The present invention relates to a bottle cap assembly. More particularly, the present invention relates to bottle cap assembly to allow mixing of substance immediately in beverages before drinking.

BACKGROUND
[002] Background description includes information that may be useful in understanding the present invention. It is not an admission that any of the information provided herein is prior art or relevant to the present invention, or that any publication specifically or implicitly referenced is prior art.
[003] A bottle cap seals top opening of a bottle, said bottle cap is manufactured according to different shape requirements, aesthetic looks, functions, and operation methods. The operation methods such as but not limited to fruit juice tablets, milk powder tablets, seasoning essence tablets, bottled drinks, are primarily bought and drunk products in world. Due to the continued economic development of society, people want to try new flavours of product, leading to a variety of bottled brewed drinks in the market. Drinks trending in today’s world are fruit drinks with numerous fruit flavours, such as mixed drink, tropical fruit of grapefruit, orange blended juice, milk, carbonated beverages mixed with substances, such as carbonates, vitamins, and minerals. Brewed juice drinks of mineral water, drinks with added vitamins and minerals, combining different flavours to create new flavours are recently sold to health-conscious peoples, leading to increase in demand of cap bottles for keeping drinks fresh for a long time. Beverages mixed to drinking water, aqueous solutions or mixture solutions have less shelf-life and are low-reliable products.
[004] Water-soluble vitamins lose their potency due to the aqueous phase or when are exposed to moisture. Furthermore, when exposed to ultraviolet rays, oxygen or heat, added vitamin and minerals degrades leading to change in colour, suspended precipitation in bottled drinks. Loss of strength is more significant when the vitamin contents such as A, B, B5, B12, and C are spread across full contents in bottled beverages, causing premixed vitamin drinks to lose their potency over time. Moreover, supplemental information printed on most premixed vitamin drinks is based on ingredients at time of bottling, not at the time of consumption.
[005] In existing techniques, cap having threads are used to seal the bottles with airtight connections not allowing any ambient conditions to effect inner solution of a bottle. These traditional bottle caps are relatively simpler without having any storage space for storing fruit juice tabletting, seasoning essence tabletting, active ingredient, enabling short shelf-life of drinks cap bottle. Therefore, it is required to make a bottle cap with storage space for storing powdered flavours, and vitamins enable increasing life span of flavoured cap bottle drinks.
[006] There is, therefore a need in the art to provide a bottle cap assembly that can be concluded from the above that in spite of all the efforts made, the solutions previously proposed and known in the prior art do not meet all the essential requirements which are taken into consideration in the present invention, that provides a storage space for substance in bottle cap.

OBJECTS OF THE PRESENT DISCLOSURE
[007] It is an object of the present invention to provide an ergonomic bottle cap assembly.
[008] It is another object of the present invention to provide a bottle cap assembly for mixing a substance immediately in beverages before drinking.
[009] It is another object of the present invention to provide a bottle cap assembly to prevent substance from ultraviolet rays.
[0010] It is yet another object of the present invention to provide a bottle cap assembly from to prevent substance moisture, water, and ambient conditions.
[0011] It is yet another object of the present invention to provide a bottle cap assembly that is reusable.

SUMMARY
[0012] The present invention relates to a bottle cap assembly. More particularly, the present invention relates to bottle cap assembly to allow mixing substance immediately in beverages before drinking.
[0013] According to an aspect, a bottle cap assembly is disclosed. The assembly includes: a cap body having a first slot on its sidewall; an annular member disposed within the cap body such that there is space between an inner top surface of the cap body and the annular member for holding substance, and having a first hole at predefined position; a slider having a second hole at predefined position, the slider slidably configured with a second slot configured at the annular member to move between an extended position in which a part of the slider is projected outside of the second slot of the annular member such that the second hole of the slider is not coaxial with the first hole of the annular member, and a retracted position in which the second hole of the slider is coaxial with the first hole of the annular member to allow dispensing of the substance through the first hole.
