Patents Assigned to Tokai Metals Company, Limited
  • Patent number: 4450581
    Abstract: A convenience container with a cornered bottom is comprised of an outer shell and a pouch sealed to the inside of the outer shell for containing a liquid. The outer shell is provided with fold lines and with a scored line for forming a mouth opening. The outer shell is pressed inwardly along these fold lines, and the top marginal portion of the outer shell is cut off along the scored line, to thereby easily form an opening to serve as a dispensing mouth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1984
    Assignee: Tokai Metals Company, Limited
    Inventor: Isao Hirata
  • Patent number: 4391366
    Abstract: A foldable cup comprising a collapsed flat tubular outer shell made of a hard material and having open opposite ends and a collapsed flat pouch made of a flexible material and fixedly inserted within the outer shell. This flat foldable cup can be expanded, when the outer shell is opened, without developing crumpled portions in the bottom walls of the pouch and the outer shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1983
    Assignee: Tokai Metals Company Limited
    Inventor: Isao Hirata
  • Patent number: 4284205
    Abstract: A foldable cup comprises a hollow cylindrical outer shell and a pouch inserted in said outer shell and secured thereto. The outer shell is provided, between its upper and bottom edges, with a plurality of substantially vertical folding lines including two vertical folding lines parallel with each other. By folding outwardly the assembly of the outer shell and the pouch along the two parallel folding lines, the assembly can be folded into a generally flat configuration, whereas by folding the assembly forwardly along all of the folding lines, the assembly can be expanded into a cubic configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1981
    Assignee: Tokai Metals Company, Limited
    Inventor: Isao Hirata