Container for containing two different separate products and mixing them

• US 7,325,676 B2
• Filed: 07/12/2004
• Issued: 02/05/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Soria Natural, S.A.
• Original Assignee: Jose Luis Galaz Rodriguez
• Inventors: Galaz Rodriguez, Jose Luis
• Primary Examiner(s): Gehman; Bryon P.
• Application Number:
  US10/890,557
• Publication Number:
  US 20050016875A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,303 Days
• Field of Search: 206/219, 206221-222, 206/807, 215251-256, 215/12.2, 215/DIG.8, 220/254.1, 220/254.7
• US Class Current: 206/219
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 51/2814 the additional article or materials being released by piercing, cutting or tearing an element enclosing it

Abstract

A container for containing two different separate products and mixing them, comprising a recipient for a first product, a capsule for containing a second product, and a closure cap which includes an outer skirt with a threaded tamper-evident ring and a coaxial inner skirt having an edge which breaks the bottom of the capsule. The cap is provided in its upper base with an opening, which can be closed by means of a detachable cover. Once the assembly is assembled and closed, it is surrounded by an easily breakable, laminar tamper-evident cover.

Claims

1. A container having two separate storage areas, comprising

a recipient container having a filling opening and a cap attachment region located down on the recipient container from the filling opening;

a container capsule having an upper base which is open and having a lower base which is spaced below the upper base and which is closed, the container capsule being disposed at the recipient container with the upper base at the filling opening;

a closure cap for the recipient container, the closure cap including an outer skirt shaped to engage with the cap attachment region of the recipient container;

a tamper-evident ring on a lower part of the outer skirt and extending along the recipient container;

an inner skirt in the closure cap and inward in the closure cap from the outer skirt, the closure cap having a top, the top being so defined when the closure cap is disposed as part of the container, from which top the outer and inner skirts depend, the inner skirt having a free bottom edge extending into the container capsule and extending toward the lower base of the container capsule, the free bottom edge of the inner skirt being so positioned, so shaped, and of such material that when the closure cap is moved onto the recipient container, the outer and inner skirts are moved down toward the recipient container, until the free bottom edge of the inner skirt contacts and breaks through the lower base of the container capsule;

the top of the closure cap having an opening coinciding with a contour defined by the inner skirt; and

a detachable cover applied over the opening in the top of the closure cap, the detachable cover being completely discrete and detachable from the closure cap, the detachable cover covering the entire top of the closure cap when the detachable cover is applied over the opening in the top of the closure cap.

2. The container of claim 1, wherein the region of the recipient container down from the opening thereof is externally threaded and the outer skirt of the closure cap is cooperatingly correspondingly internally threaded to the threading on the recipient container so that the closure cap is threadedly attached and threadedly moved along the container.

3. The container of claim 1, wherein the inner skirt is coaxial with the outer skirt.

4. The container of claim 1, further comprising an additional breakable, laminar, tamper-evident cover partially enveloping the bottom of the recipient container, the detachable cover is fixed to the closure cap and surrounds the recipient container and the closure cap.

5. The container of claim 1, wherein the top of the closure cap has an upper surface on which the detachable cover is placed, the upper surface coupling the outer skirt and the inner skirt;

the upper surface and the detachable cover have respective facing surfaces and respective facing and supporting elements on their facing surfaces, and the facing and supporting elements being separable upon the detachable cover being detached from the closure cap.

6. The container of claim 5, wherein the fixing and supporting elements comprise an annular rib projecting from the upper surface;

the detachable cover having an annular groove therein positioned to face and be fixed by snapping the annular groove of the detachable cover on the annular rib.

7. The container of claim 1, wherein the tamper-evident ring on the outer skirt is positioned on the recipient container and the recipient container is so shaped that upon movement of the closure cap onto the recipient container, the tamper-evident ring is urged to break off the skirt by contact of the tamper-evident ring with the recipient container.

8. The container of claim 1, wherein the recipient container is adapted for holding a first product, the capsule is adapted for holding a second product and upon the base of the capsule being open, the products in the recipient container and the capsule are adapted to come together and be mixed, and the opening in the base of the closure cap enabling exit of mixed items from the recipient container through the inner skirt and out the opening in the base of the closure cap.