CONTAINER FOR STORAGE AND PREPARATION OF A PLANT PROTECTIVE MATERIAL CONTAINING AT LEAST TWO COMPONENTS

• US 3,870,147 A
• Filed: 04/19/1973
• Issued: 03/11/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Gunther Orth
• Original Assignee: Gunther Orth
• Inventors: Orth, Gunther
• Primary Examiner(s): Price, William I.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bernstein, Bruce H.
• Application Number:
  US05/352,508
• Time in Patent Office: 691 Days
• Field of Search: 206/219,220,221,222,364,365 215/6,DIG.8 222/90,94
• US Class Current: 206/222
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 81/3222 with additional means facilitating admixture
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 215/08 Mixing

Abstract

The specification describes a container for storing and preparing a spraying liquid comprising at least two components and which is at least partly filled with a solvent. A capsule comprising at least two separate chambers extends into the container and is connected with it in a fixed manner. The chambers contain different plant protective components. A sliding sleeve for pressing out the separating bottoms of the chambers has an external diameter substantially corresponding to the internal diameter of the capsule. The sliding sleeve is adapted to remain in the capsule after pressing out the separating bottoms.

Claims

1. Container means for separate storing and for mixing at least two components, one a dissolving component and another a solvent;

said container means comprising;

a container for containing one component;

said container having a body, an opening into said body and a neck leading from said body to said container opening;

a capsule for containing the other component and being positioned to extend into said container body;

said capsule having sidewalls, a normally sealed openable base, a normally sealed first stopper spaced away from and above said base along said sidewalls, whereby said capsule is sealed closed a removable second stopper for closing said body opening;

affixed to said second stopper and normally positioned in and extending into said neck toward said first stopper is an operating sleeve of a first length for operating a capsule rammer;

said sleeve having a first free end portion that is away from its said second stopper and which is shaped to define a first abutment to abut the capsule rammer;

also normally positioned in said neck and extending along at least part of the length of said sleeve is a removable capsule rammer;

said rammer having a second end portion that is shaped to define a second abutment to abut said first abutment;

said rammer having a rammer end opposite its said second end portion;

said rammer end in the said normal position of said rammer extending up through said neck toward said second stopper and away from said capsule;

with both said sleeve and said rammer in their respective said normal positions, said first and said second abutments are separated and are out of engagement with each other;

upon removal of said rammer from said container neck, inversion of said rammer and replacement of said rammer in said neck in the inverted position such that said rammer end extends into said container and said rammer second end portion extends toward said second stopper, and upon moving of said second stopper and its said sleeve onto said container neck toward said container body, said first and said second abutments abut;

said rammer being of a length such that its said rammer end engages and breaks through both said capsule first stopper and said capsule base, thereby causing mixing of the components in said capsule and said container.

2. The container means of claim 1, wherein said rammer is a hollow open ended sleeve such that mixed components in said capsule may pass through said rammer after it has opened said first stopper and said capsule base.

3. The container means of claim 2, wherein said stopper sleeve is also hollow and has an open lower end extending toward said container body, and with said first and second abutments in engagement, said rammer and said sleeve being so shaped and positioned as to form a continuous flow pathway from said container body through said rammer and said sleeve.

4. The container means of claim 2, wherein said container neck is defined by sidewalls thereof;

said rammer in its said normal position is in said container neck between said container neck sidewalls and said second stopper sleeve;

said rammer second end being narrowed to a first cross-section to define said second abutment, and said first abutment having said first cross-section thereby causing said first and said second abutments to abut.

5. The container means of claim 4, wherein said second stopper sleeve has an annular, radially inward step thereon which defines said first abutment;

said rammer second end portion passes over said sleeve first end portion to engage said second abutment.

6. The container means of claim 2, wherein said capsule comprises two capsule elements that are aligned with respect to motion of said rammer and both being defined by the same said sidewalls which extend past both said capsule elements and both include a respective normally sealed openable base and spaced away therefrom along said sidewalls a respective normally openable first stopper;

said rammer being of a length such that once said first and said second abutments abut, said rammer end engages and breaks successively through said first stopper of the upper said capsule component, said base of the upper said capsule component, said first stopper of the lower said capsule component and said base of the lower said capsule component, thereby to mix the components in said capsule elements and in said container.