KR20170000498U - Saver bottle - Google Patents

Abstract

The storage bottle stores liquid soap, shampoo, car exterior or similar fluid and improves the design of conventional bottles to dispense small amounts. The design of a conventional bottle used for such a fluid can not discharge all the liquid contents with normal use and can be left to some extent as a residue at the bottom of the bottle, which is wasteful and inefficient. The saving bottle is adapted to reduce the waste of liquid contents and may include a sump, an inclined inner lower surface, a pumping device accessible from the outside of the bottle, and a suction straw. The suction straw can be terminated with a suction bell which widens downward and can be extended to the sump. The tilted inner lower surface can be sized to maximize the internal volume of the bottle, allowing any liquid contained in the bottle to fall freely from the floor to the sump.

Description

SAVER BOTTLE

The saving bottle relates to a saving bottle for storing liquid soap, shampoo, car exterior or similar fluid and dispensing small quantities.

Many liquid consumer products such as many types of liquid soaps, shampoos, sunscreens, hand sanitizers, hand lotions, etc., are pre-packaged in bottles using dispensing pumps. The pump allows a user to dispense a small, generally uniform volume of liquid without pouring out of the bottle, and is generally easy to access the contents of the bottle and reduces cross-contamination of the contents by other users.

However, many dispense pump configurations are lacking in that they do not allow the entire liquid content of the bottle to be dispensed. Many of these pumps are pulled from a suction straw which stops at a certain level on the inner surface of the mounted bottle and stops drawing the liquid when the lower end of the suction straw appears. As a result, this pump configuration often leaves unused residue of liquid between the location where the suction straw ends and the inner surface of the bottle. The amount of liquid that is wasted in this way is quite high when viewed as a percentage of the contents in the bottle.

There is a need for an improved bottle design that, when combined with proper pump design, reduces the amount of liquid left as unused residue and further uses the liquid in the bottle. Current designs are less efficient, more complex, and more expensive than the amount of liquid that can be removed.

The saving bottle is intended to store a liquid soap, a shampoo, a car exterior or similar fluid, and to provide a saving bottle for dispensing a small amount of liquid.

According to embodiments of the present invention, new and improved bottles are disclosed to achieve primarily the object of storing and dispensing small volumes of fluid. The bottle includes a sump, an inner lower surface, a pumping device accessible from the outside of the bottle, and a suction straw. The suction straw may terminate in a suction bell which widens downward and may extend to the sump. The inner lower surface can be sized and tilted to maximize the inner volume of the bottle, and any liquid the bottle receives can be freely discharged from the bottom of the bottle to the sump.

The economy bottle can be adapted to reduce the waste of liquid contents.

Fig. 1 is a sectional view of an embodiment of an elliptical cylindrical storage bottle.
Fig. 2 is a bottom view of the saving bottle of Fig. 1. Fig.
3 is a cross-sectional view of an embodiment of a saving bottle having an egg shape.
4 is an enlarged view of a sump element of a bottle for dispenser use;

The aspects of the present invention are disclosed in the accompanying drawings and the associated drawings, using specific embodiments of the invention. Other embodiments may be devised without departing from the scope or spirit of the invention. In addition, the conventional elements of the embodiments of the present invention will not be described in detail or omitted in order not to obscure the relevant description of the present invention. It will also facilitate understanding of the discussion discussion of the various terms used herein.

As used herein, the word " for example " means " serving as an example, instance, or illustration. The described embodiments are illustrative only, not limiting. The described embodiments are not required to be preferred or advantageous for other embodiments. Furthermore, the terms " an embodiment "," an embodiment ", or " an embodiment " do not require that all embodiments of the present invention include the described features, advantages or modes of operation.

1 to 3, a new and improved bottle for the purpose of storing and dispensing a small amount of fluid will be disclosed, as generally indicated with reference to the drawing number 100 (hereinafter " saving bottle "). According to the embodiment shown in Fig. 1, the bottle 130, which is standing alone vertically, may be formed in the shape shown and may include a sidewall 105 of the bottle having at least one layer, ) 110, an inner bottom surface 120, a pumping device accessible from the outside of the bottle 130, and a suction straw 140. The pumping device 130 may be removably mounted to the sidewall 105 of the bottle, or it may be fused with a portion thereof, or may selectively pass air through the dispensing liquid. The suction straw 140 may comprise a semirigid cylindrical and flattened end 145. According to another embodiment, the suction straw may be formed in other shapes (e.g., it may twist within the bottle or may include a hexagonal cross-section), and may be flexible and rigid.

The distal end 145 of the suction straw 140 may instead be cut obliquely, serrated or grooved, or may have a suitably different shape. In addition, the end 145 of the suction straw 140 may be shaped differently from the rest of the suction straw 140. For example, the end 145 can be widened downward (in the form of a " suction bell ") to reduce small losses and improve suction in the pump device, or can be sized to fit easily within the sump 110 have. The end 145 of the suction straw 140 may be located directly on the sump 110, at some other desired location, or in some or all of the other desired locations. According to another embodiment, the suction straw 140 may be split and may have a plurality of ends 145. Further, a plurality of suction straws 140 can be used. This configuration can be used to mix many fluids from a plurality of inner chambers before the coupling is dispensed from the nozzles of the pumping device 130. Referring to FIG. 2, the saving bottle 100 may include a sidewall 105 of an elliptical bottle and a circular sump 110 located in the center. The bottom of the bottle may be smooth and flat as shown in FIG. 2 and the bottom of the bottle may be a " leg " or " feet " , And may include adhesive pads or other anti-skid devices that remain in place when the bottle is set up, or may include other desirable shapes or functions.