[0014] In an embodiment, the annular member may comprise one or more extending elements and the cap body may comprise one or more depressing elements, such that the one or more extending elements are configured to get engaged with the one or more depressing elements.
[0015] In another embodiment, the annular member comprises one or more depressing elements and the cap body comprises one or more extending elements.
[0016] In an embodiment, the assembly comprises a cap cover positioned at the periphery of the cap body to prevent any external damages to the bottle cap assembly.
[0017] In an embodiment, the slider may be coupled with a rubber seal to prevent mixing of moisture with the substance.
[0018] In an embodiment, the slider may be coupled with a spring at a non-open end to facilitate keeping the slider in the extended position.
[0019] In an embodiment, the spring may facilitate in shock absorption.
[0020] In an embodiment, the substance includes ingredients including any or a combination of flavour, vitamin, and fruit juice, and is in the form of any or a combination of tablet, capsule, and powder.
[0021] In an embodiment, the cap cover is made of transparent plastic polymers that enables resistance to penetration of ultraviolet rays.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0022] The accompanying drawings are included to provide a further understanding of the present disclosure, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification. The drawings illustrate exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the present disclosure. The diagrams are for illustration only, which thus is not a limitation of the present disclosure.
[0023] FIGs. 1A – 1I illustrate exemplary structural representations of the proposed bottle cap assembly, in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0024] The following is a detailed description of embodiments of the disclosure depicted in the accompanying drawings. The embodiments are in such detail as to communicate the disclosure. However, the amount of detail offered is not intended to limit the anticipated variations of embodiments; on the contrary, the intention is to cover all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the present disclosure as defined by the appended claims.
[0025] In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of embodiments of the present invention. It will be apparent to one skilled in the art that embodiments of the present invention may be practised without some of these specific details.
[0026] If the specification states a component or feature “may”, “can”, “could”, or “might” be included or have a characteristic, that particular component or feature is not required to be included or have the characteristic.
[0027] As used in the description herein and throughout the claims that follow, the meaning of “a,” “an,” and “the” includes plural reference unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. Also, as used in the description herein, the meaning of “in” includes “in” and “on” unless the context clearly dictates otherwise.
[0028] Each of the appended claims defines a separate invention, which for infringement purposes is recognised as including equivalents to the various elements or limitations specified in the claims. Depending on the context, all references below to the "invention" may in some cases refer to certain specific embodiments only. In other cases, it will be recognised that references to the "invention" will refer to subject matter recited in one or more, but not necessarily all, of the claims.
[0029] All methods described herein may be performed in any suitable order unless otherwise indicated herein or otherwise clearly contradicted by context. The use of any and all examples, or exemplary language (e.g., “such as”) provided with respect to certain embodiments herein is intended merely to better illuminate the invention and does not pose a limitation on the scope of the invention otherwise claimed. No language in the specification should be construed as indicating any non-claimed element essential to the practice of the invention.
[0030] Various terms as used herein are shown below. To the extent a term used in a claim is not defined below, it should be given the broadest definition persons in the pertinent art have given that term as reflected in printed publications and issued patents at the time of filing.
[0031] The present invention relates to a bottle cap assembly. More particularly, the present invention relates to bottle cap assembly to allow mixing substance immediately in beverages before drinking.
[0032] According to an aspect, a bottle cap assembly is disclosed. The assembly includes: a cap body having a first slot on its sidewall; an annular member having a first hole is disposed within the cap body such that there is space between an inner top surface of the cap body and the annular member for holding substance; a slider having a second hole at a first predefined position, the slider slidably configured with a second slot configured at a second pre-defined position at the annular member, and configured to move between an extended position and a retracted position, wherein in the extended position a part of the slider is projected outside of the second slot of the annular member such that the second hole of the slider is not coaxial with the first hole of the annular member, and in the retracted position the second hole of the slider is coaxial with the first hole of the annular member to allow dispensing of the substance through the first hole.
