Target rim and tip for containers

• US 5,678,729 A
• Filed: 09/14/1995
• Issued: 10/21/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Dorothy Raymond
• Original Assignee: Dorothy Raymond
• Inventors: Raymond, Dorothy
• Primary Examiner(s): Kashnikow, Andres
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bomberg, Kenneth
• Application Number:
  US08/528,301
• Time in Patent Office: 768 Days
• Field of Search: 222/23, 222/212, 222/420, 222/562, 604/295, 604/300, 206/459.5, 215/230
• US Class Current: 222/23
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 1/023 Neck construction
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2203/00 Decoration means, markings, information elements, contents indicators see also B65D5/4212, B65D33/004
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 41/02 Caps or cap-like covers without lines of weakness, tearing strips, tags, or like opening or removal devices

Abstract

A container for sterile liquids such as eye medicines has a dispensing orifice nozzle with a tip and a cap for covering the tip, a rim of the cap is made visually contrasting with the outside surface of the cap, to present a target for the user to insert the tip into the un-contaminated interior of the cap without touching the tip to the rim or the outside surfaces, thus maintaining sterility of the medicine. The invention may be used when vision is blurred due to eyedrop effects or the removal of eyeglasses for administering eyedrops. Besides the cap rim, the cap interior and/or the dispensing tip may also be made contrasting. The contrast may be provided by different colors or different surface textures.

Claims

1. In a container, for containing a substance, of the type having

a container body,

a dispenser including a tip for dispensing the substance, and

a cap with a hollow, interior surface for accepting the dispenser therewithin, a rim bordering the interior surface, and a cap outer surface for handling the cap,

the cap for selectively uncovering the tip from the dispenser and covering the tip to seal the dispenser;

the improvement comprising;

the rim and the cap outer surface being visually contrasting;

whereby the tip may be more easily guided into the interior surface to avoid accidental contact of the tip.

2. The container according to claim 1, wherein visual contrast is obtained by at least one of contrasting colors and contrasting visual textures.

3. The container according to claim 1, wherein the interior surface includes a wall that is visually contrasting with the cap outer surface.

4. The container according to claim 3, wherein visual contrast is obtained by at least one of contrasting colors and contrasting visual textures.

5. The container according to claim 1, wherein the tip is visually contrasting with the cap outer surface.

6. The container according to claim 5, wherein visual contrast is obtained by at least one of contrasting colors and contrasting visual textures.

7. The container according to claim 1, wherein the tip is visually contrasting with a container body outer surface.

8. The container according to claim 7, wherein visual contrast is obtained by at least one of contrasting colors and contrasting visual textures.

9. The container according to claim 1, comprising the substance, and wherein the substance is liquid or gel.

10. The container according to claim 9, wherein the dispenser is a nozzle.

11. The container according to claim 1, comprising the substance, and wherein on inside of the container and the substance are sterile.

12. In a container having a container body, a cap, and a protruding delivery means for delivering a substance stored within the container, wherein the cap has a hollow inner surface for accepting therein the protruding portion of a protruding delivery means, an outer surface, and a rim disposed between said inner and outer surfaces, the improvement wherein:

said rim is visually contrasting with said outer surface.