Patent ID: 7490736
Filing Date: 2009-02-17
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
1. A pouring device, comprising: a spout fitment and a reclosable closure, the spout fitment having a planar base and a tubular side wall defining a pouring zone therein and a flap disposed at a lower end of the side wall, a cam follower extending upward from the flap, wherein the closure retained on said fitment has an end wall and a tubular side wall, wherein the end wall has a central pillar and a first cam depending therefrom and engageable with the cam follower, said first cam having a spiral shape with a sloping surface extending from it's end region upwardly anticlockwise from the end wall towards the central pillar and wherein the first cam contacting the cam follower during rotation of the closure, and a second cam formed on the reclosable closure and disposed radially outermost of the first cam, said second cam extends from the end region of the first cam in the same direction as the first cam downwardly toward the end wall to direct the cam follower radially inward and back into engagement with the first cam.