JP6657966B2 - Packaging container - Google Patents

Description

  TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a packaging container for accommodating contents such as powders and granules, and more particularly to a packaging container in which a container is tilted to discharge contents while restricting the contents and easily measured by a measuring tool.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, many products have been sold in which medicines, nutrients, and the like are in the form of powder or granules, and are stored in cans or packaging containers using synthetic resin containers. In the case of a product in which the dose and the amount of intake are determined for each serving, a measuring tool such as a measuring spoon is attached to the packaging container.

  Further, in packaging containers for storing powders and granules, measures are taken to protect the contents by making it difficult for moisture in the external environment to enter the containers even during use of the product. For example, in the powder medicine container disclosed in Patent Literature 1, the outer peripheral flange of the inner lid to be placed on the upper opening of the container main body is placed on the upper opening of the container main body, and the outer lid is provided. The upper flange of the container main body is sandwiched between the flange of the inner lid and the upper mouth of the container body, and the lid is used to secure the hermeticity.

  Further, in the powder container of Patent Document 1, the contents scooped with a measuring spoon are scraped off and weighed by a scraping means, and the excess powder is automatically scraped into the container body. The ingenuity is given to the inner lid.

JP-A-07-007643

  In the powder medicine container disclosed in Patent Literature 1, the container body, the inner lid, and the outer lid constitute a packaging container, which is provided with a measuring spoon, and has a large number of parts as a whole. In addition, when taking, the outer lid is removed and placed on a desk or the like, and then the work of scooping the powder is performed with a measuring spoon. There is a problem that. Furthermore, the measuring spoon itself may fall into the container.

  Therefore, a packaging container for accommodating powders and granules such as powdered medicines shall consist of a wide-mouthed container body and a cap attached to the upper mouth of the container body, and the cap shall be placed on the upper mouth of the container body. It can be considered to adopt a hinge cap type in which a lid is connected to a cap body to be attached via a hinge. If the measuring tool is provided as a cup and provided with a portion to be set in the cap body, it can be stored hygienically without being lost when the measuring tool is not used.

  By the way, if the powdered material or the granular material is discharged through the outlet opening in the top plate of the cap body while tilting the packaging container with the lid open, many stored materials are easily discharged at once. Then, the cup-type weighing tool receiving the weighing instrument is liable to cause a problem in which more than one weighing item is contained therein.

  In order to prevent this problem from occurring, it is necessary to make the outlet small, but if the contents are medicines, in order for the recipient to keep the dose, the medicine that has been oversized by the measuring instrument It is necessary to open a portion for returning the container to the container side, and the takeout opening serving as the return opening becomes large.

  In addition, in the case where the take-out port is in such a state that the take-out port is largely opened, there is a problem that it becomes difficult to secure the sealing around the take-out port when the lid is closed.

  Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and has been made capable of discharging the contents so that the contents can be easily measured with the attached measuring tool, securing a portion for returning the excessively discharged contents, and further allowing moisture to flow to the container body side. It is an object of the present invention to provide a packaging container suitable for accommodating powders and granules, which makes it difficult to enter and makes it easy to discharge and return the contents.

(Invention of claim 1)
The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and is a packaging container in which a cap (4) is attached to an upper opening (3) of a container body (2) , wherein the cap (4) is a container body. (2) a cap body (6) which is attached to the upper mouth part (3) and has an outlet (13) in the top plate part (8) , and a hinge (7) connected to the cap body (6). And a lid (9) that is connected to the top plate (8) so as to be openable and closable. The lid (9) is opened and the container body (2) is opened so that the take-out opening (13) faces downward. In the packaging container in which the contents contained in the container body (2) can be discharged through the outlet (13) when the inclined contents are discharged,
The outlet (13), said outlet (13) are centered side to accommodate product return port (16) is continuously open in the cap body (6) in and to the outlet (13) Is provided with a baffle plate (14, 20) for narrowing a passage portion (15) of the container passing through the outlet (13) when discharging the container, and returning the container to the outlet (13). mouth (16), the opening surface of the contained object return port (16) is inclined to the bottom side of the container body (2), the opening width of the contained object return port (16), outlet (13) Wider than the opening width ,
The baffle plates (14, 20) are provided discontinuously at a plurality of locations on the outer peripheral side in the radial direction of the cap body (6) and on the center side of the cap body (6). The baffle plate (14) provided on the outer peripheral side of the cap body (6) is arranged in a pair facing each other with a gap in a direction orthogonal to the radial direction of the cap main body (6). The passage portion (15) is provided between the pair of baffle plates (14),
With respect to the baffle plate (14), the baffle plate (20) on the center side of the cap body that is discontinuous to the baffle plate (14) is arranged at a lower position in the height direction of the cap body (6). The baffle plate (14) is inclined toward the baffle plate (20), and the baffle plate (20) is inclined downward toward the outside in the radial direction of the cap body (6);
The container return port (16) is provided between a lower portion of the baffle plate (14) and a lower portion of the baffle plate (20) discontinuous to the baffle plate (14). It is an object of the present invention to provide a packaging container which can solve the above-mentioned problems.

