US20130199134A1 - Closure for containers of ophthalmic solutions containing a spout cap - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to designs that are used to close containers of ophthalmic solutions and methods of using the same.
- Ophthalmic lenses are extremely popular with consumers, particular the soft contact lenses that are either daily disposable or reusable.
- solutions that are used provide additional comfort to lens wearers when the lenses are in the eye or when the lenses are removed from the eye for cleaning.
- Most of these solutions are dispensed to the consumer in multiple use bottles that will be opened and reused over time. Given that these solutions are in contact with the eye, the solutions are sterilized to prevent harmful environmental contaminants such as bacteria, viruses, and the like from infecting the patient.
- these bottles are opened by the consumer and therefore, the consumer's use of the bottle often introduces such contaminants to the solutions.
- commonly used bottles for contact lens solutions have a short cap which covers the spout from which solutions are dispensed.
- FIG. 1 Perspective view of a closure of the invention on a bottle
- FIG. 2 Perspective view of the base
- FIG. 3 Perspective view of the inside of the cap
- FIG. 4 Top plan view of the closure on a bottle in the open position
- FIG. 5-5 Cross-section view of the closure on a bottle in the open position
- FIG. 6 Expanded view of FIG. 5-5
- FIG. 7 Cross-section view of the closure on a bottle in the closed position.
- FIG. 8 Expanded view of FIG. 7
- FIG. 9 Angled closure
- FIG. 10 Angled closure
- FIG. 11 Button closure
- FIG. 12 Button closure
- This invention includes a closure for covering a container comprising a base comprising an upper surface and a neck,
- FIG. 1 illustrates a perspective view of a closure 1 of the invention attached to a bottle.
- FIG. 2 illustrates a perspective view of base 2 , neck 3 upper surface 4 and spout 5 and hinge 6 .
- FIG. 3 illustrates cap 7 , spout cap 8 , and rim 13 .
- the cap may be connected to the base by a number of hinging methods including interlocking hinges and living hinges.
- FIG. 4 Illustrates a top plan views of closure 1 on a bottle in the open position.
- Spout cap 8 and spout 5 line up along line 5 - 5 .
- the center of spout 5 is located 5.0 mm from line A-A.
- 5-5 shows a cross-sectional view along line 5 - 5 illustrating the interconnection of neck 3 with the neck of the bottle in the circled area 9 .
- Angled exposed front surface 11 is illustrated angling from rim 13 to apex 12 . It is preferred that exposed front surface 11 is angled to permit a user's thumb to rest against the such front surface 11 when said bottle is grasped in the same hand.
- the top of the cap is slightly rounded and apex 12 is the geometric centerpoint of the top of the cap.
- the height of the cap from rim 13 to apex 12 is 28.42 mm.
- the partial diameter of rim 13 measured from the circumference of rim 13 to the midpoint of hinge 6 as position 6 a, along line B-B is 26.4 mm.
- FIG. 6 illustrates a more detailed view of circled area 9 .
- FIG. 7 illustrates cross-sectional view along line 5 - 5 of closure 1 in the closed position where the mating of spout 5 and spout cap 8 are appear in circle 10
- FIG. 8 illustrates a more detailed view of circle.
- the mating of this area is a snap fit where spout cap 8 fits over spout 5
- this mating may be accomplished by a number of methods including, pressure fits.
- the foregoing closures may be made by a variety of plastic materials such as without limitation, ethylene vinyl alcohol (“EVA”), fluorinated polymers including without limitation, polytetrafluoroethylene (“PTFE”) and polyvinylidene fluoride (“PVDF”), polypropylene, polyethylene, polyisobutylene, nylon, polyurethanes, polyacrylates and methacrylates, polyvinyl palmitate, polyvinyl stearates, polyvinyl myristate, cyanoacrylates, epoxies, silicones, copolymers thereof.
