JP2001341797A - Combined funnel and measuring instrument - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Object] To provide a combined use of a funnel and a measuring instrument that can be used together with a bottle such as a PET bottle. [Structure] A funnel is provided with a wide mouth and a narrow mouth, with the wide mouth facing upward and the narrow mouth attached to a bottle mouth of a plastic bottle or the like, and the narrow funnel removed from the bottle mouth. The scale is configured with the cap plug inserted in the mouth.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a funnel and a measuring instrument which can be used together with a bottle such as a PET bottle.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, instead of glass bottles, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles,
PET bottles are widely used.

[0003]

There has been a history of developing and supplying plastic bottles for the purpose of disposable use. However, with the spread of plastic bottles, the problem of disposal processing has been raised. Repeated use by reuse is desired.

[0004] Therefore, it is conceivable to reuse the container as a container for food and drink for various purposes. However, when refilling the empty PET bottle with the consumed contents with food and drink, the bottle mouth portion has a small diameter, so the funnel must be used. I need.

[0005] Further, when pouring food and drink from the mouth of the bottle, a seasoning and other food and drink require a measuring instrument.

However, preparing the funnel and the measuring device separately is not only uneconomical but also inconvenient, and furthermore, it is inconvenient to store the funnel and the measuring device in a predetermined place when not in use. There is.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides a combined use of a funnel and a measuring device which can be used with a bottle, and which is mounted so as not to be bulky when not in use. The opening of the bottle can be freely opened and closed by the cap stopper. When weighing the food and drink to be poured from the bottle, the combined tool removed from the mouth of the bottle can be used as a bottomed measuring device provided with a cap stopper. Further, when refilling food and drink into the bottle, the narrow mouth of the combined use tool with the cap stopper removed can be attached to the bottle mouth and used as a funnel. In this specification, a plastic bottle will be mainly described, but it goes without saying that the combined use tool of the present invention can be used for various bottles other than the plastic bottle.

[0008] Therefore, the first means of the present invention comprises a wide mouth and a narrow mouth, with the wide mouth facing upward and the narrow mouth attached to a bottle mouth of a plastic bottle or the like. Constitutes a funnel, and constitutes a measuring instrument in a state where a cap stopper is inserted into a narrow mouth portion removed from a bottle mouth portion. At this time, preferably, a male screw having the same pitch and the same diameter as the male screw of the bottle mouth is formed in the cap stopper,
A common female screw selectively screwed to the male screw of the bottle mouth and the male screw of the cap stopper is formed in the narrow mouth.

[0009] Further, the present invention is configured as a second means, comprising a wide mouth and a narrow mouth, with the wide mouth facing upward and the narrow mouth connected to a bottle mouth of a plastic bottle or the like. In the funnel, the measuring instrument is configured in a state where a cap stopper is inserted in the narrow mouth portion removed from the bottle mouth portion, wherein the narrow mouth portion is formed by a cylindrical wall, a combined tool,
A male screw having the same pitch and the same diameter as the male screw of the bottle mouth is formed in the cap stopper, and a shared female screw selectively screwed to the male screw of the bottle mouth and the male screw of the cap stopper is formed in the cylindrical wall. Further, the present invention is characterized in that a female screw for attachment, which is screwed to the male screw of the bottle mouth in a non-use state with the wide mouth facing downward so as to cover the shoulder of the bottle, is formed on the cylindrical wall.

In the second means, it is preferable that an inward flange is provided at an intermediate portion of the cylindrical wall in the axial direction, and a common female screw and a female screw for mounting are provided on the inner peripheral portion of the cylindrical wall with the inward flange interposed therebetween.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

As is well known, a plastic bottle (hereinafter simply referred to as a bottle 1) is provided with a small-diameter bottle mouth 4 which opens upward from a bottomed bottle main body 2 through a shoulder 3 whose diameter gradually decreases. A male screw 5 is formed on the outer periphery of the bottle mouth 4. Such a bottle 1 is filled with contents such as food and drink, and is sold with a cap (not shown) screwed to a male screw 5 covered with the bottle mouth 4. When using the dual purpose tool 6, the cap is removed.

As shown in FIG. 1, the dual-purpose tool 6 includes a wide-mouth portion 7.
And a substantially funnel-shaped cup body 9 having a narrow mouth portion 8, and a cap plug 10 which can be detachably attached to the narrow mouth portion 8.

The cup body 9 is integrally formed of a synthetic resin or the like, and has a funnel-shaped cup wall 1 extending from the wide opening 7 to the narrow opening 8.
1 and a cylindrical wall 12 forming a narrow opening 8.
And has a substantially U-shaped handle 9a that extends outwardly from and is connected to the cup wall 11 in a folded manner. In addition, the cup body 9
Is preferably formed transparent or translucent, but may be formed opaque.

