JP6436880B2 - Hinge cap - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a hinge cap that is attached to a mouth portion of a container and has an upper lid connected to a cap body via a hinge, and more specifically, a hinge cap including an operation member for easily opening the upper lid with one hand. About.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a hinge cap is known that is attached to a mouth portion of a container and includes a cap body having a pouring hole and an upper lid having a member for sealing the pouring hole.
When opening this type of hinge cap, pull up the knob with a hand other than the one holding the container, or push it up to disengage the cap body from the lid, and then lift the knob. Although what opens is known, since both hands are required, what can be easily opened with only one hand is required.
As such a hinge cap that can be easily opened with one hand, a rotatable operation member is provided on the cap body, and an engagement lever provided on the upper lid is provided by an operation rod for rotating the operation member. A hinge cap is known that pushes up the groove and opens it by elastic reversal (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

No. 7-8439

However, since the hinge cap described in Patent Document 1 has a large operating member, the operating rod must be enlarged. Therefore, a certain amount of force is required for pushing up, and the operating rod is required to close the lid. There was a problem that the upper lid had to be closed after returning to the original position.
Furthermore, since the operating rod is large, the operating rod can be provided only on one side, and it is preferable to open the lid with the right hand, but there is a problem that the opening operation is difficult with the left hand.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above-described problem, and a hinge that can be easily opened with a small lever portion of an operation member and can be returned to a closed state by simply closing an upper lid. The purpose is to provide a cap.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a hinge cap that can be opened with one touch with one hand regardless of the dominant hand by providing a pair of lever portions on the left and right.

  In order to solve the above-described problems, the present invention provides a hinge cap including a cap body attached to a mouth portion of a container as a hinge cap, and an upper lid connected to the cap body via a hinge. Is provided with a peripheral wall to be attached to the mouth of the container, and an upper wall extending inward from the upper end of the peripheral wall, and the upper lid is a top wall and a side wall vertically suspended from the peripheral edge of the top wall; A cap-shaped notch provided on the side wall is provided, and the cap body has an operation member rotatably attached to the upper wall. And a release portion having the same shape formed on the side wall of the upper lid and contacting the sloped portion of the mountain-shaped notch provided on the side wall of the upper lid, and by rotating the operation member by pressing the lever portion, The release part pushes up the mountain-shaped notch on the side wall and opens it. During closure, released portion by-out mountain-shaped notch in the side wall of the upper lid is pushed operating member to adopt a configuration wherein the return to closed position.

As a specific embodiment of the operation member, a configuration is adopted in which a pair of lever portions of the operation member are provided on both sides of the cap body.
Further, as a specific embodiment of the upper wall of the cap body, the upper wall is provided with an upper surface portion having a pouring hole, and the operation member has an annular portion capable of rotating the periphery of the upper surface portion. The configuration is adopted.

The hinge cap according to the present invention adopts the above-described configuration, and by pushing the lever portion and rotating the operation member, the release portion pushes up the mountain-shaped notch provided on the side wall of the upper lid and easily opens the lid. In addition, the lever portion can be returned to the original position by closing the upper lid.
Furthermore, by adopting a configuration in which a pair of lever portions are provided on both sides of the cap body, the lid opening operation can be performed with one touch only with the right hand or the left hand, and the contents can be easily poured out by simply tilting.

It is a hinge cap which is an Example of this invention, (a) is a top view which shows an open state, (b) is a front view (half sectional view) of a closed state. In the hinge cap which is an Example of this invention, a hinge cap when an operation member is removed is shown, (a) is a top view, (b) is a side view, and (c) is a sectional view of (b). The operation member in the Example of this invention is shown, (a) is a top view, (b) is a front view (half sectional view), (c) is a bottom view, (d) is a side view. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS It is a perspective view of the state without the upper cover of the hinge cap which is an Example of this invention, (a) and (b) change the viewing direction. The opening method of the hinge cap which is an Example of this invention is shown, (a) is a top view, The arrow shows the operating direction of a lever part. (B) is a side view when the lid is closed, and (c) shows a state in which the lever portion is pushed and the upper lid starts to float slightly upward. The opening method of the hinge cap which is an Example of this invention is shown, (a) is a side view which shows the open state which further pushed the lever part and the upper cover opened completely, (b) is the time of opening It is a top view. (C) is a side view which shows the operation | movement when closing an upper cover. The operation direction of the lever part in the right and left of the hinge cap of the Example of this invention is shown, (a) is a top view of a closed state, (b) is an opened state when it is operated clockwise. It is a top view, (c) is a top view of a cover-opening state when it is made to act | operate to a counterclockwise direction.

  Next, an embodiment in which the hinge cap of the present invention is embodied as a cap of a dispensing container that uses the contents made of granular or powdered solids will be described with reference to the drawings.

1 and 2, A is a container, B is a cap body attached to the container A, C is a hinge, D is an upper lid connected to the cap body B via the hinge C, and E is attached to the cap body B. The operation member F is a seal for sealing the mouth 1 of the container A.
The container A is a container having a mouth portion 1, and a male screw 2 is provided on the outer peripheral surface of the mouth portion 1.

