# US 2009/0260690 A1 · Packaged Bottle Beverage Having An Ingredient Release Closure With Improved Additive Release And Method And Apparatus Thereof > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2009/0260690 A1 - Document ID: US20090260690A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 12/103,916 - Filed: 2008-04-16 - Published: 2009-10-22 - Earliest claimed: 2008-04-16 - Assignees: Georgia Crown Distributing Co. - Inventors: JAMES CLAYTON BELL - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20090260690A1 ## CPC - B65D 81/2015: {in an at least partially rigid container (B65D81/2038 takes precedence)} - B65B 7/2835: {applying and rotating preformed threaded caps (for bottles or jars B67B3/20)} - B65D 51/2821: {said element being a blister, a capsule or like sealed container} - B65D 51/2835: {ruptured by a sharp element, e.g. a cutter or a piercer} - B65D 51/2864: {the element being a plug or like element closing a passage between the auxiliary container and the main container} - B65D 51/2871: {the plug falling into the main container} - B65D 51/2878: {the element being a lid or cover seated on a passage between the auxiliary container and the main container} - B67B 3/24: Special measures for applying and securing caps under vacuum - Y10T 137/0318: Processes - B65D: CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES - B65B: MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING (bundling and pressing devices for cigars A24C1/44; devices for tensioning and securing binders adapted to be supported by the article or articles to be bound B25B25/00; applying closure members to bottles, jars or similar containers B67B1/00-B67B6/00; concurrent cleaning, filling and closing of bottles B67C7/00; emptying bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels or similar containers B67C9/00) - B67B: APPLYING CLOSURE MEMBERS TO BOTTLES JARS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; OPENING CLOSED CONTAINERS (opening or closing devices attached to, or incorporated in, containers or container closures B65D) - Y10T: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION ## Abstract A packaged bottled beverage has a base component of the beverage in a container under vacuum separate from an additive in a sealed compartment of an ingredient release closure. Upon opening the sealed compartment, suction is created forcing the additive to quickly and thoroughly exit the ingredient release closure, a region of relatively higher pressure, and flow into the base component in the container, a region of relatively lower pressure. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A packaged bottled beverage comprising: a. a beverage comprising a base component and an additive; b. a container comprising an opening for receiving a closure and a vessel containing said base component; c. an ingredient release closure comprising a sealed compartment containing said additive, a release mechanism for dispensing the additive, and attaching means for attachment to said opening of said container; d. said attaching means of said ingredient release closure attached to said opening of said container to form a packaged bottled beverage, wherein said base component is contained under vacuum in said container. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The packaged bottled beverage of claim 1, wherein upon releasing said additive from said ingredient release closure using said release mechanism and prior to opening said packaged bottle beverage, suction is created pulling said additive from said ingredient release closure into said base component in said container. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The packaged bottled beverage of claim 1, wherein said vacuum is formed by applying compression to an outer surface of said vessel. ### Claim 4 A method for improving delivery of an additive contained within a sealed compartment of an ingredient release closure into a base component of a beverage contained within a vessel of a packaged bottled beverage comprising the steps of: a. providing a container comprising (i) an opening for receiving a closure and (ii) a vessel containing a base component of a beverage; b. providing a closure comprising (i) a sealed compartment containing an additive, (ii) a release mechanism for dispensing said additive, and (iii) attaching means for attachment to said opening of said container; c. providing vacuum means; and d. attaching said closure to said opening of said container and creating a vacuum with said vacuum means to form a packaged bottled beverage having said container under vacuum. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The method of claim 4 wherein said container is a flexible container and said vacuum means is provided by applying compression to an outer surface of said vessel. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The method of claim 5 wherein said compression is applied to said outer surface of said vessel by an adjustable rail having a decreasing arc from a point of initial contact with said container to a point of final contact with said container. ### Claim 7 (depends on 4) The method of claim 4 wherein said vacuum means is provided by a vacuum pump. ### Claim 8 (depends on 4) The method of claim 4 wherein said vacuum means is provided by a vacuum chamber. ### Claim 9 A container closing apparatus in a filling plant configured to attach an ingredient release closure onto a container to provide for a sealed container under vacuum comprising: a. an inlet being configured and disposed to permit containers to enter a container closing apparatus; b. at least one capper mechanism being configured to attach an ingredient release closure onto a container to form a sealed container; c. a container holding apparatus being configured and disposed to receive and hold said containers to permit ingredient release closures to be attached onto containers by said capper mechanism; d. a means for creating a vacuum in the space inside said container during attachment of said ingredient release closure onto said container; e. an outlet being configured and disposed to permit sealed containers to exit said container closing apparatus. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The apparatus of claim 9, wherein said means for creating vacuum is an adjustable rail having an arc of decreasing radius from a point of initial contact with said container at said inlet to a point of final contact with said container at said outlet. ### Claim 11 (depends on 9) The apparatus of claim 9 wherein said means for creating vacuum is a vacuum pump. ### Claim 12 (depends on 9) The apparatus of claim 9 wherein said means for creating vacuum is a vacuum chamber.