US 12,006,120 B2
Closure assembly comprising a cap with integrated tamper-evident ring and strap
Frederik Adriaan Van Spronsen, PT Geldrop (NL); Jeroen Pieter Fiere, 's-Gravendeel (NL); Dhandutt Shah, Mumbai (IN); and Nicolaas Adrianus Petrus Groenendaal, XH Tilburg (NL)
Assigned to SIG SERVICES AG, Neuhausen am Rheinfall (CH)
Appl. No. 17/607,856
Filed by Scholle IPN IP BV, SX Tilburg (NL)
PCT Filed Apr. 29, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/061896
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 29, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/221801, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 5, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2023034 (NL), filed on Apr. 30, 2019; application No. 2023525 (NL), filed on Jul. 18, 2019; and application No. 2024518 (NL), filed on Dec. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0204235 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. B65D 75/58 (2006.01); B65D 55/16 (2006.01)
CPC B65D 75/5883 (2013.01) [B65D 55/16 (2013.01); B65D 2251/02 (2013.01)] 33 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A closure assembly comprising an article and a cap, said cap including an integrated tamper-evident ring member and an integrated strap, wherein:
the article forms a tubular neck around a product passage in said article, said neck forming a mouth at a top end of said product passage,
the cap including the integrated tamper-evident ring member and the integrated strap is made as one piece of a plastic material and distinct from the article, which cap is secured on or is adapted to be secured on said neck of the article, the cap being adapted to be manually removed from the neck of the article by a user to open the product passage,
wherein the cap has a closed position and an open position, wherein in the closed position the cap is positioned on the neck and thereby seals the product passage, wherein in the open position the cap is removed from the neck, thereby leaving the product passage open,
wherein the cap comprises a top wall structure and a downward depending skirt having an interior side, exterior side, and a lower edge remote from the top wall structure,
wherein the tamper-evident ring member is integrally formed to the lower edge of the skirt of the cap, said tamper-evident ring member comprising a base portion, which base portion is connected via one or more breakable bridges to the skirt, wherein the base portion is configured to remain connected to the article upon removal of the cap from the neck of the article by the user,
wherein the cap comprises a pair of wing-shaped handles, said pair of wing-shaped handles extending outwardly from the skirt of the cap in mutually opposite directions and being configured to be engaged by a user for removal of the cap,
wherein the wing-shaped handles each have, seen in a side view thereon, an outer periphery comprising a bottom side, a top side, and a tip remote from the skirt, where said bottom side and top side adjoin at the tip,
wherein the strap is integral at a first end thereof to the base portion of the tamper-evident ring member and at a second end thereof integral to one of the wing-shaped handles, wherein the strap is adapted to remain connected to both the base portion of the tamper-evident ring member and the respective wing-shaped handle upon removal of the cap from the neck of the article by the user,
wherein the strap extends outward from the base portion of the tamper-evident ring member towards the tip of the respective wing-shaped handle along the bottom side of the wing-shaped handle, further about the tip of the wing-shaped handle, and along a portion of the top side of the wing-shaped handle to the second end of the strap, the second end of the strap being located at a distance outward of the skirt.