Bottle Cap

Abstract

A stylized glass bottle cap that has at least one pull tab extending downward from an exterior edge of its skirt that may be used to release or replace the cap onto a bottle. It may be sealed onto bottles utilizing existing crimping technology. This configuration supports the removal or replacement of the cap without the use of a tool. Its physical configuration when placed onto a long neck glass bottle resembles that of a nineties “mullet head” and provides additional area for product branding.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is as follows: 
     
         1 . A bottle cap comprising:
 a cap shell having a circular peripheral edge, a circular planar top face, a circular planar bottom face, and a circular skirt that extends from said peripheral edge forming an obtuse angle with said bottom face of said cap shell;   a series of uniform crimp ridges formed thereon said skirt;   at least one arced mullet tab extending beyond a bottom perimeter edge of said skirt; and   a polymer cap liner affixed to said bottom face.   
     
     
         2 . The bottle cap of  claim 1  wherein said skirt has a first height, and said at least one mullet tab has a second height, and wherein said second height is between two and six times greater than said first height. 
     
     
         3 . The bottle cap of  claim 1  further comprising:
 at least one strengthening ridge formed along said length of said at least one mullet tab; and 
 wherein said mullet tab has at series of concentric ridges formed across a width, said concentric ridges lying transverse to said at least one strengthening ridge formed thereon said mullet tab. 
 
     
     
         4 . The bottle cap of  claim 1  wherein said mullet tab has a width that occupies between 30 and 90 radial degrees of said skirt. 
     
     
         5 . The bottle cap of  claim 1  wherein said polymer cap liner has a top face and a bottom face, and wherein said top face has a pressure sensitive adhesive thereon. 
     
     
         6 . The bottle cap of  claim 1  wherein said obtuse angle between said mullet tab and said bottom face of said cap shell lies between 95 and 175 degrees. 
     
     
         7 . The bottle cap of  claim 5  wherein said bottom face of said polymer cap liner has at least one raised sealing ring formed thereon. 
     
     
         8 . The bottle cap of  claim 7  wherein the number of sealing rings is two. 
     
     
         9 . A bottle cap comprising:
 a cap shell having a circular peripheral top edge, a circular planar top face, a circular planar bottom face, and a circular skirt that extends from said peripheral edge forming an obtuse angle with said bottom face of said cap shell;   a series of uniform, inwardly crimpable, radial ridges formed thereon said skirt;   at least one mullet tab extending beyond a bottom perimeter edge of said skirt, said mullet tab having radial ridges formed along a length thereof; and   a polymer cap liner with at least one raised sealing ring formed on a bottom surface thereof, and an adhesive affixed to a top surface thereof, said cap liner attached to said bottom face of said cap shell; and   wherein said skirt has a first height between said top edge of said cap shell and said bottom perimeter edge of said skirt, and said mullet tab has a second height between said bottom perimeter edge of said skirt and a bottom edge of said mullet tab, where said second height is between two and six times greater than said first height.   
     
     
         10 . The bottle cap of  claim 9  wherein said mullet tab has a width that occupies between 30 and 90 radial degrees of said skirt. 
     
     
         11 . The bottle cap of  claim 1  wherein the number of mullet tabs is two. 
     
     
         12 . The bottle cap of  claim 1  wherein the number of mullet tabs is three.