MUMBAI, India, July 25 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517064971 A) filed by Airnov, Inc., Wilmington, U.S.A., on July 8, for 'tamper-evident closure.'
Inventor(s) include Oliveri, Cyril.
The application for the patent was published on July 25, under issue no. 30/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "This tamper-evident closure (1) comprises: an outer cap (2) with a sidewall (21) and a top wall (23); an inner cap (4) with a sidewall (41) and a top wall (43), coaxially nested in the outer cap; a safety strip (24) arranged between the outer cap (2) and the inner cap (4) so as to block at least one degree of freedom of relative movement of the outer and inner caps (2, 4), the safety strip (24) being integrally made with one cap (2) and connected thereto by a frangible structure (26); a first engagement mechanism between the safety strip (24) and the other cap (4), configured to drive the caps (2, 4) in unison in a screwing direction (R1) in order to mount the closure on the container; a second engagement mechanism (72, 74) between the caps (2, 4), configured to drive the caps (2, 4) in unison in an unscrewing direction (R2) in order to remove the closure from the container, the second engagement mechanism being activatable when the safety strip (24) has been removed."
The patent application was internationally filed on Dec. 29, 2023, under International application No.PCT/EP2023/087987.
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