- EVA ethylene vinyl alcohol
- PTFE polytetrafluoroethylene
- PVDF polyvinylidene fluoride
- polypropylene polyethylene
- polyisobutylene nylon
- polyurethanes polyacrylates and methacrylates
- polyvinyl palmitate polyvinyl stearates
- polyvinyl myristate polyvinyl myristate
- any of these pieces may be made of unitary construction with or without the bottle.
- all pieces of the closure are made of the same material.
- Any or all of the components of the closure may be made by injection molding (two material injection molding, over-molding, sandwich molding or insert molding). Other combinations of materials and construction methods are known to those of skill in the art of molding plastic materials and although such materials and methods are not specifically mentioned herein they are considered to be included in this invention.
- the invention includes a closure for covering a container comprising a
- the invention includes a method of storing an ophthalmic lens solution in a bottle comprising a closure which comprises a base comprising an upper surface and a neck,
- the invention includes a method of storing an ophthalmic lens solution in bottle comprising a closure which comprises
- ophthalmic lens solution means any solution that is used to clean, maintain, or lubricate ophthalmic lenses or the eye of a user of such lenses whether or not such lenses are in the user's eye.
- examples of such solutions include any composition which can be directly instilled into an eye, or which can be used to soak, clean, rinse, store or treat any ophthalmic device which can be used placed in or on the eye.
- ophthalmic compositions that may be topically administered to the eye, ophthalmic device packing solutions, cleaning solutions, conditioning solutions, storage solutions, eye drops, eye washes, as well as ophthalmic suspensions, aerosols, gels and ointments and the like.
- the ophthalmic composition is a multipurpose lens care solution.
- the multipurpose lens care solution may contain a disinfectant.
- the disinfecting agent should not cause stinging or damage to the eye at use concentrations and should be inert with respect to the other composition components.
- Suitable disinfecting components include hydrogen peroxide, polymeric biguanides, polymeric quarternary ammonium compounds, chlorites, bisbiguanides, quarternary ammonium compounds and mixtures thereof.
- the multipurpose lens care solution may also contain one or more lubricating agents may also be included in the ophthalmic composition.
- Lubricating agents include water soluble cellulosic compounds, hyaluronic acid, and hyaluronic acid derivatives, chitosan, water soluble organic polymers, including water soluble polyurethanes, polyethylene glycols, combinations thereof and the like.
- suitable lubricating agents include polyvinyl pyrrolidone (“PVP”), hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose, carboxymethyl cellulose, glycerol, propylene glycol, 1,3-propanediol, polyethylene glycols, mixtures there of and the like.
- the multipurpose lens care solution may also contain one or more surfactant, detergent, or mixtures thereof.
- Suitable examples include tyloxapol, poloxomer (poly(ethylene oxide)-b-poly(propylene oxide)-b-poly(ethylene oxide)) type surfactants which are commercially available from BASF and poloxamine type surfactants (non-ionic, tetrafunctional block copolymers based on ethylene oxide/propylene oxide, terminating in primary hydroxyl groups, commercially available from BASF, under the tradename Tetronic).
- a specific example is Pluronic F-147 and Tetronic 1304.
- Tyloxapol is a non-ionic, low molecular weight surfactant, and is fully soluble in the phosphate buffers. Tyloxapol is a detergent commercially available from Pressure Chemical Company.
- the multipurpose lens care solution may also contain one or more viscosity adjusting agent or thickener. Suitable viscosity adjusting agents are known in the art and include polyvinyl alcohol, polyethylene glycols, guar gum, combinations thereof and the like. The viscosity adjusting agent may be used in amounts necessary to achieve the desired viscosity.
- the multipurpose lens care solution may further comprise additional components such as, but not limited to pH adjusting agents, tonicity adjusting agents, buffering agents, active agents, lubricating agents, disinfecting agents, viscosity adjusting agents, surfactants and mixtures thereof. When the ophthalmic composition is an ophthalmic solution, all components in the ophthalmic solution of the present invention should be water soluble.
