JP6656951B2 - Discharge container - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a container body having a plurality of stems erected on a cylindrical mouth, a nozzle attached to the plurality of stems, a fixed platen fixed to the mouth, and a cover detachably attached to the fixed platen. And a discharge container comprising:

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as described in Patent Document 1, for example, a container main body having a plurality of stems erected at a cylindrical mouth, and contents attached to the plurality of stems and flowing from the stems by pushing down the stems. 2. Description of the Related Art There is known a discharge container including a nozzle capable of discharging an object, a fixed plate fixed to a mouth, and a cover that is detachably attached to the fixed plate from above and covers the nozzle in a circumferential direction of the mouth. ing.

JP-A-2005-59881

  Since such a discharge container is usually configured so that the entire discharge container has a substantially cylindrical shape, when the user removes the cover for cleaning the nozzle or the cover, the user lifts the cover upward. If it is not recognized that the cover should be removed, the cover is twisted in the circumferential direction of the mouth to remove the cover, and there is a possibility that the container body may be damaged at a site such as a stem.

  The present invention has been developed in order to solve such a problem, and provides a discharge container that makes it easy to visually recognize the direction in which the cover is removed, thereby avoiding the occurrence of damage to the container body. The purpose is to:

The discharge container of the present invention is a container main body in which a plurality of stems are erected at a cylindrical mouth, and is attached to the plurality of stems, and can discharge contents flowing in from the stems by pushing down the stems. A nozzle, a fixed board fixed to the mouth, and a cover that is detachably attached to the fixed board from above and covers the nozzle in a circumferential direction of the mouth, and the fixed board and the One of the covers includes a fitting outer wall portion whose outer surface is exposed to the outside when the cover is mounted, and the other of the fixed platen and the cover has a vertical direction arranged at intervals in a circumferential direction of the opening. and characterized by comprising the fitted portion that is fitted an outer wall portion fitted during installation of the cover with a pair of opposed surfaces extending along the.

  Further, in the discharge container of the present invention, one of the fixed platen and the cover includes two fitting outer wall portions symmetrical around a central axis of the mouth, and the other of the fixed platen and the cover is The cover is provided with two fitted portions symmetrical about a center axis of the mouth, and the cover has two rotation positions rotated by 180 ° about the center axis of the mouth with respect to the fixed platen. It is preferable that any of them can be attached.

  In the discharge container according to the aspect of the invention, the cover may include an insertion peripheral wall that interconnects the pair of opposing surfaces that are the fitted parts, and the fixing plate may insert the insertion peripheral wall from above. It is preferable to include the fitting outer wall portion arranged adjacent to the groove portion.

  Further, in the discharge container of the present invention, the nozzle has a base detachably attached to the plurality of stems, and a discharge protruding from the base radially outward of the mouth and having a discharge port of the content at a tip. And a cover portion, wherein the cover surrounds the base portion of the nozzle in a circumferential direction of the mouth portion and preferably has a housing recess for projecting the discharge port outward.

  According to the present invention, a fitting outer wall portion provided on one of the fixed board and the cover and exposed to the outside is vertically fitted into a fitted portion formed on the other of the fixed board and the cover and formed of a pair of opposed surfaces. The user can visually recognize that the cover can be removed upward because the user can see that the cover is being removed.

  Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a discharge container capable of easily visually recognizing the direction in which the cover is removed, thereby preventing the container main body from being damaged.

It is a top view of a discharge container concerning one embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a partial cross-sectional front view of the discharge container of FIG. 1. FIG. 2 is a partial cross-sectional right side view of the discharge container of FIG. 1. It is a right view of the discharge container of FIG. It is a top view of the modification of the discharge container of FIG. FIG. 6 is a partial cross-sectional front view of the discharge container of FIG. 5. It is a top view of other modification of the discharge container of FIG. FIG. 8 is a partial cross-sectional front view of the discharge container of FIG. 7. It is a right view of the discharge container of FIG. FIG. 8 is a partial cross-sectional front view showing a state where a cover of the discharge container in FIG. 7 is removed.

