Patent ID: 8413832
Filing Date: 2013-04-09
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
1. A closure for a container that has an opening to the container interior where a product may be stored, said closure comprising: (A) a body that is either (a) a separate structure for being attached to said container at said opening or (b) a structure formed as a unitary portion of said container at said opening, said body having at least one dispensing orifice for communicating with said container opening; (B) a lid that (1) is connected to said body with a hinge and movable between (i) a closed position occluding said dispensing orifice, and (ii) an open position spaced from said dispensing orifice, and (2) has a lifting region against which a force can be applied by the user to lift said lid away from said closed position; (C) a tamper-evident tab that has a proximal end frangibly connected to said lid with a frangible junction; and (D) a pressing member that (1) is connected to said body in an initial unactuated configuration, and (2) can be subsequently pressed laterally inwardly to (i) deform to an actuated configuration, and (ii) force said tamper-evident tab laterally inwardly a distance sufficient to break said frangible junction to separate said tamper-evident tab from said lid; and wherein a first receiver is defined on one of said tamper-evident tab and said pressing member; a first connector is defined on the other of said tamper-evident tab and said pressing member for being received in said first receiver to establish a non-releasable arrangement between said tamper-evident tab and said pressing member when said lid is initially moved to said closed position for the first time; a second receiver is defined on said body; and a second connector is defined on said first connector for being received by said second receiver when said pressing member is pressed laterally inwardly from said unactuated configuration to said actuated configuration to establish a non-releasable arrangement between said pressing member and said second receiver while said pressing member is in said actuated configuration to indicate that said tamper-evident tab has been broken.