[0033] In an embodiment, the annular member can include one or more extending elements and the cap body can include one or more depressing elements, such that the one or more extending elements can be configured to get engaged with the one or more depressing elements.
[0034] In another embodiment, the annular member can include one or more depressing elements and the cap body can include one or more extending elements.
[0035] In an embodiment, the assembly can include a cap cover positioned at the periphery of the cap body to prevent any external damages to the bottle cap assembly.
[0036] In an embodiment, the slider can be coupled with a rubber seal to prevent mixing of moisture with the substance.
[0037] In an embodiment, the slider can be coupled with a spring at a non-open end to facilitate keeping the slider in the extended position.
[0038] In an embodiment, the spring can facilitate in shock absorption.
[0039] In an embodiment, the substance can include ingredients including any or a combination of flavour, vitamin, and fruit juice, and is in the form of any or a combination of tablet, capsule, and powder.
[0040] In an embodiment, the cap cover is made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) material to prevent ultraviolet rays to penetrate into the cap body.
[0041] FIGs. 1A – 1I illustrate exemplary structural representations of the proposed bottle cap assembly, in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure.
[0042] In an embodiment, FIG. 1A illustrates an isometric view of the proposed bottle cap assembly 100 (interchangeably referred to as bottle cap assembly 100, or assembly 100, hereinafter) and FIG. 1B illustrates a diagram representing schematic working of said assembly 100. FIGs. 1C, 1D, 1E, 1F, 1G, 1H, and 1I illustrate back view, bottom view, right view, front view, cross-sectional view, left view, and top view, respectively, of the bottle cap assembly 100.
[0043] As illustrated, the bottle cap assembly 100 can include a cap body 104 having a first slot 120 on one of its cylindrical sidewalls. The cap body 104 can be fitted with a bottle (not shown) in an inverted state, said cap body 104 can prevent exposure of moisture, ultraviolet rays or ambient conditions to penetrate the cap body 104.
[0044] In an embodiment, the bottle cap assembly 100 can include an annular member 106 configured with a first hole 116, where said annular member 106 can be placed horizontally inside the cap body 104 with a substance placed over it, where the substance can be including ingredients, such as, but not limited to, flavour, vitamin, and fruit juice, and is in the form of any or a combination of tablet, capsule, and powder, and said substance could be directly fed into the bottle from the first hole 116 under action of gravity. In an exemplary embodiment, the substance can be protected from moisture, ultraviolet rays and ambient conditions by the cap body 104, thereby averting degradation of the substance.
[0045] In an embodiment, the annular member 106 can include one or more extending elements 124 and the cap body 104 can include one or more depressing elements 122, where the one or more extending elements 124 can be configured to get engaged with the one or more depressing elements 122. In another embodiment, the annular member 106 can include one or more depressing elements 122 and the cap body 104 can include one or more extending elements 124.
[0046] In an embodiment, the bottle cap assembly 100 can include a slider 114 configured with a second hole 118, where the slider 114 can be slidably configured with a second slot 108 configured at the annular member 106, such that the slider 114 can be configured to move between an extended position in which a part of the slider 114 is projected outside of the second slot 108 of the annular member 106 such that second hole 118 of the slider 114 is not coaxial with the first hole 116 of the annular member 106, and a retracted position in which the second hole 118 of the slider 114 is coaxial with the first hole 116 of the annular member 106 to allow dispensing of the substance through the first hole 116.
[0047] In an exemplary embodiment, the slider 114 can be operatively coupled with second slot 108 of the annular member 106 such that slider 114 can move in right or left position. In another exemplary embodiment, a push-button of the slider 114 can be configured with the first slot 120 of the cap body 104, said push button enables a user to discharge the substance into the bottle (not shown). The substance under the action of gravity can go into the bottle when the slider 114 is in a retracted position in which the second hole 118 of the slider 114 is coaxial with the first hole 116 of the annular member 106. In yet another exemplary embodiment, when the user pushes the slider button in horizontal right direction, said push of the slider 114 can enable the coaxial alignment of the first hole 116 of the annular member 106 and the second hole 118 of the slider 114 thereby discharging substance into bottle. Further, in yet another exemplary embodiment, the slider 114 can come back to its original position at the release of the slider button (push-button).