- water soluble means that the components, either alone or in combination with other components, do not form precipitates or gel particles visible to the human eye at the concentrations selected and across the temperatures and pH regimes common for manufacturing, sterilizing and storing the ophthalmic composition.
- the multipurpose lens care solution may also contain one or more active agent.
- active agent A wide variety of therapeutic agents may be used, so long as the selected active agent is inert in the presence of peroxides.
- Suitable therapeutic agents include those that treat or target any part of the ocular environment, including the anterior and posterior sections of the eye and include pharmaceutical agents, vitamins, nutraceuticals combinations thereof and the like.
- Suitable classes of active agents include antihistamines, antibiotics, glaucoma medication, carbonic anhydrase inhibitors, anti-viral agents, anti-inflammatory agents, non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs, antifungal drugs, anesthetic agents, miotics, mydriatics, immunosuppressive agents, antiparasitic drugs, anti-protozoal drugs, combinations thereof and the like.
- active agents When active agents are included, they are included in an amount sufficient to produce the desired therapeutic result (a “therapeutically effective amount”).
- the advantages of the invention are many. For example, users of containers of ophthalmic lens solutions which are closed with the closures of the invention are substantially inhibited from touching the spout of such closures upon opening such containers. This reduces the chance that the consumer will contaminate an ophthalmic solution stored in such containers.
- FIGS. 9 and 10 (“angled closures) were compared to bottles topped with the most common closures, FIGS. 11 and 12 (button closures).
- FIGS. 9 and 11 illustrate the “one finger method of opening the bottles and FIGS. 10 and 12 illustrate the two fingered approach for opening the bottles.
- the bottles were did not contain any solution, and the spout of each bottle was marked with a UV security pen (Dri-Mark Products Inc.)
- a UV security pen Dri-Mark Products Inc.
- a group of contact lens users washed their hands and were shown open bottles with an angled closures and a button closures and the tester closed the each of bottles in front of the subject to illustrate the general operation.
- the subjects were instructed to follow their normal lens care routine, but not to remove their lenses.
- Each subject was evaluated visually by the tester to see bottles, to determine if they touched the spout when they opened the bottles.
- each subjects hands were evaluated using a UV light to see if any of the marker was transferred to their hand.
- Ten of the twelve subjects were observed touching the spout when they opened the button closures.
- Nine of ten of those finding were confirmed by examining the subjects hands with UV light.
- visual evaluation showed that none of them touched the spout when they opening the angles closure. This finding was confirmed by examining their hands UV light.
Abstract
This invention includes a closure for covering a container. The closure has a base with an upper surface and a neck, with the neck capable of being fastened to the opening of a bottle. The upper surface sits above the opening of the bottle. It has a spout having an exposed front surface, a front inside surface, and a cap rim. The cap is pivotally attached to the base to permit movement of the cap relative to the base between an open position and a closed position. The exposed front surface and front inside surface together have a bottom end and a top end. The inside front surface contains a spout cap, such that when the cap is closed the spout cap mates with the spout to form a liquid tight seal, and such that when the cap is opened the liquid tight seal between the spout and the spout cap is opened.
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- This invention relates to designs that are used to close containers of ophthalmic solutions and methods of using the same.
- This application claims priority from a non-provisional filing, U.S. App. Pat. Ser. No. 61/286,937 which was filed on Dec. 16, 2009.