The cap stopper 10 is integrally formed of a synthetic resin or the like, has a large diameter head 13 and a small diameter neck 14, and forms an external thread 15 on the outer periphery of the neck 14. The male screw 15 has the same pitch and the same diameter as the male screw 5 of the bottle mouth 4.

Therefore, the cylindrical wall 12 of the cup body 9 is formed with an inward flange 16 at an intermediate portion in the axial direction, and a common female screw 17 and a mounting female screw 18 are provided with the inward flange 16 interposed therebetween. The shared female screw 17 is provided on the side facing the opening of the narrow mouth 8, and can be selectively screwed to the male screw 5 of the bottle mouth 4 and the male screw 15 of the cap plug 10. The female screw 18 for attachment is provided on the side facing the cup wall 11, and can be screwed to the male screw 5 of the bottle mouth 4. In addition, although the seal packing is attached to both surfaces of the inward flange 16, the inward flange 16 itself may have a packing function.

(When not using the combined tool as a funnel or a measuring instrument) When the combined tool 6 is not used for any of the funnel and the measuring instrument, as shown in FIG. Then, the shoulder 3 of the bottle 1 is covered with the cup wall 11, and the female screw 18 for mounting the cylindrical wall 12 is screwed to the male screw 5 of the bottle mouth 4. And the shared female screw 1 of the cylindrical wall 12
The narrow opening 8 is closed by the cap stopper 10 by screwing the male screw 15 of the cap stopper 10 into 7. As described above, since the dual-purpose tool 6 can be mounted compactly along the shoulder 3 of the bottle 1 without being bulky, the dual-purpose tool 6 does not hinder the storage of the bottle 1 in a storage or a cabinet.

In this state, the inward flange 16 is in water-tight contact with the end face of the bottle mouth 4 and the end face of the neck 14 of the cap plug 10 is in water-tight contact with the inward flange 16. Even if the contents are liquid, there is no danger of leakage to the outside.

Therefore, when it is necessary to pour out the contents of the bottle 1, as shown in FIG. 3A, the cap stopper 10 is removed from the cylindrical wall 12 of the cup body 9 and the narrow opening 8 is opened. Just do it. Thereby, while the cup body 9 is still attached to the bottle mouth 4, the contents of the bottle 1 are transferred to the cylindrical wall 1.
2 can be poured out.

(When the Combined Use is Used as a Funnel) When the cup body 9 is used as the funnel 19 to refill the bottle 1 or refill the bottle 1 after the contents have been consumed, After removing the cup body 9 from the bottle mouth 4 of the bottle 1 and removing the cap stopper 10 from the cylindrical wall 12 of the cup body 9 as shown in FIG.
As shown in (2), the cylindrical wall 12 of the cup body 9 is attached to the bottle mouth 4 of the bottle 1 with the wide mouth 7 facing upward. That is, by screwing the shared female screw 17 of the cylindrical wall 12 to the male screw 5 of the bottle mouth 4, the cup body 9 is connected to the funnel 1 of the bottle mouth 4.
9.

In the example shown in the figure, an example is shown in which a bottle 1 (for example, a 2-liter plastic bottle) is used as a rice bottle. Rice as the product 21 can be suitably filled.

(When the Combined Use is Used as a Scale) For example, when a required amount of rice is taken out from the bottle 1 filled with rice as described above and cooked, as shown in FIG. , Combined tool 6 is used as measuring device 22. That is,
In this case, the cup body 9 is removed from the bottle 1 and separated, and at the same time, the narrow opening 8 is closed by screwing the cap stopper 10 on the cylindrical wall 12 of the cup body 9. Therefore, the cup body 9 constitutes a bottomed cup-shaped measuring instrument 22 by gripping the handle 9a with the wide mouth portion 7 facing upward.

In the case of the illustrated example, as shown in FIG. 4B, the rice (content 21) poured out of the bottle 1 can be measured. For example, if the capacity of the cup body 9 in which the narrow mouth portion 8 is closed by the cap stopper 10 is set to one set, one cup of the cup body 9 can be measured as one set of rice. Such a measuring instrument 2
2 is not limited to rice, but is also applicable to seasonings composed of fluids such as granules or powders such as sugar and salt, and liquids such as soy sauce and mirin. As shown in FIG. 4A, the scale means 23 is provided on the cup wall 11 of the cup body 9.
Is preferably displayed. Since the end face of the neck portion 14 of the cap plug 10 and the inward flange 16 of the cylindrical wall 12 are in water-tight contact with each other as described above, even when the object to be measured is a liquid, the cup body 9 can be used. There is no leakage from the narrow opening 8.

