CREAM JAR

Abstract

A cream jar comprising an inner jar having an inner container for receiving a cream or a similar viscous fluid, an outer jar for receiving the inner jar, and a lid member, the lid member comprising a lid having a thread and a mating thread disposed on the inner jar and/or on the outer jar, the lid member being used to close the inner container of the inner jar, wherein the inner jar is replaceable, the inner jar and the outer jar forming a severable connection, said connection being a latching connection.

Claims

1. A cream jar comprising an inner jar having an inner container for receiving a cream or a similar viscous fluid, an outer jar for receiving the inner jar, and a lid member, the lid member comprising a lid having a thread and a mating thread disposed on the inner jar and/or on the outer jar, the lid member being used to close the inner container of the inner jar, wherein the inner jar is replaceable, the inner jar and the outer jar forming a severable connection, said connection being a latching connection.

2. The cream jar according to claim 1, wherein the inner jar has an axial edge web at a container opening, said axial edge web corresponding to an axial edge web on a container neck of the outer jar in such a manner that the axial edge web of the inner jar is in form-fitting contact with the axial edge web of the outer jar when the latching connection is established.

3. The cream jar according to claim 1, wherein the latching connection is established by a latching element on the axial edge web of the inner jar and by a corresponding mating latching element on the axial edge web of the outer jar.

4. The cream jar according to claim 1, wherein the mating latching element of the outer jar is a corrugation.

5. The cream jar according to claim 1, wherein the cream jar has an axial anti-rotation means realized between the inner jar and the outer jar in at least one horizontal plane.

6. The cream jar according to claim 5, wherein the anti-rotation means comprises a contour on the inner container of the inner jar and a corresponding mating contour on the outer jar, the contour and the mating contour having a shape other than a circular shape.

7. The cream jar according to claim 5, wherein the contour of the anti-rotation means is realized on an outer wall of the inner container of the inner jar, an inner wall of the inner container having an essentially circular contour.

8. The cream jar according to claim 5, wherein the mating contour of the anti-rotation means is formed by a radial edge web of the outer jar disposed on a container neck of the outer jar.

9. The cream jar according to claim 1, wherein the axial edge web of the inner container forms the latching element of the latching connection and the mating thread of the lid member on opposite sides, the latching element being formed on an inner wall of the axial edge web and the mating thread being formed on an outer wall of the axial edge web.

10. The cream jar according to claim 1, wherein the inner jar has a radial edge web, said radial edge web being disposed between the inner container and the axial edge of the inner jar, the radial edge web being in contact with an inner wall of the lid when the inner container of the inner jar is closed with the lid member.

11. The cream jar according to claim 1, wherein the lid member has an insert, said insert being disposed on the inner wall of the lid, the insert being in contact with the radial edge web of the inner jar when the inner container of the inner jar is closed with the lid member.

12. The cream jar according to claim 11, wherein the insert of the lid member is connected to the inner wall of the lid in a form-fitting manner.

13. The cream jar according to claim 11 wherein the insert of the lid member has an edge which engages into a groove of the inner wall of the lid.

14. The cream jar according to claim 1, wherein the outer jar has an opening at its underside, ajar bottom of the inner jar being accessible from outside through said opening of the outer jar.

15. The cream jar according to claim 14, wherein the opening of the outer jar has a diameter which corresponds to at least a diameter of a human finger.

16. The cream jar according to claim 1, wherein the lid is a hollow body, said hollow body being composed of at least two connected lid elements.

17. The cream jar according to claim 16, wherein the lid elements of the lid are bonded to each other.

18. The cream jar according to claim 16, wherein the lid elements of the lid are welded or glued together.

19. The cream jar according to claim 1 wherein the outer jar is a hollow body, said hollow body being composed of at least two bonded outer jar elements.

20. The cream jar according to claim 19, wherein the outer jar elements of the outer jar are welded or glued together.

Description

[0030] Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the disclosure will be explained in more detail with the aid of drawings.

[0031] FIG. 1 is an isometric view of a preferred embodiment of a cream jar;

[0032] FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the cream jar illustrated in FIG. 1;

[0033] FIG. 3a, FIG. 3b are sectional views of the cream jar;

[0034] FIG. 4a, FIG. 4b are more sectional views of the cream jar;

[0035] FIG. 5 is another sectional view of the cream jar.

[0036] FIG. 1 shows a closed cream jar 10, an outer jar 11 being closed with a lid 12 (FIG. 2) of a lid member 13. An inner jar 14 (FIG. 2) held by outer jar 11 is not visible from outside in this state.

