| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 215295000 | With means to facilitate closure removal | 21 |
| 20150102005 | BOTTLE CLOSURE WITH EASY OPEN TABS - A cap for a bottle is provided with taps that make it easy for someone with a disability, e.g., arthritis, to twist the cap off of the bottle. The cap can have two or more rectangular vertical tabs arranged along the perimeter of the top face of the cap so as to face each other in parallel on opposite sides of the top surface of the cap. The tabs have an extended height, i.e., greater than ¼th inch and are separated by a distance approximately equal to the diameter of the top surface of the cap. The top corners of the tabs are squared (90 degree angles) to provide better gripping of a corner against which the tabs are placed while twisting the bottle so as to cause the cap to be released from the bottle. | 04-16-2015 |
| 215296000 | Stopper-type closure | 5 |
| 20080272085 | Bottle Stopper - In one aspect the invention provides a bottle stopper for a wine bottle or the like, which bottle stopper comprises a body having a sealing member which sits within the peck ( | 11-06-2008 |
| 20130140262 | CLOSURE WITH SHIELD, STOPPER, AND PUSHER, AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME - A closure is shown for closing an opening of a vessel. The closure includes a stopper, a shield, and a pusher. The stopper seats at least partially within the vessel opening. The shield includes a recess configured to receive the stopper and at least partially defined by the inner surface of a skirt. The skirt is positioned outside the generally cylindrical neck of the vessel when the stopper is seated in the vessel opening. The pusher extends into the recess of the shield. The pusher is configured to push the stopper out of the opening when the shield is withdrawn axially, as when removing the closure from the opening. A method of assembling a closure is also shown, in which the pusher is positioned to push the stopper out of the opening when the shield is withdrawn axially from the vessel opening. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20160167849 | CAP ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING SAME | 06-16-2016 |
| 215299000 | Permanently secured in stopper cavity | 2 |
| 20090008355 | Chambered Bottle Stopper - A stopper apparatus for closing wine bottles and like receptacles having an elongated stopper body of flexible material adapted for insertion into the neck of the bottle so as to create a water-tight and air-tight seal between the media contained within said bottle and the outside environment. The stopper body has a generally cylindrical shape with a slight taper near the base of the cylinder and features a cavity near the top of the cylinder. The cavity features a concealed apparatus therein. At least one self revealing handle is attached to the stopper body for extracting said stopper from the neck of the bottle, wherein extracting said stopper body from the neck of said bottle exposes said concealed apparatus contained therein. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20110297638 | Chambered Bottle Stopper - A stopper apparatus for closing wine bottles and like receptacles having an elongated stopper body of flexible material adapted for insertion into the neck of the bottle so as to create a water-tight and air-tight seal between the media contained within said bottle and the outside environment. The stopper body has a generally cylindrical shape with a slight taper near the base of the cylinder and features a cavity near the top of the cylinder. The cavity features a concealed apparatus therein. At least one self revealing handle is attached to the stopper body for extracting said stopper from the neck of the bottle, wherein extracting said stopper body from the neck of said bottle exposes said concealed apparatus contained therein. | 12-08-2011 |
| 215302000 | Tool engaging means or closure or receptacle | 2 |
| 20110220607 | PLASTIC BOTTLE CLOSURE, PLASTIC BOTTLE INCLUDING THE SAME, AND PLASTIC BOTTLE CLOSURE OPENER - A plastic bottle closure, which is screwed onto an opening of a plastic bottle, has an outer form in which an outer circumferential portion fits in a hole of a standardized dodecagonal socket wrench. The outer circumferential portion of the plastic bottle closure includes a concavo-convex portion including a plurality of convex portions and a plurality of concave portions. The concavo-convex portion fits in a convexo-concave portion of the hole of the standardized dodecagonal socket wrench. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20130048592 | Bottle With Integrated Cap Remover - A bottle with an integrated cap remover allows a user to remove a twist-off bottle cap without the need for a separate bottle opener. The bottle includes a bottle cap, a bottle opening, a neck, a side wall, and a bottom surface. The bottom surface includes an indent that has a plurality of indent ridges. The bottle cap has a plurality of cap ridges. The bottle cap of a second bottle can be pressed into the primary indent of a first bottle. Twisting the first bottle will cause the indent ridges of the first bottle to engage against the cap ridges of the second bottle. The bottle cap of the second bottle will then be loosened, allowing a user to easily remove the bottle cap. | 02-28-2013 |
| 215303000 | Separate opening means associated with closure | 5 |
| 20170233153 | One-Handed Operation Bottle Device | 08-17-2017 |
| 215304000 | Lever-type, pry-off means | 4 |