  Hereinafter, the discharge container 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4.

  In this specification, the up-down direction means a direction along the central axis O of the cylindrical mouth portion 11 of the container body 10, and the upper side is the side where the stem 13 is located as viewed from the container body 10 (FIG. 3). Above) and below is the other side. The front-back direction refers to a direction along the central axis of the discharge cylinder 23 of the nozzle 20, and the front is the side (left side in FIG. 3) where the discharge port 22 is located when viewed from the nozzle 20, and the rear is Is the other side. Furthermore, the left-right direction means the left-right direction when viewed from the front to the rear.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 to 4, the discharge container 1 according to the present embodiment includes a container body 10, a nozzle 20, a fixed platen 30, a cover 40, and a push-down lever 50.

  The container body 10 has a cylindrical opening 11 having a top, a cylindrical body 12 connected to the opening 11 and having a diameter larger than that of the opening 11, and a bottom section (not shown) for closing a lower end of the body 12. ).

  The container body 10 contains two inner bags that contain different types of contents. Two stems 13 erected at the mouth 11 are assigned to these inner bags one by one. In the present embodiment, the container body 10 contains a propellant such as a compressed gas that generates pressure for discharging the contents to the outside, and opens the valve by pushing down the stem 13 to open the contents from the tip of the stem 13. It is configured as an aerosol container that allows water to flow out.

  The container main body 10 is not limited to an aerosol container, and may be configured as a pump container including a pump mechanism that can suck up contents and flow out from the tip of the stem 13 by repeatedly pressing and returning the stem 13. Good. Further, the contents contained in the two inner bags do not necessarily have to be different types from each other, and the same contents may be contained. In that case, two stems 13 may be assigned to one inner bag.

  The nozzles 20 are attached to the two stems 13. The nozzle 20 has a base 21 detachably attached to the two stems 13, and a discharge cylinder 23 projecting radially outward (forward) from the base 21 from the base 21 and having a discharge port 22 for contents at the tip. And The nozzle 20 can discharge the contents flowing from the two stems 13 from the discharge ports 22 through the inside of the base 21 and the discharge cylinder 23 by pressing down the two stems 13.

  A fixed plate 30 made of, for example, a synthetic resin is fixed to the mouth portion 11. The fixed platen 30 has a cylindrical shape that covers the annular annular convex portion 11a provided around the mouth portion 11 from the outer peripheral side, and is fitted to the annular convex portion 11a via an undercut shape. It has. That is, the fixed platen 30 is fixed to the mouth 11 by the fitting fixed part 31. In the present embodiment, the annular convex portion 11a is formed by, for example, fixing an outer edge of a metal mounting cup to a bottomed cylindrical outer container made of metal or synthetic resin by winding or the like. ing.

  An annular flange portion 32 extending radially outward is connected to a lower end edge of the cylindrical fitting and fixing portion 31. Engagement pieces 33 that can lock the cover 40 are provided upright on left and right portions of the flange portion 32. The engagement piece 33 includes a support wall 33a that has an arc shape in plan view and protrudes upward from the flange 32, and a locking protrusion 33b that protrudes from an outer surface of the support wall 33a.

  In addition, fitting outer wall portions 35 are formed on front and rear portions of the flange portion 32 so as to define a groove portion 34 having an arc shape in plan view between the fitting fixing portion 31 and the fitting fixing portion 31. The outer surfaces of the two fitting outer wall portions 35 are exposed to the outside when the cover 40 is attached. The two fitting outer wall portions 35 have shapes that are symmetrical with each other around the central axis O of the mouth portion 11.

  For example, a cover 40 made of synthetic resin is attached to the fixed platen 30 from above so as to be detachable upward, and has a cylindrical tubular wall portion 41 surrounding the mouth portion 11, and a nozzle 20 connected to above the tubular wall portion 41. And a surrounding wall 42 surrounding the mouth 11 in the circumferential direction.

