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US 2006/0032865 A1Published application
Multiple compartment collapsible bottle
AssigneeGotohti.com Inc.
InventorHeiner Ophardt
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Abstract
A collapsible bottle having at least two independent compartments each connected to provide communication with each other and, preferably, with a non-collapsible channelway leading to an outlet opening for the bottle.
Claims36
A collapsible container having an outlet opening and two collapsible tubular compartments,
- each compartment extending beside the other compartment from a respective open end of each compartment opening into the outlet opening away from the outlet opening to a respective closed end of each compartment,
- each compartment having a outboard side and an opposed inboard side with the inboard side of one compartment facing the inboard side of the other compartment,
- each compartment being collapsible from an inflated condition in which the container is filled with fluid toward a collapsed condition by the withdrawn of fluid from the outlet opening,
- wherein in the inflated condition, the inboard side and outboard side of each compartment are spaced, and
- wherein in collapsing from the inflated condition toward the collapsed condition the outboard side and inboard side of each compartment move relatively towards each other, a shunt opening through the inboard sides of the compartments placing the two compartments in communication through their inboard sides.
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A collapsible container having an outlet opening and two collapsible tubular compartments,
- each compartment extending beside the other compartment from a respective open end of each compartment opening into the outlet opening,
- a shunt channelway between the compartments placing the two compartments in communication laterally at a plurality of locations along the length of the compartments from the open end substantially to the closed end.
A thin walled collapsible container closed but for an opening from an outlet end,
- the outlet end merging with front, rear and two side walls extending longitudinally of the container away from the outlet end to a closed base end,
- the front wall and rear wall each carrying a respective front and rear valley having side valley walls extending centrally into each front and rear walls toward a respective other of the rear and front wall to a respective front and rear valley valley apex each extending longitudinally of the container,
- each of the front and rear valley extending continuing from the base end towards the outlet end toward the outlet end,
- the front and rear valley apex spaced from each other and providing a channelway therebetween along their length from the base end toward the outlet end in all collapsed and uncollapsed conditions of the container.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.