JP6173890B2 - Container with applicator - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a container with an applicator provided with an applicator for applying contents contained in a container body to an object.

  Conventionally, as a container with an applicator of this type, a container body containing contents and a cap attached to the mouth portion of the container body are fixed, and the cap body is inserted into the container body with the cap attached to the mouth portion. An arrangement including an applicator is known. This applicator is provided at the tip of a rod-like connecting member inserted inside the container body, and has a brush shape, a brush shape, a sponge shape, or the like. When using such a container with an applicator, first insert the applicator into the container body and attach the contents, then remove the applicator from the mouth of the container body and remove the attached contents. It applies to an object (for example, refer to patent documents 1).

  In such a container with an applicator, if excessive contents adhere to the connecting member, when the contents are applied using the applicator, the extra contents adhering to the connecting member may sag or adhere to hands, etc. There was a risk of it. Therefore, a technique has been proposed in which a cylindrical coating amount adjusting member is mounted inside the mouth of the container body. This application amount adjusting member is provided with an annular ironing piece projecting radially inward, and an applicator and a connecting member are inserted inside the ironing piece, and an inner peripheral portion of the ironing piece is formed on the outer peripheral surface thereof. It is in sliding contact. According to the applicator-equipped container provided with such an application amount adjusting member, when the applicator is withdrawn from the mouth of the container body, the excess contents adhering to the stick portion of the applicator can be scraped off by the squeezing piece. it can.

JP 2010-259545 A

  By the way, in the container with an applicator as described above, the inside of the container body is sealed (sealed) by pressing the flange of the application amount adjusting member arranged at the upper end of the mouth of the container body from above with the corresponding surface of the connecting member. However, its performance is not sufficient, and further improvement in sealing performance has been demanded.

  In response to such a request, for example, when considering a configuration in which a sealing member is improved by newly providing a member that comes in contact with the mouth of the container body in the radial direction, when the applicator is pulled out, Sliding friction occurs between the abutting members, making it difficult to extract. Further, if the threaded portion is formed long in order to reduce the force required for extraction, there is a problem that the amount of rotation necessary for opening and closing the cap increases, and it takes time and effort to remove it.

  An object of the present invention is to solve such a problem, and a container with an applicator capable of improving sealing performance to prevent liquid leakage more reliably and facilitating removal of a cap. The purpose is to provide.

In order to solve the above problems, a container with an applicator according to the present invention includes a container body for storing contents,
A cap detachably attached to the mouth of the container body;
A connecting member that includes an applicator for applying contents to one end, the other end is fixed to the cap, and the cap is mounted in the mouth portion, and the applicator is accommodated inside the container body;
A rubbing iron which is disposed inside the mouth portion and has a tubular portion into which the connecting member is inserted, protrudes inward from the inner peripheral surface of the tubular portion and contacts the connecting member so as to be elastically deformable. A coating amount adjusting member provided with a piece,
When the cap is attached to the mouth, the connecting member is pressed and elastically deformed, and when the cap is removed from the mouth, the connecting member and the cap are urged upward by a restoring force due to the elastic deformation. with a part,
The connecting member has a fitting portion that fits into the cap, an intermediate portion that hangs down from the lower end surface of the fitting portion, and a rod-like portion that has a smaller diameter than the intermediate portion that hangs down from the lower end surface of the intermediate portion,
The connecting member is slidably mounted on an annular bottom wall that surrounds the rod-like portion and is accommodated in the tubular portion, and a sealing member that has a cylindrical wall that stands up from the annular bottom wall and surrounds the intermediate portion. ,
The elastically deformable portion is provided on the seal member, and is configured by a protrusion that is crushed by the connecting member when the cap is attached to the mouth portion .
Moreover, the container with an applicator according to the present invention includes a container body for storing contents,
A cap detachably attached to the mouth of the container body;
An applicator for applying contents to one end is provided, and the other end is fixed to the cap.
A connecting member for accommodating the applicator in the container body with the cap attached to the mouth;
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It has a cylindrical part which is arranged inside the mouth part and into which the connecting member is inserted.
There is provided a squeezing piece that protrudes inward from the inner peripheral surface of the shaped portion and abuts against the connecting member in an elastically deformable manner.
An applied amount adjustment member,
When the cap is attached to the mouth portion, the cap is pressed by the connecting member to be elastically deformed, and the cap
When removing the cap from the mouth, the connecting member and cap are moved upward by the restoring force of the elastic deformation.
It has an elastically deforming part that biases it,
The application amount adjusting member is provided with a gap between a flange projecting outward from an upper end portion of the cylindrical portion and an upper surface of the flange, and the connecting member when the cap is attached to the mouth portion. And an upper flange pressed downward by
The elastically deformable portion is composed of an elastically deformable thin portion that integrally connects the flange and the upper flange, and the upper flange.