| 20080223814 | BOTTLE-OPENER FOR UNCAPPING A BOTTLE NECK - A bottle-opener for a closure for a bottle neck includes a hood | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080296249 | Combination bottle and bottle cap opener - A fully functioning bottle includes a tubular neck portion with an opening closed by a crown cap, a tubular base portion, and a tubular transition portion connecting the neck portion to the base portion. The bottle includes a seamless outer surface having a channel positioned along the length of the bottle body. The surface is also deformed to provide a lip, which projects above the channel to form the opener. The channel has sufficient depth to receive a crown cap positioned at the end of a second container body. The cap frictionally engages the lip, so that cap is removed from second container body when the body is rotated about the capped end. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20100078404 | CAP LIFTER FOR PLUGGING CAP, PLUGGING ASSEMBLY INCLUDING A CAP AND SAID CAP LIFTER - A bottle opener for a closure cap for a bottle neck, includes a hood equipped with a first hook including a contact surface with a lower surface of the closure cap, and a transmission lever hinged onto the hood and provided with a gripping section and a working section able to come to bear against an upper surface of the closure cap. It is also provided with two other hooks which include a contact surface with the lower surface and which are offset in the circumferential direction on both sides of the position diametrically opposite the first hook, by an angle of less than 90°, typically ranging between 40° and 80°, and preferably ranging between 40° and 50°. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100096355 | LEVER TYPE EASY PULL CROWN CAP - A lever type easy pull crown cap. The lever type easy pull crown cap has a body with a boss extending from a central portion that transitions into a rim with an edge. A pull-ring is fastened to the crown body without piercing the body. An inner surface of the body includes a score line extending from the edge along the rim and across the central portion towards the boss and returns outward across the central portion after travelling around the boss to terminate in a tail segment. The tail segment extends along a portion of the rim without reaching the edge. Pulling upward on the pull-ring fractures the body along the score line and separates a tear strip portion from the body, breaking the seal between the lever type easy pull crown cap and the bottle. | 04-22-2010 |
| 215305000 | Hand or finger engageable projection | 8 |
| 20080296250 | COLLAPSIBLE HANDGRIP - A collapsible handgrip includes a center section and a plurality of elongated members projecting from the center section. Each of the elongated members has a first edge and a second edge opposite the first edge. Moreover, each of the elongated members is pivotable relative to the center section between a first position, in which it extends from the center section in a first direction, and a second position, in which it extends from the center section in a second direction, the first direction being generally opposite to the second direction. Each of the first edges of the elongated members is in a substantially aligned and abutting relationship relative to the second edge of an adjacent one of the elongated members when the elongated members are pivoted to their first positions so as to form a handgrip surface which extends substantially continuously across the elongated members. The handgrip can be used in conjunction with numerous implements, such as covers, caps or lids for containers or bottles, instruments and tools. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20100308006 | CLOSURE AND BOTTLE - A closure for closing over the opening of a bottle comprises a body attachable to the bottle and at least one projection that projects out from the body. An in-use underside surface of the projection has an ergonomic curvature whereby a user's finger F can be closely received against the underside surface in use. A plurality of discrete apertures extend through the one or more projections and are located around the closure. Alternatively, the one or more projections with optional discrete apertures are located to projects out from the bottle. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20110139745 | MODULAR BOTTLE CLOSURE - A modular bottle closure comprises one or more exterior surfaces ( | 06-16-2011 |
| 20130082023 | ERGONOMIC BOTTLE CAP - A polymer lid for capping the mouth of a PET bottle having a neck with a male thread, the lid comprising a threaded female cylindrical section for engaging the male thread of the neck; an outer surface comprising an arcuate skirt consisting of at least three quarters (270°) of a torroidal cylindrical section around the female cylindrical section; and further consisting of a protrusion having first and second surfaces than meet at an apex whose maximum extension protrudes between 1 mm and 5 mm from the inner cylindrical female surface; the protrusion for engagement by a thumb of a person attempting to open the bottle, enabling increased torque in a counter-clockwise direction for removal of the lid from a PET bottle. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20140332493 | SCREW LID FOR A FOOD CONTAINER - A screw lid ( | 11-13-2014 |
| 20150034585 | FLIP TOP CAP WITH CONTAMINATION PROTECTION - A cap is provided for a laboratory vessel. The cap includes a lid that can be rotated relative to the laboratory vessel from a closed position to an open position. The lid includes at least one tab dimensioned and disposed for receiving manual digital pressure for opening and/or closing the lid. The tab is in an offset position to prevent a thumb or forefinger from passing over and in contact with the opening to the vessel. Additionally, the lid includes a shield inwardly from the tab for further preventing contact between a finger and the open top of the vessel. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150360827 | Silicone Bottle Cap - Embodiments of the invention relate generally to a silicone bottle cap comprising a silicone cap whose lower end is open and expanded. Inside the cap there are more than two circular sealing ribs, which are screwed with the threads on the outside of the mouth of the bottle to be sealed. The whole cap is made of silicone, which is a material of flexibility and elasticity. The bottle cap is placed above the bottle mouth and pressed downward to seal the bottle. The circular sealing ribs inside the cap can be screwed with the thread on the outside of the bottle cap. Therefore, the bottle cap will not easily fall off, and the sealing effect is improved. To remove the bottle cap, the lower end of the cap is flapped and the cap is pulled upwards. The bottle cap is easy to use. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20160001940 | PRODUCT PACKAGE SEAL WITH PEELABLE TAB - A product package for storing nutritional or pharmaceutical products includes a container having a body and an opening, a seal ( | 01-07-2016 |
