Patent ID: 7293396

Claim:
A method for temporarily connecting and thereafter securely tightening a top onto a container comprising: placing a distal end of the top near a distal end of the container, pressing one or more radially extending members on the top down around the distal end of the container, thereby temporarily connecting the top to the container sufficiently to maintain the top in concentric alignment with the distal end of the container without allowing significant wobbling from side to side and to resist the chance that the top and the container will become inadvertently separated, thereafter securely tightening the top down onto the container without first separating the top from the container, and repeating the foregoing steps each time the end user wants to re-connect the top to the container thereby providing a user-friendly method of applying a top to a container, wherein said one or more radially extending members on the top are formed or affixed between the distal end of the top and threads formed on the top.