With Vertical Corrugation (e.g., Crown Cap) Patents (Class 215/328)
  • Patent number: 11702250
    Abstract: A metal closure for containers comprising a capsule designed to be applied to an opening of a container and including a circular part from which extends a perimeter edge. The perimeter of the edge has a rounding or folding obtained by curling and has a series of deformations made in a radial direction towards the centre of the capsule for forming the seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: PELLICONI & C. S.P.A.
    Inventors: Antonino Lo Piccolo, Doriano Naldi
  • Patent number: 10640284
    Abstract: An aerosol dispenser, and a valve cup for an aerosol dispenser. The aerosol dispenser, has an outer container with a crimp ring, to receive a valve cup clinched thereto. The valve cup has an outer wall with holes therethrough or vents having a vector component parallel to the outer wall. The hole or vents may be exposed to pressurized propellant and product due to deformation of the neck during undue internal pressurization. The holes and vents relieve propellant and product therethrough in the event of overpressurization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Andrew William Franckhauser, Scott Edward Smith, Douglas Bruce Zeik, Nathan Daniel Grubbs
  • Patent number: 10457448
    Abstract: A multilayer capsule of the types which cover the neck of wine or liquor bottles is made is made exclusively of aluminum, or at least 98% by weight of aluminum. A production method for preparing the capsule can include forming a capsule body and fixing an aluminum disc in the upper part of the body. Another production method can include cutting a multilayer sheet into suitable size for the capsule; and forming the capsule by deep-drawing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Ramondin Capsulas, S.A.
    Inventor: Miguel {dot over (A)}ngel González Delgado
  • Patent number: 9630351
    Abstract: This manufacturing process of a composite part (B), including a stamped body (11, 12) and an injected polymer material part (14), includes steps consisting of: a) placing a blank (1) of a body (11, 12) between a support (456) and a mold (31, 32), such that the said hollow part forms a pattern cavity (33) communicating with an opening (13) going through the blank (1); b) stamping the blank (1) using a punch (8); c) placing the holder (456) in a position in which it defines with the blank (1) at least one cavity (400) and in which there is at least one injection runner (50-60) leading to the said cavity (400). d) injecting the polymer material through the injection runner (50-60), said cavity (400) and said opening (13), so as to fill the said pattern cavity (33); and e) removing the composite part (B) from the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Albea Services
    Inventor: Victor Ramos
  • Patent number: 9499311
    Abstract: A crown cap is adapted to be removably coupled to a bottle. The crown cap has a circular central region and a downwardly extending side wall in a generally cylindrical configuration. The side wall having a circular periphery with a plurality of recesses to facilitate shaping of the side wall, side wall terminating in an inwardly scrolled lower edge. The central region of the crown cap radially terminates in an upwardly extending exterior projection. The crown cap has a downwardly extending interior projection radially interior of the exterior projection. An adhesive is provided in the exterior projection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: SUPER CLOSURE INTERNATIONAL, LLC
    Inventor: James R. Gilliam
  • Patent number: 9415905
    Abstract: A crown cap is adapted to be removably coupled to a bottle. The crown cap has a circular central region and a downwardly extending side wall in a generally cylindrical configuration. The side wall has an inwardly scrolled lower edge. The central region of the crown cap radially terminates in an upwardly extending exterior projection. The crown cap has a downwardly extending interior projection radially interior of the exterior projection. An adhesive is provided in the exterior projection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Inventor: James R. Gilliam
  • Patent number: 9387958
    Abstract: A crown metal cap comfortable for opening by turning or with a bottle opener. The crown metal cap before folding, has a bell-shaped closure flange with a plurality of intercalated protrusions and depressions, the protrusions have a smaller width than the width of the depressions, and each depression has on its outer edge a convex fold; such that when closing the closure flange is folded over the mouth of the bottle, each protrusion bifurcates into a pair of minor protrusions that acquire a curved shape separated by a central depression that takes a similar form within a spheroid, forming a flange surface comfortable to touch to facilitate manual opening by turning; whereas the convex fold of each depression prevents the collapse of the outer edge of the depression to form a bell-shaped opening edge for easy opening of the crown metal cap with the bottle opener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Fabricas Monterrey S.A. DE C.V.