  Further, in the container with an applicator according to the present invention, the cap has an internal screw corresponding to an external screw provided on the outer peripheral surface of the mouth, and the external screw and the internal screw are multi-threaded screws. Is preferred.

Further, in the applicator-equipped container according to the present invention, the connecting member has an enlarged diameter portion protruding outward from the outer peripheral surface of the intermediate portion,
When the cap is attached to the mouth, the enlarged diameter portion comes into contact with the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical wall to enlarge the cylindrical wall, and the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical wall is the inner periphery of the cylindrical portion. It is preferable to be configured to contact and seal the surface.

  According to the container with an applicator of the present invention, it is possible to provide a container with an applicator that can improve sealing performance and prevent liquid leakage more reliably and can easily remove the cap.

It is the side view which partially showed the container with an applicator device concerning one Embodiment of this invention in the cross section. (A) is a figure which shows the state which attached the cap completely to the opening | mouth part of a container body in the container with an applicator of FIG. 1, (b) is A in the container with an applicator of FIG. 2 (a). It is -A sectional drawing. (A) is the figure which expanded the container with an applicator of FIG. 1 partially, (b) is the figure which expanded the container with an applicator of FIG. 2 (a) partially. It is the side view which partially showed the container with an applicator device concerning other embodiment of this invention in the cross section. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a state where the cap is completely attached to the mouth of the container body in the container with an applicator of FIG. 4.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be specifically described below with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIG. 1, a container 1 with an applicator according to the present embodiment includes a bottomed cylindrical container body 3, a cap 7 that is detachably attached to a mouth portion 5 of the container body 3, and a cap 7. And a stick-shaped connecting member 11 having an applicator 9 at the tip, an application amount adjusting member 13 disposed inside the mouth portion 5, and a seal member 15 attached to the connecting member 11. . The container body 3, the cap 7, the connecting member 11, the application amount adjusting member 13, and the seal member 15 are each disposed on a common shaft. Hereinafter, this common axis is referred to as an axis C, a direction parallel to the axis C is referred to as an axial direction, and a direction perpendicular to the axis C is referred to as a radial direction. Further, along the axial direction, the cap 7 side is referred to as the upper side, and the bottom 17 side of the container body 3 is referred to as the lower side. 1 shows a process of attaching the cap 7 to the container body 3, and FIG. 2 shows a state in which the cap 7 is completely tightened and attached to the container body 3.

  The container body 3 is formed by integrally forming a cylindrical body portion 19 standing from the bottom portion 17 and a cylindrical mouth portion 5 provided at the upper end portion of the body portion 19 via a shoulder portion 21. An outer screw 23 is formed on the outer peripheral surface of the mouth portion 5. The container body 3 can contain contents such as a cosmetic liquid, a chemical liquid, an adhesive liquid, and a cleaning liquid. Specific examples of the cosmetic liquid include mascara, eyeliner, lip gloss, and the like.

  The cap 7 has a side wall 25 in which an inner screw 24 that can be screwed into the outer screw 23 of the mouth portion 5 is formed, and a top wall 27 that closes the upper end of the cylindrical portion. A fitting portion 29 of the connecting member 11 described later is fitted and fixed to the upper side of the inner screw 24 in the side wall 25. Further, a rotation stop convex portion 26 is provided below the inner screw 24 on the inner peripheral surface of the side wall 25. As shown in FIG. 2 (b), which is a cross section taken along the line AA of FIG. 2 (a), in the state where the cap 7 is attached to the mouth portion 5, the rotation stopper convex portion 26 is a stopper provided on the outer peripheral surface of the container. It engages with the convex portion 28 and the loosening prevention convex portion 30 to perform the function of preventing rotation and loosening. In addition, although the external thread 23 and the internal thread 24 can be a single thread | thread or a multiple thread | thread, it is a triple thread in this embodiment. Further, the attachment of the cap 7 to the mouth portion 5 is not limited to the engagement by screws.

