Crimped Flange Or Skirt Portion Patents (Class 215/324)
  • Patent number: 10479575
    Abstract: Methods of covering an animal feed product involve depositing in an open end of a container an animal feed. Placing a cover on an exposed surface of the feed at the open end of the container, where the cover includes a flowable coating arranged on one side of a flexible film and a rigid or semi-rigid layer bound to an opposite side of the film. The exposed surface of the feed comprises irregular surface structures due to feed components positioned at the exposed surface. A central portion of the flexible film of the placed cover conforms to the irregular surface structures at the exposed surface of the feed upon the flowable coating reaching a temperature of at least about 125° F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: PURINA ANIMAL NUTRITION LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin R. Danenberg, Michael J. Gabriel, Michael S. Burr
  • Patent number: 10029836
    Abstract: Covers for sealing and/or bonding with an exposed surface of an animal feed within a container include a flexible film that conforms to the animal feed and a rigid or semi-rigid layer that allows the cover to be handled by an operator during placement of the cover over the animal feed composition while the composition is at elevated temperatures. The polymer film may include a heat-activated coating that establishes a bond with the animal feed when the feed is at elevated temperatures or when an external heat source is applied to the cover. The heat-activated coating may be flowable at a temperature of at least about 125° F. Upon placement of the cover over the animal feed, the film conforms to the exposed surface of the feed and the cover forms a seal with the animal feed as flowable coating reaches a flowable temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: PURINA ANIMAL NUTRITION LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin R. Danenberg, Michael J. Gabriel, Michael S. Burr
  • Patent number: 9366368
    Abstract: A pipe coupling can be coupled with one of its ends to a pipe, and has a clamping band and a tightening device for tightening the clamping band. A cover is provided on the other end of the pipe coupling, and the cover is inserted in the clamping band and can be secured by tightening the tightening device of the clamping band. The invention further relates to the use of the pipe coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: GE JENBACHER GMBH & CO OG
    Inventor: Gunter Hausl
  • Patent number: 9221586
    Abstract: A closure that includes a top panel and a skirt extending downwardly from a peripheral edge of the top panel is provided. The skirt terminates in a plurality of spaced thread engagement flanges for engaging the thread of the neck of a container. The closure includes a polymer-filled channel which connects the top panel to the skirt. When engaged with the threaded neck of a container, the neck is forced into the channel and engaged by the polymer so that the channel and polymer provide lateral rigidity to the neck. This rigidity prevents the neck from deflecting from the forces resulting between the threads and thread engagement lugs when the forces therebetween are increased to the level required to adequately seal the closure to the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Silgan White Cap LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Szczesniak, William J. Kapolas, James M. Taber, Stephen J. Kras
  • Patent number: 8893906
    Abstract: A closure that includes a top panel and a skirt extending downwardly from a peripheral edge of the top panel is provided. The skirt terminates in a plurality of spaced thread engagement flanges for engaging the thread of the neck of a container. The closure includes a polymer-filled channel which connects the top panel to the skirt. When engaged with the threaded neck of a container, the neck is forced into the channel and engaged by the polymer so that the channel and polymer provide lateral rigidity to the neck. This rigidity prevents the neck from deflecting from the forces resulting between the threads and thread engagement lugs when the forces therebetween are increased to the level required to adequately seal the closure to the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Silgan White Cap LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Szczesniak, William J. Kapolas, James M. Taber, Stephen J. Kras
  • Publication number: 20140251942
    Abstract: The invention relates firstly to a method for producing a crimp cap for a container for receiving a pharmaceutical substance, in particular an ampoule, wherein the crimp cap has a metal foil layer, which is covered over at least on the outside with a layer of plastic forming a covering of the foil layer. In order to provide an advantageous method for producing a crimp cap from a metal foil layer with a layer of plastic forming a covering of the foil layer, while avoiding the risk of particle formation as much as possible, it is proposed that a material strip M having an already plastic-covered foil layer is formed into the crimp cap by punching out and deep drawing. The invention also relates to a crimp cap for a container for receiving a pharmaceutical substance, and also to a container with a pharmaceutical substance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: DATWYLER PHARMA PACKAGING BELGIUM NV