    Inventors: Juan Antonio Camacho Paredes, Romualdo Segura Ruíz, Carlos Adrián García Cortez
  • Publication number: 20150034586
    Abstract: A reduced gauged crown for a container opening includes a corrugated panel portion such that the corrugation strengthens the crown material and allows less material to be used for the crown than would be used for an uncorrugated bottle cap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: World Bottling Cap LLC
    Inventor: Abe Frishman
  • Patent number: 8944264
    Abstract: A crown, for a medical vial opening, has a top portion and a skirt surrounding the top portion. The skirt terminates at a lower edge defined in a first horizontal plane. An opener assembly is mounted to a portion of the top. A first scoring line extends from the portion of the top to which the opener assembly is mounted to the lower edge of the skirt in a continuous radial direction, and a second scoring line provides an upper radial segment extending from the opener assembly to the skirt along a radial axis, and a lower annular segment that extends circumferentially along the skirt in an annular direction and extending from a terminus of the upper radial segment, the lower annular segment defined in a second horizontal plane equidistant to the first horizontal plane associated with the lower edge of the skirt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: World Bottling Cap, LLC
    Inventor: Abe Frishman
  • Publication number: 20140312001
    Abstract: A crown-type metal cap comfortable for opening by turning or with a bottle opener. The metal cap before folding, has a bell-shaped closure flange with a plurality of intercalated protrusions and depressions, the protrusions have a smaller width than the width of the depressions, and each depression has on its outer edge a convex fold; such that when closing the closure flange is folded over the mouth of the bottle, each protrusion bifurcates into a pair of minor protrusions that acquire a curved shape separated by a central depression that takes a similar form within a spheroid, forming a flange surface comfortable to touch to facilitate manual opening by turning; whereas the convex fold of each depression prevents the collapse of the outer edge of the depression to form a bell-shaped opening edge for easy opening of the metal cap with the bottle opener.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: FABRICAS MONTERREY, S.A. DE C.V.
    Inventors: Juan Antonio Camacho Paredes, Romualdo Segura Ruiz, Carlos Adrián Garcia Cortez
  • Patent number: 8608006
    Abstract: A crown for a bottle or other container, the crown comprised of a pull tab ring and a pull tab secured to the crown by a rivet and one or more cut lines between the rivet and the rim of the crown. The crown may be formed from tinplate with a hardness of T4 as measured by the Rockwell 30T Hardness Scale so that the crown may be opened and removed from the container the a force of approximately 2.5 Kg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: World Bottling Cap, LLC
    Inventor: Abe Frishman
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20130216671
    Abstract: A crown system includes a crown having a top surface and a bottom surface and a liner having a top surface that contacts a bottom surface of the crown. The liner is configured to absorb oxygen in a headspace and includes at least about 2.2 micromoles of sodium sulfite per cubic millimeter in a volume of the liner to a depth of about 0.003 millimeter from a bottom surface of the liner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2013
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: Anheuser-Busch, LLC
    Inventor: Anheuser-Busch, LLC
  • Publication number: 20130134123
    Abstract: A closure for a container having a circular opening defining an axis and a lip around said opening, the closure comprising: an inner component having a collar portion for locating about the exterior of the container beneath the lip of the container and a sealing portion which extends from said collar portion over an upper surface of said lip; and an outer component for fitting over the inner component and interacting therewith for releasably securing the collar portion under the lip, wherein the outer component has a skirt part for locating about the collar portion of the inner component, and the collar portion comprising a plurality of spaced apart radially moveable parts around its circumference pivotally joined at their lower ends by a ring extending around the entire circumference of the collar portion. The sealing portion may be formed of flexible material or may be formed of a relatively rigid material with a flexible sealing member, eg an o-ring, carried thereby.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2011
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Inventors: Anthony H.J. Fraser, John Hein
  • Publication number: 20130119010
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lid for glass bottles, preferably made of metal or any other type of suitable plastic material, comprising a body (1) with a skirt or external flange (2) that is segmented by conical slits, characterised in that said flange (2) comprises a plurality of longitudinal conical slits transverse to the axis of the lid and running around the periphery of the flange (2), designed to snugly fit over the external surface of the lip (4) of the neck (3) of the bottle to be sealed; the body (1) having been provided with a concentric V-shaped annular rib (5) which snugly fits against the internal contour of the mouth of the neck (3) of the bottle, which has a liner (7), said rib (5) defining an upwardly domed surface (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicants: ACTIVO MARK, S.L., CLIPPS ALUMINUM SYSTEMS, S.L.
