Patent ID: 7832600

Claim:
A dispensing closure assembly suitable to be engaged to a complementary container, said assembly comprising a first moulded component adapted to engage an outlet of a complementary container and to provide a single inlet of said first moulded component above said container through a flat plate of a sealing ring for sealing a top of the container from which any liquid content of said container can only egress, the first moulded component including a closure portion above an outlet, a second moulded component about part of said first moulded component and having a dispensing outlet capable of being closed by the closure portion of said first moulded component, the first and second moulded components having coacting features below the outlet of the first moulded component to restrict relative movement between the first and second moulded components at least substantially to a rectilinear vertical or at least substantially non rotational movement of one relative the other, a third moulded component held captive by said first moulded component but rotatable relative thereto, and being threadedly associated with the second moulded component so that rotation of the third moulded component causes by a vertical straight lowering of the second moulded component relative to the first moulded component, and vice versa, closing, and opening respectively, of the outlet of the second moulded component, limits provided by abutment between features of the first and third moulded components to restrict an amount of rotation of the third moulded component relative to the first moulded component.