Patents Assigned to Silgan White Cap LLC
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Patent number: 10351315Abstract: A tamper evident closure and spout are provided. The closure includes a tamper-indicating band extending from a central wall. Formed about the tamper band are one or more spout engagement structures. Also provided about the tamper band may be one or more knuckles that assist in distorting the tamper band upon initial removal of the closure from a spout so as to increase the ease with which the tamper band can be identified as having been broken upon visual inspection by a user. The spout includes a wall portion and a central channel extending through the wall portion between an inlet opening and an outlet opening. Located about an outer portion of the spout are one or more tamper band engagement structures configured to engage a tamper band and which assist in breaking and distorting a tamper band upon initial removal of a closure from the spout.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Silgan White Cap LLCInventor: Gary Berge
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Patent number: 9981785Abstract: A tamper evident closure and spout are provided. The closure includes an outer wall and a central wall supported from the outer wall. The closure defines a passage extending between an upper edge and a lower edge of the closure and located between an inner surface of the outer wall and an outer surface of the central wall. The closure includes a tamper-indicating band extending from the central wall. The spout includes a wall portion and a central channel extending through the wall portion between an inlet opening and an outlet opening. The spout includes a structure located below the inlet opening the first and second exterior surfaces are both angled toward the central axis of the spout.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2016Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Silgan White Cap LLCInventor: Gary Berge
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Patent number: 9938050Abstract: A container assembly including a pouch, spout and closure is provided. The closure includes a tamper-evident band having two or more wall sections. Adjacent wall sections of the tamper band may be connected to one another with frangible connectors configured to break upon twist-off of the closure from the spout. The closure also includes one or more support walls supported between an outer wall and central wall of the closure. The closure further includes one or more hinges attaching the ends of the wall sections of the tamper band to the lower ends of the support walls. The hinges are configured to increase the resistance required to break or otherwise distort the frangible connections of the tamper-evident band, so as to prevent or lower the risk of accidental or inadvertent breakage of the tamper-evident band prior to twist-off of the closure from the spout.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2016Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: Silgan White Cap LLCInventor: Gary L. Berge
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Patent number: 9694946Abstract: A metal closure having multiple thread engaging lugs configured to decrease the pressure exerted by the closure lugs on the neck of a container is provided. In various embodiments, the metal closure comprises a top wall, a skirt extending downward from a peripheral edge of the top wall, a lower edge included on the skirt, and a plurality of lugs formed at the lower edge of the skirt. Pressure may be decreased by the closure having more lugs and/or larger lugs than other metal closures.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2016Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Silgan White Cap LLCInventors: William J. Kapolas, Dennis Szczesniak
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Patent number: 9688451Abstract: A composite closure including a panel and an outer portion defining a recess into which the panel is received. The composite closure may be coupled with a container. The panel deflects downward toward the container when the composite closure is sealed with the container and the interior of the container is under vacuum.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2013Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: SILGAN WHITE CAP LLCInventor: William J. Kapolas
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Patent number: 9533802Abstract: A tamper evident closure and spout are provided. The closure includes an outer wall and a central wall supported from the outer wall. The closure defines a passage extending between an upper edge and a lower edge of the closure and located between an inner surface of the outer wall and an outer surface of the central wall. The closure includes a tamper-indicating band extending from the central wall. The spout includes a wall portion and a central channel extending through the wall portion between an inlet opening and an outlet opening. The spout includes a structure located below the inlet opening the first and second exterior surfaces are both angled toward the central axis of the spout.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2015Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Silgan White Cap LLCInventor: Gary Berge
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Patent number: 9428292Abstract: A system and method for injecting pressurizing fluid into a filled and sealed container is provided. The container is filled with a product and is then sealed with a closure. A pressurizing fluid is injected through the closure into the container cavity after sealing and filling.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: SILGAN WHITE CAP LLCInventors: James M. Taber, Kevin W. Orth, Dennis Szczesniak
