Dispensing capsule for a liquid container

• US 6,886,686 B2
• Filed: 04/09/2004
• Issued: 05/03/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2002
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Gacers LLC
• Original Assignee: Michael Anderson
• Inventors: Anderson, Michael R.
• Primary Examiner(s): BUI, LUAN KIM
• Application Number:
  US10/709,062
• Publication Number:
  US 20040188282A1
• Time in Patent Office: 389 Days
• Field of Search: 206219-222, 206/568, 215/DIG.8, 222/80, 222/83, 222/129
• US Class Current: 206/219
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 51/2835 ruptured by a sharp element, e.g. a cutter or a piercer
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 51/2842 said element being provided with a preformed weakened line B65D51/2821 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 51/2871 the plug falling into the main container

Abstract

A two piece sealed capsule that is inserted into a liquid bearing container wall or neck of a bottle, said capsule being a receptacle for sealably containing a liquid and/or dry material and a dispenser for releasing the material when desired into the container. The top of the capsule is depressed manually forcing a plunger tube connected to the bottom of the capsule to rip away the bottom and side portion dispensing the material. The present invention allows the use of materials that would discolor, degrade or interact with other substances when added to the contents of the bottle, to remain stable and/or inactive until the time of use.

Claims

1. A capsule that contains liquid and/or dry material to be subsequently dispensed into a container comprising:

a capsule body that is impervious to liquid;

said capsule body, including a first member and a second member, said second member moveable mountable in said first member;

said capsule first member body having a top opening and a sealed closed bottom with lines of weakening and a vertical plunger tube connected thereto;

said second member having a sealed closed top and an open bottom; and

said first and second members in a first mode are sealed forming said capsule body preventing any liquid or dry material from escaping from the capsule body.

2. A capsule as in claim 1, wherein:

said first member is cylindrical and said second member is cylindrical; and

the inside diameter of said first member being larger than the outside diameter of the said second member.

3. A capsule as in claim 2, wherein:

said first member side cylindrical wall and said sealed bottom having a joined area of weakened material around its periphery, for rupture by said second member engaging said plunger tube.

4. A capsule as in claim 2, wherein:

said first member inside wall has a sealing means that engages said second member.

5. A capsule as in claim 1, wherein:

said second member having a removeable area to form an aperture for inserting a straw.