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US Patent 3991904
Issued Date
November 16, 1976
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A plastics container and closure assembly in which the closure has a cap part, a tear away band, an anchor band, a hinge connecting the cap part to the anchor band and a bung to seat within the mouth of the container. The bung is deeper on one side than on the other whereby when viewed from one side the bottom of the bung is formed by an oblique line extending upwardly from the deepest part of the bung to the shallowest part and wherein the shallowest part of the bung is adjacent to a thumb tab by which the cap may be manipulated and the deepest part of the bung is adjacent to the hinge. The anchor band has an auxiliary band retaining projection positioned when in use below the auxiliary bead on the container and a main band-retaining projection when in use below the main band-retaining bead the arrangement being such that when the tear-off strip is removed the cap part remains connected to the anchor band by a hinge and the anchor band is firmly held in position.
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Published
November 16, 1976
Application Number
05/583,682
Filed
June 4, 1975
US Classification
215/256   215/305 215/320 215/321 215/43 215/901 220/837
Int'l Classification
B65D   41/32   (20060101)   B65D   41/48   (20060101)  
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Parent Case
This application is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 345,138 filed by Brian Leslie Miskin and Eugene Edward Davis on Mar. 26, 1973 and now abandoned.
USPTO Field of Search
220/334   220/367   215/320   215/256   215/257   215/349   215/305   215/321  
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