Ring Type Patents (Class 215/274)
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Patent number: 5341949Abstract: Easily removable press-on, pry-off closures having movable insert disks in an outer shell are disclosed. Pressing the shell upward to remove it from a container first pries a protrusion inside the shell over a snap rib around the container, then moves the shell upward relative to the disk while the later remains seated on the container, until a disk-lifting projection inside the shell engages the edge of the disk and lifts the disk to break the seal. A tamper evidencing band, if included, is broken before either the shell is pried off or the disk is lifted. The invention can be used in both top load and bottom load embodiments. Also disclosed is a closure with a non-movable disk or integral top and a tamper-evidencing band which is broken by pry-off removal of the closure.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 1993Date of Patent: August 30, 1994Assignee: Anchor Hocking Packaging Co.Inventor: Thomas H. Hayes
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Patent number: 5335807Abstract: A container having a bottom, a sidewall attached to the bottom and the sidewall terminates in an open end. A closure member can be removably affixed to close the open end. There is a downwardly extending lip on the closure member that has an inner wall surface opposed to an outer wall surface. One of the inner and outer wall surfaces of the lip slidably adjoins one of the inner and outer wall surfaces of the container wall. A groove is formed in each of the adjoining wall surfaces such that when the closure is mated to the container, the grooves are brought into registry with one another and jointly form a locking passageway within which there is received an elongated locking member of a size to be received within the locking passageway to thereby prevent axial movement between the container and the closure member. The closure member further includes a port that communicates the locking passageway with the exterior of the closure member.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 1993Date of Patent: August 9, 1994Assignee: Scientific Ecology Group, Inc.Inventor: Norman S. Gregory
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Patent number: 5316163Abstract: A bottle top that comprises a tough plastic outer cap (11), a tough plastic inner cap (6) and a soft polymer stopper (4). The stopper fits inside the inner cap. The bottle has a bead (3) around its neck. The wall of the composed of several vertical strips (9). The strips are resilient radially outward and are held against the neck of the bottle by the outer cap. The bottom ends of the strips have a beveled-in edge (5) that engages the bottom edge of the bead, forcing the stopper against the upper surface of the bottle's neck. At least one area (8) of the inner cap's roof rips out. The outer cap has a hole over the rip-out area of the inner cap and screws over a thread (10) on the resilient strips that constitute the wall of the inner cap.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 1993Date of Patent: May 31, 1994Assignee: Pohl GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Alfred von Schuckmann
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Patent number: 5314084Abstract: A closure device for use with a container having an open neck finish, including an inner cap having a skirt terminating in an open end which engages the outside diameter of the finish. The inner cap is sized to initially engage the finish. The skirt has circumferentially spaced slits extending, which may function as lyophilization ports, which permit the inner cap to expand upon an axial closing force and engage the bottom of the finish. A liner is positioned in the inner cap proximate the closed end and is compressed against the finish when the cap is moved to alignment with the bottom of the finish. An outer cap is locked on to the inner cap in pre-assembly which then encloses the inner cap after complete assembly to seal and compress the liner between the finish and the inside face of the inner cap.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 1992Date of Patent: May 24, 1994Assignee: The West Company, IncorporatedInventors: Christopher M. Folta, John M. Anes, Homer J. Brown
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Patent number: 5303835Abstract: A sealing cap (2, 2a) is mounted to the open mouth of a pharmaceutical-containing container (20) which is to undergo lyophilization. The container has an outwardly extending mouth ring (26) with a shoulder (28) spaced apart from and facing away from the mouth (22). The sealing cap includes a body (4, 4a) having a through hole (6) covered by a piercible septum (16). The body includes radially deflectable fingers (30, 30a) which engage the mouth ring when the cap is at an open position, at which fluid flow into and out of the interior (38) of the container is substantially unhindered. The fingers also include surfaces (42, 42a) which engage the shoulder of the mouth ring when the cap seals the container mouth. The cap is locked into place using a lock ring (44, 44a) which engages the distal ends (47, 47a) of the fingers to keep the fingers engaged beneath the mouth ring. The sealing cap moves from the open to the sealed position using straight line, axial movement with simple fixtures.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 1992Date of Patent: April 19, 1994Assignee: Habley Medical Technology CorporationInventors: Terry M. Haber, William H. Smedley, Clark B. Foster
