Liquid container
AssigneeHosokawa Yoko Co., Ltd.
InventorTooru Ichikawa
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Abstract
A liquid container comprises a bag-shaped container body formed of a flexible film and a delivery unit having a mouth portion, a joining portion and a shank portion, the joining portion being secured to an opened end portion of the bag-shaped container body, the mouth portion extending outward of the bag-shaped container body from the joining portion and the shank portion extending inside the bag-shaped container body from the joining portion. The joining portion and the shank portion of the delivery unit are connected to be relatively rotatable with each other by an engaging member such as pin-and-hole connection or other flexible member such as bellows.
Claims14
A liquid container comprising:
- a bag-shaped container body formed of a flexible film and having an open end portion extending in a longitudinal direction of the liquid container;
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- a delivery unit passing through the open end portion and extending from the outside of the body to the inside thereof, the delivery unit including
- (1) a mouth portion including a first opening and provided with an axially extending passage disposed outside of and extending from the open end portion of the body in the longitudinal direction thereof,
- (2) a joining portion inside the body attached to the mouth portion, the joining portion defining a second opening, thereby allowing any contents in the body to pass directly into the second opening of the joining portion, and through the joining portion and the mouth portion, and
- (3) a shank portion pivotally joined to the joining portion at the end opposite to the mouth portion, wherein the shank pivots in response to deformation of the open end portion of the body with rotation of the mouth portion and the joining portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.