Ethyl Products Company

Vca, Inc.

Ethyl Molded Products Company

Pittway Corporation

Seaquist Closures

Other

Chanel, Inc.

Seaquist Closures, a Division of Pittway Corporation

Efrem M Ostrowsky

William G Crowle

Thomas H Hayes

Jean-Pierre Lina

David G Moore

John P Kinsley

Werner R Luenser

Ronald L Kelly

Herve Pennaneach

Anthony F Schepis

A dispensing closure system is provided for a container having an opening through which the contents of the container are dispensed. A unitary operating structure is mounted on one side of the opening and includes first and second arms connected together by an integral hinge at adjacent ends of the arms. The opposite ends of the arms are secured to the container at spaced apart pivots. The arms and the hinge are constructed and arranged to permit the arms and the hinge to be moved between a first stable position with the hinge disposed outside a line passing through the spaced apart pivots and a second stable position with the hinge disposed inside the line. A closure member is fixed to one of the arms for pivotal movement between a first position closing the opening when the arms and the hinge are in the first stable position, and a second position spaced outwardly of the opening when the arms and the hinge are in the second stable position. Therefore, the closure member is opened by pushing inwardly on the arms of the operating structure in a direction opposite the opening direction of the closure member.

Press-to-open dispensing closure

A finger-operated pump is provided with a pump chamber and a fixed supply conduit communicating with the pump chamber. A movable sealing conduit is adapted to slidably and sealingly engage the supply conduit in a telescoping relationship. A primary piston is operably disposed in the chamber and defines a discharge passage out of the pump chamber. A poppet having a primary valve means for occluding the discharge passage is biased against the primary piston by a spring. The poppet has a secondary valve means for occluding flow through the sealing conduit that engages the poppet through a lost motion arrangement which is defined in part by the spring and which permits a limited degree of relative movement between the poppet and the sealing conduit.

Atomizing pump

A container closure is provided with a structure that permits it to be readily disassembled and assembled for use on a container defining an opening communicating with the container interior. The closure includes a body and a cover separate from the body. The cover is adapted to be pivoted about an axis between a closed position occluding a dispensing orifice in the body and at least one open position spaced away from the dispensing orifice. An axis-defining structure is provided on either the cover or the body for defining the pivot axis of the closure, and also includes a cam surface around the axis. The other one of the cover or body is provided with a receiving structure for engaging the cam surface to mount the cover to the body for pivoting about the axis. Either or both of the cover and body is elastically deformable. The deformable structure is least stressed when the cover is at one of the open positions. The deformable structure is most stressed when the cover is at over center point between the open and closed positions.

Two-piece, snap-action closure

A press-to-open dispensing closure is provided for the mouth of a container. It includes a closure body and a nozzle assembly carried by the closure body. The closure body has a deck extending across a portion of the container top, and the deck defines a port through which communication with the container interior is established. The nozzle assembly includes a forwardly projecting dispensing nozzle and a rearwardly projecting actuating member above the deck. The nozzle assembly is pivotably supported in the closure body to accommodate pivoting movement between an open and a closed position. In one embodiment, spring members are provided on the closure body and project upwardly for resiliently biasing the nozzle assembly toward the closed position.

Self-closing, press-to-open, dispensing closure

Dispensing closure cap

A dispensing package having a tamper-evident dispensing closure. A tamper-indicating removable strip is integrally formed with the closure and is secured to one of the closure body and closure cover via frangible bridging means. The closure hingedly connects the cover and body. The body defines a dispensing orifice and the cover seals the orifice. The strip defines spaces and the other one of the body and cover defines projections which extend into the spaces to resist relative movement of the body and cover unless the frangible bridging means are severed and thereby shows that access has been gained to the dispensing orifice. The closure is preferably generally circular and the tamper-indicating means are preferably within the perimeter of the closure.

Tamper-evident dispensing closure

This invention relates to a thermoplastic tamper-indicating closure. The closure features a top wall and an annular downwardly depending sidewall. Connected to the lower end of the annular sidewall by way of an annular frangible area is an annular tamper-indicating band. The tamper-indicating band features an annular upper portion which depends downwardly from the frangible area. The band additionally has an annular lower portion hingedly connected to the annular upper portion and which comprises a plurality of spaced apart tabs with each tab connected to its neighboring tab by way of a flexible web. Each of the tabs preferably has a scalloped recess at their lower extent to provide some circumferential flexibility when the annular lower portion of the band is hinged inwardly from its molded position to its utilitarian position.