(Invention of claim 2 )
Further, in the present invention, the lid is provided with an annular lid seal ring in contact with a top plate portion of the cap body when the lid is closed on a lower surface of the lid, and a lid seal ring on the top plate portion of the cap body. It is preferable that the take-out port and the container return port are provided in a region corresponding to the above.

(Invention of claim 3 )
Further, in the present invention, a fitting comprising an outer peripheral wall of the cap main body and a flexible cap seal ring hanging down from the top plate inside the outer peripheral wall around the top plate portion of the cap main body. A groove is provided, and a peripheral wall of an upper mouth portion of the container main body is formed in a wavy vertical sectional shape, and the cap is provided on an inner peripheral surface of the peripheral wall of the upper mouth portion of the container main body fitted in the fitting groove. It is preferable that the seal ring bends and deforms and abuts.

(Invention of Claim 4 )
In the present invention, the top plate portion of the cap main body is provided with a bottomed measuring instrument housing concave portion that is convex on the container main body side at a position that does not overlap with the take-out port and the container return port. It is preferable that the measuring tool is removably disposed in the measuring tool housing recess.

(Effects of Claim 1)
According to the first aspect of the present invention, a baffle plate is provided at the take-out port to narrow the passage portion of the contents, so that when the container is inclined to discharge the contents, a large amount of the contents is not discharged at one time, The weighing device does not receive excessively the contents. In addition, since the opening surface of the container return opening that is continuous with the take-out opening is inclined toward the bottom side of the container body, even when the container is tilted and the container is discharged, the container return opening is used. The extent to which the contents are discharged to the weighing tool side is extremely small, and from this point too, it is possible to suppress the excessive discharge of the contents to the weighing tool.

  And since the take-out port and the container return port are continuously open, the portions that are open to the top plate are united into one, and are opened by the top plate when the lid is closed. It is easy to increase the sealing performance by contacting the periphery of the portion. In addition, since the take-out port and the container return port are united, it is easy to secure a space for forming the container portion for the weighing tool on the top plate.

In addition , the structure for discharging while regulating the amount of the stored contents is simplified, and there is an effect that the manufacturing cost of the cap is not increased.

Furthermore , when returning the stored object toward the baffle plate on the center side of the cap main body, the stored object is guided to the stored object return port by the baffle plate on the center side of the cap main body. Become like Therefore, it is not necessary to return the contents while determining the position of the contents return port, and the operation of returning the contents to the container becomes very simple .

(Effect of Claim 2 )
According to the second aspect of the invention, by closing the lid, it is easy to prevent moisture from entering the outside from both the take-out port and the container return port.

(Effect of the Invention of Claim 3 )
By blow-molding the container body with a synthetic resin material, the manufacturing cost of the container body can be reduced, and bag-blowing blow molding becomes suitable for blow-molding a wide-mouthed container body. In the case of such blow molding, although the outer shape of the molded product is molded as set, it is difficult to mold the inner shape of the molded product as set.

Therefore, according to the third aspect of the present invention, the cap seal ring of the cap body comes into contact with the inner peripheral surface of the peripheral wall of the upper mouth portion of the container body in a flexibly deformable manner. Even when the shape of the peripheral surface has a large error with respect to the setting, it is possible to prevent external moisture from entering between the cap and the upper opening of the container body.

(Effect of Claim 4 )
According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, it is possible to prevent the weighing device from being lost, and to store the weighing device in a hygienic manner.

