Child-resistant closure

US5579957A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Chesebrough-Pond's USA, division of Conopco, Inc. · US

Inventors

• James L. Gentile · Orange, US
• John Bengston · Ridgefield, US
• Dean Rainey · Clinton, US
• John Eimer · Summerfield, US
• Alfred G. Zammit · Mississauga, CA

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 25, 1995
• Grant date: Dec 3, 1996
• Expiry date: Apr 25, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65D2251/1033
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A dispensing package is provided with a container and a cap. The cap includes a mechanism to fittingly engage across an open end of the container, a top portion defined by a deck, a skirt wall surrounding the deck, at least one dispensing orifice formed in the deck, a locking aperture with a wide and a narrow area preferably in a T-shape, a lid hingedly attached to the deck, a flexible post projecting downwardly from the lid, and a release mechanism along the skirt. The flexible post has an enlarged section at an end thereof which can lockingly engage underneath landings that define wide and narrow areas of the locking aperture. A flexible area along the skirt can be pushed inward against the enlarged section of the post to dislodge same from underneath the landings thereby opening the lid.