Abstract: Over thirty years of frustrations associated with the inadequate performance of "coffee mugs" that were adapted for use as "shaving mugs" prompted my development of a true SHAVING MUG designed specifically to hold a typical shaving soap cake in a manner that is convenient to the user. A shaving mug made in accordance with this patent application will:a. Hold the soap cake secure enough to prevent dislodging during use, cleaning, or even rough handling.b. Protect the soap cake from contamination.c. Prevent soap or water residue from leaking out during storage.d. Permit the soap cake to dry quickly between use.e. Not break easily.These attributes represent significant design improvements resulting in a shaving mug designed specifically for brush type shaving lather products and clearly corrects the deficiencies of the existing mugs.

Abstract: An oral composition is provided that includes a peroxygen compound such as hydrogen peroxide, a fluoride-containing anticaries agent and a tin compound, especially stannous chloride. The tin compound stabilizes the peroxygen compound against decomposition that ordinarily would be induced by the presence of fluoride.

Abstract: A baby bottle is formed with a truncated conical cap. The truncated conical cap includes an annular ring adjacent a top wall of the cap, and wherein the bottle portion of the organization includes a truncated conical cavity directed coaxially into the bottle from the bottom wall formed with a plurality of projections for receiving the groove therewithin for storage of the cap structure during periods of non-use.

Abstract: An outer container having a container insert therein for holding a predetermined volume of material. The outer container includes a container bottom having a periphery and a container wall extending generally upwardly to define an interior container portion of predetermined volume sized to accommodate the container insert. The container wall includes a neck portion complementarily sized to accommodate the exterior surface of the container insert. The container insert includes a bottom having a periphery and a wall extending generally upwardly to define an interior portion of predetermined volume for holding the material. The insert wall includes a vent which allows air to pass from the interior container portion to the atmosphere when the container insert is positioned therein. For assembly, the outer container is maintained at a temperature greater than the container insert and the container insert is positioned therein.

Abstract: The combined cup of the present invention for soft drinks is constituted with an upper cup body and a lower cup body jointed together by a connecting body; and in the center of the connecting body, there is formed a nozzle sticking upward to be received into the nozzle sleeve formed on the upper cup body so as to keep both cup bodies firmly connected. The lower cup body is used to contain soft drink while the upper cup body is used to contain solid snacks. By applying such combined cup, the user can therefore enjoy the fun of eating and drinking with one hand holding the combined cup containing both snacks and drink and one hand free.

Abstract: A plastic pharmaceutical container is provided with a removable bottom section defining a cavity adapted to hold the package circular.

Abstract: The invention concerns the collection of a biological fluid specimen. Both an apparatus and method of collection are described. The apparatus includes an optically transparent plastic bag having a sealable collection port. The bag may be sealed into at least two separate subcompartments. After sealing, the subcompartments are to contain substantially identical fluid specimens. The bag further includes a displaceable element for selectively dispensing and drawing fluid into the system.

Abstract: Described is a package for flowable media and having tube-like side walls (1, 1'), bottom and top walls (6, 6') and a closable pourer (7); all parts of the pacakage consists of synthetic plastics material. For more competitively priced production, ease of stacking and a reliable sealing-tight and yet easily opened closure, according to the invention two tub-shaped parts (I, II), each forming an entire side wall (3'), two oppositely disposed and adjacent half side wall parts (1'), a half bottom part and a half upper wall part (6') with a half pourer device (7 to 9), are in each case sealed and connected to each other individually by a synthetic plastics film which rests on and projects outwardly beyond the rim (13) in the form of a web (15), and in that the cylindrical edge (8) of the pourer device (7) extends beyond the web (15) of the synthetic plastics film (14) onto both tub-shaped parts (I, II) and in that the thickness of the synthetic plastics film is 0.01 to 0.5 times and preferably substantially 0.

Abstract: A mouthrinse product comprises a multi-compartment bottle with liquids of different colors stored in the compartments, the combined stream of the liquids dispensed from the bottle combining to form a liquid admixture of yet another color.

