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OwnerRay G. Brooks, Timothy W. Brooks +1inventors
InventorsRay G. Brooks, Timothy W. Brooks, Stephen L. Fowler
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A package for storing contaminant-sensitive articles in a contaminant-free environment featuring a pair of polymeric material circular half-sections having a bottom wall and a side wall. The half sections are arranged for overlying ans sliding engagement from a spaced-apart, open position into a stop position with the side walls in a telescoping relationship to form a closed enclosure having an interior for accommodating one or more contaminant-sensitive articles, Other features include: sealing means operatively associated with at least one of the side walls for sealing the enclosure interior in the stop position, resilient clamping means or latch mechanism on the half-sections for yieldingly urging the half-sections into the stop position against the sealing means to seal the enclosure interior, means for drawing a vacuum on the enclosure, and means on the enclosure for introducing a purging ionizing gas into the sealed enclosure interior to move the half-sections out of the stop position against the clamping means to thereby relieve excessive gas pressure in the enclosure interior.
A package for storing contaminant-sensitive articles in a contaminant-free environment comprising, in combination, a pair of half-sections of polymeric material, each of said half-sections having a bottom wall and a side wall, said half-sections arranged for overlying, sliding engagement from a spaced-apart, open position into a stop position with said side walls in telescoping relationship to form a closed enclosure having an interior for accommodating one or more contaminant-sensitive articles, sealing means operatively associated with at least one of said side walls for sealing said enclosure interior in said stop position, resilient clamping means on said half-sections for yieldingly urging said half-sections into said stop position against said sealing means to seal said enclosure interior and means on said enclosure for introducing a purging gas into said sealed enclosure interior to move said half-sections out of said stop position against said clamping means to thereby relieve excessive gas pressure in said enclosure interior.
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