Paper container for fluid having spout plug

• US 7,540,405 B2
• Filed: 04/23/2004
• Issued: 06/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nippon Paper Pak Co Ltd (Nippon Paper Group Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Nippon Paper Pak Co Ltd (Nippon Paper Group Incorporated)
• Inventors: Sase, Kazuhiko, Miyagawa, Shigekazu, Asoi, Eiichi, Onodera, Susumu, Tanaka, Kenji
• Primary Examiner(s): Elkins; Gary E
• Assistant Examiner(s): BYRD, LATRICE CHENELL
• Application Number:
  US10/555,764
• Publication Number:
  US 20070040009A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,866 Days
• Field of Search: 229/125, 229/125.14, 229/125.09, 229/125.15, 229/125.17, 229/248, 229/125.04, 229/204, 222/541.2, 222/541.7, 222/541.9, 222/80, 222/81, 222/83, 222/83.5, 222/88, 220/277
• US Class Current: 229/125.14
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2251/0015 of the 41-type
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2251/0096 integral with the container
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/748 a major part of the container wall or membrane being left inside the container after the opening

Abstract

A paper container for fluid including a spout plug, in which the spout plug is formed of a spout positioned on a spout hole part for cutting and opening and incorporates a rotary opening blade and a cap. The spout plug is fitted to a top panel, which includes the spout hole part for cutting and opening in which a spout hole is formed in a paper base material and is sealed by a sealing layer. The contained further including a cut and opened piece fall prevention mechanism produced when the sealing layer is cut and opened by the rotary opening blade of the spout plug and capable of preventing a part of the cut and opened piece of the sealing layer from being cut off and giving hinge function to the uncut part of the cut and opened piece in the spout hole part for cutting and opening.

Claims

1. A paper container for fluids, comprising;

a spout plug including a spout positioned on a spout hole part configured to be cut and opened, a rotary opening blade and a cap, the spout plug being fitted to a top panel having the spout hole part;

a spout hole formed in a paper base material sealed by the spout hole part, said spout hole part formed by a material other than said paper based material; and

a cut and opened piece fall prevention mechanism provided in the spout hole part for leaving uncut a part of the spout hole part, said cut and opened piece fall prevention mechanism produced when the spout hole part is cut and opened by the rotary opening blade of the spout plug and for endowing the uncut part of said spout hole part with a hinge function,

wherein the cut and opened piece fall prevention mechanism provided in the spout hole part is formed of a protrusion which is provided on a part of a periphery of the spout hole formed in the paper base material and which protrudes into the spout hole by extending the paper base material.

2. A paper container for fluid having a spout plug according to claim 1,

wherein the hinge portion is formed at a base portion of the protrusion by piercing or half-cutting or creasing the paper base material along all or a part of a line connecting portions near the ends of the base portion of the protrusion.

3. A paper container for fluid having a spout plug according to claim 1,

wherein a radius of a cutting line of a rotary opening blade of the spout plug mounted onto the spout hole part provided in the top panel is smaller than a radius of the spout hole provided in the paper base material, and is larger than the distal end of the protrusion protruding into the spout hole.

4. A paper container for fluid having a spout plug according to claim 2,

wherein a radius of a cutting line of a rotary opening blade of the spout plug mounted onto the spout hole part provided in the top panel is smaller than a radius of the spout hole provided in the paper base material, and is larger than the distal end of the protrusion protruding into the spout hole.