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Patent number: 5299703Abstract: A device for connecting a dispenser having a circular outer periphery with a first diameter to a glass container having a flanged open neck, which employs a flat circular non metallic ring shaped gasket engaging the upper surface of the flange. A metal ferrule has a flat circular top with an opening through which the dispenser extends. The top overlies and engages the upper surface of the gasket. A vertical hollow cylinder having an upper end coincident with the top extends downward along the outer vertical surface of the flange with a lower end terminating in a plurality of spaced fingers. A second vertical cylinder having a central opening through which the dispenser extends, extends vertically downward along the outside surface of the first cylinder past the spaced fingers, the inner surface of the second cylinder engaging the fingers and forcing them into locking engagement with the outer surface of the flange.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1993Date of Patent: April 5, 1994Assignee: American Dispensing Systems Inc.Inventor: Miro S. Cater
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Patent number: 5294011Abstract: The open end of a cylindrical housing which may be an evacuable housing, for example a tube for storing blood samples, is closed by means of a cap having an annular wall surrounding the open end of the housing and a seal extending into the cap and the housing. For secure sealing of the housing, the cap is connected by means of a coupling device either to the seal or to the housing or both of these.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 1992Date of Patent: March 15, 1994Assignee: C. A. Greiner & Sohne Gesellschaft m.b.H.Inventors: Franz Konrad, Gunther Pakanecz, Manfred Lederer
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Patent number: 5269429Abstract: The present invention relates to a closure cover (V) for infusion or transfusion bottles, having a stopper (6) which is adapted to the bottle neck (3) and is extended over by a cap (8) which is anchored by undergripping on the bottle neck (3), and it proposes in order to obtain a solution which is particularly advantageous from a structural standpoint, that the undergripping of the cap (8) is obtained by resilient individual tongues (10) which are secured in the undergrip position by a sliding ring (15) surrounding them, the cap having tabs biased outward from the bottle neck for serving at the same time to secure the sliding ring (15) in its support position.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1992Date of Patent: December 14, 1993Assignee: Robert Finke GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Clemens Schumacher
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Patent number: 5255805Abstract: A screw cap for a container that has a thread, in particular bottles, jars, and the like. A ring that incorporates at least one projection engages the thread on the container. The ring can be configured as a safety ring, i.e., that it have a lower ring section that incorporates barbs that extend from a perpendicular wall area. When the container is first opened, the barbs engage under projections on the container and burst the lower ring section off. The cap of the screw cap need incorporate no threads of any kind because of the projections of the ring.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 1991Date of Patent: October 26, 1993Assignee: Alcoa Deutschland GmbHInventors: Jurgen Weiss, Hans D. Dubs, Hans J. Preuss
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Patent number: 5246124Abstract: In a closure device for bottles, particularly intended for bottles containing quality drinks, there are provided a pour body adapted to be secured on the neck of the bottle and a cap which engages releasably with the pour body; the cap is rigid with a tubular outer skirt which abuts against an annular outer portion of a collar fast with the pour body; the skirt and the annular outer portion are bonded by a frangible outer ring which provides a seal hard to rebuild at a low cost.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 1992Date of Patent: September 21, 1993Assignee: Guala S.p.A.Inventor: Piero Battegazzore
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Patent number: 5240131Abstract: A tamper evident closure for a container has a seal member which is in a concave or convex condition to show closure integrity. The seal is visible through an opening in the cover of the container. Filling the container under pressure which is higher or lower than atmospheric produces the distention or contraction of the seal member that evidences that no tampering or leakage has occurred.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 1992Date of Patent: August 31, 1993Assignee: CPC International Inc.Inventor: Robert G. Keller
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Patent number: 5238152Abstract: The child resistant trigger sprayer bottle cap/bottle neck assembly comprises a trigger sprayer having a body including a cylindrical base. First coupling structure in the form of at least one deflectable tab with an opening therein is incorporated into the cylindrical base for coupling to a bottle neck. Second coupling structure in the form of a locking lug is provided on a bottle neck and is adapted to engage and couple with the first coupling structure by reason of the lug being received in the opening in the tab. There is also provided a locking ring which is received over the cylindrical base mounted on the neck for maintaining the first and second coupling structures in a coupled locked position.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 1992Date of Patent: August 24, 1993Assignee: AFA Products Inc.Inventors: Wilhelmus J. J. Maas, Petrus L. W. Hurkmans
