US3926327A - Safety and security closure - Google Patents

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US3926327A
US3926327A US543357*A US54335775A US3926327A US 3926327 A US3926327 A US 3926327A US 54335775 A US54335775 A US 54335775A US 3926327 A US3926327 A US 3926327A
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Gerhard Schickedanz
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ADOLF HOFMANN METALL- U KUNSTOFFWARENFABRIK GmbH
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Angelo Guala SpA
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Assigned to ANGELO GUALA - S.P.A., 15100 ALESSANDRIA (AL) - CORSO ROMITA 79 reassignment ANGELO GUALA - S.P.A., 15100 ALESSANDRIA (AL) - CORSO ROMITA 79 CHANGE OF NAME (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). JULY 3, 1987 Assignors: ANGELO GUALG DI PIERGIACOMO E ROBERTO GUALA & C. S.A.S.
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D83/00—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents
    • B65D83/14—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for delivery of liquid or semi-liquid contents by internal gaseous pressure, i.e. aerosol containers comprising propellant for a product delivered by a propellant
    • B65D83/40—Closure caps
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D41/00—Caps, e.g. crown caps or crown seals, i.e. members having parts arranged for engagement with the external periphery of a neck or wall defining a pouring opening or discharge aperture; Protective cap-like covers for closure members, e.g. decorative covers of metal foil or paper
    • B65D41/32—Caps or cap-like covers with lines of weakness, tearing-strips, tags, or like opening or removal devices, e.g. to facilitate formation of pouring openings
    • B65D41/34—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers provided with tamper elements formed in, or attached to, the closure skirt
    • B65D41/38—Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers provided with tamper elements formed in, or attached to, the closure skirt engaging a threaded ring clamped on the external periphery of the neck or wall
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D2401/00—Tamper-indicating means
    • B65D2401/15—Tearable part of the closure
    • B65D2401/25—Non-metallic tear-off strips