    Inventors: Reinhard Louis Jozef Waeben, Ralf Dittmer, Ronny Prosper Elisabeth Vrijens
  • Publication number: 20140116979
    Abstract: A two-part closure (1) which has a disc (2) and a skirt (3). In one example, the skirt wall is smooth between upper and lower rims so that the disc is moveable between the rim features. Typically in a metal skirt or ring, the upper rim feature is a curl (11) and the lower rim feature is a curled edge (12) with equi-spaced lugs (13) on the skirt wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Crown Packaging Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul Robert Dunwoody
  • Patent number: 8636161
    Abstract: A two-part closure (1) which has a disc (2) and a skirt (3). In one example, the skirt wall is smooth between upper and lower rims so that the disc is moveable between the rim features. Typically in a metal skirt or ring, the upper rim feature is a curl (11) and the lower rim feature is a curled edge (12) with equi-spaced lugs (13) on the skirt wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Crown Packaging Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul Robert Dunwoody
  • Patent number: 8584878
    Abstract: This invention relates to a closure for sealing an opening of a container. In particular, the present invention relates to a closure (10) for sealing a mouth of a container, such as a bottle. According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a closure for sealing an opening defined by a mouth of a container, the closure comprising a body (12) adapted to overlie the mouth; and a discontinuous skirt (14) extending from the body, wherein the skirt is deformable between an open position and a closed position. The present invention also provides methods for applying the closure to a container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Crew Mouldings Limited
    Inventor: Craig McDowell
  • Patent number: 8550271
    Abstract: A crown cap that may use less steel than a conventional crown cap is disclosed. A crown cap comprises a shell formed of an increased hardness, including a peripheral skirt, a round panel integrally formed with the skirt, the panel including one to three radially symmetric grooves formed therein, each groove spaced apart from a contact portion of the panel that is adapted for contacting the rim of a bottle upon application of the crown cap onto the bottle, and a liner located on the underside of the panel. The radially symmetric grooves may be circular.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Crown Packaging Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Alfredo Merino Caballero
  • Patent number: 8505764
    Abstract: The structure of a clinch portion of a mounting cup is provided which can retain a gasket. The clinch portion includes a curl portion continuous with an upper end of an outer circumferential wall at an inner circumferential edge of the curl portion, and a curl skirt portion having an upper end continuous with an outer circumferential edge of the curl portion. The curl portion is made of a plurality of curved planes having different radii extending from the inner circumferential edge to outer circumferential edge. A space a portion of the gasket can enter is formed between a virtual curved plane with a radius constituting the inner plane of the curl portion and an inner curved plane or an outer curved plane, or between the virtual curved plane and both the inner and outer curved planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignees: Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd., Toyo Aerosol Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Tasaki, Sunao Morishita, Kouji Kinoshita, Takaho Kumai
  • Publication number: 20130146560
    Abstract: This invention relates to a closure for sealing an opening of a container. In particular, the present invention relates to a closure (10) for sealing a mouth of a container, such as a bottle. According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a closure for sealing an opening defined by a mouth of a container, the closure comprising a body (12) adapted to overlie the mouth; and a discontinuous skirt (14) extending from the body, wherein the skirt is deformable between an open position and a closed position. The present invention also provides methods for applying the closure to a container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Inventor: Craig McDowell
  • Patent number: 8322549
    Abstract: A bottle sealed with a crown cap that has a soft feel during removal of the crown cap from the bottle is provided. Such a bottle may include a body and a neck extending up from the body. The neck may include a threaded portion, and a crimped crown cap may be removeably affixed onto the threaded portion. The crimped crown cap may include a circular top member, and a skirt depending downwardly from a periphery of the top member. The skirt may include alternating flutes and lands that are configured such that recesses are formed in a majority of the flutes. Preferably a majority of the recesses contact the threaded portion of the bottle neck. Because of the recesses formed in the flutes, the crown cap may have a soft feel during removal of the crown cap from the bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Crown Packaging Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert H Bourque, William E Perkins