  The connecting member 11 includes a cylindrical fitting portion 29 fixed to the cap 7, an intermediate portion 31 depending from the lower end surface of the fitting portion 29, and a rod-like portion 33 depending from the central portion of the lower end surface of the intermediate portion 31. And an applicator 9 provided at the tip of the rod-shaped portion 33. The intermediate portion 31 has a bottomed cylindrical shape with a smaller diameter than the fitting portion 29, and the rod-shaped portion 33 has a smaller diameter than the intermediate portion 31. Further, an enlarged diameter portion 32 protruding outward in the radial direction is formed at the upper portion of the outer peripheral surface of the intermediate portion 31. The rod-shaped portion 33 is provided with a protruding portion 35 at a predetermined interval below the intermediate portion 31, and the upper portion of the protruding portion 35 in the rod-shaped portion 33 is more than the lower portion of the protruding portion 35. It has a small diameter. As shown in FIG. 2, the rod-shaped portion 33 is inserted inside the coating amount adjusting member 13 and the seal member 15 in the radial direction while the cap 7 is attached to the mouth portion 5. In the present embodiment, the applicator 9 has a brush shape, but is not limited thereto, and may be a brush shape, a sponge shape, or the like.

  The application amount adjusting member 13 is made of a soft material that can be elastically deformed, and includes a cylindrical portion 37 that is disposed inside the mouth portion 5, a flange 39 that protrudes outward from the upper end portion of the cylindrical portion 37, and a cylinder An annular squeezing piece 41 protruding inward from the inner peripheral surface of the shaped portion 37 is integrally formed. In the present embodiment, the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion 37 is in liquid-tight contact with the inner peripheral surface of the mouth portion 5. Further, the application amount adjusting member 13 is positioned in the axial direction with respect to the mouth portion 5 by the lower surface of the flange 39 being in contact with the upper end of the mouth portion 5. Further, the lower portion of the cylindrical portion 37 protrudes downward from the mouth portion 5, and an annular locking portion 43 that protrudes radially outward is provided at the lower portion of the cylindrical portion 37. The locking portion 43 is close to or in contact with the lower end opening edge of the mouth portion 5 from below, and prevents the application amount adjusting member 13 from being pulled out from the mouth portion 5.

  The ironing piece 41 extends downward from the lower part of the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical part 37 toward the radially inner side. In a state where the cap 7 is attached to the mouth portion 5, the rod-shaped portion 33 of the connecting member 11 is inserted inside the ironing piece 41. Here, the diameter of the inner peripheral edge of the ironing piece 41 is formed to be smaller than the outer diameter of the bar-like part 33 on the lower side of the projection 35, and the bar-like part 33 becomes an ironing piece when the ironing piece 41 is elastically deformed. The inside of the inner peripheral edge of 41 can be inserted.

  Further, the ironing piece 41 is formed to be elastically deformed with the movement of the connecting member 11 in the axial direction. That is, when the connecting member 11 is moved downward along the axis C in a state where the rod-like portion 33 of the connecting member 11 is inserted inside the ironing piece 41, the ironing piece 41 of the connecting member 11 has the rod-like portion 33 of the connecting member 11. When the outer peripheral surface is elastically deformed so as to be turned down in the axial direction of the container body 3 and the connecting member 11 is moved upward along the axis C, the squeezing piece 41 is turned up so as to be turned up in the axial direction of the container body 3. The piece 41 is elastically deformed.

