Patent ID: 8464886

Claim:
A tamper-evident closure for mounting on a container formed to include an interior region, the closure comprising a body adapted to mount on the container to overlie the interior region and formed to include dispensing apertures arranged to open into the interior region of the container when the body is mounted on the container, a lid including first, second, and third flip-top caps, a removable tamper band, and a frangible link arranged to couple the removable tamper band to each of the flip-top caps temporarily to cause the removable tamper band to lie in perpendicular relation to a planar top surface of each of the first, second, and third flip-top caps and to define a frangible tear line between the removable tamper band and each of the flip-top caps, and a lid tether arranged to interconnect the body and each of the flip-top caps permanently and configured to support each of the first, second, and third flip-top caps for independent movement relative to the body and to one another between a closed position covering selected ones of the dispensing apertures and an opened position exposing the selected ones of the dispensing apertures, and wherein the removable tamper band includes retainer means for engaging the body to retain each of the flip-top caps in a temporary anchored position on the body covering the dispensing apertures after movement of the lid from an unassembled spread-apart body-disengaging position alongside the body to an assembled tamper-resistant body-engaging position overlying the body until the removable tamper band is separated from the flip-top caps in response to fracture of the frangible link to free each of the flip-top caps for pivoting movement about a pivot axis associated with the lid tether between the closed and opened positions and wherein the removable tamper band is arranged to lie in spaced-apart relation to the body to locate the first, second, and third flip-top caps between the lid tether and the removable tamper band while the lid lies in the unassembled spread-apart body-disengaging position alongside the body.