Methods and means for handling milk

• US 2,905,560 A
• Filed: 05/20/1957
• Issued: 09/22/1959
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/1957
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Lenore B. Donnelly, Sydney E. Bender
• Original Assignee: Lenore B. Donnelly, Sydney E. Bender
• Inventors: Bender, Sydney E., Donnelly, Lenore B.
• Application Number:
  US03/660,395
• Time in Patent Office: 855 Days
• US Class Current: 53/449
• CPC Class Codes: A01J 9/00 Milk receptacles

Claims

1. A HYGIENIC METHOD OF PACKAGING MILK COMPRISING:

EVACUATING THE AIR THROUGH A FLEXIBLE TUBE FROM A CYLINDRICAL, FLEXIBLE, VINYL PLASTIC INNER CONTAINER UNTIL THE LATTER IS COLLAPSED SO THAT THE WALL PORTIONS THEREOF COME IN CONTACT TO ELIMINATE ALL INTERNAL SPACE;

SEALING THE EXTREMITY OF SAID FLEXIBLE TUBE WHILE THE LATTER IS CONNECTED TO THE SOURCE OF EVACUATION;

PLACING THE COLLAPSED INNER CONTAINER IN A RIGID OUTER CONTAINER WITH THE SEALED TUBE EXTENDING THROUGH THE BOTTOM OF SAID RIGID CONTAINER;

SQUEEZING SAID TUBE TO CLOSE THE LATTER;

CUTTING AWAY THE SEALED EXTREMITY OF THE CLOSED TUBE;

CONNECTING SAID CLOSED TUBE TO A MILK SUPPLY;

OPENING THE CLOSED TUBE;

ALLOWING THE MILK SUPPLY TO FLOW THROUGH SAID TUBE INTO SAID INNER CONTAINER UNTIL THE LATTER IS FULLY EXPANDED IN SAID OUTER CONTAINER;

THENCE AGAIN SEALING THE EXTREMITY OF SAID FLEXIBLE TUBE WHILE THE LATTER IS CONNECTED TO SAID MILK SUPPLY SO THAT THE INTERIOR OF SAID INNER CONTAINER IS NEVER OPEN TO ATMOSPHERIC CONTAMINATION.