Special receptacle or package – With indicator
Patent
1998-02-23
1999-04-27
Gehman, Bryon P.
Special receptacle or package
With indicator
40307, 116309, 116317, 215230, 215365, B65D 8500, G09F 900
Patent
active
058969900
ABSTRACT:
A container assembly is provided for use in monitoring consumption of a liquid from the container assembly. The container assembly includes a body constructed and arranged to hold a liquid. The body has a base portion and an opposing top portion. The top portion permits liquid to be supplied into and to be removed from the body. The base portion has a skirt member. Indicator structure is operatively associated with the skirt member for rotational motion relative to the body into a plurality of different positions. Indicia is disposed on the body to indicate consumptive uses of the container assembly. Complementary engaging structure is on the skirt member and on the indicator structure for mounting the indicator structure with respect to the skirt member in such a manner that rotation of the indicator structure is possible in one direction and rotation of the indicator structure is resisted in the opposite direction. The engaging structure including at least one protrusion on one of the indicator structure and the skirt member and a series of spaced recesses in the other of the indicator structure and the skirt member. Each of the recesses corresponds to a particular indicia, allowing the user, with each consumptive use, to rotate the indicator structure with respect to the body in the one direction to engage the at least one protrusion with a recess, thereby monitoring consumptive uses of the container assembly.
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Gehman Bryon P.
Rionh Ehlica
Stemberger Edward J.
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