  The left and right portions of the cover 40 (the cylindrical wall portion 41 and the surrounding wall portion 42) form large-diameter portions each having an inside diameter dimension that can be fitted to the outer surface of the support wall portion 33a of the engagement piece 33 of the fixed plate 30. I have. In addition, a locking lever 44 is provided on each of the left and right large diameter portions.

  The locking lever 44 includes a locking arm 44a defined by a U-shaped slit 43a, and an operation arm 44b defined above the inverted arm 43b by an inverted U-shaped slit 43b. The locking arm portion 44a is provided with a locking portion 44a1 that engages with the locking projection 33b of the engaging piece 33 of the fixed board 30. The locking lever 44 presses the operation arm portion 44b inward to swing the locking arm portion 44a outward, thereby releasing the engagement with the engagement piece 33 of the fixed platen 30. .

  The front and rear side portions of the cylindrical wall portion 41 of the cover 40 are each formed of a pair of opposing surfaces arranged at intervals in the circumferential direction of the mouth portion 11. A fitting portion 45 into which the fitting 35 is fitted is provided. Specifically, the fitted portion 45 composed of a pair of opposed surfaces is formed by a bent portion in which a large diameter portion of the cylindrical wall portion 41 is bent radially inward from a circumferential direction of the mouth portion 11.

  Here, the term “fitting” includes a case where the fitting outer wall portion 35 is inserted into the fitted portion 45 with a small gap as shown in FIG. 1 and a case where the fitting outer wall portion 35 is press-fitted on the contrary. In.

  The two fitted portions 45 provided on the front and rear sides of the cylindrical wall portion 41 have shapes that are symmetrical about the central axis O of the mouth portion 11.

  A portion of the cylindrical wall portion 41 that connects the pair of opposed surfaces, which is the fitted portion 45, is inserted into the groove 34 adjacent to the inside of the fitting outer wall portion 35 of the fixed board 30 from above. Is composed.

  The surrounding wall portion 42 of the cover 40 defines a housing recess 42 a that surrounds the base portion 21 of the nozzle 20 in the circumferential direction of the mouth portion 11 and protrudes the discharge port 22 outward.

  A push-down lever 50 made of, for example, a synthetic resin is attached to the accommodation recess 42 a above the nozzle 20. The push-down lever 50 includes a lever support portion 51 fixed by being fitted to the surrounding wall portion 42 through an undercut shape, and a push-down operation portion having a front end connected to the lever support portion 51 via a hinge 52. 53. The push-down operation section 53 has an abutment projection 53a on its lower surface, and presses down the push-down operation section 53 to push the upper surface of the base 21 of the nozzle 20 downward through the abutment projection 53a. , So that the stem 13 can be pushed down to discharge the contents.

  In the discharge container 1 configured as described above, the cover 40 can be removed in the following manner for cleaning the nozzle 20 and the cover 40. First, the operation arm 44 b of the locking lever 44 is pressed inward to release the engagement with the engagement piece 33 of the fixed platen 30. Then, in this state, the cover 40 is pulled out from the fixed board 30 and removed.

  Here, at the time of removal, it can be seen that the fitting outer wall portion 35 of the fixed platen 30 is fitted into the fitted portion 45 in the up-down direction, so that the user can confirm that the cover 40 can be removed upward. It can be easily recognized visually. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the user from erroneously twisting the cover 40 in the circumferential direction of the mouth portion 11 to remove the cover 40 and causing damage to the container body 10 at a site such as the stem 13.

  Further, when removing the cover 40, in the present embodiment, the nozzle 20 can be removed together with the cover 40 while being held in the housing recess 42 a of the surrounding wall portion 42 of the cover 40. Further, the cover 40 and the nozzle 20 held by the cover 40 are attached to the fixed platen 30 and the two stems 13 at any of two rotational positions rotated by 180 ° around the central axis O of the mouth 11. be able to.

  As described above, in the discharge container 1 of the present embodiment, the fitting outer wall portion 35 provided on the fixed platen 30 and exposed to the outside fits into the fitted portion 45 provided on the cover 40 and formed of a pair of opposed surfaces. With this configuration, it is easy to visually recognize the direction in which the cover 40 is removed, so that the occurrence of damage to the container body 10 can be avoided.

