JP4873447B2 - Metering container - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a quantitative dispensing container, and more particularly to a container capable of dispensing a liquid or powder into a measuring cap through a dispensing basket.

  Conventionally, in containers for detergents, drugs, etc., a quantitative container that removes the top measuring cap fitted to the mouth and neck of the container body and pours the contents into this measuring cap is well known. In this type of container, in order to guide the contents into the measuring cap, an internal stopper that erects a small-diameter extraction tube from the top wall is fitted into the mouth and neck of the container body (Patent Document 1), It has been practiced to allow the contents to be poured out through a semi-cylindrical pouring rod that stands up from within the mouth and neck (Patent Document 2).

Moreover, although it is not a measurement container, the large-sized liquid container which stood up the large diameter extraction pipe | tube from the mouth neck part of a wide mouth is also well-known (patent document 3).
JP2003-128110 JP 2000-103444 A JP 2001-206402

  In Patent Documents 1 to 3, when the container body is tilted with the mouth-neck portion down, and the container is tilted into the above-mentioned measuring cap or other measuring container through the pouring tube or pouring rod, If the tip of the pouring tube or pouring rod was stopped and injected above the opening, the contents could be spilled to the front or the other side of the measuring container by mistake because of the position to be stopped. In particular, conventional measuring caps are often held in their hands to inject detergent or the like, but this has caused the possibility of hand shakes accompanying the operation of tilting the container, and the risk of spilling the detergent becomes even greater.

    The present invention provides a quantitative dispensing container that can reliably and stably inject contents into a measuring cap, and can easily perform various operations including refilling of contents into a container body. The purpose is to provide a quantitative dispensing container that is easy to use.

The first means is
A container body 2 that erects the mouth-and-neck part 4, a connecting cylinder member 10 that erects a pouring rod 18 from the inner surface of the peripheral wall 12 in which the lower half is fitted to the mouth-and-neck part 4, and the peripheral wall 12 of this connecting cylinder member A measuring cap 20 having a cylindrical shape that is detachably fitted to the upper half, and the measuring cap 20 is removed from the connecting cylindrical member 10 and is poured into the measuring cap that is turned upside down. In the quantitative dispensing container provided to be able to incline the contents in the container through the cage 18,
The peripheral wall portion 20a of the measuring cap 20 is provided with an inward flange 24 at the lower end of the large-diameter cylindrical portion 22, and can be fitted from the outer peripheral portion of the inward flange 24 to the upper half portion 12b of the peripheral wall 12. The joint tube portion 28 is suspended from the inner peripheral portion of the inward flange 24 by a tapered dispensing tube portion 26 having a small diameter at the lower end, and the lower surface of the inward flange 24 is liquid-tightly contacted with the upper end surface of the connecting tube member 10. The lower half front wall portion of the pour cylinder portion 26 is left as the anti-scattering plate 30, and the lower half rear wall portion of the pour tube portion 26 is cut away to form a cutout portion 32.
The measuring cap 20 removed from the connecting cylinder member 10 is turned upside down, and the container body 2 to which the connecting cylinder member 10 is attached is inclined so that the mouth-and-neck part 4 faces downward, and the fitting cylinder part 28 has the above-mentioned As an inclined posture with the end face of the upper half 12b of the peripheral wall abutting, when the contents are poured from the pouring rod 18 into the measuring cap 20, the pouring is carried out into the dispensing cylinder 26 through the notch 32. The vertical length of the notch 32 is such that the standing length of the pouring rod 18 is long so that the tip of the rod 18 can enter and the entire tip of the pouring rod 18 can be inserted into the notch 32. The width of the top and bottom of the pouring rod in the standing state and the width of the left and right sides of the notch are larger than the width of the pouring rod.

  In this means, the lower end of the measuring cap (the upper end when it is turned upside down) is cut out to form at least a lower portion of the pouring spout for tilting the contents from the container body. is there. By inserting the tip of the pouring rod into the pouring cylinder through the notch, the tilting operation can be performed stably. In the present specification, the terms “upper” and “lower” refer to upper and lower in a state where a measuring cap is incorporated into a container body via a connecting cylinder member, unless otherwise specified.

  The “connecting cylinder member” has a function of connecting the measuring cap to the mouth and neck of the container body. A partition wall with a through hole is provided in the peripheral wall of the connecting cylinder member, and a cylindrical or substantially semi-tubular pouring bar is erected from the whole or a part of the hole edge of the through hole.

