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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020
Filed:
May. 10, 2016
Behr Process Corporation, Santa Ana, CA (US);
Gregory James Warren, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Robert L. Vance, Santa Ana, CA (US);
Anthony Gmitruk, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Jose L. Vega, Whittier, CA (US);
BEHR PROCESS CORPORATION, Santa Ana, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of removing a closure from a container includes engaging three or more pry fingers against a lid and a container of the package in three or more locations spaced circumferentially around the package, and moving the pry fingers against the container and the lid, to pry the lid away from the container. A closure remover includes a frame, an actuator movable with respect to the frame, and a plurality of kinematic links movably carried between the frame and the actuator and including a plurality of articulatable pry fingers.