JPH10203571A - Dispenser for sheet gum - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a dispenser for sheet gum, which can be easily manufactured at low cost. SOLUTION: This dispenser comprises a container main body which is formed by folding one sheet of a paper piece 44 comprising a proper paper board. The container main body has two chambers laterally arranged, which are partitioned by an intermediate wall 4, and in each chamber, four pieces of sheet gum under a superposed state, are housed. The container main body has an outlet at the upper end of an end wall corresponding with each chamber, and doors 18, 24 to cover the outlets are provided. Also, for the container main body, windows 28, 30 are formed in a manner to correspond with respective chambers, and on a lower wall, push-up pieces 34, 36 are formed for respective chambers. While holding the dispenser by one hand, the push-up piece 34 or 36 is lifted by an index finger, and under this state, an uppermost sheet gum is fed forward by a thumb from the corresponding windows 28, 30, and thus, the sheet gum inside is pushed out from the outlet. For example, due to the existence of the doors 18, 24, the sheet gum is prevented from a unexpectedly coming outside in a pocket.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a dispenser which is convenient for taking out plate-shaped chewing gum (hereinafter referred to as "plate gum") one by one, and more particularly, it can be manufactured easily and inexpensively. The present invention also relates to a sheet gum dispenser that can be used as an exterior material.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, board gum is sold in a state in which a plurality of board gums individually wrapped in paper are wrapped with a film as an exterior material. Separately, a dispenser for board gum is known, and consumers remove the outer packaging material, store it in a dispenser, carry it in a pocket or the like, carry it, and eat it. Take them out of the dispenser one by one when you want.

[0003] Conventional plate gum dispensers are generally made from a plurality of components. For example, in a dispenser disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 7-41062, roughly, a container body for accommodating a plurality of plate gums in a vertically stacked state and an upper wall of the container body are provided. It is composed of an arranged knob and an elastic member that urges the plate gum, which is the contents arranged in the container body, toward the upper wall side, and the user holds the dispenser in one hand and thumbs up. When you push the knob forward with your belly, only one piece of board gum will come out.

[0004]

In this type of dispenser, a plate gum does not come out inadvertently in a pocket or the like, and it can be taken out one by one when it is desired to eat it. It is convenient when carrying plate gum because it can be made, but the drawback that the production cost is relatively high because it contains multiple parts as components and is made of relatively solid material There is. Conventional dispensers, in addition to these disadvantages,
The smallest unit of sales of sheet gum, ie 8 wrapped in exterior material
Because the sheet gum is accommodated in a state where it is stacked in a vertical line, its height dimension is almost equal to the width dimension,
For this reason, when the dispenser is put in a pocket or a handbag, the pocket or the like is inflated.

Accordingly, a main object of the present invention is to provide a sheet gum dispenser which can be manufactured simply and at low cost. It is a further object of the present invention to provide a dispenser that can be used as an exterior material for plate gum. It is a further object of the present invention to provide a relatively thin dispenser having the capacity to accommodate the required number of plate gums.

[0006]

According to the present invention, there is provided, according to the present invention, a plurality of chambers which are partitioned by an intermediate wall and located side by side, and a plurality of plate-shaped chewing gums are provided for each chamber. A container body having a relatively flat rectangular parallelepiped shape, which is housed in a vertically superimposed state, and formed at the upper end of a portion of the end wall of the container body corresponding to each chamber, and the chewing gum in each chamber is formed. Outlets that can be sent out one by one, doors that cover each of these outlets, and formed on the upper wall of the container main body and arranged near the corresponding outlet for each chamber to allow the thumb to send out. Windows that can be
A push-up piece formed on the lower wall of the container body and having a free end on an outlet side corresponding to each chamber, with an index finger,
This can be achieved by providing a dispenser having a push-up piece that can push up said free end to displace chewing gum in the corresponding chamber upward. .

If the push-up piece is constructed so as to be able to bend at its middle portion in the longitudinal direction, the free end of the push-up piece comes into surface contact with the chewing gum when the push-up piece is lifted with the index finger. Can be reliably performed. In addition, the dispenser according to the present invention may be made by folding a single piece of paperboard, whereby the dispenser can be used as an exterior material for chewing gum.

[0008]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG.
Preferred embodiments will be described in detail. First Embodiment (FIGS. 1 to 7) FIG. 1 shows a first embodiment of a sheet gum dispenser according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the disk shown in FIG.
Spencer viewed from above (in the direction of arrow II in FIG. 1)
FIG. 3 is a plan view, and FIG. 3 shows the dispenser of FIG.
FIG. 4 is an end view as viewed from the direction of arrow III shown in FIG.
Lowering the dispenser of FIG. 1 (in the direction of arrow IV shown in FIG. 1)
It is the bottom view seen from.

