Compartmental dispensing receptacle with accessories

• US 3,220,588 A
• Filed: 09/17/1964
• Issued: 11/30/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Michael Lipari
• Original Assignee: Michael Lipari
• Inventors: Lipari, Michael
• Application Number:
  US04/397,095
• Time in Patent Office: 439 Days
• US Class Current: 206/222
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/2027 having frangible parts
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/2093 Containers having several compartments for products to be mixed
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 9/00 Feeding-bottles in general
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 25/08 with provisions for removing or destroying, e.g. to facilitate mixing of contents
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 81/3211 coaxially and provided with means facilitating admixture
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 215/08 Mixing

Claims

1. A COMPARTMENTAL DISPENSING NURSING RECEPTACLE COMPRISING A BOTTLE HAVING UPPER AND LOWER COMPARTMENTS EACH OPEN AT ONE END AND SEPARTED BY A RUPTURABLE MEMBRANE, EACH COMPARTMENT BEING ADAPTED TO HOLD SEPARATE CONSTITUENTS OF A NURSING FORMULA;

A BOTTOM FOR THE OPEN END OF THE LOWER COMPARTMENT;

A TOP FOR THE OPEN END OF THE UPPER COMPARTMENT, SAID TOP HAVING A CENTRAL BORE THERETHOUGH SURROUNDED BY AN ANNULAR LIP;

A NIPPLE SECURED ON SAID LIP AND EXTENDING ABOVE THE TOP AND HAVING A DISCHARGE OPENING;

A NIPPLE SHIELD COVERING AND NIPPLE AND REMOVABLE SECURED TO TO SAID TOP;

A COMBINED BORE SEALING AND MEMBRANE RUPTURING MEMBER WITHIN THE UPPER CHAMBER NORMALLY PRESS FITTED AXIALLY INTO THE BORE OF SAID TOP TO NORMALLY SEAL THE BORE OF THE TOP AND HAVING A CYLINDRICAL PORTION OF LENGTH EXTENDING DOWN FROM SAID TOP TO THE SURFACE OF THE RUPURABLE MEMBRANE, SAID MEMBER HAVING A STEM FOR REDUCED DIAMETER ABOVE THE CYLINDRICAL PORTION, EXTENDING UPWARDLY ABOVE THE BORE AND INTO THE NIPPLE, AND SAID CYLINDRICAL PORTION HAVING A MEMBRANE CUTTING LOWER END, WHEREBY WHEN THE STEM IS DEPRESSED THE MEMBRANE WILL BE SERVED TO PERMIT MIXING OF THE CONSTITUENTS OF THE SAID COMPARTMENTS, AND THE BORE OF THE TOP WILL BE OPENED TO PERMTI WITHDRAWAL OF THE COMMENTS OF THE BOTTLE THROUGH THE DISCHARGE OPENING AFTER THE NIPPLE SHIELD HAS BEEN REMOVED;

THE CYLINDRICAL PORTION OF THE RUPTURING MEMBER BEING HOLLOW AND HAVING LATERAL OPENINGS THERETHROUGH TO PERMIT INTERCOMMUNICATION OF THE CONSTITUENTS OF SAID COMPARTMENTS THERETHROUGH WHEN THE RUPTURING MEMBER IS DEPRESSED;

AND OPPOSED SERIES OF SPACED PROJECTIONS ON THE RUPTURING MEMBER ADJACENT THE LATERAL OPENINGS ADAPTED TO BE ENGAGED BY THE WALL OF THE RUPTURED MEMBRANE WHEN THE RUPTURING MEMBER IS DEPRESSED, TO MAINTAIN SAID MEMBER IN DEPRESSED POSITION.