Container means for separately storing at least two products to be brought into contact at the time of use

Claim 1

In means for separately storing at least one basic product and at least one additional product to be contacted by the or each said basic product only at the instant of use, the said means comprising (a) casing means to contain on the one hand said at least one basic product and on the other hand at least one dose of said at least one additional product; (b) dish means carried by the said casing means for accommodating each said dose; (c) perforable cover means disposed within the casing and closing said dish means; (d) perforator means normally spaced from said cover means and operative to perforate said cover means; (e) at least one movable wall zone to said casing means accessible from outside said casing means, said at least one movable wall zone enabling relative displacement between said perforator means and said cover means to effect perforation of the cover means; the improvement wherein (f) said at least one movable wall zone forms an integral part of the casing means, and (g) said casing means are made of a material which is sufficiently flexible for said at least one movable wall zone to be at least partly deformable under manual action of the user; wherein the said at least one product resulting from the combination of the at least one basic product must be removed for use; and wherein the casing means comprises at least one detachable wall zone for the extraction of said at least one resultant product, said casing means comprising a hollow body including an opening surrounded by an annular bearing surface to which a closing film is thermowelded to be torn off in one piece, said closing film constituting said detachable wall zone; wherein said body delimits at least two compartments of which at least one compartment receives said basic product and the other compartment contains a dish of said dish means for receiving an additional product and a perforator element of said perforator means; and wherein the cover means includes a cover associated with said dish and spaced from said closing film.