Cap

Abstract

A cap comprises a body suitable for being associated with a container neck and provided with a dispensing arrangement, a lid arranged for closing said dispensing arrangement, an opening indicating device connected to the lid through a breakable arrangement and comprises a hooking arrangement arranged for engaging with a corresponding further hooking arrangement of the body, wherein with the further hooking arrangement there is associated a guide arrangement arranged for limiting deformations of the opening indicating device when the hooking arrangement interacts with the further hooking arrangement.

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       128 . Cap, comprising a body suitable for being associated with a container neck and provided with a dispensing arrangement, a lid arranged for closing said dispensing arrangement, an opening indicating device connected to said lid through a breakable arrangement and comprising a hooking arrangement arranged for engaging a corresponding further hooking arrangement of said body, wherein with said further hooking arrangement there is associated a guide arrangement arranged for limiting deformations of said opening indicating device when said hooking arrangement interacts with said further hooking arrangement. 
   
   
       129 . Cap according to  claim 128 , wherein said further hooking arrangement comprises a wall arrangement associated with said body. 
   
   
       130 . Cap according to  claim 129 , wherein said further hooking arrangement comprises a further wall arrangement associated with said body and arranged transversely with respect to said wall arrangement. 
   
   
       131 . Cap according to  claim 130 , wherein said further wall arrangement comprises walls leading away from opposite ends of said wall arrangement. 
   
   
       132 . Cap according to  claim 128 , wherein said guide arrangement comprises guide elements associated with said body. 
   
   
       133 . Cap according to  claim 132 , wherein said further hooking arrangement comprises a wall arrangement associated with said body and said guide elements face said wall arrangement. 
   
   
       134 . Cap according to  claim 132 , wherein said breakable arrangement comprises a plurality of bridge elements, each guide element facing a respective bridge element of said plurality of bridge elements when said hooking arrangement interacts with said further hooking arrangement. 
   
   
       135 . Cap according to  claim 128 , wherein said further hooking arrangement comprises an engagement promoting arrangement arranged for inducing said hooking arrangement to interact with said further hooking arrangement. 
   
   
       136 . Cap according to  claim 135 , wherein said engagement promoting arrangement comprises an engagement promoting surface tilted with respect to an intended approach direction along which said hooking arrangement interacts with said further hooking arrangement. 
   
   
       137 . Cap according to  claim 136 , wherein said engagement promoting surface converges on said dispensing arrangement. 
   
   
       138 . Cap according to  claim 136 , wherein said further hooking arrangement comprises a wall arrangement associated with said body and said engagement promoting surface defines a bevelled portion of said wall arrangement. 
   
   
       139 . Cap according to  claim 128 , wherein said further hooking arrangement comprises an opening arrangement arranged for enabling the status of said breakable arrangement to be checked when said cap is in a closed position in which said lid engages said dispensing arrangement. 
   
   
       140 . Cap according to  claim 139 , wherein said further hooking arrangement comprises a wall arrangement associated with said body and said opening arrangement comprises a plurality of openings obtained in said wall arrangement. 
   
   
       141 . Cap according to  claim 140 , wherein, in said closed position, each opening of said plurality of openings is arranged at a breakable element of a plurality of breakable elements with which said breakable arrangement is provided. 
   
   
       142 . Cap according to  claim 128 , and further comprising a hinge connecting said lid to said body in such a way as to enable said cap to assume a closed configuration, in which said lid engages said dispensing arrangement. 
   
   
       143 . Cap according to  claim 142 , wherein said body is provided with a side wall and said hinge does not protrude from said body beyond said side wall when said cap is in said closed configuration. 
   
   
       144 . Cap according to  claim 143 , wherein said hinge is provided in a zone arranged inside a perimeter edge of said body. 
   
   
       145 . Cap according to  claim 142 , wherein said hinge defines a rotation axis for mutual rotation of said lid and said body, said body a comprising resting surface arranged for receiving an end of said lid in said closed configuration and said rotation axis being distant from said resting surface. 
   
   
       146 . Cap according to  claim 145 , wherein said body is provided with a side wall and said hinge does not protrude from said body beyond said side wall when said cap is in said closed configuration and said rotation axis is arranged on a side opposite said side wall with respect to said resting surface. 
   
   
       147 . Cap according to  claim 145 , wherein said rotation axis is arranged substantially parallel to said resting surface. 
   
   
       148 . Cap according to  claim 145 , wherein said hinge comprises a pair of connecting elements defining said rotation axis. 
   
   
       149 . Cap according to  claim 142 , wherein said hinge comprises an elastic connecting arrangement arranged for maintaining said cap in said closed configuration, or in an open configuration, in which said lid disengages from said dispensing arrangement. 
   
   
       150 . Cap according to  claim 149 , wherein said hinge comprises a pair of connecting elements defining said rotation axis and said elastic connecting arrangement comprises an elastic connecting element interposed between said connecting elements. 
   
   
       151 . Cap according to  claim 128 , wherein said hooking arrangement comprises hooking elements projecting from said opening indicating device. 
   
   
       152 . Cap according to  claim 151 , wherein said further hooking arrangement comprises recess elements arranged for cooperating with said hooking elements. 
   
   
       153 . Cap according to  claim 152 , wherein said further hooking arrangement comprises a wall arrangement associated with said body and said recess elements are obtained in said wall arrangement. 
   
   
       154 . Cap according to  claim 128 , wherein said opening indicating device comprises a pair of tamperproof bands. 
   
   
       155 . Cap according to  claim 154 , wherein said tamperproof bands are arranged on opposite sides with respect to a gripping zone of said lid. 
   
   
       156 . Cap according to  claim 128 , wherein said opening indicating device comprises a tamperproof band. 
   
   
       157 . Cap according to  claim 156 , wherein said tamperproof band is arranged at a gripping zone of said lid. 
   
   
       158 . Cap according to  claim 128 , and further comprising a mouthpiece surface, said mouthpiece surface being more distant than said further hooking arrangement from a zone of said body opposite said dispensing arrangement. 
   
   
       159 . Cap according to  claim 128 , wherein said further hooking arrangement is received in a cavity arrangement of said body. 
   
   
       160 . Cap according to  claim 159 , and further comprising a mouthpiece surface, said mouthpiece surface being more distant than said further hooking arrangement from a zone of said body opposite said dispensing arrangement wherein said further hooking arrangement is so shaped as to extend from said body towards said dispensing arrangement without protruding from said cavity arrangement beyond said mouthpiece surface.