Closure for a container

US9346200B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Widalys Luz Desoto-Burt · Cincinnati, US
• Todd Mitchell Day · Bethel, US
• Ralph Edwin Neufarth · Monroe, US
• Richard Darren Satterfield · Bethel, US
• Chow-Chi Huang · Sharonville, US
• Miguel Alberto Herrera · Loveland, US
• Alfredo Pagan · Mason, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 13, 2012
• Grant date: May 24, 2016
• Expiry date: Jan 13, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02W90/10
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A first component which assembles onto an outlet opening of a container and provides a seal; the first component containing a snap component to engage to a second component to form a closure; a second component combined with first component forms a dispensing orifice wherein the dispensing orifice is positioned directly adjacent to the open portion of container outlet; a motion of second component pivots about an axis to open a dispensing orifice; wherein second component engages with first component when second component is moved relative to first component to enable operation of orifice; first component comprising one or more elements being in a specific juxtaposition enabling a small height and a low profile for one or more elements of first component; the element(s) being in the plane or below the plane of the outlet of the container.