- Ophthalmic lenses are extremely popular with consumers, particular the soft contact lenses that are either daily disposable or reusable. There are a variety of solutions that are used provide additional comfort to lens wearers when the lenses are in the eye or when the lenses are removed from the eye for cleaning. Most of these solutions are dispensed to the consumer in multiple use bottles that will be opened and reused over time. Given that these solutions are in contact with the eye, the solutions are sterilized to prevent harmful environmental contaminants such as bacteria, viruses, and the like from infecting the patient. However, with a multiple use bottle, these bottles are opened by the consumer and therefore, the consumer's use of the bottle often introduces such contaminants to the solutions. For example commonly used bottles for contact lens solutions have a short cap which covers the spout from which solutions are dispensed. When consumers open these bottles, their fingers often brush across the spout of the bottle and the material on their hands is a source of contamination for the solutions It would be useful if there was a closure which could be used that inhibits consumers from touching the spouts of bottles when opening or closing said bottles. This need is met by the following invention.
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FIG. 1 Perspective view of a closure of the invention on a bottle -
FIG. 2 Perspective view of the base -
FIG. 3 Perspective view of the inside of the cap -
FIG. 4 Top plan view of the closure on a bottle in the open position -
FIG. 5-5 Cross-section view of the closure on a bottle in the open position -
FIG. 6 Expanded view ofFIG. 5-5 -
FIG. 7 . Cross-section view of the closure on a bottle in the closed position. -
FIG. 8 Expanded view ofFIG. 7 -
FIG. 9 Angled closure -
FIG. 10 Angled closure -
FIG. 11 . Button closure -
FIG. 12 . Button closure - This invention includes a closure for covering a container comprising a base comprising an upper surface and a neck,
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- wherein said neck is adapted to be fastened to the opening of a bottle and said upper surface sits above the opening of a bottle and is attached to said neck
- wherein said upper surface comprises a spout cap comprising an exposed front surface, an front inside surface, and
- a cap rim
- wherein said cap is pivotally attached to said base to permit movement of the cap relative to the base between a open position and a closed position
- wherein each of said exposed front surface and said front inside surface comprises a bottom end and a top end
- wherein said bottom end of said exposed front surface and said inside surface are located closer to the upper surface when the bottle is in the closed position and the top end is located further away from the upper surface when the bottle is in the closed position
- wherein said inside front surface comprises a spout cap
- wherein when said cap is closed the spout cap mates with said spout to form a liquid tight seal
- wherein when said cap is opened the liquid tight seal between the spout and the spout cap is opened.
- The following figures illustrate an embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 1 illustrates a perspective view of aclosure 1 of the invention attached to a bottle.FIG. 2 illustrates a perspective view ofbase 2,neck 3upper surface 4 andspout 5 and hinge 6.FIG. 3 illustratescap 7,spout cap 8, andrim 13. The cap may be connected to the base by a number of hinging methods including interlocking hinges and living hinges.FIG. 4 . Illustrates a top plan views ofclosure 1 on a bottle in the open position. Spoutcap 8 and spout 5 line up along line 5-5. The center ofspout 5 is located 5.0 mm from line A-A. Spout capFIG. 5-5 shows a cross-sectional view along line 5-5 illustrating the interconnection ofneck 3 with the neck of the bottle in the circled area 9. Angled exposedfront surface 11, is illustrated angling fromrim 13 toapex 12. It is preferred that exposedfront surface 11 is angled to permit a user's thumb to rest against thesuch front surface 11 when said bottle is grasped in the same hand. The top of the cap is slightly rounded andapex 12 is the geometric centerpoint of the top of the cap. The height of the cap fromrim 13 toapex 12 is 28.42 mm. The partial diameter ofrim 13 measured from the circumference ofrim 13 to the midpoint ofhinge 6 asposition 6 a, along line B-B is 26.4 mm.FIG. 6 illustrates a more detailed view of circled area 9.FIG. 7 illustrates cross-sectional view along line 5-5 ofclosure 1 in the closed position where the mating ofspout 5 andspout cap 8 are appear incircle 10FIG. 8 illustrates a more detailed view of circle. The mating of this area is a snap fit wherespout cap 8 fits overspout 5 However, this mating may be accomplished by a number of methods including, pressure fits. - The foregoing closures may be made by a variety of plastic materials such as without limitation, ethylene vinyl alcohol (“EVA”), fluorinated polymers including without limitation, polytetrafluoroethylene (“PTFE”) and polyvinylidene fluoride (“PVDF”), polypropylene, polyethylene, polyisobutylene, nylon, polyurethanes, polyacrylates and methacrylates, polyvinyl palmitate, polyvinyl stearates, polyvinyl myristate, cyanoacrylates, epoxies, silicones, copolymers thereof. The closure is preferably made of polypropylene. Each piece of the closure may be made of a different material or the same material. Any of these pieces may be made of unitary construction with or without the bottle. In the preferred embodiment all pieces of the closure are made of the same material. Any or all of the components of the closure may be made by injection molding (two material injection molding, over-molding, sandwich molding or insert molding). Other combinations of materials and construction methods are known to those of skill in the art of molding plastic materials and although such materials and methods are not specifically mentioned herein they are considered to be included in this invention.
