Patent ID: 7874420
Filing Date: 2011-01-25
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
1. A dispensing capsule for affixing to an opening of a receiving container where the dispensing capsule comprises a housing having a cavity therein for separately hermetically storing preloaded contents within the cavity when the dispensing capsule is disposed in a closed position, the housing of the dispensing capsule further comprises a breakaway plunger and a base plate having an aperture that cooperate to form a seal between the cavity and a liquid compartment of the receiving container, the housing further comprises a diaphragm and a diaphragm button integral to the diaphragm and disposed in concentric axial alignment with the breakaway plunger and a shaft having a central axis that is fixedly connected at one end to the diaphragm button and at the opposing end to the breakaway plunger, wherein the breakaway plunger comprises a substantially circular periphery and the shaft is concentrically disposed with respect to the periphery such that the central axis of the shaft is substantially perpendicularly disposed to a plane formed by the periphery, and an activating force applied to the diaphragm button causes the dispensing capsule to be disposed in an open position such that the breakaway plunger disengages symmetrically about the center of the plane from the base plate to break the seal along the periphery and the breakaway plunger is thrust toward the receiving container, thereby creating liquid communication between the fluid compartment and cavity such that the preloaded contents of the cavity are discharged through the aperture of the base plate into the communicating fluid compartment of the receiving container whereby the activating force allows the breakaway plunger and the shaft to remain attached to the diaphragm button and the activating force causes no relative movement between the diaphragm and the diaphragm button.