WO1993017928A1

WO1993017928A1 - Container for mixing a soluble powder extract and water

Info

Publication number: WO1993017928A1
Application number: PCT/ES1993/000014
Authority: WO
Inventors: Isidro Genesca Romeu; José ESPELT VENTURA
Original assignee: Isidro Genesca Romeu
Priority date: 1992-03-02
Filing date: 1993-03-01
Publication date: 1993-09-16
Also published as: MX9301122A

Abstract

The container is comprised of a vessel (1) which contains drinkable water, while a top cover (2) sealingly coupled to the mouth of the vessel (1) contains a pulverulent extract which is soluble in said water, the mixing thereof being produced by pushing the sheet (8) which is closingly arranged on top of the cover, and which, by means of a rod (9), displaces downwards the sheet or bottom (10) of said cover (2) so that the extract falls and mixes with the water contained in the vessel (1), thereby obtaining a beverage which may be heated by heat energy produced by an exothermic reaction which takes place between two chemical products contained, one in a cavity (11) formed in the bottom of the vessel (1), and the other product contained in a capsule or lower cap (12), which, by pressing the bottom (14) of the latter, the sheet (13) which closes said lower cap or capsule (12) is perforated and the mixture and reaction of both chemical products may take place with the consequent calorific energy which, by convexion, will heat the mixture or beverage obtained in the vessel (1).

Description

PACK ^' TO MIX AN EXTRACT IN SOLUBLE POWDER AND WATER.

D E S C R I P C I Ó N

OBJECT OF THE INVENTION

The invention relates to a mixed package which in turn and in a totally independent way contains a certain amount of powder extract that is soluble in water, also containing a certain amount of water so that the mixture of both components denotes as a result a beverage or final product that, according to the powder extract, may be, for example, a juice, a milkshake, a coffee, a cream, etc. The mixing is done without the components having to leave the container, that is, it is carried out without uncovering said container.

In addition, the mixture or final product can be instantly heated by an esoteric reaction, which allows to be able to consume that hot beverage or product, if it is a coffee, tea, broth or the like.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Currently, the extracts of fruit juices and other analogous drinks, including creams, are presented in a powder or granulated container envelope of the extract itself, then mix that powder with water and obtain the corresponding juice or product.

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Likewise, the extracts are also presented in jars in the form of a concentrated cream, so that to generate the corresponding juice or product In the end it is necessary to add water in a separate container.

In all cases the extract that is acquired in the market is necessary to mix it with water, which must be obtained from a tap, bottles, etc., and although such a way to obtain fruit juices and similar drinks is quick and convenient , there is no doubt that the fact of having to appropriate water and therefore a container to carry out the mixing, is a waste of time, discomfort and inconvenience in relation to current instantaneous trends. In addition, although the extract comes in bags or jars. properly closed tightly, when mixing is not always done with cleanliness and hygiene.

In addition, in the case of certain products that must be consumed "hot, such as coffees, broths, etc., consumption in the hot state is impossible.

DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The package that is recommended is intended so that the user can get the juice, beverage or product in question instantly, since said container contains the two products to be mixed, such as the extract in powder and water, making the mixing by simple pressure of the lid, since previously both components or products are located isolated and independently.

It goes without saying that the container can have any configuration, size and design, and will contain sterile mineral water intended to hydrate the corresponding extract in its exact dosage. going this independently, forming part of the package assembly and specifically in the lid, in the form of powder or granulate.

The advantages that derive from this new conception can be summarized in the following:

- Speed and opportunity in its use, because just press the lid and shake to obtain the desired liquid, drink or cream.

- exact dosages, since the amount of extract _r-volume of water will be properly progra¬ mada.

- Total hygiene guarantee, since both the powder extract and the water will be processed and preserved tightly, being protected from any external contamination.

- There will be a quality control of the regenerating product, due to the homogeneity and continuity of the hygienic water used.

- Goodness and naturalness of the drink or product obtained, whether it is a juice, a cream, a milkshake, a coffee, etc., because in all cases you can instantly regenerate such products, always free of chemical antiferments and can use it at the time of consumption.

Due to all these advantages, the packaging of the invention is useful in any place, time and circumstances, being suitable for marketing in schools, campsites, concentrations, trips and even in the same expedition and consumption establishments of the type of referred products.

