JP3494364B2 - Combined funnel and measuring instrument - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a funnel and a measuring instrument which can be used with a bottle such as a PET bottle.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, instead of glass bottles, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles, namely,
PET bottles are widely used.

[0003]

The plastic bottle has a history of being developed and supplied for the purpose of disposable use. However, as its widespread use raises a problem of disposal treatment, even after the contents are consumed, Repeated use by reuse is desired.

Therefore, it can be considered to reuse as a container for food and drink for various purposes, but when refilling food and drink into an empty plastic bottle that has consumed the contents, the funnel is opened because the bottle mouth has a small diameter. I need.

Further, when the food or drink is poured out from the mouth of the bottle, a weighing machine is required for the seasoning and other food and drink.

[0006] However, it is uneconomical to provide a funnel and a measuring instrument separately, and it is not easy to use. Further, it is inconvenient to store the funnel and the measuring instrument in a predetermined place when not in use. There is.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides a combined funnel and scale that can be used with a bottle and is mounted over the shoulder of the bottle so as not to be bulky when not in use. The bottle cap can be opened and closed by the cap stopper. When weighing the food or drink to be poured out from the bottle, the combined tool removed from the mouth of the bottle can be used as a bottomed weighing machine equipped with a cap stopper. Furthermore, when refilling the bottle with food or drink, the narrow mouth of the combined tool with the cap stopper removed can be attached to the mouth of the bottle and used as a funnel. It should be noted that although the present specification mainly describes PET bottles, it goes without saying that the combined use tool of the present invention can be used for various bottles other than PET bottles.

[0008]

Therefore, the present invention is configured as a means having a wide mouth portion and a narrow mouth portion, and the funnel is connected to the bottle mouth portion such as a PET bottle with the wide mouth portion facing upward. The measuring instrument is configured with the cap stopper inserted into the narrow mouth part removed from the bottle mouth part,
A combined tool in which the narrow mouth portion is formed by a cylinder wall, wherein a common female screw selectively screwed to the male screw of the bottle mouth portion and the male screw of the cap stopper is formed on the cylinder wall, and further, The point is that the cylindrical wall is formed with a female thread for mounting which is screwed to the male thread of the bottle mouth portion in a non-use state with the wide mouth portion facing downward so as to cover the shoulder portion.

It is preferable that the cylindrical wall is provided with an inward flange at an axially intermediate portion, and a common female screw and a mounting female screw are provided on the inner peripheral portion of the cylindrical wall with the inward flange interposed therebetween.

[0011]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

As is well known, a plastic bottle (hereinafter simply referred to as "bottle 1") is provided with a small-diameter bottle mouth portion 4 opening upward from a bottomed bottle body 2 through a shoulder portion 3 of which the diameter is gradually reduced. A male screw 5 is formed on the outer peripheral portion of the bottle mouth 4. Such a bottle 1 is sold with the contents such as food and drink filled and a cap (not shown) screwed on the male screw 5 is capped on the bottle mouth portion 4. When using the combined tool 6, the cap is removed.

As shown in FIG. 1, the combined tool 6 has a wide mouth portion 7
And a substantially funnel-shaped cup body 9 having a narrow mouth portion 8 and a cap stopper 10 which is detachably attached to the narrow mouth portion 8.

The cup body 9 is integrally molded of synthetic resin or the like, and has a funnel-shaped cup wall 1 extending from the wide mouth portion 7 to the narrow mouth portion 8.
1 and a cylindrical wall 12 forming the narrow mouth portion 8, and the cylindrical wall 12
It has a substantially U-shaped handle 9a extending outwardly from the outside and folded back and connected to the cup wall 11. The cup body 9
Is preferably transparent or translucent, but may be opaque.

The cap stopper 10 is integrally molded of synthetic resin or the like, has a large-diameter head portion 13 and a small-diameter neck portion 14, and has a male screw 15 formed on the outer peripheral portion of the neck portion 14. The male screw 15 has the same pitch and the same diameter as the male screw 5 of the bottle mouth 4.

