Cap of a package suitable for storing personal health care products

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12479635-B2
Application number	US-202318121773-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 15, 2023
Priority date	Mar 17, 2022
Publication date	Nov 25, 2025
Grant date	Nov 25, 2025

Abstract

A cap of a package is suitable to store and present personal health care products. The cap of the package disclosed herein comprises an information for a receiver which corresponds to the personal health care product, and which is recognizable with visual and tactile senses. The information is transferred by a product specific icon which protrudes from a surface of the cap of the package.

First claim

What we claim is:

1 . A method of transferring information to a human being comprising:
(i) filling a personal health care composition into a package; (ii) identifying an icon representative for the personal health care composition contained in the package; (iii) providing a cap comprising a concave curved surface and at least one protrusion protruding from the concave curved surface, wherein the concave curved surface has a radius of about 60 mm to about 100 mm and a depth, wherein the protrusion has a height that is equal to or less than the depth of the concave curved surface and a shape that is recognizable by a human being as the icon identified in (ii), wherein a minimal height of the at least one protrusion is greater than about 0.25 mm and a maximal height of the at least one protrusion is about 0.4 mm to about 2 mm, wherein the at least one protrusion has a length of about 10 mm to about 25 mm and a width of about 3 mm to about 15 mm; (iv) combining the cap and the package; and (v) providing the package to the human being so that the icon is detectable by tactile senses.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the maximal height of the at least one protrusion is about 0.4 mm to about 1.0 mm.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the maximal height of the at least one protrusion is about 0.5 mm to about 0.6 mm.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the radius of the concave curved surface is about 70 mm to about 90 mm.

5 . The method of claim 4 , wherein the radius of the concave curved surface is about 80 mm to about 83 mm.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the icon represents a class of goods comprising a toothpaste icon, a toothbrush icon, a dentifrice icon, a washing hands icon, a shower head icon, a brand icon, or a combination thereof.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein a surface of the at least one protrusion is curved.

8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein a surface of the at least one protrusion is textured according to VDI 3400 standard texture in the range of #38 to #48.

9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein a corner radius of an edge of a shape contour of the at least one protrusion is less than about 4 mm.

10 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the corner radius of the edge of the shape contour of the at least one protrusion is less than about 0.4 mm.

11 . The method of claim 1 , wherein an edge of the at least one surface is broadened, wherein a width of the broadened edge is about 0.5 mm to about 5 mm.

12 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the width of the edge is about 1.0 mm to about 2.0 mm.

13 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the cap comprises a thermoplastic plastic material comprising a polyethylene, high density polyethylene, polypropylene, polyethylene terephthalate, polyvinylchloride, polyvinylchloride polystyrene, polyvinylidene chloride, ethylene vinyl alcohol, polymethylmethacrylate, polyethylene 2,5-furandicarboxylate, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, or a combination thereof.

Assignees

• Procter & Gamble

Inventors

• Trombley Kurt Franklin
• Middleton Peter Leonard
• Baillely Susan Eleanor

Classifications

• B65D51/249

  the closure being specifically formed for supporting the container · CPC title

• B65D35/44 Primary

  Closures (closure members of interest apart from this application B65D39/00 - B65D55/00; forming bottom closures after filling B65B7/14) · CPC title

• B65B7/28

  by applying separate preformed closures, e.g. lids, covers · CPC title

• B65B3/04

  Methods of, or means for, filling the material into the containers or receptacles · CPC title

• B65D2203/00

  Decoration means, markings, information elements, contents indicators · CPC title