Flat top container with extendable pour spout

• US 3,269,644 A
• Filed: 08/09/1965
• Issued: 08/30/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Bump, Edward L.
• Original Assignee: Bump, Edward L.
• Inventors: Bump, Edward L.
• Application Number:
  US04/479,697
• Time in Patent Office: 386 Days
• US Class Current: 229/248
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2301/10 Blanks mutually positioned to minimise waste material upon cutting out the individual blank from a continuous or large sheet
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/742 Spouts formed by deforming or tearing the closure flaps or severed or incised parts of the closure flaps B65D5/06 takes precedence

Claims

1. A FLAT-TOP CONTAINER OF PAPERBOARD MATERIAL OR THE LIKE WITH AN EXTENDABLE POUR SPOUT COMPRISING:

(A) A TUBULAR BODY HAVING A PLURALITY OF CONNECTED SIDE PANELS, (B) A BOTTOM SECTION CONNECTED TO SAID PANELS, (C) A TOP SECTION CONNECTED TO ALL BUT ONE OF SAID PANELS IN CLOSED RELATION, (D) A SPOUT SECTION HAVING A FIRST SECTION PIVOTABLY CONNECTED TO THE REMAINING ONE OF SAID PANELS AND A SECOND SECTION PIVOTABLY CONNECTED TO SAID TOP SECTION, (E) SAID SECOND SECTION HAVING AT LEAST ONE DETACHABLE SEALING TAB, (F) SEAL SEALING TAB BEING SEALED TO SAID FIRST SECTION, (G) SAID SPOUT SECTION BEING SEALED SUBSTANTIALLY FLUSH AGAINST SAID TOP SECTION TO SUBSTANTIALLY PREVENT COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE INTERIOR OF SAID CONTAINER AND THE ATMOSPHERE, (H) SAID SPOUT SECTION BEING PIVOTABLE TO AN EXTENDED POSITION, THEREBY BREAKING THE SEAL BETWEEN SAID SPOUT SECTION AND SAID TOP SECTION, AND (I) SAID SEALING TAB BEING DETACHABLE FROM SAID SECOND SECTION TO PERMIT SAID FIRST AND SECOND SECTIONS TO BE PARTIALLY SEPARATED TO PROVIDE A SPOUT OPENING FOR SAID CHAMBER.