Container with information-carrying element

• US 4,496,051 A
• Filed: 01/28/1983
• Issued: 01/29/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/1981
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Georg J. Ortner
• Original Assignee: Georg J. Ortner
• Inventors: Ortner, Georg J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dixson, Jr., William T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ehrhardt, Brenda J.
• Application Number:
  US06/464,509
• Time in Patent Office: 732 Days
• Field of Search: 206/216, 206/232, 206/231, 206/38, 206/459, 206/37, 206/823, 220/375
• US Class Current: 206/459.5
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 23/14 of tags , labels, cards, coupons, decorations or the like B65D23/008 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 51/245 provided with decoration, information or contents indicating devices, labels B65D81/366 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/0273 Labels for bottles, flasks
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2023/0016 on pens
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/04 to be fastened or secured by the material of the label itself, e.g. by thermo-adhesion by a separate adhesive layer G09F3/10

Abstract

The container (2) for small material samples is inseparable from an information-carrying element fixed preferably in order to be in evidence when using the container.

Claims

1. A combination including a vertically oriented container with a product dispensing opening therein, the container being of a size too limited to carry sufficient advertisement and/or other information relative to the product within the container, and further including as part of the combination an information tab with advertising and/or other information thereon and having a surface area substantially larger than the surface area of the container, said information tab extending laterally from the container outer surface and having a vertical extent at least equal to that of the container, stopper means for closing the container dispensing opening for preventing dispensing of the container product when the stopper means is applied to the container to close the opening, and holder means for said information tab, said holder means effectively inseparably connecting the information tab to the container, said container, said information tab, said stopper means and said holder means comprising an injection molded one piece product unit which, on attempted separation of the information tag from the container, is destroyed.

2. A container in accordance with claim 1, wherein the container has a stopper inseparably connected to the product unit.

3. A container in accordance with claim 1, characterized by the fact that the advertising tab is connected to said holder means which accepts the container.

4. A container in accordance with claim 1, wherein the advertising tab is attached to the stopper of the means of the container.

5. A container in accordance with claim 1, wherein the advertising tab is attached to said holder means between the container stopper means and the container itself.

6. A container in accordance with claim 3, characterized by the fact that the holder means is inseparably connected to the container.

7. A container in accordance with claim 1, wherein the holder means comprise strips which encircle the neck portion of the container.

8. A container in accordance with claim 1, wherein the advertising tab extends laterally from opposite sides of the container.

9. A container in accordance with claim 1, wherein the product unit has a grip element.

10. A container in accordance with claim 1, wherein the container has a closure attached to a cutout section of the advertising tab, the cutout section accommodating the container whereby the container is freely suspended at its closure.

11. A container in accordance with claim 1, wherein the container is an elongated bottle form, the advertising tab comprising a flat element extending parallel to the axis of the container.