Dispensing – Movable material discharge guide – Foldable – bendable – collapsible or flexible
Patent
1987-10-27
1989-02-28
Rolla, Joseph J.
Dispensing
Movable material discharge guide
Foldable, bendable, collapsible or flexible
222537, 222541, 222569, 220 85SP, B65D 4708
Patent
active
048077879
ABSTRACT:
An easy-open/reclosure device intended to be attached to the top lid of a container having an upstanding peripheral rim. The device includes a base portion and a moveable portion preferably hingedly attached thereto. The base portion has a dispensing aperture, a depending flange encircling the aperture, and a deformable pouring lip/drain surface. The moveable portion has a depending plug member which is shaped complementary to the base portion's aperture for reclosing the container. When the device is applied to the container, the base portion's depending flange is pushed through a prescored or pre-cut aperture in the container's top lid. In applying the device to the container, the container's peripheral rim bends the base portion's deformable pouring lip/drain surface upward and inward such that it assumes an inclined, trough-shaped configuration. This resultant shape provides an excellent surface for both channeling product up and over the container's peripheral rim when the container is tipped as well as for channeling any residual product remaining on this surface back into the container when it is returned to its upright position.
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Chehab Mohamed N. H.
De Caluwe Robert C. J. M.
Hertogs Willy A. M.
Langmeier James R.
Van den Broeck Jean B. A.
Gorman John V.
Linman E. Kelly
Pedersen Nils E.
Rolla Joseph J.
Ryberg John J.
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