Cap removal implement
OwnerSamuel Prattinventor
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Abstract
An implement for removing the cap of a container, having a top wall and a side wall provided with a peripheral edge, generally consisting of a body having a first surface engageable with an edge portion of the cap and a second surface engageable with a portion of the top wall of the cap, when the edge portion of the cap is engaged by the first surface of the body, permitting the body to be pivoted away from the container, utilizing the second surface of the body as a fulcrum, causing the lid to be pried off of the container; a counter supported on the body; and an element engageable by the cap when the cap engages the surfaces of the body and the body is pivoted relative to the container to pry the cap from the container, for actuating the counter to index a counting mechanism thereof.
Claims36
An implement for removing the cap of a container, having a top wall and a side wall provided with a peripheral edge, comprising:
- a body having a first surface engageable with an edge portion of said cap and a second surface engageable with a portion of said top wall of said cap, when said edge portion of said cap is engaged by said first surface of said body, permitting said body to be pivoted away from said container, utilizing said second surface of said body as a fulcrum, causing said lid to be pried off of said container;
- a counter supported on said body;
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- an element engageable by said cap when said cap engages said surfaces of said body and said body is pivoted relative to the container to pry said cap from said container, for actuating said counter to index a counting mechanism thereof.
An implement for removing the cap of a container, having a top wall and a side wall provided with a peripheral edge, comprising:
- a body having a first surface engageable with an edge portion of said cap and a second surface engageable with a portion of the top wall of said cap when said edge portion of said cap engages said first surface, permitting said container to be pivoted away from said first surface, utilizing said second surface as a fulcrum, causing said cap to be pried off of said body:
- a counter supported on said body;
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- a rod supported on said body, displaceable by said cap when said cap engages said first and second surfaces, and operatively connected to said counter for indexing a counting mechanism thereof when displaced.
An implement for removing the cap of a container, having a top wall and a side wall provided with a peripheral edge, comprising:
- a body having a contact portion engageable with the top wall of said cap;
- and
- a counter supported on said body having an actuating rod displaceable along a line of travel between an extended position and a retracted position operable at a selected point along said line of travel to index said counter;
- said rod being biased in said extended position and having a contact surface disposed in a plane lying at an acute angle relative to said line of travel whereby when the top wall of said cap is engaged by said contract portion of said body, a portion of said edge of said cap is engaged by said contact surface of said rod member and said body is pivoted relative to said container, utilizing said engagement of said cap with said contact portion of said body as a fulcrum, said rod member will be displaced along its line of travel to index said counter and cause said cap to be pried off of said container.
An implement for removing an electrically conducting cap of a container, having a top wall and a side wall provided with a peripheral edge, comprising:
- a body;
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- an electronic counter supported on said body having a circuit operative to actuate the indexing mechanism thereof, provided with a pair of spaced terminals insulated from said body, one of which is engageable with a portion of the top wall of said cap and the other of which is engageable with a portion of said edge of said cap, whereby upon engagement of said portion of said top wall of said cap by one of said terminals, engagement of said portion of said edge of said cap by the other of said terminals and the pivoting of said body relative to said container, said contacts will be bridged, closing said electrical circuit and thereby actuating the indexing mechanism of said counter, and said cap shall be pried off of said container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.