- Further the invention includes a closure for covering a container comprising a
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- base comprising an upper surface and a neck,
- wherein said neck is adapted to be fastened to the opening of a bottle and said upper surface sits above the opening of a bottle and is attached to said neck
- wherein said upper surface comprises a spout
- cap comprising an angled exposed front surface, an angled front inside surface, an apex, and a cap rim
- wherein said cap is pivotally attached to said base to permit movement of the cap relative to the base between a open position and a closed position
- wherein each of said exposed front surface and said angled front inside surface comprises a bottom end and a top end
- wherein the angled exposed front surface sits at an angle from the cap rim at bottom end towards the apex at the top end
- wherein the angled exposed inside surface sits at an angle from the cap rim at bottom end towards the apex at the top end and said angled exposed inside surface comprises a spout cap
- wherein when said cap is closed the spout cap mates with said spout to form a liquid tight seal
- wherein when said cap is opened the liquid tight seal between the spout and the spout cap is broken.
- Still further, the invention includes a method of storing an ophthalmic lens solution in a bottle comprising a closure which comprises a base comprising an upper surface and a neck,
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- wherein said neck is adapted to be fastened to the opening of a bottle and said upper surface sits above the opening of a bottle and is attached to said neck
- wherein said upper surface comprises a spout cap comprising an exposed front surface, an front inside surface, and
- a cap rim
- wherein said cap is pivotally attached to said base to permit movement of the cap relative to the base between a open position and a closed position
- wherein each of said exposed front surface and said front inside surface comprises a bottom end and a top end
- wherein said bottom end of said exposed front surface and said inside surface are located closer to the upper surface when the bottle is in the closed position and the top end is located further away from the upper surface when the bottle is in the closed position
- wherein said inside front surface comprises a spout cap
- wherein when said cap is closed the spout cap mates with said spout to form a liquid tight seal
- wherein when said cap is opened the liquid tight seal between the spout and the spout cap is opened.
- Yet further still, the invention includes a method of storing an ophthalmic lens solution in bottle comprising a closure which comprises
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- base comprising an upper surface and a neck,
- wherein said neck is adapted to be fastened to the opening of a bottle and said upper surface sits above the opening of a bottle and is attached to said neck
- wherein said upper surface comprises a spout
- cap comprising an angled exposed front surface, an angled front inside surface, an apex, and a cap rim
- wherein said cap is pivotally attached to said base to permit movement of the cap relative to the base between a open position and a closed position
- wherein each of said exposed front surface and said angled front inside surface comprises a bottom end and a top end
- wherein the angled exposed front surface sits at an angle from the cap rim at bottom end towards the apex at the top end
- wherein the angled exposed inside surface sits at an angle from the cap rim at bottom end towards the apex at the top end and said angled exposed inside surface comprises a spout cap
- wherein when said cap is closed the spout cap mates with said spout to form a liquid tight seal
- wherein when said cap is opened the liquid tight seal between the spout and the spout cap is broken.