(Modified Embodiment) In a modified embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 5, the cup body 9 is formed by forming the shape of the cup wall 11 into a cylindrical shape extending in the same diameter in the vicinity of the wide mouth portion 7, and
A beak-shaped spout 7 is formed at a part of the peripheral edge of the wide mouth 7.
Other configurations are the same as those of the above-described embodiment, and the configuration and functions of the portions denoted by the same reference numerals refer to the above description. In this variant embodiment, if the contents of the bottle 1 are seasonings consisting of a fluid as described above, the scale 22
The seasoning thus measured can be suitably poured out from the spout 7 into a cooking container such as a pot.

[0025]

According to the first aspect of the present invention,
(1) When refilling or refilling the contents 21 in the bottle 1, the narrow mouth 8 of the cup body 9 with the cap stopper 10 removed is attached to the bottle mouth 4 so that the wide mouth 7 faces upward. The funnel 19 is constituted by the above, so that the filling of the contents 21 can be easily performed.
(2) When weighing the contents 21 to be poured from the bottle 1, the bottomed weighing is performed by closing the narrow opening 8 of the cup body 9 which is detached from the bottle mouth 4 and is in a free state with the cap stopper 10. Since the container 22 is constituted, the contents 21 to be poured out can be suitably measured. According to the second or third aspect of the present invention, (3) the combination tool 6 is connected to the funnel 1.
When it is not used for any of the measuring device 9 and the measuring device 22, the cylindrical wall 12 can be screwed onto the bottle mouth 4 so as to cover the shoulder 3 of the bottle 1 with the cup body 9 having the wide mouth 7 facing downward. In addition, the dual-purpose tool 6 is compactly mounted without being bulky, and does not hinder the dual-purpose tool 6 when organizing and storing the bottle 1 in a storage or a cabinet. Moreover, in this state, by removing the cap plug 10 screwed to the shared female screw 17 of the cylindrical wall 12, the contents 21 of the bottle 1 can be poured out while the combined tool 6 is attached to the bottle 1.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an exploded longitudinal sectional view showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view showing a state in which the combined tool of the embodiment is attached to a bottle without being used for a funnel or a weighing device.

3A and 3B are views illustrating a use mode of the embodiment, wherein FIG. 3A is an explanatory view illustrating a mode in which contents are poured out of the bottle with the combined tool attached to the bottle, and FIG. 3B is a mode in which the combined tool is used as a funnel. FIG.

FIGS. 4A and 4B are views showing a use mode of the embodiment, in which FIG. 4A is an external view of a state in which a weighing device is constituted by a combined tool, and FIG.

5A and 5B show a modified embodiment of the present invention, wherein FIG. 5A is a longitudinal sectional view showing a state in which the combined tool is attached to a bottle without using a funnel or a weighing device, and FIG. It is an external view of the state which comprised the container.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Bottle 3 Shoulder part 4 Bottle mouth part 5 Male screw 6 Combined use 7 Wide mouth part 8 Narrow mouth part 9 Cup body 10 Cap stopper 12 Tube wall 15 Male screw 16 Inward flange 17 Shared female screw 18 Female screw for attachment 19 Funnel 21 Contents 22 Weighing Instrument 23 Scale means

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A funnel comprising a wide-mouth portion and a narrow-mouth portion, wherein the wide-mouth portion faces upward and the narrow-mouth portion is attached to a bottle mouth of a plastic bottle or the like, and is removed from the bottle mouth. A weighing device comprising a weighing device with a cap plug inserted into the narrow mouth portion. 2. A funnel comprising a wide mouth portion and a narrow mouth portion, wherein the wide mouth portion faces upward and the narrow mouth portion is connected to a bottle mouth portion of a plastic bottle or the like, and is removed from the bottle mouth portion. A weighing device in which a cap stopper is inserted in the narrow mouth portion, wherein the narrow mouth portion is formed by a cylindrical wall, and the male screw having the same pitch and the same diameter as the male screw of the bottle mouth. Is formed in the cap stopper, and a common female screw selectively screwed to the male screw of the bottle mouth and the male screw of the cap stopper is formed in the cylindrical wall. Further, the wide mouth is formed so as to cover the shoulder of the bottle. A combination funnel and a measuring instrument, wherein a female screw for attachment screwed to a male screw of a bottle mouth portion in a non-use state with a downward portion is formed on the cylindrical wall. 3. A cylindrical wall is provided with an inward flange at an intermediate portion in the axial direction, and an inner peripheral portion of the cylindrical wall is provided with a common female screw and a mounting female screw with the inward flange interposed therebetween. 3. The combined use of a funnel and a measuring instrument according to 2.