Container

US7438212B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Barthel · Langenfeld, DE
• Salvatore Fileccia · Oberhausen, DE
• Ulf Arno Timmann · Cologne, DE
• Rudolf Topler
• Thomas Binder · Wildpoldsried, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 16, 2007
• Grant date: Oct 21, 2008
• Expiry date: Feb 16, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S229/94
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A container, in particular for free-flowing substances, comprising a blank (16) made of sheet-like, flexible material in particular cardboard, which can be folded at least to form part of the container, a first wall (1) and a second, adjacent wall (4) of the container, the walls (1, 4) being angled in relation to one another and being connected integrally to one another in the region of a common edge (5), it being the case that a weakening line (7) runs over each of the walls (1, 4) and surrounds the region of a reclosable pouring element (6), which is formed essentially from the material of the walls (1, 4), and that a line of inflection (15) passes through the pouring element (6), crossing over the edge (5) in the process, and divides the pouring element (6) into a pouring portion (6a) and an operating portion (6b). A container in which a greater number of opening and closing actions is made possible is provided in that the operating portion (6b) has a reinforcing element (9) in the region of the edge (5).