Patent ID: 7938282
Filing Date: 2011-05-10
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
1. A closure for a container, the closure comprising: a cylindrical skirt depending downwardly from a top portion; the top portion having a centered region; a plurality of slots interspaced about the top portion, each slot sized to receive a finger tip of a human hand, each slot being defined as having an opening positioned towards the cylindrical skirt, a back portion radially facing the centered region on the top portion and facing the opening, and a walled section extending from the back portion towards the opening define a partially elliptical form; and an upwardly rounded edge on the secondary edge positioned only between two slots of the plurality of slots, and wherein the top portion further includes a first tapered annular section that extends upwardly and inwardly from the cylindrical skirt and includes a second tapered annular section extending upwardly and inwardly from an intervening edge between the first tapered annular section and the second tapered annular section, the second tapered annular section further having a secondary edge distal from the intervening edge, the secondary edge separating the second tapered annular section from a region sloped upwardly and radially inwardly towards the centered region defined by the top section, and wherein each slot, of the plurality of slots, is further defined as including an indent having a surface boundary formed from the secondary edge of the second tapered annular section which forms into a downwardly sloped section, the surface boundary continues from the downwardly sloped section into a bowed section and then merges into an upwardly sloped section, the upwardly sloped section then levels into an extension section moving inwardly towards the centered region, the extension section forms into a wall section that merges at an edge with the top section.