Seaquistperfect Dispensing Foreign, Inc.

Aptargroup, Inc.

Cheer Pack North America

Seaquist Perfect Dispensing Gmbh

Wilson Sporting Goods Co.

Other

Seaquist Closures Foreign, Inc.

Peter J Walters

Sean H Cho

Jason A Ksiazk

Sean Hang Cho

Craig A Braun

David A Williamson

Mark Neuhalfen

Patrick Timothy Yerby

Gerald J Marquardt

Jonathan D Werner

Paul E Hallman

Stephen Gosling

Paul Van Den Hoonaard

David Moore

Steve Gosling

Reinhard Neuhaus

Detlef Schmitz

Bernhard Jasper

Ralf Jordan

David G Moore

Mark G Neuhalfen

Volker Umbeer

James S Lundmark

John P Hinson

Ronald E Kieras

Ralph J Cichon

Jörg Kohlne

Volker c/o Aptargroup Inc Umbeer

Craig Braun

A tamper-evident closure for a container includes a straw having an outer edge with an outwardly extending projection. The closure includes a cap with a rib. A tamper-evident tab extends from the rib. The tab has an inwardly extending lug configured to engage with the outwardly extending projection of the straw as the cap rotates relative to the straw. The tab has a hinge coupled with the rib. The hinge is configured to rotate the tab outwardly relative to the rib. The tab also has a foldable portion configured to fold to provide a visual indication when the cap is an unsealed configuration.

Tamper-evident cap

A closure for a container. The closure includes an outer shell having a proximal end, a distal end, an inner surface, and an outer surface. The closure also including an inner cap having a proximal end, a distal end, an inner surface, and an outer surface. A plurality of ribs extend from the inner cap to the outer shell. A tamper-evident band encircles the distal end of the inner cap. The tamper-evident band includes a plurality of tamper-evident segments. Each tamper-evident segment has a tab coupled with one of the plurality of ribs and a break segment. A first end of the break segment is coupled with the tab and a second end of the break segment is coupled with an adjacent one of the plurality of ribs.

Tamper-evident closure for container

A closure for a container. The closure include an outer shell having a proximal end, a distal end, an inner surface, and an outer surface. The closure also including an inner cap having a proximal end, a distal end, an inner surface, and an outer surface. A plurality of ribs extend from the inner cap to the outer shell. A tamper-evident band encircles the distal end of the inner cap. The tamper-evident band includes a plurality of tamper-evident segments. Each tamper-evident segment has a tab coupled with one of the plurality of ribs and a break segment. A first end of the break segment is coupled with the tab and a second end of the break segment is coupled with an adjacent one of the plurality of ribs.

A flip-top closure includes a spout, a lid, and a hinge member. The spout is configured for coupling with a fitment of a container. The spout includes a base portion, a tip portion, and a main body. The base portion defines a retention receptacle and an inlet. The inlet includes a first diameter. The tip portion extends from the base portion and defines a dispensation outlet. The base portion and the tip portion cooperate to define a passageway that extends between the inlet and the dispensation outlet. The lid includes a main body that includes an upper wall and a sidewall that cooperate to define an interior. The hinge member is coupled with each of the spout and the sidewall of the main body. The hinge member is configured to facilitate pivoting of the lid between a closed position and an opened position.

Flip-top closure for container

An improvement is provided in an actuator for actuating a valve on a container for dispensing a fluent product from the container in a fan spray pattern. The actuator includes a dispensing flow path to direct fluent product from the valve to an exterior of the actuator via an exit orifice located at an end of the flow path, and a post defining a portion of the flow path, the post extending along and centered on a longitudinal axis and having an end face adjacent said exit orifice. The improvement includes a flow channel extending laterally across the end face of the post, the flow channel being symmetric about a lateral axis extending transverse to the longitudinal axis of the post, a portion of the flow channel directly communicating with said exit orifice to direct the fluent product from the flow channel into the exit orifice.