  The seal member 15 is made of a soft material that can be elastically deformed, and is attached to the connecting member 11. The seal member 15 includes an annular bottom wall 45 that surrounds the rod-shaped portion 33 of the connecting member 11 from the outside, a cylindrical tubular wall 47 that rises upward from the outer peripheral edge of the annular bottom wall 45, and an upper end portion of the tubular wall 47. It has an annular ceiling wall 49 protruding outward in the radial direction. The seal member 15 is slidably attached to the connecting member 11. That is, the annular bottom wall 45 is movable along the rod-shaped portion 33 between the intermediate portion 31 and the protruding portion 35. In the upper part of the cylindrical wall 47, an annular recess 48 and an enlarged deformation portion 50 adjacent to the upper side of the recess 48 are provided. As shown in FIGS. 2 (a) and 3 (b), the annular bottom wall 45 and the cylindrical wall 47 are accommodated inside the cylindrical portion 37 in a state where the cap 7 is attached to the mouth portion 5, and the annular ceiling The wall 49 is disposed between the flange 39 of the application amount adjusting member 13 and the fitting portion 29 of the connecting member 11.

  Further, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 3A, in the present embodiment, a cylindrical protrusion 51 rises from the upper surface of the annular bottom wall 45 of the seal member 15 to constitute an elastic deformation portion. When the cap 7 is attached to the mouth portion 5, the projection 51 is crushed and elastically deformed by the lower surface of the intermediate portion 31 of the connecting member 11 as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 (b). The crushed protrusion 51 pushes up the lower surface of the intermediate portion 31 with a restoring force due to the elastic deformation when the cap 7 is removed from the mouth portion 5. The shape of the protrusion 51 is not particularly limited, and the shape, thickness, and the like can be determined so that the protrusion 51 can be appropriately elastically deformed and an appropriate repulsive force can be obtained.

  In the applicator-equipped container 1 having the above-described configuration, when the cap 7 is attached to the mouth part 5, the connecting member 11 is provided from the applicator 9 side inside the application amount adjusting member 13 attached to the mouth part 5. After inserting and inserting until the position where the external screw 23 of the cap 7 and the internal screw 24 of the mouth portion 5 are engaged, the cap 7 is rotated in the tightening direction. As the cap 7 is tightened, the rotation-preventing convex portion 26 gets over the loosening-preventing convex portion 30 from the outside in the radial direction and enters between the stopper convex portion 28 and the loosening-preventing convex portion 30 to stop the rotation of the cap 7. The attachment of the cap 7 to the mouth portion 5 is completed.

  In such a process of attaching the cap 7, the seal member 15 attached to the connecting member 11 enters the inside of the application amount adjusting member 13, and the annular top wall 49 contacts the upper surface of the flange 39, so that the seal member 15 is lowered. Stop moving to the side. When the annular top wall 49 comes into contact with the upper surface of the flange 39, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 3A, the seal member 15 is positioned on the projection 35 side in the axial direction, and the projection 51 is elastically deformed. Further, the enlarged diameter portion 32 is not in contact with the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical wall 47.

  When the connecting member 11 is further inserted downward, the intermediate portion 31 enters the seal member 15 while crushing the protrusion 51 on the lower surface, and the enlarged diameter portion 32 formed on the outer peripheral surface of the intermediate portion 31 is formed on the cylindrical wall 47. The cylindrical wall 47 is pushed and expanded by coming into contact with the enlarged deformable portion 50 provided on the inner peripheral surface. In the present embodiment, the cylindrical wall 47 is configured to be easily expanded by a recess 48 provided adjacent to the expansion deformable portion 50. The expanded outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical wall 47 is pressed against the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion 37 to seal the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion 37.

  As shown in FIGS. 2 (a), 2 (b) and 3 (b), when the cap 7 is fully tightened into the mouth part 5, the flange 39 and the annular ceiling are formed at the upper end of the mouth part 5 and the lower surface of the fitting part 29. The mouth 5 is sealed also in the axial direction by sandwiching the wall 49. In the present embodiment, an annular rib 40 is formed on the upper surface of the flange 39 to enhance the sealing performance in the axial direction.

  Further, when removing the cap 7 from the mouth portion 5, the cap 7 is rotated in the loosening direction to release the engagement of the rotation prevention convex portion 26, and further the engagement of the outer screw 23 and the inner screw 24 is released. Then, the connecting member 11 is pulled upward together with the cap 7. Meanwhile, as the connecting member 11 rises, the enlarged diameter portion 32 is released to the upper side of the cylindrical wall 47, so that the enlarged cylindrical wall 47 returns to the original diameter, and the radial seal is released. . Further, since the connecting member 11 is biased upward by the repulsive force of the protrusion 51 that has been elastically deformed, the cap 7 can be easily pulled out with a small force.

