Container/bottle cap with a storage compartment

• US 20050040052A1
• Filed: 10/25/2002
• Published: 02/24/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Barry James Dixon
• Original Assignee: Barry James Dixon
• Inventors: Dixon, Barry James
• Application Number:
  US10/494,062
• Publication Number:
  US 20050040052A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 206/217
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 51/28 with auxiliary containers for additional articles or materials B65D51/247 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02W 30/80 Packaging reuse or recycling, e.g. of multilayer packaging bio-packaging Y02W90/10

Abstract

A reusable closure cap for a liquid container (5) for storing a substance (6) for mixing with a body of fluid material within the container, the closure cap comprising a primary a primary member (1) including an internally threaded skirt, a storage container (2) associated or co-operative with the primary member providing a non-piercable compartment for the storage of a non-flowable substance (6), and a closure means (3) associated with the primary member and/or storage container for closing off the storage container.

Claims

1. A reusable closure cap for a liquid container for storing a substance for mixing with a body of fluid material within the container the closure cap comprising;

a) a primary member including an internally threaded skirt for engagement with a threaded neck of a storage container, and

b) a storage container associated with or corporative with the primary member said storage container providing a non-piercable compartment for the storage of a non-flowable substance for mixture or consumption liquid within the container, and

c) a closure means associated with the primary member and/or the storage container for closing off the storage container.

2. A closure cap as claimed in claim 1 wherein the primary member is be a cap having an internally threaded peripheral skirt and the closure means is provided by the top wall of the cap.

3. A closure cap as claimed in claim 1 wherein the storage container is a tub-like member having an upper peripheral flange which is secured by the primary member at the opening to the container.

4. A closure cap as claimed in claim 1 wherein the storage container with closure means is fitted to the primary member.

6. A closure cap as claimed in claim 4 wherein the closure means is a screw cap.

7. A substance means as claimed in claim 1 wherein the primary member storage container and closure means are be integrally formed.

8. A closure member as claimed in claim 1 wherein the primary member and container are integrally formed and adapted for attachment to the storage container.

5. A closure cap as claimed in 4 wherein the closure means is a flip cap.