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US 12,479,635 B2Granted
Cap of a package suitable for storing personal health care products
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsKurt Franklin Trombley, Peter Leonard Middleton, Susan Eleanor Baillely
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Abstract
A cap of a package is suitable to store and present personal health care products. The cap of the package disclosed herein comprises an information for a receiver which corresponds to the personal health care product, and which is recognizable with visual and tactile senses. The information is transferred by a product specific icon which protrudes from a surface of the cap of the package.
Claims13
A method of transferring information to a human being comprising:
- (i) filling a personal health care composition into a package;
- (ii) identifying an icon representative for the personal health care composition contained in the package;
- (iii) providing a cap comprising a concave curved surface and at least one protrusion protruding from the concave curved surface, wherein the concave curved surface has a radius of about 60 mm to about 100 mm and a depth,
- wherein the protrusion has a height that is equal to or less than the depth of the concave curved surface and a shape that is recognizable by a human being as the icon identified in (ii),
- wherein a minimal height of the at least one protrusion is greater than about 0.25 mm and a maximal height of the at least one protrusion is about 0.4 mm to about 2 mm,
- wherein the at least one protrusion has a length of about 10 mm to about 25 mm and a width of about 3 mm to about 15 mm;
- (iv) combining the cap and the package;
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- (v) providing the package to the human being so that the icon is detectable by tactile senses.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.