Special receptacle or package – Combined or convertible
Patent
1995-11-29
1998-06-02
Sewell, Paul T.
Special receptacle or package
Combined or convertible
206256, 206271, 22912018, 229120011, B65D 7700
Patent
active
057587663
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a package for accommodating a product having at least two components according to the preamble of patent claim 1. The invention relates also to a method of removing such a product from a package according to the preamble of patent claim 19.
German Utility Model No. 83 12 584.1 discloses a package in which an inner sachet package is provided for the packaging of two or more different chemicals that react with one another. A known package of that type is used, for example, to store a product, consisting of different substances that are not to be mixed together until they are to be used, inside a package in such a manner that the individual substances are completely separate from one another. In that package, there are arranged inside an inner sachet at least two further sachets which accommodate the different chemicals.
That package, which is advantageous per se, has the disadvantage that it is not convenient to handle when the product is used. In addition to the outer folded carton, the user also has to open each of the individual envelopes, which contain very different substances, and it is virtually impossible to remove both substances simultaneously.
The problem underlying the invention is therefore to provide a package for a product consisting of at least two components in which the individual components are hermetically separated from one another, and which is easy to handle when using the product.
A further problem underlying the invention is to provide a method of removing a product having at least two components from a package, in which method the individual components can only be emptied out of the package simultaneously and are brought into contact with one another for the first time only when they are being removed from the package.
The above problems are solved on the one hand by a package having the characterising features of patent claim 1 and on the other by a method comprising the steps listed in the second part of patent claim 19. The dependent patent claims relate to especially preferred forms of the invention.
The invention provides especially a package for accommodating a product having at least two components, which package has at least two self-contained chambers in which the individual components of the product can be stored in such a manner that they are hermetically separated from one another. The individual chambers are connected together in such a manner that they can be separated from one another only by destroying at least one chamber wall. The end regions of the chamber walls are in the form of a common closure for the individual chambers such that the individual chambers can only be opened simultaneously.
In an especially preferred form of the invention, the package is in the form of a folded carton in which there are arranged in a fixed manner inside the folded carton at least two inner sachets each of which accommodates one of the components directly; when the inner sachets have been filled separately with the components, the top end regions thereof that project out of the inside of the folded carton form a common closure.
The common closure according to the invention of the two inner sachets arranged inside the folded carton enables the user to use the product directly in a simple manner by emptying the folded carton after opening the closure of the two inner sachets. The two components are thus brought into contact with one another and mixed together only during the emptying operation. Therefore, during the storage and transportation of the individual components of the product inside the inner sachets, it is not possible for the components to interact with one another. In addition, when the common closure has been opened, the product can be used immediately by emptying the package, the individual components mixing together substantially uniformly at the same time.
In one embodiment of the invention, the folded carton also has two chambers, separated by a dividing wall, in which the inner sachets are arranged. That embodiment has the additional adva
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Aeby Marcel
Baettig Willy
Meyer Karl
Richter Hans-Uwe
Lam Nhan T.
Novartis Corporation
Peabody, III John D.
Sewell Paul T.
Teoli, Jr. William A.
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