Abstract: A hand held metered spray dispenser including a housing, a nozzle on the housing, a fluid container in the housing, an orifice in the housing, and a converter pivotal to the housing for converting a manual force applied through the orifice along a manual force axis to a force moving the container along a pumping axis transverse to the manual force axis to dispense a metered amount of fluid through the nozzle along a dispensing axis substantially coincidental with the pumping axis.

Abstract: A hand held metered spray dispenser including a housing, a nozzle on said housing, a fluid container in said housing, an orifice in said housing, and a converting means pivotal to said housing for converting a manual force applied through the orifice along a manual force axis to a force moving said container means along a pumping axis transverse to the manual force axis to dispense a metered amount of fluid through said nozzle along a dispensing axis substantially coincidental with said dispensing axis.

Abstract: The method of forming a tamper-evident closure having a threaded cap and a tamper-evident ring removably connected to each other by break-away tabs. The method includes the steps of molding the threaded cap and tamper-evident ring as an integral unit in a side-by-side relationship to each other and with the break-away tabs integrally connecting them. A retaining lug is also molded on the ring and has a substantially inwardly directed surface. An outwardly directed shelf and cam means are also molded on the cap. After the molding operation, the integrally molded part is removed from its mold and the tamper-evident ring and the threaded cap are moved relative to each other with the break-away tabs acting as a hinge to enable the cap and tamper-evident ring to be brought into substantial vertical alignment with each other while the inwardly directed surface of the retaining lug is snapped over the shelf to hold the cap and ring in alignment.

Abstract: A container lid such as a lid for a parmesan cheese container or the like, having a plurality of independently operative openings which is formed of a one piece two layer central bulk access and peripheral crescent-shaped broadcast construction, and which provides a substantially airtight seal for the container, which permits the container to be repeatedly and readily opened and closed, and which selectively permits bulk removal and access to the interior of the container, or the broadcast of the contents of the container through one or more limited access openings in the closure.

Abstract: Tamper-evident closures include a threaded cap and a tamper-evident ring removably connected to each other by break-away tabs adapted to break when the cap is rotated in a direction to remove it from a cooperating container. The cap and ring have cooperating surfaces for transmitting closing rotational movement of the cap to the ring to thereby rotate the cap and ring together during closing of the container to thereby prevent separation of the cap from the ring at the break-away tabs. The ring further includes at least one locking surface adapted to engage a corresponding surface on a container to prevent the ring from rotating in the opening direction of rotation, whereby rotation of the closure to open it will cause relative movement between the cap and ring to sever the break-away tabs. A method of molding the cap, tamper-evident ring and break-away tabs as a single member also constitutes a part of the invention, as well as the particular container constructions adapted to cooperate with the closures.