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A cap mould 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.
Flip cap moulds are known that are made of plastics and comprise a body arranged for being fixed to a container neck by means of a threaded coupling and provided with a dispensing hole through which a product contained inside the container can be dispensed. The aforesaid caps further comprise a closing part that is movable between a closed configuration, in which the closing part is adjacent to the body to close the dispensing hole, and an open configuration in which the closing part is distant from the body, to enable the product to be drawn through the dispensing hole.
Owing to this aspect of the invention, it is possible to obtain a cap mould provided with a hooking arrangement and with a further hooking arrangement that easily engage with one another, during first closing of the cap. In particular, when the lid is associated with the body for the first time, great force is not required to induce the hooking elements to engage with the further hooking elements. As a result it is possible to make breakable arrangement having cross sections of limited extent, which can easily be fractured when the cap is opened for the first time.
In a fourth aspect of the invention, a cap mould is provided, comprising a body suitable for being associated with a container neck and provided with a dispensing arrangement, a lid movable between a closed configuration, in which said lid engages said dispensing arrangement, and an open configuration, in which said lid disengages from said dispensing arrangement, a hinge connecting said lid to said body, said body being provided with a side wall, wherein said hinge, in said closed configuration, does not protrude from said body beyond said side wall. Owing to this aspect of the invention, it is possible to obtain a cap shaped in such a way as to be able to be applied to container necks through usual capping apparatuses. injection-blow mould.
