US 7,451,887 B2
Plate exchangeable compact container
Tsutomu Kobayashi, Osaka (Japan); and Chiaki Kamimura, Osaka (Japan)
Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, Ohio (US)
Filed on Feb. 24, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/64,662.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-047371 (JP), filed on Feb. 24, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2005/0205569 A1, Sep. 22, 2005
Int. Cl. B65D 21/02 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 220—23.88  [220/528; 206/823; 132/294] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A plate exchangeable compact container having a mounting chamber which can store a large plate or a pair of left and right small plates in a condition which can be exchanged, the left and right end of the front surface of the rear wall of said mounting chamber having a plate spring which applies a force in a forward direction, such that when the large plate is mounted in said mounting chamber, the tips of both plate springs apply a pressure to both the left and right sides of the large plate back panel, and when small plates are mounted, applies a pressure to the middle region in the left and right direction of each small plate back panel such that the front panel of each plate can be pressed against a front wall of the mounting chamber,
characterized in that when the small plates are mounted in the mounting chamber, a left and right pair of engagement protrusions in the middle region of the left and right direction of a front surface of a back wall are attached in a manner which can contact to the side regions of each small plate back panel.