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US 4,396,134 AGranted
Pouring adapter-closure assembly
AssigneeWest Corporation
InventorPhillip J. Owens
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Abstract
A pouring adaptor to be secured to the discharge end of a container or the like comprising a generally cylindrical skirt portion having a bead at its lower terminal edge for detachably securing it to the container finish and a radially inwardly directed top portion which snugly seats on the axial end face of the container. The top portion has a frusto-conical outer face which is outwardly divergent from its inner peripheral edge and a reversely tapered flexible flange which is downwardly divergent from the juncture of the frusto-conical outerface and flange.
Claims3
A pouring adaptor-closure assembly comprising;
- an adaptor adapted to be secured to the discharge end of a container or the like comprising,
- a generally cylindrical skirt portion having a lower terminal edge which detachably locks under a protruding rib on the container finish after the assembly is secured to the container,
- a radially inwardly directed top portion which snugly seats on the axial end face of the container,
- said top portion having a frusto-conical outer face which is outwardly divergent from its inner peripheral edge and a reverseably tapered flexible flange which is downwardly divergent from the juncture of the frusto-conical outer face and flange to provide a non-drip edge as the contents are poured from the container and,
- a closure cap having a top and a generally cylindrical skirt portion with internal threads adapted to cooperate with threads on the container finish,
- means defining a rib spaced downwardly form said top defining a sidewall groove on the interior of the cap within which the flexible flange of the adaptor releasably seats and compresses radially inwardly to provide a primary seal for the container contents and to secure said adaptor to said cap prior to use,
- said closure cap including a circumferentially extending sealing rib projecting from the inside of the top of the cap which engages against the frusto-conical face of the adaptor to provide a secondary seal for the container contents.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.