It is explanatory drawing which shows an example of the packaging container which concerns on this invention in a state of perspective. It is explanatory drawing which shows the cap in an example, and the container main body to which this cap was attached in cross section. It is a figure which shows the cap of the opened state, (a) is explanatory drawing shown in the state seen from above, (b) is explanatory drawing which shows the cross section seen from the side. It is explanatory drawing which shows the removal opening in a cap and the baffle board in the state seen from diagonally upward. It is a figure which shows the cap of the opened state, (a) is explanatory drawing shown in the state seen from the side, (b) is explanatory drawing shown in the state seen from below.

  Next, the present invention will be described in detail based on the embodiment shown in FIGS. In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes a packaging container. The packaging container 1 has a wide-mouthed container body 2 for accommodating powders, granules, and the like as contents, and a cap attached to the wide-opened upper opening 3 of the container body 2. 4 and 4.

(Container body)
The container body 2 is a blow-molded container, which is formed by a bag-blowing blow molding suitable for molding a wide-mouth type container. In this embodiment, the container body 2 is formed by bag-blowing blow molding, and the upper end surface of the upper opening 3 is a cut surface formed by cutting off an excess portion after molding. It is difficult to secure the sealing property with the upper end surface of the part 3. Therefore, the vertical cross-sectional shape of the peripheral wall 5 of the upper mouth portion 3 of the container body 2 is made into a corrugated shape so that the sealability described later is easily ensured. (See Fig. 2)

(cap)
The cap 4 is formed using a synthetic resin material, and is formed, for example, by injection molding. As shown in FIG. 2, the cap 4 has a cap body 6 attached to the upper opening 3 of the container body 2, and is connected to the cap body 6 via a hinge 7 so that the top plate of the cap body 6 And a lid 9 that covers the part 8 so that it can be opened and closed.

As shown in FIG. 3, a lid seal ring 10 is provided on the lower surface of the lid 9 (the surface that is lower when the lid is closed), opposite to the hinge 7. The lid seal ring 10 is a hanging annular wall body, which is in contact with the top plate 8 of the cap body 6 when the lid is closed, and inside the region of the top plate 8 surrounded by the lid seal ring 10 in contact therewith. It is designed to prevent moisture from entering from outside.

An annular ridge 11 is provided on the top plate 8 of the cap body 6 on the opposite side of the hinge 7 and is in contact with the lid seal ring 10 so as to fit inside when the lid 9 is closed. A portion corresponding to a region surrounded by the lid seal ring 10 fitted into the annular jetty 11 is a concave portion 12 which is convex downward in the cap height direction.

(Outlet)
An outlet 13 for discharging the contents is disposed in the concave portion 12 which is convex downward, on the opposite side to the hinge side in the concave portion 12. The lid 9 is opened and the outlet 13 is lowered. By tilting the container body 2 (entire packaging container) so as to face the container, the contents can be discharged through the outlet 13.

  As shown in FIG. 4, the take-out opening 13 is provided with a pair of baffle plates 14 that are opposed to each other on a radially outer peripheral side of the cap body 6 in a direction perpendicular to the radial direction with a gap therebetween. As shown in FIG. 3B, the baffle plate 14 is inclined downward in an arc-shaped cross section from the side outside the cap body 6 toward the center side of the cap body 6. By taking out, the outlet 13 is inclined downward toward the center of the cap body 6 with the opening between the baffle plates 14 having an arcuate shape.

  In the portion where the pair of baffle plates 14 protrude at the outlet 13, the passage portion 15 when the packaged container 1 is inclined to discharge the contents from the inside of the container body 2 to the outside through the outlet 13 is narrowed. It is formed so that a large number of items are not discharged at the same time when the items are discharged. (See Fig. 4)

(Return port for contents)
As shown in FIG. 4, in the present embodiment, a container return port 16 is provided in a portion surrounded by the jetty 11 and corresponding to a region surrounded by the lid seal ring 10. ing. The container return port 16 is a portion for returning a container excessively discharged with respect to a dose or an intake amount to the inside of the container main body 2. It is provided so that it may be located inside.

  As shown in the cross section of FIG. 3, the container return port 16 is continuously opened at the center of the cap body 6 at the take-out port 13. The opening surface 17 of the container return port 16 is inclined toward the bottom side of the container body 2, and when the packaging container 1 is inclined to discharge the contents, the recessed portion 12 is formed from the inside of the container body 2. The degree to which the contents moved to the lower surface of the container are discharged to the outside from the contents return port 16 is extremely reduced.

