Snapped together tube and dispensing apparatus and method of making same
OwnerRaymond A. Liberatoreinventor
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Abstract
A tube of flowable material closed at one end and formed with a clasp projectable through a slit in a cylindrical housing to engage one or more deflectable teeth in a slot formed in a reel carried from such housing. The clasp is then engaged behind the teeth to thereby be latched in position on the reel for winding on such reel to draw the tube successively through the slit as the reel is rotated.
Claims14
Snapped together tube and dispenser apparatus for storing and selectively dispensing flowable contents, and comprising:
- an elongated flexible tube body formed with a compressible peripheral wall radially expanded into a laterally outwardly distended storing orientation and having a selectively openable dispensing end and a flattened closed end formed with a catch;
- a dispensing device including a hollow, laterally housing formed on one side with a narrowed compression slit for progressively receiving said body to compress the opposite lateral side of said peripheral wall together;
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- a laterally projecting rotatable reel in said housing, including an anchor configured to slidably receive said catch and operative upon receipt thereinto of said catch to latch thereto whereby during assembly said closed end of said tube may be slidably inserted in said slit to latchingly engage said catch with said anchor.
Snapped together tube and dispenser apparatus comprising
- an elongated flexible tube body formed with an expandable peripheral wall distended to a storing orientation and compressed at one end into a laterally substantially flattened orientation defining a closed end;
- a catch element on said closed end;
- a dispensing device at said closed end including a cylindrical housing formed on one side with a narrowed compression slit for progressively receiving said body to progressively compress the opposite lateral side of said peripheral wall together, and a laterally projecting rotatable reel rotatably mounted in said housing and formed with an anchor element engaged with and permanently lock to said catch element.
A method of making a snapped together tube and dispenser apparatus for selectively dispensing storable contents, said method including the steps of:
- selecting a collapsible tube of the type having a flexible peripheral wall capable of being compressed and expanded and having a selectively openable dispensing end and an open filling end;
- filling said tube with a flowable material;
- closing said tube and forming a flattened closed end;
- forming a clasp element of a predetermined configuration on said closed end;
- selecting a dispensing device of the type including a cylindrical hollow housing formed with a laterally projecting narrowed compression slit and a rotatable reel concentrically disposed in said housing and formed with an anchor element;
- said elements being of the type cooperative upon engagement with one another to snap together in a latching position;
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- inserting said closed end through said slit and to engage said clasp element with said anchor element to latch said elements together.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.