Package for perfume products

• US 4,371,087 A
• Filed: 12/29/1980
• Issued: 02/01/1983
• Est. Priority Date: 01/02/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Socieite de Droit Neerlandais DITE Cartier International BV Herengracht 436 Amsterdam-C Pays-Bas Dutch Corporation
• Original Assignee: Cartier International BV (Compagnie Financiere Richemont SA)
• Inventors: Saujet, Claude
• Primary Examiner(s): Price, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): Weaver, Sue A.
• Application Number:
  US06/221,363
• Time in Patent Office: 764 Days
• Field of Search: 215/12 R, 215/12 A, 215/13 R, 215/1 R, 206/528, 206/530
• US Class Current: 215/12.1
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 2034/002 Accessories
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 34/02 Scent flasks, e.g. with evaporator

Abstract

A package is provided for liquids and in particular for perfumery products, characterized by the fact that it includes a case and a container, preferably of glass, the case receiving the container, and supporting it by its bottom, and by two lateral parts. The bottom of the receptacle has projecting downwardly, a locking element of the bayonet type which cooperates with an opening of corresponding shape in the case. The top of each of the lateral parts of the case has an abutment which cooperates with an abutment correspondingly placed on each side of the receptacle to delimit the angular position of this latter with respect to the case, between one position which permits engaging the bayonet in the case, and another position which corresponds to the use position of the package. An elastic arm placed along the height of each lateral part of the case cooperates with the projections on the container for, on the one hand guiding the receptacle toward it use position on the case by permitting the engagement of its bayonet type device, and on the other hand, holding the container elastically axially and in rotation on the case while the package is in the position of use.

Claims

1. A package for liquids, particularly for perfumery products, comprising:

a case having a lower base portion and two lateral parts upwardly extending from said lower portion;

a refill container;

bayonet-type locking means for locking said container in the base of said case, said locking means comprising

a projection extending from the bottom of said container, and

an opening of a corresponding shape in said base portion for accommodating said projection; and

means on said container and on the lateral parts of said case for;

(a) angularly positioning and vertically guiding the container during the introduction thereof into said case in a first angular orientation, in which said projection at the bottom of the container is in registration with and may be introduced into the opening of said base portion, and

(b) elastically holding the container against axial and rotational displacement in said case in a second angular orientation in which said projection at the bottom of said container is locked in the opening of said base portion.

2. The package of claim 1, wherein:

said positioning, guiding and holding means comprises in each said lateral part of the case an arm mounted elastically so as to be able to withdraw within the respective lateral part of the case, each arm having a first projection cooperating with a horizontal recess of the container and two parallel vertical projections which cooperate with projecting ribs on each lateral side of the container.

3. The package of claim 1, further comprising:

in the opening of the base portion of the case, elastic means upwardly urging said projection of the bottom of said container when locked in said opening.

4. The package of claim 1, further comprising:

cooperating abutment means on the upper portion of each said lateral part of the case, and each side of the container to limit the angular displacement of this latter with respect to the case between said first and second angular orientations.

5. The package of claim 4, wherein:

said abutment means comprises;

a projecting rib located on each side at the upper part of the container, said rib engaging in a recess near the top on the internal face of each of the lateral parts of the case.

6. The package of claim 1, wherein:

said two lateral parts of the case frame the container up to its upper portion; and

further comprising;

a cover placed over the upper portion of the container and seating on the top of said two lateral parts of the case.

7. The package of claim 1, wherein:

the container is essentially rectangular in section with small arcuately curved sides which provide said positioning, guiding and holding means.

8. The package of claim 7, wherein:

the case and the container have substantially the same width.

