Container for inspection

• US 8,201,700 B2
• Filed: 01/18/2008
• Issued: 06/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Eiken Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha, TOYO Seikan Kaisha Limited (Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Eiken Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha, TOYO Seikan Kaisha Limited (Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Shibata, Tomoyuki, Hosokawa, Manabu, Hayashi, Hiroaki, Saito, Shingo, Kanda, Hidetoshi, Masuya, Natsuki, Seto, Yoshiaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Stashick, Anthony
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wright, Madison L
• Application Number:
  US12/448,850
• Publication Number:
  US 20100044337A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,614 Days
• Field of Search: 215/227, 215/253, 215/257, 215/295, 215/329, 215/331, 215/335, 220/225.1, 220/258.1, 220/258.4
• US Class Current: 215/253
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2200/026 Fluid interfacing between devices or objects, e.g. connectors, inlet details
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2200/141 Preventing contamination, tampering
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2300/044 pierceable, e.g. films, membranes
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2300/0672 Integrated piercing tool
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2300/0832 cylindrical, tube shaped
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 3/50825 Closing or opening means, corks, bungs closures for containers B65D; means for removing stoppers B67B7/02
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2251/0025 of the 47-type
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2251/0087 of the 47-type
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 47/36 Closures with frangible parts adapted to be pierced, torn, or removed, to provide discharge openings B65D51/18 takes precedence; caps with piercable membranes B65D41/20, B65D41/50
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 51/222 the piercing or cutting means being integral with, or fixedly attached to, the outer closure

Abstract

Provided is a container 1 for inspection which stores and pours out contents therein, and the container is provided with a container main body 2 having a mouth portion 22 formed thereon, a cover portion 3 attached to the mouth portion 22 to seal the container main body 2, and an opening cap 4 attached to the cover portion 3. The cover portion 3 has a closing wall 34 for closing the mouth portion 22, and the opening cap 4 is provided with an pouring outlet 421, and a cutting portion 431 for cutting the closing wall 34. When the opening cap 4 is attached to the cover portion 3, the cutting section 431 cuts the closing wall 34 to enable pouring out the contents.

Thus, in the provided container 1 for inspection, sealing properties of the container main body 2 are ensured by the cover portion 3, and the closing wall 34 of the cover portion 3 is cut by the opening cap 4 attached to the cover portion 3 without removing the cover portion 3, whereby the contents can be poured out.

Claims

1. A container for inspection for storing and poring out contents, comprising:

a container main body having a mouth portion formed thereon,

a cover portion attached to the mouth portion to seal the container main body, and

an opening cap attached to the cover portion,

wherein the cover portion has

a closure portion screwing and covering the mouth portion,

a cylindrical portion formed in a cylindrical shape so as to vertically rise from a top surface of the closure portion,

an inner peripheral cylindrical portion drooping down from inside of the top surface of the closure portion so as to have a same plane as an inner surface of the cylindrical portion, and

a closing wall disposed in the cylindrical portion and closing the mouth portion,

an inner diameter on an upper part of the cylindrical portion is different from an inner diameter on a lower part of the cylindrical portion and the inner diameter on the lower part of the cylindrical portion is larger than the inner diameter on the upper part of the cylindrical portion as much as a thickness of the closing wall,

the opening cap is provided with a pouring outlet and a cutting portion for cutting the closing wall, and

when the opening cap is attached to the cover portion, the cutting portion cuts the closing wall to enable pouring out the contents.

2. The container for inspection according to claim 1, wherein the cutting portion pushes and cuts the closing wall, whereby the cutting of the closing wall is achieved.

3. The container for inspection according to claim 1, wherein the cutting portion is rotated while contacting the closing wall, whereby the closing wall is cut.

4. The container for inspection according to claim 3, wherein the opening cap is attached to the cover portion by screwing, and when the opening cap is screwed, the cutting portion cuts the closing wall.

5. The container for inspection according to claim 3, wherein the cutting portion has control means for controlling a rotation range of the cutting portion to less than 360°

after the cutting portion has begun to cut the closing wall, and

the control means prevents a part of the closing wall to be cut, whereby a fall of the closing wall is avoided.

6. The container for inspection according to claim 1, wherein the closing wall has cut lines on a peripheral portion thereof.

7. The container for inspection according to claim 1, wherein an area where the opening cap and the cover portion are overlapped without cutting the closing wall by the cutting portion is present in the container, when the opening cap is attached to the cover portion.

8. The container for inspection according to claim 1, wherein

the opening cap is provided with a filter for filtrating the contents, and

the filter is disposed at a position not to contact the contents, in a condition that the opening cap is attached to the cover portion and the cutting portion cuts the closing wall to enable pouring out the contents.

9. The container for inspection according to claim 1, wherein the closure portion has a first sealing protrusion over an entire periphery of a back surface of a top of the closure portion.

10. The container for inspection according to claim 1, wherein

the opening cap further includes a cutting tube,

the cutting portion is present at an end of the cutting tube, and

an outer diameter of the cutting tube is larger than the inner diameter on the upper part of the cylindrical portion.

11. The container for inspection according to claim 10, wherein the cutting tube has a bamboo spear shape at an end thereof.

12. The container for inspection according to claim 10, wherein

the opening cap further includes an opening cap main body, and

the opening cap has a second sealing protrusion over an entire periphery of a back surface of a top of the opening cap main body formed between the cutting tube and the opening cap main body.