Container for powdered and granular products

• US 3,169,671 A
• Filed: 10/23/1962
• Issued: 02/16/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Edward Taylor William
• Original Assignee: Edward Taylor William
• Inventors: EDWARD TAYLOR WILLIAM
• Application Number:
  US04/232,520
• Time in Patent Office: 847 Days
• US Class Current: 222/143
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 47/286 between planar parts

Claims

1. A CONTAINER FOR POWDERED AND GRANULAR PRODUCTS COMPRISING A RECTANGULAR CONTAINER BODY HAVING AN OPEN END AND A SURROUNDING MARGINAL EDGE PORTION, A SLIP TO CLOSURE FOR SAID CONTAINER HAVING A RAISED PANEL, A SURROUNDING MARGINAL STEP BORDERING UPON SAID PANEL INCLUDING PAIRS OF VERTICAL SIDE WALLS AND VERTICAL END WALLS AND PAIRS OF HORIZONTAL SIDE WALLS AND HORIZONTAL END WALLS, A SLIDEWAY FORMED IN EACH OF SAID VERTICAL SIDE WALLS, AND A SHIRT DEPENDING DIRECTLY FROM SAID HORIZONTAL SIDE WALLS AND SAID HORIZONTAL END WALLS SAID SKIRT HAVING FRICTIONAL ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID MARGINAL EDGE PORTION OF SAID BODY FOR SECURING SAID TOP CLOSURE IN POSITION ON THE OPEN END OF SAID CONTAINER, AND A SLIDE MEMBER FOR THE CONTAINER HAVING SLIDING ENGAGEMENT ON THE UPPER SURFACE OF SAID PANEL FOR COVERING A DISPENSING OPENING IN SAID PANEL AND FOR PROTECTING THE CONTAINER CONTENTS, SAID SLIDE MEMBER BEING PROVIDED WITH A PAIR OF DEPENDING SLIDE FLANGES WHICH FRICTIONALLY ENGAGE AGAINST THE SLDEWAYS OF SAID VERTICAL SIDE WALLS, SAID SLIDE MEMBER HAVING AT LEAST ONE PERFORATION THEREIN, WHICH PERFORATION IS REGISTRABLE WITH SAID DISPENSING OPENING IN SAID PANEL WHEN SAID SLIDE MEMBER IS SHIFTED TO PERMIT SIFTING OF THE CONTAINER CONTENTS.