Dispensing Container
AssigneeSands Innovations Pty Ltd
InventorBradley Donald Teys
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Abstract
A container having a body, the body defining a cavity for storing dispensable cavity contents and having an opening, a covering for covering said opening; and a lid connected to the body by a failure zone and openable, in use, after failure of the failure zone, about a hinge formed by the covering. The lid may have a re-closable arrangement, the covering may be hinged with the container and may include strengthening ribs. The body may also have multiple cavities and multiple lids.
Claims15
A dispensing container comprising:
- a body, the body defining a cavity for storing dispensable cavity contents and having an opening;
- a covering adaptable to close the opening;
- and
- a lid connected to the body by a failure zone and openable, in use, after failure of the failure zone, about a hinge formed by the covering, providing access to the dispensable cavity contents.
A dispensing container having a body and a lid having a connection therebetween, the container comprising:
- a failure zone in a first portion of the connection between the lid and the body;
- a hinge in a second portion of the connection between the lid and the body, wherein the failure zone includes a failure portion, a body portion and a lid portion, the body portion and the lid portion overlapping and wherein in use, after failure of the failure portion, at least one of the body portion and the lid portion is resiliently deformable, whereby the lid portion is engageable with the body portion upon application of a closure force to effect re-closure of the container.
A method of manufacturing a dispensing container, the method comprising:
- forming a container assembly, including a body, a lid;
- filling the container assembly with contents to be dispensed;
- and
- sealing the container assembly with a covering.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.