Fluent material handling – with receiver or receiver coacting mea – Filling means with receiver or receiver coacting means – Funnel type
Patent
1990-12-31
1992-06-16
Shaver, Kevin P.
Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting mea
Filling means with receiver or receiver coacting means
Funnel type
141331, 141390, 141391, B65B 3902, B67C 1100
Patent
active
051217791
ABSTRACT:
A funnel comprises a flat sheet of resilient flexible material and has interengaging formations on opposite sides of the sheet whereby the sheet may be rolled to funnel configuration and the interengaging portions detachably interengaged with each other to hold the sheet in funnel configuration. The interengaging portions are stamped from the material of the sheet, and can comprise a slot on one side of the sheet and a tongue on the other side of the sheet, the tongue being detachably receivable in said slot, or they can comprise slits cut in marginal portions of the sheet and extending in opposite directions from each other, the slits being engageable one within the other thereby releasably to retain the sheet in funnel configuration. The interengaging portions have substantially point contact with each other, whereby the sheet may be formed by manual pressure selectively into a funnel of variable conicity. The sheet has top and bottom edges, and between the top and bottom edges pairs of opposite side edges which, beginning with the top edge, converge in the direction of the bottom edge, then diverge in the direction of the bottom edge, and finally converge in the direction of the bottom edge, whereby the sheet is of generally arrowhead configuration having wings defined between the last two pairs of opposite edges, the interengaging structure being located in the wings.
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