Disposable pocket-size package for eye-rinsing liquid

• US 4,740,206 A
• Filed: 11/13/1986
• Issued: 04/26/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tobin Scandinavia AB
• Original Assignee: Tobin Scandinavia AB
• Inventors: Allander, Claes
• Primary Examiner(s): Truluck, Dalton L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US07/005,166
• Time in Patent Office: 530 Days
• Field of Search: 604/294-302, 604/403, 604/405, 604/310, 220/306, 215/D3, 215/309, 222/108, 222/205, 222/207, 222/484
• US Class Current: 604/294
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 35/02 for the eyes
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 215/03 Medical

Abstract

A sealed, disposable pocket-size package for an eye-rinsing liquid comprises a flexible plastic bottle containing the liquid. The bottle includes a neck that is closed by a cap welded thereto. One end of the cap communicates with a connector for a liquid discharge tube that is located within the bottle, and the other end of the cap defines a liquid sprinkle member which extends into a cup-shaped eye bowl that is integral with the cap. The eye bowl is shaped to define an open mouth and includes a liquid drainage hole in a bottom wall of the bowl. The open mouth of the eye bowl is sealed closed by a cover that is tearably welded thereto, the cover including an integral plug which extends from the inner surface of the cover across the bowl into the drainage hole to also close the drainage hole.

Claims

1. A sealed, disposable pocket-size package for an eye-rinsing liquid comprising a flexible plastic bottle for containing the liquid, said bottle including a liquid discharge tube extending into said bottle said bottle defining a neck portion that is closed by a plastic cap welded thereto, said cap having one end closely adjacent to said neck portion in communication with said liquid discharge tube, said cap having side walls extending from said one end thereof away from said bottle to a second end of said cap which defines liquid sprinkle means, said cap providing fluid communication between said liquid discharge tube and said sprinkle means a cupshaped eye bowl integral with said cap, said eye bowl including a bottom wall integral with and extending outwardly of the side walls of said cap between said first and second ends of said cap, said eye bowl also including outwardly divergent side walls extending from said bottom wall away from said neck portion of said bottle in surrounding relation to and beyond said sprinkle means to define an enlarged mouth of said eye bowl at a location remote from said bottle, said bottom wall of said bowl having a liquid discharge opening therein adjacent to and outward of the side walls of said cap, and a detachable plastic closure structure for sealingly closing said mouth and said liquid drainage opening of said eye bowl, said closure structure including a cover portion which overlies the mouth of said eye bowl and which has a flange that extends around and is tearably welded to and about the exterior edges of said mouth, said cover portion including an integral plug member which extends from a position adjacent said mouth of said eye bowl through the interior of said eye bowl to the bottom wall of said eye bowl and into said liquid drainage opening.

2. The package of claim 1 wherein said closure structure includes a finger-grip ring portion extending outwardly of said cover portion for use in tearing said closure structure off of said eye bowl.