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  • This invention relates to safety closures for receptacles such as cans, tubes, bottles and the like, and in particular it relates to a safety closure ofthe type having a ring rotatably mounted on a receptacle and threadedly engaged with a cap, wherein the cap must be turned relative to the ring to expose the receptacle opening.
  • the purpose of the present invention is to provide an improved safety closure which has the additional feature of serving as a security closure so as to prevent initial opening of the receptacle and also to give a permanent visible indication of such an initial opening.
  • an external sleeve removably connected to the cap, for example by a tear-off connection, said sleeve covering the gripping surface of the ring.
  • the sleeve prevents holding the ring fixed so that one cannot turn the cap relative to the ring. Only after the sleeve has been removed can the ring be grasped and the cap unscrewed from it. Further, the tearing or pulling off of the sleeve is immediately visible so that any unauthorized opening of the receptacle is then clearly visibly indicated.
  • the sleeve is formed as an annular, external member connected to the cap via lands, permitting the sleeve to be torn off from the cap.
  • the sleeve can have one or more slits therein providing a location for one to grasp the sleeve for removal purposes, and advantageously the sleeve is cast in plastic in one piece with the cap.
  • the sleeve may be bent outwards at the slits so as to facilitate engagement and tearing off of the sleeve.
  • the engagement of the ring with the receptacle will of course vary, depending on the type of receptacle to which the closure is applied.
  • the inner edge of the annular ring can be constructed so as to snap behind an annular bulge on the external surface of the neck of the bottle.
  • the inner edge of the ring can simply be snapped into place behind the edge of the upwardly protruding valve plate.
  • the cross-sectional shapes of the ring and cap can be of many different configurations such that the aboved described features of the inventionare present and so that the closure is adaptedv to fit onto receptacles, of many different shapes.
  • the cross-sections canbe selected so that .the sleeve with lie substantially in the axial extension'of the receptacle wall or alternatively the sleeve could extend over both the'ring and the adjacent receptacle wall.
  • the receptacle is a can 10 of the aerosol spray type including a dome 12 with a valve plate 13 provided centrally therein.
  • the annular ring 14 is snapped over the valve plate 13 such that the ring 14 is rotatable freely about the access opening including valve plate 13 but is prevented from moving axially off of the receptacle by engagement of the inner edge of the ring 14 with the outwardly protruding upper portion of the valve plate 13.
  • the ring 14 has exterior screw threads which threadedly engage interiorscrew threads on a cap 16.
  • the ring 14 includes an external gripping surface 18, and the cap 16 also includes a gripping surface, namely the exposed exterior portion thereof.
  • the cap 16 is removed from the ring 14 to expose the opening, in this case the valveplate 13 by unscrewing the cap 16 from the ring 14.
  • a security means is provided for preventing access to the gripping surface 18 so that one cannot grip the surface 18 to effect relative movement between the elements 14 and 16.
  • This security means comprises a sleeve 22 which covers the gripping surface 18 and is secured to the cap 16 by means of lands or ribs 20 (see FIG. 2).
  • the sleeve 22 is slit, as shown at 25 in FIG. 2 and preferably the ends 26 of the sleeve adjacent the slit are bent outwardly.
  • the sleeve 22 which covers the gripping surface 18 to thereby prevent unauthorized opening of the receptacle, is torn away from the cap 16 by grasping one of the ends 26 and pulling the sleeve, thereby breaking the lands 20 and exposing the gripping surface 18. After this tearing action has been completed, it cannot be reversed so that there is provided a visible indication that the security means has been removed.
  • the sleeve 22 can be shaped so as to correspond to a desired receptacle shape.
  • FIG. 1 shows in solid lines an embodiment in which the sleeve is the form of a thin walled elongated ring formed essentially as an axial extension of the peripheral wall of the can. In dotted lines there is shown a different arrangement whereby the sleeve 22 projects outwardly over the peripheral wall of the can.
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 illustrate the application of the present invention to a bottle 30 having an external bulge 32in the form of an annular ring formed integrally with the neck of the bottle.
  • the ring in this case which is repre sented by the numeral 34 includes an internal annular groove which mates with the bulge 32 permitting free rotatable movement of the ring 34 about the neck of the bottle while preventing axial movement of the ring off of the bottle neck.
  • the ring includes external screw threads which threadedly engage internal screw threads on a cap 36.
  • the ring further includes a gripping surface 38 which in this embodiment is covered by a sleeve 42 which is integrally connected to the cap 36 by means of lands 40 which are similar to the lands 20 of FIG. 2.
  • the sleeve 42 includes a slit 45 with outwardly bent ends 46 similar to 25 and 26 of FIG. 2.
  • the closure may include a single slit or a plurality thereof. Any convenient means may be provided for effecting removal of the sleeve from the cap, but preferably the sleeve is constructed to be torn away as illustrated and described above. Preferably the sleeve is cast in one piece with the cap and is preferably of a plastic material. Obviously numerous arrangements are possible within the spirit and scope of the invention. For example, the sleeve could be formed as a downward extension of the cap.
  • a safety closure for a receptacle having an access opening comprising:
  • a ring for surrounding the access opening said" ring having means for mounting it on the receptacle so as to be freely rotatable about said access opening and secured against freely moving off of the recep- 4 tacle, said ring including a gripping surface positioned to be gripped during opening of the closure,
  • a cap covering said access opening and in screw threaded engagement with said ring such that turning movement of the cap relative to the ring results in removal of the cap from the ring for opening the closure to expose the access opening, said cap also including a gripping surface positioned to be gripped during opening of the closure,
  • attaching means for removingly attaching the sleeve to the cap with the sleeve positioned to cover the gripping surface of the ring, whereby removal of the sleeve is necessary to expose the gripping surface of the ring, so that this gripping surface can be gripped along with that of the cap, to effect turning of the cap relative to the ring to open the closure.
  • said attaching means comprising a tearable connection between the cap and the sleeve, such that one can remove the sleeve from the cap by gripping it and tearing it away therefrom.
  • a safety closure according to claim 2 said tearable connection comprising a plurality of narrow lands spaced apart about the cap and providing the connection of the cap to the sleeve.
  • a safety closure according to claim 4 said sleeve being bent outwardly at said split.
  • a safety closure according to claim 2 said sleeve being formed out of plastic in onepiece with the cap.
  • a safety closure according to claim 1 said sleeve positioned to constitute an axial extension of the wall of the receptacle on which it is mounted.
  • a safety closure according to claim 1 said sleeve constructed to extend outwardly over the ring to adjacent the edge of the wall of the receptacle on which it is mounted.
  • a safety closure according to claim 1 said sleeve being formed as a lower extension of the cap.

