US 3,938,714 AGranted

Pouring spout dispensing system

AssigneePackaging Aids Corporation

InventorMorris Coppersmith

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Abstract

An improved dispensing system for removing liquid or particulate material from within a container to some external environment. The improved dispensing system includes a container and a retractable spout member located within the container when not in use. The container forms an enclosure having a removable member integrally formed on a top wall of the container. The removable member may be displaced with respect to the top wall along a pre-weakened contour outline to form an opening in the enclosure. The spout member may be extracted from within the container through the opening to permit guidance in the pouring of matter from the container. The spout member is generally trough shaped in a substantially conical form and includes an extended tab member formed on a bottom surface thereof to provide predetermined angular relations between the spout member and the container extension direction to aid in removing the spout member through the opening of the container. Additionally, the spout member includes a channel section to releasably secure the spout member to the container when in position for use.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A dispensing system comprising:

a. a longitudinally extended container having opposing wall members displaced each from the other, at least one of said wall members having a removeable section formed integral with said wall member in a plane substantially coincident with said wall member for forming an opening of predetermined contour when at least a portion of said removeable section is displaced from said wall member;
b. a spout member located wholly within said container when said removeable section is contiguous to said wall member throughout said predetermined contour, said spout member extending substantially between said opposing wall members when said spout member is located wholly within said container and free floating within said container, said spout member being only partially removeable from said container through said opening when said removeable section is displaced from said wall member;
and,
c. means for releaseably securing said spout member to said container when said spout member is only partially removed from said container through said opening by gravity assist, said releaseable securing means forming a groove passing throughout a peripheral boundary of one end of said spout member for releaseably capturing a wall section of said wall member opening contour.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 05/500,755Filed 26 Aug 1974 · continuation in part
Priority: 8 Jun 1972
Granted: 17 Feb 1976
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

B65D 25/40
Devices for discharging contents: nozzles or spouts
B65D 17/4012
Characterised by having the line of weakness provided in an end wall: for opening partially by means of a tearing tab
B65D 2517/0013
Action for opening container: pull-out tear panel, e.g. by means of a tear-tab
B65D 2517/0016
Action for opening container: pivot tab, push-down and pull-out tear panel