Cap and bottle
AssigneeColgate-Palmolive Company
InventorsJohn Crawford, Scott Beckerman
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Abstract
A bottle for dispensing oral care fluid is provided. The bottle can include a body portion comprising a mouth, side surfaces, and a bottom surface arranged to hold a volume of oral care fluid; and a cap arranged to be secured to the mouth, wherein the cap comprises a integral cup sized to hold a portion of the volume of oral care fluid, wherein the integral cup includes an open end that mates with the mouth and a closed end including a flip-top member arranged at a distal end of the cap.
Claims20
A bottle for dispensing oral care fluid comprising:
- a body portion comprising a mouth, side surfaces, and a bottom surface arranged to hold a volume of oral care fluid;
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- a cap arranged to be secured to the mouth, wherein the cap comprises an integral cup sized to hold a portion of the volume of oral care fluid, wherein the integral cup comprises an open end that mates with the mouth and a closed end comprising a flip-top member arranged at a distal end of the cap, wherein the closed end comprises a silicon valve that is operable to control dispensing of a measured amount of the oral car fluid from the bottle, wherein the integral cup is stable when the flat flip-top member is positioned on a flat surface so as to prevent tipping over and spilling the oral care fluid contained within the integral cup.
(canceled)
A bottle for dispensing oral care fluid comprising:
- a body portion comprising a mouth, side surfaces, a neck that connects the mouth to the side surfaces, and a bottom surface arranged to hold a volume of oral care fluid;
- a flip-top cap arranged to secure the mouth;
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- a cup arranged to be releasably secured to the flip-top cap in a first orientation and a second inverted orientation, wherein, in the first orientation, the cup is positioned where an open end of the cup is in a downward position and covers the flip-top cap and, in the second orientation the cup is positioned where the open end is in a upward position, wherein the cup comprises a closed end opposite the open end that is releasably secured to the flip-top cap, wherein the closed end does not cover the neck when the cup is in the second orientation.
A cap for securing to a mouth of a bottle for dispensing an oral care fluid, the cap comprising:
- an integral cup, wherein the integral cup comprises an open end that mates with the mouth of the bottle and a closed end comprising a flip-top member arranged at a distal end of the cap, wherein the closed end comprises a valve that is operable to control dispensing of a measured amount of the oral car fluid from the bottle, wherein the cap is sized to hold a portion of a volume of the oral care fluid when removed from the bottle, wherein the integral cup is stable when the flip-top member is positioned on a flat surface so as to prevent tipping over and spilling the oral care fluid contained within the integral cup.
(canceled)
A cap for securing to a bottle for dispensing oral care fluid, the cap comprising:
- a flip-top member arranged to secure a mouth of the bottle;
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- a cup arranged to be releasably secured to the flip-top member in a first orientation and a second inverted orientation, wherein, in the first orientation, the cup is positioned where an open end of the cup is in a downward position and covers the flip-top member and, in the second orientation the cup is positioned where the open end is in a upward position, wherein the cup comprises a closed end opposite the open end that is releasably secured to the flip-top member, wherein the closed end does not cover a neck of the bottle when the cup is in the second orientation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.