JP2020121766A - container - Google Patents

Abstract

To enable liquid to be suctioned without using a drinking straw separately provided outside the container.SOLUTION: A container includes a container body 1, sealing means 2, and suction means 3. The container body has a bottom part 12, a top part 14 opposite to the bottom part and formed with an opening, and a peripheral wall part 13 between the bottom part and the top part, and a storage space 11 for storing liquid 5 is surrounded by the bottom part, the top part, and the peripheral wall part. The sealing means covers the opening 142 and is removably attached to the top part. The suction means is made integrally with the container body, and extends from the opening to the bottom part side and a communication passage 31 that communicates the opening and the storage space is defined inside.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

Description

The present invention relates to containers, and in particular to containers for containing beverages.

There are various types of containers for storing beverages, such as steel cans and glass bottles. Among them, containers using aluminum packs are often used for beverage packaging because they have advantages such as excellent freshness retaining ability and a small amount of packaging material. As shown in FIG. 1, the conventional aluminum pack 61 has a straw 63 and a straw cover 62 for storing the straw 63 attached to the outside of the packaging in order to drink the liquid therein (see Patent Document 1). ).

Taiwan Utility Model Registration No. M339257 Specification

However, since the straw 63 and the straw cover 62 are made of plastic, the amount of dust increases. Further, in order to recycle the liquid in the container of the aluminum pack 61 after drinking, it is necessary to separate the aluminum pack 61, the straw cover 62, and the straw 63, which is troublesome. Further, there is a possibility that the straw 63 may be lost, for example, the straw cover 62 may drop from the aluminum pack 61 together with the straw 63 during transportation. If there is no straw 63, it cannot be drunk unless the aluminum pack 61 is cut or a substitute for the straw 63 is prepared, and there is the inconvenience that the beverage at the bottom of the aluminum pack 61 is difficult to suck. Therefore, the inventor of the present application considered that it is desirable to be able to suck the liquid in the aluminum pack container that stores the beverage without providing a straw outside.

An object of the present invention is to provide a container capable of sucking a liquid without using a straw separately provided outside the container.

Therefore, the container of the present invention comprises a container body, a sealing means, and a suction means. The container body has a bottom portion, a top portion on the opposite side of the bottom portion with an opening, and a peripheral wall portion between the bottom portion and the top portion, and An accommodation space for accommodating a liquid is enclosed between the bottom portion, the top portion, and the peripheral wall portion. The sealing means covers the opening and is detachably attached to the top portion. The suction means is formed integrally with the container body, extends from the opening to the bottom portion, and defines a communication passage that communicates with the opening and the accommodation space inside.

The effect of the present invention is that by providing the suction means inside the container, the user does not use a straw separately provided outside the container at the time of drinking, and only by removing the sealing means, the liquid can be stored from the opening in the storage space. Can be aspirated from the bottom. Therefore, by using the present invention, drinking becomes convenient, the amount of dust is reduced, and sorting work before recycling can be performed smoothly.

It is a perspective view of the conventional aluminum pack. It is a perspective view of the 1st example of the present invention. It is a side sectional view of the 2nd example of the present invention. It is a perspective view of the 3rd Example of this invention. It is a side sectional view of the 4th example of the present invention. In a 2nd Example, it is a side surface sectional view when a sealing means is removed. It is a side surface sectional view of a 3rd example. In a 3rd Example, it is a side sectional view when a sealing means is removed. It is a side surface sectional view of a 4th example. It is a side surface sectional view of a 5th example.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of a container according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

(First embodiment)
First, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 is a perspective view of the first embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a side sectional view of the first embodiment of the present invention. The container according to the first embodiment includes a container body 1, a sealing unit 2, and a suction unit 3.

As illustrated, the container body 1 includes a bottom portion 12 (see FIG. 3 ), a top portion 14 opposite to the bottom portion 12, and a peripheral wall portion 13 between the bottom portion 12 and the top portion 14. Have. The top portion 14 is rectangular in a plan view, and an opening 142 defined by an inner annular edge portion 141 is formed at one corner thereof. An accommodation space 11 that accommodates the beverage (liquid) 5 and communicates with the opening 142 is surrounded by the bottom portion 12, the top portion 14, and the peripheral wall portion 13.