Specifically, the container is formed by a container and a lid, being able to have any geometric configuration, that is, to be cylindrical, prismatic, etc. , so that the container will contain water, while the lid will contain the powder extract, with the particularity that said lid is a double-walled body whose upper base is closed by an outward convex surface but elastic and deformable, that by pressing it can change position, that is, invert and remain concave, and logically moved inwards, so that from the center of that sheet that constitutes or closes the base of the lid emerges a stem in whose The end is coupled to a piece that closes the base that constitutes the inner wall of the lid, which allows that powder extract to be stored inside, and pressing down and corresponding displacement of the rod will carry the exit of the disk or piece that closes the commented base of the lid, dropping the powder extract inside the container to mix with the water contained in it.

The lid is hermetically coupled to the container, as a result of which the perimeter is provided with a skirt provided with an internal relief that fits between a pair of projections provided for this purpose on the lateral surface of the mouth of the container, leaving this upper section of the mouth of the container housed between the skirt of the lid and the outer wall thereof, so that a weakening of a part of the aforementioned skirt, will allow for simple tractioning the independence of this and therefore, to be able to decouple the lid from the container, in order to allow the product resulting from the mixture corresponding to the water contained in the container and the powder extract contained in the lid to be consumed.

As is logical before consuming the final product obtained by mixing water and powdered extract, and prior to the independence of the lid, it will be necessary to stir so that a homogeneous mixture is made.

As it has been possible to verify, the package as a whole is ready for commercialization, being able to refrigerate and consume it instantaneously with no more than pressing on the sheet that constitutes the upper closure of the lid, until it is in a concave position upwards , which will have displaced the rod and therefore the disc that closed its lower part, so that after carrying out the aforementioned agitation, detach the lid, by tearing its skirt, with respect to the container, and To be able to consume that mixture.

In a variant embodiment, the package is structured in such a way that it is possible to achieve a self-heating of the beverage obtained as a result of the mixture between the water contained in the glass and the powder extract contained in the considered lid, and whose self-heating It will be carried out in a totally independent way with respect to the usual way of procuring classical external energy, completing the instability of the process of regeneration of a beverage and its heating. Specifically, it is about using an esotermic chemical reaction provided in another watertight compartment that has to be associated with the liquid container vessel where it will be mixed with the powder extract, all this in such a way that the effective heat of the chemical reaction caused to the comfort of the user, it will be absorbed by the beverage obtained by the previously referred mixture, and which is contained in the main use vessel or vessel.

Specifically, it is provided according to the improvement of the invention that the vessel is provided at its bottom with a cavity projected inwards forming what can be considered as an inverted vessel whose mission is to be that of radiator to detach, by convection, the energy produced by the esothermal reaction. In that concavity or inverted container formed at the bottom of the vessel, one of the reactive chemicals will be tightly enclosed, while the other is placed on a capsule which, in turn, is constituted in the middle of the lower closure of that shaped cavity. at the bottom of the vessel, with the particularity that such a capsule presses into that opening or concavity of the bottom and is perfectly coupled determining a kind of lower lid, with the particularity that such capsule contains the complementary chemical material to produce the reaction.

The capsule in question is sealed tightly on its back through a heat-weldable aluminum foil, or a plastic foil or any other suitable material, while the bottom or bottom of such capsule is closed with a curved-convex surface down, incorporating a pointed-shaped punch inside of arrow, directed towards the sheet that closes the upper part, so that when the bottom is pressed and once the referred convexity is overcome, the punch will reach the upper closing sheet, penetrating it, making the cut of the same and allowing the chemical reagent containing such a capsule to mix with the complement contained in the concavity inside the vessel or derived from the bottom of the vessel, producing chemical transformation with energy release.

The content of the reagents must be proportionate to the volume of the liquid to be heated. Thus, in the case of cups for teas or coffees, the mixture can generate about twenty thousand calories or twenty-five calories, in several seconds, raising the temperature of the set to about 140/170 ° C, more than enough to heat about 80/90 me. of drink inside the glass, raising it from 15 ° C to 80/90 ° C, counting on the losses that will occur.

Logically, the problem will be that the plastic that forms the vessel must withstand such temperature without deforming, so that as a more suitable material, some type of polyamide especially resistant to heat (180/200 ° C) should be chosen.

