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US 12,390,050 · App. 18/383,627 · Granted Aug 19, 2025

Single-use food preparation container assemblies, systems and methods

Inventors: Ariel Sterngold (Jerusalem, IL); Marcel Hendrikus Simon Weijers (Assen, NL); Dorian Capuano (Mishmar Ayalon, IL); Dagan Recanati (Givat Brenner, IL); Refael Kshntovsky (Gedera, IL); Andreas Jacobus Louis Nijsen (Enschede, NL); Johannes Gabriel Kuster (Enschede, NL); Joris Bronkhorst (Enchede, NL); Hans Constant Dikhoff (Eindhoven, NL); Sybren Yme Leijenaar (Sint Nicolaasga, NL); Krijn Maltha (Dokkum, NL)
Assignee: BLIX LTD.
A47J43/046A47G19/2205A47J43/0716B65D47/0847B65D47/0852B65D51/16B65D55/026B65D2401/05B65D2401/15
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Patent No.
US 12,390,050
App. No.
18/383,627
Granted
Aug 19, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A product preparation system and method for processing a container including a cup body and a cup closure assembly configured for removable operative engagement with the cup body, the cup closure assembly including a hinged spout cover and a user-removable multi-function restricting portion integrally formed as part of the cup closure assembly and detachable therefrom, the user-removable multi-function restricting portion being operative, when integrally attached to the cup closure assembly to prevent normal user opening of the hinged spout cover.

Claims (32)

1. A container including:

a cup body having a rim and an inner circumferential surface; and

a cup closure assembly configured for removable operative engagement with the cup body, the cup closure assembly including:

an interior portion arranged to define a circumferential seal with said inner circumferential surface of said cup body and to define at least one central open portion;

an outer portion arranged for at least partially removable engagement with said interior portion; and

a rotary blade portion arranged for rotational sealing engagement with said central open portion of said interior portion,

said interior portion being formed with a straw aperture.

2. A container according to claim 1 and wherein said cup body includes at least one marking indicating at least one fill level.

3. A container according to claim 1 and wherein said cup body includes a window on a wall thereof.

4. A container according to claim 3 and wherein said window is a transparent window.

5. A container according to claim 3 and wherein said window is a translucent window.

6. A container including:

a cup body having a rim and an inner circumferential surface; and

a cup closure assembly configured for removable operative engagement with the cup body, the cup closure assembly including:

an interior portion arranged to define a circumferential seal with said inner circumferential surface of said cup body and to define at least one central open portion;

an outer portion arranged for at least partially removable engagement with said interior portion; and

a rotary blade portion arranged for rotational sealing engagement with said central open portion of said interior portion,

said interior portion including at least two mutually concentric downwardly-facing recesses, which are sealingly engaged by corresponding protrusions of said rotary blade portion.

7. A container according to claim 6 and wherein said at least two mutually concentric downwardly-facing recesses are defined by mutually concentric wall surfaces, defining respective downwardly-facing annular edges, one of which defines an edge surface of an inwardly-facing flange, which is engaged by said rotary blade portion.

8. A container according to claim 6 and wherein said at least two mutually concentric downwardly-facing recesses are formed with radially inwardly-extending protrusions for tight engagement with said rotary blade portion when said rotary blade portion is in a retracted operative orientation, for static liquid sealing therewith.

9. A container according to claim 6 and wherein said interior portion includes a downwardly-facing, generally planar surface formed with a downwardly-facing blade receiving recess.

10. A container according to claim 6 and wherein said rotary blade portion comprises a central driving and sealing portion and a pair of blade portions extending radially outwardly therefrom in opposite directions.

11. A container according to claim 10 and wherein said central driving and sealing portion includes a pair of mutually radially spaced, concentric sealing walls and a drive shaft engaging wall having, on a radially inwardly-facing surface an arrangement of curved splines, which are configured to engage corresponding recesses on a drive shaft of a container contents processor.

12. A container according to claim 10 and wherein said blade portions each define a top-facing surface, which includes a planar portion and a tapered portion which terminates at a curved cutting edge.

13. A container including:

a cup body having a rim and an inner circumferential surface; and

a cup closure assembly configured for removable operative engagement with the cup body, the cup closure assembly including:

an interior portion arranged to define a circumferential seal with said inner circumferential surface of said cup body and to define at least one central open portion;

an outer portion arranged for at least partially removable engagement with said interior portion; and

a rotary blade portion arranged for rotational sealing engagement with said central open portion of said interior portion,

said rotary blade portion including a bottom-facing surface formed with first and second walls, which define dynamic sealing surfaces, each of said first and second walls defining a dynamic radially inwardly-facing circumferential sealing surface and a dynamic radially outwardly-facing circumferential sealing surface.

14. A container according to claim 13 and wherein said rotary blade portion also defines static sealing surfaces.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 25, 2023
From: STERNGOLD, ARIEL; WEIJERS, MARCEL HENDRIKUS SIMON; CAPUANO, DORIAN; RECANATI, DAGAN; KSHNTOVSKY, REFAEL; NIJSEN, ANDREAS JACOBUS LOUIS; KUSTER, JOHANNES GABRIEL; BRONKHORST, JORIS; DIKHOFF, HANS CONSTANT; LEIJENAAR, SYBREN YME; MALTHA, KRIJN
To: BLIX LTD.
Reel/Frame 065340/0673 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation 16956792
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