STORING DEVICE

• US 20120125937A1
• Filed: 05/18/2011
• Published: 05/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hammarplast Consumer Aktiebolag (Orthex Group Oy Ab)
• Original Assignee: Hammarplast Consumer Aktiebolag (Orthex Group Oy Ab)
• Inventors: Ahlstrom, Joakim, Eke, Kristian, Johansson, Per-Olof, Mattsson, Olle
• Application Number:
  US13/110,366
• Publication Number:
  US 20120125937A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 220/378
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2543/00212 more than four sides
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2543/00296 Plastic
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2543/00564 indirect by means of a gasket or similar intermediate ring
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2543/0099 Integral supplemental sealing lips
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 43/0218 on both the inside and the outside of the mouth of the container B65D43/0216 takes precedence

Abstract

A storing device comprises a lid having on its underside a sealing ring, and a box having a bottom and a circumferential wall with an upper portion. The upper portion has an inner surface and an outer surface. The sealing ring comprises an inner sealing lip in sealing contact with said inner surface and an outer sealing lip in sealing contact with said outer surface.

Claims

1. A storing device, the storing device comprising:

a lid having on its underside a sealing ring; and

a box having a bottom and a circumferential wall with an upper portion, the upper portion having an inner surface and an outer surface, wherein the sealing ring comprises an inner sealing lip in sealing contact with said inner surface and an outer sealing lip in sealing contact with said outer surface.

2. The storing device according to claim 1, wherein said inner surface and said outer surface converge upwards.

3. The storing device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein said sealing ring with the sealing lips is made in one piece.

4. The storing device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the sealing ring comprises an intermediate portion located between the sealing lips, the intermediate portion being in contact with the top of said upper portion.

5. The storing device according to claim 4, wherein the intermediate portion and the sealing lips are made in one piece.

6. The storing device according to any one of claim 1, 2, or 5, wherein the inner and outer sealing lips are flexible and arranged to bend away from each other to provide said sealing contact with the inner surface and the outer surface, respectively.

7. The storing device according to any one of claim 1, 2, or 5, wherein at least one of the sealing lips is supported by a flange projecting downwards from the underside of the lid.

8. The storing device according to any one of claim 1, 2, or 5, wherein the box comprises an outwardly protruding portion on which the lid is supported.

9. The storing device according to claim 8, wherein said outwardly protruding portion is circumferential and supports the lid with an outer sealing therebetween.

10. The storing device according to claim 9, wherein said sealing ring and said outer sealing are made in one piece.