Screw-type Clamp Or Threaded Patents (Class 215/243)
  • Patent number: 12098006
    Abstract: A closing cap for a container includes a separating line on a lateral wall forming a retaining ring, configured to remain anchored to a neck of the container and extending up to a free edge. A closing element is engageable with the neck, to open or close the container. The separating line is circumferentially interrupted to define in the lateral wall a joining zone, extending at a first angle, in which the retaining ring and the closing element are joined. An engagement element of the retaining ring is bent when the cap is closed. First and second incision lines allow deformability of a connecting portion and a region of the engagement element extending at a second angle, so that when first opening the closing element, the region goes beyond the locking ring and deforms to rest on the locking ring in an extended configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SACMI COOPERATIVA MECCANICI IMOLA SOCIETA' COOPERATIVA
    Inventors: Vittorio Bassi, Alessandro Falzoni
  • Patent number: 11613412
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a tethered screw plastic stopper, comprising a tamper shell positioned around the stopper. The tamper shell includes a retaining feature operable to cooperate with a top ring extending outwardly around a bottle neck. The stopper also includes a roof connected to the tamper shell through a hinge and separably connected to the tamper shell through a weakness line, wherein the tamper shell may be moved downwardly in rotation into an opened position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: NOVEMBAL USA INC.
    Inventors: Henri Grabarczyk, Stéphane Graux
  • Patent number: 10464726
    Abstract: A tamper-evident closure is provided and comprises a body and a separate plug member. The body has a sidewall including screw thread formations for screwing the closure onto a screw threaded container neck and the plug member is locatable on the neck to seal it. The closure comprises a tamper-evident member at least part of which is movable from a first position to a second position when the closure is unscrewed from the neck for the first time and, in use, when the body is unscrewed the body moves axially with respect to the plug member to cause the tamper-evident member to move from the first to the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Obrist Closures Switzerland GmbH
    Inventor: Jean-Yves Rognard
  • Patent number: 8820564
    Abstract: One container lid embodiment includes a body and a cap pivotably attached to the body via a hinge assembly. The body has internal threads configured to engage external threads on a fluid port of the container. The body has an opening corresponding to less than all of an area of the fluid port. The opening, configured as a modified teardrop opening through the body, includes an arc portion adjacent a circumference of the body opposite the hinge in fluid cooperation with an elongate vent extending perpendicularly from the arc portion towards the hinge. The body has a lip adjacent to the arc portion of the opening, extending radially away from the opening. The cap is configured to seal the body when articulated in proximity with the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Square Jug Design, LLC
    Inventors: Robert J. Fuglie, Kenneth V. Schomburg
  • Patent number: 8613378
    Abstract: A device for dispensing fluid substances, preferably creams, including a container with which a cap is associated formed from an inner body seal inserted into the mouth and an outer body superposed on the inner body. The outer body presenting elements for its coupling to the container which enable it to undergo axial translation relative to the inner body, from which an elongated appendix projects presenting apertures for dispensing the product. The cap is operable between a closed position and a dispensing position. The container is provided with at least one abutment adapted to oppose a counter-abutment provided on the inner body to prevent the inner body from rotating relative to the container to define the dispensing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Lumson S.p.A.
