Container closure method

• US 4,747,501 A
• Filed: 07/08/1987
• Issued: 05/31/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: National Plastic Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: National Plastic Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Greaves, Dennis
• Primary Examiner(s): Marcus, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Stucker, Nova
• Application Number:
  US07/070,894
• Time in Patent Office: 328 Days
• Field of Search: 215/32, 215/226, 215/253, 215/257, 215/301, 220/266, 220/276, 222/83, 222/541, 222/546, 206/222
• US Class Current: 215/253
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2251/0015 of the 41-type
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2251/0071 of the 17-type
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 51/223 the outer closure having to be removed or inverted for piercing or cutting

Abstract

A container and closure combination, in which the container has a neck with a membrane-closed passage through the neck and the closure is adapted (e.g. screw-threaded) for engagement on the neck and has a projecting stud for separating the membrane from the neck and removing it. The membrane has holding means defining a cavity to receive and engage the outside of the projecting stud and a weakened region surrounding the holding means so that on application of the closure to the container the projecting stud can engage in the cavity and can then press on the membrane to break it at the weakened region leaving the membrane attached to the closure.

Claims

1. A container and closure combination, said container having a neck and a membrane closing a passage through the container neck from inside to outside the container, and said closure being adapted for engagement on said neck and having a projecting stud for separating said membrane from the neck and removing it, said membrane having holding means defining a cavity to receive and engage the outside of said projecting stud, and a weakened region surrounding said holding means so that on application of the closure to the container the projecting stud can engage in said cavity and press on said membrane to break said weakened region leaving said membrane attached to said closure.

2. A combination according to claim 1, wherein said cavity is constituted by a space within elements upstanding from the membrane.

3. A combination according to claim 1, wherein said cavity is constituted by a space within a recess formed in said membrane.

4. A combination according to claim 1, wherein said container neck has an external screw-thread and said closure has an internal screw-thread for cooperation therewith, and wherein said holding means and projecting stud are located centrally on said membrane and on said closure respectively.

5. A combination according to claim 4, wherein said closure has two screw-threaded recesses separated by a dividing means, each of which screw-threaded recesses can be threadedly engaged with the external screw-thread on the container neck to close the latter, only one of said screw-threaded recesses in the closure containing the projecting stud used for membrane breakage.