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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2000
Patrick Masterton, Carol Stream, IL (US);
Other;
Abstract
A container and closure assembly, which includes a container and a container cap. The container cap is attached to the neck of the container through the use of an annual securing ring, which is incorporated into the cap and approximates the securing ring in the neck of the bottle and is press fit over the neck of the bottle. The opening of the container is covered with a section of cap that extends some distance into the neck of the container. The container is sealed at the surfaces where the inside of the container neck, the lip of the container neck and the outside of the container neck come in contact with the container cap. The contents of the bottle can be dispensed from the inverted position by rotating the container cap circumferentially with respect to the neck of the container. The circumferential motion causes the offset tool in the neck of the bottle to engaged the engagement ring in the base of the container cap thereby causing the container cap diaphragm to shear away from the container cap main body along the annular strain relief between the container cap diaphragm and the main body of the container cap.