  In the container 1 with the applicator configured as described above, the cap 7 can be easily removed by providing the protrusion 51 as an elastically deforming portion that is elastically deformed when the cap 7 is attached to the mouth portion 5. Can be. Further, not only the axial direction but also the cylindrical wall 47 of the seal member 15 is brought into contact with the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion 37 of the application amount adjusting member 13, so that the space between the connecting member 11 and the application amount adjusting member 13 is maintained. By enabling sealing in the radial direction, it is possible to improve the sealing performance and suppress liquid leakage.

  Moreover, in the container 1 with an applicator according to the present embodiment, the screw engagement between the mouth portion 5 and the cap 7 is constituted by a multi-thread screw, thereby enabling engagement and release with a small amount of rotation. The cap 7 can be attached and detached more easily.

  Below, with reference to FIG. 4, the container 100 with an application tool which concerns on other embodiment of this invention is demonstrated. In addition, about the refill container 100 of this embodiment, about the structure same or corresponding to previous embodiment, it represents with the same code | symbol and abbreviate | omits description.

  As shown in FIG. 4, the container with applicator 100 includes a cap 7 that is detachably attached to the container body 3, an application amount adjusting member 13 that is attached to the mouth portion 5, a connecting member 11 that is fixed to the cap 7, And the applicator 9 attached to the tip of the connecting member 11 is provided. Further, in the container with applicator 100 of the present embodiment, the upper flange 53 and the thin portion 55 provided on the application amount adjusting member 13 constitute an elastic deformation portion.

  The application amount adjusting member 13 in the present embodiment includes a cylindrical portion 37 disposed inside the mouth portion 5, a flange 39 protruding outward from the upper end portion of the cylindrical portion 37, and an inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion 37. In addition to the annular squeezing piece 41 projecting inwardly from above, an upper flange 53 provided integrally with a thin portion 55 above the flange 39 is provided. The upper flange 53 is provided with a gap between the upper surface of the flange 39 and is pressed downward by the lower surface of the fitting portion 29 of the connecting member 11 when the cap 7 is attached to the mouth portion 5. Thus, when the thin portion 55 is elastically deformed and the gap is reduced and the cap 7 is completely tightened, the upper surface of the flange 39 and the lower surface of the upper flange 53 come into contact with each other as shown in FIG.

  In the container with applicator 100 of the present embodiment, when the cap 7 is attached to the mouth portion 5, the upper flange 53 is elastically deformed in the axial direction together with the thin portion 55, and the upper flange 53 is fitted by the repulsive force. Since it is pressed against the lower surface of the portion 29 and becomes easier to adhere, a more flexible seal is possible and the sealing performance is improved. Further, since the axial range that can be sealed is expanded according to the movable range of the upper flange 53, the upper flange 53 is placed on the lower surface of the fitting portion 29 even when the cap 7 is not completely closed, for example. As long as they are in contact with each other, liquid leakage can be prevented.

  Moreover, when removing the cap 7, the connection member 11 is urged | biased upwards by the repulsive force of the upper stage flange 53 and the thin part 55 which were elastically deformed, and can pull out the cap 7 more easily.

  Moreover, in the container 100 with an applicator according to the present embodiment, the axis of the applicator 9 is displaced outward with respect to the axis C of the connecting member 11 as shown in FIGS. With such a configuration, when the cap 7 is rotated, the applicator 9 can easily reach the inner peripheral surface of the container body 3, so that the contents can be easily attached to the applicator 9.

  Furthermore, in the container 100 with an applicator of the present embodiment, the gap between the inner screw 24 of the cap 7 and the outer screw 23 of the mouth portion 5 is set so that the backlash between the cap 7 and the mouth portion 5 is increased. It is preferable to set a large value. With this configuration, the applicator 9 attached to the cap 7 and the connecting member 11 can be easily tilted with respect to the container body 3, and the applicator 9 can easily reach the inner peripheral surface of the container body 3. An object can be further easily attached to the applicator 9.

