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US 12,454,396 B2Granted
Mold-material flip-top tamper evident closure
AssigneeMold-Rite Plastics, LLC
InventorLeonora Brozell
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Abstract
A closure for use with a container, the closure including a cap assembly with a lower cap configured to attach to a neck of the container. A flip-top reclosable lid is hingedly attached to the cap assembly. The hinge permitting the lid to be pivoted open and closed relative to the cap assembly. A plurality of frangible spokes extend between and are integrally molded to the flip-top lid and the cap assembly. The spokes are spaced about a periphery of the flip-top lid and configured to break when the lid is first opened thereby providing a visual indication that the closure has been opened.
Claims21
A closure for use with a container, the closure comprising
- a cap assembly including a lower cap configured to attach to a neck of the container;
- a flip-top reclosable lid integrally molded to and hinged to the cap assembly, the hinge permitting the lid to be pivoted open and closed relative to the cap assembly;
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- a plurality of frangible spokes extending between and integrally molded to the flip-top lid and the cap assembly, the spokes being spaced about a periphery of the flip-top lid and configured to break when the lid is first opened thereby providing a visual indication that the closure has been opened;
- wherein the cap assembly includes an inner closure cap located in the cap assembly below the lid and integrally molded to the cap assembly, the inner closure configured to prevent access through the lower cap to a container when the lower cap is attached to the container, the inner closure cap including a push-through access door that permits access to the contents of the container when the lower cap is attached to the container.
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A closure for use with a container, the closure comprising:
- a cap assembly including a lower cap configured to attach to a neck of the container;
- a flip-top reclosable lid hingedly attached to the cap assembly, the hinge permitting the lid to be pivoted open and closed relative to the cap assembly;
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- a plurality of frangible spokes extending between and integrally molded to the flip-top lid and the cap assembly, the spokes being spaced about a periphery of the flip-top lid and configured to break when the lid is first opened thereby providing a visual indication that the closure has been opened;
- wherein the cap assembly includes an inner closure cap located in the cap assembly and configured to prevent access through the lower cap to a container when the lower cap is attached to the container, the inner closure cap including a push-through access door that permits access to the contents of the container when the lower cap is attached to the container;
- wherein the cap assembly includes an upper cap attached to the lower cap through an integral molded hinge;
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- wherein the inner closure cap includes a landing extending radially inward from an outer periphery of the inner closure cap and inward from the skirt on the lower cap, a plug seal projects downward from a bottom of the landing at a location spaced radially inward from the inner surface of the skirt so as to define a gap between the inner surface of the skirt and the plug seal into which the neck of the container can extend, wherein the landing defines a sealing surface that extends across the opening of the neck of the container when the lower cap is attached to the container.
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A closure for use with a container, the closure comprising:
- a cap assembly including a lower cap configured to attach to a neck of the container;
- a flip-top reclosable lid hingedly attached to the cap assembly, the hinge permitting the lid to be pivoted open and closed relative to the cap assembly;
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- a plurality of frangible spokes extending between and integrally molded to the flip-top lid and the cap assembly, the spokes being spaced about a periphery of the flip-top lid and configured to break when the lid is first opened thereby providing a visual indication that the closure has been opened;
- wherein the cap assembly includes an inner closure cap located in the cap assembly and configured to prevent access through the lower cap to a container when the lower cap is attached to the container, the inner closure cap including a push-through access door that permits access to the contents of the container when the lower cap is attached to the container;
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- wherein the inner closure cap is separate from the lower cap, the inner closure cap configured to snap onto the neck of the closure.
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A closure for use with a container, the closure comprising:
- a cap assembly including a lower cap configured to attach to a neck of the container;
- a flip-top reclosable lid integrally molded to and hinged to the cap assembly, the hinge permitting the lid to be pivoted open and closed relative to the cap assembly;
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- a plurality of frangible spokes extending between and integrally molded to the flip-top lid and the cap assembly, the spokes being spaced about a periphery of the flip-top lid and configured to break when the lid is first opened thereby providing a visual indication that the closure has been opened;
- wherein the lower cap includes a skirt that engages with the neck of the container when the cap assembly is mounted to the container, the hinge of the flip-top lid is integrally molded to the flip-top lid and the lower cap skirt, the lid including a lid rim that extends downward from a lid top, the lid rim includes one or more inner protrusions that are configured to engage with a lip on the container neck when the closure is attached to a container;
- wherein the frangible spokes are molded integrally with and are located between a lower edge of the lid rim and an upper edge of the skirt such that the spokes extend substantially vertically therebetween.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.