NL2001402C1 - Lockable tea stick. - Google Patents

Description

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Device for mixing a taste - extract - concentrate - aroma and the like with a liquid by means of a container to be sealed.

Lockable tea stick

The existing means for making infusions, such as tea dosing means (tea bag) have the disadvantage that if one takes the tea bag out of the water after the tea has been brewed, a lot of leakage and clattering takes place.

The invention described below does not have this disadvantage and can be put away after use without leaks, so that no mess is produced.

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The object of the invention is to place substances that can give off a taste, or substances that can dissolve in a liquid (for example tea, coffee, lemonade, soups, aromatics, medicines and the like) in a (mixing) container 20 which can then also serve as a rudder and dosing medium.

After breaking a possible seal and releasing a sealing sleeve, the part in which the substance to be dispensed is opened opens. The opened part can be introduced into a hot or cold liquid with or without stirring, whereby a transfer of the medium to be mixed can take place to the liquid to be mixed.

After the correct mixing has taken place, the dosing container can be closed again.

In a preferred embodiment it is a sleeve which can be slid over the dosing container for closure, so that delivery of the medium from the dosing container to the liquid can be stopped.

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To seal the medium to be mixed, rotating sleeves can also be used to rotate around the medium to be sealed.

The container can remain resting in the liquid to be mixed, because after the container is closed, no transfer of the medium with the liquid to be mixed can take place. The container will also leak when closed from the liquid to be mixed, prevented from leaking. For this purpose, the holder part and the part closing off this holder part 10 are, in the retracted state, at least dripping water tight and possibly even water-tight sealed with respect to each other.

The invention contemplates a convenient and convenient way of mixing a liquid with a medium that can be delivered to the liquid through a closable container. After mixing of the medium with the liquid, the (mixing) container can be closed when the correct mixing has taken place, so that further transfer of the medium to be mixed can no longer take place. The medium to be mixed can itself also have such a self-supporting capacity that a closing sleeve can be slid over this medium to be mixed, without the need for an auxiliary sleeve or holder part for reinforcement.

According to another preferred embodiment, the portion of the container above the medium to be mixed can still be filled with other additional substances, for example a sweetener or milk powder.

According to the invention, the medium to be mixed is sealed by a sealing sleeve with a possible seal.

The mixing container can be made from e.g. metal - cardboard - plastic or glass.

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Production methods can be plastic injection molding, extruding or blowing.

Closure of one part relative to the other can take place in the following ways, among others: slides 5 - rotate - buckle - pinch - deform deform).

The invention will be explained in more detail below with reference to figures.

Figure 1 shows the side view of the holder with closure sleeve and the associated rear view according to the invention.

Figure 2 shows the side view of the closure sleeve according to the invention.

Figure 3 shows the plan view of the unfolded container before the filling of the medium to be mixed has been applied and the corresponding cross-section over A-B.

The container provision or mixing container shown in the figures is made up of a body 1, in figure 3 with an open part partially perforated or provided with passage slots, part 2 as a filter. After the filling of the medium, this body 1 is bent and closed to form the holder 3 in Figure 1 according to the arrows. The rear part 4 is only closable for opening when the closing sleeve 5 in figure 2 and figure 1 has been slid over the then-formed holder. Before closing, the part 6 of the holder can optionally still be provided with an additional substance, e.g. sweetener extract herbs and the like can be filled. The closing sleeve 5 closes the filter part 2 and prevents any volatile substances from disappearing from the medium and that the quality of the medium to be dispensed diminishes. In addition, no undesirable substances from outside can reach the medium to be mixed.

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An overlap 7 prevents the closing sleeve 5 from sliding back and acts as a seal so that the used containers can be distinguished from the unused ones. Other means of sealing are conceivable. Think of slices, clamps, 5 tears from packs and the like.

Closure between the filter part 2 and the part 6 of the holder can be done by means of a clamping band 8 or fusion or a plug. Various other methods for closing these two compartments, and other production and filling methods of the medium to be placed in the dosing sleeve are conceivable. The sealing sleeve part 5 can be moved over the holder 3 in the x and y direction, in particular be rotated or not. As a result, the desired mixing of the medium to be mixed can take place by partially or partially opening or closing said perforations or slots.

By sliding the sleeve 5 back again, the sleeve can be pushed back again after the desired mixing. As a result of at least dripping water-tight closure of the perforations or slots, further mixing stops. A closing sleeve can also effect closure of the medium to be dispensed by means of rotation.

If desired, the opened or closed dosing sleeve can be used as a stirring rod for better mixing of the medium to be dispensed with the liquid.

The entire dosing container can take various forms. Think here of rectangular - square - triangular - round - flat and the like.

Claims (7)

1. Mixing container consisting of at least two. parts movable to one another, of which at least one part is provided with several openings through which, in use, liquid-soluble or miscible substances such as, for example, tea / coffee, etc. can be mixed with a liquid with which the mixing container is brought into contact, wherein the two parts are movable relative to each other in such a way that in one position the openings of the one part are not covered and in another position the openings of that one part are covered, in such a way that in use condition mixing or not mixing can take place. take place. Container according to claim 1, characterized in that the medium to be dissolved is self-supporting and consequently requires no filter element (liquid-permeable element). 3. Container as claimed in claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the media to be dissolved can be liquids. 4. Container as claimed in any of the claims 1-3, wherein the movable closing housing can bring about closing or opening by means of sliding - turning - nodding. 5. Container as claimed in any of the claims 1-4, characterized in that the container is made from metal, plastic, glass and / or moisture-resistant, or impregnated, paper or cardboard. 6. Method in which a subtraction is prepared with the aid of a mixing container which comprises a holder part to be filled with perforations with one or more media and a closing part opening or opening closing part, which parts are movable relative to each other and on the one hand being able to take positions in which liquid in which the container is dipped is dosed into contact with the media via the perforations, and on the other hand being able to take a position in which the closing part covers the perforations or at least drip water tightly. 10 7. Herbal tea obtained by applying the method according to claim 6 using the mixing container according to one of claims 1-5.