Abstract: Disclosed are blow molded multiple compartment plastic containers in one configuration having partition members between the compartments that initially form portions of a mold for the container. When molding is complete, the partition members form part of the container, with the molded plastic material of the container substantially surrounding the partition members. In another configuration the containers are modular, mating engagement members being formed in facing walls of separate container portions that are joined subsequent to molding. In this configuration, the container portions can be made detachable or permanently attached. Also disclosed are methods for molding the containers.

Abstract: A plastic pharmaceutical container is provided with a removable bottom section defining a cavity adapted to hold the package circular.

Abstract: Thin-walled containers are foldable and collapsible to have first and second folded portions concentrically adjacent one another in generally surrounding relationship to tapered shoulder and reduced diameter neck portions of the container. Additive cups are detachably supported within the discharge openings of the containers and, after emptying the additives into the containers through one discharge openings, are usable as dispensers of the resultant mixtures through second discharge openings.

Abstract: A container comprising an inner container, inner lid, outer container and outer lid which is suitable for commercial transport and legible display of required label information, and can be readily grasped and handled such that the lid and contents can be safely and completely removed. The invention further relates to a plurality of such containers, each container having a different maximum capacity but a label area of at least the same size as the label area of the smallest container and the same distance from the bottom of the container such that application of the labels to the containers can be performed by automated means. These containers are useful, in particular, for storing and transporting hazardous materials such as thick film paste materials.

Abstract: By providing an audible and/or visual prize related message delivery system cooperatingly associated with a container shell which is closed in the conventional manner, a container assembly is achieved for randomly distributing prize awards to consumers in association with any product, without fear of consumer detection of the prize bearing containers. In accordance with the present invention, the container assembly may incorporate the actual product along with the prize related message delivery system or may comprise a simulated product container bearing the prize related message delivery system without the actual product. In both embodiments, the container assembly is completely indistinguishable from non-prize bearing, product-holding containers.

Abstract: The present invention comprehends the provision of a fluid tight holding chamber which accumulates solution from the vial that aspirates during mixing or drawing fluid from the vial or is pressured out of the syringe upon extraction of the cannula from the vial. The holding chamber is defined in conjunction with the vial septum by a shield cap that surrounds and seals to the neck of the vial. The shield cap defines a guide for the cannula of the syringe and directs the cannula through a sealing member, the holding chamber, the septum and into the vial. One aspect of the invention provides a sleeve portion on the shield cap that receives and retains the syringe barrel. An arm is provided on the sleeve portion and has a notch that holds the syringe barrel in a predetermined position during shipment and storage of the assembly.

Abstract: A drinking apparatus is provided for separately storing a carbonated beverage and ice cream in close proximity to one another, and for selectively mixing the beverage and the ice cream to provide a drink having the flavor of an ice cream float. The drinking apparatus is intended for use with a bottle having an upper threaded neck. The drinking apparatus includes a bottle attachment housing for storing the ice cream, having a threaded flange at one end dimensioned to engage the threaded bottle neck to secure the attachment housing to the bottle. A barrier is provided within the attachment housing for separating the ice cream from the beverage, and apertures through the barrier define a flow path from the bottle into the housing. A lower platform extends upwardly from the barrier to support the ice cream within the housing in a spaced relation relative to the barrier apertures. A housing cap is attached to the housing opposite to the drinking bottle and defines, with the housing, a chamber for the ice cream.

Abstract: The deformable tubular container includes at least one longitudinal corrugated, partition-forming sealed wall defining distinct compartments inside a tubular body. A portion at least of the wall which is at a level of a bottom portion of the body when expnded to eliminate the corrugations has a width equal to an inner half perimeter of the body and this wall is rigidly and tightly connected to an inner wall of the body by segments. to an inner wall of the body by segments. The bottom portion of the body being flattened and sealed against the fully expanded partition-forming wall to form a flattened sealed end of the tubular body.

Abstract: A one piece, spherical capsule with a hole through which products can be inserted and removed. The hole could accommodate an insert containing a separate product for vending two products in one container. Products will be sealed inside by a single tape seal with a pull tab. The capsule is designed to be dispensed in a bulk vending machine. Bulk vending machines usually dispense prizes or toys packaged in two piece capsules.