The cap body B includes a peripheral wall 3 and an upper wall 4 extending inward from the upper end of the peripheral wall 3, and an upper surface portion 6 having a pouring hole 5 serving as a swing-out hole projects from the upper wall 4. Has been. In FIG. 1, five dispensing holes 5 are provided on the side opposite to the hinge C.
Note that one to a plurality of extraction holes can be provided depending on the properties of the extract. When one dispensing hole is large, a dispensing cylinder may be provided.

Further, the upper surface portion 6 is provided with a fitting hole 8 into which a fitting boss 14 of the upper lid D described later is fitted.
A female screw 10 is provided on the inner peripheral surface of the peripheral wall 3, and the cap body B is attached to the mouth 1 of the container A by screwing with the male screw 2 of the mouth 1 of the container A.
A connecting portion between the peripheral wall 3 and the upper wall 4 is provided with a stepped portion 7 that abuts when the upper lid D is closed.

The upper lid D is composed of a top wall 11 and a side wall 12 suspended from the periphery thereof, and is connected to the lower end portion of the side wall 12 through a hinge C so as to be rotatable at the outer peripheral upper end of the peripheral wall 3 of the cap body B. Has been.
A protrusion 13 is provided on the back surface of the top wall 11 so as to fit into the pouring hole 5 when the lid is closed to prevent the contents from leaking and to prevent the pouring hole 5 from being clogged. .
Further, a fitting boss 14 for holding the closed state of the upper lid D is provided on the back surface of the top wall 11. The fitting boss 14 is cylindrical and is fitted into the fitting hole 8 of the cap body B. In order to make it difficult to remove the fitting boss 14 once inserted, the fitting boss 14 is formed longer than the fitting hole 8.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the operation member E used when opening the lid is configured separately from the cap body B and the upper lid D, and is provided on the peripheral edge 6 a of the upper surface portion 6 of the cap body B. An annular portion 20, a lever portion 21 extending laterally from the annular portion 20, and a release portion 23 attached to a side surface of the lever portion 21 are included.
Although one lever portion 21 may be provided on one side, it is preferable to provide one pair on the left and right, and in this embodiment, one pair is provided on the left and right.
The annular portion 20 is slidably attached to the peripheral edge 6a of the upper surface portion 6 of the cap body B. Once attached, the annular portion 20 is not easily removed as shown in FIG. Concavities and convexities are provided on the periphery 6 a of the upper surface portion 6 of the main body B.
The lever portion 21 protrudes outward from a mountain-shaped notch, which will be described later, provided on the side wall 12 of the upper lid D, and the finger rest 22 at the tip of the lever portion 21 extends downward from the side wall 12 of the upper lid D. .
In this embodiment, the operation member E is located between the lower surface of the annular portion 20 and the lever portion 21 of the operation member E and the upper surface of the cap body B and the upper wall 4 in order to facilitate sliding with the cap body B. A gap is provided in By doing so, even if the contents are powdery, the fine powder of particles enters the sliding surface and does not hinder the rotation of the operation member E.

  The mountain-shaped notch provided on the side wall 12 of the upper lid D forms a slope portion 15 that is inclined to the left and right with the upper end of the lever portion 21 as a vertex, and the upper lid D is also formed on the side surface of the lever portion 21 of the operating member E. A release portion 23 having a taper-like release taper 24 on the left and right is provided in the same shape as the notch of the side wall 12 of the lever portion 21, and the release portion 23 is provided on the upper lid D when the lid is closed. It fits into the notch in the side wall 12.

Next, the usage mode of the present embodiment will be described.
The hinge cap of this embodiment is attached to the cap body B of the hinge cap of FIG. 2 as shown in FIG. 1, and the seal F is attached to the mouth 1 of the container A filled with the contents. After sticking and sealing, the male screw 2 of the mouth portion 1 and the female screw 10 of the cap body B are screwed together and attached with the upper lid D closed.
In this embodiment, mounting by screwing is shown, but a fitting portion is provided in each of the cap body B and the mouth portion 1 of the container A, and a pressing force is applied from above the upper lid D, so that the mouth portion of the container A 1 may be attached by being sandwiched by the cap body B.

FIGS. 5 and 6 show a method of opening the upper lid D by the operating member E. FIGS. 5A and 5B show the cutting provided on the side wall 12 of the upper lid D when the lid is closed. The state which the cancellation | release part 23 of the lever part 21 of the operation member E fitted in the notch is shown.
FIG. 5C shows a state in which the finger contact portion 22 of the lever portion 21 is pushed in the circumferential direction, and the release taper 24 of the release portion 23 pushes the notched slope portion 15 of the side wall 12 of the upper lid D, 12 is raised upward and the upper lid D is slightly lifted.

