Metal sealing cap
AssigneeFirma Hermann Ritzenhoff
InventorsManfred Bodenbender, Willy Reinhardt, Hermann Ritzenhoff
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Abstract
The invention contemplates a formed-metal sealing cap especially adapted for removable closure of a bottle or the like container having contents under internal pressure. A circumferential pleat of the cap skirt forms the bottom rim of the upper reusable portion of the cap, and the lower portion of the cap is severably but integrally connected to the pleated region of the upper portion. In the forms described, the severable connection is via a tear-off strip of cap material which is circumferentially united to the upper reusable cap portion on a circumferentially extending locally weakened alignment, and the weakened alignment is enveloped by the pleated region. Thread-on and clinch-type cap-to-bottle embodiments are described.
Claims12
A metal sealing cap consisting of a cap upper part and a cap lower part removable from said cap upper part with aid of a tear-off band and by means of which cap lower part the sealing cap is securely sealed with the container by flanging in, the cap upper part of said sealing cap being removable from the container by rupturing a line of weakened strength connecting the cap upper part with the cap lower part, wherein the skirt of the cap upper part bordering on the line of weakened strength has been constructed as a folded area of at least three overlapping thicknesses of material, a first and second outer layer of material in the folded area forming a closed fold downwards and the second layer forming together with an inner third layer a closed fold upwards, the third inner layer of material being bounded at its lower perimeter by the line of weakened strength, characterized in that the line of weakened strength is axially overlapped by the lower edge formed by the downwardly closed fold of the two outerlayers of material, whereby upon rupture along the line of weakened strength, the downwardly closed fold circumferentially encloses the edge along which the line was ruptured.
A metal sealing cap consisting of a cap upper part and a cap lower part removable from said cap upper part with aid of a tear-off band and by means of which cap lower part the sealing cap is securely sealed with the container by flanging in, the cap upper part of said sealing cap being removable from the container by rupturing a line of weakened strength connecting the cap upper part with the cap lower part, wherein the skirt of the cap upper part bordering on the line of weakened strength has been constructed as a folded area of at least three overlapping thicknesses of material, a first and second outer layer of material in the folded area forming a closed fold downwards and the second layer forming together with an inner third layer a closed fold upwards, the third inner layer of material being bounded at its lower perimeter by the line of weakened strength, characterized in that the line of weakened strength is axially overlapped by the fold of the two outer layers of material at a location above the lower edge formed by the fold of the two outer layers of material, whereby upon rupture along the line of weakened strength, the downwardly folded two outer layers circumferentially enclose the edge along which the line was ruptured.
A unitary metal sealing cap comprising a cap upper part and a cap lower part that is axially contiguous to and severably removable from said cap upper part, said cap upper part having a skirt portion with a circumferentially continuous pleat at its lower edge, said cap lower part being a sleeve having a circumferentially extending line of severably weakened strength integrally connecting the same to said skirt portion, said pleat having two outer axially overlapped layers defining a downwardly closed fold which circumferentially overlaps said line of weakened strength, said cap lower part having a circumferentially extending inwardly deformable region adapted for flanged-in retaining engagement to a bead or the like formation at the mouth of a container to be sealed by said cap.
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