Patent ID: 9321561
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: B65D,B67D

Claim Text:
1. A plug for closing a neck of a container, comprising: a cap for obturating the neck, which, when the plug is in a closing configuration on the neck, is laid out across an inner aperture of the neck, and a skirt for attachment to the neck, the skirt being tubular and centered on an axis, extending axially from the cap and disposed around the neck when the plug is in the closing configuration on the neck, wherein the skirt includes along the axis thereof: wherein the inner face of the second skirt portion is provided with draining means adapted to delimit flow passages for flowing fluid between the second skirt portion and the neck, the flow passages connecting the opposite axial ends of the second skirt portion, wherein the second skirt portion forms a terminal portion of the skirt, opposite the first skirt portion, so that, at an axial end of the second skirt portion axially opposite the first skirt portion, the flow passages open freely on an outside of the plug, and wherein the skirt includes a peripheral weakening line adapted to be broken by propagation of a tearing of the skirt along the weakening line when the plug is to be removed from the neck, wherein a portion of the weakening line connects the opposite axial ends of the second skirt portion while extending at an angle oblique to the axis and in a peripheral portion of the second skirt portion that is without the draining means.