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Patent number: 5209362Abstract: A can top resealer includes a locking member with built in camming means and an inner latching cap member having downwardly depending fingers having inwardly extending lugs that engage with the can top to assume a latched position when the locking member is lowered. When the locking member is lowered the camming means urge the fingers inwardly to releasably lock the lugs about the can top. A gasket is included for purposes of completing a hermetic seal.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 1992Date of Patent: May 11, 1993Inventor: Robert S. Lutzker
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Patent number: 5197617Abstract: A closure (30) for an aperture (70) with a co-operative peripheral rim profile, such as the mouth of a container, the closure incorporating a self-locking fastener element (40) which cooperates with the rim profile and locks the closure on to the aperture upon limiting engagement thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 1990Date of Patent: March 30, 1993Assignee: Ariel Industries plcInventor: Cyril K. Edwards
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Patent number: 5181632Abstract: A twist-on/twist-off dispenser cap, of a type normally used for dispensing mustard or ketchup, comprises a bottom cap portion which screws onto a cooperating container and a generally cone-shaped spout portion which is captively held by a screw-type arrangement on the bottom cap portion. Rotation of the spout portion with respect to the bottom cap portion allows an orifice at the tip of the spout portion to be either opened or closed. A relatively wide annular flange at the base of the spout portion fits into a corresponding shallow recess in the top of the bottom portion of the dispenser cap. The flange and a plurality of spaced circumferential ridges at the periphery of the flange allow excellent gripping of a shrink-wrap seal to make the dispenser cap tamper-proof. The container onto which the dispensing cap is screwed has a circumferential collar adjacent a threaded neck portion. Two series of notches on opposing sides of the collar define intervening protuberances.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 1991Date of Patent: January 26, 1993Assignee: Morehouse Foods, Inc.Inventor: David L. Latter
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Patent number: 5165560Abstract: A hermetically sealed, nonrotatable closure for a bottle having a cylindrical body containing liquid and having an integral tubular neck formed with a free open end, comprises an annular flange on the tubular neck. A flexible stopper mounts on the flange. A cup shaped cap has a flat top wall with peripherally integral pliable skirt in which is an internal beveled ridge. The ridge engages the flange to lock the cap on the neck of the bottle. The top wall of the cap has a central hole to expose the stopper which can be pierced by a hypodermic needle to extract the liquid from the bottle while the cap remains unbroken on the neck of the bottle. Inside the skirt of the cap are circumferentially spaced teeth which engage in circumferential slots in the annular flange to cooperate with the ridge in preventing axial movement on the cap and stopper on the bottle.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 1992Date of Patent: November 24, 1992Assignee: Genesis Industries, Inc.Inventors: James F. Ennis, III, Mark Anderson
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Patent number: 5085332Abstract: A closure for a vial or the like includes a cap clampingly engaging the rim of the vial with a resilient stopper therebetween. During the assembly of the closure, an initially one-piece cap device having an uppermost outer sleeve affixed to an integral cap provided with an outwardly flared skirt, is pressed downwardly toward the stopper disposed atop the vial rim. Continued pressure fractures the sleeve from the cap and urges the sleeve downwardly to bias the resilient skirt inwardly, causing lips thereon into a captive position beneath the vial rim. Continued downward movement of the sleeve results in a locking ring on the interior of the sleeve becoming snap-fitted within a recess in the cap skirt. An aseptic condition of the vial contents is maintained as the stopper remains under vertical compression by the top wall of the cap and in view of an annular ring on the cap top wall which is urged into a circular slot provided in the rim of the stopper, overlying the vial rim.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 1991Date of Patent: February 4, 1992Assignee: Gettig Technologies, Inc.Inventors: William A. Gettig, Larry E. Shook
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Patent number: 5078290Abstract: A closure is provided with channels through which wash water can be injected to wash out food particles between the threads of a container after the closure has been applied and sealed. In a composite closure embodiment, a lid or insert disk is received in an annular shell beneath an overhanging top lip of the shell. Water wash channels are provided on the undersurface of the top lip, and extend from the inner edge of the lip outwardly past the edge of the disk. One or more stops on the underside of the top lip prevent the channels from being closed, as by over-tightening. The wash channels extend outwardly past the stop, and communicate with a spiral channel in the threaded region of the shell, which in turn communicates with an outlet. A water jet directed onto the lid of the closure flows through the wash channels outwardly over the edge of the lid and downwardly into the threaded region, to an outlet.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 1990Date of Patent: January 7, 1992Assignee: Anchor Hocking Packaging CompanyInventor: Charles S. Ochs
