Receptacles – Closures – With closure opening arrangements for means
Patent
1996-08-21
1999-04-27
Pollard, Steven M.
Receptacles
Closures
With closure opening arrangements for means
220780, B65D 4100
Patent
active
058970150
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention relates to a disc shaped container.
Disc shaped containers are well known. One extremely well known disc shaped container is a shoe polish container which contains shoe polish for different types of footwear, The known disc shaped containers may generally include any suitable and appropriate material so that, in addition to shoe polish, the containers may contain polish for example for handbags or furniture, or cosmetic creams for example for faces or hands or hair gels, toothpaste powder or pharmaceuticals. In addition to being disc shaped, the known containers are constructed to be held in a person's hand and they have a body portion and a lid. The lid is usually a press fit on the body portion. The lid is usually removed from the body portion by a twisting and pulling action or by rotating a lid-engaging device which forces the lid away from the body portion.
The known disc shaped containers are traditionally made of metal and although the manufacture of the containers has been improved over the years with advances in technology, the manufacture of the containers is still not as easy as it might be, not only with regard to the manufacture of the containers but also with regard to the printing of the containers with appropriate advertising material and instructions.
It is an aim of the present invention to reduce the above mentioned problem.
Accordingly, the present invention provides a disc shaped container comprising a body portion and a lid which is a press fit onto the body portion; the body portion having a base, a circumferential side wall having an outer face with an annular groove forked in the outer face of the side wall, the groove having a pair of sides comprising a first side adjacent the base and a second side away from the base, and the lid having a top and a circumferential side wall; the container being such that the lid side wall overlaps the body portion side wall when the lid is on the body portion; the body portion and the lid both being made of a plastics material such that the lid side wall is pressable into said groove causing the lid side wall to engage said first side of the groove as the side wall is pressed into the groove, in order to cause the lid to separate from the body portion with a sliding action; and the lid has an inwardly projecting body portion-engaging part adjacent the top that is engageable with the second side of said groove so that the lid is maintained in its closed position; and the lid being capable of repeated fitting to and separation from the body portion.
The use of a plastics material for producing the disc shaped container of the present invention enables manufacturers to take advantage of plastics moulding techniques which cannot be used when working in metal such as tin. The plastics material lends itself to being embossed to receive appropriate advertising designs. The disc shaped container lends itself to being printed and/or labelled, due to the ability of the container to be produced with flat exterior surfaces for the lid top and side wall and for the base of the body portion. The printing may be effected, for example, with pad printers for printing on the base of the body portion and the top of the lid, and with rotary printers for printing on the side walls of the lid and/or the body portion.
The disc shaped container of the present invention can be produced to be the same size as existing disc shaped containers made of tin so that there is no need for manufacturers to change their packaging. The disc shaped container of the present invention can also be made to look as similar as possible to existing disc shaped containers made of tin, in order to reduce any resistance of the general public to buying and using a new type of disc shaped container.
The removal of the lid from the body portion is simply effected by pressing on the side wall of the lid. A person pressing on the side wall of the lid can feel the groove in the side wall of the body portion. The user of the disc shaped container always feels that the removal of the li
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Courtaulds Packaging Limited
Pollard Steven M.
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