Pierce and cut closure

Details Pierce and cut closure Pierce and cut closure

1998-11-24

2000-03-21

Newhouse, Nathan

Bottles and jars

Closures

Combined or convertible

215257, 220278, B65D 1744

Patent

active

060391987

ABSTRACT:
A cut and pierce closure molded from a rigid plastic material for a container whose open mouth is normally sealed by a thin membrane applied to a rim of the container. The closure is removably applied to the container in a closing orientation by interengaging helical threads on the exterior of a neck of the container and an annular skirt of the closure. To dispense the contents of the container, the closure is removed and reapplied in an inverted orientation, a flange extension of the closure skirt surrounding the rim of the container and serving to center the closure in its inverted orientation on the container. A top panel of the closure is provided with a double-ended arcuate shoulder that engages the membrane when the closure is in its inverted orientation on the container to maintain tension in the portion of the membrane in engagement with the shoulder. The arcuate shoulder also serves, in combination with the flange extension, to trap the rim of the container therebetween. A sharp cutting element projects axially from the shoulder at a location between its ends and functions to pierce the membrane when the closure is reapplied, in its inverted orientation, to the container. When the closure is rotated on the container in the inverted orientation, the cutting element will cut the membrane along an arc of less than 360.degree. even if the closure is rotated 360.degree. or more, to thereby permit dispensing of the contents of the container after removal of the closure from the container while ensuring that the severed membrane remains affixed to the rim of the container without dropping into the contents of the container.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4634013 (1987-01-01), Bar-Kokhba
patent: 5090582 (1992-02-01), Art et al.
patent: 5505326 (1996-04-01), Janko
patent: 5709311 (1998-01-01), Butler et al.
patent: 5797506 (1998-08-01), Lehmkuhl et al.

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