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Patent number: 5069369Abstract: The assembly comprises a sealing collar and a mounting cup which is slidable through a path of movement over a container flange to an assembled position with the cavity retaining the sealing collar therein. The skirt has an inner sidewall that has a circumferentially extending groove formed therein for snappingly engaging the collar perimeter when the collar is inserted axially into the cavity, whereby the collar and pump body are lockingly retained in combination with the cup by the cooperation of the groove with the collar perimeter.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 1990Date of Patent: December 3, 1991Assignee: Risdon CorporationInventor: Glenn W. McGarvey
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Patent number: 5064082Abstract: A Saturn-shaped container is provided which includes a receptacle forming a lower portion of the container, a lid forming an upper portion of the container, a ring member surrounding the receptacle and supporting the lid, and a seal member positioned between receptacle and lid so as to define a first and second compartment within the container. Advantageously, the lid is transparent and may serve as a magnifying means for viewing contents within the container.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 1990Date of Patent: November 12, 1991Assignee: Elizabeth Arden Company, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Michael H. Lombardi, Susan R. Wacker
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Patent number: 5048881Abstract: A one-piece seal ring for locking an electrical watt-hour meter into the socket of a meter base. The seal ring includes a locking mechanism which once locked cannot be unlocked without cutting or breaking a portion of the lock. The seal ring and locking mechanism are entirely manufactured of one-piece construction using a brightly colored, flexible and resilient thermoplastic, enabling the locking seal ring to be inexpensively manufactured with little or no manual labor using modern thermoplastic injection molding in automated machinery. The coloring of the lockable seal ring, being contrasting to that of the flange of the meter, provides structuring to provide a visual signal of an unlocked or missing seal ring on an installed electrical meter.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 1990Date of Patent: September 17, 1991Inventor: Bradley W. Renfro
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Patent number: 5014871Abstract: The vessel comprises a part having an end portion which is introducible into a second vessel part and which has a cylindrical outside surface formed with an annular recess. The second vessel part has a connecting part having a cylindrical inside surface formed with a recess in the form of an annular groove and having a connecting duct which extends from the outside into the recess tangentially. When the two casing parts are in a connected position the two recesses bound a guide duct for a flexible closure part which is made, for example, of a steel string or cord or the like and which is introduced through the connecting duct into the guide duct to interconnect the two casing parts and withdrawn from the guide duct to release the two casing parts (1, 1a, 2a).Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 1989Date of Patent: May 14, 1991Assignee: Sulzer Brothers LimitedInventor: Heinz Mutter
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Patent number: 5009324Abstract: A closure is provided with slots through which wash water can flow to wash food particles from the interthread space between the closure and a container, after the closure has been secured onto the container. At room temperature the washing slots are essentially closed to the ingress of dirt particles, but they open when the closure is heated so that water can flow through them and into the interthread space.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 1990Date of Patent: April 23, 1991Assignee: Anchor Hocking CorporationInventor: Charles S. Ochs
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Patent number: 4984702Abstract: This structure includes a resilient collar having a central boss with an opening which receives the discharge apparatus, such as a pump or valve. The collar fits over the flange of the container and has an outward protrusion in the form of fingers. A sleeve is sized to slide down over the side of the collar where it surrounds the flange and cams inwardly the protrusion to hold the collar on the container. The improvement relates to a re-entrant portion at the upper end of the sleeve which extends downward in an inner tube terminating at its lower end in a short inward annular flange which grips the sides of a central boss on the collar to keep the sleeve from being vertically displaced.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 1990Date of Patent: January 15, 1991Assignee: Specialty Packaging Licensing Company, Inc.Inventor: Robert Pierpont
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Patent number: 4981228Abstract: A device for opening a bottle and forming a closure cap for the bottle as a replacement for the removed crown cap. The bottle opener and closure cap includes a split metal ring that encloses a circular metal disc and resilient sealing member which are placed on top of a bottle that has its crown cap removed by the opener. The opener is formed in a handle which has a cam arrangement associated therewith to clamp the ring around the open end of a bottle. The ring includes an inwardly inclined bottom edge to engage a rib on the end of the bottle to cam the disc and sealing member downwardly in tight relationship to the open end of the bottom thereby forming a secure and positive closure cap for the bottle. The pivotal handle includes an opener incorporated therein by which a crown cap can be removed from the bottle.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 1989Date of Patent: January 1, 1991Inventor: Richard M. Kahn
