setInterval repeat 3 time and kill

If you want to reference different intervals at the same time, that can be pretty easy as well:

var ia = setInterval(...);
var ib = setInterval(...);
var ic = setInterval(...);

// some time later...
clearInterval(ia);
// and later..
clearInterval(ib);
// etc...

I only suggest the closures because it looked like you wanted to start several copies of the same interval, which would stop themselves