DISPENSING CAPSULE FOR A LIQUID CONTAINER

• US 20040104247A1
• Filed: 11/03/2003
• Published: 06/03/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gacers LLC
• Original Assignee: Wholesale & Retail Distribution Inc.
• Inventors: Anderson, Michael R.
• Granted Patent: US 7,219,796 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 222/83
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 51/2835 ruptured by a sharp element, e.g. a cutter or a piercer
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 51/2842 said element being provided with a preformed weakened line B65D51/2821 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 51/2871 the plug falling into the main container

Abstract

A two piece sealed capsule that is inserted into a liquid bearing container including but not limited to the neck of a bottle, said capsule being a container or receptacle for sealably containing a liquid and/or dry material and a dispenser for releasing the material when desired into the container. The top of the capsule is depressed manually forcing two or more blade like prongs against the bottom of the capsule ripping a portion away, dispensing the material. The present invention allows the use of materials that would discolor, degrade or interact with other substances when added to the contents of the bottle, to remain stable and/or inactive until the time of use.

Claims

1. A capsule that contains liquid and/or dry material to be subsequently dispensed into a container comprising:

a capsule body that is impervious to liquid;

said capsule body, including a first member and a second member, said second member mountable in said first member;

said capsule first member body having a top opening and a sealed closed bottom;

said second member having a sealed closed top and an open bottom and a cutting element defining the open bottom;

said first and second members in a first mode are sealed forming said capsule body preventing any liquid or dry material from escaping from the capsule body.

2. A capsule as in claim 1, wherein:

said first member is cylindrical and said second member is cylindrical; and

the inside diameter of said first member being larger than the outside diameter of the said second member.

3. A capsule as in claim 2, wherein:

said first member sealed bottom has an area of weakened material around its periphery, for rupture by said second member.

4. A capsule as in claim 2, wherein:

said first member inside wall has a sealing means that engages said second member.

5. A capsule as in claim 1, wherein:

said first member has a peripheral lip with apertures that extends radially outward from said first member top opening.

6. A capsule as in claim 1, wherein:

said second member has a hole in said closed end and removable sealing means covering said hole.