Abstract: An easy opening arrangement for a closure of a packaging container. The easy opening arrangement has a grip, preferably shaped as a ring, and from said grip there emanates tearing denotations in a removable part of the closure.Via a first connection portion said grip is connected to said emanating tearing denotations. The arrangement includes at least one further connection portion to the closure part. Said so called further connection portion maintains a substantial portion of the grip at a certain distance from the closure part, such that said substantial portion is easy grippable.

Abstract: A liquid storage container has a tubule (11) which is open at one end and which is closed in liquid-tight manner at the front end face by a closure (12) which can be removed and/or opened for the filling of liquid into the tubule and/or for the removal thereof. An auxiliary closure cap (14) is provided for the closed tubule and has a locking ring 13 at its front open side. The auxiliary closure cap (14) is mountable onto the front end of the tubule (11), so that it covers over the closure (12) towards the outside. The locking ring (13) then snaps over a latch means (15) provided at the outer wall of the tubule (11) in its front region. The locking ring (13) is contrived so that it cannot be straightforwardly removed from the latch means by pulling it axially in the forward direction. In this way it is possible to check whether the liquid storage container has been tampered with.

Abstract: A tamper-indicating plastic closure is disclosed, with the closure configured for interfering coaction with an associated container. The closure includes a plastic cap having a top wall portion and an internally threaded annular skirt portion, with an annular pilfer band depending therefrom. The pilfer band includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced flexible tabs configured for interfering engagement with an annular locking ring portion of the associated container. The pilfer band further includes an annular interference bead positioned beneath the flexible tabs. By this arrangement, two modes of interfering engagement with the associated container locking ring are provided.

Abstract: The Ice Trap comprises a trapping device and beverage cup combination, the trapping device having a plurality of openings, a conical shaped side section, a rim, compresssion gap, and compression tabs for inserting, locking in, and removing the device, and also having a bottom section with a downward pitch for ice containment near the inner cup wall when tilted, and a center bottom opening in the bottom section for the insertion of a straw; a beverage cup having an internal annular lip formed from the inwardly sloping wall, and a annular horizontal bottom surface included beneath the lip for locking the device in place.

Abstract: A tamper indicating closure and closure-container package in which a tamper indicating skirt depends from the bottom of the annular wall of a standard threaded cap. The skirt includes a plurality of equally spaced depending ribs which are joined at their extremities by a flexible ring. The ring and the skirt ribs pass over lugs on the container neck when the cap is being threaded onto the closure. When the cap is being unthreaded, the lugs engage the rings to sever them indicating tampering or prior opening.

Abstract: A snap-on, tamper evident plastic cap for a plastic bottle neck has a skirt with upper and lower internal locking beads which lock under extenral beads on the neck. The cap is not removable so long as the skirt is intact. The lower end of the skirt, including the lower bead, may be torn off to permit the cap to be removed. To facilitate removal, the cap skirt is formed with a score line which slants upward from the lower edge of the skirt to merge with a circumferential score line which terminates near the origin of the slanted score line. A third score line extends from the terminus of the circumferential score line down to the lower edge of the skirt. Thus there is a tab (a remnant of the original skirt) between the first and third score lines which functions as a lift tab.

Abstract: A closure containing an internalized microbial filter for use in enteral delivery set assemblies. The closure comprises a generally cylindrical side wall, a planar top surface having first and second projections, the first projection being associated with the spikable membrane while the second projection is associated with a filter and with means to limit air access to the filter. The closure also includes a bottom surface having an aperture which extends through the closure to the top surface thereof with the filter being secured to the bottom surface and extending across the opening of the aperture.

Abstract: A cork for a wine bottle is chambered to receive sediment when the bottle is inverted. A valve operable from the exterior of the cork can then be closed to trap the sediment within the cork. A resilient easily attached valve member ensures full closure, yet also enables introduction of additives to the wine.

Abstract: An easy-open beverage container with a non-detachable closure assembly includes a container body and integral end wall. In one embodiment, the end wall is formed to defined an opening through which the container contents can be dispensed and a threaded lip extends about the periphery of the opening. Another embodiment reveals that the wall contains a selectively separable region of predetermined weakness defining an openable panel in the wall. An opening and reseal cap has a depending threaded skirt adapted for operative engagement with the threaded lip of end wall. The cap can be threaded onto the lip to seal the can or unthreaded to open up the can for use. An arm is pivotally attached at one end to the can end wall and the cap is rotatably attached to the other end of the arm such that the cap is non-detachably mounted to the end wall through the arm. The cap can thus be unscrewed to open the container and the cap and arm pivoted to displace the cap from the opening for dispensing the container contents.

Abstract: A tamper-indicating plastic closure is shown which is configured for mechanical interference with the annular locking ring of an associated container. The closure includes a top wall portion and depending skirt portion, with a circular pilfer band at least partially detachably connected to the skirt portion by a plurality of circumferentially spaced fracturable bridges. Notably, the pilfer band includes an internal, annular interference lip which is skewed or arranged at an angle relative to the vertical axis of the closure. By this construction, the interference lip engages the container locking ring during closure application so as to deform the closure to a non-circular configuration, thus minimizing stressing of the fracturable bridges. During closure removal, the angular configuration of the interference lip creates localized stressing of the fracturable bridges, thus providing serial fracture of the bridges.

