摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a container with an auxiliary encasing chamber, which is convenient for use, such as allows an individually-unpacked chewing gum which is ready for disposal after having been chewed to be packed in a piece of disposal paper removed from the auxiliary chamber, then to be collected in the auxiliary chamber. <P>SOLUTION: The container with an auxiliary encasing chamber is constituted of a container body proper and a cap 3 fitted on its spout. The cap 3 is provided with a lid structure 4 that opens and closes the spout of the container body proper, with the auxiliary encasing chamber 5 independent of the container body proper being formed on the lid structure 4. The lid structure 4 of the cap 3 is connected, by means of a hinge structure 7, with a base cylinder portion 6 fitted, for covering, on the spout of the container body proper. In the lid structure 4 of the cap 3, two steps of upper and lower bottom surfaces 13, 14 are formed such that they are connected by a sloped surface 12 to form the bottom of the auxiliary encasing chamber 5. The opening and closing lid 15 of the lid structure 4 is constituted of a fixed lid portion 16 and an opening and closing lid portion 18 that is connected to the fixed lid portion 16 by means of the hinge structure 17. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI |