Abstract: A closure cap for containers of harmful products when rotationally tightened on the threaded container neck becomes freewheeling in the opposite direction of rotation and resistant to opening by a child. Indicator elements on the inner and outer cap components can be aligned to locate a push button of the outer cap component at a depressable position where a driving element thereof can engage an unscrewing abutment of the inner cap component. The two cap components have initial and final tightening abutments which are sequentially engaged during tightening rotation. The inner cap component has a ramp which coacts with the push button to elevate the push button above all abutment surfaces of the inner cap component during freewheeling of the outer cap component in the child-resistant mode.

Abstract: A receptacle for pills or other medication to be taken at prescribed intervals of time, for example, every three hours, includes a container with a rim at the top extending around an opening, a lid engageable with the rim for closing such opening and being turnable in respect to the container so that an index on the lid will cooperate with an adjacent scale of hour designations on an exterior surface of the container for selectively indicating various times, and a locking arrangement permitting removal of the lid from the container only when the lid is turned to a selected one of a plurality of angularly spaced apart positions at which the index and scale indicate respective times having the prescribed intervals therebetween.

Abstract: A combination for containing medicine and the like provides a convertible feature such that a selection can be made between, on the one hand, a precautionary arrangement to prevent children from obtaining access to the medicine and, on the other hand, an easy open arrangement.

Abstract: An improved safety container for pills and the like is in the form of a jar with an elastically deformable cylindrical cap of the snap-on and -off type. Mating flanges are provided on the jar and the inside of the cap which, when engaged, captively hold the cap to the jar yet permit the cap to rotate. Special tapers are provided on the mating flanges which act cooperatively under the influence of the elastic restoring forces of the cap to force the top of the cap into tight sealing contact with the lip of the mouth of the jar. This seal is further improved by the provision of mating beveled features on the interior of the top of the cap and the lip of the jar.A tab is provided on the cap to permit the user to apply the necessary force to deform the cap in order to remove it. A locking feature is provided by a keyway cut in this tab designed to engage and ride captively on a locking flange which encircles all but a small portion of the jar.

Abstract: A vial construction including a vial body portion, an open end on said body portion, a tapered rim surrounding said open end, a plug having an entry portion for guidance by said tapered rim, a plug engaging portion on the body portion adjacent to the tapered rim, an interference fit between the entry portion and the plug engaging portion to render the connection therebetween fluid tight, a locking ring mounted on the outside of the rim and having a flange extending over the rim toward the open end of the container, cam locking members engageable with the flange to lock the plug to the flange, and a cutaway portion on the flange to permit disengagement between the flange and the cam locking members when the plug is rotated to a predetermined circumferential position on the locking ring.

Abstract: A safety closure is provided for a container which container has a continuous upwardly extending neck and a continuous radially outwardly extending flange spaced from the outer edge of said neck. The closure is provided with a portion for seating against the inside of the neck and has a flared skirt which terminates either within or substantially even with the outer edge of the flange. The skirt is made of a pliable material and is reinforced against the neck of the container except for two closely spaced segments of the skirt. The spacing between the segments is supported against the neck of the container so that depressing the two segments will bulge the skirt between the segments outward beyond the confines of the flange whereby upward pressure below the bulged portion will strip the closure from the container.

Abstract: A cap is provided for closing a container having a locking portion for use in a precautionary arrangement to prevent children from obtaining access into the container. The cap is convertible so as to cooperate with such a container to provide not only such a precautionary arrangement but also an alternative easy open arrangement.

Abstract: A safety type cap for medicinal and similar containers capable of effecting a tight seal upon the container opening by means of a sealing flange extending laterally from the inner surface of the cap top, and which is deflected centripetally upon contact with the inner surface of the mouth of the container to result in resiliently bowing the top wall of the cap to result in increased outward pressure applied to the flange against the inner mouth surface. The radial thickness of the flange is substantially greater than the thickness of the cap top, so that the flange maintains a substantially undistorted shape during compression.

Abstract: A closure for a container having a neck with an access opening therein and means defining a locking rib on the outer surface of the neck interrupted at least at two circumferentially spaced locations to define gaps therein or predetermined differing arcuate dimensions, said closure including a cap having a top, a skirt depending from the outer edge of the top and at least a pair of primary locking lugs projecting radially inwardly from the skirt which in all positions, except one, engage under said locking rib to secure the cap in place, said primary lugs being of an arcuate span and circumferential spacing to register with said gaps in said one position and at least one auxiliary releasable locking lug of a shallower radial projection than said primary lugs engaging under said bead when said cap is in said one position, said auxiliary lug operable to snap over said bead in said one position when said cap is tilted relative to the neck of the container.

Abstract: This invention provides a container and closure assembly. The closure consists of a plug which fits into the mouth of the container in such a position that removal of the closure is prevented until the closure is turned to bring a recessed thumb grip on the side of the closure into registration with a gap in the container wall. When the closure is in this position the closure can be pushed out of the container by passing the thumb of the user through the gap.

Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a child-resistant closure for a container which has a round dispensing orifice defined in a planar end member and one or more recesses defined in the end member adjacent the orifice. The closure member has one or more protruding lugs cooperating with the recesses. When the lugs of the closure are aligned with the recesses of the orifice, the closure may be removed with a relatively small force. When the lugs of the closure are rotated out of alignment with the recesses, a relatively large force is required to remove the closure. The closure need not be oriented with the container for sealing after factory filling.

Abstract: A cap and container assembly which is both tamper-proof and child-resistant comprises a container neck with first and second external beads, the first bead extending only part way round the neck and having a lug midway between its ends, and the cap has an internal bead with a gap in it matching the lug and also has a tear-off strip connected to a shoulder that engages under the second bead on the neck so that even after removal of the strip the cap still has to be turned to bring the gap opposite the lug before it can be removed. The shoulder may be on an anchor band which fits permanently under the second bead. The cap may be permanently joined to this anchor band by a hinge web.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a child resistant closure for a container of the type including a neck finish adapted to have rotationally removed therefrom a closure. The closure includes a closure member which is applied to a container neck in a conventional manner and an overcap which is telescoped over the closure member and is normally freely rotatable relative thereto whereby removal of the closure member is normally prevented. The overcap is, however, radially shiftable relative to the closure member and there ae interlockable means carried by the overcap and the closure member which are engaged upon such radial shifting so as to interlock the overcap with the closure member and permit the transfer of a rotational force applied to the overcap to be directed to the closure member to effect the removal thereof.

Abstract: There is disclosed a safety closure cap for use with a bottle or other container having a neck portion. The closure cap is made of an elastically deformable or expandable synthetic plastic material. The neck portion of the bottle has on its outside a ring-shaped rib flattened at a portion of its circumference. The inside of the skirt of the cap has thereon several radially inwardly protruding lugs. These lugs can be forced to pass the rib on the neck portion in any angular position of the cap relative to the bottle neck by applying axially directed pressure to the closure cap thereby effectively locking the cap to the bottle. There is further provided on the inside of the cap a liner of moisture-absorbing material which is held in position by circumferentially spaced further lugs.

Abstract: A unitary reversible closure for containers of medicine and the like is applied in one position to the container to render the container child-resistant and in such position requires a complex manipulation .[.of the closure.]. to release it from the container. In a second position of application to the same container, the closure seals the container but requires only a simple manipulation by the pharmacist to release it from the container, thereby lessening irritation and discomfort to the pharmacist's fingers cause by manipulating closures or caps over a period of time and saving the pharmacist considerable time in removing closures over a period of time to fill the containers.