  In addition, in the discharge container 1 of the present embodiment, the fixed platen 30 includes two fitting outer wall portions 35 symmetrical around the central axis O of the mouth 11, and the cover 40 extends around the central axis O of the mouth 11. The cover 40 includes two symmetrical fitting portions 45, and the cover 40 can be attached to the fixed plate 30 at any of two rotation positions rotated by 180 ° around the central axis O of the opening 11. Therefore, according to the discharge container 1 of the present embodiment, the removal direction of the cover 40 can be visually recognized from both the front and the back, and furthermore, when attaching the cover 40, the trouble of adjusting the front and rear directions of the cover 40 is omitted, Complicated mounting work can be avoided. Note that, instead of such a symmetrical configuration, an asymmetrical configuration may be adopted, and mounting may be performed in only one direction.

  In addition, in the discharge container 1 of the present embodiment, the cover 40 includes the insertion peripheral wall portion 46 that interconnects the pair of opposed surfaces that are the fitted portions 45, and the fixed platen 30 moves the insertion peripheral wall portion 46 from above. Since the fitting outer wall portion 35 is provided adjacent to the insertable groove portion 34, the cover 40 can be stably held on the fixed platen 30.

  Furthermore, the discharge container 1 of the present embodiment has a configuration in which the cover 40 includes a housing concave portion 42a that surrounds the base 21 of the nozzle 20 in the circumferential direction of the mouth portion 11 and protrudes the discharge port 22 outward. Therefore, if the user accidentally twists the cover 40 in the circumferential direction of the mouth portion 11, the nozzle 20 rotates together with the cover 40, so that the stem 13 is particularly likely to be damaged. Therefore, in the discharge container 1 having such a configuration, it is possible to particularly advantageously receive the effect of providing the fitting outer wall portion 35 and the fitted portion 45 of the present embodiment.

  In the above-described embodiment, two sets of the fitting outer wall portion 35 and the fitted portion 45 are provided. However, the present invention is not limited to such a configuration. Only a set may be provided, or three or more sets may be provided.

  Further, in the above-described embodiment, the groove portion 34 is provided inside the fitting outer wall portion 35. However, the present invention is not necessarily limited to such a configuration. For example, the inside of the fitting outer wall portion 35 is directly provided without providing the groove portion 34. Alternatively, it may be configured to be continuous with the fitting / fixing portion 31. In this case, instead of the insertion peripheral wall portion 46 inserted into the groove portion 34, a notch opened downward to allow the fitting outer wall portion 35 to be inserted from below can be provided in the cylindrical wall portion 41.

  Next, with reference to FIGS. 5 and 6, a discharge container 1 'which is a modified example of the above-described embodiment will be described in detail with reference to FIGS.

  As shown in FIG. 5 and FIG. 6, the discharge container 1 ′ of the present modified example is described above with reference to FIG. 1 to FIG. The configuration is the same as that of the embodiment described above.

  That is, in the present modification, the left and right portions of the cover 40 ′ and the fixed plate 30 ′ are formed in an arc shape having a larger radius of curvature in plan view, so that the left and right portions protrude outward in plan view. It is configured.

  Therefore, according to this modification, it is possible to make it easier for the user to visually recognize that the cover 40 'should be removed upward when the cover 40' is removed.

  Next, a discharge container 1 "which is another modified example of the above-described embodiment will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4 with reference to FIGS.

  As shown in FIGS. 7 to 9, the discharge container 1 ″ of the present modification has the same configuration as the embodiment described above with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4 except that the configuration of the locking lever 44 ″ is different. It has become.

  That is, in this modification, the locking lever 44 "includes a locking arm portion 44a" defined by two downwardly-opening slits 43 "formed in the cylindrical wall portion 41" of the cover 40 ". The locking arm portion 44a "is provided with a locking portion 44a1" that engages with the locking projection 33b of the fixed platen 30. In addition, a lower end of the locking arm portion 44a "is provided downward. An operation portion 44c "extending obliquely outward is provided. Two locking levers 44" are provided corresponding to the two locking projections 33b provided on the fixed platen 30.