Abstract: A container lid engageable with the planar outer edge of a container mouth in overlying sealing relation to the mouth. The lid includes a depending peripheral sealing flange engaged with the container adjacent the mouth, and a top panel with a base surface having a pair of spaced fulcrums seated on the mouth edge. The top panel is divided by the fulcrums into a first major portion and a second minor portion. When the lid seals the container the under or base surface of the major portion parallels the mouth edge with the flange engaged with the container wall completely about the mouth. The minor portion of the top panel of the lid includes an under or base surface upwardly angled or offset from the mouth edge in the sealed position of the lid whereby pressure on the minor portion pivots the lid about the fulcrums and upwardly releases the major portion of the lid and corresponding portion of the flange from the container mouth.

Abstract: An evacuated blood collection tube has a stopper made of deformable synthetic rubber, incorporating a skirt fitting over the outer wall of the tube neck, and integral with the skirt a plug that penetrates the neck of the tube. The sealing function is performed by two embodiments, the upper cylindrical sealing portion of the skirt and the plug. An annular recess surrounds the plug. A compression ring made of a more rigid material is set around the upper peripheral wall of the skirt that overlaps the cylindrical sealing portion. The compression ring cooperates with the rubber stopper and the tube to provide a clenching mechanism ensuring automated guidance of the tube in full sealing engagement over the plug. Furthermore it maintains a constant sealing pressure of the skirt over the tube optimizing vacuum preservation.

Abstract: An end closure for a packaging container where the closure is of the basic type having a so called one step opening arrangement, i.e. where an outer layer and an inner layer are removed in unison or simultaneously by shaping the tearing denotations in a proper pattern.In order to provide an opening procedure giving less splash the outer layer is divided into a central part having a grip for individually removing the central part from the inner layer laying under the outer layer without being connected thereto.A circumferentially extending region all around the closure, is defined by said circumferential tearing denotation and the central part and is removable together with the inner layer inside the tearing denotation.

Abstract: The device permits of compressing a rubber ring (4) between the mouth of a glass jar (1) and its glass lid (2), and comprises a collar (5) that is secured initially to the lid, whereupon the lid and collar are offered to the jar; a lip (6), integral with the collar, hooks under a rim (7) afforded by the neck of the jar, and the lid is then tightened by pulling down on a lever (9) hinged to a pair of lugs (8), likewise integral with the collar. The collar also incorporates a skirt (18) that conceals the area of contact between the lid, the rubber ring and the mouth of the jar.

Abstract: A tamper evident closure for use on a container neck, the closure including a cap and separately formed security device, connector means for attachment of the security device to the cap, the security device including anchor means disposed to catch beneath a shoulder as provided on the container neck when the cap is attached to the container neck, the connector means comprising a frangible joint adapted to rupture during removal of the cap from the container neck whereby to enable the security device to break away from the cap, the anchor means being engageable with the shoulder of the container for retaining the security device on the container neck when the cap is removed therefrom, the security device thereby evidencing that the container has been opened; and a method of manufacturing such tamper evident closure.

Abstract: A closure system for a container having a closure body with a hingedly connected closure lid. The closure body has an end wall and a cylindrical skirt with internal threads for screwing the closure system onto the container. The closure lid has at least one integrally molded projection extending from its cylindrical skirt. The projection engages the closure body end wall when it is desired to dispense material from the container. This projection is rigid enough to prevent the closure lid from interfering with the dispensing of the materials from the container yet is resilient enough to fold under the closure lid when the closure system is in the closed mode.

Abstract: A closure device for a library storage box combines a hanger with a locking device for the closed storage box. A hinge structure for the device provides a first hinge portion on the box, connected by a flexible hinge to a second hinge carrying the hanger at its outer end. A latch on the second hinge portion engages a complementary detent on the first hinge portion to hold the box closed and to project the hanger to an engaging position for mounting on a suitable rail.

Abstract: Through a centrally placed ingot there is formed an injection moulded cover or end closure for a packaging container comprising at least an outer layer and an easy opening device formed therein, the device having a grip and a tearing denotation starting therefrom. The tearing device includes a first tearing denotation which merges into a circumferential tearing denotation extending inwardly adjacent the periphery of the outer layer and a second tearing denotation spaced from said first tearing denotation and spaced inwardly of said circumferential tearing denotation and extending in a generally spiral shaped path. These tearing denotations, together with a blind groove, define a wide material flow region and several material flow passages through which injected material will flow when exiting the centrally placed ingot.

Abstract: A center-point compression sealing lid member for use on containers of all sorts is described. The lid member is completely removable from the container. The lid member comprises a cover with a spacer positioned in its approximate center, a force transfer bar permanently positioned over the spacer and extending across the cover with means on one extremity to engage a retaining means on the container, and a lever bar pivotably mounted on the force transfer bar's second extremity to engage a second retaining means on the container. When the lid member is properly positioned over the container's opening with the means on the first extremity of the force transfer bar and the lever bar aligned with the retaining means found on the container and downward force exerted on the lever bar, the force is transmitted through the spacer to the cover. Substantially equal force is exerted by the cover's peripheral edges onto edges of the container's top opening to form a liquid-tight seal.

Abstract: A one-piece molded closure of plastic which threads onto a container with a fairly specific exterior configuration and provides a combination such that when the closure is unthreaded, a tamper-indicating ring becomes separated from the lower end of the closure skirt. The indicating ring or band is joined to the closure by frangible bridges and a flexible stop ring is formed within the band and extends inwardly and upwardly when the closure is applied to a container finish. The container finish has a first radial bead and an inwardly tapering side wall surface therebeneath which leads to an abrupt, inwardly extending ledge. The flexible stop ring rests on the tapered surface, when the closure is applied. After closure removal, the stop ring and band drops below the ledge indicating that the closure has been removed.