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US 10,723,526 B1Granted
Bottle and cap arrangement
AssigneeChubby Gorilla, Inc.
InventorIbrahiem H. Aboabdo
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Abstract
A bottle assembly that includes a bottle with a finish having a mouth for containing an E-liquid. The mouth of the bottle is sealed with a plug having an anti-drip well. The anti-drip well sized to prevent inadvertent spillage of the E-liquid contained within the bottle. An annular cap protrusion of the plug can engage with a channel on an upper portion of the bottle to attach the plug with the upper portioned with the mouth of the bottle. A lower channel edge can include a notch that can be used as a wedge to incrementally remove the plug from the mouth of the bottle without damage thereto.
Claims24
A bottle assembly for containing and dispensing a liquid, comprising:
- a bottle configured to contain a volume of the liquid, the bottle including a bottle body and a finish, the finish including a mouth of the bottle, a top surface extending around the mouth, and a plug channel around an outer circumference of the finish adjacent to the mouth, the finish including one or more threads;
- a plug configured to seal the mouth of the bottle, the plug including:
- a nozzle having an anti-drip well extending therethrough;
- a cap portion including an annular cap protrusion configured to sealingly engage within the plug channel of the finish;
- a plug portion, the plug portion tapered to engage with an inner surface of the mouth;
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- an annular cap groove disposed between the plug portion and the annular cap protrusion, the top surface received within the annular cap groove;
- an inner cap configured to assembly with the finish of the bottle, the inner cap including:
- an inner threaded region for engagement with the one or more threads of the finish;
- an outer circumferential ring;
- a top surface comprising one or more slots therein;
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- a conical protrusion configured to receive the nozzle of the plug;
- an outer cap configured to rotatably couple with the inner cap, the outer cap including:
- an inner circumferential ring configured to couple with the outer circumferential ring of the inner cap to couple the inner cap with the outer cap;
- a grip portion;
- a lower lip, the lower lip extending around a circumference of the outer cap;
- a spring clip configured to engage with the conical protrusion of the inner cap;
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- one or more protrusions configured to engage with the slots of the inner cap to transfer a torque from the outer cap to the inner cap to remove the inner cap from the finish;
- wherein the inner cap and the outer cap form a child safety lock, the spring clip and conical protrusion configured to bias the one or more protrusions of the outer cap away from the slots of the inner cap to prevent transfer of the torque from the outer cap to the inner cap without overcoming the bias of the spring clip;
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- wherein the anti-drip well has a diameter of 1.2 mm.
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A bottle assembly for containing and dispensing a liquid, comprising:
- a bottle configured to contain a volume of the liquid, the bottle including a bottle body and a finish, the finish including a mouth of the bottle, a top surface extending around the mouth, and a plug channel around an outer circumference of the finish adjacent to the mouth, the finish including one or more threads;
- a plug configured to seal the mouth of the bottle, the plug including:
- a nozzle having an anti-drip well extending therethrough;
- a cap portion including an annular cap protrusion configured to sealingly engage within the plug channel of the finish;
- a plug portion, the plug portion tapered to engage with an inner surface of the mouth;
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- a cap groove disposed between the plug portion and the annular cap protrusion, the top surface received within the cap groove;
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- wherein the annular cap protrusion engages with a lower channel edge of the plug channel and a annular slot is formed therebetween;
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- wherein the lower channel edge includes a notch, the notch comprising a chamfered region of the lower channel edge and providing access into the annular slot to allow removal of the plug from the mouth without damage thereto.
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A method of removing and assembling a plug of a bottle comprising:
- removing a cap from a bottle having a finish with an upper annular portion, the upper annular portion including a channel, the channel configured to receive an annular cap protrusion of a plug, the plug assembled within a mouth of the bottle and forming a annular slot between the annular cap protrusion and a lower channel edge of the channel, the lower channel edge comprising a notch, wherein the removing comprises rotating the cap relative to the bottle to disengage complementary threads on the cap and bottle, the cap including a lower circumferential lip;
- inserting the lower circumferential lip of the cap into the notch on the bottle;
- applying a force radially inwardly against a chamfered surface of the notch to insert the lower circumferential lip into the annular slot;
- incrementally removing the annular cap protrusion from the channel by maintaining the lower circumferential lip of the cap within the annular slot as the bottle rotates about a longitudinal axis until the plug is fully separated from the mouth of the bottle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.