Dispensing – Collapsible wall-type container – Combined
Patent
1985-08-13
1987-11-17
Rolla, Joseph J.
Dispensing
Collapsible wall-type container
Combined
222181, 222185, 222460, 222567, 119 51R, 119 52R, 383 67, 383 15, 383906, 403344, 312257SM, 248100, B65D 3336
Patent
active
047068515
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a dispenser for bird food and more particularly to a device which can be attached to a bag or other package in which bird food is sold to convert it into a bird feeder.
BACKGROUND ART
With most packages in which bird food is sold, it is necessary to pour the contents into a separate dispenser in order to feed the birds. Such dispensers are relatively expensive articles and the pouring of bird food can be time consuming. Furthermore the bird food can be spilt during pouring, which is wasteful and messy.
Some existing bird food packages can also serve as a food dispenser, but they suffer from various disadvantages, e.g. not sufficiently weatherproof, relatively large amount of material required, difficulty of manufacture due to large number of individual components, and the time-consuming task of converting the package into its dispensing configuration.
DE No. 3149939 A1 discloses a bird feeder with a bag containing bird food and a dispensing arrangement comprising a cup containing bird food in the bottom of the bag and a separate external trough with hooks for securing it to the cup. Since the cup is inside the bag, the arrangement is not readily reusuable as it is necessary to insert the cup into the bag before the bird food. Thus either the manufacturer would insert the cup or a customer would insert the cup into an empty bag before filling the bag with food. In the former case a new cup would be needed for each bag of food; the latter case would be time consuming and spillage of the food would be likely.
DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION
The present invention seeks to overcome or reduce one or more of the disadvantages mentioned in the preceding paragraphs.
According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a dispenser having an upper aperture for receiving from a container material to be dispensed and at least one lower aperture for dispensing the material therefrom, the dispenser comprising two inter-fitting members, characterised in that the inter-fitting members define between them the upper aperture and have attachment means which are arranged to secure the two members to each other and to the container.
An advantage of the above dispenser is that it permits material to be directly dispensed from a container in which the material is sold, thus avoiding spillage. The dispenser is readily reusuable and can be used with successive containers of material. All that is necessary is to disconnect the attachment means from an old container and attach them to a new container. The dispenser does not need to be large since the container holds the bulk of the material to be dispensed.
According to a second aspect of the present invention there is provided an arrangement for dispensing a flowing medium comprising a container for the medium and a dispenser having an inlet and an outlet and being located at the bottom of the container with its inlet in communication therewith, the dispenser comprising two inter fitting members, characterised in that the inter-fitting members define between them the dispenser inlet and have attachment means which secure the two members to each other and to the container.
In a preferred arrangement, the attachment means comprise projections and co-operating means for receiving the projections, the projections passing through a wall portion of the container and then engaging the co-operating means.
The container is preferably a bag, and the walls of the bag are preferably sealed together where the projections pass therethrough. The sealed walls preferably form skirt portions which may be initially provided with holes or may have holes produced therein by the projections.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Preferred embodiments of the present invention will now be described, by way of example only, with reference to the accompanying drawings, of which:
FIG.1 shows a perspective view of a member constituting one half of the dispenser of a first embodiment of the present invention;
FIG.2 shows a perspective view of a di
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Bentall Simon W.
Hegedus Leslie J.
Adil Mehmet Nazim
Bollinger David H.
Rolla Joseph J.
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