Referring to FIG. 3, the saving bottle 100 may instead include a side wall 105 of the bottle, another preferred form. For example, different shapes for the shape of the sidewalls 105 of the bottle may be selected based on ease of having a particular design held or held in the hand, or on the basis of a guarantee efficiency that a particular design shows a particular shape. For example, a shape with a taper, such as a bottleneck, can be easily selected for catching bottles, or a right angle prism bottle design can be selected to package the bottle more easily at the time of shipment. Further, smaller changes in shape can be made to meet these ends. For example, the sidewall 105 of the bottle may form an exterior texture comprising a plurality of raised projections or other raised surface features to improve grip. A portion of one of the sides of the side wall 105 of the bottle can be recessed (to improve packaging efficiency) to facilitate stacking of the saving bottle 100 on the other side. The sidewalls 105 of the bottle may be comprised of a plurality of layers in which one layer or layers are potentially different in composition. For example, the outer layer of the bottle may be composed of glass ceramic or other decorative material, while the inner layer with the lamina 110 and the inner lower surface 120 may be made of clear plastic and the liner of the bottle ) Can play a role. Alternatively, the bottle may be constructed such that the transparent plastic layer can be easily removed and replaced without harming the side wall 105 of the decorated bottle.

Referring again to Figures 1-3, the diameter of the sump 110, the shape and slope of the inner lower surface 120, and a similar functional structure may be determined by the shape of the bottle, the shape of the suction straw 140 or the distal end 145 Or the viscosity of the liquid being dispensed. Certain dimensions may allow the pumping device 130 and the suction straw 140 to have a greater amount of content in the bottle and leave a small residue. Certain dimensions can maximize the internal volume of the bottle as the liquid tilts inward to move to the sump, reduce the cost of producing a certain defined bottle shape, and facilitate production. For example, the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 shows an inner bottom surface 120 tilted to a substantially flat, shallow level that maximizes the internal volume of the bottle, and the embodiment shown in FIG. 105, and a distinctly non-uniform slope that more readily provides for fabrication. ≪ RTI ID = 0.0 > [0040] < / RTI > 1, the diameter of the sump 110 is about 3/8 inches, the depth of the sump 110 is about 1/2 inches, and the pumping device 130 is positioned within the reservoir 100. In this preferred embodiment, The slope of the inner bottom surface is very small and substantially non-uniform so that it can reach up to about 99.9% of the liquid content of the liquid. The efficiency of the saving bottle 100 may be limited to a percentage of the liquid content so that the baling device 130 can approach and efficiently dispense. An embodiment in which the pumping device 130 can approach 99.9% of the liquid content of the economy bottle 100 can be considered as 99.6% efficiency.

4, the sump 110 includes a bottom portion of the sump 110 which is connected to the interface 118 between the sidewalls 114 of the sump side wall 114, the peripheral fill portion 116 and the sidewalls of the sump 114 and the inner bottom surface 120 And may include an internal fillet or chamfer 112 to connect to the chamber. The bottom of the sump 110 may extend completely to the inner surface of the outermost wall of the bottle 105 or may terminate at some distance and be spaced apart from the filler as well. The voids and surrounding fills 116 may be tightly filled with the same material (e.g., plastic or composite) from which the bottle is formed, the hollows may be formed, or other desirable materials may be filled. The sidewalls of the sump 114 can be vertical, tilted, or tilted to a conical point so that the bottom surface of the sump is not fully defined. In addition, the sump 110 may be hemispherical. Similarly, the space between the sidewall and the sloped portion 118 may be rounded, chamfered, or be inclined.

The foregoing description and accompanying drawings illustrate the principles, preferred embodiments and modes of operation of the present invention. However, the present invention is not limited to the specific embodiments described above. Additional variants of the embodiments described above will be understood by those skilled in the art.

Therefore, the above-described embodiments should be regarded as illustrative rather than restrictive. Accordingly, the versatility of these embodiments will be established by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the present invention as defined by the following claims.

Claims (20)

A bottle generally comprising a flat outer base, a sidewall of the bottle consisting of at least one layer and a substantially non-uniformly inclined inner bottom;
A pumping device extending from the top of the bottle; And
A suction straw extending from the pumping device to the bottle and centrally located with respect to the sump of the bottle to define a short distance on the inner surface of the sump,
The bottle further has a sump formed in the approximate center of the inner lower surface of the bottle and substantially surrounded by the tilted portion of the inner lower surface wherein the tilted portion of the inner lower surface Wherein the bottle is inclined inward to deliver the contents of the bottle to the sump, wherein the bottle further has a substantially rounded interface between an inner lower surface of the bottle and a sidewall of the sump.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the sidewall of the bottle is substantially elliptical cylindrical.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the sidewall of the bottle is approximately oval in shape.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the sidewall of the bottle includes a bottle-like taper that reduces the outer diameter of the lower bottle neck and the upper bottle neck on the bottleneck.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the sidewall of the bottle comprises a substantially rectangular prismatic shape.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the suction straw is flared downward.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein a distal end of said suction straw is sized to fit within said sump.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the pumping device allows air to pass through the dispensing liquid.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the bottom surface of the bottle comprises a non-slip surface.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the bottom surface of the bottle comprises a plurality of supports located near an outer perimeter of the planar support base.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the inner bottom surface of the bottle is mixed using a sidewall shape of the bottle.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the space between the inner lower surface of the bottle and the outer base of the bottle is hollow.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the diameter of the sump is at least 1/4 "and the depth of the sump is at least 1/8".

The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the sidewall of the sump is inclined inward.
The method according to claim 1,
And said sump is cylindrical.
The method according to claim 1,
And said sump is hemispherical.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein said pumping device is connected to a plurality of suction straws.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the sidewall of the bottle comprises a plurality of layers in a different material composition.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the sidewall of the bottle has at least one raised surface characteristic.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the inner lower surface of the bottle is substantially concave.

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