JPH064805Y2 - Compact container - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION "Industrial field of application" The present invention relates to a compact container for cosmetics.

"Prior Art" In a conventional compact container, a synthetic resin container body having a recess for storing articles and a synthetic resin lid are pivotally attached to each of the rear edges so that the lid can be opened and closed. In general, the engaging piece hanging from the edge is elastically engaged with an engaging element attached to the front surface of the container body.

“Problems to be solved by the device” Recently, due to the trend of lightness, thinness, shortness and miniaturization, there has been a strong demand for ultra-thinness such as making the above compact container like a card.

However, in order to reduce the thickness of the conventional structure as it is, it is necessary to secure a required thickness (height) for hanging a finger at the time of opening the lid at each front edge of the container body and the lid. There was a limit in that it did not happen.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a compact container that can be effectively thinned while ensuring the ease of lid opening operation.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the container of the present invention is configured such that the rear edge portion of the lid body 2 is openably and closably coupled to the rear edge portion of the container body 1 via the thin hinge portion 3. A compact container in which the engaging piece 4 hung from the front edge of the lid is elastically engaged with an engaging element 5 attached to the front surface of the container body. The opposite ends of each of the, the front end of the long groove 9A, 9B extending in the front-rear direction, while opening between the notches 12, 12 formed in the front edge portion of the container body and the lid,
Cosmetic application tips 14A, 14B in the space 13 defined between the two long grooves, the base end portion of the tip handle portion 14a, 14b is projected into the notch 12, 12, and stored. Further, the wedge-shaped portions 17 are formed on the upper and lower surfaces of the chip handle portion located in the space portion, and the protrusion-shaped portions 18 are formed on the inner surfaces of both the long grooves, and the wedge-shaped portion is formed by pushing the chip backward or forward in the space portion. By pushing up the protruding portion, the engaging piece 4 and
It is characterized in that the elastic engagement with the engaging element 5 is detachably attached, and the bottom wall of the container body and the top wall of the lid are made of metal plates.

"Operation" For example, from the state of FIGS. 1 and 4A, the tip handle portion 14a,
When the tips 14A and 14B are pushed rearwardly into the space 13 by pressing the base end portion of 14b, the wedge-shaped portion 17 rises up the protruding portion 18 as shown in FIG. Since the lid body 2 is forcibly biased in the opening direction by the action, the engaging piece 4
The elastic engagement between the engaging element 5 and the engaging element 5 is easily disengaged. Needless to say, the tip can be pulled out forward to obtain a wedge action.

[Embodiment] An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 and 5, the container body 1
The lid 2 and the lid 2 are integrally connected to each other at their rear edges via a thin hinge portion 3 so as to be openable and closable, and an engaging piece 4 hanging from the front edge of the lid 2 is attached to the front surface of the container body. The engaging element 5 is elastically engaged.

In the illustrated example, as can be seen in FIG. 6, the container body 1 and the lid body 2 are formed by attaching metal plates 7A and 7B to the outer surfaces of the synthetic resin frame plates 6A and 6B, and the container body 1 has two plates. The cosmetic storing recesses 8 and 8 and one long groove 9A of the front end face opening are formed, and one long groove 9B of the front end face opening is formed on the lid 2 side so as to face the above long groove 9A. The cosmetic storage recesses 8 and 8 are formed by circumferentially projecting ridges 11 and 11 around the two openings of the frame plate 6A, and these ridges 11 and 11 are the frame plate of the lid body 2. It is detachably fitted into 6B. Both long grooves 9A, 9
The front end of B is opened between the notches 12 formed in the front edge portions of the container body 1 and the lid body 2.

Then, the cosmetic application tip 14A is housed in the space 13 defined between the long grooves 9A, 9B by projecting the base end portion of the tip handle 14a into the notch 12, 12. There is. In the illustrated example, as shown in FIG. 6, on the side of the chip 14A,
Another chip 14B is integrally connected at the base end of the chip handle 14b. A bending portion 16 is provided on the handle portion on the base end side of the chip 14B, and the tip side of the chip 14B is bent via the bending portion 16 to the other chip 14A by approximately 90 ° laterally when necessary. It has become.

Further, the chip handle portions 14a, 14b located in the space portion 13
The wedge-shaped portions 17 ..., the projections 18 on the inner surfaces of the long grooves 9A, 9B, and the wedge-shaped portions 17 ... By ascending 18 ..., the engaging piece 4 and the engaging element 5
The elastic engagement with and is detachably attached.
In the illustrated example, the wedge-shaped portions 17 ... Are chip handle portions 14a, 14b.
The upper and lower surfaces are attached as a pair, and the cross section thereof is formed in a trapezoidal shape so as to be both-handed. On the other hand, the projecting portions 18 are located in front of and behind the wedge portions 17 and are provided as a pair in the vertical direction.

Therefore, in this embodiment, the lid 2 is configured to be opened by the wedge action of the cosmetic application tip and the container main body and the front portion of the lid are not required to have a finger hook portion at the time of opening. Since the metal plates are used for the bottom wall of the container body and the top wall of the lid, the compact container can be made thinner while maintaining sufficient strength of both walls.

[Advantage of Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, the lid body is configured to be opened by the wedge action of the cosmetic application tip, and the container body and the front part of the lid body are hooked with fingers when the lid is opened. Since the portion is not required, it is possible to sufficiently reduce the thickness of the compact container while ensuring the ease of opening the lid. Further, in addition to not using the finger hook portion, since the bottom wall portion of the container body and the top wall portion of the lid body are made of a metal plate, the thickness of the metal plate can give sufficient strength. As a result, even if a good lid opening mechanism is provided by providing wedge-shaped portions on the top and bottom surfaces of the cap handle and projection-shaped portions on the inner surfaces of both long grooves, the entire container can be made extremely thin. is there.

[Brief description of drawings]

1 is a plan view showing an embodiment of the container of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a vertical sectional view taken along the line II-II of FIG. 1, FIG. 3 is a vertical sectional view taken along the line III-III of FIG. 1, and FIG. , B are cross-sectional perspective views of essential parts showing the operating state when the lid is opened, FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the lid closed state, and FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing the usage state of the container. 1 ... Container body 2 ... Lid 14A, 14B ... Tips for applying cosmetics

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A rear edge portion of a lid body 2 is openably and closably coupled to a rear edge portion of a container body 1 via a thin hinge portion 3.
A compact container in which an engaging piece (4) hanging down from the front edge of the lid is elastically engaged with an engaging element (5) attached to the front surface of the container body, the facing surface of the upper surface of the container body and the lower surface of the lid body. The front ends of the long grooves 9A, 9B extending in the front-rear direction, which are bored in each other, are provided with notches 12, 1 formed in the front edge portions of the container body and the lid.
2 and the cosmetic coating tips 14A and 14B into the space 13 defined between the two long grooves, and the base ends of the tip handle portions 14a and 14b in the notches 12 and 12. To be housed by projecting to, and wedge-shaped parts 17 on the upper and lower surfaces of the chip handle part located in the space part, and projecting parts on the inner surfaces of both the long grooves.
18, the wedge-shaped portion pushes up the projection-shaped portion by pushing the tip backward or pulling it forward into the space portion, so that the elastic engagement between the engagement piece 4 and the engagement element 5 can be released. A compact container characterized in that each is attached and a bottom wall portion of the container body and a top wall portion of the lid body are made of metal plates.