    Inventor: Matteo Moretti
  • Patent number: 8511492
    Abstract: Described is a bottle having a container which includes a threaded neck and a handle. The threaded neck includes a dispensing opening and a handle opening. The bottle also includes a dispensing closure configured to engage the container. The bottle also includes a child-resistant closure cap which includes a pair of tabs that lock into the latches on the closure base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: The Clorox Company
    Inventors: Judith Webster, Kerry Azelton, Steve James Tomkins, Brandon C. Roy, Christian Krammer, Thomas Hlavacek, Thomas Zauser
  • Patent number: 8505188
    Abstract: The invention relates to a closure device having a two-part base element and a hinged cap pivotally fastened to the base element and movable between a closed and an open setting. The base element is configured in two parts, with one part being a substantially annular fastening element and the other part being a dome-shaped dispensing element inserted into the substantially annular fastening element. The invention also relates to a method of producing such a closure device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Aptar Freyung GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Lenz, Gerhard F. K. Jäckel
  • Patent number: 8424697
    Abstract: A pressure cap comprises a closing part associable with an opening of a container, engaging means associable with a neck of said container, said engaging means being provided with retaining means for engaging in a projection of said container, a line of intended opening in said engaging means interposed between a side body of said engaging means and said closing part, said line of intended opening being defined by fracturable means, said line of intended opening and said closing part being positioned in relation to one another so that said fracturable means breaks along said line of intended opening when said closing part is induced to detach itself from said side body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Sacmi Cooper MacCanici Imola Societa'Cooperativa
    Inventor: Fabrizio Pucci
  • Publication number: 20130072632
    Abstract: A dual reactor solution process gives high density polyethylene compositions containing a first ethylene copolymer and a second ethylene copolymer and which have good processability, toughness, and environmental stress crack resistance combined with good organoleptic properties. The polyethylene compositions are suitable for compression molding or injection molding applications and are particularly useful in the manufacture of caps and closures for bottles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: NOVA CHEMICALS (INTERNATIONAL) S.A.
    Inventors: XiaoChuan Wang, Yves Lacombe, Mark Edmund Weber
  • Publication number: 20120285921
    Abstract: Provided is a container for preventing loss of a stopper and idle rotation thereof, by preventing wobbling of a stopper body by means of a sub-connector formed at either side of a main connector, at a state where the stopper is open, maintaining a stable posture of the opened stopper to thus remarkably enhance the feeling of use, and preventing an undercut from being formed at the inner side of the stopper due to a hinge portion to thus double productivity of the stopper through injection molding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 1, 2011
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Inventor: Si-Joong Kwon
  • Publication number: 20120260487
    Abstract: A replaceable bottle cap assembly includes a body that conforms to the top of a threaded beverage container, the assembly including an internally threaded portion that mates with the threaded neck of the beverage container. A set of adapters are releasably and interchangeably used in connection with the body, each adapter being releasably attached to the body and having a threaded portion for engaging the threaded neck portion of a beverage container. A hinged cap of the assembly provides selective access to the contents of the attached beverage container wherein the assembly is sealingly and releasably attached to the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Inventor: Patrick Myron Nichols
  • Patent number: 8257336
    Abstract: A system for removing or tranferring a pharmaceutical product from a reservoir including an ampoule with a moveable piston therein and an adaptor which includes, generally along a longitudinal axis, a reservoir connector and an ampoule connector for coupling to the ampoule, wherein the ampoule connector includes at least one locking mechanism which, in a side wall, includes a resilient element generally corresponding to a portion of the side wall which extends along the periphery thereof and, at opposing ends, merges with the side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics International AG
    Inventor: Rudolph Zihlmann
  • Publication number: 20080190881
    Abstract: A bottle cap for fitting on a mouth of a bottle to form a bird feeder is disclosed. The bottle cap comprises a first chamber with a opening for receiving the mouth of the bottle, wherein threads are provided on an inner wall of the first chamber so that the cap can be screwed onto the mouth of the bottle. A second chamber is provided with a closed bottom. A sealing ring is located between the first and second chambers so as to provide a seal between the bottle cap and the mouth of the bottle when the bottle cap is screwed onto the mouth of the bottle, wherein liquid is free to move between the first and second chambers. At least one feeding port is provided in a side wall of the second chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2007
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Inventor: Stewart C. Gardner
  • Patent number: 7040499
