CONTAINER HAVING AN AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING THE CONTENTS THEREIN

• US 20080308518A1
• Filed: 06/16/2008
• Published: 12/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Drug Plastics & Glass Co., Inc.
• Original Assignee: Drug Plastics & Glass Co., Inc.
• Inventors: Sprishen, Gregory
• Application Number:
  US12/139,870
• Publication Number:
  US 20080308518A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 215/40
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2203/10 Transponders
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2251/0015 of the 41-type
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2251/0093 Membrane
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 50/043 the closure comprising a screw cap whose threads are shaped to accommodate blocking elements and the closure is removed after first applying axial force to unblock it and allow it to be unscrewed
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 51/20 Caps, lids, or covers co-operating with an inner closure arranged to be opened by piercing, cutting, or tearing B65D51/185 takes precedence; co-operating with an auxiliary container for additional articles or materials B65D51/28

Abstract

A container that has an automatic identification device for identifying the contents therein includes a bottom that has an outer periphery and a neck that defines an opening at a top portion thereof for receiving a product and a shoulder proximate a bottom portion thereof. The neck has a radially inwardly extending flange on an inner surface thereof. The flange is located at a predetermined distance away from the top portion of the neck. The container further includes a sidewall that extend generally upwardly from the periphery of the bottom to the shoulder of the neck. A cap is removably engageable to the neck and an automatic identification device is removably mountable on the flange of the neck.

Claims

1. A container having an automatic identification device for identifying the contents therein, said container comprising:

a bottom having an outer periphery;

a neck defining an opening at a top portion thereof for receiving a product and a shoulder proximate a bottom portion thereof, said neck having a radially inwardly extending flange on an inner surface thereof;

said flange being located at a predetermined distance away from said top portion of said neck;

a sidewall extending generally upwardly from said periphery of said bottom to said shoulder of said neck;

a cap removably engageable to said neck; and

an automatic identification device removably mountable on said flange of said neck.

2. The container according to claim 1, wherein said automatic identification device includes a capsule and an RFID transponder enclosed within said capsule.

3. The container of claim 2, wherein said capsule includes a top portion and a bottom portion.

4. The container according to claim 3, wherein said top and bottom portions of said capsule are removably engageable.

5. The container according to claim 3, wherein said top and bottom portions of said capsule are permanently engaged.

6. The container according to claim 1, wherein a diameter of said inner portion of said neck is slightly larger than a diameter of said capsule.

7. The container according to claim 1, wherein a length of said flange measured radially from said inner portion of said neck to an end of said flange is approximately one millimeter.