Container having closure fastening means

US4171062A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Buckeye Molding Company · US

Inventors

• David O. Allen · Wilmington, US
• Harry A. E. Wombold · Wilmington, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 16, 1978
• Grant date: Oct 16, 1979
• Expiry date: Feb 16, 1998

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65D2543/00555
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A container has means hingedly supporting a reversible band which surrounds the container near the mouth of the container. The hinged support for the band is engaged to that side edge of the band which is closest to the mouth of the container. The opposite side edge of the band has hook means associated therewith for interfitting rib means projecting outwardly from the skirt of a closure. The interfit between the container band and the closure rib is accomplished by swinging the band upwardly about its hinged edge connection to the container, whereupon the band is reversed in the sense that the inside face of the band initially closest to the container is turned outwardly from the container as the initially outside face of the band is turned inwardly toward the container, such reversal occurring as the band swings upwardly about its hinged connection to the container. Such reversal causes the initially outside face of the band to be enveloped by the initially inside face of the band with the consequence that the initially inside face of the band is placed under a substantial tensile stress which causes the band to collapse inwardly toward the container with the result that the hook…