Container having a trap-chamber dispensing means

• US 3,318,491 A
• Filed: 06/14/1965
• Issued: 05/09/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Jervis C. Williamson
• Original Assignee: Jervis C. Williamson
• Inventors: Williamson, Jervis C.
• Application Number:
  US04/463,553
• Time in Patent Office: 694 Days
• US Class Current: 222/363
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2583/0495 the element being alveolate
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/0409 the dispensing means being adapted for delivering one article, or a single dose, upon each actuation B65D83/0445 takes precedence

Claims

1. A CONTAINER APPARATUS FOR STORING AND DISPENSING ARTICLES COMPRISING A CONTAINER DEFINING AN INTERIOR FOR STORING ARTICLES AND HAVING AN OPENING THEREIN, A RESILIENT PLUG DISPOSED WITHIN SAID OPENING HAVING A SURFACE DEFINING A GENERALLY HEMISPHERICAL SOCKET AND AN APERTURE COMMUNICATING WITH SAID CONTAINER INTERIOR AND WITH SAID SOCKET SURFACE, SAID PLUG INCLUDING AN INTEGRALLY FORMED ANNULAR LIP PROJECTING INWARDLY FROM SAID SOCKET SURFACE AND A LIP RECEIVING RECESS ADJACENT THERETO, SAID LIP BEFORE ASSEMBLY BEING DISPOSED IN A GENERALLY RADIAL PLANE, A GENERALLY SPHERICAL DISPENSER RECEIVED IN ASSEMBLY IN SAID SOCKET FOR ROTATIONAL MOVEMENT THEREIN, SAID DISPENSER IN ASSEMBLY DEFLECTING SAID LIP GENERALLY INWARDLY FROM SAID RADIAL PLANE INTO SAID RECESS, SAID DISPENSER INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE ARTICLE RECESS FOR RECEIVING AN ARTICLE TO BE DISPENSED AND BEING ROTATABLE BETWEEN LOADING POSITION WHEREIN SAID RECESS COMMUNICATES WITH SAID APERTURE AND A DISPENSING POSITION WHEREIN SAID RECESS OPENS EXTERIORLY OF SAID CONTAINER TO DISPENSE THE ARTICLE, AND RETAINING MEANS FOR HOLDING SAID DISPENSER IN POSITION WITHIN SAID SOCKET FOR ROTATIONAL MOVEMENT THEREIN.