US2335363A

US2335363A - Combination container and dispenser

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Publication number: US2335363A
Application number: US412335A
Authority: US
Inventors: Ernest F Shelton
Original assignee: A J Mcdaniel
Current assignee: A J MCDANIEL
Priority date: 1941-09-25
Filing date: 1941-09-25
Publication date: 1943-11-30
Anticipated expiration: 1960-11-30

Description

Nov. 30, 1943. a F SHELTON 2,335,363

COMBINATION CONTAINER AND DISPENSER Filed Sept. 25, 1941 2 She ets-Sheet 1 ElifiizeZZOn Nov. 30, 1943. E. F. SHELTON COMBINATION CONTAINER AND DISPENSER Filed Sept. 25, 1941 2. Shets-Sheet 2 EE6726Zi071 Patented Nov. 30, 1943 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE COMBINATION CONTAINER AND DISPENSER Ernest F. Shelton, Los Angeles, Calif., assignor of one-half to A. J. McDaniel, Los Angeles, Calif.

Application September 25, 1941, Serial'No. 412,335

2 Claims. (01. 221-98) a slidably mounted conduit or chute for a container which can be extended for permitting the contents of the container to be dispensed therethrough, when the chute is inverted and which can be retracted for closin the passage of the conduit and for thereby sealing the container.

Still another aim of the invention is to provide a chamber formed in a corner of the container and into which the inner end of the conduit extends, and which is adapted to contain a quantity of the contents of the container, a portion of which will be dispensed when the container is inverted.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a slidably mounted conduit in combination with said chamber, for holding a portion of the contents of the container, and which has its inner end adjustably disposed in said chamber for varying the amount of the contents that can be positioned beneath the inner end of the conduit to be dispensed through said conduit, when inverted, to thereby provide means for dispensing predetermined quantities of the contents of the container, each time that it is inverted, and further to provide means whereby the amount of said predetermined quantities can be varied.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter become more fully apparent from the following description of thedrawings, which illustrate a preferred embodiment thereof, and wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a container, constructed in accordance with the invention, resting on its rear wall and having the dispensing conduit disposed in an extended position,

Figure 2 is a fragmentary vertical sectional view taken substantially along the plane of the line 2-2 of Figure 1,

Figure 3 is a sectional view taken substantially along the same plane as Figure 2, but showing the conduit in a fully retracted position and the container inverted, relatively to its position in Figures 1 and 2,

Figures 4 and 5 are fragmentary horizontal sectional views through portions of the container, taken substantially along planes indicated by the lines 4-4 and 55, respectively, of Figure 2,

Figure 6 is a fragmentary plan view of the inner side of the blank from which the container is formed, and

Figure 7 is a similar view of the blank from which the conduit is formed.

Referring more particularly to the drawings,

wherein like reference characters designate like or corresponding parts throughout the different views, l0 designates generally a container which is adapted to be filled with a fluent material, not shown, such as a powdered, granulated or flaky material and which includes a bottom wall ll, front wall [2, rear wall [3 and'an end wall M. The container I0 is formed in a conventional manner from a blank, designated generally I5, which is partially shown in Figure 6, and which is adapted to be folded along the dotted lines 16,

.in a conventional manner, and which includes the flaps I! which overlap certain of the walls thereof and which are adhesively fastened thereto,.in a conventionalmanner, for forming the box container ID. V I

A partition member, designated generally I8, as seen in Figure 6, is suitably secured along its edge portions! as by means of an adhesive, not

shown, to the inner sides of the end wall I4 and ,the bottom wall II.

The partition member I8 is out along the lines 20 and is foldable along the dotted line 2|. It will thus be seen that when the blank I5 is assembled to form the container or box ID that the partition member l8 will be positioned therein as seen in Figures 2 to 5, and will include an angular portion, designated generally 22 which will combine with portions ofthe end-wall 14 and bottom wall H to form a guide, as will hereinafter become apparent, and a portion 23 including two angular portions which will combine with portions of the bottom wall I I, rear wall I3 and end wall I4 to form a chamber 24, of angular shape, and Which opens toward the front wall H. The angular portion 22 extends from a part of the top of the chamber 24 to a corner of the front wall H and said corner is provided with an opening 25.