    Inventors: Vicente Martinez Ramirez, Hipólito Moya Alises
  • Patent number: 8365940
    Abstract: A pull tab crown for a bottle or other container provides an opener secured to the top of the crown. The crown has an annular skirt with an annular edge. Score lines extend from the opener assembly to the skirt. One of the score lines is curvilinear and terminates at the annular edge. A second score line has as segment that extends from the opener assembly to an endpoint substantially spaced from the bottom annular edge of the skirt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: World Bottling Cap, LLC
    Inventor: Abe Frishman
  • Publication number: 20120305520
    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: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: CROWN PACKAGING TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Alfredo Merino Caballero
  • 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: 8276773
    Abstract: A pull tab crown for a bottle or other container provides a pull tab ring and a pull tab secured to the top of the crown by a rivet to form a pull tab assembly. A seat in the top of the crown formed by an indentation allows the pull tab assembly to rest flush with the top of the crown. One or more score lines extend from the pull tab assembly to rim of the crown. One of the score lines has a segment that extends for a distance equidistant from the top of the crown and the edge of the crown. The score lines have a curved cross-sectional profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: World Bottling Cap, LLC
    Inventor: Abe Frishman
  • Patent number: 8220653
    Abstract: A lid with a detachable sealing joint, the lid having a crown-type shell having an inner surface and an external surface, a sealing joint upon the inner surface of the shell; a detachable hydrophilic coating; and a coating compatible with the sealing joint upon the detachable hydrophilic coating; such that the detachable hydrophilic coating and the compatible coating form an adhesive interface between the crown and the sealing joint. The detachable hydrophilic coating having at least a water solid polymer, for example polyvinyl pyrrolidone; at least a cross-linking agent, for example, butanediol; and at least a solvent, for example, water. It also describes a method for manufacturing a lid with a detachable sealing joint and a method for bottling beverages using lids with a detachable sealing joint of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Fabricas Monterrey, S.A. De C.V.
    Inventor: Jose Luis Martinez Carballido
  • Publication number: 20110284492
    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: January 26, 2010
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: CREW MOULDINGS LIMITED
    Inventor: Craig McDowell
  • Patent number: 8061544
    Abstract: A crown for a bottle or other container, the crown comprised of a pull tab ring and a pull tab secured to the crown by a rivet and one or more cut lines between the rivet and the rim of the crown. The crown may be formed from tinplate with a hardness of T4 as measured by the Rockwell 30T Hardness Scale so that the crown may be opened and removed from the container the a force of approximately 2.5 Kg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: World Bottling Cap, LLC
    Inventor: Abe Frishman
  • 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: 20100314390
    Abstract: A closure for use with a pressurised container and configured to produce an opening sound is provided. The closure includes an openable closure member and an outer wrapping that covers at least a portion of the closure member tightly so that upon opening the closure member, content of the container escaping under the effect of the pressure deforms and/or forces open and/or sets vibrating the wrapping while producing a sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2007
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Inventors: Angelo D'Angelico, Jan Dietrich
  • Publication number: 20100264109
    Abstract: A crown-type metal cap comprising a central body; a peripheral crown having a continuous series of grooves forming a single structure with the central body; and a substantially semi-spherical projection in the central body which operates in an original state and in changed state with respect to the central body. A method for manufacturing crown-type metal caps with a projection is also described; the method is characterized in that it comprises the steps of applying at least one coating on at least one side of a metal sheet; cutting and shaping the coated metal sheet into individual crown-type metal caps which include a central body and a peripheral crown provided with a continuous series of grooves forming a single structure; and forming a projection in the central body of each of the metal caps. Methods for bottling pressurized beverages and for bottling vacuum beverages using the crown-type metal caps with projection as per the invention are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: Fabricas Monterrey, S.A.DE C.V.
    Inventors: Jose Antonio Garcia Pedraza, Ramiro Escamilla Garza
  • Publication number: 20100200532
    Abstract: A container closure comprising a top wall portion and a skirt portion depending from the top wall portion is provided. The skirt portion can include corrugation on an interior and exterior thereof, and the corrugation can reduce the weight of the container closure and provide strength of the skirt portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: Phoenix Closures, Inc.
