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 an external surface of the cap of the package.
Claims25
A cap for a package suitable to contain a personal health care composition comprising at least one external surface, wherein the at least one external surface comprises a circumferential edge, a first protrusion located inside the circumferential edge, and a second protrusion protruding from the first protrusion, wherein a sum of a height of the first protrusion and of a height of the second protrusion is equal to or smaller than a height of the circumferential edge;
- wherein a maximal height of the second protrusion is in a range of from about 0.4 mm to about 2.0 mm;
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- wherein a shape of the second protrusion comprises an icon representing a product selected from dentifrice, toothpaste, and toothbrush, wherein the icon comprises information about the product which can be transferred to a human.
A package comprising a cap comprising at least one external surface, wherein the at least one external surface comprises a circumferential edge, a first protrusion located inside the circumferential edge, and a second protrusion protruding from the first protrusion,
- wherein a sum of a height of the first protrusion and of a height of the second protrusion is equal to or smaller than a height of the circumferential edge;
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- wherein a maximal height of the second protrusion is in a range of from about 0.4 mm to about 2.0 mm;
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- wherein a shape of the second protrusion is recognizable by a human being and has a shape of an icon, and wherein the package is a tube.
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, wherein the icon does not include lettering;
- (iii) providing a folding cap comprising:
- (a) at least one external surface, wherein the at least one external surface comprises a circumferential edge, a first protrusion located inside the circumferential edge,
- (b) a second protrusion protruding from the first protrusion, wherein a sum of a height of the first protrusion and of a height of the second protrusion is equal to or smaller than a height of the circumferential edge;
- and wherein a maximal height of the second protrusion is in a range of from about 0.4 mm to about 2.0 mm;
- and wherein a shape of the second protrusion is recognizable by a human being and is shaped as the icon identified in step (ii),
- (c) a folding part, and
- (d) a static part connected to the folding part by a hinge and separated by a folding line, wherein the folding part of the cap comprises at least the external surface, the first protrusion and the second protrusion, and;
- (iv) combining the cap and the package;
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- (iv) providing the package to the human being so that the icon is detectable by tactile senses.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.