Patent ID: 8684731

Claim:
A capsule for receiving and dosing high-viscosity materials comprising a housing, wherein the housing defines an interior chamber and has an opening for inserting a piston, and a delivery opening; and wherein the housing comprises: a first housing section, which defines a first interior chamber section, wherein the first housing section has a first central longitudinal axis, a first end, and a second end; a second housing section, which forms an exit nozzle, wherein the second housing section has a second central longitudinal axis, a first end, and a second end, and the second housing section defines an exit channel, which opens into the delivery opening formed at the second end of the second housing section; and a transition section, whose first end is connected to the second end of the first housing section, and whose second end is connected to the first end of the second housing section; wherein the first central longitudinal axis and the second central longitudinal axis intersect at an angle, such that the transition section tapers between its first end section and its second end section in the form of an oblique truncated cone, the transition section has a taper angle that corresponds to the opening angle of the cone, and the taper angle is at least about 50Â°.