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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2001
John Popovich, New Castle, PA (US);
Mark Clause, New Castle, PA (US);
Michael Marino, late of New Castle, PA (US);
West Penn Plastic, Inc., New Castle, PA (US);
Abstract
A dual tamper evident container closure for a dispensing container, the cap portion being of a type intended to be held permanently captive on the container having a nozzle dispensing opening, multiple sealing flanges and dual locking engagement beads to retain the cap portion on the container. The closure portion is registerable over the dispensing opening and retained to the cap portion by a flexible web. Both the cap portion and the closure portion have depending interconnected frangible bands that engage and are retained on the respective container and nozzle to indicate prior opening or tampering with the container closure.