    Abstract: Capped containers for use on a residence counter have caps which swingably connect the cap to the container for closure. If the contents of the container is a thin or watery liquid the ordinary closure may not prevent leakage during vibration, travelling or pressure. There is here provided a container with an additional closure formed when a sleeve is arranged to move to an extended position and then to thread to both the cap and the container to provide a fluid tight connection to each.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Inventor: Michael Y. Reif
  • Patent number: 6264051
    Abstract: A bottle closure assembly for providing access to the fluids within a bottle without the complete removal of the closure. The bottle closure apparatus comprising a cap and a sleeve connected by a hinge. Both the cap and the sleeve containing internal threads for twisting the closure apparatus onto a threaded bottle opening. The closure sealing the container when fully threaded on to the threaded opening, while providing access to the fluid therein when only partially threaded (sleeve only) by allowing the cap to pivot about the hinge. In addition, position nubs may be provided along the threads to resistively indicate when the cap is pivotable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Inventor: Bryan L. Reidenbach
  • Patent number: 5944207
    Abstract: A bottle closure assembly for providing access to the fluids within a bottle without the complete removal of the closure. The bottle closure apparatus comprising a cap and a sleeve connected by a hinge. Both the cap and the sleeve containing internal threads for twisting the closure apparatus onto a threaded bottle opening. The closure sealing the container when fully threaded on to the threaded opening, while providing access to the fluid therein when only partially threaded (sleeve only) by allowing the cap to pivot about the hinge. In addition, position nubs may be provided along the threads to resistively indicate when the cap is pivotable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Inventor: Bryan L. Reidenbach
  • Patent number: 5000992
    Abstract: A plastic container closure, such as a bottle cap liner or tamper evident seal, is formed from a coextruded multilayer foamed film. The coextruded multilayer foamed film has at least one solid film layer of a first polyolefin blend containing linear low density polyethylene, low density polyethylene, and, optionally high density polyethylene, and at least one foamed layer of a second polyolefin blend containing linear low density polyethylene, low density polyethylene, and optionally ethylene vinyl acetate. The multilayer foamed film may be coextruded using a blown film or cast film extrusion process under defined conditions. the coextruded multilayer foamed film may be laminated to other materials such as polyester film, thermoplastic adhesive films or metallic films and used as a plastic container closure, or may be applied as a liner to a plastic bottle cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: The Dow Chemical Company
    Inventor: Robert H. Kelch
  • Patent number: 4944923
    Abstract: An autoclave useful for pressure digestion of samples for chemical analysis, consisting of a closeable vessel containing the sample, which during operation sustains elevated temperatures and pressures. The autoclave has a PTFE (Teflon) beaker and lid, in direct contact with each other thus forming a tight seal with an excess-pressure release mechanism. The assembled vessel is held in a device that presses the sealing surfaces of the beaker and lid together, through pressure on a metallic lid support disc. The sealing surfaces of the beaker and lid are free-standing, which permits a direct release of excess-pressure and necessitates an extended clamping device for the lid support disc, which is fixed at a single point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1990
    Assignees: Wolfgang Schultz, Hans-Jurgen Brumsack, Norman Loftfield
    Inventors: Hartmut Heinrichs, Hans-Jurgen Brumsack, Norman Loftfield, Nils Konig
  • Patent number: 4811855
    Abstract: A container closure of the so-called spout type comprises a female element and a male element. The female element is attachable to a flexible container wall section, and the male element is attachable to an opposite wall portion, such that a container, for instance a four sided edge sealed pouch of the giant size type, is closable by arranging the female element and the male element in a sealing engagement for forming a closure. An axially operating arrangement for providing relative axial movement between the male and female elements, for instance of the bayonet type is arranged for providing an axial or relative movement of the female and male elements, such that an axial sealing ring will be compressed. The sealing of such ring may be supplemented by the sealing effect obtained by means of the ribs and grooves of the device. As a further specific feature the seal may include bacteria killing material, for instance of the ZEOLIT-type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1989
    Assignee: AB Akerlund & Rausing
    Inventors: Magnus Bergstrom, Stefan Gersbro, Jan-Olof Fransson
  • Patent number: 4394918
    Abstract: The disclosure concerns a screw cap comprised of semi-rigid plastic material and including a tamper-proof hold ring. The screw cap is for use on the neck of a container, such as a bottle. The hold ring has an inside diameter that is at least equal to the outside diameter of the cap body. Six lock lugs supported on the ring are inclined upwardly and inwardly toward the neck closing end of the cap body. The lock-lugs elastically hook behind a collar or mating ring at the bottle neck to prevent the tamper-proof hold ring from being lifted off the neck of the bottle when the cap body is unscrewed. Breakable attachment tabs initially hold the cap body to the tamper-proof hold ring and these are broken as the cap is initially unscrewed. An unbreakable flange between the cap body and the tamper-proof ring serves as a tilt hinge for the unscrewed cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1983
    Assignee: Charles A. Breskin Assoc. Inc.
    Inventor: Jean Grussen