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A distributor includes a body, typically provided with a lateral skirt and a bottom, and a cap, provided with an inner dome. The body includes at least one orifice for filling a cavity with the product, a device for closing the orifice, a device for attaching the product to the body, and a lower ski

A distributor includes a body, typically provided with a lateral skirt and a bottom, and a cap, provided with an inner dome. The body includes at least one orifice for filling a cavity with the product, a device for closing the orifice, a device for attaching the product to the body, and a lower skirt forming a lower cavity with the bottom, capable of cooperating with the cap so as to form a system for stacking the distributor.

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The invention claimed is: 1. Distributor (1) for offering a sample of a solid, semi-solid or pasty product (7) at ambient temperature, comprising: a molded, one-part body (2) having i) a small orifice (40) located at a bottom of the body, ii) a straight vertical body lateral skirt (3), of a first w

The invention claimed is: 1. Distributor (1) for offering a sample of a solid, semi-solid or pasty product (7) at ambient temperature, comprising: a molded, one-part body (2) having i) a small orifice (40) located at a bottom of the body, ii) a straight vertical body lateral skirt (3), of a first wall thickness, terminating at an upper end with a body solidarisation edge (20), and iii) a lower peripheral edge (220); a molded, one-part cap (5) having i) a straight vertical cap lateral skirt (52) terminating at a lower end with a cap solidarisation edge (50), ii) an upper peripheral edge (540), and iii) a dome (53), the cap attachable to the body by the cap solidarisation edge cooperating joining with the body solidarisation edge to jointly form a wall thickness equal to the first wall thickness of the body, the body lateral skirt and the cap lateral skirt, when joined, cooperating to provide a closed distributor with a straight external wall surface free of external protrusions; a cavity located within the cap attached to the body, the cavity providing a product volume space (V), the product volume space being defined by, at an upper end by an inner surface (57) of the dome of the cap, at a lower end by an inner surface (67) of the bottom of the body, and at straight cylindrical internal sidewall surfaces (520, 30), by an inner sidewall surface of the body lateral skirt and any inner sidewall surface of the cap lateral skirt, the body comprising attachment parts (8) for attaching the product (7) to the body; and a closing element (6) closing the orifice to retain the product within the cavity, the closing element being one of a insert (6, 60 , 63) inserted into the cavity and a cover (6, 61) covering the orifice, wherein, with the cap solidarisation edge joined to the body solidarisation edge, the body is joined to the cap and forms the closed distributor with a straight exterior surface, the exterior surface terminating, at the upper peripheral edge of the cap and at the lower peripheral edge of the body, the lower peripheral edge being a lower edge of the straight body lateral skirt, and the upper peripheral edge being an upper edge of the straight cap lateral skirt and having substantially the same width as the width of said lower peripheral edge. 2. The distributor of claim 1, wherein, the body (2) and the cap (5) are molded together as a single piece. 3. The distributor of claim 1, wherein, the body comprises, as a molded part thereof, the attachment parts (8) for attaching the product (7) to the body. 4. The distributor of claim 1, wherein, the closing element (6, 60, 600) is inserted into the orifice and is a molded part (600) of the body. 5. The distributor of claim 1, wherein, the closing element (6, 61) is one of a lid and a sealed tape covering the orifice. 6. The distributor of claim 1, wherein, the product volume is defined by, at the upper end by the inner surface of the dome of the cap, at the lower end by the inner surface of the bottom of the body, and at sidewall surfaces by the inner sidewall surface of the body lateral skirt and an inner sidewall surface of the cap lateral skirt, the inner sidewall surface of the cap lateral skirt extending the inner surface of the body. 7. The distributor of claim 1, wherein, with the cap solidarisation edge joined to the body solidarisation edge, the body is joined to the cap and forms the closed distributor with the straight cylindrical exterior surface, the exterior surface terminating, at the upper peripheral edge, with an upper horizontal edge surface of the first wall thickness, and the exterior surface terminating, at a lower peripheral edge, with a lower horizontal edge surface of the first wall thickness, the lower horizontal edge surface being the lower edge of the straight body lateral skirt, and the upper horizontal edge surface being the upper edge of the straight cap lateral skirt (52). 