  Therefore, when removing the cover 40 ″, the cover 40 ″ can be removed by pushing the two locking levers 44 ″ with the fingers of both hands and pushing them upward as shown in FIG.

  Therefore, according to the present modification, it is possible to further reduce the possibility that the user accidentally twists the cover 40 ″ in the circumferential direction of the mouth portion 11 when removing the cover 40 ″.

  What has been described above merely shows one embodiment of the present invention, and it goes without saying that various changes may be made within the scope of the claims.

  For example, in the above-described embodiment, two stems are provided, but three or more stems may be provided.

  Further, although the push-down lever has been configured such that it is formed separately from the cover, it may be formed integrally with the cover. Alternatively, the pressing lever may be omitted, and the nozzle may be directly pressed down by a finger.

  Further, although the nozzle is configured separately from the cover, the nozzle may be integrated with the cover via a hinge, for example. In this case, the nozzle may be formed integrally with the cover. Although the nozzle is configured to be removed together with the cover when the cover is removed, the nozzle may be removed before the cover. Further, the nozzle may be configured to discharge the contents upward rather than forward.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Discharge container 10 Container main body 11 Mouth part 11a Annular convex part 12 Body part 13 Stem 20 Nozzle 21 Base 22 Discharge port 23 Discharge cylinder part 30 Fixing plate 31 Fitting fixing part 32 Flange part 33 Engagement piece 33a Support wall part 33b Stop projection 34 Groove portion 35 Fitting outer wall portion 40 Cover 41 Tube wall portion 42 Surrounding wall portion 42a Housing recess 43a Slit 43b Slit 44 Locking lever 44a Locking arm portion 44a1 Locking portion 44b Operating arm portion 45 Fitted portion 46 Insertion Peripheral wall part 50 Push-down lever 51 Lever support part 52 Hinge 53 Push-down operation part 53a Contact projection 1 'Discharge container 30' Fixing plate 40 'Cover 1 "Discharge container 40" Cover 41 "Cylindrical wall part 43" Slit 44 " Stop lever 44a "Lock arm 44a1" Lock 44c "Operation part O Center axis

Claims (4)

A container body in which a plurality of stems are erected at a cylindrical mouth,
A nozzle attached to the plurality of stems and capable of discharging the contents flowing from the stem by pressing down the stem;
A fixed platen fixed to the mouth,
A cover that is detachably attached to the fixed board from above and that surrounds the nozzle in a circumferential direction of the mouth,
One of the fixed platen and the cover includes a fitting outer wall portion whose outer surface is exposed to the outside when the cover is attached,
The other of the fixed platen and the cover is formed of a pair of opposing surfaces extending along the vertical direction and arranged at intervals in the circumferential direction of the mouth, and the fitting outer wall portion is fitted when the cover is attached. dispensing container characterized in that it comprises a fitted portion Re that. One of the fixed platen and the cover includes two of the fitting outer wall portions symmetric around a central axis of the mouth portion,
The other of the fixed platen and the cover includes two fitted parts symmetric around a central axis of the mouth part,
2. The discharge container according to claim 1, wherein the cover is configured to be attachable to the fixed plate at any of two rotational positions rotated by 180 ° around a central axis of the mouth. 3. The cover includes an insertion peripheral wall that interconnects the pair of opposed surfaces that are the fitted parts,
The discharge container according to claim 1, wherein the fixing plate includes the fitting outer wall portion arranged adjacent to a groove portion into which the insertion peripheral wall portion can be inserted from above. The nozzle includes a base that is detachably attached to the plurality of stems, and a discharge cylinder that projects radially outward from the base from the base and has a discharge port for the content at the tip,
The discharge container according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the cover includes a housing recess that surrounds the base of the nozzle in a circumferential direction of the mouth and projects the discharge port outward.

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