Abstract: The invention contemplates an aerosol container construction, and in particular a dispensing cap construction for integration with or assembly to existing aerosol containers, whereby safety features are incorporated to materially reduce the hazard of child dispensing of harmful contents. The construction makes it necessary to follow a particular sequence of two different deliberate actuating displacements before any contents of the container can be dispensed, and the size and placement of manual-access surfaces for performing these displacements are such that a small child cannot make the requisite actuations with the fingers of one hand; on the other hand, these size and placement proportions are such as to readily accommodate adult use, with the fingers of one hand.

Abstract: The invention contemplates a safety closure cap having axially compliant connection between two concentric parts, the inner of which has rotatable connection to a bottle neck or the like. The outer concentric part has ratcheting one-way engagement with coacting ratchet means on the bottle, the engaging direction being such as to oppose disengagement of the rotatable connection. Only by performing the extra operation of axially lifting the outer part of the cap, against the stiffness of the compliant connection, can the ratchet engagement be dislodged, to the extent permitting rotated disengagement of the bottle closure.