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Patent number: 4923072Abstract: An evacuated blood collection tube has a stopper made of deformable synthetic rubber, incorporating a skirt fitting over the outer wall of the tube neck, and integral with the skirt a plug that penetrates the neck of the tube. The sealing function is performed by two embodiments, the upper cylindrical sealing portion of the skirt and the plug. An annular recess surrounds the plug. A compression ring made of a more rigid material is set around the upper peripheral wall of the skirt that overlaps the cylindrical sealing portion. The compression ring cooperates with the rubber stopper and the tube to provide a clenching mechanism ensuring automated guidance of the tube in full sealing engagement over the plug. Furthermore it maintains a constant sealing pressure of the skirt over the tube optimizing vacuum preservation.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 1989Date of Patent: May 8, 1990Assignee: Dematex Development & Investment EstablishmentInventor: Francois Rilliet
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Patent number: 4890768Abstract: A self draining container is disclosed. The container has a body and an upper integral pouring spout. The upper part of the container body and the spout define a generally funnel shaped section. A ring member is attached to and surrounds the pouring spout. The ring member and the pouring spout define a flow back chamber. An opening extends between the flow back chamber and the container body. A separable cap is removably mounted over the pouring spout.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 1987Date of Patent: January 2, 1990Assignee: Owens-Illinois Plastic Products Inc.Inventor: Gerald R. Robinson
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Patent number: 4844270Abstract: A method for converting a thin-walled container to a jar with a rigid threaded neck which will accept a conventional threaded screw cap which comprises separately forming a thin-walled container and a rigid threaded neck ring and then attaching the ring to the outside of the container and the jar so made.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 1988Date of Patent: July 4, 1989Assignee: Rampart Packaging Inc.Inventor: Paul M. Coffman
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Patent number: 4830208Abstract: A tamper-proof ring for securing a closure over the open end of a container. The closure and container has a projection engageable by the ring which comprises an annular member which before application to a container-closure assembly has a generally cylindrical section of a diameter slightly greater than the greatest transverse dimension of the container. The closure projection and a radially inwardly directed flange at one end of the cylindrical section define a plurality of circumferentially spaced, generally axial score lines extending from the edge of the cylindrical section opposite the one end and terminates at the juncture of the flange and cylindrical section.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 1988Date of Patent: May 16, 1989Assignee: The West CompanyInventors: Richard C. Osting, William A. Conard
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Patent number: 4773553Abstract: An assembly for securing and sealing a dispenser, such as a pump or valve, to a flanged container is disclosed. The assembly comprises a mounting cup having a generally cylindrical skirt around its periphery and a sealing collar including a sleeve having a diameter sized to receive the sidewall of the flange and sized to be encased by the mounting cup. The end portion of the sleeve, preferably a plurality of spaced tabs, is in the path of movement of the mounting cup and is deformed radially inwardly beneath the flange ledge thereby to secure the collar to the flange.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 1987Date of Patent: September 27, 1988Assignee: Risdon CorporationInventor: Owen F. Van Brocklin
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Patent number: 4773551Abstract: A safety closure for a bottle or the like equipped with a dropper, comprising a dropper (4) having near its base an annular projection (5) bearing on the edge of the mouth of the bottle (1), a cap (9) enclosing the dropper and having at its base a collar (11) which lies over said annular projection (5) of dropper (4) and is pressed down onto this latter by the flat top part (14) of a safety strap (13) rolled around the neck (2) of the bottle, wherein said cap (9) and said collar (11) have means (17-19) for engagement of these two elements with one another, which means (17-19) ensure that the cap is kept in place after a first utilization, the collar (11) further having means for engagement with said saftey strap (13).Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 1987Date of Patent: September 27, 1988Assignee: Capsulit S.p.A.Inventor: Napoleone Rizzardi
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Patent number: 4742927Abstract: A tamper proof seal and container closure device including, in combination a seal ring and a closure, said seal ring being provided on its inner face with at least one recess and at least one stop, said closure being provided with at least one projection on the lower edge of the closure, said projection being adapted to fit within the recess of the seal so that when the combination seal ring and closure are fitted to a bottle neck the stop on the seal ring locks the seal ring, closure and bottle neck together. The combined seal ring and closure can be locked onto the bottle neck by the interaction between the stop on the seal and a complementary stop formed on the side of the base of the bottle neck.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 1986Date of Patent: May 10, 1988Assignee: PDL Packaging LimitedInventors: Richard J. Tierney, Robert C. Brown
