Abstract: A molded plastic drinking sleeve for push-on assembly to a neck portion of a container according to a typical embodiment includes an annular body formed by an annular sidewall having a uniform taper from a first open end to an opposite second open end, the annular sidewall defining an open interior. The annular sidewall further includes a series of external threads and a roller abutment at the base of the threads for stopping the roller equipment used to help fabricate a metal closing cap that is designed to thread onto the plastic drinking sleeve. The cooperating metal container that receives the drinking sleeve includes a portion that is curled over the upper edge of the drinking sleeve. A free edge of the curled portion is embedded into the plastic of the drinking sleeve.

Abstract: A bag-in-box assembly for receipt of a flowable product has a fitment that defines a dispensing outlet and an interfit portion having a hex-shaped periphery. Also included is a plastic bag which is constructed and arranged to receive the flowable product. The bag includes an opening that is defined by a surrounding lip portion. The surrounding lip portion is conduction welded to a flange surface of the fitment. The box includes a plurality of panels and a plurality of fold-over flaps. One fold-over flap includes an opening and the opening is defined in part by a shaped edge having four of the hex flats. This shaped edge is constructed and arranged to receive the interfit portion of the fitment and secure the fitment in a fashion such that rotation of the fitment relative to the box is restricted.

Abstract: A product-dispensing apparatus for manually dispensing a quantity of product, such as a herbicide with a foam consistency, includes a gripping member in the form of a handle and a cooperating container holder that is assembled with the gripping member and is constructed and arranged to receive a product-dispensing container. The container is preferably a foamer positioned in an inverted orientation utilizing a depressing plunger to dispense a foam-consistency product. The gripping member and container holder are assembled to a dispensing tip such that there is relative movement between the container holder and the dispensing tip for activation of the container plunger. A child-resistant locking ring is received by the container holder and cooperates with the dispensing tip for alternately configuring the product-dispensing apparatus in either a locked or unlocked condition. In the locked condition, foam product is not able to be dispensed from the container.

Abstract: A multiple-piece cap assembly which is child-resistant, yet which, because of radial contact between the caps, can be more easily opened by persons such as the elderly, arthritic, disabled and infirm adults. In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, removal of the cap assembly requires two simultaneous motions such as, for example, turning the cap and pushing downward to engage lug and ramp projections on the caps. In this embodiment of the present invention, the two caps engage each other by a ramp and lug configuration in order to fasten and remove the cap assembly, wherein the lugs and ramps engage one another substantially by “line” contact and/or “surface-to-surface” contact. The cap of the present invention thus requires less force in at least one direction of the concurrent motions in order to remove the cap assembly, thus making the cap assembly child-resistant, yet senior-friendly.