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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 29, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
David Austin Burt, Berkshire, GB;
Assignee:
Illinois Tool Works Inc., Glenview, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65D 2/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65D 2/730 ;
Abstract
A tamper resistant seal comprises a series of ratchet teeth (,) arranged along a strap (,), with one end of the strap (,) being secured to a body (,) and the other end of the strap (,) being insertable into the body (,) so as to move the ratchet teeth (,) sequentially past a resiliently deformable catch (,), wherein the resiliently deformable catch (,) includes a pair of opposed jaws (,) which are movable laterally primarily with a vise-like or spelling action rather than a collet-like or flexing action.