Cleanser container

• US 4,600,128 A
• Filed: 11/15/1984
• Issued: 07/15/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sipuro AG
• Original Assignee: Sipuro AG
• Inventors: Rohrer, Hermann
• Primary Examiner(s): Rolla, Joseph J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Alexander, Jay I.
• Application Number:
  US06/672,293
• Time in Patent Office: 607 Days
• Field of Search: 222/108, 222/571, 222/572, 222/566, D 9/373, D 9/374, D 9/404, D 9/410
• US Class Current: 222/108
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 1/0223 characterised by shape
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 23/06 Integral drip catchers or drip-preventing means
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2501/0018 Ribs
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2501/0063 Additional discharging means B65D1/06 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2501/0081 Bottles of non-circular cross-section
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 47/06 with pouring spouts or tubes; with discharge nozzles or passages with slidable spouts B65D47/26
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 47/123 with internal parts
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 47/40 with drip catchers or drip-preventing means

Abstract

The top wall of the container opposite the bottom slopes upward slightly at one side where a curved neck adjoins it. At the far end of the neck, there is a threaded cylindrical mouthpiece holding an insert, which may have a drip-disk at the outer end if the container is used for a liquid cleanser. The center line of the cylindrical mouthpiece is slightly inclined downward relative to the horizontal. A depression in the top wall catches drops of liquid falling from the drip-disk, if any. In the area of transition from the top wall to the neck, the latter is partially encircled by a groove leading into the depression. Any drops of liquid clinging to the neck are guided by this groove into the depression. Thus the part of the container intended to be grasped always remains dry.

Claims

1. A container for liquid or dry cleanser, particularly toilet-bowl cleanser, of the type having a bottom, at least one sidewall, a top wall situated opposite said bottom, a neck portion projecting from said top wall in the vicinity of said sidewall and including an outlet opening at the end of said neck portion remote from said top wall, said neck portion bent arcuately so as to exhibit a change of direction of 80°

-110°

, an insert piece introduced into said outlet opening of said neck portion and having a duct passing therethrough, wherein the improvement comprises

a depression in said top wall, the end of said insert piece remote from said neck portion being situated approximately above the middle of said depression, and wherein said top wall slopes away from said bottom in the area of the base of said neck portion;

a groove partially encircling said neck portion at the base thereof and leading to said depression;

a transverse groove running substantially horizontally in said sidewall below the base of said neck portion and two longitudinal grooves, each extending downward in said sidewall from a respective end of said transverse groove.

2. A container as recited in claim 1 wherein the center line of said neck portion has a radius of curvature of about 2 to 4 cm.

3. The container of claim 1 for use with dry cleanser, wherein said insert includes a freely projecting cylindrical portion through which said duct extends.

4. The container of claim 1 for use with liquid cleanser, further comprising a drip-disk disposed at the end of said insert piece remote from said neck portion and above said depression.

5. The container of claim 4, wherein said drip-disk includes a mouth, said duct widening out toward said drip-disk near said mouth.

6. The container of claim 5, wherein the longitudinal axis of said duct is inclined by about 10°

to the horizontal, whereby the end of said duct remote from said neck is situated nearer to said depression than the end of said duct nearest said neck.