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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2002
William E. Steele, Iv, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Phillip D. Livingston, Dallas, TX (US);
Clarence D. Zierhut, Garland, TX (US);
William E. Steele, IV, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Phillip D. Livingston, Dallas, TX (US);
Clarence D. Zierhut, Garland, TX (US);
Remington Health Products, L.L.C., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for metering a liquid nutritional supplement provides a liquid dispenser having a body that contains a predetermined number of single dosages of the liquid nutritional supplement, a cap, such as a child-resistant cap, coupled to a neck portion of the body, and a dosage cup coupled to the cap. The dosage cup has at least four axial shoulders on an inside surface thereof that each has an engaging surface adapted to engage axial ridges of the cap. The dosage cup is coupled to the cap such that a force that is greater, by a predetermined amount, than the weight of the dosage cup is required to remove the dosage cup from the cap, and providing the dosage cup with an indicator adapted to indicate one of the single dosages of the liquid nutritional supplement to be consumed by a user for a predetermined time period.