CLOSURE WITH ELLIPTICAL NOZZLE, OVERCAP AND TAMPER EVIDENT MEANS

摘要

A closure apparatus suitable for use with a sports drink bottle is described. The closure includes a chassis which has a skirt depending from an upper region thereof and includes a thread for engaging with a cooperating thread on a neck finish of the bottle. The chassis further includes an overcap to facilitate access to the bottle, a hinge for pivotally connecting the overcap and the chassis together and a nozzle operatively connected to the chassis and adapted to dispense fluid from the bottle to a user's mouth, the nozzle being elliptical in plan view so as to facilitate improved user comfort and fit to the user's mouth. A locking means is provided in the form of a key and corresponding keyway, one of which is associated with the nozzle and the other of which is associated with the chassis in order to lock the nozzle in a selected angular orientation about a bottle or nozzle axis, for improved user comfort when drinking. In addition, another closure apparatus suitable for use with a sports drink bottle is described, the closure including a chassis adapted to operatively engage with a neck finish of the bottle and including an overcap to facilitate access to the bottle. The overcap includes a base rim connected to the chassis by a hinge and a removable nozzle operatively connected to the chassis which is adapted to dispense fluid from the bottle to a user's mouth. The overcap includes tamper evident bridge mountings which are disposed in a region spaced from the base rim of the overcap, so that contact between the tamper evident bridge mountings and a user's face is inhibited when drinking from the bottle.