Extendable spout for a container
OwnerMorris L. Hutchensinventor
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Abstract
An extendable spout for a container formed of blown plastic in which the top of the container is formed of convoluted plastic which may be nested into the container. This eliminates the protruding spout when the container is being shipped to save the space but the spout may be extended from the container by expanding the convolutions to form a convenient pouring spout or funnel. The bottom of the container is likewise formed of convoluted plastic and the convolutions expand for extending the bottom into the container to compensate for the volume added to the container by the spout when the latter is extended.
Claims5
An extendable spout forming the entire top of a container having a body portion which contains the contents of the container;
- a neck opening into the container;
- and a sheet joined to the top of said body at its periphery and to said neck to seal the neck to said body;
- a plurality of annular convolutions formed in said sheet concentric with said neck so that said convolutions may be compressed to retract said sheet and said neck forming the entire top of the container into said body, and said convolutions may be expanded to permit extending of said sheet and said neck out of said body to form a funnel attached to said body that serves as a spout which facilitates pouring the contents out of said container.
An extendable spout forming part of a container having a pody portion;
- a neck opening into the container;
- a sheet joined to said body and to said neck to seal the neck to said body;
- convolutions formed in said sheet so that said convolutions may be compressed to permit retraction of said neck into said body, and said convolutions may be expanded to permit extending of said sheet and said neck out of said body so that said sheet and said neck cooperate to serve as a spout which facilitates pouring the contents out of said container;
- a flexible circular bottom on said body portion;
- and a plurality of convolutions formed in said bottom, each of said convolutions following an annular path which is concentric with said body, said convolutions being compressed to extend said bottom straight across said body, but said convolutions being expandable to permit said bottom to move into the interior of the container in a generally conical shape to compensate for the increased volume at the top of the container when said spout is extended out of said body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.