Supply container and dispensing unit assembly
AssigneeChemtrust Industries Corporation
InventorsBarry Schneider, Steven Bernard
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Abstract
A container holding a supply of a volatile liquid material to be poured therefrom includes an upper pouring spout-forming section over which, in the preferred form of the invention, is placed a removable attachment unit which appears to be a vertical cap-forming continuation of the top of the container. The attachment unit preferably has a compartment opening to the outside thereof and containing a liquid-absorbing material into which a portion of the liquid volatile material of the container is ultimately poured when the attachment is removed from the container. In a less preferred form of the invention, the dispensing unit-forming attachment is removably attached to and preferably forms a vertical continuation of the bottom of the container.
Claims13
In combination with a supply container holding a supply of a volatile liquid material to be poured therefrom into a dispensing unit from which the material progressively disperses in a gaseous form to the surrounding atmosphere, said container having vertical side walls forming the main body portion of the container, a permanently sealed closure wall at the bottom of said main body portion and an upper end portion at the top of said body portion and including a section which is to form a pouring opening and which includes a closure cap for sealing and re-sealing the pouring opening after a portion of the contents of the container is poured therefrom;
- an attachment unit removably secured to one of the ends of the sealed container so as to form what appears to be a vertical extension thereof, said attachment unit forming a compartment containing a liquid-absorbent material and into which is to be poured said liquid material, the attachment unit having a base portion adapted to rest on a horizontal surface when removed from said container and aperture-forming means forming one or more apertures into which said liquid is poured from said pouring opening of said container and from which the gaseous form of said liquid material passes into the surrounding atmosphere when the base portion of said attachment unit is resting on said horizontal surface.
In combination with a supply container holding a supply of a volatile liquid material to be poured therefrom into a dispensing unit from which the material progressively disperses in a gaseous form to the surrounding atmosphere, said container having side walls forming the main body portion of the container, a permanently sealed closure wall at the bottom of said main body portion and an upper end portion at the top of said body portion and including a section which is to form a pouring opening and which includes a closure cap for sealing and re-sealing the pouring opening after a portion of the contents of the container is poured therefrom;
- a dispensing unit-forming attachment unit removably secured over the top of said supply container and enclosing the upper end portion thereof, the attachment unit having a base portion adapted to rest on a horizontal support surface when removed from said container, aperture-forming means forming one or more apertures and into which said liquid is poured from said pouring opening of said container and from which the gaseous liquid material passes into the surrounding atmosphere when the base portion of said attachment unit is resting on said horizontal support surface, and a compartment communicating with said aperture or apertures with a liquid-absorbent material therein.
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