Receptacles – Closures – With closure opening arrangements for means
Patent
1991-11-25
1993-07-06
Garbe, Stephen P.
Receptacles
Closures
With closure opening arrangements for means
222 83, 222 835, 222 88, B65D 1742
Patent
active
052246191
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to improvements in containers and the like adapted for receiving the contents of frangible packaging, and especially to improvements in releasing the contents of such packaging into the container.
BACKGROUND OF ART
The use of frangible packaging for distribution and sale of consumer products at the retail level is a common practice. Perhaps one of the best known examples of this type of packaging is the use of plastic bags for the packaging of fluid milk. Juice and a wide variety of other potable beverages are similarly packaged.
Devices intended to facilitate the opening of this kind of packaging, abound. Exemplary of such devices are the so-called "snippits" which typically have a short blade oriented along at least one of two convergent sides that bound a channel through which a portion of the packaging is manually guided. The blade contacts the packaging and severs a portion thereof, opening the packaging in such a way as to permit the contents to be dispensed. The contents are then poured into a rigid container. Alternatively the frangible container is placed in a rigid support (typically a container), opened, and the contents are dispensed from there directly.
French Patent No. A-1458519 (Berducone), Nov. 10, 1966, discloses a device having a piercing blade centrally positioned within a cylindrical tube. The device has an open top and bottom, such that a frangible package can be inserted within the tube to be pierced by the blade, so as to transfer the contents of the frangible package to another container, in the nature of a funnel.
The problem of pouring the containers from the frangible container into a separate container is that the contents are often spilled in the process, especially when the packaging is for example, a relatively light gauge polyethylene, and the contents are liquid. Although the contents can be dispensed directly from the frangible packaging when it is supported in a container, the contents often drip down the exterior of the packaging and lodge between it and the interior walls of the container. Since the exterior of the packaging is seldom washed by the consumer prior to being used, there is substantial risk of unwanted contaminants finding their way into the contents that become trapped between the packaging and the container. This liquid can flow back up the container when further liquid is subsequently dispensed therefrom and mixes with the contents being dispensed from the packaging for the first time. The result is at the very least unhygienic and the potential exists for microbiological hazard.
There continues to be a need for improved containers and means for dispensing contents from frangible packaging.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates generally to a device comprising supported apical piercing means oriented and stabilized in supported relation on support means and adapted to be positioned within a container having a hollow interior defined between a distal end and mutually contiguous side walls extending upwardly from the distal end to a proximal end which opens into the interior.
In accordance with one aspect of the present invention there is provided a device comprising supported apical pierceing means oriented and stabilized in supported relation on support means and adapted to be positioned within a container having a hollow interior defined between a distal end and mutually contiguous side walls extending upwardly from the distal end to a proximal end which is open to said interior. Examples of apical piercing means include by way of example, spikes (which may take the form of, for example, conical or cruciform heads), or cannular tubes or the like. The support means is positionable adjacent to the distal end of the container with the apical piercing means extending within the interior, away from said distal end and towards the opening In use, a frangible container of goods is introduced into the interior of the container through the above mentioned opening and is impaled on the piercin
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Cooper Gilbert L.
Dilworth Tom F.
Garbe Stephen P.
Hofbauer Patrick J.
Stucker Nova
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