Abstract: A receiver, i.e., a container, has a ring provided with a distribution capsule. The capsule includes a cap provided with at least one distribution orifice which is mounted to be screwed and unscrewed between at least two positions, by at least one thread provided on the ring. The capsule also includes a reducer which is integral or attached to the ring and provided with a blocking tip so as to block at will the orifice of the cap as a function of its position on the ring. The ring of the container includes two parallel screwing threads adapted to cooperate each with a spur provided in the cap. The ring also includes helical ramps for assembly of the cap on the ring. The winding direction of the helical ramps alternates every quarter turn such that the helical ramps form two points and two recesses. Each recess is extended by a longitudinal groove which extends at least toward one of the threads and which is capable of receiving one of the spurs of the cap during assembly of the cap on the ring.

Abstract: A cap with a rotatable skirt (1), applicable to the mouth (6) of a container (7) for a fluid dispensable via the cap, which can also act as a closure cap. The cap comprises a skirt (1) rotatable on the mouth (6) of the container (7) and defines a cavity housing a hollow body (2) connected to the skirt (1) by breakable teeth (4), the skirt (1) and the hollow body (2) being formed in one piece by moulding. Between the skirt (1) and the hollow body (2) there extends an axially translatable cup-shaped body (3) connected to the skirt (1) by a disc (19) housed in a seat (21) provided on the top of the skirt (1), this disc (19) being moulded in one piece with the cup-shaped body (3), to which it is connected by breakable teeth (20).

Abstract: A pellet dispenser wherein pellets are loaded into a cylindrical cap having a centrally-located tube. The tube contains a guide and a flange end. The dispenser includes a base having an inclined skirt bounded by an external flange with a post to be inserted into the tube. The post is provided with a circumferential shoulder and a guideway. Insertion of the post into the tube orients the cap and base and permits relative rotation. The assembled dispenser is inverted for use.

Abstract: A thumb actuated flexible tube and closure system comprising a flexible plastic tube having a finish for dispensing a product when the tube is in an inverted position. The finish has an integral transverse wall, an integral post extending upwardly from the transverse wall and an integral cylindrical wall extending upwardly from said transverse wall. The transverse wall has at least one opening therethrough. An inner closure is provided and has a base wall and integral spaced inner and outer walls defining an annular space for receiving the finish of the plastic tube. At least one of the walls has threads thereon for rotatably engaging the finish. The base wall of the inner closure has a portion sealingly engaging the post on the finish such that rotation of the inner closure moves said sealing portion into and out of engagement with said post. An overcap closure is provided and has a base wall with an opening aligned with the sealing portion of said closure.

Abstract: A rotatable central sealing pin cap having a stationary part and a detachable pouring screw cap, each with engagable threads, an axial stop and a twist stop. A plurality of pre-assembly positions or intermediate positions can be defined. A twist stop is provided that limits rotational motion of the detachable pouring screw cap with respect to the stationary part beyond the completely open and the completely closed positions. At the same time, the detachable pouring screw cap is sealed to the stationary part to prevent an undesired backflow into the threaded region.

Abstract: A flexible liquid dispenser which may be used to hold and discharge suntan lotion, sunscreen lotion, perfume, insect repellent, or other liquids. In one embodiment the liquid dispenser is relatively flat, about 0.5 inch thick, fits in the palm of a person's hand, and may be conveniently carried in a person's pocket or hung around a person's neck by a cord or tube attached to the dispenser. The dispenser body may be made out of molded plastic and has at least one flexible wall portion which allows the dispenser body to be compressed for the purpose of discharging the liquid from the dispenser. The liquid dispenser has a rotatable cap which may be turned to open a dispensing aperture in the cap. Liquid may then be discharged through the dispensing aperture by squeezing or compressing the dispenser body.

Abstract: A liquid dispensing package includes a container whose finish has an opposed pair of slots extending vertically from a free end thereof. A nozzle element with a dispensing passage extending therethrough is positioned within the finish and has an opposed pair of pins which extend into and through the slots of the finish to permit the nozzle element to translate, but not rotate, with respect to the finish, the translation being between a sealed, non-dispensing position and an unsealed, dispensing position. A cap element is rotatably affixed to the finish and has an opening in a top central panel which is aligned with the dispensing passage of the nozzle element. A skirt of the cap element has part helical grooves on its inside surface, and these grooves receive the free ends of the pins of the nozzle element. Thus, rotation of the cap element results in translation of the nozzle element.