The sheet gum dispenser 1 comprises a container body 2 having a flat rectangular parallelepiped shape formed of six flat walls as a whole, and the container body 2 has a first chamber 6 partitioned by an intermediate wall 4. And a second chamber 8. 1st, 2nd
Each of the chambers 6 and 8 is made to have a size that is suitable for accommodating a plurality of plate gums (four in each embodiment in this embodiment) in a vertically stacked state. The container body 2 has the same configuration as that of the first portion 10 of the first chamber 6, except that the direction of the second portion 12 of the second chamber 8 is opposite.
The first portion 10 and the second portion 12 have substantially the same configuration. On the premise of the above, the plate gum dispenser 1 will be described in detail.

On one end wall 14 of the container body 2, a first chamber outlet 16 extending in the lateral direction is formed at the upper end of a portion corresponding to the first chamber 6 (see FIG. 5). The lower edge is provided with a first chamber door 18 that extends upward so as to close a part or most of the outlet 16 (see FIGS. 1 and 3). Similarly, the other end wall 22 of the container body 2
In FIG. 6, a second chamber outlet (not shown in FIG. 1) is formed at the upper end of a portion corresponding to the second chamber 8, and is formed below the second chamber outlet. A second room door 24 is provided on the side edge (see FIG. 6). The presence of the first and second doors 18 and 24 prevents the plate gum in the dispenser 1 from accidentally jumping out through the respective outlets when not in use, for example, in a pocket. it can.

The first chamber outlet 16 has an effective opening area substantially equal to the cross-sectional area of one sheet gum, and as can be understood from FIGS. Used to send out G-1s one by one. The same is true for the outlet for the second room, and the outlet for the second room is
Is used to send out the sheet gum G-2 in the inside one by one.

A window 28 for the first chamber is formed in the upper wall 26 of the container body 2 near the outlet 16 for the first chamber.
A window 30 for the second room is formed near the room outlet.
The two windows 28, 30 are connected to the first and second chambers 6, 30 through the windows 28 or 30, as will be understood from the following description.
8 has a shape that is convenient for sending the uppermost sheet gum forward with the belly of the thumb, for example, a vertically long elliptical shape.

As can be seen from FIGS. 2 and 4, the lower wall 32 of the container body 2 is provided at the portions corresponding to the first and second windows 28 and 30 with the first chamber push-up piece 34 and the second A chamber push-up piece 36, each of which is formed by a longitudinally arcuate cut 28 in the lower wall 32, which is cut away leaving a portion opposite the corresponding outlet. The one push-up piece 34 is connected to the corresponding first chamber outlet 16.
And a second push-up piece 36 having a free end 34a
Has a free end 36a proximate the corresponding second chamber outlet.

Referring now to FIG. 5, the above-mentioned dispenser 1 will be described by taking as an example a case where the plate gum G-1 of the first chamber 6 is taken out.
How to use is explained. First, the dispenser 1 containing the plate gum is held in a hand with the first chamber outlet 16 facing forward, and the first chamber push-up piece 34 is pushed up with the index finger F, while the first The fingertip of the thumb T is inserted into the room window 28, and a force is applied to push the uppermost sheet gum G-1 forward with the belly of the thumb T. As a result of this series of operations, the plate gum present in the first chamber 6 is entirely lifted upward by the first push-up piece 34, and tends to go out with the pushing operation of the thumb T. First, the uppermost sheet gum G-1 pushes the first chamber door 18 open at its tip, and is then sent forward through the outlet 16. Similarly, when taking out the plate gum in the second chamber 8, hold the second chamber 8 in the hand with the outlet for the second chamber facing forward.
By using the room window 30 and the push-up piece 36, the plate gum G-2 can be taken out from the second room outlet.

In such a dispenser 1, a bent line 38 is preferably provided at a longitudinally intermediate portion of the push-up pieces 34, 36. According to this, when the free end portions 34a, 36a of the push-up pieces 34, 36 are lifted by the forefinger F, the push-up pieces 34, 36 bend at the middle folding line 38, and the free end portions 34a, 36a are separated in each chamber. It functions in surface contact with the lowermost sheet gum G to lift the sheet gum G present in each chamber upward as a whole. In order to give regularity to the rising of the push-up pieces 34, 36 by the index finger F, a broken line 40 may be provided at the base end portion of the push-up pieces 34, 36 (see FIG. 4). It is not necessary to attach both of them very strongly, and it is preferable to form a living hinge that exhibits an appropriate return force.

The dispenser 1 may be made of a material having an appropriate thickness or waist, for example, a synthetic resin having an appropriate thickness, or may be made of a paperboard having an appropriate waist. When the dispenser 1 is made of paperboard, the base paper may be cut to form a piece of paper 44 having the contour shown in FIG. The imaginary line shown in FIG. Such a piece of paper 44
If you prepare, you can fold along the folding line and
The dispenser 1 can be made from a single piece of paper 44 by joining 6. Note that the broken lines of the doors 18 and 24 do not need to be very strong, and a broken line enough for the doors 18 and 24 to exert an appropriate return force is sufficient.