Abstract: A Saturn-shaped container is provided which includes a receptacle forming a lower portion of the container, a lid forming an upper portion of the container, a ring member surrounding the receptacle and supporting the lid, and a seal member positioned between receptacle and lid so as to define a first and second compartment within the container. Advantageously, the lid is transparent and may serve as a magnifying means for viewing contents within the container.

Abstract: A baby feeding bottle divided into two compartments and a nipple. A valve connecting the nipple to the bottle which selectively connects one or the other of the compartments to the nipple or disconnects both compartments.

Abstract: By providing a prize award holder cooperatingly associated with a container shell which is closed in the conventional manner, a container assembly is achieved for randomly distributing prize awards to consumers in association with any liquid, semi-liquid, wet or moist product, without fear of consumer detection of the prize bearing containers. In accordance with the present invention, the container assembly may incorporate the actual product along with the prize award or may comprise a simulated product container bearing the prize award without the actual product, but being completely indistinguisable from non-prize bearing, product-holding containers.

Abstract: By providing prize award holding means cooperatingly associated with a container shell which is closed in the conventional mammer, a container assembly is achieved for randomly distributing prize awards to consumers in association with any liquid, semi-liquid, wet or moist product, without fear of consumer detection of the prize bearing containers. In accordance with the present invention, the container assembly may incorporate the actual product along with the prize award or may comprise a simulated product container bearing the prize award without the actual product, but being completely indistinguishable from non-prize bearing, product-holding containers.

Abstract: A combination drinking vessel and cup holder having a chamber at one end of said vessel, said chamber having a bottom at an intermediate point of said vessel and an open end with a lip at one end of said vessel; a cavity at the other end of said vessel on the other side of the bottom of the chamber, said cavity having an open end with a lip at the other end of said vessel; an insert that fits in the bottom of said chamber for supporting a cup, and in said cavity for storage thereof; complementary holders in said cavity and in said insert for removably retaining the insert; and a cap that snaps over the lip of the chamber to serve as a cover, and that snaps over the lip of said cavity to serve as a coaster.

Abstract: A receptacle for containing and receiving things includes a wall body confining a primary receiving space to contain the temporary contents of the receptacle such as beverage, and an enclosed section separated from the primary receiving space. The enclosed space has a transparent wall; at least one movable floating article contained inside the enclosed section and a device for impelling the floating article. Such receptacle can serve as a game while in use as a container.

Abstract: Dispenser kit for infants, which comprises a vial, optionally featuring specially contoured upper end and,(1) either of a pair of annular, resilient adapter/gaskets, or different size, snugly surrounding said upper end, or(2) an integral disk-like segment extending outwardly, either (1) or (2), serving to permit vial insertion into and location within any one of several standard, but different sized, nursing bottles, each having an associated, but threadingly, attachable and removable ring-cap/nipple assembly, and providing fluid tight relationship.

Abstract: A dual chambered baby bottle designed and constructed to selectively dispense a liquid to an infant from open end portions located at the upper end of each chamber. The chambers dispense the liquids through nipples attached to open ends of the chambers. The open ends of the chambers diverge from one another angularly and are space apart from one another so as to provide ample room for an infant to feed from one nipple without interference from the other. The nipples are provided with covers which are shaped as heads of animals for amusement of the infant and to facilitate removal thereof. The bottle is shaped to provide generally centered small diameter handles to facilitate controlled handling of the bottle by an infant. In addition to the toy-like nipple covers several figures which are attractive to infants are imprinted upon the outer surface of the bottle to make it attractive and amusing to an infant.

Abstract: A bottle for containing and dispensing both liquid and solid substances comprising: a hollow main body portion of a generally oblong shape and of a uniform thickness and a handle portion integral with the upper portion of one of the sidewalls of the main body portion, the handle portion projecting laterally outward from one of the walls to form an integral container for the liquid substance. Both the main body portion and handle portion have concave and convex surfaces establishing hand grip portions. A smooth and continuous surface contiguous between the handle portion and upper portion of the one sidewall of the main body portion defines a web therebetween. The main body portion is provided with a threaded neck with a port therethrough for the introduction and removal of a liquid substance. A closure in the form of a threaded cap seals this port. An annular recess having a raised neck portion is provided in the surface of the body portion for storing a solid substance.

