Plastic screw cap with tamper-evident ring
AssigneeSacmi Cooperativa Meccanici Imola S.c.r.l.
InventorFiorenzo Parrinello
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Abstract
A plastic screw cap includes a cylindrical cup provided with an internal thread and with a tamper-evident ring which is coupled to the rim of the cup by means of a plurality of bridges forming a fracture line; the ring has a collar or expansion for retaining it below an annular raised portion of a container whereto the cap is applied. Incisions are formed on the outside of the tamper-evident ring, the incisions do not cross the entire thickness of the ring and allow an elastic radial expansion of the ring, such as to pass beyond the annular raised portion during the application of the cap to the container.
Claims17
A plastic screw cap comprising a cylindrical cup provided with an internal thread and with a tamper-evident ring which is coupled to the rim of the cup by means of a plurality of bridges forming a fracture line, said ring having a retention means for retaining it below an annular raised portion of a container whereto the cap is applied, incisions being formed by means of a cutting machine provided with a blade on the outside of said tamper-evident ring, said incisions being configured such as not to cross the entire thickness of the ring and to allow an outwardly directed elastic radial expansion of the ring with a simultaneous inwardly directed bending of the bottom of the ring such as to permit the ring to pass beyond said annular raised portion during the application of the cap to the container, said incisions comprising axial incisions, which are distributed circumferentially on the outside of said tamper-evident ring, and a circumferential incision which extends on an outer face of said tamper-evident ring circumferentially between the fracture line and the free rim of the tamper-evident ring.
A plastic screw cap comprising a cylindrical cup provided with an internal thread and with a tamper-evident ring which is coupled to the rim of the cup by means of a plurality of bridges forming a fracture line, said ring having an annular expansion for retaining it below an annular raised portion of a container whereto the cap is applied, and an annular wall between said annular expansion and said fracture line, said annular wall being thinner than said annular expansion, a circumferential incision being formed by means of a cutting machine provided with a blade on the outside of said annular wall, said circumferential incision being configured such as not to cross the entire thickness of said annular wall and to allow an outwardly directed elastic radial expansion of said annular wall with a simultaneous inwardly directed bending of the bottom of the ring such as to permit the annular expansion to pass beyond said annular raised portion during the application of the cap to the container.
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