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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:
Apr. 24, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 12, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas H Hayes, Atlanta, GA (US);
Cyril Hadyn Saunders, Wantage, GB;
Assignee:
CarnaudMetalbox (Holdings) USA Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65D 4/530 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65D 4/530 ;
Abstract
A composite closure for a container has a moulded plastics band (,) closed at one end by a plastics sure disc (,) which is held captive within a recess formed around the band interior. Also on the band interior is a screw thread (,) by which the closure may attached to a container neck (,). The disc is cut from flat plastics sheet and is initially plane. However, when the closure is fitted to the container a marginal edge region,surrounding the container neck is deformed downwardly to generally frustoconical form.