Measuring dispensing top for an aquarium fish food container
AssigneePenn-Plax, Inc.
InventorsRicky Scott Goldman, Gerald A. Phillips
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Abstract
A measuring dispensing top for an aquarium fish food container which includes a base, a flip top pivotably mounted in a side wall provided on the base and movable between a closed position which closes the container and an open position which opens the container into the top; and a cover slidable in the side wall between a closing position which covers and defines a measuring chamber and allows the flip top to be moved to its open position which opens the container into the measuring chamber and enables a measured amount of fish food to be dispensed therein, and a second opening position which locks the flip top in its closed position and opens the measuring chamber for dispensing the container contents into an aquarium.
Claims3
A measuring dispensing top for an aquarium fish food container comprising:
- a substantially planar base having a top side and a bottom side and having an opening defining an open portion and having a closed portion adjacent the open portion;
- a peripheral skirt depending from the bottom side of the base for attachment to the container;
- a peripheral wall on the top side of the base and enclosing at least a part of the closed portion of the base and the open portion of the base;
- a flip top pivotably mounted in said side wall and covering said open portion and pivotable between a first closed position in which the flip top engages said closed portion of the base and closes the container and a second open position which opens the container into the measuring dispensing top;
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- a cover slidable along the side wall between (1) a first closing position at which the cover together with the side wall and closed portion of the base and the flip top in its first closed position define a measuring chamber and at which first closing position the flip top is pivotable to its second open position, and (2) a second opening position at which the cover locks the flip top in its first closed position and opens the measuring chamber for dispensing.
An aquarium fish food container comprising a container having an open end and, attached to said open end, a measuring dispensing top comprising:
- a substantially planar base having a top side and a bottom side and having an opening defining an open portion and having a closed portion adjacent the open portion;
- a peripheral skirt depending from the bottom side of the base for attachment to the container;
- a peripheral wall on the top side of the base and enclosing at least a part of the closed portion of the base and a part of the open portion of the base;
- a flip top pivotably mounted in said side wall and covering said open portion and pivotable between a first closed position in which the flip top engages said closed portion of the base and closes the container and a second open position which opens the container into the measuring dispensing top;
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- a cover slidable along the side wall between (1) a first closing position at which the cover together with the side wall and closed portion of the base and the flip top in its first closed position define a measuring chamber and at which first closing position the flip top is pivotable to its second;
- open position, and (2) a second opening position at which the cover locks the flip top in its first closed position and opens the measuring chamber for dispensing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.