FIG. 8 shows a modification of the push-up pieces 34 and 36 described above. The first and second push-up pieces 50 and 52 shown in FIG. 8 are both longer than the push-up pieces 34 and 36 described in the dispenser 1 of FIGS. No broken line at the end. When the push-up pieces 50 and 52 are adopted, the first step is to make it possible to lift the plate gum of each chamber upward in the longitudinal direction as much as possible on average, when the pieces are lifted up. It is convenient to put an underlay (not shown) in the second chambers 6 and 8.

The dispenser 1 shown in FIGS. 1 to 7 has a configuration in which the direction of the first part 10 and the direction of the second part 12 are reversed. As shown in the dispenser 60 of the second embodiment shown, the first portion 10 and the second portion 12 may be oriented in the same direction. 9 to 12, the same elements as those of the above-described dispenser 1 are denoted by the same reference numerals, and a description thereof will be omitted. Dispenser 6 of the second embodiment
Even if it is 0, it may be made of a material having an appropriate thickness or stiffness, for example, a synthetic resin of an appropriate thickness. However, if it is made of paperboard having an appropriate stiffness, the base paper is cut and shown in FIG. What is necessary is just to make the paper piece 62 which has an outline.

As described above, the dispenser 1 of the embodiment of the present invention
According to 60, by making it from paperboard, these dispensers can be used as a replacement for the packaging of the board gum. According to this, the purchased gum can be used as a dispenser without transferring it to a dispenser. Also, one piece of paper 44, 6
Dispensers 1 and 6 as exterior materials by folding 2
0 can be made, so that it can be employed in automated board gum production and packaging lines to automate board gum loading, including the assembly of dispensers 1,60.

Further, since the dispensers 1 and 60 are arranged in two rows to accommodate the plate gum, the dispensers 1 and 60 can be made of a flatter container than before, so that they can be put in pockets and handbags. Even if it does, pockets etc. do not expand due to the presence of the dispenser. Although the embodiment of the present invention has been described above, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the doors 18 and 24 provided at the exit may be used.
May be arranged to extend downward from the upper edge of the outlet. In the case of a relatively narrow plate gum, the plate gum in the dispenser may be accommodated in three rows side by side, and an outlet, a door, etc. may be provided for each row.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a sheet gum dispenser according to a first embodiment as viewed obliquely from above.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of the dispenser of FIG. 1 as viewed from above as indicated by an arrow II.

FIG. 3 is an end view of the dispenser of FIG. 1 as viewed from the left side as indicated by an arrow III.

FIG. 4 is a bottom view of the dispenser of FIG. 1 as viewed from below as indicated by an arrow IV.

FIG. 5 is a partially cutaway side view showing a use state of the dispenser of the first embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a side view showing a state in which plate gum is being fed from outlets of the respective chambers of the dispenser according to the first embodiment for explanation.

FIG. 7 is a developed view when the dispenser of the first embodiment is made of paperboard.

FIG. 8 is a bottom view corresponding to FIG. 4 for illustrating a modification of the push-up piece.

FIG. 9 is a perspective view of the dispenser according to the second embodiment as viewed obliquely from above.

10 is a plan view of the dispenser of FIG. 9 as viewed from above as indicated by an arrow X10.

FIG. 11 is a bottom view of the dispenser of FIG. 9 as viewed from below as indicated by an arrow X11.

FIG. 12 is an expanded view of the case where the dispenser of the second embodiment is made of paperboard.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1, 60 Dispenser 2 Container main body 6 1st room 8 2nd room 16 Exit for 1st room 18 Door for 1st room 24 Door for 2nd room 28 Window for 1st room 30 2nd room Window 34 Push-up piece for first chamber 34a Free end of push-up piece for first chamber 36 Push-up piece for second chamber 36a Free end of push-up piece for second chamber 38 Middle folding line of push-up piece

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A relatively flat rectangular parallelepiped, comprising a plurality of chambers partitioned by an intermediate wall and positioned side by side, and in each chamber, a plurality of plate-shaped chewing gums are accommodated in a vertically stacked state. A container body having a shape, an outlet formed at an upper end of a portion of the end wall of the container body corresponding to each chamber, and capable of sending out chewing gum in each chamber one by one; and A door to cover, a window formed on the upper wall of the container body, arranged near an exit corresponding to each chamber, and capable of allowing a thumb to be sent out; and a window formed on the lower wall of the container body, A push-up piece having a free end on the exit side corresponding to each room, with an index finger,
A push-up piece capable of pushing up said free end to displace chewing gum in a corresponding chamber upward. 2. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the push-up piece is bendable at a longitudinally intermediate portion thereof. 3. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the dispenser is made by folding a piece of paperboard.