Bottle for generic medical products, in particular syrups

• US 4,936,490 A
• Filed: 03/03/1988
• Issued: 06/26/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Guala Closures S.P.A.
• Original Assignee: Guala S.p.A.
• Inventors: Battegazzore, Piero
• Primary Examiner(s): Rolla, Joseph J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Milef, Boris
• Application Number:
  US07/163,644
• Time in Patent Office: 845 Days
• Field of Search: 222/205, 222/207, 222/211, 222/110, 222/149, 222/151, 222/464, 222/318, 222/424, 222/578, 222/580, 222/581
• US Class Current: 222/205
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 11/028 the dosing device being provided with a dip tube and fitted to a container, e.g. to a bottleneck

Abstract

A bottle for syrups, which affords precise dosages of a syrup in an accurate and hygienically satisfactory manner, comprises a container in bottle form which extends between a bottle bottom and a bottle neck, a cap-type stopper removably associated with the bottle neck, a syringe device having a respectively cylinder associated with the bottle neck and defining a chamber having a set volume equal to a single dose, which chamber is in fluid communication with said bottle bottom through a conduit, and a respectively plunger associated with the cap-type stopper and being movable within said cylinder on removal of the cap to such up a dose from the bottle bottom.

Claims

1. A bottle for containing and dispensing generic medicinal products, in particular syrups, comprising:

a container in bottle form having a neck and a bottom, the bottle neck being providing with a top rim;

a cap-type stopper removably associated with the bottle neck and engageable with the outside of the bottle neck;

a cylinder extending axially on the inside of the bottle neck and provided with an open top end and a bottom end which is closed by a bottom wall, said top end of said cylinder being connected to the bottle neck, said cylinder defining a chamber with a selected volume which is equal to a single dose of the syrup to be dispensed;

a plunger connected to said stopper and extending axially inside said cylinder through the open top end of said cylinder, said plunger being axially displaceable upon removal of said stopper from said bottle neck;

said cylinder and said plunger together forming a syringe device;

a first and a second aperture in said bottom wall of said cylinder for providing fluid communication between said cylinder and said container;

a conduit having a first end connected to said first aperture and extending inside said container, said conduit having an opposite end extending to the bottom of said container;

first one way valve means in said first aperture for admitting syrup into said chamber when drawn from said container by displacement of said plunger from said cylinder, while preventing a flow of syrup from said chamber into said container; and

second one way valve means in said second aperture for preventing air from passing to said chamber from said container while permitting air and syrup to pass from said chamber into said container when a selected pressure level is exceeded in said chamber by displacement of said plunger into said cylinder.

2. A bottle according to claim 1 further comprising an annular space between said cylinder and said bottle neck in free fluid communication with said container, an annular flange extending radially and outwardly from said top end of said cylinder and fitted over and to said top rim of said bottle neck, a plurality of capillary vent holes in said annular flange, and a tubular lug extending from said stopper toward said flange and into engagement with said plurality of capillary vent holes when said stopper is engaged to close said bottle neck for closing said capillary vent holes, whereby as said stopper is placed onto said bottle neck, said plunger slides into said cylinder displacing syrup and air through said second aperture and past said second one way valve means until said tubular lug is engaged against said flange to close said capillary vent holes.

3. A bottle according to claim 2 wherein said first one way valve means comprises a duckbill check valve extending upwardly into said chamber of said cylinder at an upper end of said conduit, said second one way valve means comprising an elastic flap check valve for engagement over said second aperture and for displacement away from said second aperture when syrup and air is forced through said second aperture from said chamber into said container.