Patent ID: 9650185
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: B65D

Claim:
1. A tamper evident closure, comprising: (a) a closure body having a top wall including a dispensing port aligned with an outlet of a container, a depending peripheral skirt, a sealing flange selected to form a sealed interface with the container and a locking skirt having an engaging boss sized to engage a surface of the container to resist non-destructive separation of the closure body from the container, the top wall further including a capture aperture, wherein the capture aperture exposes a volume beneath the top wall of the closure body; and (b) a lid hingedly connected to the closure body and moveable between an open position and a closed position, the lid including a sealing surface for sealingly engaging the container in the closed position, the sealing surface being spaced from the dispensing port in an open position of the lid, the lid including a first tamper evident finger and a second tamper evident finger projecting from a hub, the first tamper evident finger and the second tamper evident finger including a retaining barb, wherein the closed position of the lid, a portion of the first tamper evident finger and a portion of the second tamper evident finger passes through the capture aperture and a thickness of a local region of the top wall is between the retaining barb and a bottom surface of the lid, the hub connected to the lid in a confirmation window by at least two frangible bridges, the first tamper evident finger and the second tamper evident finger configured to pass through the capture aperture a single time and upon sufficient opening force on the lid, the frangible bridge breaks allowing the lid to move to the open position and the separated hub with the first tamper evident finger and the second tamper evident finger fall through the capture aperture and are retained in the volume beneath the top wall.