Bottles and jars – Closures – Including visual indicia
Reexamination Certificate
2006-02-21
2006-02-21
Hylton, Robin A. (Department: 3727)
Bottles and jars
Closures
Including visual indicia
C215S204000, C215S334000, C206S459100
Reexamination Certificate
active
07000790
ABSTRACT:
There is provided a bottle cap configured such that consumers can easily identify the opening or closing of a cap openably installed on the mouth of a liquor bottle. The bottle cap for a bottle which holds contents, includes a cap body having an inner cap coupled so as to open or close the mouth of the bottle, and an outer cap made to rotate in a circumferential direction only and fixedly coupled to the inner cap so as not to deviate from the inner cap, ratcheting means having first and second teeth formed at facing portions of the inner and outer circumferential surfaces of the inner and outer caps and engaged to be movable unidirectionally, and first and second protrusions spaced apart from the ratcheting teeth and protruding from the facing portions of the inner and outer caps, for integrally rotating the inner and outer caps from the mouth of the bottle such that the first and second ratcheting protrusions are engaged with each other when the second ratcheting teeth move relative to the first ratcheting teeth by stages, and opening/closing identification means having a portion of displaying whether the cap body has been opened or not, printed on the top surface of the inner cap, and an identification means formed on the top surface of the outer cap, for identifying from the outside whether the cap body has been opened or not, according to movement of the second ratcheting teeth relative to the first ratcheting teeth.
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Dickinson Wright PLLC
Hylton Robin A.
Iplastic Co., Ltd.
Naber John M.
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