[0037] FIG. 2 shows an exploded view of a preferred embodiment of cream jar 10. Cream jar 10 has an outer jar 11 which is composed of a jar sleeve 15 and a jar bottom 47. Moreover, outer jar 11 has a container neck 16 and an opening 18 disposed at an underside 17 of outer jar 11. Inner jar 14 of cream jar 10 is realized in such a manner that it can be inserted into outer jar 11. Inner jar 14 comprises an inner container 19 having a container opening 20 facing lid 12 of cream jar 10. Lid member 13 of cream jar 10 comprises a lid 12 composed of two lid elements 21 and 48, and an insert 22. As shown in FIG. 3, lid member 13 has an internal thread 23 interacting with an external thread 24 on inner jar 14 to close cream jar 10.

[0038] FIG. 3a and FIG. 3b show sectional views of cream jar 10, FIG. 3a showing a vertical cross section through cream jar 10 and FIG. 3b showing a horizontal cross section along a section plane shown in FIG. 3a. Inner jar 14 and outer jar 11 are connected by a latching connection 25. Inner jar 14 has an axial edge web 26 at container opening 20, axial edge web 26 corresponding to an axial edge web 27 on container neck 16 of outer jar 11. Latching connection 25 has a latching element 28 on axial edge web 26 of inner jar 14 and a mating latching element 29 on axial edge web 27 of outer jar 11, mating latching element 29 being a corrugation in the case at hand. Latching element 28 of latching connection 25 is realized as an annular web on an inner wall 30 of axial edge web 26 opposite external thread 23 of lid member 13 formed on an outer wall 31 of axial edge web 26.

[0039] Outer jar 11 forms opening 18 at underside 17, a bottom 32 of inner container 19 accommodated in inner jar 14 being accessible from outside through said opening 18. A finger can be used to exert pressure on bottom 32 of inner jar 14 through opening 18 of outer jar 11 in order to sever the latching connection between inner jar 14 and outer jar 11 by a force acting in the axial direction. Since lid member 13 and inner jar 14 are in threaded engagement, latching connection 25 can be severed even when a container opening 20 of inner jar 14 is closed with lid member 13. As can further be seen, jar sleeve 15 of outer jar 11 forms an outer wall 33 and container neck 16 of outer jar 11.

[0040] As further shown in FIG. 3a, insert 22 accommodated in lid member 13 has an edge 36 which is insertable into a groove 37 formed on an inner wall 38 of lid 12. Insert 22 rests on a radial edge web 39 of inner jar 14 when lid 12 is closed.

[0041] The selected sectional view along section line in FIG. 3b shows an anti-rotation means 40 of cream jar 10. Anti-rotation means 40 has a contour 41 on an outer wall 42 of inner container 19 of inner jar 14 and a mating contour 43 on a radial edge web 44 connected to axial edge web 27 of outer jar 11. Contour 41 and mating contour 43 are in close contact with each other and have a shape other than a circular shape. In the illustrated embodiment of cream jar 10, contour 41 has four convex bulges engaging into four concave recesses of mating contour 43. The aim is for axial rotating of inner jar 14 and outer jar 11 to be prevented once contour 41 and mating contour 43 have been joined, which preferably happens during formation of the latching connection 25.

[0042] FIG. 4b shows a sectional view along a horizontal section plane IV-IV shown in FIG. 4a in such a manner that a hollow space 45 formed between outer wall 42 of inner container 19 of inner jar 14 and axial edge web 27 of outer jar 11 becomes visible. Additionally, contour 41 of outer wall 42 of inner container 19 can already be formed at section position Y-Y. Unlike the outer wall of inner container 19, which is provided with contour 41 having the shape other than a circular shape, an inner wall 46 of inner container 19 has a circular contour, which facilitates removal of the cream or of the viscous fluid from cream jar 10.

[0043] FIG. 5 shows a sectional view of cream jar 10 according to section line V-V in FIG. 4a, additionally illustrating the anti-rotation means formed between inner container 19 and outer jar 11 through the interaction between contour 41 formed on inner jar 14 on outer wall 42 of inner container 19 and mating contour 43 formed on radial edge web 44 of outer jar 11.

REFERENCE SIGNS

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TABLE-US-00001 10 cream jar 11 outer jar 12 lid 13 lid member 14 inner jar 15 jar sleeve 16 container neck 17 underside 18 opening 19 inner container 20 container opening 21 lid element 22 insert 23 internal thread 24 external thread 25 latching connection 26 axial edge web IT 27 axial edge web AT 28 latching element 29 mating latching element 30 inner wall 26 31 outer wall 26 32 bottom 33 outer wall AT 34 inner wall AT 35 outer wall IT 36 edge 37 groove 38 inner wall of lid 39 radial edge web IT 40 anti-rotation means 41 contour 42 outer wall of inner container IT 43 mating contour 44 radial edge web AT 45 hollow space 46 interior of inner container IT 47 jar bottom 48 lid element