Container for storing and applying liquid or cream products
a container and liquid cream technology, applied in the field of containers, can solve the problems of difficult to use the undesirable amount of product inside, increase the internal volume, and manual application of the product to the user's skin, and achieve the effects of reducing the height of the latter, and being convenient to handl
Inactive Publication Date: 2005-06-09
GLOBALPACK INDA E COMERCIO
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[0014] It is a generic object of the present invention to provide a container for storing and applying liquid or cream products, such as deodorants, which allows for an easy and direct application of the product to the user's skin and a restricted exposure of the product to the environment, and which presents, by means of a relatively simple construction, a closing arrangement comprising a cap which can be easily manipulated by the user to the open and closed positions, and which leads to an adequate sealing degree of the container that is storing liquid or cream products, independently of the fact of the container being of the roll-on type or provided with an end wall portion in the form of a spherical calotte, incorporated in a single piece to the container body and which is provided with a median dispensing orifice.
[0016] The invention proposed herein is directed to a container for storing and applying liquid or cream products, such as a dispensing container in the form of a tube, bottle or of the roll-on type for liquid or cream deodorant, said container comprising a tubular body having a closed basic end and an application end provided with an end wall portion in the form of a spherical calotte which is incorporated to the tubular body or rotatably supported thereon, and with a product dispensing means, in the form of an orifice in the spherical calotte or a sphere rotatably supported on the application end of the tubular body. The container further comprises a cap, presenting an end wall internally provided with at least one sealing means, and a sidewall, which cap is removably seated and retained against the application end of the tubular body, so that the sealing means blocks the product dispensing means.
[0019] The closing arrangement, which is generically defined above, allows the cap axial locking means, which present a relatively simple and low cost construction and are easy to handle, to assure a secure and efficient sealing of the liquid or cream dispensing means, whether defined by a dispensing orifice or by a roll-on type sphere.
[0020] Another important positive aspect of the construction proposed herein is the fact that the closing arrangement eliminates the provision of screw threads in the basic region of the spherical calotte, allowing to substantially reduce the height of the latter and consequently its internal volume, whereby the user can easily deform the flexible wall of the tubular body, pressing it inwardly the spherical calotte so as to extract the product which is still retained in the container.
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In this construction, the cream product is removed from the tubular body and applied to the user's skin by his / her hands, which operation presents some inconveniences, such as possible contaminations of the product as a function not only of the hygiene of the user's hand, but of allowing the product to contact the environment when the container is open.
While this construction does not present the deficiencies of exposing the product to the environment, as in the case of the containers in the form of a cylindrical basic body, it has the disadvantage mentioned in the construction above resulting from the need to manually apply the product to the user's skin.
This constructive characteristic increases the height of the rigid region of the calotte that defines the application end, producing two undesirable effects, one of them being the difficulty the user has, through the usual manual operation for resiliently deforming the flexible lateral wall of the tubular body, to achieve such resilient deformation in a sufficient degree to allow said wall to penetrate in the internal region of the spherical calotte and thus promote the discharge of all the remaining amount of the cream still retained in the package.
The higher height of the rigid region of the spherical calotte, besides making difficult to extract all the product, leads to a relatively increased internal volume, retaining in its interior an undesirable amount of product which is difficult to be used.
When only one axial locking system of the cap is used, both the sealing and the retention means, although being relatively cheaper and easier to handle, are not adequate for sealing recipients containing a liquid product, such as those of the roll-on type and those provided with an end dispensing orifice, since the internal sealing means of the cap are not pressed against the end wall portion of the tubular body, whether defined by a calotte incorporated in a single piece to the tubular body, or rotatably supported thereon, as it occurs with the end sphere of the roll-on type applicators.
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[0028] As illustrated, the present container comprises, in a first embodiment illustrated in FIGS. 1-4, a tubular body 10, generally made of plastic and with a substantially cylindrical contour or with any other cross section, having a closed basic end 11 and an opposite application end 12, onto which is seated and axially retained a cap 20 provided with an end wall 21 and a sidewall 22. The tubular body 10 presents a wall thickness which is adequate to render it flexible and easily resiliently deformable when manually pressed by the user.
[0029] The cap 20 presents a tubular shape, for example with a peripheral contour similar to that of the tubular body 10 at least in the region of the latter that is adjacent to the mounting region of the cap 20 to the application end 12 of said tubular body 10, said cap 20 being generally, but not necessarily, made of plastic material.
[0030] According to this first embodiment, the application end 12 of the tubular body 10 is provided with an end...
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A container for storing and applying liquid or cream products, comprising: a tubular body (10) provided with an annular step (16) adjacent to an application end (12) and turned to a basic end (11), the sidewall (22) of a cap (20) incorporating, internally, a circumferential rib (26) with its internal diameter (d) being slightly smaller than the external diameter (D) of the annular step (16), in order to be seated against the latter when subjected to a certain expansive radial resilient deformation, the annular step (16) and the circumferential rib (26) being shaped so that the resilient memory force of the cap (20), which is acting on the mutual seating region between the annular step and the circumferential rib, axially forces the cap (20) against the application end (12), maintaining the sealing means (23,24,24a) pressed against the product dispensing means (14,15), blocking the latter.
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FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] The present invention refers to a container which is configured to allow the storage of a load of liquid or cream product, such as a cream deodorant, and the application of this product to the user's body. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] There are well known from the art the containers for storing products, such as cream deodorants, which consist of a generally cylindrical basic body, having a closed seating base and which is provided with an upper opening defining a nozzle which is generally threaded to receive a cap, said nozzle being dimensioned to allow the user to access and extract, without difficulties, the cream stored inside the basic body. [0003] In this construction, the cream product is removed from the tubular body and applied to the user's skin by his / her hands, which operation presents some inconveniences, such as possible contaminations of the product as a function not only of the hygiene of the user's hand, but of allowing the produc...
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CPCB65D35/36B65D35/08
InventorMIRANDA, RENATO
OwnerGLOBALPACK INDA E COMERCIO