Attachment for container closure

• US 4,156,491 A
• Filed: 07/10/1978
• Issued: 05/29/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Newton E. Lyon
• Original Assignee: Newton E. Lyon
• Inventors: Lyon, Newton E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Norton, Donald F.
• Application Number:
  US05/923,073
• Time in Patent Office: 323 Days
• Field of Search: 215/302, 215/10, 220/284, 81/3.1 C, 81/3.34, 81/3.48, 81/3.4
• US Class Current: 215/302
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 41/0485 with means specially adapted for facilitating the operation of opening or closing

Abstract

A base is securable to the lid of a conventional container assembly which also includes a vessel. The base includes an inwardly directed flange which abuts the top panel of the lid and a downwardly directed flange which encircles the skirt of the lid. Upstanding from the base are lugs which provide diametrically opposed shoulders for receiving a leverage tool for the purpose of rotating the lid relative the vessel.

Claims

1. In a container assembly including

a vessel having an upstanding side wall with a closed bottom and an open top, and

a closure member including a top panel with a depending skirt and rotatably engageable with the top of said vessel,

an attachment securable to said closure member for engageably receiving a leverage tool and for rotating said closure member, said attachment comprising:

(a) a base securable to said closure member;

(b) leverage tool receiving means upstanding from said base;

(c) a downwardly directed skirt on said base shaped and sized to receive the skirt of said closure member therein; and

(d) an inwardly directed flange on said base and receivable against the top panel of said closure member.

2. In the container assembly and attachment of claim 1, together with a pair of diametrically opposed shoulders upstanding from said base which includes a pair of diametrically opposed lugs upstanding from said inwardly directed flange and defining a pair of diametrically opposed tool receiving recesses therebetween, each said lug carrying one of said pair of shoulders.

3. In the container assembly and attachment of claim 2, wherein said lugs are spaced to receive the sidewall of said vessel when the bottom of said vessel rests upon the top panel of said closure member.