Container for beverages, preserved foods and the like

Details Container for beverages, preserved foods and the like Container for beverages, preserved foods and the like

1996-03-13

1998-10-13

Shoap, Allan N.

Receptacles

Closures

Closures interconnected for common opening movement

220270, 220705, 220707, 220708, B65D 4132, B65D 5118

Patent

active

058199721

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BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention is concerned with a container for beverages, preserved foods and the like.
As is well known, containers for beverages, especially soft drinks, and for preserved foods and others have, on the lid of the container, indentation lines with a ring-pull tab or imaginary cutting lines for the corresponding cutting implements.
The aforesaid containers for beverages, preserved foods and others display a total lack of hygiene and safety for the user, as it is easy for dust, dirt, germs and others, which could affect users' health, to collect on these containers.
So, whereas old and current beverages containers are fitted with ring-pull tabs and indentation lines, which in the old models are submitted to bending and pulling, tearing these ring-pull tabs which become separated from the container and which define an opening in the lid, and in modern models these ring-pull tabs are submitted by the user to bending which inserts part of them into an opening they make in the lid, and of which they form a part.
In both the aforesaid cases, the user applies his mouth and lips to the opening made in the lid, which may be covered in dust, dirt and germs, whereby he could become infected with some disease. In the second case, corresponding to the more modern model of container, as part of the lid penetrates inside the container, when the user drinks the liquid, as well as applying his mouth and lips to the container as has been described, this liquid, when it comes out, comes into direct contact with said part of the submerged lid, whereby the liquid itself is also contaminated
There have been half-hearted attempts to prevent user contact with the container part of the drink, but these have not achieved satisfactory results.
Thus, the U.S. Pat. No. 3,547,308 from GILLIEM LESTER G, presents a drinking tube which incorporates elastic means to push it outwards when the container is opened. These means can be enclosed inside the drinking tube. This method of production complicates the manufacture of the container, and does not allow all the contents of same to be drunk, and does not keep the contents of the container completely contamination free.
The German patent DE-U-88 02 548.9, from LIN GHUAN-SHENG could also be cited, which introduces a container incorporating a straw. It requires a device for attaching the straw, equipped with a concertina, to the container. It complicates manufacture and assembly of the container. It requires parts in different materials. It does not allow all the contents of the container to be drunk. It does not keep the contents of the container contamination-free.
There are other inventions which have tried to solve these problems, likewise for beverages containers, but they have not managed it, such as the patent FP-A-2 696 720 from GRANGEOT, which presents a unit with a neck which, after the flask is opened, is submitted to pulling and protrudes. It does not prevent contamination of the contents, as the actual user drinks from this neck.
There is also the patent U.S. Pat. No. 4,428,498 from OBEY RICHARD, which presents a neck, in a concertina shape, outside the container, to be extended by pulling. This has the drawback that it is completely outside the container and, therefore, does not prevent contamination of the contents when the user drinks.
As far as preserved food containers are concerned, there are two types of opening: one in which the lid of the container is equipped with a ring-pull tab and an indentation line similar to those for the old model of beverages containers, in which the indentation line is positioned around the whole circumference of the lid, and in which the ring-pull tabs are submitted by the user to bending and pulling. The opening made is defined by the indentation line and takes up practically the whole surface of the lid.
The other type of lid is not fitted with any kind of ring-pull tab or indentation line, and the user makes the corresponding opening with suitable independent cutting implements, following an imaginary line very close to the circumference

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