Cutter cup having seal cutter and depressor fin

摘要

A cap for a bottle having a safety seal over its mouth, the cap provided with one or more integral seal-cutting fins to facilitate removal of the safety seal. The cap further includes mouth alignment ribs and may include one or more depressor fins. The cap may have an inner stage and an outer stage. When inverted, the cap may be positioned on the lip of the mouth of a heat induction sealed bottle. Upon application of downward force and rotation of the cap, the seal-cutting fins score or cut the safety seal to facilitate removal of the seal. The depressor fin(s) prevents the entire circumference of the seal from being scored or cut, and therefore reduces the risk that the seal will fall into the bottle during removal of the seal.

主权项

1. A cap for use with bottles having a heat induction sealed mouth, the cap comprising a top, the cap being threadedly engageable with a mouth of a bottle, and at least one arcuate seal-cutting fin projecting from the top of the cap,
further comprising a at least one arcuate depressor fin projecting from the top of the cap, wherein each of the at least one arcuate depressor fins includes at least one rounded apex, wherein each of the at least one arcuate depressor fins is concentrically aligned with a perimeter of the cap, wherein each of the at least one arcuate seal-cutting fins is concentrically aligned with the perimeter of the cap and is located the same distance from the perimeter of the cap as the at least one arcuate depressor fins, and wherein the height of each of the at least one arcuate depressor fins is greater than the height of each of the at least one arcuate seal-cutting fins.