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US 2017/0283145 A1Published application
Opening mechanism for plastic vial
AssigneePouch Pac Innovations, LLC
InventorR. Charles Murray
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Abstract
The plastic vial for dispensing highly viscous or semisolid materials is formed of two sheets of thermoformable plastic. Sheets are thermoformed to form a raised profile defining a cavity. The profile has a spout portion with a parting line extends across the spout portion through particular sheet. A bending top portion of the vial snaps the parting line forming an opening in the spout to permit access to the contents.
Claims7
A vial for holding contents;
- comprising;
- a body having a pair of sides, a top end and a bottom end, the body having a top side, the body having a raised profile defining a cavity for holding the contents, the raised profile having a conical spout portion extending toward the top end, the body further having a parting line extending partially through the spout portion of the top side for opening the spout to access the contents of the cavity.
A method of forming and filling a vial comprising the step of;
- thermoforming a pair of plastic sheets in a mold to form a body with a raised portion defining a cavity having an opening, the body having a pair of flanges extending from the opening;
- the raised portion having a tapered spout portion supporting the body such that the opening and flanges extend upwardly;
- filling the cavity with material;
- sealing the flanges together to close the cavity;
- forming a score line partially through the spout portion of one sheet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.