Abstract: A method and apparatus for cutting moils from necks of molded plastic containers and installing spouts in the necks are disclosed. The apparatus includes a pick and place mechanism that rotates along an arcuate path transporting the containers between a cutting station, a facing station and an assembly station positioned along the path. An oven located above the assembly station heats spouts which are coated with a hot-melt adhesive. The heated spouts are supplied to the assembly station under gravity feed. The method includes cutting the moils from the container necks at the cutting station, finishing the neck by burnishing and reaming at the facing station, heating the spouts in the oven, orienting the spouts and inserting them into the finished necks of the containers at the assembly station.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for cutting moils from necks of molded plastic containers and installing spouts in the necks are disclosed. The apparatus includes a pick and place mechanism that rotates along an arcuate path transporting the containers between a cutting station, a facing station and an assembly station positioned along the path. An oven located above the assembly station heats spouts which are coated with a hot-melt adhesive. The heated spouts are supplied to the assembly station under gravity feed. The method includes cutting the moils from the container necks at the cutting station, finishing the neck by burnishing and reaming at the facing station, heating the spouts in the oven, orienting the spouts and inserting them into the finished necks of the containers at the assembly station.

Abstract: A closure (14) and a package (10) with the closure removably affixed to a neck of a container (12), the closure carrying an electrical element (36) for emitting an audible message or signal upon the distortion of the electrical element that results from application of a removal load to the closure. The closure is of the two-piece child resistant type having an inner closure member (18), which carries the electrical element, and the inner closure member is directly affixed to the neck of the container. The closure also has an outer closure member (20) that surrounds the inner closure member. A top panel (30) of the outer closure member has a circumferentially spaced plurality of radial ribs (28) that extend toward a top panel (34) of the inner closure member, and the top panel of the inner closure member has a like circumferential plurality of radial recesses (32) that face the top panel of the outer closure member.