    Inventor: Len Ekkert
  • Patent number: 7638179
    Abstract: Described is a closure element for a container. The closure elements has a sealing element which contains a thermoplastic polymer, and an effective absorbing amount of an unmodified cyclodextrin material. The unmodified cyclodextrin material may be an ?-cyclodextrin, ?-cyclodextrin, ?-cyclodextrin, and mixtures thereof. The sealing element can act as a barrier with respect to permeants, such as aromatic substances, trichloroanisole, aldehydes or ketones and/or impurities from the polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Cellresin Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Will Wood, Neil Beaverson
  • Publication number: 20090261056
    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: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: CROWN PACKAGING TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Robert H. Bourque, William E. Perkins
  • Publication number: 20090008359
    Abstract: The invention “Reinforced Crown Cap” consists of a round plate-type piece with a peripheral radial crimpling allowing for its marginal bending on the neck of a container to be sealed. A Structural Reinforcement is applied on the round plan by deforming steel in the form of high or low relief crimpling with a radial symmetry with no compromise of basic features of Crown Cap which is bottle sealing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Inventor: Alfredo Abel Merino Caballero
  • Patent number: 7147123
    Abstract: A metal cap 3 for a container, the metal cap having a knurl part formed on the outer perimeter thereof so as to release outside the inner pressure of the container generated from the content such as carbonated drinks etc., wherein the knurl part comprises plural of knurls 6 having short width slits 6a and plural of knurls 7 having long width slits 7a, and knurls 7 is formed in the mixture with knurls 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Takeuchi Press Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20040074863
    Abstract: A crown closure (12) having a curled lower edge is described. The curled crown (12) is typically formed from double reduced steel which is 35% thinner gauge than that used for conventional fluted crowns. The crown is also described in combination with a standard glass bottle. The curl (15) of the crown (12) tucks under the capping bead of the bottle so as to achieve standard pressure requirements. Added benefits of this configuration are not only the concealment of the edge of the closure but also the distinctive appearance of the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2003
    Publication date: April 22, 2004
    Inventors: Christopher Paul Ramsey, Sylvia Maria Haglund
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20010035390
    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: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2000
    Publication date: November 1, 2001
    Inventors: Carlos Orlando Vilacha Zanoni, Klaus Uhlig Peterssen
  • Patent number: 6164472
    Abstract: A metal bottle cap consisting of a central body to close off an opening at the neck of the bottle and an outer crown which is integral with the central body and is made up of a uninterrupted plurality of teeth which may be bent and fixed around the rim over a thread which has a number of starts on a bottleneck, the number of teeth on the outer crown must be different to a whole multiple of the number of starts on the rim of the bottle; and should be between twenty-nine and thirty-three.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Pelliconi Abruzzo S.r.l.
    Inventor: Enrico Folchini
  • Patent number: 6109465
    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: September 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Product Investment Inc.
    Inventor: John C. Henning
  • Patent number: 6006933
    Abstract: A twist-off closure for use with a bottle having a neck, a lip and a ledge surrounding the neck and a plurality of ramp sections. The closure includes a top wall, a skirt and a plurality of tabs extending from the bottom edge of the skirt. The tabs are T-shaped and include a cross arm extending adjacent to the free end of the stem. The cap is made from a steel sheet coated with tin and a varnish or lacquer layer with the edges of the cap being formed by pinch trimming so that a corrosion-resistant layer of tin substantially covers the edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: Product Investment, Inc.
    Inventors: John C. Henning, Mark E. Melson
  • 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: 5582309
    Abstract: A bottle closing cap is disclosed that is openable merely by a finger pressure on a domed top side of the cap, whereby it is possible to provoke an expansion of a depending, axially preslit cap skirt portion of the cap. The cap can resist overpressure in the bottle because the ends of the skirt segments are stabilized against overlapping, e.g. in that at each slit (6) they are shaped with respective counterphased edges (12,14). Hereby the caps will be mountable by a fully conventional equipment and, despite being easy to open, they will resist a considerable pressure in the bottles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Assignee: Ribi Invest ApS
    Inventor: Esben Bruhn
  • 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: 5265746
    Abstract: A bottle cap having an integral opener on a side thereof, which is capable of opening a bottle cap made of high strength metal sheet, is disclosed. The opener includes: two reinforcing portions, a head portion, two arms, a body and two branches. The head portion is rectangularly but gently bent or its edge is curled up inwardly in order to eliminate a sharp edge therefrom. The two arms connect the upper end of the body of the opener to the side of the bottle cap, and the body is reinforced with two reinforcing portions which are added to the left and right of a longitudinal center ridge. The two branches are divided from the lower end of the body of the opener, and are outwardly bent away from the bottle. Instead of the two branches, a ring may be attached to the lower end of the body, and, in this way, the user is not hurt, and the bottle cap can be opened with a reinforced strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1993
    Inventor: Jeong M. Lee
  • Patent number: 5263600
    Abstract: A tamper-proof closure for use with a bottle having a neck, a lip, and shelf surrounding the neck and a plurality of ramp sections. The closure includes a top wall, a skirt and a plurality of tabs extending from the bottom edge of the skirt. The tabs include first and second side edges and a transverse edge. The tab is longer adjacent to one side edge than the other. The ramp sections include an upwardly sloping portion of the shelf and a cam wall extending across the shelf from the neck to the outer edge of the shelf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1993
    Assignee: Product Investment, Inc.
    Inventor: John C. Henning
  • Patent number: 4968514
    Abstract: A bottle crown cap, particularly for beer bottles, comprising a metal shell and a liner of thermoplastic polyurethane. The liner material is completely reacted, then applied directly to the shell by a hot melt process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1990
    Assignee: Forbes Polytech, Inc.
