Closure for high torque installation on a container
AssigneeSeaquist Closures L.L.C.
InventorsCharles E. Roberts, Stacy L. Beilke
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Abstract
A closure that can be threadingly screwed onto an associated container includes a body having a thread form for engaging a thread form on the container. The body has a wall with projecting hook-like ribs. By the provision of the hook-like ribs, the closure exhibits an enhanced capability for being gripped by the rollers of an automatic capping machine, to accommodate a relatively high torque installation without slipping in an automatic capping machine.
Claims9
A closure for a container that has an opening to the container interior where a product may be stored and that has a screw thread form, said closure comprising:
- (A) a screw thread form for engaging said container screw thread form to permit said closure to be screwed onto the container;
- and
- (B) a peripheral, grippable wall having a plurality of circumferentially spaced ribs wherein at least some of said ribs each have
- (1) a leading side that generally faces toward the screwing on direction of rotation;
- and
- (2) a trailing side that (a) generally faces toward the unscrewing direction of rotation, and (b) has a hook-like configuration defining a recess which is open toward the unscrewing direction of rotation, in which said hook-like configuration has a distal end that is radially outwardly of said recess and that defines a projection extending toward the unscrewing direction of rotation relative to said recess;
- said closure wall between two adjacent ribs at the roots of the ribs defining an inner convex circular arc surface lying on a circular locus having a radius R2, in which at least some of said ribs extend a radial distance A beyond said inner convex circular arc surface radius R2;
- said projection of said rib trailing side extending in the unscrewing direction a distance F beyond the maximum depth of said recess as measured in the screwing on direction;
- said distance F being in the range defined between about 20% of radial distance A and about 40% of radial distance A.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.