminum tube container, a resin tube container, or a bottle container.

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