    Inventor: David L. Forbes
  • Patent number: 4896781
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a twist-to-remote crown cap for closing a container such as a beer bottle. The crown cap comprises a disk shaped top wall and a depending lateral skirt with long serrations bent against the skirt in a circumferential direction thereof to expose, each, a relatively flat flank surface. The flank surfaces of the serrations define a relatively smooth finger gripping surface preventing injury to fingers during the removal of the cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1990
    Inventor: Laval Simard
  • Patent number: 4798300
    Abstract: A bottle includes a mouth and a neck adjoining the mouth. The neck has helical ribs on the outside to permit application of a peripherally indented, screw-on crown. The main body of the bottle has a base, which is provided with an upward recess. A plurality of inwardly projecting ribs is provided around the periphery of the recess, each rib being convexly rounded and devoid of points, and having two concavely rounded shoulder portions on either side, so that stress concentration is minimized. The recess is sized to receive a peripherally indented crown of the same size as that receivable on the neck, so that the ribs register in at least some of the peripheral indentations. Thus, one bottle can serve as a crown remover for another, without a significant risk that the ribs will break or crack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1989
    Assignee: Carling O'Keefe Breweries of Canada Limited
    Inventors: Asim Ghosh, Aram H. Toukmanian
  • Patent number: 4782969
    Abstract: A tamper-proof closure is disclosed for use with a bottle having a neck, a lip with a downwardly and inwardly sloping peripheral wall and a plurality of outwardly extending ribs disposed at the juncture of the sloping wall and outer wall of the neck. The closure includes a top wall, a depending ribbed skirt and a plurality of rectangular tabs extending from the bottom edge of the skirt between each pair of ribs. The tabs are bent inwardly and upwardly and include a serrated edge for engagement with the ribs on the bottle. When the cap is applied, the tabs form compressive members holding the lid in sealed position against the bottle neck. The closure is removed by twisting, which causes the tabs to be shifted outwardly beyond the bottle ribs so that the cap can be lifted from the bottle. The closure cannot be reapplied since, during removal, the tabs have been bent outwardly to a point where they can no longer engage the bottle ribs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1988
    Assignee: Product Investment Incorporated
    Inventor: John C. Henning
  • Patent number: 4679697
    Abstract: A cap blank for a bottle or jar comprising a disc formed with at least one depression. The depression provides a line of weakness when a cap formed from the blank is installed on a bottle or jar. A cap is also described. The cap can be removed from a bottle or jar by hand and is installed on conventional equipment for crimped tops, in the case of a bottle, or by hand or by conventional equipment for a jar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1987
    Inventor: Eugene J. Allaire
  • Patent number: 4337871
    Abstract: A crown seal seal blank of the kind comprising a roof portion with a downwardly extending skirt having a flared and ribbed peripheral portion wherein each rib of said peripheral skirt portion is of substantially the same breadth throughout its length. Upon application to a bottle the blank forms a closure cap wherein each protruding rib has an elongated depression extending from the ribs free end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1982
    Assignee: Mauri Brothers & Thomson (Aust.) Pty. Limited
    Inventor: Raymond L. Tucker
  • Patent number: 4269321
    Abstract: A peelable bonded structure having a peel strength of 0.05 to 5 kg/cm comprises a plurality of articles, at least one of which is made of metal, bonded together through a composite coating layer. The composite coating layer is composed of adjacent first and second coating layers at least one of which comprises (A) a modified olefin resin having a carbonyl group concentration of 0.01 to 200 milliequivalents per 100 g of the olefin resin and (B) a coating film-forming base resin at an (A)/(B) weight ratio of from 0.2/99.8 to 40/60 and has a multi-layer distribution structure having resin concentration gradients in the thickness direction such that the modified olefin resin (A) is distributed predominantly in the portion contiguous to the interface between the two coating layers and the base resin (B) is distributed predominantly in the opposite portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1981
    Assignee: Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Ichinose, Fumio Mori, Noboru Suzuki
  • Patent number: RE36334
    Abstract: A tamper-proof closure for use with a bottle having a neck, a lip, and shelf surrounding the neck and a plurality of ramp sections. The closure includes a top wall, a skirt and a plurality of tabs extending from the bottom edge of the skirt. The tabs include first and second side edges and a transverse edge. The tab is longer adjacent to one side edge than the other. The ramp sections include an upwardly sloping portion of the shelf and a cam wall extending across the shelf from the neck to the outer edge of the shelf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1999
    Assignee: Product Investment, Inc.
    Inventor: John C. Henning