Dispensing closure

• US 9,522,770 B2
• Filed: 02/13/2012
• Issued: 12/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Isoline EU SRO
• Original Assignee: Isoline EU SRO
• Inventors: Pichrt, Vladislav
• Primary Examiner(s): Buechner, Patrick M
• Assistant Examiner(s): GRUBY, RANDALL A
• Application Number:
  US14/366,794
• Publication Number:
  US 20140367414A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,772 Days
• Field of Search: 222 80- 87, 222/135
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 51/2835 ruptured by a sharp element, e.g. a cutter or a piercer
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 55/024 Closures in which a part has to be ruptured to gain access to the contents B65D41/32, B65D43/0235, B65D55/022, B65D55/06 take precedence

Abstract

A dispensing closure with at least two dispensing-metering chambers, a piston in each chamber, and a plastic cover. The plastic cover includes a tamper-resistant lock. The bottoms of the chambers are closed with a covering foil. The chamber are in a bottom part of the closure body and extend into an upper guiding part of the closure body having guides. Cross-sections of the guides coincide with cross-sections of at least a portion of the chambers. Each piston includes a bottom face separating a content of the respective chamber. The plastic cover is rotatably mounted and includes an upper part having a lock preventing unintentional twisting-off of the plastic cover. The underside of each piston includes a plastic cutter for cutting the covering foil.

Claims

1. A dispensing closure comprising

a closure body (1) with at least two dispensing-metering chambers (3), and

a piston (4) situated in each of the chambers (3),

wherein the closure body (1) containing the pistons (4) has an upper side closed by a plastic cover (5), the plastic cover (5) including a separable, tamper-resistant lock (7), the bottoms of the chambers (3) being closed with a covering foil (6), the at least two chambers (3) being situated in a bottom part of the closure body (1) and extending into an upper guiding part of the closure body (1) having a form of guides (2), cross-sections of which coincide with cross-sections of at least a portion of the chambers (3),

wherein the plastic cover (5) is rotatably mounted on the closure body and includes an upper part including the lock (7) and an opening defined therein, and when the plastic cover is rotated to a first position on the closure body, the opening is sized to permit access to one of the pistons situated in one of the chambers, and the plastic cover prevents access to another piston situated in another chamber, and

wherein the underside of each piston (4) includes a plastic cutter for cutting the covering foil (6).

2. The dispensing closure according to claim 1 wherein the closure body (1) comprises three chambers (3).

3. The dispensing closure according to claim 2 wherein cross-sections of the chambers (3) are equal-armed triangles.

4. The dispensing closure according to claim 1 wherein the piston (4) is hollow.

5. The dispensing closure according to claim 1 wherein the separable lock (7) is fitted with an attachment ring.

6. The dispensing closure according to claim 1 wherein the plastic cutter of the piston (4) comprises an extension of a circular edge of the piston (4).