Patent ID: 8038041
Filing Date: 2011-10-18
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
1. A one-piece dispensing closure comprising: a closure body; a closure lid; a living hinge structure hingeably connecting said closure lid to said closure body, said closure body including an upper deck; an outer skirt depending below the upper deck, said outer skirt being configured and arranged to mount a product container; a flow conduit extending through said upper deck, said flow conduit including more than one entrance orifice having an entrance axis and a single exit orifice having an exit axis, said entrance axis being perpendicular to said exit axis, said flow conduit having a substantially horizontal bottom wall suspended beneath said upper deck by a plurality of substantially vertical arms depending downwardly from said upper deck, said bottom wall having an area about the same as a cross-sectional area of the flow conduit taken along a plane parallel to the entrance axis, wherein said bottom wall baffles direct flow from an interior of said product container through said exit orifice; and an inner skirt depending below the upper deck, said inner skirt being spaced radially inwardly from said outer skirt away from a sidewall of said product container, said inner skirt encircling said flow conduit.