H.j. Heinz Company Brands LLC

Obrist Closures Switzerland Gmbh

Heinz Kettler Gmbh & Co. Kg

Thomas Peter Cox

Guus Lueb

Balint Hiltser

Jamie David Fox

Patrick Schmidt

Kim Bertens-Vlems

Charlotte Catherine Erik Devries

Jamie Fox

Balint Hilster

In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to contain and dispense a fluid, such as a thixotropic fluid. In some embodiments, a bottle having a closure cap includes a control device, a base, and a disk, where the base and disk define a mixing chamber configured to facilitate mixing of any serum or liquid separated from the fluid back therein. In some embodiments, a dispensing bottle includes a non-removable closure cap with a tamper evident feature that indicates whether the cap was previously opened. By one approach, the dispensing bottle includes discontinuous threads on a bottle neck and ratchet projections on a closure cap that engage the discontinuous thread(s) to prevent or inhibit manual removal of the cap from the bottle.

Container, closure, and methods for manufacture

In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods provided herein are useful for dispensing a fluid, such as a thixotropic fluid. In some embodiments, a bottle having a closure cap includes a flip top, a base, and a disk, where the base and disk define a mixing chamber configured to facilitate mixing of any serum or liquid separated from the fluid back therein. In some configurations, the base has a central opening through which the fluid exits and an internal shaft with a non-planar end surface opposite the central opening. In some configurations, the non-planar end surface and the disk define channels between the mixing chamber and the internal shaft. In some embodiments, the disk includes a central opening, a plurality of partial annular openings through a planar surface of the disk, and projections extending into the mixing chamber.

A tamper-evident closure is provided and includes a base and a lid. The lid is movable between a closed and an open position with respect to the base. The closure includes a tamper-evident member which is initially provided on or by the base with the closure in an unopened condition. The tamper-evident member is released from the base when the lid is initially moved to the open position and is then retained by the lid.

Closure

A dispensing cap comprising a dispensing orifice and an anti-glug orifice, the cap further comprising a closure member movable from a closed position to an open position, in which in the closed position the anti-glug orifice is blocked by the closure member and the dispensing orifice is closed, and in the open position the dispensing orifice is open and the anti-glug orifice is unblocked.

Dispensing cap

An exercise apparatus includes a pair of handle elements and a pair of housing elements. Each handle element includes a manually grippable bar and a base portion having a substantially spherical contact surface. Each housing element is substantially hemispherical and has a substantially central window. Each handle element is releasably locatable within a housing element to form a substantially hemispherical handle body in which the contact surface of the handle element is located within the window of the housing element and provides a contact point about which the housing body is rotatable when located on a support surface.

Exercise apparatus

A closure combination () comprising a dispensing closure body () and a container neck (). The dispensing closure body () and container neck () comprise co-operable screw threads () that allow the dispensing closure body () to be screwed onto the container neck () into an engaged condition. The co-operable screw threads () prevent the dispensing closure body () from being unscrewed from the container neck () after the dispensing closure body () has been screwed onto the container neck () into a locked condition. A dispensing closure body () comprising an internal screw thread () that comprises a reversed-thread run out portion (). A container with a container neck () comprising an external screw thread () that comprises a reversed-thread run out portion (). A method of providing a tamper-resistance container closure combination ().

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Norwich Norfolk, United Kingdom

Thomas Peter Cox