Abstract: A multi-position self-guiding cap for attachment to a container. A tip of a cap assembly is mounted over a post section of a shell such that a guiding rib of the tip engages with a guiding channel and an annular groove of the shell. The annular channel allows circumferential movement of the tip relative to the shell. The guiding channel is preferably of a U-shape having a trunk branch and two side branches. The guiding channel defines the different positions of the cap. In moving between the respective positions, the user merely moves the tip in one direction to change states.

Abstract: A dispenser cap for fluid substances, including relatively movable members defining a dispensing hole and an appendix for closing the hole. When the cap is in a closed state, the cap surface in proximity with the dispensing hole is substantially smooth and uniform. When the cap is in a dispensing state, a tubular element in which the hole is provided projects from the surface.

Abstract: A twist-to-open dispensing closure has a cap which threads directly onto the container neck. A bead at the bottom of the cap skirt snaps over a flange on the container neck for primary retention of the cap on the container neck. An upwardly projecting lug on the cap bead cooperates with a pair of axially extending walls on the container flange to give the user, while unthreading the cap, a sense of approaching the open, dispensing position of the closure and the cap locks in this dispensing position against further rotation, preventing accidental removal of the cap by snapping the cap bead over the container neck flange.

Abstract: The present invention provides a detergent doser for dispensing liquid doses from a liquid dispenser. The liquid dispenser has a nozzle through which the detergent is dispensed. The detergent doser includes a container having an outer wall and an inner wall defining therebetween a chamber. The doser is provided with a passageway extending through the container defined by the inner wall for receiving therein the nozzle. The inner wall includes an aperture and the doser is movable with respect to the nozzle between a closed position in which the nozzle outlet is closed off by a portion of the inner wall and an open position in which the nozzle outlet and aperture cooperate to provide a fluid flow path between the dispenser and chamber. In the closed position the detergent doser acts as a lid or cap for the dispenser.

Abstract: A seal is provided comprising two parts and is made of synthetic material. An upper part has an internal thread, a continuous surface area and an axial external cylinder section. A valve tube is positioned above the cylinder section and is held in place by means of a conical intermediate piece. A lower part has an external thread, a continuous surface area and an axial internal cylinder section. A sealing bulge faces the external cylinder section and a valve pin held in place above it by means of connecting bars. By turning the upper part in relation to the lower part, the upper part is displaced axially in relation to the lower part. A sealing piece is fitted axially to the upper end of the valve pin. As the seal is screwed down, the sealing piece blocks the upper opening of the upper part. Its upper end is flush with or rising above the upper part, and the valve pin is enclosed by the valve tube. When the seal is screwed down on entirely the valve pin will be located outside the valve tube.

Abstract: There is disclosed a press on dispensing cap for containers which can be opened and closed by a limited angular rotation. The cap is press fitted onto the neck of a container such as a tube, and the neck of the container has a plurality of discontinuous spiral tracks which receive lugs carried on an inner skirt of the cap to permanently retain the cap, and to permit extension and retraction of the cap upon twisting. Preferably the lugs have a plurality of closely spaced ribs on their inside surface which ride against the neck wall, thereby reducing the frictional resistance of the cap to rotation. The cap has a dispensing orifice which seals about a central boss on the end of the neck, and two additional seals which engage against sealing surfaces of the tube neck. One seal is a circular rim on the underside of the cap which seals against a circular rim on the end of the neck, opposed to that on the cap.

Abstract: A multipurpose bottle and cap combination comprises a bottle for containing a fluid, a neck with an opening through which the fluid may flow, and a bottom. A cap is secured to the neck of the bottle by threaded engagement, and controls the flow of the fluid through the cap. A first massaging device comprising a plurality of curved surfaces terminating in a tip are provided on the cap, and a second massaging device comprising a plurality of rounded protrusions are spaced apart on the bottom of the bottle.

Abstract: A seal is provided comprising two parts and is made of synthetic material. An upper part has an internal thread, a continuous surface area and an axial external cylinder section. A valve tube is positioned above the cylinder section and is held in place by means of a conical intermediate piece. A lower part has an external thread, a continuous surface area and an axial internal cylinder section. A sealing bulge faces the external cylinder section and a valve pin held in place above it by means of connecting bars. By turning the upper part in relation to the lower part, the upper part is displaced axially in relation to the lower part. A sealing piece is fitted axially to the upper end of the valve pin. As the seal is screwed down, the sealing piece blocks the upper opening of the upper part. Its upper end is flush with or rising above the upper part, and the valve pin is enclosed by the valve tube. When the seal is screwed down on entirely the valve pin will be located outside the valve tube.

