Closure-actuator for container with flexible tubular spout

• US 3,294,293 A
• Filed: 11/29/1965
• Issued: 12/27/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Stanley K. Johns
• Original Assignee: Stanley K. Johns
• Inventors: Johns, Stanley K.
• Application Number:
  US04/510,170
• Time in Patent Office: 393 Days
• US Class Current: 222/507
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 47/2043 the separate element being formed by an overcap which constricts a spout, the spout being either pushed into alignment with, or pushed through, an opening in the overcap upon rotation of the latter

Claims

1. A DISPENSING CLOSURE COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION WITH A CONTAINER PART HAVING PROJECTING THEREFROM A FLEXIBLE TUBULAR DISPENSING SPOUT, SAID SPOUT BEING FOLDABLE UPON ITSELF TRANSVERSELY OF ITS LONGITUDINAL AXIS TO FROM A SEAL ALONG THE LINE OF FOLD TO CLOSE THE DISPENSING ROUTE THERETHROUGH, A CAP CARRIED BY SAID CONTAINER PART AND HAVING AN OPENING THROUGH WHICH SAID SPOUT PROJECTS FOR DISPENSING FROM SAID CONTAINER, SAID CAP BEING MOVABLE RELATIVE TO SAID PART AND TO SAID SPOUT TO ENGAGE SAID SPROUT AND FLOD SAID SPOUT UPON ITSELF TO CLOSE SAID DISPENSING ROUTE, AND LOCK MEANS ENGAGED UPON MOVEMENT OF SAID CAP INTO DISPENSING ROUTE CLOSING POSITION FOR RELEASABLY RETAINING SAID CAP IN SAID CLOSING POSITION.

5. A CAPTIVE CLOSURE COMPRISING IN COMBINATION WITH A CONTAINER HAVING A NECK WITH AN EXTERNALLY THREADDED PORTION, AN UNDERCAP HAVING A FLEXIBLE TUBULAR SPOUT WITH A DISPENSING PASSAGE THERETHROUGH AND BEING FOLABLE UPON ITSELF TO CLOSE SAID DISPENSING PASSAGE, AN OVERCAP MOUNTED ON THE UNDERCAP FOR ROTATION IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS RELATIVE THERETO TO FOLD AND UNFOLD SAID FLEXIBLE TUBULAR SPOUT UPON