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Patent number: 4730745Abstract: A package that is made of a blown plastic container and a two-piece or composite closure which is secured to a neck portion of the container. The closure includes a molded plastic plug style closure with an inner annular member which engages the inside of the neck of the container, an outer annular member which closely surrounds the outside of the neck of the container and a top panel from which the inner and outer annular members depend and which spans the rim of the container. The second piece of the closure is a molded plastic collar which surrounds the outer annular member of the plug style closure and which is frictionally interlocked therewith. The bottom of the collar has an inwardly and upwardly extending flange which engages a bead on the outside of the neck of the container to interlock the collar and the container.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 1987Date of Patent: March 15, 1988Assignee: Owens-Illinois Closure Inc.Inventor: Robert A. Perry
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Patent number: 4721219Abstract: A vacuum indicating closure for a container for the packaging of a vacuum-packed product, the closure being of two-piece construction and having a metal lid portion which is retained in sealing engagement with the rim of a container by a plastic ring portion. The metal lid portion has a vacuum indicating button centered therein, which vacuum indicating button can flex downwardly from its normal position into the headspace of a container under the influence a sub-atmospheric or negative pressure in the headspace. The ring portion of the closure has a radially inwardly projecting annular flange at the top thereof to urge a peripheral portion of the lid portion of the closure against the rim of the container, the ring portion of the container further having a radially inwardly projecting annular bead to lock the lid portion of the closure against the underside of the annular flange of the ring portion so that the lid portion and the ring portion can be conveniently handled in unison.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 1986Date of Patent: January 26, 1988Assignee: Owens-Illinois Closure Inc.Inventors: Paul W. Dullabaun, William E. Fillmore
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Patent number: 4694969Abstract: A two part closure for an open necked container is provided in which a cover member which may be of metal extends over the opening and a holding member which may be of plastic extends over the container neck.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 1984Date of Patent: September 22, 1987Assignee: ACI Australia LimitedInventor: Rodney J. Granat
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Patent number: 4682701Abstract: A tamper-proof container defining a plurality of separate openings around the open mouth area of the container and provided with a metal foil sheet extending across the mouth area and glued to the upper edge portion of the container. A ring member defines a plurality of barb-shaped prongs which penetrate the metal foil and which extend through the openings so that the ring member is tightly held into position against the foil.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 1986Date of Patent: July 28, 1987Inventor: Gary P. Katz
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Patent number: 4645087Abstract: Five embodiments of a tamper indicating molded plastic band that locks over a ledge on the closure and beneath a flange on the container. The cylindrical band is molded with continuous locking rings or interrupted tabs joined adjacent the top end bottom edge thereof and which extend inwardly and generally toward each other to form mechanical locking members. Depending upon the particular arrangement of the locking rings on the tamper indicating band, the band would be applied to the closure before or after threaded application to the container. The band may be used with a plastic or metal closure and with a plastic, metal or glass container having a threaded neck and outwardly extending radial flange therebelow beneath which the ring or tab will lock.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 1985Date of Patent: February 24, 1987Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.Inventor: Maximillian Kusz
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Patent number: 4610367Abstract: A circular tamper-proof closure device and process for sealing threaded bottles, jars, and similar containers are disclosed. The closure comprises a sealing ring containing a peripheral lip, a wedge-shaped security ring, retaining bridges to join the sealing ring to the security ring, an annular stop to limit the movement of the security ring, and a metallic cap with a rim that is wedged into the sealing ring between the lip and the security ring. The closure is fastened to the threaded bottle by securing the sealing ring to the bottle and forming threads on the metallic cap.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 1985Date of Patent: September 9, 1986Assignee: Vaw-Folien-Verarbeitung GmbHInventors: Philipp Massott, Heinz Leonhardt
