Patent ID: 7980432

Claim:
A dispensing closure, comprising: a closure body, said closure body including: an upper deck and a lower deck, an inner skirt depending below and integrally formed with the upper deck, an outer skirt depending below and integrally formed with the lower deck, said outer skirt being configured and arranged to mount to a product container, a flow conduit extending through said upper deck, said flow conduit including two or more vertically oriented walls and a bottom wall, said vertically oriented walls depending downwardly from said upper deck, said bottom wall configured and arranged to be positioned along a horizontal axis perpendicular to an exit axis to prevent the direct flow of product into the flow conduit along the exit axis, said flow conduit including one or more entrance orifices having one or more entrance axes and a exit orifice having an exit axis, and said entrance axis being stepped from said exit axis whereby said flow conduit provides a non-linear flow path from an interior of said closure to an exterior of said closure, said entrance axis being parallel to said exit axis.