초록 ▼

To remarkably decrease the amount of material for the manufacture of ink containers and the volume of the ink containers after use, so as to contribute to the economy of natural resource consumption and solving the problem of destruction of global environment by the waste of products, without sacrif

To remarkably decrease the amount of material for the manufacture of ink containers and the volume of the ink containers after use, so as to contribute to the economy of natural resource consumption and solving the problem of destruction of global environment by the waste of products, without sacrificing the easiness of handling of the ink containers for printers, the ink container for directly storing ink is principally constructed by a thin walled vessel contractible according to discharge of ink therefrom, with a nozzle being connected to an end portion of the vessel, with a disk handle being mounted to the nozzle, so that the disk handle can be grasped by five fingers of a hand for carrying the ink container by hand and for removing a cap therefrom. For the ink container being housed in a printer, the ink container is charged into a reinforcing case with the nozzle and the disk handle engaged with an end wall portion of the case, so that the ink container is handled like the case.

대표청구항 ▼

[ I claim:] [1.] An ink container comprising a flexible vessel having axially opposite end walls and a tubular side wall provided between the end walls, said flexible vessel being expansible to be substantially cylindrical by ink being charged therein and contractible to substantially reduce an oute

[ I claim:] [1.] An ink container comprising a flexible vessel having axially opposite end walls and a tubular side wall provided between the end walls, said flexible vessel being expansible to be substantially cylindrical by ink being charged therein and contractible to substantially reduce an outer configuration thereof by the ink being discharged therefrom, a nozzle connected to one of said end walls of said vessel for defining an ink outlet port of said vessel, and a disk shaped handle mounted to said nozzle and separated from said one end wall, said disk shaped handle having a diameter substantially the same as that of said tubular side wall.