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Patent number: 4607757Abstract: This relates to press-on closure assemblies for containers. It is known to provide containers which are formed of plastic or glass with a neck finish including an end sealing surface and a recessed, generally cylindrical, but possibly tapered, surface disposed between two opposed axially spaced shoulders. A separately formed insert is pressed over the neck finish and positioned between the two shoulders in opposed relation to the recessed surface of the neck finish. The insert has lugs or threads for interlocking engagement with a closure which may be removed by rotation. The closure and the insert are preassembled and pressed onto the container neck finish with a gasket or sealing material carried by the closure engaging the end sealing surface. The past problem is the rotation of the insert relative to the container neck finish, thereby preventing removal of the closure.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 1985Date of Patent: August 26, 1986Assignee: Continental White Cap, Inc.Inventor: Frank H. Lecinski
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Patent number: 4600112Abstract: A pass-through closure for disposable receptacles includes a rim for mounting the walls surrounding an opening in a receptacle and a plurality of generally triangular shaped flaps extending inwardly and axially to form a closure having a generally conical configuration enabling passage of articles through the closure in one direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 1984Date of Patent: July 15, 1986Assignee: Med-Safe Systems, Inc.Inventors: Richard A. Shillington, Alec Oberschmidt
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Patent number: 4582208Abstract: An adapter for a standard siphon head employed on a threaded neck of a bottle for dispensing carbonated liquids is provided and consists of a collar which has outer threads for installation into the standard siphon head and inner threads for installation onto the threaded neck of the bottle so that the bottle can be emptied of the liquid through the siphon head without further loss of the carbonation. In a modified form the adapter can be designed to be used on various size unthreaded necks of bottles.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 1984Date of Patent: April 15, 1986Inventors: Alexander Volf, George Spector
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Patent number: 4576298Abstract: This relates to a plastic fitment to be utilized in conjunction with a conventional metal closure having a rotational engagement with threads on a container neck finish. The fitment has a readily engageable snap-in interlock with the closure and is provided with a tamper indicating band attached to a ring thereof by rupturable bridges. When the closure and fitment are applied to a container, the tamper indicating band will ride over and lock behind a projecting rib on the closure neck finish. When the closure is to be removed, as it moves axially the bridges will rupture leaving the tamper indicating band on the container while the ring of the fitment is removed with the closure. If desired, a customer may remove the ring from the closure and reseal the container with the closure per se.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 1984Date of Patent: March 18, 1986Assignee: Continental White Cap, Inc.Inventor: Elmer J. Boik
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Patent number: 4576296Abstract: This relates to a press-seal type transfer neck finish for a container wherein the neck finish is provided with an annular recess into which there is snapped a fitment which carries the thread elements for a threaded closure. In order to facilitate closing of a container which has been filled with the product to be packaged, the closure is assembled with a fitment having thread elements cooperating with the thread of the closure. Thus the resultant closure unit may be applied to the container by merely downwardly pressing the closure unit onto the container. In the formation of the fitment thread elements, openings are formed in a lower flange of the fitment through which tiny insects and foreign matter may enter into the space between the closure skirt and the fitment. These openings are sealed by fin segments or flaps molded in one piece with the fitment and being swingable to underlie the fitment flange in sealed relation in alignment with the openings.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 1985Date of Patent: March 18, 1986Assignee: Continental White Cap, Inc.Inventor: Frank H. Lecinski
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Patent number: 4541537Abstract: A seal for a container having a straight cylindrical neck with an opening in the neck includes an upper sealing member which fits over the top of the neck and down a portion of the cylindrical surface of the neck. The top sealing member has a tapered edge on its bottom which accepts an indentically tapered edge of an intermediate sealing member which engages it. The intermediate sealing member also has a further tapered edge which accepts a tapered edge of a bottom sealing member which mates with it. A lower locking member goes around the cylindrical neck of the bottle and is shaped such that a portion of it is spaced away from the cylindrical neck of the bottle to form a cavity in which fits the intermediate and lower sealing members. A top locking member goes over the top sealing member and both a skirt on the top sealing member and the top locking member also fit within the cavity of the lower locking member. Threads between the upper and lower locking member hold the structure together.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 1983Date of Patent: September 17, 1985Assignee: City of Hope National Medical CenterInventor: Clifford L. Sailor
