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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2013
Phoenix Closures, Inc., Naperville, IL (US);
Len Ekkert, Lemont, IL (US);
Phoenix Closures, Inc., Naperville, IL (US);
Abstract
A tamper-evident closure is disclosed, having a skirt, threads on an interior of the skirt, and a tamper-evident band secured to the closure body by frangible bridges along a circumferential lower surface of the closure. The band and the closure have a plurality of equidistant vertical upper and lower teeth along an interior wall. Further the subject invention includes a mandrel for use in cutting slits in tamper-evident closures. The mandrel is supported for rotational movement within a closure, and comprises a disc with a circumferential surface with a plurality of equidistant slots for meshing with complementary teeth on the interior surface of the closure.