The sealing means 2 covers the opening 142 and is detachably attached to the top portion 14.

The suction means 3 is formed integrally with the container body 1 and extends from the annular edge portion 141 that defines the opening 142 to the bottom portion 12, and the communication passage 31 that communicates with the opening 142 and the accommodation space 11 is provided inside. Well defined.

More specifically, the suction means 3 includes an upper connecting end 32 connected to the top portion 14 of the container body 1, an extending portion 33 extending from the upper connecting end 32 to the bottom portion 12 side, and an extending portion 33. It is configured to have two side connection ends 34 that are connected to the peripheral wall portion 13 and a lower opening end 332 that is on the opposite side of the upper connection end 32 and opens toward the accommodation space 11. , Is defined by being surrounded by the extending portion 33 and the peripheral wall portion 13. The lower opening end 332 is oblique to the bottom portion 12 such that the portion adjacent to the peripheral wall portion 13 is relatively close to the bottom portion 12 and the portion apart from the peripheral wall portion 13 is relatively far from the bottom portion 12. Is formed in.

The sealing means 2 connects the annular edge portion 141 to cover the opening 142 so that the beverage 5 does not spill out of the housing space 11, and leaves the container body 1 in an unopened state. When drinking the beverage 5, the user simply removes the sealing means 2 from the annular edge portion 141 to expose the opening 142, and the beverage 5 is moved from the bottom of the accommodation space 11 to the outside of the accommodation space 11 by the suction means 3. Can be sucked out.

In this embodiment, the suction means 3 is made integrally with the peripheral wall portion 13 and is configured so as to define the communication passage 31 together with the peripheral wall portion 13, thereby saving the material used for manufacturing the container body 1. can do. Further, as shown in FIG. 3, in this embodiment, the lower opening end 332 of the suction means 3 is a portion adjacent to the peripheral wall portion 13 from a portion separated from the peripheral wall portion 13, that is, the peripheral wall portion 13 and the bottom portion. Although a portion up to the portion to which 12 is connected is formed in a curved shape, the present invention is not limited to this, and may be formed in a straight line inclined with respect to the peripheral wall portion 13 and the bottom portion 12, for example.

(Second embodiment)
The second embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the second embodiment, FIG. 5 is a side sectional view of the second embodiment, and FIG. 6 is a side sectional view when the sealing means 2 is removed. As shown in the figure, the configuration of the second embodiment of the present invention is different from that of the first embodiment described above in that a stretching means 4 is further provided above the extending portion 33 of the suction means 3 of the container body 1. ..

The expansion/contraction means 4 includes a lower fixing part 41 attached to the suction means 3, an expansion/contraction part 42 connected to the lower fixing part 41 and formed to be expandable and contractible on the opposite side of the lower fixing part 41. It has an exposed end 43 connected to 42 and is generally tubular in shape. Further, the expansion/contraction part 42 is provided so as to be inserted into the extending part 33 of the suction means 3 together with the exposed end part 43 and extend from the lower fixing part 41 to the outside of the container body 1. The sealing means 2 is detachably attached to the exposed end portion 43 at a plurality of attachment points P with a weakly adhesive adhesive. The sealing means 2 has a fixed end 21 connected to the top portion 14, and a free end 22 on the opposite side of the fixed end 21, which is connected to the peripheral wall portion 13 and exposes the opening 142 when removed. Equipped.

As shown in FIG. 5, when the container body 1 is in an unopened state, the expansion/contraction part 42 is compressed in the direction of the bottom part 12 with respect to the extension part 33 of the suction means 3, so that the exposed end part 43 is also bottomed. The seal end 2 holds the exposed end portion 43 in the communication passage 31 so that the exposed end portion 43 does not protrude from the container body 1 as it approaches the portion 12.