9. A perfume package, comprising:

a case and a bottle disassociably associated therewith,

said case comprising;

a body of generally U-shape as seen in front and rear elevation, including a centrally located generally horizontal base portion and two laterally-spaced lateral portions projecting upwardly at opposite ends of said base portion;

the base portion having a centrally located, upwardly opening socket formed therein, this socket having means defining a mouth of non-circular figure as seen in top plan view, this mouth having a first selected angular disposition relative to the width and depth of the case about a longitudinal axis of the case;

said two lateral portions having respective inner sidewalls, the two of which face one another over the base portion of the case, each said inner sidewall having a lower portion and an upper portion;

said inner sidewalls being generally cylindrically curved about said case longitudinal axis so as to have respective concave surface portions;

a respective keeper means associated rotationally medially with said inner sidewall lower portion of each said lateral portion of said case;

each such keeper means including a pair of radially inwardly projecting lugs spaced equally to the left and right of the median of the respective inner sidewall, and a third radially inwardly projecting lug spaced above said pair of lugs generally rotationally medially of the respective inner sidewall;

each such keeper means further including means resiliently urging all three respective lugs generally radially inwardly generally towards said case longitudinal axis, so each said three lugs normally projects radially further towards said case longitudinal axis than does the respective inner sidewall concave surface portion;

means rotationally at least generally centrally formed on each inner sidewall in the upper portion thereof, an inwardly and upwardly opening notch,

said bottle being of generally rectangular form, and having opposed front and rear sidewalls in the form of two respective externally generally flat, at least largely transparent, relatively broad panels, two opposed relatively narrow end walls, a bottom wall and a top wall with a centrally located, axially upwardly projecting neck;

means defining a centrally located, axially downwardly projecting external boss on said bottle bottom wall;

each said bottle end wall having an upper portion and a lower portion;

both of said bottle end walls having extensive external surface portions of cylindrical curvature disposed coaxially with said neck and boss, each of these surface portions being present in narrow marginal bands at both angular extremes of said lower portion of each wall and over substantially all of the said upper portion of each end wall, but for where it is obscured by a respective angularly offset lug formed externally on such upper portion, each such lug being marginally perimetrically surrounded by the respective said surface portion of cylindrical curvature;

both of said lugs being angularly offset in the same rotational sense from the median of the respective end wall;

each bottle end wall further including in the lower portion thereof, an angularly centrally disposed radially relieved region having a vertically extending medially located rib formed externally thereon, each such rib projecting radially of the bottle no further than the respective external surface portion of cylindrical curvature;

said boss on said bottle bottom wall having a head of non-circular transverse cross-sectional figure which is effectively complementary to the non-circular figure of said case socket mouth, this head having a selected angular disposition rotationally of the bottle which is at least somewhat different from the comparable angular disposition of said case base socket mouth relative to said case longitudinal axis,

the bottle being constructed and arranged to be disassociably associated with the case by inserting the bottle into the case bottom-first with the bottle rotationally cocked relative to the case so that the head of the boss on the bottom wall of the bottle is in rotational and axial registry with the case base socket mouth, projecting this boss axially into said socket through said mouth while receiving said bottle end wall lugs into said case lateral portion inner sidewall notches, then turning said bottle into registration with said case, thereby causing;

one lug of each said pair of lugs of each said keeper means to resiliently cam over said rib on the respective bottle end wall,

the third lug of each said keeper means to become wedged between the upper end of the respective rib and the upper margin of said radially relieved region of the respective bottle end wall,

said bottle bottom boss head to become locked in said case base recess, and

each of said bottle generally front and rear sidewall panels to be closely framed along the bottom margin and both lateral margins thereof by said case.

10. A refill container for association with a case to provide a package for liquids, particularly for perfumery products, in which the package comprises:

a case having a lower base portion and two lateral parts upwardly extending from said lower portion;

a refill container;

bayonet-type locking means for locking said container in the base of said case, said locking means comprising

a projection extending from the bottom of said container, and

an opening of a corresponding shape in said base portion for accommodating said projection; and

means on said container and on the lateral parts of said case for;

(a) angularly positioning and vertically guiding the container during the introduction thereof into said case in a first angular orientation, in which said projection at the bottom of the container is in registration with and may be introduced into the opening of said base portion, and

(b) elastically holding the container against axial and rotational displacement in said case in a second angular orientation in which said projection at the bottom of said container is locked in the opening of said base portion;

said refill container comprising on its lower portion a bayonet-type of projection, and on each side, an upper recess, and a respective vertical median rib below each said recess.

