| 摘要 |
<p>A package for dispensing premeasured quantities of a granular or powdered fluent material, the package comprising: a) an elongate container (1) having sloping shoulders (5) and an open, upstanding neck (3), the container being surmounted by b) an overcap (2) having a ceiling (7), a dispensing orifice (10), an outer skirt (8), and an inner skirt (9) separate from or partially contiguous with the outer skirt and which surrounds the container neck (3) in overlapping, laterally-spaced relationship thereto, wherein the ceiling (7), outer and inner skirts (8,9), neck (3) and sloping shoulders (5) together cooperate to define a preliminary measuring section (17) above the container neck bounded by the ceiling (7) and the inner skirt (8), a main measuring section (18) bounded by the sloping shoulders (5) and the outer skirt (8), and an outlet passage (19) located between the inner and outer skirts (8,9) and communicating with the dispensing orifice (10), and wherein the lateral separation of the inner skirt (9) and container neck (3) is such as to constrict flow of material from the preliminary measuring section to the main measuring section during inversion of the package and to permit such flow on restoring the package to its normal upright position.</p> |