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Patent number: 9315306Abstract: A composite closure which includes an end panel that is received in a circular plastic fitment having a central opening therein defined by an inwardly extending flange which overlies an outer periphery of the end panel and an integral skirt downwardly depending from the flange. The fitment includes a radially inwardly extending circumferential bead or bead segments which include a substantially non-deformable flat vertical surfaces that are substantially parallel to the axis of the closure and axially positioned to contact the radial outermost edge of the end panel when the closure is fully applied to a container. The bead or bead segments are configured to impart a predetermined radial force on the end panel which produces a perceptible resistance upon initial rotation of the fully applied closure and provides assurance to a person removing the closure from the container that it has been fully applied to the container.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: SILGAN WHITE CAP LLCInventors: James Taber, Kevin Orth
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Patent number: 9309032Abstract: A closure for a container includes a tamper band that remains attached to the closure after the container is opened and the closure is removed. The tamper band includes a shaped internal surface and gaps to interact with a dispenser assembly for the container. The dispenser assembly includes tabs to interact with the tamper band of the closure and an alignment rim to engage with the internal surface of the tamper band.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2014Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: Silgan White Cap LLCInventors: Gary Berge, Darren Neputy
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Patent number: 9221586Abstract: A closure that includes a top panel and a skirt extending downwardly from a peripheral edge of the top panel is provided. The skirt terminates in a plurality of spaced thread engagement flanges for engaging the thread of the neck of a container. The closure includes a polymer-filled channel which connects the top panel to the skirt. When engaged with the threaded neck of a container, the neck is forced into the channel and engaged by the polymer so that the channel and polymer provide lateral rigidity to the neck. This rigidity prevents the neck from deflecting from the forces resulting between the threads and thread engagement lugs when the forces therebetween are increased to the level required to adequately seal the closure to the container.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2014Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: Silgan White Cap LLCInventors: Dennis Szczesniak, William J. Kapolas, James M. Taber, Stephen J. Kras
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Publication number: 20150232237Abstract: A closure and a dispenser assembly for a container are provided. The closure includes a tamper band that remains attached to the closure after the container is opened and the closure is removed. The tamper band includes a shaped internal surface and gaps to interact with the dispenser assembly. The dispenser assembly includes tabs to interact with the tamper band of the closure and an alignment rim to engage with the internal surface of the tamper band.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2014Publication date: August 20, 2015Applicant: Silgan White Cap LLCInventors: Gary Berge, Darren Neputy
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Publication number: 20150129533Abstract: A container closure assembly includes a cap and a spout assembly. The cap includes an internal thread that is configured to engage with an external thread located on the spout assembly. The cap further includes an engagement prong assembly that is configured to engage with the cylindrical band located on the spout assembly. The cylindrical band is supported by a plurality of tabs such that the engagement prong assembly extends between the band and the external threads when the internal and external threads are engaged and the cap is rotated such that the interaction of the threads moves the cap toward the band, the engagement prong assembly engaging the band when the cap seals the open end of the hollow cylinder, and the engagement prong assembly breaks the tabs when the cap is rotated causing the cap to unseal the open end.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2013Publication date: May 14, 2015Applicant: Silgan White Cap LLCInventors: James M. Taber, Darren Neputy, Dennis Szczesniak
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Patent number: D756777Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2014Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: Silgan White Cap LLCInventors: Gary Berge, Darren Neputy
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Patent number: D760081Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2014Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: Silgan White Cap LLCInventor: Gary Berge
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Patent number: D790344Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Silgan White Cap LLCInventors: Darren Neputy, James M. Taber, Dennis A. Szczesniak
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Patent number: D791591Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2016Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: Silgan White Cap LLCInventor: Gary Berge
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Patent number: D805900Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2016Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Silgan White Cap LLCInventor: William J. Kapolas
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Patent number: D836440Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Silgan White Cap LLCInventor: Sergejs Girins
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Patent number: D846987Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Silgan White Cap LLCInventor: Darren Neputy
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Patent number: D847633Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: Silgan White Cap LLCInventors: Gary L. Berge, Thomas Patrick Hennessy