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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2016
Owens-brockway Glass Container Inc., Perrysburg, OH (US);
Michael J. Whitton, Melbourne, AU;
Roger P. Smith, Perrysburg, OH (US);
Jessica R. Bryant, Toledo, OH (US);
Diana Darvish, Saint-Petersburg, RU;
Anatoly Solunin, Saint-Petersburg, RU;
Nikolay Taratin, Saint-Petersburg, RU;
Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc., Perrysburg, OH (US);
Abstract
A package includes a container, a flowable product dispensably disposed within the container, a closure carried by the container, and an indicator within the container and adapted, upon contact with air, irreversibly to change a characteristic of the indicator that is visible from outside of the container to indicate to a user that the package has been used, wherein the closure includes a closure member carrying the indicator and having a wedge opening, and a wedge member carried in the wedge opening.