Closure for a container, a tamper indicating band, a combination and a method
AssigneeObrist Closures Switzerland GmbH
InventorsLino Dreyer, Sebastien Cedric Widmer
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Abstract
A closure for a container, the closure comprising a top panel, a skirt extending from the periphery of the top panel, and a tamper indicating band frangibly connected to an open end of the skirt at a line of weakness, the band including a retaining segment (109) on an inner surface thereof so arranged, when the closure is in a closed position on a neck of the container, to engage under an engagement surface of a retaining structure arranged on the container neck, wherein the tamper indicating band includes at least one indent (117) arranged on an outer surface of the tamper indicating bond.
Claims18
A closure for a container, the closure comprising:
- a top panel;
- a skirt extending from the periphery of the top panel;
- and
- a tamper indicating band frangibly connected to an open end of the skirt at a line of weakness, the band including a retaining segment on an inner surface thereof so arranged, when the closure is in a closed position on a neck of the container, to engage under an engagement surface of a retaining structure arranged on the container neck, wherein the tamper indicating band includes indents distributed, in a circumferential direction around the outer surface of the tamper indicating band,
- wherein each of the indents has
- an axial dimension that is a fraction of a height of the tamper indicating band in a longitudinal direction of the closure, and
- a lower part and an upper part arranged to move relative to one another to form a hinge portion.
A tamper evident band for frangible connection to an open end of a skirt extending from the periphery of a top panel of a closure, the band comprising a retaining segment on an inner surface thereof so arranged, when the closure is in a closed position on a neck of the container, to engage under an engagement surface of a retaining structure arranged on a container neck,
- wherein the tamper indicating band includes a circumferential distribution of indents around the outer surface of the tamper indicating band,
- wherein each of the indents has
- an axial dimension that is a fraction of a height of the tamper indicating band in a longitudinal direction of the closure, and
- a lower part and an upper part arranged to move relative to one another to form a hinge portion, and
- wherein at least one of the indents is arranged on the outer surface of the tamper indicating band substantially opposite to the retaining segment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.