Abstract: A product container which is suitable for retaining flowable type materials and which comprises a container portion and a removable closure portion, both of which are formed from a semi-rigid thermoplastics material. The container portion has a marginal lip which incorporates an inwardly directed bead which defines an opening to the container. The closure has a central region which locates within the container opening and an inverted U-shaped rim portion which engages the lip of the container. The rim portion of the closure includes an inner skirt which locates within the lip of the container, which incorporates an outwardly projecting ledge which engages with an undercut below the container bead, and which flares downwardly and inwardly to merge with the central portion of the closure.

Abstract: A plastics material closure for attachment to the rim of a container.The closure has a central well, an inverted first channel which borders the well, a non-inverted second channel that borders the first channel and an inverted third channel which borders the second channel and which is configured to seat on a ledge of a container to which the closure is intended to be fitted.Wall portions of the first channel are interconnected so as to provide the closure with rigidity sufficient to permit the stacking of closure-fitted containers, but the wall portions of the second channel being free to move one relative to the other whereby the closure is provided with a capacity to flex under impact.

Abstract: A container having a pair of diametrically opposed bail ears, each of which is arranged to connect with a bail and each of which comprises a bearing portion, a flange portion and at least one limb. The bearing portion is arranged to provide a pivot bearing for the associated eye of the bail, the flange portion is arranged normally to prevent axial displacement of the eye onto or from the bail and the or each limb has a free end that is resiliently deformable between an unstressed first position and a stressed second position. Axial displacement of the eye of the bail is accommodated when the free end of the or each limb is deformed into the second position.