  • Patent number: 8317042
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a package that includes (i) a container with a body and a neck, a container opening with an opening diameter (d), a screw thread, and a flange extending outwardly and having a flange diameter (D), and (ii) a removable closure adapted to be unscrewed from the screw threads of the container, with the closure having a top, a skirt and a tamper-evident ring attached to the lower edge of the skirt and is adapted to catch the flange of the container's neck when the closure is first screwed onto the neck. The ring is detachable from the skirt upon first removal of the closure from the neck. The container has a top load resistance inferior or equal to 30 daN, and the height h between the neck top edge and the lower part of the flange is such that it satisfies the relationship h?(d/3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Nestlé Waters Management and Technology
    Inventor: Jean-Paul Cerveny
  • Patent number: 8056743
    Abstract: A crown closure that includes a shell having a top, a skirt, a curved portion and a plurality of serrations and a liner. The curved portion is disposed between said top and said skirt and is adapted to be the same shape as the mouth contour of a bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Inventors: Carlos Orlando Vilachá Zanoni, Klaus Uhlig Peterssen
  • Publication number: 20090188887
    Abstract: There is described a closure for use with a container neck. The closure comprises a cap and an insert. The insert is adapted to be permanently adhered to the container neck and has a sealing surface. The cap comprises a complimentary sealing surface for sealable engagement with the sealing surface provided on the insert and engagement means for releasable engagement with complimentary engagement means provided on the container neck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2006
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: Portola Packaging Limited
    Inventors: Gerry Mavin, Timothy Stephenson
  • Publication number: 20090020496
    Abstract: A system and method for validating the crimping of a vial having a stopper and a cap are disclosed. According to one embodiment, the system comprises a crimping cylinder, a controller that validates the crimping of the cap to the vial; and an indicator for indicating whether the crimping was validated. The crimping cylinder comprises a piston; a plurality of crimping jaws interacting with the piston, the crimping jaws moving to a closed position when the piston is moved in a downward direction, and the crimping jaws moving to an open position when the piston is moved in an upward direction; a position indicator; and a position sensor. The position indicator and position sensor indicate a position of the piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Michael Brusserman, Guido Schwartenbeck
  • Publication number: 20080173611
    Abstract: A tamper indicating closure includes a cap having a top and skirt portion. A frangible connection connects an anti-tamper band with the skirt. The anti-tamper band includes a main body and a foldable portion hingably connected thereto. The foldable portion is foldable so that it is disposed within the volume defined by the main body. The foldable portion further comprises an edge for engaging the shoulder of a container at a recess below the shoulder and a plurality of tabs for engaging the shoulder to prevent “tiring off” of the anti-tamper band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventors: Darren Neputy, Stephen Kras
  • Patent number: 7303087
    Abstract: A pressure resistant plastic bottle for containing and dispensing an aerosol composition. The plastic bottle is designed to reduce deformation by a local reinforcement to the neck and shoulder regions. The reinforcement preferably comprises the provision of a wall thickness for a lower portion of the neck as compared to the wall thickness of the upper portion of the neck to be increased by a ratio of from about 1.25:1 to about 2.5:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventors: Stanley J. Flashinski, David A. Hoadley, Stephen M. Bednarz, Sumit Mukherjee
  • Patent number: 7021503
    Abstract: A metal crimping cap (10) for a fluid dispenser device, said cap (10) acting to fix a dispensing member (20) such as a pump or a valve to the neck (31) of a reservoir (30) containing fluid to be dispensed, said cap (10) having a fixing portion (11) for receiving said dispensing member (20) securely, and a crimping portion (12) which serves to be crimped to the neck (31) of the reservoir (30), said crimping portion (12) being provided with a covering element (15) made of a plastics material and extending over at least a fraction of the inside surface of said crimping portion (12), and over at least a fraction of the outside surface thereof, so that no metal particles are generated before, during and/or after crimping, said cap being characterized in that, on the outside surface of said crimping portion (12) of the cap (10), said covering element (15) is provided with retaining means (18) adapted to co-operate with a pusher to retain said pusher by preventing it from being removed from said dispensing member (2
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Valois S.A.S.
