Snap top, easy pouring dispensing cap
CA 2178386 C · Owner: Anderson, Raymond G. · Inventors: Anderson, Raymond G.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A single piece injection molded flip top cap for a beverage (or any other non- beverage) container is comprised of a base portion and a lid portion. The base portion forms a substantially large opening to allow for liquids to freely flow through the cap. When the lid is in the closed position the contents of the container are sealed within the container. By pressing up on a thumb lever the lid is flipped to an open position allowing the contents to be poured from the container without removing the cap from the container.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed June 6, 1996 and granted August 6, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 6, 2016.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by June 6, 2018.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
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Sources & verification
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