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US 5,390,894 AGranted
Pour cup
AssigneeCarter-Wallace, Inc.
InventorJames E. Meehan
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Abstract
A pour cup for shaping one end of a product stick in a process for bottom filling a container with the product, comprising a concave surface, a sealing ledge around the periphery of the surface, a wall along the outside of the ledge, channels in the wall that terminate a given distance from the ledge, and an elongated shell surrounding said wall.
Claims6
A pour cup for shaping one end of a product stick in a bottom filling process, comprising:
- means forming a concave surface;
- a sealing ledge around the periphery of said surface;
- a wall around the outer edge of said sealing ledge;
- and
- means forming channels in the inside of said wall that terminate a given distance from said sealing ledge.
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A pour cup comprising:
- a first pair of opposed walls having parallel external planar surfaces;
- a second pair of opposed walls having parallel external planar surfaces;
- said walls forming a hollow shell having an axis;
- a mold mounted in one end of said shell;
- said mold having a concave surface facing the other end of said shell;
- a sealing ledge extending around the periphery of said concave surface;
- a peripheral wall extending parallel to said axis around the periphery of said sealing ledge;
- and
- a plurality of channels formed on the inside of said peripheral wall, said plurality of channels each having one end a given distance from said sealing ledge.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.