    Inventor: Ludovic Petit
  • Patent number: 6945417
    Abstract: A transfer set for transferring fluid, including drugs, vaccines, medicaments, solutions and the like, between a first container, such as a conventional vial, and a second container, such as a conventional syringe having a unique multipurpose resealable member. The transfer set assembly includes an elastomeric tubular fluid transfer and resealable valve member preferably including an open end mounted on the pierceable closure or stopper of a vial and a generally closed distal end having a longitudinal slit and a piercing member is telescopically received within the fluid transfer valve member having a piercing end opposite the pierceable closure. The fluid transfer valve member is preferably formed of silicone and is surrounded by a generally tubular luer connector member having an open end mounted on the pierceable closure and a distal end having male luer threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Hubert Jansen, Jean-Claude Thibault
  • Patent number: 6860397
    Abstract: The present invention provides a container closure with a handle, wherein the handle acts as a lever when squeezed against the neck of the container. The force on the lever handle is transferred to the container closure forcing a portion of the closure to slip over the bead of the container and release the closure's hold on the container's top. Once the closure's hold is released, the closure is easily removed from the container. The closure is reusable and can be replaced over the container opening to secure the container's contents for storage or transport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Inventor: Lawrence S. Walters, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6681946
    Abstract: A transfer set for transferring fluid, including drugs, vaccines, medicaments, solutions and the like, between a first container, such as a conventional vial, and a second container, such as a conventional syringe having a unique multipurpose resealable member. The transfer set assembly includes an elastomeric tubular fluid transfer and resealable valve member preferably including an open end mounted on the pierceable closure or stopper of a vial and a generally closed distal end having a longitudinal slit and a piercing member is telescopically received within the fluid transfer valve member having a piercing end opposite the pierceable closure. The fluid transfer valve member is preferably formed of silicone and is surrounded by a generally tubular luer connector member having an open end mounted on the pierceable closure and a distal end having male luer threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Hubert Jansen, Jean-Claude Thibault
  • Patent number: 6454118
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a pile-up lid each having an upper wall (1) and an element (2) arranged around the perimeter of said upper wall (1) and which forms a lip (3) protruding above said upper wall (1), and skirt (4) extending below said upper wall. The lid is made by a process of bringing together in a synchronous manner external sector elements (9) and internal sector element (10) in radially opposite directions so that, owing to the forced approach of the contact surfaces of the external and internal sector elements (9, 10) with said upper lip (3) of said lid interposed between them, a reeding pressure-moulding is obtained on both the inner and the outer surfaces of said upper lip (3), giving said lip (3) an outline apt to allow piling up on other similar lids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Inventor: Gianfranco D'Amato
  • Patent number: 6382442
    Abstract: The plastic closure of this invention is particularly, but not exclusively adapted for sealing medicament vials and other medical containers or as a collar for retaining a fluid transferset on a medical container. The plastic closure of this invention includes a generally tubular portion which surrounds the rim of the container and a free end portion which is permanently radially deformed or crimped into the neck of the container. The plastic closure of this invention is formed of a polymer, preferably a polymeric alloy or melt blend, which is sufficiently malleable to permit radial deformation, yet sufficiently rigid to retain its shape following deformation and sufficiently resistant to creep to maintain the seal between the plastic closure and the container following deformation. A preferred polymer for the plastic closure of this invention is an alloy or melt blend comprising a relatively rigid polymer such as polycarbonate and a soft malleable co-polymer such as a polyester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: Becton Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Jean-Claude Thibault, Hubert Jansen, Volker Niermann
  • Patent number: 6179821
    Abstract: A membrane port. The membrane port includes a flow port portion defining a lumen therethrough. A frangible connector portion is mounted on an enlarged portion of the flow port portion. A pierceable membrane is disposed in the lumen defined through the flow port portion to prevent fluid flow through said lumen. A cover portion is mounted on the frangible connector portion. The cover portion is constructed to fluidly seal a first end portion of the flow port portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Inventors: Glenn A. Caspary, Ralph E. Saunders
  • Patent number: 6065628
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for making a container lug lid which minimizes scrap waste is described. The blanks for forming container lug lids therefrom comprise an odd number of dissimilar lugs with one or more of the lugs comprising a male lug. Circumferential bases are formed between each lug, with one or more of the circumferential bases having a female complementary shape for receiving a male lug of an adjacent blank. The blank pattern for cutting the blanks from a sheet of material, which is preferably scrolled, comprises arranging the blanks in a closely spaced arrangement with the male lugs positioned for alignment with an adjacent female or complementary shaped circumferential base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Assignee: Cleveland Steel Container
    Inventor: Christopher I. Page
  • Patent number: 5806700
    Abstract: A tamper-proof closure construction including a cap having a top wall, a skirt and a plurality of tabs extending from the bottom edge of the skirt. The cap fits over the opening in the neck of a container which neck includes a shelf, cams having portions beneath the shelf extending outwardly from the neck beyond the shelf and all portions of the neck between the shelf and a sealing surface on the end of the neck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: Product Investment, Inc.
