Rotary seal for closure with on-stop
AssigneeRexam Medical Packaging Inc.
InventorGary V. Montgomery
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Abstract
A closure-container package is shown and described comprising a container having a shoulder and a neck extending upward from the shoulder and having an external thread extending helically about the neck, a closure having a top wall and skirt depending from a peripheral edge of the skirt, the skirt having an internal thread mating with the external thread of the container neck, the closure having a rotary seal depending from the closure, the closure and container each having at least one on-direction stop mechanism operably engaged, the closure-container package having a child resistance feature and, the closure having a tamper indicating band with ratchets on an interior surface engaging ratchets on the container neck.
Claims40
A threaded closure-container package, comprising:
- a container having a shoulder and a neck extending upward from said shoulder and having an external thread;
- a closure having a top wall and a skirt depending from a peripheral edge of said skirt, said skirt having an internal thread mating said external thread;
- said closure having a rotary seal operably connected thereto;
- said closure and container each having at least one on-direction stop mechanisms;
- said closure-container package having a child resistance mechanism.
A threaded closure-container package, comprising:
- a rotary seal on an inner surface of a closure top wall;
- said rotary seal being a plug seal tapered radially outward from said closure top wall downward;
- said rotary seal sealingly engaging an inner surface of a container neck;
- and,
- an on-direction stop mechanism having a closure rib on a lower portion of an inner surface of said skirt and a mating rib on said container neck below an external thread.
A threaded closure-container package, comprising:
- a rotary seal on an inner surface of a closure top wall;
- said rotary seal being tapered radially outward and depending from said top wall;
- said rotary seal sealingly engaging an inner surface of a container neck;
- an on-direction stop mechanism having a closure rib on a lower portion of an inner surface of said skirt and a mating container rib on said container neck below an external thread;
- and,
- a child resistance mechanism having at least one closure child resistance lug depending from a lower peripheral edge of said closure operably engaging at least one child resistance lug extending from said container neck.
A threaded closure-container package, comprising:
- a rotary seal extending from an inner surface of a closure skirt and sealably engaging a container neck;
- an on-direction stop mechanism including a rib on a lower portion of an inner surface of said closure skirt and a mating rib on said container neck below an external thread;
- and,
- a child resistance mechanism having at least one child resistance closure lug depending from a lower peripheral edge of a closure operably engaging at least one lug extending from said container neck.
A threaded closure-container, comprising:
- a closure with a rotary seal being a reverse taper plug seal depending from an inner surface of a closure top wall, tapered radially outward, and sealingly engaging an inner surface of a container neck;
- an on-direction stop mechanism including a closure lug on an inner surface of a skirt on said closure and operably communicating with a container lug on an upper external surface of said container neck;
- a child resistance mechanism having at least one closure child resistance lug depending from a lower peripheral edge of said closure skirt operably engaging at least one container child resistance lug;
- a tamper indicating band integral with said closure, said tamper indicating band connected to said closure by a plurality of frangible webs;
- a plurality of external ratchets extending from said container neck and operably engaging a plurality of mating internal ratchets extending from an inner surface of said tamper indicating band.
A threaded closure-container package, comprising:
- a container having a shoulder and a neck extending upward from said shoulder and having an external thread circumscribing said neck;
- a closure having a top wall and a skirt depending from a peripheral edge of said skirt, said skirt having an internal thread mating said external thread;
- said closure having a rotary seal operably connected thereto;
- said closure and said container each having at least one on-direction stop mechanism;
- and,
- said closure-container package having a child resistance mechanism.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.