Patent Application
20180290325
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The disclosure and prior art relates to container devices and more particularly pertains to a new container device that is selectively bisected to remove an entirety of the contents of the container.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a container that may contain a fluid. The container is structured to be selectively bisected to facilitate an entirety of the fluid to be removed from the container. A cutter is movably coupled to the container and the cutter is selectively manipulated. Moreover, the cutter bisects the container when the cutter is manipulated.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The container 12 has a first end 16, a second end 18 and an outer wall 20 extending therebetween. A spout 22 is coupled to the first end 16 and the spout 22 is in fluid 14 communication with the interior of the container 12. Moreover, the spout 22 has a distal end 24 with respect to the first end 16 and the distal end 24 is open. The distal end 24 of the spout 22 selectively releases the fluid 14 from the container 12 in the convention of shampoo bottles, toothpaste tubes or other fluid 14 containers. A cap may be removably coupled to the spout 22 to close the spout 22.
The outer wall 20 has a cut 26 extending into an interior of the container 12. The cut 26 has a first edge 28 and a second edge 30 and the cut 26 extends substantially between the first end 16 and the second end 18. The first edge 28 is hermitically sealed to the second edge 30. In this way the cut 26 forms a fluid 14 impermeable seal to inhibit the fluid 14 from escaping outwardly through the cut 26.
A cutter 32 is movably coupled to the container 12 and the cutter 32 is selectively manipulated. The cutter 32 is slidably coupled to the outer wall 20 and the cutter 32 is positioned to be aligned with the cut 26. Additionally, the cutter 32 extends through the outer wall 20 of the container 12. The cutter 32 splits the first edge 28 from the second edge 30 when the cutter 32 is manipulated to access the interior of the container 12. Additionally, a tab 34 extends away the cutter 32 and the tab 34 is gripped to manipulate the cutter 32. The cutter 32 may be structured in the convention of a zipper or the like. A toothpaste tube 36 is shown in an alternative embodiment 38 as shown in
In use, the container 12 is selectively squeezed to release the fluid 14 from the spout 22. The cutter 32 is manipulated to split the first edge 28 from the second edge 30 when the fluid 14 becomes depleted to the point that the fluid 14 can no longer be released from the spout 22. In this way the container 12 is bisected to facilitate the last remaining amount of fluid 14 to be removed from the container 12. The container 12 is discarded when the container 12 is bisected and the last remaining amount of the fluid 14 is removed from the container 12. Moreover, the container 12 reduces waste with respect to inaccessible amounts of the fluid 14 that would otherwise remain in the container 12 when the container 12 is discarded.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
