Patent ID: 8523025

Claim:
A dispensing closure for a container for dispensing a viscous liquid contained therein, said dispensing closure comprising: a closure body adapted to be mounted on the container, the closure body having an upper wall, a skirt depending downwardly from said upper wall, and a dispensing orifice extending through said upper wall; and a tubular, flow modulating wall structure depending downwardly from said upper wall of said closure body and surrounding said dispensing orifice, said tubular flow modulating wall structure being configured and arranged to modulate the flow of a viscous liquid through said dispensing orifice, said tubular flow modulating wall structure including at least one V-shaped capillary slot formed therein, said V-shaped capillary slot being disposed adjacent to said upper wall and said dispensing orifice whereby said capillary slot smooths a flow of said viscous liquid through said flow modulating wall structure and dispensing orifice when said container is inverted and squeezed, said at least one V-shaped capillary slot reducing the formation of a meniscus in a volume of liquid residing within said flow modulating wall structure when said container is returned to its normally upstanding position.