Patent ID: 8074817

Claim:
A method for metering a liquid nutritional supplement, comprising: providing a liquid dispenser, the liquid dispenser comprising: a body having a neck portion, the neck portion having at least one thread thereon and providing the body with a pair of opposed indentations adjacent the neck portion for the user to easily handle the liquid dispenser; a cap adapted to couple to the neck portion and work in conjunction with the thread such that the user has to push down on the cap to rotatably remove the cap from the neck portion, the cap having a plurality of axial ridges around an outside perimeter thereof; a dosage cup adapted to couple to the cap; at least four axial shoulders on an inside surface of the dosage cup, each axial shoulder having an engaging surface adapted to engage the axial ridges, the engaging surface starting proximate a base of the dosage cup and tapering from a point proximate said base toward a wall of the dosage cup along the entire length of said engaging surface; coupling the dosage cup to the cap such that a force that is greater, by a predetermined amount, than the weight of the dosage cup is required to remove the dosage cup from the cap; and metering a dosage of the liquid nutritional supplement to be consumed by a user for a predetermined time period using the dosage cup having an indicator.