US 12,134,508 B2
Device for reducing consumption of flavoring agents from beverages
Cédric Sax, Zürich (CH); Samuel Hess, Zürich (CH); Basil Denzler, Winterthur (CH); and Elia Schneider, Schaffhausen (CH)
Filed by POTIIO GMBH, Zürich (CH)
Filed on Jul. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/803,427.
Application 17/803,427 is a continuation in part of application No. PCT/EP2021/050738, filed on Jan. 14, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/995,164, filed on Jan. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 70038/2021 (CH), filed on Jul. 12, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0040856 A1, Feb. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. B65D 81/32 (2006.01)
CPC B65D 81/3216 (2013.01) 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for the controlled sequential release of a flavored beverage and a less flavored or unflavored beverage, the device consisting of a drinking vessel comprising
(a) a first compartment within the drinking vessel which first compartment holds the flavored beverage or a flavoring agent for reconstituting the flavored beverage, wherein the first compartment is a first container having a first neck portion,
(b) a second compartment within the drinking vessel which second compartment holds the less flavored or unflavored beverage, wherein the second compartment is a second container having a second neck portion, and
wherein the first container is contained in the second container and the first neck portion is sealedly inserted into the second neck portion, whereby the first and second neck portions are forming a mouthpiece from which a subject can drink; and
(c) a mechanism that releases first a defined volume of the flavored beverage and thereafter a volume of the less flavored or unflavored beverage when a subject is drinking from the drinking vessel, wherein
when the subject initiating a drinking event takes the mouthpiece in its mouth, tilts the device, and sucks from the mouthpiece, a volume of flavored beverage flows out of the straight or not-winding conduit) of the inner container and immediately comes into contact with the receptors that are mainly located on the tongue of the subject and, because of a winding arrangement of the outer container's conduits, the less flavored or unflavored beverage flows into the mouth of the subject in a time-delayed fashion.