Multi-cavity dispensing container

• US 5,038,963 A
• Filed: 04/30/1990
• Issued: 08/13/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/1989
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Church & Dwight Company Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Chesebrough-Pond's USA Company (Unilever PLC)
• Inventors: Gentile, James L., Pettengill, Edwin R.
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Assistant Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US07/515,597
• Time in Patent Office: 470 Days
• Field of Search: 222/137, 222/145, 222/564, 222/94, 222/330, 239/306, 239/418
• US Class Current: 222/145.3
• CPC Class Codes: B05C 17/00516 Shape or geometry of the outlet orifice or the outlet element
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 81/325 Containers having parallel or coaxial compartments, provided with a piston or a movable bottom for discharging contents
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/0005 Containers or packages provided with a piston or with a movable bottom or partition having approximately the same section as the container B65D83/0072 takes precedence

Abstract

A rigid piston-type multi-cavity dispensing container for simultaneous coextrusion of two or more flowable materials in a predetermined proportion, such as multicomponent toothpaste and the like which, upon relative compression of the upper and lower body members, produces a single, banded, unmixed stream of material. The container has a unique outlet assembly which is arranged to cause the outlet streams of material to flow towards each other. The outlet assembly maintains the segregation of the different materials as they move simultaneously outward through the outlet.

Claims

1. In a dispensing container for the co-extrusion of at least two flowable materials, having at least two flowable material reservoirs each having an outlet passage for said materials, an improved outlet assembly, comprising:

a connecting member having at least two inlet passages for providing fluid connection to said reservoir outlet passages and having a cylindrical extension with at least one interior septum forming at least two connecting member outlet passages, said interior septum having an outlet end which is co-planar with the end of said cylindrical extension;

and a nozzle member having a cylindrical recess for receiving said cylindrical extension, said recess including connection means for engaging said extension and guide means for guiding the angular orientation between said nozzle member and said cylindrical extension, said nozzle member further including a nozzle portion having at least two fluid channel separated by at least one septum extending at least to the outlet end of said nozzle portion, and means for providing fluid connection from said connecting member outlet passages to said fluid outlet channels comprising grooves formed at the inner axial end of said recess for receiving said planar end of said cylindrical extension and said interior septum of said cylindrical extension, said grooves being formed by ridges arranged to extend into the ends of said cylindrical extension outlet passages.

2. The improvement specified in claim 1 wherein said septum of said nozzle portion is textured to have a dull finish.

3. The improvement specified in claim 1 wherein said septum of said nozzle portion is tapered to a smaller thickness at said outlet end.