J.l. Clark, Inc.

Schering-plough Healthcare Products Inc.

Gordon E VerWeyst

George Solowiejko

Edward P Cronin

Walter P Pietruch

Craig M Ressler

Richard L Peterson

Douglas E Pherigo

Robert T McBride, Jr

Ed Cronin

Alan W Kieler

Alfred I Gray

Charles E Burk

Container

Container lid

Closure for a carton

Plastic container

Lip balm dispenser

Spice container

Spice container with tear strip

Lid for a spice container

A snap-on closure prevents flaps from coming unsnapped or popping open during assembly of the closure onto the neck of a container. The snap-on connection between the container and the closure includes a circular groove and a circular rib projecting into the groove. The closure includes dispensing ports such as sifter holes, a pouring hole, and/or a spooning hole which are closed by hinged flaps which snap-on the horizontal platform of the closure. The flaps may include plugs which project into their respective dispensing openings and provide a seal against the wall of the opening. The closure also includes a resilient crush seal which engages the neck of the container to provide a seal between the closure and the container.

Snap-on container closure with hinged flap

A low profile container for packaging a compact disc (CD) and a 3.5' floppy disc. The container has separable container top and bottom. The container bottom has a dish with a depth greater than the combined thickness of the CD and the floppy disc and two separate levels for receiving respectively the CD and the floppy disc. In one embodiment, the dish has a circular depression for receiving the optical disc, and four notches on the wall of the circular depression for receiving the four corners of the floppy disc.

Container for packaging recorded media

Bottom of a disc container for CD and floppy discs

A fitment made of plastic and adapted to be telescoped over the neck of a jar to facilitate dispensing of the contents of the jar. The fitment includes a top wall having a spoon or pour opening adapted to be selectively closed by a flap which is hinged to the top wall to swing between closed and open positions, the flap being formed with sift holes to allow the contents to be sifted from the jar when the flap is closed. The lower sides of the top wall and the flap are flat and, when the flap is closed, lie in a common plane so as to define a flat and planar surface for supporting and backing a paper-like disc for initially sealing the jar. A circumferentially continuous skirt depends from the top wall and engages a bead on the neck of the jar to hold the fitment on the jar. When the flap is closed, a lift tab on the flap fits into a notch in the top wall and overlies an arcuate section of the skirt.

Dispensing fitment for a container

A flap is hinged on a container closure to swing between open and closed positions relative to a dispensing opening in the closure. When the flap is closed, upstanding ribs shield the free edge of the flap. A lift tab projects outwardly from the free edge of the flap and extends between the ribs to facilitate swinging of the flap to its open position. The flap is held releasably in its closed position by virtue of the ends of the ribs engaging the side edges of the tab with a snap fit and also by virtue of straight sections of the ribs engaging straight sections on the free edge of the flap with a snap fit at areas located adjacent the tab.

Container closure with hinged flap

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Rockford, IL, United States of America

Gordon E VerWeyst