Abstract: The packaging for the liquid composition which is ready for use, produced by some suitable dilution and mixing in a support product such as water of a concentrated liquid composition, comprises a bottle (1) having an overall rigidity which gives it a self-supporting property, the bottle having a hollow body (2) of known volume, having an opening (3) and a removable cap (4), the bottle (1) being intended to finally receive the composition which is ready for use and to permit the preparation of the latter; a container (6) of smaller size than the bottle (1), having an overall rigidity which gives it a self-supporting property, the container having a hollow body (8) for receiving the concentrated liquid composition, in the extension of the body (2), having an opening (9), an integral measuring device (11) fixed rigidly in the opening (9), a removable cap (10) closing the measuring device (11); a hollow recess (17) in the body (2) in which the container (6) may be accommodated, this recess (17) having an opening

Abstract: A container includes a wall body having a projection extending inwardly from the internal wall surface of the wall body and a cavity extending inwardly from the external wall surface of the wall body into the projection with an opening which is located at the external wall surface. A rotatable member is rotatably and unremovably received in the cavity. A portion of the rotatable member protrudes out from the opening of the wall body. Whereby, the rotatable member can be rotated by a user's fingers so as to enhance the aesthetic quality of the container.

Abstract: A cork for a wine bottle is chambered to receive sediment when the bottle is inverted. A valve operable from the exterior of the cork can then be closed to trap the sediment within the cork. A resilient easily attached valve member ensures full closure, yet also enables introduction of additives to the wine.

Abstract: A substantially closed nursing mug having an upper discharge nipple (31) and a vertically extending dosing chamber (18) adjacent to a side wall portion (3a) of the mug, the volume of the dosing chamber corresponding to a predetermined liquid volume to be drunk at a time. Upper and lower valves (11, 12) are disposed at the upper and lower ends, respectively, of the dosing chamber (18). The upper valve (11) is adapted to automatically switch from a closing position to an opening position when the mug is tilted beyond a first tilting angle, and the lower valve (12) is adapted to automatically switch from an opening position to a closing position when the mug is tilted beyond a second tilting angle being less than or substantially equal to the first tilting angle.

Abstract: By providing prize award holding means cooperatingly associated with a container shell which is closed in the conventional manner, a container assembly is achieved for randomly distributing prize awards to consumers in association with any liquid, semi-liquid, wet or moist product, without fear of consumer detection of the prize bearing containers. In accordance with the present invention, the container assembly may incorporate the actual product along with the prize award or may comprise a simulated product container bearing the prize award without the actual product, but being completely indistinguishable from non-prize bearing, product-holding containers.

Abstract: This invention provides a beverage brewing apparatus having a water containing lid which divides a flow of heated water into two measured portions. This lid enables collection of heated water from various sources including an electric drip coffee maker, and is removably supported by a brewing container having two interior chambers. The two brewing chambers are separated by an upright partition and each chamber has holes for draining liquids. The brewing container is removably supported by a pot having two interior chambers, a pouring spout for each chamber, a lid covering both chambers and a pivoting handle. A seal is created between the brewing container and the pot upon which it is situated, preventing leakage and intermixing. Two separate brewing substances deposited in each chamber of the brewing container become saturated by measured portions of heated water, brewing both simultaneously.

Abstract: A container for dispensing and storing carbonated beverages, having an outer rigid bottle and an inner collapsible non-elastomeric pouch. A valve mechanism admit air to an air space between the outer bottle and the inner pouch when liquid is dispensed, and seals the air space when the bottle is closed.