Abstract: A dispenser having a head fixed on a body or a skirt, and a cap, with the cap comprising an outer skirt, a deformable internal crown and an intermediate ring, the head and the intermediate ring of the cap having complementary screw threads for raising and lowering the cap, the head including a stopper supported by sloping legs fixed inside the head and occluding an aperture of the cap when the cap is in a low position, the internal crown and the head cooperating sealingly once the cap is engaged on the head, the head including a shoulder which has at least one stop lug cooperating with a rib on the intermediate ring near its lower end to hinder an uncontrolled unscrewing of the cap when the cap is screwed downwards to close the dispenser.

Abstract: A container endowed with a tube (6) and a cap (1) screwed to a neck of the tube has the inside of the threaded neck is provided with a lug (8) in communication with the inside of the tube. The lug is blind, and conduits leading to the outside are placed between the lug and the neck. The cap has a longitudinal inside tongue (4) projecting from the wall, having a spiral outer surface whereby the tongue may or may not be in contact with a lug (3) outside of the cap. A wall-stop (29) may top the vertical lug (21) at the top of the tube, preventing the cap from opening further.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: Device for closing containers and pouring ligands from them, comprising a connecting piece that can be mounted on a mouthpiece of the container and has a central valve seat which defines an annular orifice for the outflow of the liquid, and a cap unit screwed to the connecting piece, which is fitted with a pouring spout, whereby the connecting piece has features such that the height of the pouring device is limited and an auxiliary annular chamber is present around the connecting piece, which chamber is equipped with a vent in its base, which vent ensures equalization of pressure inside the container when liquid is being poured out.

Abstract: A liquid dispensing closure mechanism installable on the neck portion of a plastic squeeze bottle to control the outflow of liquid from the bottle. In one form of the dispensing closure, a movable closure body has an open position and a closed position in which closed position the closure body fits tightly on the associated cap member. In another form of the dispensing closure, the movable closure body has two closed positions, in one of which the closure body fits tightly on the associated cap member, and in the other of which it fits loosely on the cap member, whereby it is readily movable to the open position with only slight manual effort. A twist lock feature is preferably utilized where a gas-tight seal is of major importance for containment of carbonated beverages.

Abstract: A sealable and dispensing pouring spout is disclosed. A collar member is mounted on a tubular body member, these two parts defining a cam follower surface therebetween. The tubular body member has a stopper attached at an open end thereof. A spout shaped member is rotatably mounted on the tubular body member and has a cam follower which engages the cam follower surface. The spout shaped member can be rotated on the tubular body member into engagement with the stopper member to close the pouring spout or to other positions to open the pouring spout.

Abstract: A sealable and dispensing pouring spout is disclosed. A collar member is mounted on a tubular body member, these two parts defining a cam follower surface therebetween. The tubular body member has a stopper attached at an open end thereof. A spout shaped member is rotably mounted on the tubular body member and has a cam follower which engages the cam follower surface. The spout shaped member can be rotated on the tubular body member into engagement with the stopper member to close the pouring spout or to other positions to open the pouring spout.

Abstract: A cap comprising a cylindrical skirt extending from a frustoconical part, the connecting area between the cylindrical skirt and the frustoconical part being located essentially at the level of a shoulder provided in a body composed of a stopper body or in the container to be equipped itself. This connecting zone has at least one tongue delimited by two vertical slots and one horizontal slot, the horizontal edge of the tongue delimited by the slot being provided on the inside of the cap with an extension forming a first tooth which is located, when the cap is in the closed position, adjacent to a second tooth or projection associated with body when the cap is located in the unscrewing direction.

Abstract: A tamper evident closure integrally molded in a straight draw mold without slides or cams has a cap skirt, a tamper band radially spaced from the free end of the skirt and extending radially outward, and an anchoring member, spaced radially outward of the tamper band. The tamper band is connected to both the cap skirt and the anchoring member by tearable connections in the form of scored membranes, or preferably, discrete circumferentially spaced radially extending frangible bridges. The tamper band has a circumferentially extending gap and an integral pull tab extending radially outward from one end through a gap in the anchoring member.

