Process for closing a fill passageway into a container
AssigneeBerry Plastics Corporation
InventorsJohn Tauber, Duane Sawyer
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Abstract
A process for closing a fill passageway into a container with a closure unit comprising a pour spout and a closure cap. The pour spout is mounted to a neck finish associated with a container in an anchored position on the neck finish without blocking later removal of the closure cap from the pour spout by a consumer to expose the fluid-discharge outlet of the pour spout to permit discharge of fluid material from the interior region of the container through the exposed fluid-discharge outlet while the pour spout remains in the stationary anchored position on the neck finish.
Claims4
A process for closing a fill passageway into a container, the process comprising the steps of
- providing a container having an interior region and a neck finish coupled to the container and formed to include a wide-mouth opening providing a fill passageway communicating with the interior region of the container,
- coupling a closure cap to a pour spout formed to include a fluid-discharge outlet to establish a preassembled closure unit wherein the closure cap covers the fluid-discharge outlet of the pour spout,
- discharging a fluid material through the wide-mouth opening of the neck finish into the interior region of the container,
- mounting the preassembled closure unit to the neck finish, and
- anchoring the pour spout in a stationary anchored position on the neck finish so that the pour spout will remain in its stationary anchored position and is blocked by a lug from rotating clockwise and from rotating counterclockwise but without blocking later removal of the closure cap from the pour spout by a consumer to expose the fluid-discharge outlet of the pour spout to permit discharge of fluid material from the interior region of the container through the exposed fluid-discharge outlet while the pour spout remains in the stationary anchored position on the neck finish.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.