Abstract: A multiple compartment container and closure assembly with a container having at least two adjacent compartments with end portions terminating in a common surface at one end of the container. The end is sized to accept a cap and the surface has a thin wall portion in communication with each of the compartments. A cap is sized to slidably fit on the end of the container which has puncture means being positioned in alignment with each of the thin wall portions of the container so that movement of the cap from a first position on the end to a second position causes the puncture means to puncture the respective thin wall portion with which it is aligned, to permit access to the contents of the adjacent compartments.

Abstract: A container for making ice cubes having a generally prismatic hollow configuration, a front side of which includes rows of truncated pyramidal cavities, the back wall having mutually perpendicular stacking ribs for mating with the cavities of a juxtaposed container, and the top wall having a fill and emptying aperture closed by a screw cap or stopper. The container also has a fill marking on one of the sides and flow channels between the cavities.

Abstract: This invention relates to a support for an infant feeder. The infant feeder itself comprises a hollow receptacle formed by an endless side wall extending in a longitudinal direction and having caps disposed at first and second ends thereof. A floating wall is disposed within the hollow receptacle and divides the interior of the hollow receptacle into a strained food receiving chamber and an air receiving chamber. A nipple is mounted on one of the caps at the first end of the receptacle. Food is supplied from the strained food receiving chamber to an infant through the nipple. A peg is molded or otherwise rigidly affixed to the other of the caps at the second end of the hollow receptacle. The peg extends substantially perpendicularly to a flat base portion of the other of the caps. A suction member forming the support for the feeder is removably secured to a surface on which the feeder is to be mounted.

Abstract: A combination mug and tea bag holder wherein the tea bag holder is an integral part of the mug, to thereby provide a convenient location to store a used tea bag, either for subsequent reuse on a second or subsequent refill or for easy discarding after the user is finished drinking the tea. A transverse receptacle is formed into the upper portion of a mug, which slot opens up into the mug. A tea bag which has been dipped into hot water may be slid by the string attached to the tea bag from the hot water into the transverse receptacle where it can rest until it needs to be subsequently reused or eventually discarded.

Abstract: A nursing bottle includes a pair of reservoirs which are selectively coupleable to a single nipple. The bottle includes a hollow body, an intermediate ring having a valve disk with two apertures and a nipple carrier having a valve plate with a single aperture. The nipple carrier is mounted over the intermediate ring and rotates to selectively connect the valve plate aperture with either of the valve disk apertures. A separate sack or flexible bag type liquid reservor is connected to each of the valve disk apertures. A conventional bag reservoir may optionally be fitted in the hollow body with the nipple carrier then being engaged directly over the body. In an alternate embodiment, the body may comprise a rigid walled bottle with a longitudinal partition forming two reservoirs. The nipple carrier and valve plate are engaged over the rigid walled bottle and are rotated to register the valve plate aperture with either reservoir.

Abstract: Combinable bottle assembly (1,6) consisting of two separately fillable bottles designed to be fitted together one above the other, can be formed inexpensively of plastic, filled and stored separately from and independently of one another and can readily be connected and tightly combined with one another to form a two-compartment container convertible to a one compartment container.The floor or bottom wall (12) of the upper bottle (1) is formed as a separate cylinder element (3) having an annular connecting plate (13) which connects a skirt wall (14) of the cylinder element to the wall (15) of a central nozzle (9) arranged concentrically therein, forming a throughflow passage (16) which is closed by a stopper (10). The lower bottle (6) comprises an elongate neck having an external screwthread (33) which is engagable with an internal thread on the elongate nozzle to permit the second bottle to be screwed into the nozzle to a connecting position to dislodge the stopper and open the containers to each other.

Abstract: A packaging tube for compressed tablets, pills and similar products is provided with a bottom cavity which is separated from the container portion of the tube by a partition wall, a removable box being inserted in the cavity in the same manner as an end plug. The removable box is formed by two half-shells which are connected together by means of a flexible tongue. The half-shells cooperate so as to form a closed box by means of a skirt extending from the flat portion of the half-shell which forms the base of the box and by means of a rib carried by the internal face of the flat main portion of the half-shell which forms the lid of the box, the rib being applied against the internal face of the skirt. The closed box can be introduced into the cavity in the same manner as an end-plug or stopper by virtue of the skirt, which is provided with an abutment shoulder.

