Cannabinoid Beverage Container with Dissolving Liner for Dosing
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Solution Overview
Problem
The challenge in the beverage industry is the degradation or loss of active ingredients like cannabinoids and alkaloids from infused beverages over time, leading to inconsistent concentrations at consumption, improper dosing, and increased production costs.
Innovation Solution
The development of cannabinoid-infused beverage containers with a cannabinoid liner that dissolves into the liquid, and a conditioning component that releases active ingredients upon activation, ensuring consistent dosing and minimizing degradation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Duration of action of stationary object
If the concentration of active ingredient is increased to counteract loss over time, then the desired effect is maintained longer, but the risk of improper dosing increases when consumed shortly after manufacturing
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-coating the container interior surface with the active ingredient before filling. This ensures the active ingredient is already positioned and protected on the container walls, preventing both degradation and ensuring consistent dosing without requiring increased initial concentrations.
Solution Approach 2:
The container interior surface acts as an intermediary medium that holds and gradually releases the active ingredient into the beverage. This mediator approach maintains stable concentrations over time without direct addition of excessive amounts, resolving the contradiction between duration and dosing accuracy.
2Stability of the object's composition
If more active ingredient is added to ensure desired effect, then consistency over time is improved, but production cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The active ingredient is applied as a coating on the container interior surface during manufacturing, before the beverage is filled. This preliminary action ensures precise control of the total amount used while maintaining consistent concentrations throughout the beverage's shelf life, avoiding the need to add excessive amounts.
Solution Approach 2:
The active ingredient forms a thin film coating on the container interior surface. This thin film approach allows precise control of the quantity used while providing sustained release into the beverage, maintaining concentration consistency without increasing overall substance quantity.
3Ease of operation
If the active ingredient is mixed into the beverage during manufacturing, then the beverage is ready to consume, but degradation occurs over storage time
Solution Approach 1:
The active ingredient coating is applied to the container interior surface during manufacturing, but the actual mixing and dissolution occurs automatically when the consumer opens and uses the container. This preliminary positioning ensures stability during storage while providing ease of use at consumption time.
Solution Approach 2:
The container system performs self-service by automatically releasing the active ingredient from the interior coating into the beverage when the container is opened and the beverage is poured. This eliminates the need for separate mixing steps while maintaining stability during storage, combining convenience with stability.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution maintains the desired concentration of active ingredients throughout the beverage's shelf life, reduces the risk of improper dosing, and simplifies regulatory compliance by allowing precise dosing at the point of consumption.
Implementation Method 1
a cannabinoid liner configured to contact liquid dispensed into the container and dissolve into the liquid
Implementation Method 2
an emulsifier configured to stabilize the cannabinoid liquid
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure is generally related to beverage containers, including cannabinoid and/or alkaloid-infused beverage containers, and associated devices, systems, and methods. In at least some embodiments, a beverage container can include one or more container walls forming the sides and/or bottom of the container, a conditioning component configured to releasably contain an active ingredient and to release at least a portion of the active ingredient into the container, and a lid which may be sealably attached to the container wall to create a sealed container. When a liquid is inserted into the beverage container and the lid is sealed to the container wall, the active ingredient can be held separate from the liquid by the conditioning component unless or until the conditioning component is activated/actuated to cause the active ingredient to mix with the liquid and create a beverage infused with the active ingredient.