1 9 (opening width in a direction along the direction perpendicular to the radial direction of the cap body 6) the opening width of the contained object return port 16 is wider than the opening width of 1 8 of outlet 13, contained goods When the container is returned to the container body, the container passes through the container return port 16 smoothly.

(Lower baffle)
As shown in the figure, one baffle plate 20 is also provided in the concave portion 12 at the center of the cap body 6. The baffle plate 20 on the center side of the cap body 6 is positioned lower in the height direction of the cap body 6 with respect to the pair of baffle plates 14 on the outer peripheral side of the cap body 6 , as shown in FIGS. As shown, the baffle plate 14 is discontinuous . At the lower position of the pair of baffle plates 14, the baffle plate 20 that is discontinuous to the baffle plate 14 as described above is arranged, and the pair of baffle plates 14 The pair of baffle plates 14 are inclined downward toward the side in an arcuate cross section, and the pair of baffle plates 14 are inclined toward the baffle plate 20.

Further, the baffle plate 20, which is discontinuous to the baffle plate 14, is inclined downward toward the outside in the radial direction of the cap body 6, and the lower part 21 of the pair of baffle plates 14 and the baffle plate 20 The container return port 16 is provided between the lower end 22 and the lower end 22 of the container. As described above, the pair of baffle plates 14 and the one baffle plate 20 are arranged vertically, the pair of baffle plates 14 are inclined toward the lower baffle plate 20, and the lower baffle plate 20 is directed downward. Since the container is inclined downward, when the container is returned to the container body 2 side, it is sufficient to drop the container into the recessed portion 12 without aiming at the container return port 16.

That is, if contained goods are contained object is dropped recess fraction 12, the contained goods is intended to fall outlet 13 is as it falls into the container body 2 was dropped on the baffle plate 14 housed The object is guided toward the baffle plate 20 by the baffle plate 14 and falls onto the baffle plate 20. The contents dropped on the baffle plate 20 are guided by the baffle plate 20 toward the container return port 16, and fall into the container body 2 through the container return port 16, The contents once discharged to the outside can be easily returned to the container body 2.

(Measuring tool)
In the present packaging container 1, the measuring instrument housing recess 23 formed in the top plate portion 8 of the cap body 6 by projecting downward in a region not overlapping with the recessed portion 12 in the top plate portion 8 and projecting downward. Is provided. The weighing tool 24 is detachably disposed in the weighing tool housing recess 23. The measuring tool 24 arranged in the measuring instrument accommodating recess 23 is placed in a closed space by closing the lid 9, preventing the measuring tool 24 from being lost and being protected against external dirt. You. (See Fig. 5)

(Fit groove and upper mouth)
The wide-mouth type container main body 2 of this embodiment is formed by bag-blowing blow molding as described above, and the shape of the inner surface of the container main body 2 is difficult to be formed as set. In this case, the following measures are taken to prevent external moisture from entering between the upper opening 3 of the container body 2 and the cap body 6 put on the upper opening 3.

  As shown in FIG. 2, a fitting groove 25 having a lower surface facing downward in the height direction of the cap body 6 as a fitting opening is provided around the top plate 8 of the cap body 6. The fitting groove 25 is composed of an outer peripheral wall 26 of the cap body 6 and a flexible cap seal ring 27 which extends from the top plate 8 inside the outer peripheral wall 26 and has flexibility. The upper opening 3 of the container body 2 is fitted between the ring 27 and the ring 27.

The base end side of the peripheral wall 5 of the upper mouth portion 3 of container body 2, Kakaritome突crest over the circumferential direction have been formed, on the inside bottom of the outer peripheral wall 26 of the cap body 6 in this Kakaritome突Tsutsumi position have locking protruding portion 2 8 locked, the cap 4 from the container body 2 is prevented come off inadvertently.

  The peripheral wall 5 of the upper mouth 3 is provided with a wavy portion 30 having a vertical cross section in a waveform at a position higher than the locking ridge 29, and projects radially outward at the upper mouth 3. The outer ridge 31 is in contact with the inner peripheral surface of the outer peripheral wall 26. Further, the corrugated portion 30 has an inner protruding ridge portion 32 protruding inward in the radial direction in the upper mouth portion 3.

