Container

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9272836-B2
Application number	US-201314420391-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 8, 2013
Priority date	Aug 9, 2012
Publication date	Mar 1, 2016
Grant date	Mar 1, 2016

Abstract

Aspects of the present invention are directed to a metered dose container that is transit proof. A container of the present invention may comprise a body having a vertical axis; a cap movable along the vertical axis of the body; a removable ring coupled to and between the moveable cap and the body, and a barrier, inside the body and coupled to the moveable cap. The barrier may define a loading chamber and separate the body into a storage chamber and a dispensing chamber. The barrier is adapted to be movable along the vertical axis of the body to form a transit position and a dispensing position.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A container comprising:
a body having a vertical axis;
a cap movable along the vertical axis of the body;
a removable ring coupled to and between the moveable cap and the body, and
a barrier, inside the body and coupled to the moveable cap, defining a loading chamber and separating the body into a storage chamber and a dispensing chamber wherein the barrier is adapted to be movable along the vertical axis of the body to form a transit position and a dispensing position.

2. The container of claim 1 , wherein the movable barrier comprises a long arm, forming the dispensing chamber and a shorter arm, forming the storage chamber, wherein the long arm comprises a barrier opening at the bottom to provide access from the loading chamber to the dispensing chamber.

3. The container of claim 1 , wherein the movable barrier comprises a bottom that is sloped from the short arm to the long arm and the body comprises an inclined base on which the sloped moveable barrier bottom can sit.

4. The container of claim 3 , wherein the body comprises a wall positioned to block the barrier opening when the barrier is in the transit position.

5. The container of claim 3 , wherein the body comprises a wall positioned to prevent infiltration of material between the bottom of the movable barrier and the inclined base of the body when the barrier is in transit position.

6. The container of claim 2 , wherein the barrier opening is adapted to provide a metered amount of a substance from the container.

7. The container of claim 6 , wherein the metered amount is between about 1 gram and about 10 grams.

8. The container of claim 7 , wherein the metered amount is between about 3 grams and about 6 grams.

9. The container of claim 8 , wherein the metered amount is about 5 grams.

10. The container of claim 1 , wherein the cap comprises a flip top to access material within the dispensing chamber.

11. The container of claim 10 , wherein the cap further comprises a resealable opening opposite the flip top to access material directly from the storage chamber.

Assignees

• Glaxosmithkline Llc

Inventors

• Ramachandran Ramesh
• Sabharwal Amit
• Saini Sukhdev Singh

Classifications

• B65D83/06 Primary

  for dispensing powdered or granular material · CPC title

• B65D47/0847

  located within a flat surface of the base element · CPC title

• B65D47/06

  with pouring spouts or tubes; with discharge nozzles or passages (with slidable spouts B65D47/26) · CPC title

• B65D2401/25

  Non-metallic tear-off strips · CPC title

• G01F11/40

  for fluent solid material · CPC title