- The aforementioned terms all have their stated meanings and preferred ranges or components. The term “ophthalmic lens solution” means any solution that is used to clean, maintain, or lubricate ophthalmic lenses or the eye of a user of such lenses whether or not such lenses are in the user's eye. Examples of such solutions include any composition which can be directly instilled into an eye, or which can be used to soak, clean, rinse, store or treat any ophthalmic device which can be used placed in or on the eye. Examples of ophthalmic compositions that may be topically administered to the eye, ophthalmic device packing solutions, cleaning solutions, conditioning solutions, storage solutions, eye drops, eye washes, as well as ophthalmic suspensions, aerosols, gels and ointments and the like. In one embodiment of the present invention, the ophthalmic composition is a multipurpose lens care solution. The multipurpose lens care solution may contain a disinfectant. The disinfecting agent should not cause stinging or damage to the eye at use concentrations and should be inert with respect to the other composition components. Suitable disinfecting components include hydrogen peroxide, polymeric biguanides, polymeric quarternary ammonium compounds, chlorites, bisbiguanides, quarternary ammonium compounds and mixtures thereof. The multipurpose lens care solution may also contain one or more lubricating agents may also be included in the ophthalmic composition. Lubricating agents include water soluble cellulosic compounds, hyaluronic acid, and hyaluronic acid derivatives, chitosan, water soluble organic polymers, including water soluble polyurethanes, polyethylene glycols, combinations thereof and the like. Specific examples of suitable lubricating agents include polyvinyl pyrrolidone (“PVP”), hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose, carboxymethyl cellulose, glycerol, propylene glycol, 1,3-propanediol, polyethylene glycols, mixtures there of and the like. The multipurpose lens care solution may also contain one or more surfactant, detergent, or mixtures thereof. Suitable examples include tyloxapol, poloxomer (poly(ethylene oxide)-b-poly(propylene oxide)-b-poly(ethylene oxide)) type surfactants which are commercially available from BASF and poloxamine type surfactants (non-ionic, tetrafunctional block copolymers based on ethylene oxide/propylene oxide, terminating in primary hydroxyl groups, commercially available from BASF, under the tradename Tetronic). A specific example is Pluronic F-147 and Tetronic 1304. Tyloxapol is a non-ionic, low molecular weight surfactant, and is fully soluble in the phosphate buffers. Tyloxapol is a detergent commercially available from Pressure Chemical Company. The multipurpose lens care solution may also contain one or more viscosity adjusting agent or thickener. Suitable viscosity adjusting agents are known in the art and include polyvinyl alcohol, polyethylene glycols, guar gum, combinations thereof and the like. The viscosity adjusting agent may be used in amounts necessary to achieve the desired viscosity. The multipurpose lens care solution may further comprise additional components such as, but not limited to pH adjusting agents, tonicity adjusting agents, buffering agents, active agents, lubricating agents, disinfecting agents, viscosity adjusting agents, surfactants and mixtures thereof. When the ophthalmic composition is an ophthalmic solution, all components in the ophthalmic solution of the present invention should be water soluble. As used herein, water soluble means that the components, either alone or in combination with other components, do not form precipitates or gel particles visible to the human eye at the concentrations selected and across the temperatures and pH regimes common for manufacturing, sterilizing and storing the ophthalmic composition.
- The multipurpose lens care solution may also contain one or more active agent. A wide variety of therapeutic agents may be used, so long as the selected active agent is inert in the presence of peroxides. Suitable therapeutic agents include those that treat or target any part of the ocular environment, including the anterior and posterior sections of the eye and include pharmaceutical agents, vitamins, nutraceuticals combinations thereof and the like. Suitable classes of active agents include antihistamines, antibiotics, glaucoma medication, carbonic anhydrase inhibitors, anti-viral agents, anti-inflammatory agents, non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs, antifungal drugs, anesthetic agents, miotics, mydriatics, immunosuppressive agents, antiparasitic drugs, anti-protozoal drugs, combinations thereof and the like. When active agents are included, they are included in an amount sufficient to produce the desired therapeutic result (a “therapeutically effective amount”).
