US Patent Issued to Silgan White Cap on Oct. 27 for "Safety closure" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,136, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Silgan White Cap LLC (Downers Grove, Ill.).

"Safety closure" was invented by Gary Berge (Crystal Lake, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are one or more embodiments of closures with a child-resistant safety structure. A cap couples to a container neck, such as via threads. An overcap extends around the cap. A biasing element in the overcap biases the sidewalls of the overcap above the cap so that rotating the overcap does not transfer sufficient torque to the cap to also rotate the cap. When the overcap is pressed towards the container body, the sidewalls of the overcap inter...