    Inventor: John C. Henning
  • Patent number: 5755712
    Abstract: A port and cap assembly for a solution container is provided. The port includes a tubular wall having a first end and second end, the first end securable to the container and the second end being open and opposite to the first end. An annular flange extends perpendicularly outward from the cylindrical wall between the first end and the second end to define a neck portion of the cylindrical wall. A circumferential sleeve extends longitudinally downward from the annular flange. A radial lip extends generally perpendicularly inward from the sleeve. A resilient cap is also provided which includes a first portion resiliently stretched to cover the open end of the port and a second portion removably captured between the annular flange and the radial lip. The second portion of the cap after being removed from between the annular flange and the radial lip is not recapturable between the annular flange and the radial lip so as to indicate that the port has been uncovered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1998
    Assignee: Abbott Laboratories
    Inventors: Walter T. Szempruch, Victor M. Trentadue, Stephen C. Yeaton
  • Patent number: 5645395
    Abstract: A building crane apparatus includes: a gantry crane slidably held on a pair of guiding rails longitudinally juxtapositionally mounted on two side walls of a building, and an elevating device secured on the building side walls for lifting the gantry crane from on the building walls to subsequently raise the crane corresponding to the building height under construction to provide a crane climbable on the building walls for eliminating an additional supporting base for erecting the crane in order for unobstructedly moving the crane in the working area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1997
    Inventor: Hsin-Tsung Huang
  • Patent number: 5458253
    Abstract: A crown seal for sealing an opening of a bottle including a flange having between twenty-eight and thirty-two flutes around the circumference thereof. Each flute comprises depression having a generally triangular surface area between a pair of ridges. The additional flutes provide more points of contact with the bead are provided, ensuring a securement of increased strength between the crown and bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1995
    Assignee: Zapata Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Shapcott
  • Patent number: 5398830
    Abstract: A closure system for a receptacle having a neck in which an opening is formed and provided with outwardly projecting external threads each extending between a first end further from the opening and a second end closer to the opening, the system comprising a cap having a side wall that surrounds the neck and that fits substantially snugly over the shape of the external threads thereof. The cap is made of a material that is elastically deformable, and at least some of the threads of the neck are spaced apart in pairs by a circumferential distance around the neck that decreases progressively between the first and second ends of the threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1995
    Assignee: Etablissements Valois (Societe anonyme)
    Inventors: Olivier de Pous, Claude Jouillat
  • Patent number: 5165978
    Abstract: This relates to the special construction of shells for closure panels of composite closures which, in production, for all practical purposes will eliminate nesting of stacked closure panels. Most specifically, each closure panel will be provided with flutes indenting the skirts thereof so as to prevent closure panels from nesting when stacked. Preferably, each closure panel is provided with at least three flutes and preferably four with the circumferential spacing of the flutes of a closure panel all being different and when the shells of the closure panels are formed in a multiple cavity die, the flute arrangement in each cavity will also be different. This will, for all practical purposes, eliminate nesting of the closure panels when stacked during production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1992
    Assignee: Continental White Cap, Inc.
    Inventor: Frank H. Lecinski
  • Patent number: 5038952
    Abstract: A closure assembly for a pressurized, plastic beverage container having an upper end opening comprising: an annular container neck defining the container upper end opening comprising a radially extending top surface, an axially extending surface, and a lower, generally radially extending surface; a gasket positioned on top of the annular container neck; and a container cap comprising a flat central body positioned in covering relationship with the container opening and in abutting engagement with the gasket; and an annular flange includinngn an axially extending portion positioned in parallel, adjacent, noncompressive relationship with the axially extending surface of the container neck, and a generally radially inwardly extending portion positioned in abutting, compressive contact with the lower, generally radially extending surface of the container neck whereby upwardly directed axial force on the container cap produced by pressurization of the container is resisted by downwardly directed axial force applie
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1991
    Assignee: Coors Brewing Company
    Inventor: Jan L. Dorfman
  • Patent number: 4852752
