Cap device for mixing different kinds of materials separately contained therein and in bottle

• US 20040200742A1
• Filed: 10/17/2003
• Published: 10/14/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Young Kook Cho
• Original Assignee: Young Kook Cho
• Inventors: Cho, Young Kook
• Granted Patent: US 6,935,493 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 206/219
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 51/2835 ruptured by a sharp element, e.g. a cutter or a piercer
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 2331/803 Bottles
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 31/007 Bottles or cans
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 5/02 portable, i.e. adapted to be carried personally
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 215/08 Mixing

Abstract

A cap device for bottles, which is capable of mixing two different additives separately contained therein with a material contained in a bottle to prepare a mixture in accordance with a simple rotating action of the cap device relative to the bottle, performed by a user, thus allowing the user to easily prepare the mixture just before drinking or using the mixture. The cap device has a cap cover acting as an additive containing part, and defining a cavity therein, with a partition wall provided in the cavity to divide the cavity into two chambers and to separately contain two different additives in the chambers; a first funnel part provided at a lower section of the cap cover; a breakable sheet having a structure to be easily broken by external impact provided at an open lower end of the first funnel part to close the open lower end of the first funnel part; a cap body assembled with a lower end of the cap cover externally tightened to an externally threaded mouth of a bottle; a second funnel part having the same shape as the first funnel part provided at an upper section of the cap body, such that the first and second funnel parts are spaced apart from each other or come into contact with each other; and a means for breaking the breakable sheet so as to open the lower end of the first funnel part.

Claims

1. A cap device for a bottle, said cap device comprising:

a cap cover defining a cavity therein for containing an additive therein;

a partition wall provided in the cavity to divide the cavity into two chambers, each chamber capable of containing an additive therein;

a first funnel part provided at a lower section of the cap cover, said first funnel part having an open lower end;

a breakable sheet provided at the lower end of the first funnel part to cover the open lower end of the first funnel part;

said breakable sheet structured to be easily broken by external impact;

a cap body removably assembled to a lower end of the cap cover, said cap body removably connected to said bottle;

a second funnel part provided at an upper section of the cap body;

wherein the first and second funnel parts are spaced apart from each other in a non-usage position of the cap device;

wherein the first and second funnel parts move substantially close together when said cap cover is twisted in a first predetermined direction to move the cap device to a mixing position; and

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means for breaking the breakable sheet so as to open the lower end of the first funnel part.

2. The cap device for a bottle according to claim 1 further comprising a support part disposed in said cap body below said second funnel part;

wherein the breaking means comprises two breaking wedges projecting upward from said support part to a predetermined height through a central opening of the second funnel part, each breaking wedges having a sharp tip.

3. The cap device for a bottle according to claim 1, further comprising a removable stop band placed around a junction of the cap body and the cap cover so as to stop the cap cover from being twisted in the first predetermined direction.

4. The cap device for a bottle according to claim 1 wherein the bottle has an externally threaded mouth and wherein said cap body has an internally threaded lower section for external twistable engagement with said threaded mouth of said bottle.

5. A bottle having a mouth, said bottle comprising:

a cap cover defining a cavity therein for containing an additive therein;

a partition wall provided in the cavity to divide the cavity into two chambers, each chamber capable of containing an additive therein;

a first funnel part provided at a lower section of the cap cover, said first funnel part having an open lower end;

a breakable sheet provided at the lower end of the first funnel part to cover the open lower end of the first funnel part;

said breakable sheet structured to be easily broken by external impact;

a cap body removably assembled to a lower end of the cap cover, said cap body removably connected to said bottle;

a second funnel part provided at an upper section of the cap body;

wherein the first and second funnel parts are spaced apart from each other in a non-usage position of the cap device;

wherein the first and second funnel parts move substantially close together when said cap cover is twisted in a first predetermined direction to move the cap device to a mixing position; and

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means for breaking the breakable sheet so as to open the lower end of the first funnel part.

6. The bottle according to claim 5 further comprising a support part disposed in said cap body below said second funnel part;

wherein the breaking means comprises two breaking wedges projecting upward from said support part to a predetermined height through a central opening of the second funnel par, each breaking wedges having a sharp tip.

7. The bottle according to claim 5, further comprising a removable stop band placed around a junction of the cap body and the cap cover so as to stop the cap cover from being twisted in the first predetermined direction.

8. The bottle according to claim 5 wherein the bottle has an externally threaded mouth and wherein said cap body has an internally threaded lower section for external twistable engagement with said threaded mouth of said bottle.