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Patent number: 4519516Abstract: A tamper indicating package comprising a container having a neck with external threads thereon, a radial bead beneath the threads, and a closure having a base wall and a peripheral wall with internal threads on the peripheral wall complementary to the threads on the container. The closure having a radially extending lip at the free end of the peripheral skirt. A tamper indicating band comprises a continuous annular wall, an upper radially inwardly extending flange for engaging the lip on the closure, and a lower generally radially inwardly and upwardly extending flange for engaging the flange on the container. The lower flange is discontinuous such that the tamper indicating band can be applied to the closure and container after the closure has been applied to the container by moving the band axially downwardly and causing the lower flange to flex radially outwardly and then snap radially inwardly beneath the flange of the container.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 1984Date of Patent: May 28, 1985Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.Inventor: Charles W. Amos
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Patent number: 4516684Abstract: This relates to a closure which may be fully lockingly engaged on a container neck finish in sealed relation yet may be easily released and which is replaceable to effect resealing of the contents. The closure includes primarily a cap-like closure element and a retaining ring, with the closure element having a skirt with a free end and depending from the skirt free end radially inwardly displaceable locking means which will lockingly engage in a peripheral groove in a container neck finish and which are forced into such a groove by a retaining ring which is provided with a locking groove for receiving in locking engagement radially outer portions of the locking means, whereby the retaining sleeve is locked to the closure element and the closure element is locked to the container neck finish.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 1984Date of Patent: May 14, 1985Assignee: Continental Packaging Company, Inc.Inventor: John Walter
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Patent number: 4512487Abstract: The stopper device according to the invention for bottles with a neck, comprises a neck adapter, and a stopper designed to be inserted in the stopping sleeve of the neck adapter.According to the invention, the neck adapter is made up of two separate parts, namely a sleeve-holding plate constituted by the stopping sleeve encircled at its upper part by an external peripheral flange designed to rest in tight manner on the upper rim of the bottle neck, and a cap formed by the external skirt provided for fastening the adapter to the bottle neck, and comprising an inner peripheral rim, which covers up at least part of the external flange of the sleeve-holding plate.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 1984Date of Patent: April 23, 1985Assignee: Arts Et Techniques NouvellesInventor: Jacques Augros
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Patent number: 4502606Abstract: A locking closure for disposable containers includes an annular wall structure defining a container opening and including a radially outwardly extending annular locking ridge with a closure defined by a generally flat circular disc having an axially extending peripheral skirt with an inwardly extending annular locking ridge for forceably extending over and lockingly engaging the outwardly extending annular locking ridge.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 1983Date of Patent: March 5, 1985Assignee: Med-Safe Systems, Inc.Inventors: Richard A. Shillington, Alec Oberschmidt
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Patent number: 4485932Abstract: A child resistant package comprising an open-mouth container having a plurality of circumferentially spaced projections extending radially outwardly adjacent the open end thereof, each projection defines a notch facing downwardly, and a closure having a top panel and an annular skirt depending from the periphery of the top panel, and a plurality of radially inwardly extending and circumferentially spaced locking lugs on the inner surface of the skirt. The locking lugs are adapted to engage the notches in the projections on the container. A tamper-indicating member comprises an annular ring having portions extending between the lower edge of the skirt of the closure and a portion of the container and operable to normally limit axial movement of the closure. The ring offers a visual indication that the contents have not been tampered with and the ring must be removed before the closure can be removed. The container includes a specially designed inclined surface provided with dual slopes.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 1983Date of Patent: December 4, 1984Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.Inventor: Maximillian Kusz
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Patent number: 4456143Abstract: This invention provides a tamper-resistant fitment to convert a container which has a conventional cap or lid into a container which is tamper-resistant. The fitment has an outer rim member adapted to seat on the top edge of the container, an inner member to seat on the top of the cap, a plurality of grip tabs projecting from the outer rim member so as to extend downwardly along the outside of the container, a tension belt to hold the grip tabs in operative position and frangible means connecting the inner member to the outer rim member.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 1983Date of Patent: June 26, 1984Assignee: Johnsen & Jorgensen (Plastics) Ltd.Inventors: Eugene E. Davis, George W. Burton