US 2019/0337708 A1Published application

Dispensing container

AssigneeGumfriend International Corporation

InventorYang Li

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Abstract

A novel chewing gum box includes a gum storage chamber, a storage chamber cover, a funnel apparatus, a gum introducing plate, a gum carrying groove, a carrying groove baffle, a push handle, a spring baffle, guide rails, guide rail grooves, a spring groove, and a spring. The gum storage chamber is communicated with the gum carrying groove through the funnel apparatus. The gum carrying groove is connected to the push handle and is capable of reciprocating along the guide rails and the guide rail groove. When retrieving gum, the box body is tilted and shaken first to allow gum in the storage chamber to slide along the gum introducing plate into the gum carrying groove via the funnel apparatus. The push handle then is actuated to have the gum pushed out along the guide rail and the guide rail groove, so that the gum is available for retrieval.

Claims13

Dependent claims

A dispensing container, comprising:

a housing having a first side, a second side, and a storage chamber formed therebetween, the housing further including a cover;
a holder configured to reciprocate between a stored position located within the housing and a dispensing position located external to the housing to dispense contents of the storage chamber;
a plate adjacent to a funnel apparatus, the plate extending between the first side and the second side, wherein the container is configured such that the contents pass through the funnel apparatus and into the holder;
and
a baffle movable with the holder, the baffle configured to prevent the contents of the container from falling into a gap formed when the holder moves to the dispensing position;
wherein the funnel apparatus comprises a plurality of transverse or obliquely vertical or slope bodies that are arranged on each of the first and the second sides of the housing or one of the first and the second sides of the housing, the edges of the bodies forming a gradually narrowing space from the storage chamber to the holder.

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A dispensing container, comprising:

a housing having a first side and a second side,
wherein a first region of the dispensing container and a second region of the dispensing container are defined by and span the area between the first side and the second side, the first region comprising a storage chamber and the second region comprising a carrying holder, a carrying groove baffle, and a push handle when the carrying holder is in the stored position;
a funnel apparatus comprising a plurality of transverse or obliquely vertical or slope bodies arranged on each of the first and the second sides of the housing or one of the first and second sides of the housing, the edges of the bodies forming a narrowing space from the storage chamber to the carrying holder,
wherein an introducing plate extends between the first side and the second side of the container and the plate is adjacent to the funnel apparatus, such that the contents of the storage chamber pass through the funnel apparatus and into the carrying holder,
wherein the plate and the funnel apparatus together are situated between and define a boundary between the first region and the second region and both span the area between the first side and the second side of the container,
wherein the carrying holder is configured to reciprocate between a stored position located within the housing and a dispensing position located external to the housing to dispense contents of the storage chamber, the carrying holder including a plurality of sidewalls and a base extending therebetween, and
wherein the carrying groove baffle is configured to prevent the contents of the dispensing container from falling into a gap formed when the carrying holder moves to the dispensing position,
wherein the carrying groove baffle of the carrying holder has a sloped shape configured to correspond with a sloped shape of the introducing plate such that the carrying groove baffle is positioned beneath the introducing plate when the carrying holder is in the stored position.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/385,877Filed 16 Apr 2019
Priority: 18 Dec 2015
Published: 7 Nov 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

B65D 83/0409
For dispensing annular, disc-shaped, spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills: the dispensing means being adapted for delivering…
B65D 85/60
Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials: for sweets or like confectionery products
B65D 2583/0472
For dispensing annular, disc-shaped or spherical or like small articles or tablets: characterised by the dispensing action
B65D
Containers for storage or transport of articles or materials

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Application14/424,637Continuation · filed 18 Dec 2015
Application16/385,877Continuation
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