- The advantages of the invention are many. For example, users of containers of ophthalmic lens solutions which are closed with the closures of the invention are substantially inhibited from touching the spout of such closures upon opening such containers. This reduces the chance that the consumer will contaminate an ophthalmic solution stored in such containers.
- To determine whether bottles closed with the closures of the invention inhibited a user from touching the spout when opening a bottle of contact lens solution, the following test was conducted. The bottles topped with the closures of the invention,
FIGS. 9 and 10 (“angled closures) were compared to bottles topped with the most common closures,FIGS. 11 and 12 (button closures).FIGS. 9 and 11 illustrate the “one finger method of opening the bottles andFIGS. 10 and 12 illustrate the two fingered approach for opening the bottles. The bottles were did not contain any solution, and the spout of each bottle was marked with a UV security pen (Dri-Mark Products Inc.) A group of contact lens users washed their hands and were shown open bottles with an angled closures and a button closures and the tester closed the each of bottles in front of the subject to illustrate the general operation. The subjects were instructed to follow their normal lens care routine, but not to remove their lenses. Each subject was evaluated visually by the tester to see bottles, to determine if they touched the spout when they opened the bottles. In addition, after opening each bottle, each subjects hands were evaluated using a UV light to see if any of the marker was transferred to their hand. Ten of the twelve subjects were observed touching the spout when they opened the button closures. Nine of ten of those finding were confirmed by examining the subjects hands with UV light. When the same twelve subjects opening the angled closure, visual evaluation showed that none of them touched the spout when they opening the angles closure. This finding was confirmed by examining their hands UV light. - The foregoing embodiments are only meant to illustrate the invention and not limit it. Those knowledgeable in closures as well as other specialties may find other methods of practicing the invention. However, those methods are deemed to be within the scope of this invention.
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1. A closure for covering a container comprising
a base comprising an upper surface and a neck,
wherein said neck is adapted to be fastened to the opening of a bottle and said upper surface sits above the opening of a bottle and is attached to said neck
wherein said upper surface comprises a spout cap comprising an exposed front surface, an front inside surface, and a cap rim
wherein said cap is pivotally attached to said base to permit movement of the cap relative to the base between a open position and a closed position
wherein each of said exposed front surface and said front inside surface comprises a bottom end and a top end wherein said bottom end of said exposed front surface and said inside surface are located closer to the upper surface when the bottle is in the closed position and the top end is located further away from the upper surface when the bottle is in the closed position
wherein said inside front surface comprises a spout cap
wherein when said cap is closed the spout cap mates with said spout to form a liquid tight seal
wherein when said cap is opened the liquid tight seal between the spout and the spout cap is opened.
2. A closure for covering a container comprising a
base comprising an upper surface and a neck,
wherein said neck is adapted to be fastened to the opening of a bottle and said upper surface sits above the opening of a bottle and is attached to said neck
wherein said upper surface comprises a spout
cap comprising an angled exposed front surface, an angled front inside surface, an apex, and a cap rim
wherein said cap is pivotally attached to said base to permit movement of the cap relative to the base between a open position and a closed position
wherein each of said exposed front surface and said angled front inside surface comprises a bottom end and a top end
wherein the angled exposed front surface sits at an angle from the cap rim at bottom end towards the apex at the top end
wherein the angled exposed inside surface sits at an angle from the cap rim at bottom end towards the apex at the top end and said angled exposed inside surface comprises a spout cap
wherein when said cap is closed the spout cap mates with said spout to form a liquid tight seal
wherein when said cap is opened the liquid tight seal between the spout and the spout cap is broken.
