Multiple interconnected containers with elongated necks and transverse recesses
AssigneeUniversal Symetrics Corporation
InventorJuris M. Mednis
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Abstract
A multiple container package includes four containers which each have a polyhedral body portion with an elongated neck portion. The body portion of each container has lateral polygonal side walls, spaced apart front and rear walls a top shoulder and bottom wall. A recess which is perpendicular to the neck extends either in the front wall or the rear wall and receives the neck of an adjacent container. Four containers can be mated together to form a package having a polyhedron volume with the volume being substantially filled by the containers.
Claims12
A multiple container package comprising:
- a plurality of mated containers which together form and substantially fill the volume of a polyhedron having opposite sides in parallel planes;
- each container having a hollow body which includes a planar polygonal front wall, a planar polygonal rear wall, a planar polygonal bottom wall, opposite planar polygonal side walls and a planar polygonal top shoulder wall, each container having an elongated recess in one of said front and rear walls, said recess extending between said side walls with a length substantially equal to a width of said body between said side walls;
- each container having an elongated neck extending from its shoulder wall near its rear wall, each neck extending substantially perpendicularly to said recess in its container, at least a portion of said neck being planar with said rear wall, said elongated neck having a length which is substantially equal to the length of a recess in an adjacent container of the package;
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- said plurality of containers being mated with the neck of one container extending in the recess of one other container and the shoulder wall of the one container being contiguous with one side wall of the one other container.
A container for use in a multiple container package comprising:
- a body defining a hollow volume and having a front wall, an opposite rear wall, a bottom wall and opposite shoulder wall, and lateral opposite side walls, each of said walls comprising a polygon and one of said front and rear walls including a recess extending between and having a width equal to the space between said lateral side walls;
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- an elongated neck extending from said shoulder of said body and having an interior space communicating with the space of said body, said elongated neck being near said rear wall and extending perpendicularly to said recess.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.