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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2023
H.j. Heinz Company Brands Llc, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Balint Hiltser, Lent, NL;
Jonathan Ralph De Jong, Arnhem, NL;
Geert Petrus Jacobus Scholte, Roggel, NL;
Bastiaan Pieter Hemmes, Eindhoven, NL;
Fredrik Cornelis Stam, Veldhoven, NL;
Charlotte Catherine Erik Devries, Ede, NL;
H.J. Heinz Company Brands LLC, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods provided herein are useful for dispensing a fluid from a bottle that includes a closure cap with a flip-top lid, a base, and a tamper evident structure configured to indicate whether the closure cap has been previously opened. In some configurations, an area of the closure cap that a user manually leverages to open the cap includes a recess. By one approach, prior to initial opening, the movable wall covers most portion of the recess, and then upon initial opening, a user manually rotates the movable wall from the first generally vertical configuration to a second configuration that is moved inward into the recess.