Dosing bottle arrangement and methods
AssigneeSpectrum Brands, Inc.
InventorsElena Bartl, Luise Pfende
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Abstract
A dosing bottle has a container; a riser; a cap piece; a standpipe connected to the riser and one or more return openings in a tubular wall of the standpipe; and a closure member. The closure member is rotatably attached to the cap piece and defines an interior dosing volume and a dispenser opening. The closure member is axially movable relative to the cap piece between a closed position and an open position. The open position allows a liquid in the interior volume of the container to flow through the riser and through the return opening and into the interior dosing volume.
Claims16
A dosing bottle arrangement comprising:
- (a) a container having a container wall surrounding an interior volume and a protruding neck;
- the neck having an open mouth in communication with the interior volume;
- (b) a riser extending from the interior volume of the container and through the open mouth of the neck;
- (c) a cap piece having:
- (i) an outer surrounding wall removably attached to the neck;
- (ii) a gusset arrangement radially extending from the outer surrounding wall and within the open mouth of the neck;
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- (iii) a standpipe extending from the gusset arrangement;
- the standpipe including a tubular wall connected to the riser at one end, an opposite closed end, and one or more return openings in the tubular wall;
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- (d) a closure member having:
- (i) a surrounding enclosure rotatably attached to the cap piece and defining an interior dosing volume and a dispenser opening;
- (ii) a tube secured to the enclosure within the interior dosing volume;
- the tube being in covering relation to the standpipe;
- the tube having an aperture;
- wherein the closure member is axially movable relative to the cap piece between a closed position and an open position;
- (A) the closed position including the tube covering all of the return openings in the tubular wall;
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- (B) the open position including the aperture in the tube being in open communication with one or more of the return openings, such that a liquid in the interior volume of the container can flow through the riser and through the return opening and into the interior dosing volume.
A method of using a dosing bottle arrangement;
- the method comprising:
- (a) selecting a desired liquid dosing amount by rotating a closure member relative to a cap piece and radially align an aperture in a tube of the closure member with a return opening in a tubular wall of a standpipe of the cap piece;
- (b) axially moving the closure member relative to the cap piece from a closed position to an open position to put the aperture in open communication with the return opening;
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- (c) squeezing a container having a riser to move liquid in an interior volume of the container through the riser and through the return opening and into an interior dosing volume of the closure member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.