Spout assembly for thin-film liquid container

• US 6,783,024 B2
• Filed: 11/04/2002
• Issued: 08/31/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Jung Min Lee
• Original Assignee: Jung Min Lee
• Inventors: Lee, Jung Min
• Primary Examiner(s): Moy, Joseph Man-Fu
• Application Number:
  US10/275,232
• Publication Number:
  US 20030075560A1
• Time in Patent Office: 666 Days
• Field of Search: 220/705, 220/707, 220/708, 220/710, 220/709, 220/703, 220/713, 229/103.1, 383/80, 383/100
• US Class Current: 220/707
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2231/002 comprising strips forming channels or liquid passageways
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2231/004 comprising rods or tubes provided with radial openings, ribs or the like, e.g. dip-tubes, spiral rods
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2575/583 the non-integral spout having an elongate cross-sectional shape, e.g. canoe or boat shaped
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 75/5822 and defining, after tearing, a small dispensing spout, a small orifice or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 75/5883 connected to the package at the sealed junction of two package walls

Abstract

The present invention relates to a spout assembly for thin-film containers having an upper side end, a lower side end, a right side end, a left side end and a rounded corner side end comprising a fixing support fixed to the rounded corner side end, a spout portion extended from the fixing support to the outside of the container, a cap coupled with the spout portion, and a fluid guide member extended from the fixing suport to the lower side end of the container.

Claims

1. A spout assembly for thin-film containers having an upper side end, a lower side end, a left side end and a rounded corner side end comprising:

a fixing support fixed to the rounded corner side end;

a spout portion extended from the fixing support to the outside of the container;

a cap coupled with the spout portion; and

a fluid guide member extended from the fixing support to the lower side end of the container,

wherein the rounded corner side end is tilted at a predetermined angle from the lower side end of the container, the fixing support is paralleled with the rounded corner side end, and the fluid guide member comprises a first guide portion that is extended from the rounded corner side end and whose axis line intersects the right and left side ends and a second guide portion that is curved from the first guide portion at a predetermined angle and intersects the lower side end of the container.

2. A spout assembly for thin-film containers as claimed in claim 1, wherein a section of the fluid guide member is shaped of “

+”

.

3. A spout assembly for thin-film containers as claimed in claim 1, wherein the spout portion is formed at its outer circumference with a screw thread and the cap is formed at its inner circumference with a screw thread to be coupled with the screw thread of the spout portion.