(19)
(11) EP 0 217 630 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
10.08.1988 Bulletin 1988/32

(43) Date of publication A2:
08.04.1987 Bulletin 1987/15

(21) Application number: 86307343

(22) Date of filing: 24.09.1986
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE FR GB NL

(30) Priority: 26.09.1985 GB 8523777

(71) Applicant: Cope Allman Plastics Limited
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(72) Inventor:
  • Povey, Robert William
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(54) Child-resistant tamper-evident closures


(57) In a closure assembly of the snap-on kind in which child-resistance is achieved by requiring that the cap be turned to a predetermined orientation (e.g. as indicated by arrows) before it can be pushed off, tamper-evidence is provided by a tear-off strip (8) on the skirt of the cap (1) co-operating with the neck in a way which prevents rotation of the cap to that orientation.Consequently the neck does not need to have a bead under which the tamper-evident strip engages. There may be teeth (9,11) on the inside of the strip and on the outside of the neck.







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