US1389923A

US1389923A - Container

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Publication number: US1389923A
Application number: US230204A
Authority: US
Inventors: Zalkind Philip
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1918-04-23
Filing date: 1918-04-23
Publication date: 1921-09-06
Anticipated expiration: 1938-09-06

Description

P. ZALKIND.

CONTAINER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 23, 1918.

1,389,923. Patentfldsept- 6, 1921.

WITNESS l/I y I/V VENTOR PATENT OFFICE.

PHILIP ZALKIND, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CONTAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 6, 1921.

Application filed April 23, 1918. Serial No. 230,204.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP ZALKIND, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Containers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a container or package. The particular form of container or package to which the invention relates is that type of such articles in which commonly various articles of food, such as cereals and spices, for example, as well as certain drugs in powdered form or otherwise. are sold. As heretofore cn'iployed, in containers or packages of this general type, the ends of the package are so closed as to make it necessary to break them or any other wall of the package, in order to gain access to the contents thereof, and when so broken the removal or dispensing of the contents of the container therefrom is likely to be promiscuous and uncertain. Now, the ob ject of this invention is to provide in a coninc trough or chute which. normally main-' tains the package in a closed condition and which. may be turned outwardly to provide an aperture in the package as well as a trough for dispensing its contents, and in the present case, the invention also includes a measuring device or apparatus by which in dispensing the contents of the package a predetermined quantity or measure of the contents may be obtained at each operation. This as will be apparent is important and advantageous in measuring for example sugar, salt, or various forms of cereals, as well as numerousforms of drugs. The form of container comprising the present invention will be hereinafter more particularly described in conjunction with the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a container in which the present invention is embodied showing the flaps turned up.

thereof, while 12 is the flap formed of a continuation of the

wall

11, and 13 and 14 are flaps formed of continuations of the front and rear walls respectively, it being undeir stood that the opposite side wall has the fiap corresponding to the flap 12. It will furthermore be understood that the container may be made of paper cardboard, or any other similar material of which like articles are commonly made.

The crease line between the side 11 and its flap 12 as indicated at 15 and in the side wall 11 I also provide a crease line 16. This side w. ll 11 is also scored along the perforated line 17 and the flap 12 is out along the

lines

18, 19, 20 and 21. the cut 18 preferably being a continuation of the perforated line 17 and the out line 19, a straight line continuation of the out line 18, the out line 20 being at right angles to the out line 1.9 and the out line 21 at right angles to the out line 20 and. terminating in a curved out line at a point in the crease line 15 as clearly indicated in Fig. 1. In creasing, scoring.

and cutting the side member 11 and its flap 12 in this manner, there is formed a flap 22 and a tongue 23 therein, the flap 22 being" bounded by the crease line 16, the perforated line 17 and a portion of the crease line 15, while the tongue 23 is outlined by the

cut lines

19, 20 and 21.

Together with the parts of the containerhereinbefore described. I employ a measdevice. This is conveniently made from a blank of the same or similar material to that of which the container is made, and in the form illustrated in Fig. 5. This measuring blank as indicated at 24 is generally triangular in outline and is provided with

crease lines

25, 26, and 27, so as to divide the blank into

triangular side members

28, 29, 80 and 31. The side member 28 provided with an extension or tongue by means of which and a suitable adhesive material. when the parts are folded, the side 28 may be secured to the side .31. This as will be understood, when the parts are thus connected, forms a conical vessel which may be used as a measuring device. A portion of the side member 29 as indicated in the dotted lines in Fig. 5, is secured to the inner face of the tongue 23 by a suitable adhesive material or otherwise, so as to assume the position indicated i Fig. 1. In this position, as will be understood, the side 28 lies against the side 29 and the side 31 against the side 30 so that the parts may assume the fiat position for packing, shipping, or other similar purposes.

Now, with a container thus formed, and

filled, the end flaps 12 are turned to position and then the front and rear flaps l3 and 14 folded to place and secured to one another, into which condition as will be understood, the package is sealed and ready for sale. In the use of the package the side 11 is broken along the perforated line 17, and the flap 22 turned on the crease line 16. In so doing, as will now be apparent, the measuring device which has been opened by turning the flap 12 to place, may be swung outwardly together with the flap 22 and the tongue 23 which parts, being folded along a portion of the crease line 15 form a trough for pouring from the contents that portion thereof which may be contained in the measure '24:.

Ashereinbefore stated, the invention in the present case is merely herein shown and described in a diametric manner, as various modifications may obviously be made with out departing from the nature and spirit of this invention.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a container, inclosing walls, a trough formed in predeterminedwalls of the container and adapted.- to' be'seoarated in part therefrom and to be swung to provide an opening and form a chute for removing the contents of the container, and a measuring device connected to and operated by the said.

trough which forms a chute for the discharge of the contents of the measuring device.

2. In a container, inclosing walls, a tongue member provided in'predetermined walls of the container normally closing the same and adapted to be separated in'part therefrom along predetermined linesto provide an aperture and form a trough which opens'and closes the said aperture, and a measuring device associated with the said tongue member and adapted to determine the amount of the contents of the container which is removed therefrom along the said trough at each operation thereof.

'In'a container, inclosing walls, a tongue member provided in predetermined walls of the container normally closing the same and adapted to be separated in part therefrom I along predetermined lines to provide an aperture and form atrough which opens and closes the said aperture, a stop-included in a wall of the trough for determining the extent'of the movement: thereof, and a measuring device associated with the said tongue member and adapted to' determine the amount of. the contents of the container which'is removed therefrom along the said. trough at each operatlon thereof;

64.. In acontainer, inclosing walls, a tongue separated in part therefrom along predetermined lines to provide an aperture and form a trough which opens and is adapted to close the said aperture, and a measuring device associated with the said tongue member and adapted to determine the amount of the contents of the container which is removed therefrom along the said trough at each operation therefor, the said measuring device being. adapted to lie parallel with the walls from which the container is formed when in a flat or unassembled condition and to open and automatically assume its position for use when the walls of the container are folded to form the same.

5. In a container, inclosing Walls adapted to be formed from an integral blank and to lie flat when in an unassembled condition, a tongue member provided in predetermined adjacent walls of the container, normally closing the same and adapted to be separated in part therefrom along predetermined lines to provide an aperture and form. a trough which opens and is adapted to close the said aperture, and a measuring device comprising a member made of triangular shaped sides associated with the said tongue and adapted to'lie flat or parallel with the walls of the containerwhen the parts are unassenibled and to automatically open to no ltion for use when the walls of the container are folded to form the same, the said measuring device being adapted to determine the amount of the contents of the container which is removed therefrom along the said trough at each operation thereof.

6. In a container having walls adapted to lie flat and to be folded to position in Setting: up the container for use, means whereby the contents of the container are removable therefrom, and a measuring device associated with the walls of the container and the aforesaid means and adapted to be collapsed when the walls of the container lie fiat against one another and to be opened for use when the walls of the container are set up, to posltion for use. r

7. In a container having walls adapted to 7 adapted to receive and remove. a quantity of 1 the contents of the container each time said means are operated. 1

Signed by me this 17th day of April, 1918..

PHILIP z LK nn.