  In the fitting groove 25, since the upper opening 3 is fitted into the fitting groove 25, the cap seal ring 27 abuts on the inner protrusion 32 in a state of being elastically bent. Even if the shape of the inner ridge portion 32 is not formed as set, and the position of the inner ridge portion 32 has an error in the circumferential direction of the upper opening portion 3, the cap having flexibility is provided. The seal ring 27 comes into contact with the inner ridge portion 32 in a bent state.

  As described above, the upper opening 3 and the outer peripheral wall 26 of the fitting groove 25 are in contact with each other in the circumferential direction of the upper opening 3, and the cap seal ring 27 and the upper opening 3 are in contact with each other. Are in contact with each other in the circumferential direction, thereby preventing external moisture from entering between the container body 2 and the cap 4.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Packaging container 2 ... Container main body 3 ... Upper mouth part 4 ... Cap 5 ... Peripheral wall 6 ... Cap body 8 ... Top plate part 9 ... Lid body 10 ... Lid seal ring 13 ... Take-out port 14 ... Baffle plate 15 ... Passing part Reference Signs List 16: container return opening 17: opening surface of container return opening 18: opening width of container return opening 19: opening width of takeout opening 20: baffle plate 24: measuring tool 25: fitting groove 26 ... outer peripheral wall 27 ... cap Seal ring 30: corrugated portion 31: outer ridge 32: inner ridge

Claims (4)

Upper mouth of the container body (2) (3) to a packaging container cap (4) is mounted, said cap (4) is attached covering the upper opening of the container body (2) (3) The cap body (6) having a take-out opening (13) in the top plate part (8) and being connected to the cap body (6) via a hinge (7) so that the top plate part (8) can be opened and closed. it from the lid (9) covering the accommodating of the accommodating the container body (2) at the time of receiving product discharge which port is taken out by opening the lid (9) (13) tilts the container body (2) so as to face downward In a packaging container in which articles can be discharged through the outlet (13) ,
The outlet (13), said outlet (13) are centered side to accommodate product return port (16) is continuously open in the cap body (6) in and to the outlet (13) Is provided with a baffle plate (14, 20) for narrowing a passage portion (15) of the container passing through the outlet (13) when discharging the container, and returning the container to the outlet (13). mouth (16), the opening surface of the contained object return port (16) is inclined to the bottom side of the container body (2), the opening width of the contained object return port (16), outlet (13) Wider than the opening width ,
The baffle plates (14, 20) are provided discontinuously at a plurality of locations on the outer peripheral side in the radial direction of the cap body (6) and on the center side of the cap body (6). The baffle plate (14) provided on the outer peripheral side of the cap body (6) is arranged in a pair facing each other with a gap in a direction orthogonal to the radial direction of the cap main body (6). The passage portion (15) is provided between the pair of baffle plates (14),
With respect to the baffle plate (14), the baffle plate (20) on the center side of the cap body that is discontinuous to the baffle plate (14) is arranged at a lower position in the height direction of the cap body (6). The baffle plate (14) is inclined toward the baffle plate (20), and the baffle plate (20) is inclined downward toward the outside in the radial direction of the cap body (6);
The container return port (16) is provided between a lower portion of the baffle plate (14) and a lower portion of the baffle plate (20) discontinuous to the baffle plate (14). Packaging container. It said lid (9) is a bottom top plate portion of the cap body (6) in the lid closed contact (8) an annular lid seal ring (10) is provided on the lid body (9), the cap body ( according to claim 1, wherein said outlet in the region corresponding to the lid seal ring (10) (13) and the contained object return port (16) are provided in the top plate portion 6) (8) Packaging containers. Over the peripheral top plate portion (8) of the cap body (6), and hanging from the top plate portion (8) inside the outer peripheral wall (26) and the outer peripheral wall of the cap body (6) (26) A fitting groove (25) comprising a flexible cap seal ring (27) is provided, and the peripheral wall of the upper opening (3) of the container body (2) has a wavy vertical cross-sectional shape, the inner peripheral surface of the peripheral wall of the upper opening (3) of the fitting groove fitting (25) placed container body (2), the cap sealing ring (27) according to claim 1 abuts the resiliently deformable or 3. The packaging container according to 2 . The top plate portion (8) of the cap body (6) has a shape projecting toward the container body (2) at a position that does not overlap the take-out port (13) and the container return port (16). bottom of been metering device for accommodating recess (23) is provided, wherein the metering device (24) is any one of the claims 1 disposed removably 3 to the metering device for accommodating recess (23) Packaging container.