A container for use with a closure is provided, and includes a receptacle,
a neck extending therefrom, a closure-engaging thread segment arranged on
the neck of the container to engage the closure thread segment arranged
on the closure, and a plurality of spaced apart protrusions protruding
radially toward the closure from the neck of the container, the plurality
of spaced apart protrusions forming a protrusion pattern that has a
composite orientation that is helically opposite that of the
closure-engaging thread segment to engage and to separate the frangible
tamper-evident band portion from the closure when the closure is rotated
off of the neck. With this structure, the closure and container system
provides an improved anti-backoff, tamper evident closure and container
system that reduces torque used to initially apply the closure to the
container and improves reliably by reducing stress on the component
parts, while desirably preventing backoff from occurring.