3. A method of storing an ophthalmic lens solution in a bottle comprising a closure which comprises
a base comprising an upper surface and a neck,
wherein said neck is adapted to be fastened to the opening of a bottle and said upper surface sits above the opening of a bottle and is attached to said neck
wherein said upper surface comprises a spout
cap comprising an exposed front surface, an front inside surface, and a cap rim
wherein said cap is pivotally attached to said base to permit movement of the cap relative to the base between a open position and a closed position
wherein each of said exposed front surface and said front inside surface comprises a bottom end and a top end
wherein said bottom end of said exposed front surface and said inside surface are located closer to the upper surface when the bottle is in the closed position and the top end is located further away from the upper surface when the bottle is in the closed position
wherein said inside front surface comprises a spout cap
wherein when said cap is closed the spout cap mates with said spout to form a liquid tight seal
wherein when said cap is opened the liquid tight seal between the spout and the spout cap is opened.
4. A method of storing an ophthalmic lens solution in bottle comprising a closure which comprises
a base comprising an upper surface and a neck,
wherein said neck is adapted to be fastened to the opening of a bottle and said upper surface sits above the opening of a bottle and is attached to said neck
wherein said upper surface comprises a spout
cap comprising an angled exposed front surface, an angled front inside surface, an apex, and a cap rim
wherein said cap is pivotally attached to said base to permit movement of the cap relative to the base between a open position and a closed position
wherein each of said exposed front surface and said angled front inside surface comprises a bottom end and a top end
wherein the angled exposed front surface sits at an angle from the cap rim at bottom end towards the apex at the top end
wherein the angled exposed inside surface sits at an angle from the cap rim at bottom end towards the apex at the top end and said angled exposed inside surface comprises a spout cap
wherein when said cap is closed the spout cap mates with said spout to form a liquid tight seal
wherein when said cap is opened the liquid tight seal between the spout and the spout cap is broken.
5. A method of storing an ophthalmic lens solution in a bottle comprising:
providing a bottle with a closure which comprises:
a base comprising an upper surface and a neck, wherein said neck is adapted to be fastened to the opening of a bottle and said upper surface sits above the opening of a bottle and is attached to said neck;
wherein said upper surface comprises a spout comprising an exposed front surface, an front inside surface, and a cap rim;
wherein said cap is pivotally attached to said base to permit movement of said cap relative to the base between a open position and a closed position;
wherein each of said exposed front surface and said front inside surface comprises a bottom end and a top end;
wherein said bottom end of said exposed front surface and said front inside surface are located closer to the upper surface when the bottle is in the closed position and the top end is located further away from the upper surface when the bottle is in the closed position;
wherein said inside front surface comprises a spout cap;
wherein when said cap is closed said spout cap mates with said spout to form a liquid tight seal;
wherein when said cap is opened the liquid tight seal between said spout and said spout cap is opened; and placing an ophthalmic lens solution in said bottle.
6. A method of storing an ophthalmic lens solution in a bottle comprising:
providing a bottle with a closure which comprises:
a base comprising an upper surface and a neck;
wherein said neck is adapted to be fastened to the opening of said bottle and said upper surface sits above the opening of said bottle and is attached to said neck;
wherein said upper surface comprises a spout comprising an angled exposed front surface, an angled front inside surface, an apex, and a cap rim;
wherein said cap is pivotally attached to said base to permit movement of the cap relative to the base between a open position and a closed position;
wherein each of said angled exposed front surface and said angled front inside surface comprises a bottom end and a top end;
wherein said angled exposed front surface sits at an angle from said cap rim at its bottom end towards said apex at its top end;
wherein the angled exposed inside surface sits at an angle from said rim at its bottom end towards the apex at its top end, and said angled exposed inside surface comprises a spout cap;
wherein when said cap is closed said spout cap mates with said spout to form a liquid tight seal;
wherein when said cap is opened the liquid tight seal between said spout and said spout cap is broken; and
placing an ophthalmic lens solution in said bottle.
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