FIG. 6A shows an opened state in which the finger contact portion 22 of the lever portion 21 is further pushed and the upper lid D is completely opened. The finger contact portion 22 of the lever portion 21 is Stopped and never go further.
In addition, the finger contact part 22 of the lever part 21 does not need to open the upper cover D to a fully open state, and the latching with the cap main body B and the upper cover D may be cancelled | released.
FIG. 6C shows the closing operation of the upper lid D. When the top wall 11 of the upper lid D is pressed, the notched slope portion 15 of the upper lid D is provided on the lever portion 21. 23, the release taper 24 is pushed, and the lever 21 is returned to the original position in the reverse direction of the lid opening action, and the lid is closed as shown in FIG.

The upper arrow PUSH in FIG. 6C indicates the direction in which the upper lid D is pushed, and the lower arrow indicates the operating direction of the lever portion 21.
It is preferable that the upper lid D and the hinge C have a structure that is elastically reversed. In this case, when the upper lid D is lifted to some extent, the elastic reversal occurs and the state easily shifts to the open state. However, the hinge C is not limited to a configuration capable of elastic reversal.

FIG. 7 shows the operating direction of the lever portion 21 when the lever portion 21 is provided on the left and right, which is an embodiment of the present invention, and (a) is an upper surface when the cap of the present invention is closed. (B) shows the lid open state when the lever part 21 on the left side (upper drawing) is pushed clockwise, and (c) shows the lever part 21 on the right side (lower drawing) in the opposite direction to the clock. The lid is opened when pressed.
The arrows in FIGS. 7B and 7C indicate the operating direction of the lever portion 21.
In this embodiment, the lid can be easily opened by simply placing the right finger on the finger contact portion 22 of the lever portion 21 and pushing it toward the circumferential direction (hinge direction). By providing 21, regardless of the dominant hand, the user simply applies the thumb of the right hand or the left hand to the finger contact part 22 of the lever part 21 and pushes it in the circumferential direction (hinge direction). be able to.

Further, by providing the extraction hole 5 on the opposite side of the hinge C, the container A can be tilted as it is, and the extraction operation can be performed with one hand.
The finger contact portion 22 of the lever portion 21 may have any shape as long as a space sufficient to hit the finger is secured, and may be an arrow shape that indicates the direction in which the finger is pressed. It can be made easier.
Further, by changing the color of the operation member E from that of the cap body B and the upper lid D, the design can be improved and the operation method can be more easily understood.
The container A may be made of any material, and the contents stored in the container A can be used in any properties such as liquid, powder, and granules.
In the present embodiment, a gap is provided between the operation member E and the cap body B, and the powdered material does not enter the sliding contact surface to prevent the rotation of the operation member E. It is particularly effective in the case of seasonings such as salt and pepper and fine particles such as wheat flour.

The hinge cap of the present invention includes a cap body, an upper lid, and an operation member. The upper lid can be easily opened simply by pressing the lever portion of the operation member with a finger. When the upper lid is closed, By pushing the top wall, the lever part also returns to the original position, so the effort to return the lever part to the original position is saved, and by opening a pair of lever parts on the left and right, the lid can be opened with either the left or right finger regardless of the dominant hand The work is possible and the contents can be poured out just by tilting.
Moreover, it can be used for any contents such as liquid, powder, or granules simply by selecting the pouring hole.
In particular, it can be easily opened with one hand during cooking, and can be poured simply by tilting, so it is suitable as a hinge cap for containers containing seasonings.

A container B cap body C hinge D upper lid E operation member F seal 1 port 2 male screw 3 peripheral wall 4 upper wall 5 pouring hole 6 upper surface portion 6a peripheral edge 7 step portion 8 fitting hole 10 female screw 11 top wall 12 side wall 13 Protrusion 14 Fitting boss 15 Slope portion 20 Annular portion 21 Lever portion 22 Finger rest portion 23 Release portion 24 Release taper

Claims (3)

A hinge cap comprising a cap body attached to the mouth of the container, and an upper lid connected to the cap body via a hinge,
The cap body is provided with a peripheral wall to be attached to the mouth of the container, and an upper wall extending inward from the upper end of the peripheral wall,
The upper lid is provided with a top wall, a side wall suspended from the periphery of the top wall, and a mountain-shaped notch provided on the side wall,
The cap body has an operation member rotatably attached to the upper wall,
The operating member has a lever portion that protrudes in the radial direction, and a release portion of the same shape that is formed on the lever portion and abuts with a sloped portion of a mountain-shaped notch provided on the side wall of the upper lid,
By pushing the lever part and rotating the operating member, the release part pushes up the mountain-shaped notch provided on the side wall of the upper lid to open the lid, and when closed, the mountain-shaped notch provided on the side wall of the upper lid A hinge cap, wherein the release member is pushed by the notch and the operation member returns to the closed position.   The hinge cap according to claim 1, wherein a pair of lever portions of the operation member are provided on both sides of the cap body. The upper wall is provided with an upper surface portion having a pouring hole,
The hinge member according to claim 1, wherein the operation member has an annular portion that can rotate the periphery of the upper surface portion.

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