    The “metering cap” is provided so as to inject the contents to the upper end of the peripheral wall surface and other fixed positions and measure the contents. As is conventionally known, a scale may be provided on the inside and outside of the peripheral wall portion, or the cylinder wall may be transparent so that the scale can be seen through. The lower half portion of the peripheral wall portion of the measuring cap is formed as a double cylinder formed by connecting the inner cylinder for content extraction and the outer cylinder for fitting to the connecting cylinder member at each upper end portion, than the outer cylinder. You may form a notch in the lower end part of the inner cylinder which hung down long. Of these double cylinders, the inner cylinder may be omitted, and the notch may be omitted at the lower end of the outer cylinder (fitting cylinder to the connecting cylinder member). The outer cylinder may be omitted, and the inner cylinder ( You may comprise so that a connection cylinder member can be fitted in the outer surface of the lower end part of the extraction | pouring pipe | tube.

The “notch” is formed so that the tip of the pouring rod (upper end when standing upright) can be inserted into a deep position inside the measuring cap with its inclined posture. The notch part shall have a notch measuring cap deeply so that the entire tip of the pouring rod can be inserted into the notch part .

In addition, in this means, a notch portion for inserting a bowl for pouring the contents into the content measuring cap is formed in a part of the dispensing cylinder portion for pouring the contents from the inside of the measuring cap to the outside. Therefore, various actions and effects are realized with a relatively simple structure. That is, the lower half portion of the dispensing cylinder portion excluding the notch portion is a dispensing means (pour spout) from the measuring cap, and at the same time, the dispensing basket swung upwards due to camera shake or the like while the contents were being poured. Sometimes it has a function to prevent the contents from jumping out. Further, the rear wall portion of the measuring cap may be used as a support wall so that the pouring bar can be supported by the inner edge of the notch part during the tilting in the upside down state.

The second means has the first means, and the dispensing cylinder part 26 is a tapered cylinder having a small diameter at the lower end, and extends from the front wall part side to the left and right side wall parts side of the dispensing cylinder part. The anti-scattering plate 30 is formed, and the pouring bar 18 is formed with a smaller diameter than the diameter of the lower end portion of the pouring cylinder part 26.

  The reason for this configuration is to reliably prevent the contents from popping out at the time of pouring.

The third means includes the first means or the second means , and the measuring cap 20 has a flat at least outer peripheral portion of the top wall 34, and the floor surface is turned upside down through the flat portion. The diameter of the top wall 34 is such that it can be stably placed on an external placement surface such as, and that the measurement cap does not fall over even if the contents are tilted through the pouring spout in this placement state. Is big.

  The reason for this configuration is to allow the contents to be injected into the weighing cap that is stably placed. “Diameter” means a length of passing, and includes, for example, an arbitrary passing length when the lower portion of the measuring cap is a polygonal cylinder.

The fourth means includes the third means, and the top wall 34 of the measuring cap 20 is a lid that can be opened and closed with respect to the cylindrical wall portion of the measuring cap 20.

  This is because the contents can be refilled into the container body with the measuring cap attached to the container body via the connecting cylinder member. The lid portion may be detachable with respect to the cylindrical wall portion of the measuring cap like a stopper, or may be provided so as to be raised and lowered via a hinge.

  According to the invention relating to the first means, the measuring cap 20 is removed from the container body 2 side, and the lower portion of the pouring spout at the time of tilting is inserted into the notch 32 formed at the lower end of the cylindrical wall. The tip of the pouring spout can be placed at a lower position in the measuring cap to be poured out, and the contents can be prevented from spilling on the near side and the opposite side of the measuring cap.

Moreover , according to the invention which concerns on a 1st means, there exist the following effects.
○ The notch 32 is formed by cutting out the lower half rear wall of the dispensing cylinder 26 while leaving the lower half front wall of the dispensing cylinder 26 as the anti-scattering plate 30. It is possible to more reliably prevent the contents from spilling outside the measuring cap 20 opposite to the portion 32.
○ Since the extraction cylinder part 26 is suspended from the lower end of the large-diameter cylinder part 22 via the inward flange 24, and the lower surface of the inward flange 24 is brought into liquid-tight contact with the upper end surface of the connecting cylinder member 10. The cutout portion 32 provided in the dispensing cylinder portion 26 is not visible from the outside, and the appearance is not impaired.

According to the invention relating to the second means, the dispensing cylinder part 26 is a tapered cylinder with a small diameter at the lower end, and the anti-scattering plate 30 extends from the front wall part side to the left and right sidewall parts side of the dispensing cylinder part. Therefore, the contents can be prevented from spilling to the left and right sides of the measuring cap 20.