Therefore, the cylindrical wall 12 of the cup body 9 is formed with an inward flange 16 at an axially intermediate portion, and a common female screw 17 and a mounting female screw 18 are provided with the inward flange 16 interposed therebetween. The common female screw 17 is provided on the side facing the opening of the narrow mouth portion 8 and can be selectively screwed to the male screw 5 of the bottle mouth portion 4 and the male screw 15 of the cap stopper 10. Further, the mounting female screw 18 is provided on the side facing the cup wall 11 and can be screwed onto the male screw 5 of the bottle mouth portion 4. Although seal packings are attached to both surfaces of the inward flange 16, the inward flange 16 itself may be provided with a packing function.

(When the combined tool is not used as a funnel or a measuring instrument) When the combined tool 6 is not used for either the funnel or the measuring instrument, the wide mouth portion 7 of the cup body 9 is directed downward as shown in FIG. The shoulder portion 3 of the bottle 1 is covered with the cup wall 11, and the female screw 18 for mounting the cylinder wall 12 is screwed onto the male screw 5 of the bottle mouth portion 4. And the common female screw 1 of the cylinder wall 12
By screwing the male screw 15 of the cap stopper 10 to the screw 7, the narrow mouth portion 8 is closed by the cap stopper 10. In this way, the combination tool 6 is attached compactly along the shoulder portion 3 of the bottle 1, so that the combination tool 6 does not get in the way when the bottle 1 is organized and stored in a storage cabinet or a closet.

In this state, the inward flange 16 is watertightly in contact with the end surface of the bottle mouth portion 4, and the end surface of the neck portion 14 of the cap stopper 10 is watertightly in contact with the inward flange 16. Even if the contents are liquid, there is no risk of leakage to the outside.

Therefore, when it is necessary to pour out the contents of the bottle 1, the cap stopper 10 is removed from the cylindrical wall 12 of the cup body 9 to open the narrow mouth portion 8 as shown in FIG. 3 (A). Just go. As a result, the contents of the bottle 1 are transferred to the cylindrical wall 1 with the cup body 9 still attached to the bottle mouth 4.
It can be poured out to the outside via 2.

(When the combined tool is used as a funnel) When the cup body 9 is used as the funnel 19 in order to refill the bottle 1 with contents or to replenish the contents of the bottle 1 after the contents have been consumed, As shown in FIG. 1, after removing the cup body 9 from the bottle mouth portion 4 of the bottle 1 and the cap stopper 10 from the cylindrical wall 12 of the cup body 9, FIG.
As shown in, the cylindrical wall 12 of the cup body 9 is attached to the bottle mouth portion 4 of the bottle 1 with the wide mouth portion 7 facing upward. That is, the common female screw 17 of the cylindrical wall 12 is screwed onto the male screw 5 of the bottle mouth portion 4, so that the cup body 9 is attached to the funnel 1 of the bottle mouth portion 4.
Make up 9.

In the illustrated example, the bottle 1 (for example, a plastic bottle of 2 liters) is used as a rice bin, and the contents of the empty bottle 1 from the packed pack 20 through the funnel 19 are described. Rice as the product 21 can be suitably filled.

(When the combined tool is used as a weighing machine) For example, when the required amount of rice is taken out of the bottle 1 filled with rice as described above and cooked, as shown in FIG. , The combined tool 6 is used as the weighing device 22. That is,
In this case, the cup body 9 is removed from the bottle 1 and separated, and the narrow wall portion 8 is closed by screwing the cap plug 10 onto the cylindrical wall 12 of the cup body 9. Therefore, by grasping the handle 9a with the wide mouth 7 facing upward, the cup body 9 constitutes the bottomed cup-shaped weighing device 22.

In the case of the illustrated example, as shown in FIG. 4 (B), the rice (content 21) poured out from the bottle 1 can be weighed. For example, if the capacity of the cup body 9 whose narrow mouth portion 8 is closed by the cap stopper 10 is set to 1 cup, one cup of the cup body 9 can be weighed to 1 cup of rice. Such a scale 2
2 is applicable not only to rice but also to seasonings composed of fluids, such as granules or powders such as sugar and salt, liquids such as soy sauce and mirin, and for this reason As shown in FIG. 4 (A), the scale means 23 is provided on the cup wall 11 of the cup body 9.
Is preferably displayed. Since the end face of the neck portion 14 of the cap stopper 10 and the inward flange 16 of the cylindrical wall 12 are watertightly in contact with each other as described above, even when the object to be measured is a liquid, It does not leak from the narrow mouth portion 8.

