COMPARTMENTALIZED CONTAINER PACKAGE

• US 3,613,955 A
• Filed: 07/15/1969
• Issued: 10/19/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Richard B. Wetherell Jr
• Original Assignee: Richard B. Wetherell Jr
• Inventors: Wetherell, Richard B. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Reeves, Robert B.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kocovsky, Thomas E.
• Application Number:
  US04/841,819
• Time in Patent Office: 826 Days
• Field of Search: 222/80,83,85,87,89,91,145,136,81,86,541,142.5
• US Class Current: 222/83
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2251/0015 of the 41-type
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2251/0093 Membrane
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 81/3222 with additional means facilitating admixture
• CPC Class Codes: B67B 7/26 combined with spouts
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 215/08 Mixing

Abstract

A compartmentalized container package for storing, mixing and dispensing ingredients which must be segregated prior to use including an inner container releasably supported within an outer container, a removable closure over the mouth of the inner container, and a dispensing cap having a projection which forcibly separate the containers when the cap is screwed onto the outer container to permit mixing of the contents. The releasable support means in a preferred embodiment has a frangible bridge section connected to the inner container and a laterally projecting surface resting on the wall of the outer container.

Claims

1. In a device for storing, mixing, and dispensing ingredients which must be segregated prior to use which includes an outer container having a mouth, fastening means extending around said mouth, an inner container shorter and narrower than that of the outer container, means for releasably supporting said inner container in spaced relationship within said outer container, closure means extending across and in sealing engagement with the mouth of the inner container, dispensing means engageable with and movable along said fastening means of the outer container having cutters overlying said closure means, the improvement wherein said releasable support means comprises a frangible bridge section as an integral part of the inner container bridging to the outer container and a circular collar on the dispensing means adapted to sever said frangible bridge section as the dispensing means is moved down along the fastening means of the outer container thereby releasing the inner container within the outer container to permit intermixing the contents of the two containers.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the means for releasably supporting said inner container in spaced relationship within said outer container serves to seal the portion of the mouth of the outer container exterior to the inner container and includes:

a. a laterally extending surface adapted to supportingly rest on the wall of the outer container when the inner container is inserted into the outer container, said frangible bridge section interconnecting the laterally extending surface with the inner container;

b. a plug portion integral with said laterally extending surface in sealing engagement with the inner wall of the outer container when said inner container is releasably supported within said outer container.

3. The device of claim 1 wherein the means for releasably supporting said inner container in spaced relationship within said outer container comprises a laterally extending surface terminating at its outer end in a downward projecting rim, and including locking means associated with a surface of said rim and a surface of the outer container wall, one of said rim and said outer container being formed of a resilient material, said locking means comprising a protruding bead on one of said surfaces and a cooperating depression in the other of said surfaces for receiving the bead on deforming the resilient member.

4. The device of claim 1 wherein the frangible bridge section is perforated and the closure means comprises a rupturable web overlying the mouth of the inner container and the perforations in said frangible bridge, said web serving to seal the mouth of the inner container and the portion of the mouth of the outer container exterior to said inner container.

5. The device of claim 1 wherein said circular collar is continuous and said cutters extend downward from the inner surface thereof.

6. The device of claim 1 wherein the material of one of said inner and said outer containers is polyvinyl chloride.