According to the invention relating to the third means, the measuring cap 20 has a floor surface when at least the outer peripheral portion of the top wall 34 is made flat and is removed from the container body 2 through the flat portion and inverted. Therefore, the contents can be stably injected into the measuring cap 20 in this mounted state.

According to the fourth aspect of the invention, since the top wall 34 of the measuring cap 20 is a lid that can be opened and closed with respect to the cylindrical wall portion of the measuring cap 20, the lid is removed and the contents are recycled. Filling can be performed easily.

  1 to 4 show a quantitative dispensing container according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

  First, a known part of the configuration of the container will be described. The container is formed of a container body 2, a connecting cylinder member 10, and a measuring cap 20.

  The container body 2 stands up the mouth-and-neck portion 4 via the shoulder portion.

    The connecting cylinder member 10 stands up from the lower half 12a of the peripheral wall 12 via the inward flange-like wall, and locks the inward flange-like wall to the upper end surface of the mouth neck 4. . Also, a bottomed cylindrical partition wall 14 is suspended from the lower end of the upper half 12b, and a semi-cylindrical pouring rod 18 is inserted from the front half of the through hole 16 opened at the bottom of the partition wall. Standing up. In the illustrated example, the bottom of the partition wall is an inclined wall from the upper front to the lower rear.

  The measuring cap 20 has a cylindrical shape with a top and is fitted to the upper half portion 12b of the peripheral wall of the connecting cylindrical member 10.

  In the present invention, the measuring cap 20 is formed of two parts of a peripheral wall portion 20a and a top wall portion 20b in this illustrated example.

    The peripheral wall portion 20 a is provided with a tapered lower end portion of the large-diameter cylindrical portion 22 via an inward flange 24 and a tapered lower end portion of the inward flange 24. The fitting cylinder part 28 shorter than the cylinder part 26 is suspended, and this fitting cylinder part is fitted to the outer surface of the upper half portion 12b of the peripheral wall of the connecting cylinder member. At this time, it is desirable that the upper end surface of the peripheral wall 12 of the connecting cylinder member is in liquid-tight contact with the lower surface of the inward flange 24.

  The lower half portion of the extraction tube portion 26 is formed as a cutout portion 32 by cutting out the rear wall portion while leaving the portion extending from the front wall portion to the left and right side wall portions as the scattering prevention plate 30.

The notch 32 may compare the distal end of the note Detoi 18 (upper end), vertical width also lateral width also taken large, as shown in FIG. 4, through the notch 32 Note Detoi 18 The tip portion of the meter is formed so that it can be inserted into the measuring cap. In the illustrated example, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 in an inverted state, the portion on the scattering prevention plate side of the cut edge of the notch 32 is steeply inclined from the upper edge of the scattering prevention plate to the lower left of FIG. An inclined portion 32a is formed, and the remaining portion is an arc-shaped horizontal portion 32b as viewed from above. By doing so, a sufficient space for the anti-scattering plate 30 can be secured. Further, as shown in FIG. 3, the horizontal portion 32b of the notch 32 and the lower end (upper end in the figure) of the fitting cylinder portion 28 are arranged at the same height.

    Further, the top wall portion 20b has a seal cylinder 36 suspended from the periphery of the flat top wall 34, and is detachably tightly fitted in the large diameter cylinder portion 22.

In the above configuration, the measuring cap 20 is removed from the state shown in FIG. 1 and placed on the external placement surface in an inverted state as shown in FIG. 3, and in this state, the pouring rod is inserted through the notch 32 as shown in FIG. The tip of 18 is inserted into the measuring cap 20, and the content liquid is injected into the measuring cap 20. In this case, even if the hand holding the container body 2 is slightly moved up and down, left and right, the tip of the pouring rod is the horizontal part of the inner surface of the anti-scattering plate 30 or the notch 32 against left and right hand shake. since restricting the vibration hitting on 32b, also with respect to the upper, because Note Detoi 18 equivalents Ru in liquid shatterproof plate 30 inner surface that has flowed out, is prevented from liquid leakage out of the metering cap .

    Next, for example, when the liquid level reaches the inward flange 24 through the notch 32, the injection is stopped. Then, the dispensing rod 18 can be extracted from the inside of the measuring cap 20, and then the liquid weighed can be poured out from the scattering prevention plate 30 side by holding the measuring cap.

    Further, when the content liquid is refilled, the measuring cap 20 may be removed from the state shown in FIG. 1 and the content liquid may be injected through the through hole 16.

