Container cap

• US 5,255,812 A
• Filed: 07/01/1992
• Issued: 10/26/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Yu T. Hsu
• Original Assignee: Yu T. Hsu
• Inventors: Hsu, Yu T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Shoap, Allan N.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Caretto, Vanessa
• Application Number:
  US07/907,695
• Time in Patent Office: 482 Days
• Field of Search: 220/212, 220/262, 220/267, 220/277, 220/278, 220/355, 220/356, 220/521, 220/735, 215/227, 215/228, 206/219, 206/222, 126/263
• US Class Current: 220/277
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 36/28 Warming devices generating the heat by exothermic reactions, e.g. heat released by the contact of unslaked lime with water
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 51/2835 ruptured by a sharp element, e.g. a cutter or a piercer
• CPC Class Codes: F24V 30/00 Apparatus or devices using heat produced by exothermal chemical reactions other than combustion

Abstract

A container cap for vise with a self-heating tin container having a chemical compound on one end for releasing heat upon mixing with a liquid catalyzer. The container cap has an annular groove on the bottom around the border into which a peripheral flange on a self-heating tin container is inserted for positioning, a pointed member on the inside surface of the elastic top edge thereof, a film covering covered over the pointed member to hold a liquid catalyzer. Pressing the elastic top edge of the container cap against the tin container to which the container cap is fastened causes the pointed member to pierce the film covering permitting the liquid catalyzer to flow out of the container cap for mixing with the chemical compound in the tin container.

Claims

1. A container cap for use with a metal container having a peripheral lip comprising:

a chemical compound contained in one end of the metal container; and

a liquid catalyzer which is released into the chemical compound causing a reaction which releases heat; and

wherein

the cap comprising a ring-shaped base having an outer peripheral wall extending in a first direction, a peripheral flange extending in a second direction opposite said first direction, and an inner peripheral wall extending in said first direction and spaced from said outer peripheral wall to define a groove therebetween to facilitate attachment to the container lip, an elastic layer extending across the interior of said inner peripheral wall, a plurality of vent holes at the periphery of the elastic layer radially inwardly of said peripheral flange;

the elastic layer having an inner surface facing in said first direction and an outer surface facing in said second direction, said elastic layer having a pointed member at the center of said inner surface and wherein

a film covering is stretched across said inner peripheral wall to form a containment area for the liquid catalyzer;

whereby

pressure added to the elastic layer in said first direction causes the pointed member to rupture the film covering, permitting the liquid catalyzer to flow rapidly into the chemical compound contained in the metal container, initiating the chemical reaction which rapidly releases heat.

2. The container cap according to claim 1 wherein:

said outer surface is curved outwardly in said second direction, the outermost point on the outer being lower than the level of the outermost edge of the peripheral flange of the ring-shaped base.

3. The container cap according to claim 1 wherein:

the pointed member is comprised of four triangular plates, the triangular plates each having a pointed angle at its end distal from said elastic layer, and the plates being disposed adjacent to each other.