User-friendly tamper-resistant/tamper-evident container-seal system for containers of consumer goods and methods of use
AssigneeSealTech LLC
InventorBrian Jay Conaway
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Abstract
The inventive disclosures described herein pertain to an improved tamper-resistant/tamper-evident (TE) seal for containers of consumer-product-containment vessels (such as, for example, prescription bottles, condiment bottles, etc.) that enables a user to better grip and/or exert force/leverage to more-easily and reliably open such containers. Specifically, it features an improved seal-removal assembly that provides a collapsible finger-receiving aperture that allows a user to insert at least one user finger (or an elongated tool, such as a writing utensil), and exert upward force to breach the container seal.
Claims29
An improved seal-removal assembly for a container of consumer or commercial goods, said container having a cap for the container's opening and having a container seal, wherein said container seal has an induction-layer that is tamper-evident affixed over the opening of said container, said improved seal-removal assembly comprising:
- a collapsible finger-receiving aperture sleeve comprised of at least one flexible sheet that is fixedly coupled to said container seal on said container opening, wherein:
- said collapsible finger-receiving aperture sleeve can be opened to receive a user finger by expanding said at least one flexible sheet away from said induction layer to form an expanded region partially defined by peripheral edges of said at least one flexible sheet, and
- said improved seal-removal assembly is sized and adapted to be stowed within said container cap when said container cap is installed over said container-cap opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.