US 11,896,112 B2
Feeding container
Ryota Mikuni, Kawaguchi (JP)
Assigned to TOKIWA CORPORATION, Nakatsugawa (JP)
Filed by TOKIWA CORPORATION, Nakatsugawa (JP)
Filed on Apr. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/712,984.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-064299 (JP), filed on Apr. 5, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0312937 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. A45D 40/14 (2006.01); A45D 40/06 (2006.01); A45D 40/00 (2006.01)
CPC A45D 40/14 (2013.01) [A45D 40/06 (2013.01); A45D 2040/0018 (2013.01); A45D 2200/1009 (2013.01); A45D 2200/1036 (2013.01); A45D 2200/1072 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A feeding container comprising:
a feeding mechanism having a sleeve,
wherein a first groove through which a projection formed in a holding member that holds a coating material passes and a second groove that extends from the first groove to an end surface of the sleeve are formed on an inner surface of the sleeve,
wherein the first groove has a projection holding portion which is configured to accept the projection and disposed at a position away along the first groove from a connection portion of the first groove and the second groove,
wherein the feeding mechanism includes:
a first cylindrical member interposed between the sleeve and the holding member: and
a second cylindrical member positioned outside the first cylindrical member,
wherein one of the first cylindrical member and the second cylindrical member includes an inclined rib having an inclined surface inclined with respect to an axial direction of the first cylindrical member,
wherein another one of the first cylindrical member and the second cylindrical member includes a rib that is configured to engage with the inclined rib in a circumferential direction of the second cylindrical member, and
wherein, when the projection enters the projection holding portion, a position of an end portion of the rib in the axial direction coincides with a position of the inclined surface in the axial direction.