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US4558823A (en) * 1984-03-02 1985-12-17 Regina Corporation Spotting control and trigger assembly
US4570856A (en) * 1984-03-02 1986-02-18 Regina Corporation Liquid and detergent mixing chamber and valves
US4575007A (en) * 1984-03-02 1986-03-11 Regina Corporation Mixing control for water and cleaning fluid
US4676287A (en) * 1984-03-02 1987-06-30 The Regina Company Inc. Cartridge and docking port for a cleaning device
US4712740A (en) * 1984-03-02 1987-12-15 The Regina Co., Inc. Venturi spray nozzle for a cleaning device
US20040188374A1 (en) * 2002-09-10 2004-09-30 Alberto Ochoa Laburu Stopper with guaranteed tamper-proof seal
US20070098917A1 (en) * 2005-09-22 2007-05-03 Skaffco Engineering & Manufacturing, Inc. Plasma Boriding Method
US20080029305A1 (en) * 2006-04-20 2008-02-07 Skaff Corporation Of America, Inc. Mechanical parts having increased wear resistance
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US3403803A (en) * 1966-08-31 1968-10-01 Isral J. Markowitz Safety bottle closure
US3595427A (en) * 1969-08-18 1971-07-27 Isral J Markowitz Safety aerosol cover cap
US3837518A (en) * 1972-11-30 1974-09-24 Sunbeam Plastics Corp Tamper-proof and child-proof medicine bottle or the like
US3858743A (en) * 1973-10-15 1975-01-07 Owens Illinois Inc Tamperproof package

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US3403803A (en) * 1966-08-31 1968-10-01 Isral J. Markowitz Safety bottle closure
US3595427A (en) * 1969-08-18 1971-07-27 Isral J Markowitz Safety aerosol cover cap
US3837518A (en) * 1972-11-30 1974-09-24 Sunbeam Plastics Corp Tamper-proof and child-proof medicine bottle or the like
US3858743A (en) * 1973-10-15 1975-01-07 Owens Illinois Inc Tamperproof package

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US4558823A (en) * 1984-03-02 1985-12-17 Regina Corporation Spotting control and trigger assembly
US4570856A (en) * 1984-03-02 1986-02-18 Regina Corporation Liquid and detergent mixing chamber and valves
US4575007A (en) * 1984-03-02 1986-03-11 Regina Corporation Mixing control for water and cleaning fluid
US4676287A (en) * 1984-03-02 1987-06-30 The Regina Company Inc. Cartridge and docking port for a cleaning device
US4712740A (en) * 1984-03-02 1987-12-15 The Regina Co., Inc. Venturi spray nozzle for a cleaning device
US7156247B2 (en) * 2002-09-10 2007-01-02 Betapack, S.A. Stopper with guaranteed tamper-proof seal
US20040188374A1 (en) * 2002-09-10 2004-09-30 Alberto Ochoa Laburu Stopper with guaranteed tamper-proof seal
US20070098917A1 (en) * 2005-09-22 2007-05-03 Skaffco Engineering & Manufacturing, Inc. Plasma Boriding Method
US7767274B2 (en) 2005-09-22 2010-08-03 Skaff Corporation of America Plasma boriding method
US20080029305A1 (en) * 2006-04-20 2008-02-07 Skaff Corporation Of America, Inc. Mechanical parts having increased wear resistance
US20080233428A1 (en) * 2007-03-22 2008-09-25 Skaff Corporation Of America, Inc. Mechanical parts having increased wear resistance
US8012274B2 (en) 2007-03-22 2011-09-06 Skaff Corporation Of America, Inc. Mechanical parts having increased wear-resistance
CN103209902A (zh) * 2010-11-11 2013-07-17 株式会社衍宇 安全盖
US10737875B1 (en) 2020-01-23 2020-08-11 Four Strong IP, LLC Closure assembly for use with a container
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