As shown in FIG. 6, when the beverage 5 of the container body 1 is to be drunk, the free end 22 of the sealing means 2 is removed from the peripheral wall portion 13 of the container body 1 to weakly adhere to the exposed end portion 43. After the exposed end portion 43 is pulled out so as to be exposed from the suction means 3, the sealing means 2 is also removed from the exposed end portion 43. Therefore, even if the user does not need to take out the exposed end portion 43 of the expansion/contraction means 4 with bare hands, the user can take out the exposed end portion 43 and drink the beverage 5, so that it is convenient and hygienic to handle the exposed end portion. There is.

(Third embodiment)
The third embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 7 and 8. FIG. 7 is a side sectional view of the third embodiment, and FIG. 8 is a side sectional view when the sealing means 2 is removed.

As shown in the drawing, in this third embodiment, the suction means 3 includes an upper connecting portion 35 connected to the top portion 14 of the container body 1 and an extension from the upper connecting portion 35 to the bottom portion 12 side. And a lower opening end 332 on the opposite side of the upper connecting part 35 and facing the accommodation space 11 and opening. The extending part 33 and the peripheral wall part 13 communicate with each other. 31 is defined inside.

Then, in this embodiment, the upper connection portion 35 of the suction means 3 is configured to be expandable and contractable, and when extended, protrudes from the top portion 14.

That is, in this embodiment, the sealing means 2 is adhered to the upper connecting portion 35 of the suction means 3 as shown in FIG. 7, and when the sealing means 2 is removed from the top portion 14, As shown in FIG. 8, the upper connecting portion 35 of the suction means 3 is adhered to the upper connecting portion 35 so that the upper connecting portion 35 of the sucking means 3 is extended so as to protrude from the top portion 14, and then the upper connecting portion 35 of the suction means 3 is also extended. It is configured to be removed.

As described above, also in the third embodiment, when the beverage 5 in the container body 1 is to be drunk, the free end 22 of the sealing means 2 can be removed from the peripheral wall portion 13 as in the second embodiment. Since the upper connection portion 35 can be stretched by the weak adhesion between the free end 2 of the sealing means 2 and the upper connection portion 35 of the suction means 3, the upper connection portion 35 protruding from the top portion 14 of the container body 1 can be used for the container. The beverage (liquid) 5 contained in the main body 1 can be sucked.

(Fourth embodiment)
The fourth embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIG. FIG. 9 is a side sectional view of the fourth embodiment. The difference from the second embodiment is that the communication passage 31 is not defined by the extending portion 33 and the peripheral wall portion 13 but by the suction means 3 itself, and the lower opening end 332. Is located on the bottom side of the accommodation space 11 while maintaining a constant distance from the bottom portion 12, and is formed so as to be parallel to the extending direction of the bottom portion 12. Further, both ends of the fixed end 21 and the free end 22 of the sealing means 2 are provided so as to be connected to the top portion 14. When the beverage 5 in the container body 1 is to be drunk, the free end 22 of the sealing means 2 is removed from the top portion 14 in the same manner as in the second embodiment, so that the exposed end portion 43 is weakly adhered and exposed. Since the sealing means 2 is also removed from the exposed end portion 43 after the end portion 43 is also pulled out so as to be exposed from the suction means 3, the beverage 5 in the container body 1 can be drunk using the exposed end portion 43. ..

As described in each of the above embodiments, the communication passage 31 may be defined by the suction means 3 and the peripheral wall portion 13, or may be defined only by the suction means 3 itself.

(Fifth embodiment)
The fifth embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIG. FIG. 10 is a side sectional view of the fifth embodiment. The fifth embodiment is similar to the fourth embodiment, except that the seal means 2 and the suction means 3 are the same as those of the first embodiment. As a matter of course, the form of the sealing means 2 may be the same as that of the fourth embodiment. That is, the sealing means 2 may be connected to the top portion 14 as shown in FIG. However, not limited to the above, the sealing means 2 may be provided in a form other than the above so as to detachably cover the opening 142. When drinking the beverage 5, the user simply removes the seal means 2 from the annular edge portion 141 from the top portion 14 and exposes the suction means 3 through the opening 142, and the beverage 5 is sucked from the bottom of the accommodation space 11. You can get it outside with 3.