8. The distributor of claim 7, wherein, the closed distributor is stackable, at the lower and upper horizontal edge surfaces, to form stacked distributors with an extended cylindrical exterior surface of the constant exterior diameter. 9. The distributor of claim 1, wherein, the produce volume space is between 2 and 50 cm3. 10. The distributor of claim 1, wherein, a cap volume portion (V1) is within 30% to 300% a body volume portion (V2). 11. The distributor of claim 1, wherein, the cap lateral skirt (52) is of the first wall thickness. 12. The distributor of claim 1, wherein, the body solidarisation edge and the cap solidarisation edge are one of a click fitting, a sliding fitting, a screwed fitting, and a threaded edge fitting. 13. The distributor of claim 1, wherein, the body (2) and the cap (5) are molded together as a single piece and connected by a flexible connecting tab ( 51) making the cap (5) integral to the body (2). 14. The distributor of claim 1, wherein, the closing element is one of a glued seal, a heat-sealed disc, a closing cap, and a non-return valve. 15. The distributor of claim 1, wherein, the bottom of the body is one of a straight plane, a convex surface, and a concave surface. 16. The distributor of claim 1, wherein, a height of the inner sidewall surface of the body lateral skirt is unequal to a height of the inner sidewall surface of the cap lateral skirt. 17. The distributor of claim 1, wherein, a height of the inner sidewall surface of the body lateral skirt is equal to a height of the inner sidewall surface of the cap lateral skirt. 18. The distributor of claim 1, wherein, a height of the inner sidewall surface of the body lateral skirt is non-zero and a height of the inner sidewall surface of the cap lateral skirt is zero. 19. The distributor of claim 1, wherein, the dome of the cap is, a concave surface, as seen from the product volume space. 20. The distributor of claim 1, wherein, the attachment parts (8) are formed by one of outgrowths (82, 83) extending the body (2), by outgrowths (84) extending from the closing element (6), and by an insert (81) molded integral to the body. 21. The distributor of claim 20, wherein, the outgrowths (82, 83, 84) further comprise attachment tabs (80). 22. The distributor of claim 21, wherein, the attachment tabs (80) are rigid. 23. The distributor of claim 1, wherein, the attachment element is a mesh (85) molded integrally with the body. 24. Distributor (1) for offering a sample of a solid, semi-solid or pasty product (7) at ambient temperature, comprising: a body (2) molded to a cap (5) as a single piece, the body having i) a orifice (40) located at a bottom of the body, ii) a straight body lateral skirt (3), of a first wall thickness, terminating at an upper end with a body solidarisation edge (20), and iii) a lower peripheral edge (220), the cap (5) having i) a dome (53), ii) a straight cap lateral skirt (52) terminating at a lower end with a cap solidarisation edge (50), and iii) an upper peripheral edge (540), the cap solidarisation edge, when joined, cooperating with the body solidarisation edge to jointly form a wall thickness equal to the first wall thickness of the body, the body lateral skirt and the cap lateral skirt, when joined, cooperating to provide a closed distributor with a straight external wall surface free of external protrusions; a cavity located within the cap attached to the body, the cavity providing a product volume (V), the product volume being defined by, at an upper end by an inner surface (57) of the dome of the cap, at a lower end by an inner surface (67) of the bottom of the body, and at straight cylindrical internal sidewall surfaces (520, 36), by an inner sidewall surface of the body lateral skirt and any inner sidewall surface of the cap lateral skirt, the body comprising attachment means (8) for attaching the product (7) to the body; and a closing element (6) closing the orifice to retain the product within the cavity, the closing element being one of a insert (6, 60 , 63) inserted into the cavity and a cover (6, 61) covering the orifice, wherein, with the cap solidarisation edge joined to the body solidarisation edge, the body is joined to the cap and forms the closed distributor with a straight exterior surface, the exterior surface terminating, at the upper peripheral edge of the cap and at the lower peripheral edge of the body, the lower peripheral edge being a lower edge of the straight body lateral skirt, and the upper peripheral edge being an upper edge of the straight cap lateral skirt and having substantially the same width as the width of said lower peripheral edge.