Fan spray structure for use in dispensing actuator

An improved tension rod having a first thin-wall metal tube, a plastic bushing inserted inside the first metal tube, a second thin-wall metal tube the second metal tube set partially inside the first metal tube, a helically-wound metal spring with an eyelet on one end and a two closed coils on the other end, the metal spring retained inside the first metal tube by a first diameter metal rivet and in the second metal tube by a second diameter metal rivet, the second metal tube having an end cap on the end opposite the first metal tube, a third metal tube being an extension tube connected to the first metal tube by an expansion clamp located between the first metal tube and the extension tube, the extension tube having an end cap located opposite the first metal tube.

Tension rod and room divider assembly

A touchless dispenser is provided for a pressurized container including a valve member. The dispenser comprises a housing mountable to the container. An electrically controlled valve in the housing includes an inlet and an outlet. The inlet maintains the valve member in an open position incident to the housing being mounted on the container. A nozzle extends between the valve outlet and a discharge orifice. A sensor senses a user's hand proximate the discharge orifice. A control in the housing is operatively coupled to the sensor and the electrically controlled valve. The control controls operation of the electrically controlled valve to dispense a select dosage of product from the container responsive to the sensor sensing presence of a user's hand proximate the discharge orifice.

Touchless dispenser

An actuator (') is provided for actuating a valve () on a container () for dispensing a fluent product. The actuator (&#x2032;) includes an exterior housing (&#x2032;) and a rotatable member (&#x2032;). The rotatable member (&#x2032;) is located in an interior chamber () of the housing (&#x2032;) and includes an engageable surface () located in a circumferentially extending window () of the housing (&#x2032;) to be engaged by a user for movement of the engageable surface () within the window () between a locked position wherein movement of an actuator button () from an un-actuated position to an actuated position is prevented and an unlocked position wherein movement of the actuator button () from the un-actuated position to the actuated position is allowed to actuate the valve ().

Lockable dispensing package and actuator

A dispensing actuator for use on a container having pressurized contents is configured for convenient one-handed manipulation and use by consumers. The dispensing actuator includes a hingedly moveable flip-open lid, and a laterally moveable opening element, which can be manipulated so that the opening element cooperates with the lid to move the lid from a closed position to an opened position. The present dispensing actuator further includes an inner, downwardly deflectable actuating element, operatively connected with a dispensing valve of the associated container. Resilient, downward deflection of the actuating element, after opening of the dispensing actuator lid, permits the contents of the container to be conveniently dispensed. In one embodiment, the contents of the container are dispensed generally laterally of the dispensing actuator, while in alternate embodiments, the container's contents are dispensed generally upwardly, through the actuating element of the dispensing actuator.

Dispensing actuator with flip-open lid

A package () is provided for containing and dispensing a fluent product. The package () includes a fitment body () having a tailpiece () defining a dispensing passage () extending along a longitudinal axis (), and a collapsible pouch () for containing a fluent product to be dispensed, the pouch () defined by at least two opposing, flexible, web portions (). The fitment body () extends from a dispensing end () of the pouch () with the tailpiece () being sandwiched between the flexible web portions (), and the flexible web portions () being welded to each other and to the tailpiece () to define a robust weld structure ().

Robust pouch and valve assembly for containing and dispensing a fluent substance

Fluid dispensing actuator

Spray actuator

An improved actuator is disclosed for actuating an aerosol valve for dispensing an aerosol product from an aerosol container. The improved actuator comprises a base for mounting to the aerosol container. A unitary actuator button supports a nozzle extending between the aerosol valve and a terminal orifice. The actuator button is rotatable about the base between a locked rotational position and an unlocked rotational position. The unitary actuator button is movable for pivoting the nozzle button to actuate the aerosol valve for dispensing aerosol product from the terminal orifice when the actuator button is in the unlocked rotational position. The unitary actuator button is inhibited from pivoting the nozzle button when the actuator button is rotated into the locked rotational position.

Aerosol actuator

An inverted aerosol dispensing device is disclosed having an undercap rotatably secured to the aerosol container with a bottom portion of the undercap supporting the aerosol container on a supporting surface to store the aerosol dispensing device in an inverted position. The undercap is rotatable into a first rotational position for enabling an actuator to discharge an aerosol product in a generally downwardly direction. The undercap is rotatable into a second rotational position for inhibiting the actuator from moving the valve stem.

Inverted aerosol dispenser

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Barrington, IL, United States of America

Peter J Walters