[0048] In an embodiment, the bottle cap assembly 100 can include a cap cover 102. The cap cover 102 can be placed on periphery of the cap body 104 enables the cap body 104 to protect the cap cover 102 from external forces during transportation. The cap cover 102 can be made from materials, such as but not limited to, polythene terephthalate (PET) that can prevent ultraviolet rays from penetrating the cap body 104, said PET could be easily be removed from the cap body 104 by tearing it using knife or hands requiring no extra opener tool.
[0049] In an embodiment, the slider includes a retractable spring 110. The retractable spring 110 can include, but not limited to, open coil helical spring, used for storing compressive load when user applies force in right horizontal direction to the slider button. In another embodiment, the retractable spring 110 can act as a shock absorber. In an exemplary embodiment, when the user releases slider button, the slider 114 comes to its original position, said slider 114 can facilitate in declining flow of the substance through the second hole 118 of the slider 114. In another embodiment, the slider 114 can be coupled with a rubber seal 112 that can help in preventing of entry of water, moisture into the cap body 104, thereby keeping the substance safe.
[0050] While the foregoing describes various embodiments of the invention, other and further embodiments of the invention may be devised without departing from the basic scope thereof. The scope of the invention is determined by the claims that follow. The invention is not limited to the described embodiments, versions or examples, which are included to enable a person having ordinary skill in the art to make and use the invention when combined with information and knowledge available to the person having ordinary skill in the art.

ADVANTAGES OF THE PRESENT DISCLOSURE
[0051] The present disclosure provides an ergonomic bottle cap assembly.
[0052] The present disclosure provides a bottle cap assembly that enables mixing of a substance immediately in beverages before drinking.
[0053] The present disclosure provides a bottle cap assembly to help prevent exposure of the substance to ultraviolet rays.
[0054] The present disclosure provides a bottle cap assembly to prevent substance from moisture, water, and ambient conditions.
[0055] The present disclosure provides a bottle cap assembly that is reusable.

We Claim:
1. A bottle cap assembly said assembly comprising:
a cap body having a first slot on its sidewall;
an annular member having a first hole is disposed within the cap body such that there is space between an inner top surface of the cap body and the annular member for holding substance;
a slider having a second hole at a first predefined position, the slider slidably configured with a second slot configured at a second pre-defined position at the annular member, and configured to move between an extended position and a retracted position,
wherein in the extended position a part of the slider is projected outside of the second slot of the annular member such that the second hole of the slider is not coaxial with the first hole of the annular member, and in the retracted position the second hole of the slider is coaxial with the first hole of the annular member to allow dispensing of the substance through the first hole.
2. The assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the annular member comprises one or more extending elements and the cap body comprises one or more depressing elements, such that the one or more extending elements are configured to get engaged with the one or more depressing elements.
3. The assembly as claimed in claim 2, wherein the annular member may comprise the one or more depressing elements and the cap body may comprise the one or more extending elements.
4. The assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the assembly comprises a cap cover positioned at the periphery of the cap body to prevent any external damages to the bottle cap assembly.
5. The assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the slider is coupled with a rubber seal to prevent exposure of the substance to moisture.
6. The assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the slider is coupled with a spring at a non-open end to facilitate maintaining the slider in the extended position.
7. The assembly as claimed in claim 6, wherein the spring facilitates in shock absorption.
8. The assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the substance includes ingredients including any or a combination of flavour, vitamin, and fruit juice, and is in the form of any or a combination of tablet, capsule, and powder.
9. The assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cap cover is made of transparent plastic polymer that enables resistance to penetration of ultraviolet rays.