Bottle cap with ring shaped tearing element
AssigneeWicanders AB
InventorSven-Ake Magnusson
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Abstract
A tear tab closure for containers comprises a cap having a top, a downwardly depending skirt, a tear tab projecting from the skirt and terminating in a finger ring. The tear tab is relatively short and the finger ring is secured thereto by any suitable mechanical or adhesive fastening means. The finger ring is of large enough inside diameter to facilitate capture of the finger ring by a finger of the user and it may be disposed to lie at the side of the container or it may be large enough in diameter to encircle the container in close proximity thereto.
Claims16
A tear tab closure for containers such as bottles and the like comprising a cap having a top wall, a downwardly depending skirt and score lines in the skirt and top wall defining a tear strip adapted to be torn out to open the closure, in which the improvement comprises a relatively short extension on said skirt projecting generally radially away from the bottom of the skirt and defining a tear tab at one end of said tear strip, and a finger ring formed as a separate piece secured to the free end of said tear tab in nearby relation to the bottom of said skirt to facilitate pulling the tab to tear open the closure, said tab being fastened only to the skirt and being of a length to serve only as an anchorage for said finger ring and said finger ring having an inner radius large enough to accommodate a finger of a user to capture the ring securely with his finger with minimum effort and risk of injury.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.