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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2017
Phoenix Closures, Inc., Naperville, IL (US);
Darren Nickerson, Naperville, IL (US);
Thomas Stoneberg, Buffalo Grove, IL (US);
Phoenix Closures, Inc., Naperville, IL (US);
Abstract
The invention provides an assembly for dispensing portioned amounts of materials from a container, while keeping the undispensed portions stored within the container, and displaying the dispensed portions for consumption. The cap assembly includes a body member which can reversibly engage the container, and a cap member that transfers predetermined volumes of articles from the interior of a container to a serving vessel that is accessible by an individual consumer, while leaving the remainder of the articles within the container and unavailable to a consumer. The relative position of the body and cap members block or unblock a passageway for dispensing articles through a mouth of the container. The cap member can be used multiple times to dispense additional volumes of articles from the container as desired.