Referring to Figure 7, 26 designates generally a blank which is adapted to be folded along the dotted lines 2'! and which is provided with a flap 28 at one end thereof which is adapted to be secured to the opposite end of the blank 26 and on the inner side thereof, as seen in Figure 4, in any suitable manner, as by means of an adhesive, not shown, to form an elongated conduit 29 from the blank 28. The conduit or chute 29 extends through the opening 25 and slidably engages said opening and the guide formed by the portion 22 of the partition member and portions of the walls H and Id. The

length of the conduit 29 is substantially equal to the length of the end wall l4, as seen in Figure 3, so that when the conduit is in a fully retracted position its open inner end 30 will be disposed in the chamber 24 and closed by engagement with the rear wall l3, and its outer open end 3| will be disposed in the opening 25. The conduit or chute 29 is provided at its outer end 3| with an integral outwardly extending tab 32 which is adapted to be grasped for drawing the conduit 29 outwardly and to an extended position relatively to the container or box I0.

It will thus be readily apparent that the mema ber l8 can be substantially collapsed flat against.

collapsed so that the container I0, including the member l8 and the conduit 29, is collapsible for shipment and storage purposes, before assembly. Furthermore, if desired, a collapsed conduit 29 can be inserted between the blank l5 and member l8 so that a complete unit may be shipped or stored together.

The container or box II] when not in use is adapted to rest on its bottom I l and to have the conduit or chute 29 in a fully retracted position, as seen in Figure 3, for sealing the interior of the container It). To dispense the contents, not shown, of the container II], the conduit 29 is moved outwardly to a partially extended position and then the container is turned to a position so that the rear wall [3 will be at the bottom thereof to cause the contents of the container to flow into the chamber 24, as indicated by the arrows 33 in Figure 2, to fill the space in the center of the chamber 24 and-beneath the end 30 of the conduit 29. From this position, as seen in Figure 2, the container ID is inverted so that the contents of the container which is beneath the end 39 will be dispensed through the conduit or chute 29. It will therefore be obvious that quantities of like amounts can be dispensed each time that the container I0 is thus inverted and by varying the extended position of the conduit 29 the amount dispensed each time that the container is inverted can be varied.

Various modifications and changes in the construction and arrangement of the parts forming the invention are contemplated and may obviously be resorted to, provided they fall within the spirit and scope of the invention as hereinafter defined by the appended claims, as only a preferred embodiment of the invention has been disclosed.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a dispensing attachment for containers having an opening in one wall thereof, a chute slidably engaging the sides of said opening and extending into the container the ends of said chute being open, the inner end of the chute being movable into engagement with the wall of the container opposite to the wall provided with the opening for closing the outlet passage of the container, formed by the chute, and said chute being movable outwardly of said opening for opening the passage formed thereby to permit the contents of the container to be dispensed therethrough, a partition within the container combining with angularly related wall of the container to form a chamber into which the inner end of the chute extends, said partition having first and second angularly related walls separated at portions from each other, said first angularly related walls of the partition being secured to the respective angularly related walls of the container and said second angularly related walls of the partition being below the said first angularly related wall of the partition and wider than the latter so as to extend laterally beyond the latter and being secured to the angularly related walls of the container to form inlets at the plane of junction of the angularly related walls of the partition.

2. In a dispensing attachment for containers having an opening in one wall thereof, a chute slidably engaging the sides of said opening and extending into the container, the ends of said chute being open, the inner end of the chute being movable into engagement with the wall of the container opposite to the wall provided with the opening for closing the outlet passage of the container, formed by the chute, and said chute being movable outwardly of said opening for opening the passage formed thereby to permit the contents of the container to be dispensed therethrough, a partition within the container combining with angularly related walls of the container to form a chamber into which the inner end of the chute extends, said partition being in one piece and being slit inwardly from opposite sides with the slits terminating short of each other to provide first and second angularly related walls, said first angularly related walls of the partition being secured to the re spective angularly related walls of the container and said second angularly related walls of the partition being below the said first angularly related wall of the partition and wider than the latter so as to extend laterally beyond the latter and being secured to the angularly related walls of the container to form inlets at the plane of junction of the angularly related walls of the partition.

ERNEST F. SHELTON-