Pouring element with protective cutting element guide

A pouring element for a composite package, comprising a main body with a pouring tube and a circumferential fastening flange, a hollow cylindrical cutting element arranged concentrically and guided movably in the pouring tube and a resealable screw cap, wherein the screw cap comprises a cap surface and a force transfer element(s) extending from the cap surface and comprising a sidewall comprising an edge which forms an angle of 30° to 60° to the cap surface and acts on corresponding force transfer element(s) of the cutting element to directly drive the cutting element during the screw movement of the screw cap for the first opening of the composite package by the screw cap and thereby move the cutting element in a piercing and rotational movement along an opening path, wherein the cutting element can be driven for the first opening of the composite package by the screw cap and wherein at least two guide ribs formed internally on the pouring tube interact correspondingly with transfer means formed externally on the cutting element such that an opening path is plotted with an at least a predominantly axial piercing segment in front and followed by a straight rotational segment about the longitudinal axis of the pouring tube, wherein the cutting element is arranged such that it can be guided along the opening path,

• wherein the pouring tube has at least two first safety elements which, together with the at least two guide ribs, are designed to achieve guidance on both sides for the transfer means of the cutting element along the piercing and/or rotational segment of the opening path,
• wherein the transfer means on the cutting element comprises at least two transfer ribs which extend in a circumferential direction of the cutting element, and
• wherein each transfer rib has a height measured in an axial direction, which is 90 to 99% of a distance measured in the axial direction between a first guide rib of the at least two guide ribs and a corresponding first safety element of the at least two first safety elements.