Removable locking container cover with slotted outer skirt

A removable locking container cover for covering a container having a neck with an outer bead, the cover comprising:

• a lid having a top surface, a bottom surface, a circumferential edge, and a center section, the center section including a lower annular section, a sloping transition section, an upper section, and a plurality of holes formed in the center section extending through the top and bottom surfaces so as to allow air to pass through the lid;
• a skirt extending downward from the lid at or near the circumferential edge, the skirt having a bottom edge, an outer surface, and an inner surface shaped to extend around the outside of the container neck;
• a plug seal extending from and formed integral with the bottom surface of the lid and concentric with the skirt, the plug seal having a smaller diameter than the skirt, the plug seal having an inner surface and an outer surface adapted to substantially contact the inside of the neck of the container;
• a pair of integral lock panels, each lock panel being defined by slots formed through the skirt and extending substantially vertically from the bottom of the skirt, each lock panel having at least two inwardly projecting locking wedges formed on the inside surface of the skirt and configured to engage a bottom edge of the outer bead of the container when the cover is locked onto a container so as to removably hold the cover in place on the container, the lock panels being spaced approximately 180 degrees from each other around the circumference of the lid,
• wherein at least a portion of the bottom edge of each lock panel includes a scalloped contour so as to define finger recesses and the remainder of the bottom edge of the skirt is substantially parallel to the circumferential edge of the lid;
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• wherein each of the at least two inwardly projecting wedges is located to correspond to the portion of the bottom edge that includes a scalloped contour.

A removable locking container cover for covering a container having a neck with an outer bead, the cover comprising:

• a lid having a top surface, a bottom surface, a circumferential edge, and a center section, the center section including a lower annular section, a sloping transition section, an upper section, and a plurality of holes formed in the center section extending through the top and bottom surfaces so as to allow air to pass through the lid;
• a skirt extending downward from the lid at or near the circumferential edge, the skirt having a bottom edge, an inner surface, and an outer surface, the inner surface shaped to extend around the outside of the container neck;
• a plug seal extending from and formed integral with the bottom surface of the lid and concentric with the skirt, the plug seal having a smaller diameter than the skirt, the plug seal having an inner surface and an outer surface, the outer surface adapted to substantially contact the inside of the neck of the container;
• a pair of integral lock panels, each lock panel having at least two inwardly projecting locking wedges formed on the inside surface of the skirt and configured to engage a bottom edge of the outer bead of the container when the cover is locked onto a container so as to removably hold the cover in place on the container, the lock panels being spaced approximately 180 degrees from each other around the circumference of the lid,
• wherein the sides of each lock panel are defined by slots formed though the skirt, the slots extending substantially vertically from the bottom edge of the skirt, the slots positioned on the skirt so that the at least one inwardly projecting wedge is located between each set of slots;
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• wherein the lid further includes four bypass holes passing through the top and bottom surfaces of the lid, the bypass holes located on substantially the same diameter as the top ring, each hole located approximately above a locking wedge, the lid further including a flexing slot passing through the top and bottom surfaces of the lid, the flexing slot located between the bypass holes.