Abstract: The present invention relates to a twist-to-remote crown cap for closing a container such as a beer bottle. The crown cap comprises a disk shaped top wall and a depending lateral skirt with long serrations bent against the skirt in a circumferential direction thereof to expose, each, a relatively flat flank surface. The flank surfaces of the serrations define a relatively smooth finger gripping surface preventing injury to fingers during the removal of the cap.

Abstract: A closure assembly for a container such as a beer bottle, comprising a twist-to-remove crown cap to be mounted on the container, and a cushioning device for hand gripping and twisting off the crown cap. The cushioning device includes a rupturable member overlying the crown cap, and pad means mounted on the crown cap and facing its skirt. The cushioning device provides a protective medium over the sharp projections on the skirt of the crown cap to protect against injury when twisting off the cap.

Abstract: A smoker's package contains a plurality of tightly packed smoking tobacco rolls, such as cigarettes or cigars, contained in a wrapper. One of the rolls is provided with a pull string wound freely around it and having one free end projecting from the top end of the roll so that it may be seized by the fingers when it is desired to remove the roll from the wrapper. The pull string has a winding length selected so that, when pulled, it creates a bracing force on the one roll of such a magnitude as to overcome the packing pressure acting on the said one roll, thereby allowing withdrawal of the roll from the other rolls.