5 and 6 show a quantitative dispensing container according to a reference example of the present invention. Among the configurations of this embodiment, the same configurations as those of the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals, and description thereof is omitted.

In the reference example , the dispensing cylinder part is omitted from the first embodiment, the fitting cylinder part 28 is provided long, and the notch 32 is formed at the lower end thereof. The notch 32 shown in the figure is shallow enough to fit only the lower edge of the pouring bar 32 during tilting operation, and the contents can be stably injected by locking this edge. Provided.

FIG. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of a main part of the quantitative dispensing container according to the first embodiment of the present invention. It is a top view in the inverted state of the measurement cap of the fixed quantity injection container of FIG. It is a longitudinal cross-sectional view in the inverted state of the measuring cap of FIG. It is explanatory drawing of the use condition of the container of FIG. It is a principal part longitudinal cross-sectional view of the fixed quantity dispensing container which concerns on the reference example of this invention. FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of a use state of the container of FIG. 5.

Explanation of symbols

2 ... Container body 4 ... Mouth and neck 10 ... Connecting cylinder member 12 ... Peripheral wall 12a ... Lower half
12b ... upper half 14 ... partition wall 16 ... through hole 18 ... pouring spout
20 ... Measuring cap 20a ... Surrounding wall part 20b ... Top wall part 22 ... Large diameter cylindrical part
24 ... Inward flange 26 ... Pipe cylinder 28 ... Match cylinder 30 ... Spattering prevention plate
32 ... Notch 32a ... Inclined portion 32b ... Horizontal portion 34 ... Top wall 36 ... Seal tube

Claims (4)

A container body (2) that erects the mouth and neck (4), and a connecting cylinder member that erects the pouring gutter (18) from the inner surface of the peripheral wall (12) in which the lower half is fitted to the mouth and neck (4). (10) and a measuring cylinder (20) having a top cylindrical shape that is detachably fitted to the upper half of the peripheral wall (12) of the connecting cylinder member, and the measuring cap from the connecting cylinder member (10). (20) In a quantitative dispensing container provided so that the contents in the container can be tilted through the dispensing rod (18) into the measuring cap that is turned upside down.
The peripheral wall portion (20a) of the measuring cap (20) is provided with an inward flange (24) at the lower end of the large-diameter cylindrical portion (22), and the peripheral wall (12 ) The fitting cylinder part (28) that can be fitted to the upper half part (12b) is suspended from the inner peripheral part of the inward flange (24), and the tapered dispensing cylinder part (26) having a small lower end is suspended. In both cases, the lower surface of the inward flange (24) is brought into liquid-tight contact with the upper end surface of the connecting cylinder member (10), and the front wall portion of the lower half of the poured cylinder part (26) is splash-prevented plate (30). As a notch part (32) by cutting out the lower half rear wall part of the extraction cylinder part (26)
The measuring cap (20) removed from the connecting cylinder member (10) is turned upside down and the container body (2) to which the connecting cylinder member (10) is attached is inclined so that the mouth-neck part (4) faces downward. When the content is poured into the measuring cap (20) from the pouring spout (18) in an inclined posture in which the end surface of the upper half portion (12b) of the peripheral wall is in contact with the fitting tube portion (28). In addition, the standing length of the pouring rod (18) is set long so that the tip of the pouring rod (18) enters the pouring tube portion (26) through the notch (32). The vertical width of the notch (32) is longer than the front and back width of the tip of the pouring rod when standing upright so that the entire tip of the ridge (18) can be inserted into the notch (32). A quantitative dispensing container characterized in that the left and right width of the notch is made larger than the left and right width of the pouring bar. The dispensing tube portion (26) is a tapered tube with a small diameter at the lower end, and a scattering prevention plate (30) is formed from the front wall portion side to the left and right sidewall portions of the dispensing tube portion, and the dispensing is performed. wherein the note Detoi (18) that was formed in a small diameter compared to the diameter of the lower end portion of the cylindrical portion (26), quantitative dispensing container according to claim 1, wherein. The measuring cap (20) has at least the outer peripheral portion of the top wall (34) flat, and when the cap is removed from the container body (2) through the flat portion, the measuring cap (20) is placed outside such as a floor surface. The top wall (34) has a large diameter so that it can be stably placed on the placement surface, and the weighing cap does not fall over even if the contents are tilted through the pouring rod in this placement state. The quantitative dispensing container according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein the quantitative dispensing container is characterized by the above.   4. The quantitative dispensing container according to claim 3, wherein the top wall (34) of the measuring cap (20) is a lid that can be opened and closed with respect to the cylindrical wall portion of the measuring cap (20).

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