Anti-Glug Device for Liquid Containers and Pour Spouts
AssigneeContainer Packaging Systems, LLC
InventorJon Stratton
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Abstract
A container assembly for holding liquids has an interior space and a pour spout including a spout portion carried by and extending from part of the container assembly. The pour spout has an outlet and defines a liquid flow path in fluid communication between the interior space and the outlet. An anti-glug device is carried by part of the container assembly. The anti-glug device has a channel only partly circumferentially surrounding the liquid flow path and has one or more air vents through a wall of the channel.
Claims20
A container assembly for holding liquids, the container assembly comprising:
- an interior space;
- a pour spout including a spout portion carried by and extending from part of the container assembly, the pour spout having an outlet and defining a liquid flow path in fluid communication between the interior space and the outlet;
- and
- an anti-glug device carried by part of the container assembly, the anti-glug device having a channel only partly circumferentially surrounding the liquid flow path and having one or more air vents through a wall of the channel.
An anti-glug device for a liquid container assembly having a pour spout with a liquid outlet from the container assembly, the anti-glug device comprising:
- a channel only partly circumferentially surrounding a liquid flow path of the pour spout;
- and
- one or more air vents through a wall of the channel in communication with an interior space of the container assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.