James River-norwalk, Inc.

Dulux Australia Ltd.

Jerome Gould

Thomas W Kellogg

A device for removing a flexible cap from the end of a cylindrical neck over which it is fitted includes an ejector element constrained to move in a circumferential track one side of which track is formed by the lip of the cap. The ejector element is shaped such that movement thereof along the track will force the element against the lip of the cap, displacing it and rendering it readily removable. The device can usefully be incorporated into containers such as storage jars, bottles and paint containers, or into pipe ends.

Device for removing a flexible cap from a cylindrical neck

A package includes two or more individual cup dispensing units, each unit comprising a carton holding a stack of nested tapered cups. Each carton of a dispensing unit is of paperboard having a generally circular opening in a top wall through which the tapered cups protrude, and which opening is surrounded by a series of short radial knife cuts defining a series of yieldable tabs on the wall which permit the topmost protruding cup to be pulled through the opening, but which function to restrain the cups immediately below. The bottom wall of the carton is formed with a generally circular opening, either fully cut-out or defined by a series of radial cuts, which permits the protruding tapered cups of a similar, adjacent carton to extend through the bottom opening into the carton to form a compact, multiple dispensing unit package which is shrink wrapped for shipping and display.

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Encino, CA, United States of America

Jerome Gould