Container closure cap

• US 4,359,166 A
• Filed: 10/24/1980
• Issued: 11/16/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Createchnic Patent AG
• Original Assignee: Createchnic Patent AG
• Inventors: Dubach, Werner F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Norton, Donald F.
• Application Number:
  US06/200,202
• Time in Patent Office: 753 Days
• Field of Search: 215/272, 220/319, 220/320, 292/265.5, 24/256, 24/257, 285/322
• US Class Current: 215/272
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 45/322 the clamping device being an annular member moved axially to clamp the closure by using radial pressure B65D55/0863, B65D55/0872 take precedence

Abstract

A closure device for a bottle or the like wherein the closure device which, in its closed condition, comprises a pressure ring and a claw cap is fabricated of one-piece in that the pressure ring is connected with the claw cap by means of webs which are disposed between its engagement portions and the roof wall of the claw cap. By pressing the pressure ring downwardly over arms and claws of the closure cap, while tearing the webs, the claws are pressed against the underside of a mouth bead of the neck of the bottle and are pressed into a constricted portion of the bottle neck. By rotating the pressure ring such that its engagement portions or parts depart from the U-shaped claws and by lifting the same it is possible to remove the closure cap from the dispensing or pour opening of the bottle neck, since the engagement parts upwardly raise the claw cap at a lower edge of the roof wall of such claw cap.

Claims

1. A closure cap adapted for closing a bottle or similar container having a neck and a dispensing opening, a neck end surface surrounding the dispensing opening and a mouth bead located below the neck end surface and a constricted portion at its underside, comprising:

a claw cap intended to lie above the dispensing opening of the bottle and adapted to cover such bottle dispensing opening at least at its outer region;

said claw cap having a roof wall;

said roof wall being provided with a number of arm members adapted to extend past the mouth bead;

said arm members being provided with claws which are adapted to lie in the constricted portion of the bottle;

a ring member supported by said claw cap and having engagement portions;

said ring member, in a closed position of the closure cap when seated upon the bottle, pressing the arm members and claws firmly against the mouth bead such that the closure cap is firmly connected with the mouth bead;

said ring member being connected in one-piece with the roof wall of the claw cap by means of webs at said engagement portions which are located below an inner circumference of said ring member;

said engagement portions, with the closure cap mounted upon the bottle neck, being adapted to firmly press the claws into said constricted portion at an underside of the mouth bead;

said ring member possesses the same number of engagement portions as the closure cap possesses arm members and claws;

said engagement portions, in the unmounted condition of the closure cap when it is still in one-piece and when viewed from above, being arranged on the same respective radius of a circle as the related arm member and claw; and

said arm members and claws of the claw cap and said engagement portions of the ring member are uniformly distributed over the circumference of the closure cap and form therebetween free spaces which have a length at least as long as the engagement portions are wide.

2. The closure cap as defined in claim 1, wherein:

said claws comprise substantially U-shaped end portions of the arm members and which extend towards a central axis of the closure cap.

3. The closure cap as defined in claim 1, wherein:

said roof wall of the claw cap extends downwardly between said arm members.

4. The closure cap as defined in claim 1, wherein:

said engagement portions and the claws are structured such that the engagement portions can be nondisplaceably latched into the claws in axial direction thereof.

5. The closure cap as defined in claim 1, wherein:

said roof wall is provided with an underface carrying protuberance means.

6. The closure cap as defined in claim 1, wherein:

said roof wall has an underface provided with rubber stopper means.

7. The closure cap as defined in claim 1, wherein:

said ring member is provided at least at predetermined locations thereof with vertical groove means and rib means.

8. The closure cap as defined in claim 1, wherein:

said roof wall has an upper surface;

said upper surface of said roof wall being provided at the region of its greatest circumference with at least one upwardly substantially vertically extending tab means which can be welded as a seal to an upper edge of the member ring.