(Modified Embodiment) In a modified embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 5, the cup body 9 has a cup wall 11 formed in a tubular shape extending in the same diameter in the vicinity of the wide opening 7.
A beak-shaped spout 7 is formed in a part of the peripheral edge of the wide mouth portion 7.
Since the other configurations are the same as those of the above-described embodiment, the above description is used for the configurations and functions of the parts denoted by the same reference numerals. In this modified embodiment, if the content of the bottle 1 is a seasoning consisting of a fluid as described above, the scale 22
Thus, the seasoning weighed by can be suitably poured out of the spout 7 into a cooking container such as a pan.

[0025]

According to the present invention, (1) when refilling or refilling the contents 21 in the bottle 1, the common female screw 17 provided in the narrow mouth portion 8 of the cup body 9 from which the cap stopper 10 is removed is attached to the bottle. By attaching to the male screw 5 of the mouth portion 4, the funnel 19 is formed by the cup body 9 with the wide mouth portion 7 facing upward.
As a result, the contents 21 can be easily filled. (2) When weighing the content 21 poured out from the bottle 1, the male screw 15 of the cap stopper 10 is screwed onto the common female screw 17 of the narrow mouth portion 8 of the cup body 9 which is detached from the bottle mouth portion 4 and left free. Then, by closing the narrow mouth portion 8, the bottomed weighing device 22 is configured, so that the content 21 to be poured can be suitably weighed. (3) When the combined tool 6 is not used for either the funnel 19 or the measuring device 22, the cylindrical wall 12 is attached by covering the shoulder portion 3 of the bottle 1 with the cup body 9 with the wide mouth portion 7 facing downward. Female screw 1
8 can be screwed onto the male screw 5 of the bottle mouth portion 4, so that the combined tool 6 can be attached compactly without being bulky, and the combined tool 6 does not interfere when the bottle 1 is organized and stored in a storage cabinet or a closet. Moreover, in this state, the cap 21 that is screwed into the shared female screw 17 of the cylindrical wall 12 is attached and detached, so that the contents 21 of the bottle 1 can be poured out while the dual purpose tool 6 is attached to the bottle 1.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an exploded vertical sectional view showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing a state in which the combined tool of the same embodiment is attached to a bottle without using either a funnel or a measuring instrument.

FIG. 3 is a view showing a mode of use of the same embodiment, (A) is an explanatory view showing a mode in which the contents are poured out from the bottle while the combined tool is attached to the bottle, and (B) is a mode in which the combined tool is used as a funnel. FIG.

4A and 4B are views showing a mode of use of the same embodiment, FIG. 4A is an external view of a state in which a weighing machine is configured with a combined tool, and FIG.

FIG. 5 shows a modified embodiment of the present invention, in which (A) is a vertical cross-sectional view showing a state in which the combined tool is attached to a bottle without being used in either a funnel or a scale, and (B) is measured by the combined tool. It is an external view of the state which comprised the container.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 bottle 3 shoulders 4 Bottle mouth 5 male screw 6 combined use tools 7 Wide mouth 8 narrow mouth 9 cups 10 Cap stopper 12 cylinder wall 15 Male screw 16 Inward flange 17 Common female screw 18 Female thread for mounting 19 funnel 21 Contents 22 Measuring instrument 23 Scale means

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A funnel comprising a wide-mouthed portion and a narrow-mouthed portion, the wide-mouthed portion facing upward, and the narrow-mouthed portion connected to a bottle mouth portion such as a PET bottle, and the funnel being removed from the bottle mouth portion. It is a dual-purpose tool in which a measuring instrument is configured with a cap stopper inserted in the narrow mouth portion, and the narrow mouth portion is formed by a cylinder wall, which is selective for the male screw of the bottle mouth portion and the male screw of the cap stopper. It is formed by forming a common female screw that is screwed on to the cylindrical wall,
A funnel and a measuring instrument, characterized in that the cylindrical wall is formed with a female thread for mounting which is screwed to the male thread of the bottle mouth in a non-use state with the wide mouth facing downward so as to cover the shoulder of the bottle. Dual-purpose tool. 2. A cylindrical wall is provided with an inward flange at an axially intermediate portion thereof, and a common female screw and a mounting female screw are provided on an inner peripheral portion of the cylindrical wall with the inward flange sandwiched therebetween. A combined tool for the funnel and measuring instrument according to 1.