Patent ID: 7891510
Filing Date: 2011-02-22
Classification: B65D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An assembly comprising a container and a closure, said container having a neck, said neck having an interior surface, an exterior surface substantially curved about an axis, said interior and exterior surfaces joining at an opening of said neck, said exterior surface having (a) at least one thread, (b) a plurality of sloping teeth directed radially outwardly, and (c) a retaining bead positioned axially between said threads and said teeth, wherein each of the sloping teeth has an engagement surface; said closure having (a) a top wall; (b) a side wall defining an interior surface substantially curved about an axis, an exterior surface, an upper portion, and a lower portion; (c) at least one thread on the interior surface of said side wall adapted to mate with said thread on the neck of said container; (d) a tamper-indicating band having an interior surface, an exterior surface, an upper edge, and a lower edge, the upper edge of said tamper indicating band attached to the lower portion of said closure side wall by a plurality of rupturable bridges; and said tamper-indicating band further having a plurality of sloping teeth directed radially inwardly toward the sloping teeth on the neck of the container, each of the sloping teeth of the tamper-indicating band having an engagement surface that is engageable with one of the engagement surfaces of the sloping teeth of the container; wherein the sloping teeth on the tamper-indicating band are configured such that when the engagement surface of one of the teeth on the tamper-indicating band completely engages the engagement surface of one of the teeth on the exterior surface of the neck of the container, the engagement surface of at least one of the other sloping teeth on the tamper-indicating band is free from engagement with the engagement surfaces of the sloping teeth of the container, and the engagement surface of at least one of the other sloping teeth of the container is free from engagement with the engagement surfaces of the sloping teeth on the tamper-indicating band.