The interior concavity of the vessel, that is, the part that will determine the radiator or heat generator, is the surface that will withstand the maximum temperature for a few seconds, which is the sufficient time to dissipate by thermal convection into the interior of the glass. The walls of the latter will only withstand the normal temperature of 90 ° C at which the hot drink will rise, for consumption. Therefore, that part that constitutes the radiator or generator is located inside to maximize thermal radiation preventing the consumer from suffering burns.

Undoubtedly, the esotermic chemical reaction can be achieved based on all metals and metalloids placed at the ends of the periodic system, since they form hydroxides and acids respectively, and the combination of some of them produces salts with energy reaction, depleting the reaction material and developing large amounts of heat.

DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

To complement the description that is being made and in order to help a better understanding of the characteristics of the invention, a set of drawings is attached hereto as an integral part thereof, with an illustrative and non-limiting character The following has been represented:

Figure 1 shows a sectional elevation by a vertical plane of the mixed container in the closed position, having been removed, and detail of the coupling between lid and container, although in said detail the two parts are decoupled.

Figure 2.- Shows the same view in elevation and sectioned by the same plane, but in a position of operation of the lid to carry out the mixture between the powder extract containing the same and the water that contains the container itself . Figure 3.- Shows a representation of the package in the embodiment that allows the heating of the product or mixture obtained therein.

PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION

As can be seen in the aforementioned figures, the mixed package that is recommended is constituted by a container (1) and a lid (2), both of which can be of any geometric configuration, either cylindrical, prismatic, etc. In any case, the container (1) is intended to contain a certain amount of water, while the lid (2) is intended to contain a dose of powdered extract of the product for obtaining juices, creams, infusions, etc.

This cover (2) has a double wall, corresponding to the references (3) and (4), so that the external wall (4) is provided with a skirt (5) in proximity to its lower edge or mouth, between which and the upper surface of this lower section of the outer wall (4) the upper section of the container (1) will be housed, thus coupling the lid to the container, provided that the skirt (5) internally includes a shoulder (6), while the lateral surface of the container (1) includes two projections (7) between which that projection (6) is located, but logically inserted from the wall of the container (1) between the skirt (5) and the lateral surface of the outer wall (4) of the lid (2), so that those ribs or projections (6) and (7), which are elastic in nature, carry not only the coupling and retention between the lid and container, but the tight seal that is necessary to prevent water from leaking out. The inner wall (3) of the cover (2) includes a flexible sheet (8) near its upper part, which in a rest position is curved-outwardly, as shown in Figure 1 * , from whose center emerges a rod (9) projected vertically downwards that at its end is coupled under pressure or by any other conventional system, a disk (10) that closes the mouthpiece that constitutes the bottom of that lid (2), and specifically of the part determined by the internal wall (3).

As can be seen in Figure 1 ^a , in the resting position the powder extract of the product in question is contained in the lid and retained by the disc (10) thereof, while the water is logically in the container (1), thus marketing the container with the powder extract and the water completely isolated.

At the time of use, or whenever the owner or consumer wants, it will be enough to press the sheet (8) inwards, which due to its flexibility will change the curvature becoming curved-concave, as shown in the figure 2 ^a , so that this change of position will have led to a downward movement of the rod (9) and therefore of the disc (10), which will allow the fall of the powder extract containing the lid referred to inside of water, producing the corresponding mixture.

The way of carrying out the packaging of both the water and the powder extract is carried out by introducing a certain amount of water into the container (1), while in the lid (2), in an inverted position, deposit the powder extract and then close - n -

said lid in its inverted position by means of the disk (10) that will be coupled at the end of the rod (9), and once these two elements are coupled and retained, the lid is placed in its normal position and coupled onto the container (1) in the manner already described, the set being ready for commercialization and subsequent mixing of both components, which will allow a subsequent consumption of the mixture. As it has been previously exposed, the independence of the lid (2) with respect to the container (1) is carried out by tearing, through the weakened area with which to the effect count, of the skirt (5), which will lead I get the decoupling between both parties, and therefore allowing the independence of the lid (2) to carry out the consumption of the obtained mixture.

