Owens-illinois Closure, Inc.

Unilever Home and Personal Care Usa, Division of Conopco, Inc.

Owens-illinois Prescription Products Inc.

Owens-closure Inc.

Eugene Francis Haffner

George Richard Trepina

Edward John Giblin

Mark D Gerhart

Gregory A Geisinger

Michael K Goettner

Wing-Kwong Keung

William W Brecheisen

James E Hiltner

Anthony J Scott

Jon B Ogilvie

Robert Charles Blanc

Gerald Ross Robinson

Mark R Kidd

Carlton Roy Mousseau

Leonora M Brozell

William E Fillmore

Timothy J Fuchs

John M Shingle

Harry Hamilton Haubert, Iii

Robert A Myers

Igor F Beaufils

Ruixin Fan

Douglas S Struble

Noel T Vander

Luz Rios

Anthony Jason Scott

James Earl Hiltner

Thomas P Royce

A child resistant package includes a container having a finish with at least one external thread and at least one pocket in an undersurface of the thread. A closure for receipt on the finish of the container has a base wall, a skirt with an axis, at least one internal thread having at least one lug for receipt in the pocket of the container finish, and a spring disposed between the base wall and the container finish external thread. The spring yieldably biases the closure away from the finish and urges the lug into the pocket. The spring is a progressive spring that includes at least two spring rings preferably extending from the base wall at an angle to the axis of the skirt. The spring rings are radially spaced from each other and a first spring ring has a greater axial dimension or length than a second spring ring, with the first spring ring axially overlying the second spring ring.

Child-resistant package

Dispensing closure

Dose cup

Closure

Spigot and collar assembly

A dual-outlet dispensing closure for dispensing fluid products from a dual-chamber container that includes a base for securement to a container and having laterally adjacent outlet openings for alignment with outlets in the container. A turret is mounted on the base for conjoint pivotal movement of dual outlet passages between a closed position in which the turret blocks the outlet openings in the base, and an open position in which the turret passages are aligned with and open to the outlet openings to dispense product. The passages are preferably provided in the form of elongated barrels that are angulated with respect to each other so that the fluid products dispensed from the respective barrels meet and mix with each other at a position spaced from the closure. The base preferably includes vent openings for venting the container chambers to atmosphere as products are dispensed from the container.

Dual-outlet dispensing closure

Container

A valve assembly and an ergonomic, convenient to use container for liquids such as heavy duty detergents, fabric softeners and the like, which includes the valve assembly. The valve assembly preferably includes at least two separate pieces, (i) a valve, and (ii) a collar for securing the valve to the container.

Spigot assembly for container

Vent closure

Finish has bayonet provisions, each including axial catch portions, stop, rib and detent ridge downward from the distal end of the catch portion. Finish also has ramp provisions, each including axial stop and sloping wedge portion extending down from top of axial stop and sloping at 40&deg; from an imaginary circumferential line at the base of the wedge portion. The stops, detent ridges and wedges all provide tactile notification to user as to where lugs on a cooperant cap are vis-a-vis catch portion and top of finish.

Bayonet-type finish for a container

A closure for a container-and-closure sealing system embodied in a container and closure package, and method of making the same. The container has an open mouth surrounded by a cylindrical neck wall having internal threads and an open upper edge. The closure is a cap/dispensing cup type and has a skirt with external threads adapted for threaded receipt within the container neck wall. A circumferentially continuous flange projects outwardly from the skirt and has a conical portion adapted for cam engaging, trapping and sealing with the open upper edge of the neck wall as the closure is threaded into this wall. The closure skirt also has a circumferentially continuous plug-type sealing surface that extends radially outwardly from the skirt between the trapping flange and closure external threads adapted for interference sealing engagement with the neck wall as the closure is threaded thereinto. The materials of the closure and container may differ in hardness relative to another so that either the plug seal rib of the juxtaposed neck wall surface deforms under closure/container engaging forces to thereby enhance the sealing capability and life. The flange has a conical skirt wall portion integrally dependent from a flange radial wall portion that is adapted to sealing cam wedge embrace the neck open upper edge and creates increasing squeeze force as the closure is threaded into the neck wall. A concentrically intermediate annular seal is also provided in the form of V-rib or liner material interposed in assembly between the container upper edge and the flange radial wall portion. The container neck wall may have a circumferentially continuous internal groove disposed between the neck internal threads and open upper edge for receiving the closure plug seal rub by interference snap fit when the closure is threaded into the wall and reaches closed position thereon to thereby enhance removal torque capability.

Closure for container and closure package and method of making same

A container assembly that includes a container having a body with a cylindrical neck and an integral lug projecting radially inwardly from the neck. A fitment has a cylindrical wall adapted to be received within the container neck. The fitment wall has internal threads for receiving a container cap, and an axial slot adapted to be received by snap fit over the lug in the container neck. The neck lug thus cooperates with the slot in the fitment wall for both retaining the fitment axially within the neck, and preventing circumferential rotation of the fitment within the neck. The fitment and cap are provided to a packager as a subassembly separate from the container. The container is rapidly filled with product through the relatively large opening in the container neck, and the cap/fitment subassembly is then snapped into the container neck to complete the package assembly.

Dispensing package and method of use

Spray pump transition collar

This finish has bayonet provisions, each including circumferential catch portions, a first stop rib and a detent ridge downward from the distal end of the catch portion. This finish also has ramp provisions, each including a second stop rib and a sloping wedge portion extending down from top of the stop rib and having a surface sloping at 40.degree. from an imaginary circumferential line at the wedge portion. The stops, detent ridges and wedge surfaces all provide tactile notification to user as to the location of lugs on a cooperant cap on the finish.

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Waterville, OH, United States of America

Eugene Francis Haffner