    Abstract: A neck structure for a bottle-shaped container formed of synthetic resin, and associated with a rolled cap member having a top-closed cylindrical shape and constructed of thin aluminum plate at a cylindrical neck portion of the bottle-shaped container. The cylindrical neck portion has threads circumferentially formed on the outer periphery of the upper end of the cylindrical neck portion; at least one thick cylindrical portion of relatively large diameter is formed between the upper end of the cylindrical neck portion and the lower end of the cylindrical neck portion. The connecting portion is formed with a plurality of longitudinal strips on the outer periphery thereof and recesses between the longitudinal strips. The neck structure of the synthetic resin bottle-shaped container is constructed to be adapted to be associated with a tamper-proof-cap such that the lower end of the tamper-proof-cap is relatively increased in height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1989
    Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akiho Ota
  • Patent number: 4749096
    Abstract: A capsule 11 for enclosing a neck portion of a container 17 equipped with a bung, cork, screw-cap or other closure 18 is formed from a crimp-shaped capsule blank. The blank has a top 12 and a depending skirt 13 and is made by impact-extruding a strip of aluminum. The skirt is compressed inwardly into close contact with the neck portion of the container and the exposed laterally-facing surfaces of the closure 18. The skirt of the blank may have an increasing diameter in a direction away from the top and may have formed thereon prior to application of the blank to the container circumferentially-extending lines of weakness 14 and a tear-tab for facilitating removal of the capsule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1988
    Assignee: Metal Closures Group PLC
    Inventors: Anthony J. A. Thomas, Charles G. Tilbrook
  • Patent number: 4676407
    Abstract: A mounting cap is disclosed for a container having a shoulder extending to a neck, a neck extending to a flange, an aperture surrounded by the flange, and a pump extending through the aperture, the pump terminating in an actuator button. The mounting cap comprises a cover and a sleeve, the sleeve extending from the cover and surrounding the flange and neck, and also means for mounting the sleeve to the container. In one modification, the mounting cap further comprises a collar extending upward and surrounding the pump. Also disclosed is a method for mounting such a cap onto the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1987
    Assignee: Risdon Corporation
    Inventor: Gerald E. Rideout
  • Patent number: 4573615
    Abstract: A pourer plug assembly for a container, wherein a metal cover is fixed to the upper end of the container and defines a central opening therethrough. A flexible pourer plug is secured to the cover for closing the opening. The flexible pourer plug has a base ring which is positioned within the opening and is provided with an annular rim disposed therearound and projecting radially outwardly thereof. The cover, in surrounding relationship to the central opening, has a fastening flange which defines an inwardly opening groove in which is accommodated the fastening rim. The fastening flange has an upper inner edge which projects downwardly into a narrow ring-shaped slot which opens downwardly of the plug between the base ring and the rim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1986
    Inventor: Juan P. Marti
  • Patent number: 4114775
    Abstract: A cap includes a metallic cap shell having a circular top and a skirt extending downwardly from the peripheral edge of the top and provided with a thread-forming portion deformable along the thread of the opening part of a container, and a flexible liner provided inwardly of the top of the cap shell. The liner includes an annular protrusion having an inside diameter substantially equal to, or slightly larger than, the outside diameter of the sealing surface of the opening of a container to be sealed and comprising a perpendicular inside wall adapted to seal intimately with the peripheral sealing surface of the container opening and an upright outside wall spaced apart from the inner circumferential surface of the skirt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1978
    Assignee: Japan Crown Cork Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tokujiro Shinozaki
  • Patent number: 4106622
    Abstract: A syringe package includes a plastic cylindrical container sleeve closed at one end and open at the opposite end for receiving a sterile syringe. The sleeve has an enlarged end portion at the open end connected by a tapered portion to the main body portion of the sleeve. A rigid plastic end closure is positioned over the enlarged end portion of the sleeve and an end portion of the closure is heat-formed around the tapered portion of the sleeve so that the formed end of the cap has a smaller diameter than the enlarged portion of the sleeve. The heat-formed end portion of the closure may be provided with stress relief slots in the end portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1978
    Assignee: Sherwood Medical Industries Inc.
    Inventor: Edward F. Windischman
  • Patent number: 4096963
    Abstract: A composite product and a method of making the product, the product being a central panel of flexible sheet material having a peripheral molding of plastics bonded to the margin of the panel, the arrangement being such that the margin of the panel is deformed to define two marginal parts displaced out of the plane of the central part of the panel, the moulding extending across the junction of the two marginal parts with each other but stopping short of the junction of the inner marginal part with the central part so that the blank at that junction is free to unwind, i.e. return to the flat and any bowing of the blank, which being uniform as to direction, is substantially less than would be the case were the moulding to cover both junctions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1978
    Assignee: Airfix Industries Limited
    Inventor: Kenneth Francis Rumball