Abstract: A pouring spout which can be selectively opened or closed to pass materials therethrough. The spout includes a threaded end which is adapted to engage a container, a spout body for conducting the materials from the container and an adjustable end which is adapted to selectively interrupt the flow of materials through the spout.

Abstract: A dispensing cap construction for containers, having a cap body for attachment to a container neck, and having a discharge spout portion through which the container contents can be discharged, and a closure cap turnably carried by the cap body. The closure cap has a non-round or slit-shaped orifice, and a stopper blade in the closure cap is received in the orifice so as to close it off. The stopper blade is rotatably mounted on the spout portion of the cap body to enable it to rotate simultaneously with, or in unison with turning movements of the closure cap. The cross section of the stopper blade is such that it can fit sealingly in the orifice. The cross section of the blade is, in the disclosed embodiment, substantially of rectangular or oblong configuration.

Abstract: The cap comprises a casing rotatively mounted on a container with a groove being provided to prevent said casing from axially sliding. The casing is connected slidably to a bell which is itself connected by a helicoidal thread to a sheath mounted on the container. The bell is provided with a neck having a wall bordering an opening for containing a stopper connected to the container.

Abstract: A pouring spout which can be selectively opened or closed to pass materials therethrough. The spout includes a threaded end which is adapted to engage a container, a spout body for conducting the materials from the container and an adjustable end which is adapted to selectively interrupt the flow of materials through the spout.

Abstract: An adjustable metering twist lock closure cap for dispensing the contents of a container having a central post including a top surface and a substantially cylindrical imperforate perpheral wall having an opening to the top surface for metering the contents to be dispensed. A cap body is reciprocally mounted on the central post and includes an inner periphery which cooperates with the post peripheral wall to form a variable opening between the cap body inner periphery and the post peripheral wall to provide a closure position and a plurality of dispensing positions for dispensing the contents of the container at a plurality of different rates as the cap body is moved on the post away from the closure position. A detent member is also included to provide a positive indication during movement of the cap body relative to the post that the cap body has reached at least one of the closure position and the plurality of dispensing positions.

Abstract: A two-piece tubed product dispensing closure wherein the cap member has a recessed top surface such that the connected tube can be stored in an upright position resting on the end closure. The closure includes a steep pitch double thread on the tube end in combination with a steep pitch single thread in the cap to create rapid opening and closing of the closure with good cap control.

Abstract: A fluid container (1) with a dosage assembly (3) for delivering a metered amount of fluid through an outlet opening (32) when the container is turned 180.degree.. The dosage assembly (3) includes a plunger (20) which is movable between positions which respectively open and block the outlet opening. A timer chamber (15) which includes an aperture (16) communicates with a passageway between the outlet opening (32) and the container through a feed opening 18. Metered amounts of fluid are dosed through the assembly by gravity movement of the plunger which controls fluid discharge.

Abstract: An adjustable metering closure cap which has an outer cap body which is adjustable along the length of a central metering post to provide more than one dispensing position. The inner periphery of the cap body cooperates with the outer periphery of the post along a portion of the length thereof by a push-pull or a screw type action or both to provide the closed and dispensing positions. The outer periphery of the metering post is configured with slots, grooves, ramps, steps or combinations thereof to provide the various metered dispensing openings.

Abstract: A dispenser including a container body, a mounting member fitted on the container body and a dispensing head such as an applicator head movably mounted on the mounting member. The mounting member includes an axially extending closure member with a pin member thereon. The dispensing head includes an aperture and an axially extending wall forming a skirted chamber beneath the aperture, the skirted chamber including slits at least one opening through the wall for controlling flow of material from outside the wall, through the opening and into the skirted chamber from the container body. The dispensing head is movable from an open position to a closed position wherein the closure member fits within the skirted chamber and the pin member fits within the aperture.

Abstract: The invention provides a twist open/close outer cap internally threaded to fit the threads on a special bottle neck in cooperative sealing attachment with an inner cap inserted into the bottle neck. Structural features and a stop provide bi-directional controlled rotation of the outer cap. A beveled top fluid release plug fitting a correspondingly beveled dispensing aperture and interacting insert structure provides excellent sealing characteristics. The outer cap is a short cylindrical member with an opened bottom and a shallow concave top surface. A flow directing inverted funnel-like protrusion is formed around a dispensing aperture in the center of the outer cap top. Depending from the underside of the outer cap top surface, is a cylindrical sleeve fitting a receiving chamber formed by two base attached walls in the second cap inserted into the neck of the bottle.