Abstract: A container in which fresh water can be packed and from which if desired it can be poured or if frozen from which ice cubes of any particular shape can be removed. If the container is filled with uncontaminated water, uncontaminated ice cubes can be removed therefrom.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improved coffee brewing apparatus having a supply of heated water and means for dispensing a predetermined quantity of said heated water at a predetermined time. The invention includes the improvement comprising a grounds basket having divider means for separating the basket into at least two side-by-side compartments. The basket also has means for attaching to the coffee brewing apparatus so as to receive hot water dispensed by the coffee brewing apparatus. Each of the compartments has a brewed coffee outlet in the bottom thereof for passage of the brewed coffee downwardly therethrough by means in the form of a diverter plate are associated with the basket for diverting hot water from the coffee making apparatus uniformly to both sides of the basket, filter means in the form of a saddlebag filter are arranged to be received in the grounds compartment for receiving coffee grounds thereinto.

Abstract: An aspirator includes two closed containers with one container having a suction tube connected to a closed bellows within the container for creating a vacuum, and the second container having a patient tube for insertion into the body cavity of a patient for sucking removal of mucus and other excess bodily fluids by the vacuum, with the two containers being connected for gaseous communication.

Abstract: A combination beverage package having a primary chamber and a secondary chamber beneath. The primary chamber includes a substantially cylindrical sidewall containment and a bottom closure panel. The secondary chamber below being a detachable substantially cylindrical sidewall containment with a secondary bottom closure panel being spaced apart from the primary closure panel by the secondary substantially cylindrical containment. A complimentary product is placed in the secondary chamber during manufacture and can be removed by the user through detachment of the secondary containment chamber.

Abstract: A device which can dispense a composition such as a pesticide, herbicide, fungicide, or other toxic composition into a liquid such as a solvent without exposing the composition to the atmosphere. The device comprises a jacket having a perforated top and an open bottom; a container having an open top which is sized to be removably retained within the jacket; a means for breaking a seal over the top of the container only after the container has been sealingly engaged within the jacket; a means for sealingly engaging the container and the jacket after the container has been inserted a predetermined distance into the jacket; and a graspable element coupled to the base of the container for allowing the container to be manipulated when the container is retained within the jacket.

Abstract: The present invention provides a container for containing a photographic processing solution which comprises a housing member and a partion member, thereby the container is divided into two chambers of which the first chamber is prepared for containing the photogaphic processing solution and the second chamber is prepared for collecting the waste solution. One part of the housing member forming the first chamber comprises a oxygen shelter for restraining oxygen permiation therethrough into the first chamber below 20 ml/m.sup.2 /24 hrs. The second chamber has a solution-absorbing material therein for facilitating the collection of the waste solution.

Abstract: A closure for use with a beverage container, the closure having a plurality of compartments formed therein to store quantities of a flavoring agent separately from a mixing fluid (such as water) contained in the container. The compartments are operable by simple finger pressure to release their contents into the container one at a time for the purpose of making a flavored beverage. Support ribs are formed on the closure to allow the stacking of a number of closures or closure/container combinations without inadvertently releasing the flavoring agent from the compartments.

Abstract: The invention relates to products useful for home laundering, and more particularly to adjustable strength bleaching compositions, highly advantageous packaging of such compositions, and a method of bleaching involving the combination of the two. More specifically, the invention concerns a highly practical and saleable laundry aid which can be used both on sensitive fabrics/dyes as an all-fabric safe oxygen bleach, and on less vulnerable fabrics/dyes as a much more effective hypohalite bleach of potency similar to that of liquid chlorine bleach. The invention is concerned with the use of an alkali metal halide activator with an oxygen bleach which is packaged in a two compartment package to keep the components separate before use.

Abstract: A culture bottle assembly for the detection of micro-organisms in a fluid sample is provided. The culture bottle assembly is a container having a dividing wall which divides the culture into two compartments. A cap is provided for the container and means are provided for moving the cap axially with respect to the container. A resilient material is provided which is compressed by the cap moving means to provide a liquid tight seal between the two compartments.