Dispensing container for liquids

• US 3,146,806 A
• Filed: 08/09/1962
• Issued: 09/01/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Henry Ginsburg
• Original Assignee: Henry Ginsburg
• Inventors: Ginsburg, Henry
• Application Number:
  US04/215,873
• Time in Patent Office: 754 Days
• US Class Current: 141/110
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 2200/1018 comprising a pad, i.e. a cushion-like mass of soft material, with or without gripping means
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 34/04 Appliances specially adapted for applying liquid, e.g. using roller or ball
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/38 Swabs having a stick-type handle, e.g. cotton tips ear cleaners other than cotton tips A61F11/006; swabs containing a liquid, e.g. in a rupturable reservoir, A61M35/006
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 31/00 Devices for introducing or retaining media, e.g. remedies, in cavities of the body A61M25/00 takes precedence ; introducing or retaining ophthalmic products into the ocular cavities A61F9/0008
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 51/32 with brushes or rods for applying or stirring contents droppers B65D47/18; eating utensils or spatulas B65D51/246
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 206/828 Medicinal content

Claims

1. FOR USE IN A LIQUID DISPENSING BOTTLE OF THE KIND HAVING AN OPEN NECK SCREW THREADS CAST INTEGRALLY WITH THE NECK ON THE EXTERIOR SURFACE THEREOF A UNITARY TUBULAR BODY MEMBER SLIDEABLY RECEIVED IN SAID NECK AND HAVING A RADIALLY OUTWARD DIRECTED FLANGE AT ITS OUTER END TO OVERLIE THE END SURFACE OF SAID NECK AND THEREBY PROVIDE A SEALING GASKET FOR A CONVENTIONAL CLOSURE CAP SECURED BY SAID THREADS, SAID TUBULAR BODY MEMBER HAVING A PAIR OF AXIALLY SPACED TRANSVERSE WALLS POSITIONED INWARDLY OF SAID FLANGE, EACH OF SAID WALLS BEING SLIT RADIALLY OUTWARD FROM THE CENTRAL LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID BODY MEMBER ALONG A MULTIPLICITY OF CIRCUMFERENTIALLY SPACED LINES, SAID BODY MEMBER BEING FORMED OF YIELDABLE AND FLEXIBLE PLASTIC MATERIAL WHEREBY THE RADIALLY INNER ENDS OF THE SEGMENTS THUS FORMED IN SAID WALLS BY SAID SLITS MAY BE FLEXED IN AN AXIAL DIRECTION TO PERMIT THE INSERTION OF AN APPLICATOR STEM INTO THE BODY PORTION OF SAID BOTTLE, AND A PLUG OF SPONGE-LIKE FOAMESCED AND COMPRESSIBLE PLASTIC MATERIAL POSITIONED WITHIN SAID TUBULAR BODY MEMBER INTERMEDIATE SAID TRANSVERSE WALLS THEREOF, SAID PLUG BEING PIERCE IN AXIAL ALIGNMENT WITH THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID TUBULAR BODY MEMBER.