Patent ID: 9650188
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: B65D

Claim:
1. A sealed, delayed-pierce container comprising: (a) a sealed bottle having a main body, a dispensing head attached to the main body by a neck, and a fluid chamber extending between the main body, neck, and dispensing head, the dispensing head having a piercing wall opposite the neck; (b) a base having a bottle section and a piercer section, the bottle section having a wall and a socket shaped to accept the dispensing head, the piercer section having an axial bore in communication with the socket; (c) a piercer having a base section and a cap section, the base section having a screw thread to mate with a corresponding screw thread on the base piercer section for turning the piercer onto the base, the piercing section having an axial piercing tube with a tip extending into the piercer section bore and an internal end interfacing with an axial dispensing bore in the cap section; (d) a cap; (e) a base retention mechanism for retaining the base on the bottle; (f) a piercer locking mechanism for retaining the piercer on the base; and (g) a cap retention mechanism for removably retaining the cap on the piercer; (h) the container having a shipping mode wherein the piercer is turned onto the base until the piercing tube tip is adjacent to the piercing wall, and a use mode wherein the piercer is turned onto the base until the piercing tube tip pierces the piercing wall and extends into the fluid chamber and the piercer locking mechanism engages to make it difficult to manually turn the piercer off the base.