Interconnected Relatively Movable Closures Patents (Class 222/142.7)
  • Patent number: 10617243
    Abstract: A vacuum insulated container for storing and selectively dispensing two fluids of different temperatures serves to insulate and selectively dispense two segregated fluids having different temperatures from the container. The vacuum insulated container provides a body that is bifurcated into two compartments separated by vacuum insulated walls. The first compartment contains a fluid of a first temperature, and the second compartment contains a fluid of a second temperature. The vacuum insulated container further provides a cap having two tabs that selectively open and close independently of each other, so that only one tab can be opened to access the desired fluid. Sliding the first tab to the open position releases a tensioned locking member to lock the second tab in the closed position, and displacing the second tab to the open position releases the tensioned locking member to lock the first tab in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Inventor: Christina Dahab
  • Patent number: 10173811
    Abstract: The disclosed aspects relate to a dual hinge flip cap closure. The closure includes a skirt that operatively engages a container. The closure also includes a top connected to the skirt at a first hinge, wherein the top is movable relative to the skirt. Further, the closure includes a lid operatively attached to the top at a second hinge, wherein the lid is movable relative to the top, and wherein a distal end of the lid is at an opposite of the top relative to the first hinge and the second hinge is between the first hinge and the end of the lid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: WEATHERCHEM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kevin Stevens, Brian David Groubert
  • Patent number: 7766197
    Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing a viscous material in a selected one of a multiplicity of configurations comprises a container for a volume of a viscous material and having a squeezable body and a neck with a discharge opening at its upper end. Engaged on the container is a closure body of generally circular cross section having a top wall and a skirt, and the top wall has a discharge passage therethrough aligned with the discharge opening of the neck. The body top wall has a generally circular recess therein extending from the periphery thereof and beyond the discharge passage of the closure. Disposed in the circular recess is a generally circular rotating disc which has a multiplicity of discharge openings spaced about the disc in a circular array, and the discharge openings have a multiplicity of configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Silgan Plastics Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen B. Getsy
  • Patent number: 7438204
    Abstract: A dispensing cap for a container includes a first lid having a dispensing surface and a skirt depending from a periphery thereof. The dispensing surface is formed from at least one of a substantially transparent and translucent material and includes several apertures. A second lid has a second dispensing surface and a second skirt depending from a periphery thereof that is adapted to be inserted into and releasably held within the first lid. The second dispensing surface includes several orifices. The first and second lids are rotatable a full 360° relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventors: Simon M. Conway, Kristopher W. Gerulski, Kenneth V. Bakken, Joseph Paul Kirchberg, David Wayne Lease
  • Patent number: 6863193
    Abstract: A closing cap (1) for two-chamber containers (2), which can be connected to an outlet opening (3) of the container (2). The container (2) is divided by a separating element (4), which extends up to outlet opening (3), so that the contents of the first chamber (5) are supplied separately from the contents of the second chamber (6) to the outlet opening (3). According to the invention, a detent connection is provided for joining the closing cap (1) to the container (2), whereby a separating wall (12) divides the closing cap (1) into two separate areas. A separately closeable withdrawal opening (8, 8?) is arranged in each area, and the separating wall (12) interacts with the separating element (4) as to connect each of the chambers (5,6) of the container (2) only to the area of the closing cap (1), in which the assigned withdrawal opening (8, 8?) is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignee: Aisapack Holding SA
    Inventor: Pierre Grossenbacher