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US 10,293,995 B2Granted
Package or product having a use indicator
AssigneeOwens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.
InventorsChris D. Anderson, Megan Herman, Brad Malcolm, Paola A. Rubiano
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Abstract
A product includes a use indicator carried inside a container so that, upon removal of a closure from the container or upon removal of flowable product from within the container, a coloration of the product changes irreversibly to indicate to a user that the package has been used.
Claims3
A product that includes:
- a bottle;
- a flowable product within the bottle;
- a closure coupled to the bottle;
- and
- an air-reactive use indicator carried on at least one inside surface of the bottle, wherein the indicator has an initial coloration state when exposed to air, and wherein the indicator is visually responsive to irradiation and is irradiatable to set the initial coloration state to a different, second coloration state with the flowable product in the bottle and the closure coupled to the bottle, and wherein the indicator is resettable back to the initial coloration state when exposed to air.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.