Patent ID: 8646659

Claim:
A vessel configured to contain liquid, semi-solid or powder product and to dispense predetermined amounts of the product, the vessel comprising a dispensing closure defining a flow opening; a container engaged with the dispensing closure having a relaxed state, the container being squeezable to inwardly deflect the container from its relaxed state to displace some of the product from the container into the dispensing closure for dispensing through the flow opening one of the predetermined amounts of the product and being flexible to return to its relaxed state after the squeezing, the container thereafter being squeezable to inwardly deflect the container from its relaxed state to displace some more of the product from the container into the dispensing closure for dispensing an other of the predetermined amounts of product through the flow opening and being flexible to return to its relaxed state after the squeezing, the container includes a pair of opposed walls that are squeezable towards each other; and a limiting member for limiting inward deflection of the container during each squeezing of the container to limit the amount of product displaced from the container into the dispensing closure and to enable the same amount of product to be dispensed with each repeated deflection of the container, the limiting member is disposed between the opposed walls and has a length that extends in substantially the same direction as a longitudinal axis of the container, the limiting member has an H-shaped cross section along at least a portion of its length.