Although a preferred embodiment has been described and will be claimed, there is no doubt that within the essentiality of the invention, the lid and the package itself, as well as the means of independence of the two products they contain (water and extract in dust), may be different. As well as the lid, instead of the rod and the disc, it can be a lid with the part that closes superiorly provided with an internal sharp element that by pressing the upper part of the lid inwards carries with it the perforation of an interleaved sheet between the lid and the container or container and separating both products, to allow the powder contained in the lid to fall and mix with the water contained in the container, so that as this embodiment has been exposed, they could be listed many others, always within the spirit and fundamental concept that is claimed, and it is the one that in a container with a lid, water and a powder extract go independently to enable their mixing in the moment that the user wants.

Thus, in the second embodiment shown in Figure 3 ^a , the package is structured to allow heating of the contents, and in this sense the package as a whole with those described above, which have been referenced with similar numbers in that Figure 3 ^a , also includes a depression or concavity (11) at its bottom on which a capsule or cap (12) that engages in the lower part of that concavity or cavity (11) will be coupled, partially occupying it. said cover (12) having an upper closing sheet (13) and a lower one (1), this being convex and being provided with a star-shaped punch (15) which, when pressed on the convexity of the infected sheet rior (14), deformation of the latter occurs - and therefore the thrust and displacement of the end of the punch (15) causing the cutting of the sheet (13), thus allowing a reactive chemical contained in the capsule or cap (12) mix and react logic Only with a complementary chemical in the cavity or concavity (11) referred to.

That is, in the concavity (11) one of the reactive chemicals will be sealed tightly, while another reactive chemical, specifically the complement, will be enclosed in the cap or capsule (9) to react with the previous one and once the operation has been carried out as previously mentioned, carry out the mixing and reaction of both products, with the consequent production of thermal energy that will heat the mixture of water or product obtained inside the vessel (1) of the way described above. As mentioned previously, the wall of the concavity or cavity (11) will act as a radiator to release by convection the energy produced by the esothermal reaction caused by the products contained both in that concavity (11) and in the lower cover or capsule (12), all of which allows to instantly achieve a process of generating a beverage and its corresponding heating.

Claims

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R E I V I N D I C A C I O N E S

1 .- mixed extract container in soluble powder and water, being provided to allow instantaneous regenera¬ tion or obtaining a beverage such as a juice, a tea, a smoothie, a cream, coffee, herbal tea or the like , by mixing a granulated powder extract and water, also enabling instant heating of the product obtained as a result of the aforementioned mixture, essentially characterized in that it is constituted by a container (1) and a lid (2) with coupling means and Hermetic seal, with the particularity that the container (1) contains a certain amount of water, while the lid (2) contains a dose of powder extract intended to be mixed with the water, both components being isolated by means of a disc (10) that closes the lower opening of the lid (2), disc (10) that is linked, through a central and vertical rod (9), to a flexible sheet (8) that is manually actuated by pressure, the which closes the upper part of said cover (2).

2 .- mixed container soluble extract powder and water, according to claim 1, wherein the cover (2) container of the powder extract is cons¬ tituida two concentric walls (3) and (4), determi¬ nando the inner wall (3), together with the flexible closing sheet (8) and the lower disk (10), the receptacle for the powder extract itself; it being provided that said flexible sheet (8) has an outward convexity capable of changing position by simple push inwards, thereby carrying the displacement of the vertical rod (9) and the disc itself (10) coupled to pressure at the end of said rod, to allow the powder extract to fall into the container where the water to be mixed is contained.

3 .- mixed container soluble extract powder and water, according to previous claims, characterized in that the cover (2) has on its outer wall (4) a perimetric flap (5) close to its edge infe¬ rior, with complementary internal and annular nerve (6) of a pair of nerves (7), also annular, provided on the lateral surface of the container itself (1), determining the means of coupling and sealing between said container (1) and lid (two).

4 ^a .- Mixed container of soluble powder extract and water, according to previous claims, characterized in that the bottom of the container or vessel (1) is provided with a wide concavity (11), tucked inwards, whose lower part is tightly closed by means of a capsule or lid (12) coupled to pressure, lid or capsule (12) that includes an upper closure (13) consisting of a sheet, and a lower closure (14) consisting of another curved-convex sheet, counting this internally with a punch (15) in the form of a star tip; with the particularity that the concavity (8) formed towards the inside of the bottom of the vessel or container (1) tightly encloses a complementary reactive chemical of another content in the lid or lower capsule (12), so that the cutting of the upper sheet (13) produced by the thrust of the punch (15) carries with it the mixing and esoteric reaction of both chemical products, the heat energy being transmitted by convection to the product contained in the vessel itself or container (1).