Refillable container
AssigneeNippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.
InventorsHideki Okude, Takaharu Noda
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Abstract
A refillable container includes: an inner container having a suction port at a center of an upper surface portion and a bottom portion with a pyramid shape having a deepest portion at a center of the bottom portion; a support member configured to hold the bottom portion of the inner container to support the inner container in a standing state; a lid member fitted to an outer periphery of the inner container; a discharge pump on a top surface portion of the lid member, the discharge pump including a suction tube inserted through the suction port into the inner container; and a positioning device for positioning the inner container in a vertical direction such that a distal end of the suction tube is located in the pyramid shape of the bottom portion of the inner container.
Claims18
A refillable container, comprising:
- an inner container, which has a suction port at a center of an upper surface and a bottom portion with a pyramid shape having a deepest portion at a center of the bottom portion, and is configured to contain a liquid inside and be replaced when the liquid has been exhausted;
- a support member configured to hold the bottom portion of the inner container so as to support the inner container in a standing state;
- a lid member, which is fitted from above to an outer periphery of the inner container supported by the support member so as to accommodate the inner container, and has a distal end portion configured to be locked to the support member;
- a discharge pump, which is on a top surface portion of the lid member, and is configured to discharge the liquid to an outside by sucking the liquid through a suction tube, and through the suction port of the inner container, the suction tube of the discharge pump being inserted into the suction port of the inner container when the lid member is fitted from above to the outer periphery of the inner container;
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- positioning means for positioning, at a position at which the distal end portion of the lid member is locked to the support member, a position of the inner container in a vertical direction such that:
- (i) a distal end of the suction tube of the discharge pump is located in the pyramid shape of the bottom portion of the inner container;
- and (ii) a seal portion at the bottom portion of the inner container is prevented from coming into contact with the support member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.