Tamper-indicating closure

This invention relates to a thermoplastic closure having a top wall and an annular sidewall downwardly depending therefrom. By way of an annular frangible area, there is an annular tamper-indicating band connected to the lowermost extent of the closure annular sidewall. The annular tamper-indicating band has an annular upper portion which depends downwardly from the annular frangible area. The band additionally has an annular lower portion which comprises a plurality of spaced-apart tabs, each tab connected to its neighboring tab by way of a flexible web. Each of the tabs has an outwardly extending projection at its lowermost extent. These projections each provide a surface which will be placed in a position of interference with a container annular flange when the tabs are bent inwardly and upwardly and the closure is fitted to the container. The annular upper portion is connected to the annular lower portion by way of an annular hinge.

A closure for fitment to the threaded neck of a container is disclosed. The closure is especially adapted for use in packaging products such as carbonated beverages. The closure has a circular top wall and an annular skirt downwardly depending therefrom. The skirt carries about its inside surface a closure thread for cooperation with the neck thread of the container. A circular, flexible, resilient liner is positioned against but rotatable with respect to the inside surface of the top wall and has a diameter greater than the outside diameter of the container lip which defines the container mouth. There is provided an annular projection which is located adjacent the inside intersection of the top wall and the skirt. This projection has a configuration whereby it presses the liner on the outside edge of the container lip to form a gas-tight seal when the closure is fitted onto the container.

Threaded closure with liner

This invention relates to a thermoplastic tamper-indicating closure. The closure features a top wall and an annular downwardly depending sidewall. Connected to the lower end of the annular sidewall by way of an annular area is an annular tamper-indicating band. The annular area has a frangible and a non-frangible portion. The tamper-indicating band has a vertical frangible area which extends across its width and which is preferably generally opposite the non-frangible area. The tamper-indicating band also features an annular upper portion which depends downwrdly from the annular area. The band additionally has an annular lower portion hingedly connected to the annular upper portion and which comprises a plurality of spaced apart tabs with each tab connected to its neighboring tab by way of a flexible web. Each of the tabs preferably has a scalloped recess at their lower extent to provide some circumferential flexibility when the annular lower portion of the band is hinged inwardly from its molded position to its utilitarian position.

This invention relates to a thermoplastic tamper-indicating closure. The closure features a top wall and an annular downwardly depending sidewall. Connected to the lower end of the annular sidewall by way of an annular area is an annular tamper-indicating band. The annular area has a frangible and a non-frangible portion. The tamper-indicating band has a vertical frangible area which extends across its width and which is preferably generally opposite the non-frangible area. The tamper-indicating band also features an annular upper portion which depends downwardly from the annular area. The band additionally has an annular lower portion which comprises a plurality of spaced-apart tabs, each tab connected to its neighboring tab by way of a flexible web. Each of the tabs has an outwardly extending projection at its lowermost extent. These projections each provide a surface which will be placed in a position of interference with a container annular flange when the tabs are bent inwardly and upwardly and the closure is fitted to the container. The annular upper portion is connected to the annular lower portion by way of an annular hinge.

A thermoplastic closure suitable for fitment to a threaded container neck is disclosed. The closure has at least one venting groove in the sidewall traversing the closure thread. A rigidifying means is provided at the point of traverse of the venting groove and the closure thread. This rigidifying means has a perpendicular height measured from the sidewall less than the perpendicular height of the closure thread also measured from the sidewall. The rigidifying means provides hoop strength to the closure sidewall.

Vented closure

An integral thermoplastic biasing hinge is disclosed. Hinged plate members are biased to achieve one of two positions, e.g., an open or closed position by the utilization of a spring member having two arms which are resiliently connected at one of their ends and hingedly connected to the plate members at their other ends.

Overcenter hinge

This invention relates to a tamperproof package which includes a thermoplastic closure for fitment to a container which has a threaded neck portion and an outwardly extending annular flange adjacent but beneath the threaded neck portion. The thermoplastic closure features an annular band which is attached to the lowermost extent of the closure sidewall by way of a plurality of spaced-apart frangible ribs. Pendantly attached to the lower portion of the annular band is a plurality of spaced-apart tabs. These tabs are inwardly foldable so that a tab portion will be in a position of interference with the container annular flange when the closure is fitted to the container. This interference prevents removal of the closure from the container unless there is fracture of the frangible ribs. Rib fracture indicates that the closure has been tampered with by removal or attempted removal of the closure.

Tamperproof closure

A thermoplastic closure suitable for fitment to a threaded container neck is disclosed. The closure has a top wall with an annular sidewall depending therefrom. To provide a gas-tight seal between the closure and the container, there is provided a gas-tight sealing system above the closure thread. About the inside surface of the annular sidewall is an extended closure thread which, due to its extent, requires the user to make two turning motions to achieve removal of the closure from the container. By requiring two turning motions, sufficient time is provided for venting of any pressurized gas from the container to the atmosphere. This venting can be facilitated by the utilization of any conventional venting means.

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Highland Park, IL, United States of America

Efrem M Ostrowsky