Container assembly
First Claim
1. In a container assembly comprising in combination a plurality of containers provided with substantially identical caps and a carrier bar defining a corresponding number of openings completely encircled by sleeves, the improvement according to whichsaid caps have a circular transverse cross section and an external cylindrical surface, each said cylindrical surface carrying a plurality of ridges extending outward of said surface and in the direction of said cylinder, andsaid sleeves have closed internal surfaces of revolution mating approximately with said cylindrical external surface, but provided with a different number of ridges having different dimensions which interengage with the ridges on said caps,said caps and sleeves being made of a resilient material so that said ridges are compressible and the maximum undistended inner diameter of said sleeves being slightly less than the maximum uncompressed outer diameter of said caps, so that when said caps are forced into said sleeve said ridges are compressed and the caps are frictionally retained in said sleeves said caps having an axial length greater than said sleeves.
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Abstract
Container assembly comprises a plurality of containers having similar externally ridged caps and a carrier bar provided with holes bordered by internally ridged sleeves which are a force fit onto said caps.
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1. In a container assembly comprising in combination a plurality of containers provided with substantially identical caps and a carrier bar defining a corresponding number of openings completely encircled by sleeves, the improvement according to which
said caps have a circular transverse cross section and an external cylindrical surface, each said cylindrical surface carrying a plurality of ridges extending outward of said surface and in the direction of said cylinder, and said sleeves have closed internal surfaces of revolution mating approximately with said cylindrical external surface, but provided with a different number of ridges having different dimensions which interengage with the ridges on said caps, said caps and sleeves being made of a resilient material so that said ridges are compressible and the maximum undistended inner diameter of said sleeves being slightly less than the maximum uncompressed outer diameter of said caps, so that when said caps are forced into said sleeve said ridges are compressed and the caps are frictionally retained in said sleeves said caps having an axial length greater than said sleeves.
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