[Technical effects of embodiments]
In the container according to the present invention, if the suction means 3 is provided inside the container body 1, the user can remove the sealing means 2 and expose the opening 142 without using a straw provided separately when drinking. Only then, the beverage 5 can be discharged from the bottom of the storage space 11 to the outside through the opening 142. Therefore, by using the present invention, drinking becomes convenient, the amount of dust is reduced, and sorting work before recycling can be performed smoothly.

In the above, for the purposes of explanation, numerous specific details have been set forth in order to facilitate a general understanding of the present invention. However, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that other embodiments can be implemented without showing specific details, for example, by combining the above embodiments.

Although the preferred embodiments and modifications of the present invention have been described above, the present invention is not limited to these, and all modifications and equivalents can be made as various configurations included within the spirit and scope of the broadest interpretation. Configuration shall be included.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Container body 11 Storage space 12 Bottom part 13 Peripheral wall part 14 Top part 141 Annular edge 142 Opening 2 Sealing means 21 Fixed end 22 Free end 3 Suction means 31 Communication path 32 Upper connection end 33 Extension part 332 Lower opening end 34 side connection End 35 Upper connection part 4 Expansion/contraction means 41 Lower fixing part 42 Expansion/contraction part 43 Exposed end part 5 Beverage (liquid)
61 Aluminum pack 62 Straw cover 63 Straw P Bonding point

Claims (6)

A bottom part, a top part on the opposite side of the bottom part in which an opening is formed, and a peripheral wall part between the bottom part and the top part, and the bottom part and the A container body in which a storage space for storing a liquid is surrounded between the top portion and the peripheral wall portion,
Sealing means for covering the opening and being removably attached to the top portion;
A container that is provided with a suction means that extends from the opening to the bottom portion side and internally defines a communication path that communicates with the opening and the accommodation space. A lower fixing part attached to the suction means, an expanding/contracting part connected to the lower fixing part and capable of expanding and contracting, and an exposed end part connected to the expanding/contracting part on the opposite side of the lower fixing part. The container according to claim 1, further comprising: an expanding and contracting means having a substantially tubular shape as a whole. The suction means is
An upper connecting end connected to the top portion of the container body, an extending portion extending from the upper connecting end to the bottom portion side, and two side connecting ends where the extending portion connects to the peripheral wall portion, And a lower opening end opposite to the upper connection end and facing the accommodation space, and the extension portion defines the communication passage inside with the peripheral wall portion. And
The lower opening end is formed such that a portion adjacent to the peripheral wall portion is relatively close to the bottom portion, and a portion apart from the peripheral wall portion is relatively apart from the bottom portion. The container according to claim 1 or claim 2. The sealing means is bonded to the exposed end portion of the expanding and contracting means,
When the sealing means is detached from the top part, the exposed end of the expansion/contraction means is pulled out so as to be exposed from the suction means by adhesion with the exposed end of the expansion/contraction means, and The container according to claim 2, wherein the container is also configured to be removed from the exposed end portion. The suction means is
An upper connecting part connected to the top part of the container body, an extending part extending from the upper connecting part to the bottom part side, and an opening facing the accommodation space on the opposite side of the upper connecting part. And a lower opening end that does, the extending portion defines the communication path inside with the peripheral wall portion,
The upper connecting portion is configured to be expandable and contractable, and when extended, protrudes from the top portion,
The sealing means is bonded to the upper connection portion of the suction means,
When the sealing means is detached from the top portion, the suction means is adhered to the upper connection portion so that the upper connection portion of the suction means is extended so as to project from the top portion and then the suction means is The container according to claim 1, wherein the container is also configured to be detached from the upper connection portion. The container according to claim 1, wherein the suction means is formed integrally with the container body.

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