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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:
Jul. 20, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert S. Harris, Connersville, IN (US);
Assignee:
Stant Manufacturing Inc., Connersville, IN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65D 4/106 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65D 4/106 ;
Abstract
A torque-limit signal cap for a filler neck includes a handle, a filler neck closure, and a torque-limit signaler. The torque-limit signaler operates during cap installation to interrupt temporarily a driving connection established between the handle and the closure to provide a tactile and/or auditory signal to a user turning the cap in the filler neck indicating that sufficient torque has been applied to the handle to seat the closure in a filler neck-closing position in the filler neck.