  While the present invention has been described based on the illustrated examples, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and can be appropriately changed within the scope of the claims. Although the containers 1 and 100 have been described as being configured to be screwed to the mouth, they may be configured to be engaged by press-fitting, claw fitting, or the like.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1,100 Container with application tool 3 Container body 5 Mouth part 7 Cap 9 Application tool 11 Connection member 13 Application amount adjustment member 15 Seal member 17 Bottom part 19 Body part 21 Shoulder part 23 External screw 24 Internal screw 25 Side wall 26 Anti-rotation convex part 27 Top wall 28 Stopper convex part 29 Fitting part 30 Loosening prevention convex part 31 Intermediate part 32 Wide diameter part 33 Rod-like part 35 Projection part 37 Tubular part 39 Flange 40 Rib 41 Ironing piece 43 Locking part 45 Annular bottom wall 47 Cylinder Shaped wall 48 Concavity 49 Annular ceiling wall 50 Enlarged deformation part 51 Protrusion (elastic deformation part)
53 Upper flange (elastic deformation part)
55 Thin part (elastic deformation part)

Claims (4)

A container for containing the contents;
A cap detachably attached to the mouth of the container body;
A connecting member that includes an applicator for applying contents to one end, the other end is fixed to the cap, and the cap is mounted in the mouth portion, and the applicator is accommodated inside the container body;
A rubbing iron which is disposed inside the mouth portion and has a tubular portion into which the connecting member is inserted, protrudes inward from the inner peripheral surface of the tubular portion and contacts the connecting member so as to be elastically deformable. A coating amount adjusting member provided with a piece,
When the cap is attached to the mouth, the connecting member is pressed and elastically deformed, and when the cap is removed from the mouth, the connecting member and the cap are urged upward by a restoring force due to the elastic deformation. with a part,
The connecting member has a fitting portion that fits into the cap, an intermediate portion that hangs down from the lower end surface of the fitting portion, and a rod-like portion that has a smaller diameter than the intermediate portion that hangs down from the lower end surface of the intermediate portion,
The connecting member is slidably mounted on an annular bottom wall that surrounds the rod-like portion and is accommodated in the tubular portion, and a sealing member that has a cylindrical wall that stands up from the annular bottom wall and surrounds the intermediate portion. ,
An applicator-equipped container, wherein the elastically deforming portion is provided on the seal member, and is constituted by a protrusion that is crushed by the connecting member when the cap is attached to a mouth portion . The connecting member has an enlarged diameter portion that protrudes outward from the outer peripheral surface of the side wall in the intermediate portion,
When the cap is attached to the mouth, the enlarged diameter portion comes into contact with the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical wall to enlarge the cylindrical wall, and the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical wall is the inner periphery of the cylindrical portion. The container with an applicator according to claim 1 , wherein the container is sealed in contact with the surface. A container for containing the contents;
A cap detachably attached to the mouth of the container body;
A connecting member that includes an applicator for applying contents to one end, the other end is fixed to the cap, and the cap is mounted in the mouth portion, and the applicator is accommodated inside the container body;
A rubbing iron which is disposed inside the mouth portion and has a tubular portion into which the connecting member is inserted, protrudes inward from the inner peripheral surface of the tubular portion and contacts the connecting member so as to be elastically deformable. A coating amount adjusting member provided with a piece,
When the cap is attached to the mouth, the connecting member is pressed and elastically deformed, and when the cap is removed from the mouth, the connecting member and the cap are urged upward by a restoring force due to the elastic deformation. Part
The application amount adjusting member is provided with a gap between a flange projecting outward from an upper end portion of the cylindrical portion and an upper surface of the flange, and the connecting member when the cap is attached to the mouth portion. And an upper flange pressed downward by
An applicator-equipped container, wherein the elastically deformable portion is composed of an elastically deformable thin-walled portion that integrally connects the flange and the upper flange, and the upper flange. The cap has an inner screw corresponding to an outer screw provided on the outer peripheral surface of the mouth,
The container with an applicator according to any one of claims 1 to 3 , wherein the outer screw and the inner screw are multi-threaded screws.

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