11. The refill container of claim 10, comprising a further projection on each side on its upper portion.

12. A bottle constructed and arranged for disassociable association with a case to constitute a perfume package, where the case comprises:

a body of generally U-shape as seen in front and rear elevation, including a centrally located generally horizontal base portion and two laterally-spaced lateral portions projecting upwardly at opposite ends of said base portion;

the base portion having a centrally located, upwardly opening socket formed therein, this socket having means defining a mouth of non-circular figure as seen in top plan view, this mouth having a first selected angular disposition relative to the width and depth of the case about a longitudinal axis of the case;

said two lateral portions having respective inner sidewalls, the two of which face one another over the base portion of the case, each said inner sidewall having a lower portion and an upper portion;

said inner sidewalls being generally cylindrically curved about said case longitudinal axis so as to have respective concave surface portions;

a respective keeper means associated rotationally medially with said inner sidewall lower portion of each said lateral portion of said case;

each such keeper means including a pair of radially inwardly projecting lugs spaced equally to the left and right of the median of the respective inner sidewall, and a third radially inwardly projecting lug spaced above said pair of lugs generally rotationally medially of the respective inner sideall;

each such keeper means further including means resiliently urging all three respective lugs generally radially inwardly generally towards said case longitudinal axis, so each said three lugs normally projects radially further towards said case longitudinal axis than does the respective inner sidewall concave surface portion;

means rotationally at least generally centrally formed on each inner sideall in the upper portion thereof, an inwardly and upwardly opening notch,

said bottle being of generally rectangular form, and having opposed front and rear sidewalls in the form of two respective externally generally flat, at least largely transparent, relatively broad panels, two opposed relatively narrow end walls, a bottom wall and a top wall with a centrally located, axially upwardly projecting neck;

means defining a centrally located, axially downwardly projecting external boss on said bottle bottom wall;

each said bottle end wall having an upper portion and a lower portion;

both of said bottle end walls having extensive external surface portions of cylindrical curvature disposed coaxially with said neck and boss, each of these surface portions being present in narrow marginal bands at both angular extremes of said lower portion of each end wall and over substantially all of the said upper portion of each end wall, but for where it is obscured by a respective angularly offset lug formed externally on such upper portion, each such lug being marginally perimetrically surrounded by the respective said surface portion of cylindrical curvature;

both of said lugs being angularly offset in the same rotational sense from the median of the respective end wall;

each bottle end wall further including in the lower portion thereof, an angularly centrally disposed radially relieved region having a vertically extending medially located rib formed externally thereon, each such rib projecting radially of the bottle no further than the respective external surface portion of cylindrical curvature;

said boss on said bottle bottom wall having a head of non-circular transverse cross-sectional figure which is effectively complementary to the non-circular figure of said case socket mouth, this head having a selected angular disposition rotationally of the bottle which is at least somewhat different from the comparable angular disposition of said case base socket mouth relative to said case longitudinal axis,

the bottle being constructed and arranged to be disassociably associated with the case by inserting the bottle into the case bottom-first with the bottle rotationally cocked relative to the case so that the head of the boss on the bottom wall of the bottle is in rotational and axial registry with the case base socket mouth, projecting this boss axially into said socket through said mouth while receiving said bottle end wall lugs into said case lateral portion inner sidewall notches, then turning said bottle into registration with said case, thereby causing;

one lug of each said pair of lugs of each said keeper means to resiliently cam over said rib on the respective bottle end wall,

the third lug of each said keeper means to become wedged between the upper end of the respective rib and the upper margin of said radially relieved region of the respective bottle end wall,

said bottle bottom boss head to become locked in said case base recess, and

each of said bottle generally front and rear sidewall panels to be closely framed along the bottom margin and both lateral margins thereof by said case.