Abstract: A dispensing cap construction including a base cap attachable to a container, the base cap having a spout formation provided with a side wall and with a flow passage in the side wall, and a cover cap which is both turnably mounted on the base cap and axially movable theron between a lowered sealing position and a raised dispensing position. The cover cap has a discharge orifice, and a valving wall and dischage passage in the valving wall, both of which move circumferentially around the side wall of the spout formation. The valving wall moves into and out of a sealing position wherein it covers or uncovers the flow passage in the side wall of the base cap when the cover cap is turned. The valving wall has positions intermediate its full cover and full uncover positions wherein it only partially closes the flow passage. The discharge orifice of the cover cap is sealed at a point downstream of the flow passage of the base cap when the cover cap is in its lowered position thereon.

Abstract: A hydraulic fluid container (10,110) is specially adapted to mate with a vehicle hydraulic fluid reservoir (40,160) for the purpose of transferring fluid from the container to the reservoir. In one embodiment a spout (24) has a particular cross section which matches the opening (46) in the reservoir. In another embodiment a valve (148,150,216, 218,316,318,416,418) in the container or reservoir is opened by a probe (164,232,332) in the other of the container and reservoir when the container and reservoir are mated together. The invention prevents fluid from a container not specially adapted to the reservoir being added to reservoir.

Abstract: A closure for a bottle neck having a tubular upper portion internally having an upstanding post having at least one axially extending passage. The base has an upstanding portion having an external screw thread. The cap has a skirt rotatively surrounding the upper portion, and the skirt has at least one internal protuberance in screw threaded engagement with that screw thread. The cap has a closed top in which a hole is formed and which is closed by the upper end of the post formed by the base, the hole being closed by this upper end when the cap is screwed downwardly and opened when the cap is screwed upwardly.

Abstract: A device for a massage of the cutaneous covering comprises a reservoir and an applicator element, and an obturator situated between them. This obturator comprises two parts, the first, or movable part being provided with a central stud and at least one opening to allow the product to be applied to pass through this first part, and the second or actuating part comprising a disc provided with a central hole and extended by a lower skirt covering at least the movable part. The applicator element is fixed to said actuating part. The two parts constituting the obturator comprise means cooperating with each other to ensure their relative displacement. The device can be used in the field of cosmetics.

Abstract: A device for a massage of the cutaneous covering comprises a reservoir and an applicator element, and an obturator situated between them. This obturator comprises two parts, the first, or movable part being provided with a central stud and at least one opening to allow the product to be applied to pass through this first part, and the second or actuating part comprising a disc provided with a central hole and extended by a lower skirt covering at least the movable part. The applicator element is fixed to said actuating part. The two parts constituting the obturator comprise means cooperating with each other to ensure their relative displacement. The device can be used in the field of cosmetics.

Abstract: This invention relates to a dispensing stopper with rotating cap for pasty products, wherein axial displacement of the rotating cap is effected by cooperation of two series of oblique projections in contact and by cooperation of stops and oblique ramps. The base of the cap is further provided with a tearable guarantee strip.

Abstract: A pouring-stopper device for a container, comprising a stopper and a cover or seal movable relative to said stopper, in which said cover and stopper are provided with complementary means preventing separating the one from the other, the first movement of said cover relative to the stopper, which follows tearing the guarantee strip away, causing piercing of a lid, said first movement simultaneously causing in said cover, an outlet to be formed for the product contained in said container.

Abstract: A hand-held dispenser for a flowable product, comprising a container having a neck portion at its top, and a cap body having a discharge opening and a base portion cooperable with the neck portion of the container to mount the cap body thereon. The said base and neck portions have cooperable automatic pressure-relief valving means which are responsive to increased gas pressure in the container, for venting a limited quantity of gas when the container is in its upright position, thereby to prevent possible explosion of the container and spillage or splattering of its contents. In one embodiment, there is a first annular sealing surface on one portion and a cooperable annular sealing surface on a companion portion which is engageable with the said first surface when the cap body is fully seated on the neck portion, A projection on one of the portions is disposed adjacent the sealing surface thereof, and is engageable with the cooperable sealing surface on the other of the portions.

