Shaving assembly dispenser

• US 9,326,580 B2
• Filed: 12/09/2013
• Issued: 05/03/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SL Shaveco LLC
• Original Assignee: ShaveLogic, Inc.
• Inventors: Provost, Craig A., Griffin, John W., Tucker, William E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Stashick, Anthony
• Assistant Examiner(s): IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN
• Application Number:
  US14/101,163
• Publication Number:
  US 20150157109A1
• Time in Patent Office: 876 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 27/22 Containers or carriers for storing shaving appliances
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 27/225 for storing razor blade cartridges, e.g. after use
• CPC Class Codes: B26B 19/3853 Housing or handle
• CPC Class Codes: B26B 21/4012 Housing details, e.g. for cartridges
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 11/12 of drawer-and-shell type
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2251/023 Ribs or recesses
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2251/04 Orienting or positioning means
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2583/0454 Flat container with slide cover, i.e. the thickness of the container is slightly more than the thickness of one article
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 43/12 guided for removal by sliding
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/723 Sliding elements for covering and uncovering discharge openings of containers, e.g. slide-closures
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 7/10 of drawer-and-shell type
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/10 for dispensing razor-blades
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 9/08 of drawer-and-shell type
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 11/12 pivotable
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49826 Assembling or joining

Abstract

Containers are described herein for the transportation and distribution of replaceable consumer products, e.g. interchangeable shaving assemblies. The containers described herein include a mechanism to securely hold the container in predetermined open and closed positions. The interior of the container may provided features which serve to hold and protect the shaving assemblies when not in use, e.g., during transport or storage.

Claims

1. A shaving system comprising:

an outer container,

a sectioned inner container defining at least two compartments and having a front and a back wall, a divider, and a floor, and

a shaving assembly in each compartment, each shaving assembly including an interface element having an opening configured to receive a handle,

the inner container being disposed within the outer container and being movable relative to the outer container between a closed position, a first open position in which one of the shaving assemblies is exposed, and a second open position in which the other shaving assembly is exposed,

wherein the inner container includes supporting features disposed on the floor and the shaving assemblies are positioned in the compartments facing in opposite directions, the opening of one of the interface elements is positioned closer to the front wall than to the divider and the opening of the other interface element is positioned closer to the back wall than to the divider.

2. The shaving system of claim 1 wherein the shaving assemblies are free-floating within the compartments of the inner container.

3. The shaving system of claim 1 wherein each of the shaving assemblies includes a blade unit having a long axis, and the compartments are dimensioned such that the long axes of the blade units are disposed perpendicular to a direction of travel of the inner container between the open positions and the closed position.

4. The shaving system of claim 1 wherein the outer container and inner container include cooperating features configured to releasably retain the inner container in each of its positions relative to the outer container.

5. The shaving system of claim 4 wherein the cooperating features comprise stop tabs on one of the containers that are configured to be received in openings in the other container.

6. The shaving system of claim 1 wherein each of the shaving assemblies includes a blade unit having a plurality of blades, and the supporting features are configured to support the blades above the floor of the compartment and to support a lower surface of each blade unit at an angle with respect to the floor.