Beverage can with ingredient chamber
AssigneePepsiCo, Inc.
InventorsGraham Robert Downing, Bruno Telesca, Andrew Robert Taylor, Leanne Yip Heung Win
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Abstract
A beverage can with an ingredient chamber for storing functional ingredients separately from a base beverage until the beverage can is opened by a consumer. The ingredient chamber may be disposed on a can end of the beverage can. The ingredient chamber may be broken open to release functional ingredients automatically when the beverage can is opened by the consumer. In some embodiments, the ingredient chamber includes a membrane that forms a sealed cavity. In some embodiments, the ingredient chamber includes a deformed cavity of the can end.
Claims22
A beverage can end, comprising:
- a metal body having a topside and an underside, wherein the metal body has a weakened portion configured to be broken open to create a drinking opening;
- a tab on the topside, configured to be actuated to break open the weakened portion;
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- a sealed membrane forming a self-contained ingredient chamber containing a beverage ingredient, wherein the ingredient chamber is attached to the underside of the metal body, disposed across the weakened portion,
- wherein the sealed membrane is broken in response to actuation of the tab to break the weakened portion, such that the beverage ingredient is released from the sealed membrane.
A beverage can end, comprising:
- a metal body having a topside and a underside, wherein the metal body has a break-away flange that creates a drinking opening through the metal body when the break-away flange is broken away from the rest of the metal body, and wherein the metal body defines a cavity with an opening on the underside, the cavity configured to store a beverage ingredient;
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- a tab on the topside, configured to be actuated to apply force to the break-away flange to break the break-away flange away from the rest of the metal body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.