Abstract: A dispensing cap construction including a base cap attachable to a container, the base cap having a spout formation provided with a side wall and with a flow passage in the side wall, and a cover cap which is both turnably mounted on the base cap and axially movable thereon between a lowered sealing position and a raised dispensing position. The cover cap has a discharge orifice, and a valving wall and discharge passage in the valving wall, both of which move circumferentially around the side wall of the spout formation. The valving wall moves into and out of a sealing position wherein it covers or uncovers the flow passage in the side wall of the base cap when the cover cap is turned. The valving wall has positions intermediate its full cover and full uncover positions wherein it only partially closes the flow passage. The discharge orifice of the cover cap is sealed at a point downstream of the flow passage of the base cap when the cover cap is in its lowered position thereon.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a joggers fluid weighted exercising jug having a handle and fluid weight chambers to each side or end thereof and a dispensing connection actuatable by the teeth of the jogger to partake of a nutritional liquid from within the jug without having to stop jogging. The overall geometric configuration of the jug generally resembles a dumbbell.

Abstract: Apparatus for the metered removal of a pasty or fluid substance and including a storage container for the pasty or fluid substance and having an interior with a constant internal cross section, an upper end with an outlet nozzle, and a body having an opened lower end, a plunger disposed in the body of the storage container and being upwardly displaceable to exert a feed pressure on the interior of the storage container, and a piston rod for actuating the plunger and having a support foot projecting from below into the storage container and bearing removably on the plunger.

Abstract: The obturating device for tubes, flasks and the like containers of fluids, comprises a valve-cap with a plate, said plate having an upper part with a secondary component protruding at said upper part, blades protruding in middle of an outlet passage for the fluid in order to maintain the secondary component, said plate downwardly extending into a fitting skirt for a neck of the container. The fitting skirt comprises an outer periphery with two diametrically opposed notches with said valve-cap being associated with a casing which comprises a plate having a central hole and an outer fitting skirt with two symmetrically opposed orientating inner ramps. The ramps are used as a bearing member for the notches of the valve-cap.

Abstract: An economical, non-clogging apparatus for dispensing premeasured amounts of liquid from a container placed on a shelf is provided which contains no spring, has a secure shipping mode, permits one-handed operation, has few moving parts, and avoids liquid wastage by preventing inadvertent removal of the rotatable outer cap. In preferred forms, the apparatus includes a tubular, stationary member received partly within the container's outlet neck a tubular, movable member coupled with and received partly within the stationary member, and a stem co-axially received within the movable member and coupled with the stationary member. These components cooperatively define a measuring chamber, an inlet opening, and an outlet aperture.

Abstract: A captive dispensing cap construction having a body part that is adapted to be carried on a container neck, and a screw cap part that is captive on the body part and is turnable thereon between a retracted, fully screwed on sealing position and an extended, discharge position. Cooperable threads are provided on the parts, to enable the cap part to be moved toward its retracted sealing position. The body part has a pair of upwardly facing cam tracks that are disposed opposite one another, and which are engaged respectively by a pair of interior lugs on the underside of the cap part. During unscrewing of the latter, the lugs ride up the tracks, thereby shifting the cap part axially upward toward its discharge position. Adjacent the lower ends of the cam tracks are abutment shoulders disposed in the path of movement of the lugs, providing tactual resistance to the initial unscrewing of the cap part.

Abstract: A hand-held dispenser for a flowable product, including a container having a neck portion at its top, and a cap body having a discharge opening and a base portion cooperable with the neck portion of the container to mount the cap body thereon. The base and neck portions have cooperable automatic pressure-relief valving structures which are responsive to increased gas pressure in the container, for venting a limited quantity of gas when the container is in its upright position, so as to prevent possible explosion of the container and spillage or splattering of its contents. In one form, there is a first annular sealing surface on one portion and a cooperable annular sealing surface on a companion portion which is engageable with the first surface when the cap body is fully seated on the neck portion. A projection on one of the portions is located adjacent the sealing surface thereof, and is engageable with the cooperable sealing surface on the other of the portions.

Abstract: A dosaging device for dispensing defined amounts of a liquid being contained in a bottle with a squeezable wall. A valve is disposed between the content of the bottle and the dosaging container which can be selectively opened or closed by turning a gripping piece. The openings for feeding the bottle content into the dosage container are arranged in a specific manner with respect to the pouring orifice. An oblique trough which encompasses the pouring orifice reduces the still remaining liquid in the area of the pouring orifice back into the dosaging container, after the pouring. Baffle ribs are mounted on the inner side of the lid which covers the dosage container to the outside and which contains the pouring orifice in such a manner that they limit the liquid film formed by the impact of the liquid streams on the inside of the lid in direction of the opening provided for pouring.