Abstract: A child proof container and safety closure comprising a container, a cap for closing the open end of the container storing a hazardous product and a safety closure placed over the cap and threaded to the container. An extending tab on the top of the cap, extending through a hole in the center of the top of the closure, is manually held stationary during removal of the closure. An extending neck portion of the container and a peripheral wall of the cap, positioned over the extending neck portion, both have an offset axis displaced about the same distance from a central axis of the mating threads on the closure and the container. The offset axes of the container and the cap are positioned in alignment to permit closure removal when an alignment lug, on the outside of the extending neck portion of the container, is in contact with a shoulder of an annular slot on the inside of the peripheral wall of the cap.

Abstract: A condition indicating child-resistant cap assembly including an inner cap and an outer cap rotatably mounted on the inner cap. An indicating post is connected to the top wall of the inner cap in alignment with an opening in the top wall of the outer cap. When the cap assembly is in the child-resistant mode, the outer cap is spaced upwardly from the inner cap and is freely rotatable in one direction thereon. The post is wholly contained within the space between the inner and outer caps and therefore not visible outside the cap assembly to indicate the cap assembly is in the child-resistant mode. When the cap assembly is in the non-child-resistant mode, the outer cap is rotated in the opposite direction until it snaps, and is moved downwardly toward the inner cap and rotated in the first mentioned direction, whereby the inner and outer caps are interlocked for removal from a container.

Abstract: A child resistant closure having a visible external locking tab which cooperates with a locking stop on a container. A threaded inner cap remains sealed while the child resistant locking tab is locked from the position of locking to a tightened position. An outer cap is rotated to engage cooperating drive means for closing or opening the closure. When the closure is reapplied, the user is assured that it is sealed when he observes that the child resistant tab is engaged.

Abstract: The present invention involves a container and cap which is generally childproof and may be rendered non-childproof permanently. The invention involves a container having a cylindrical neck at the top and threads molded about the exterior of the neck as well as an inner cap and outer cap. The inner cap has a top and cylindrical side wall with threads molded on the inside of the side wall so as to mate with the threads of the container. The top or side of the inner cap has ratchet type segments on its outside and the outer cap has ratchet type segments on the inside of its top or side. The outer cap has a cylindrical side wall and is usually freely rotatable about the inner cap so as to be childproof. When in the childproof configuration as described, downward pressure is required by the user so as to engage the two rachet type segments and thereby engage the two caps to permit opening.

Abstract: A safety closure device for a closeable container is provided which, at the user's option, can be operated in a child-resistant mode of operation or, by a simple one-time action by the user, can be placed in a non-child-resistant mode of operation. An outer cap rotatably and slidingly engages an inner cap that directly closes a container, with an intermediate element biasing the outer and inner caps apart from each other but formed so as to take up a first position in which an axially applied force by the user temporarily non-rotatably couples the inner and outer caps for child-resistant operation, and an axially applied force on the intermediate element coupled with a partial turning of the outer cap relative thereto causes permanent non-rotatable engagement between the outer and inner caps through the intermediate element to make the safety closure non-child-resistant.

Abstract: A closure assembly is rotationally free in a child-resistant mode and is provided with a push-button to convert the closure to an operational mode. The closure assembly employs an inner cap, an outer cap, and a push-button selector assembled in a permanent nested configuration.

Abstract: A safety closure is disclosed for containers of potentially harmful substances. The safety closure includes an inner cap threaded over the container and an outer cap which encloses and is rotatably supported by the outer cap which tracks in a groove in the inner cap. The groove includes an inner section in which the lug is free to move, an outer section including two abutments, and sections interconnecting the inner and outer section. When the driving lug engages either of the abutments, the outer cap can rotate the inner cap.

Abstract: This invention relates to improvements in bottles and bottle caps and especially to bottles for pills or tablets.According to invention there is provided a container comprising a bottle (1) with a removable bottle cap (2) the container including counter means, and the bottle (1) and bottle cap (2) including first means and second means respectively, the first and second means being cooperable to increment the counter means (9, 12) each time the bottle cap (2) is removed from or replaced on the bottle (1).This provides a memory aid to indicate the number of times a bottle has been opened which is especially useful when the container is a medication bottle.

Abstract: A child resistant closure cap is described which is easily applied to a threaded container and which thereafter may not be removed without the initial removal of a tamper indicating band so that the closure is also tamper-evident.

Abstract: A Dose reminder type, two piece closure which may be attached to a container by conventional capping Machines. An inner cap member is formed with a circular top panel having a depending skirt integrally molded therewith. The depending skirt is threaded on its interior surface for engagement with a conventional threaded container finish. A flanged portion bearing indicia is integrally formed, projecting radially outwardly from the base of the depending skirt. An outer cap member is also formed with a circular top panel and an integral depending skirt ending at the base in a series of symmetrical dyhedral configurations. The bias of the dyhedral contour matches evenly with a like shaped track integrally formed around the inner diameter of the aforementioned inner cap member flange. This arrangement permits positive engagement of the two member closure for removal from a container.

Abstract: A top for a pill or other medicine bottle having an externally threaded upper portion which receives the top. The top includes a cover which defines a recess having an internally threaded section for receiving the externally threaded portion of the bottle. The cover is proportioned for closing the upper portion of the bottle. Indicia in the form of numbers from one to twelve in the preferred embodiment are carried by the cover. A dial member rotatably mounted on the cover is moved by the user to indicate the time when the next dosage of medicine contained in the bottle is to be taken. In another embodiment means are provided to child proof the top such that children cannot inadvertently gain access to the bottle contents.

Abstract: A tamper-evident cap assembly for a container with an externally screw-threaded top has an inner cap having an annular wall and an open lower end, the annular wall having an internal screw-thread to enable the inner cap to be screwed onto the top of the container by clockwise movement of the inner cap relative to the container. An outer cap has an annular wall, a closed upper end and an open lower end, the outer cap being fitted over the inner cap and retained in assembly with the inner cap. The annular walls of the inner and outer caps have mutually-engaging screw-threads to cause initial anticlockwise turning movement of the outer cap to result in angular movement of the outer cap relative to the inner cap. The inner and outer caps have cooperating ratchets to cause clockwise movement of the outer cap to be transmitted to the inner cap while permitting anticlockwise movement of the outer cap relative to the inner cap.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a closure for a tube or bottle. The closure includes a cup-shaped cap that fits over the opening of the tube or bottle, a tubular closure member that is mounted around the cap, and a plurality of ribs that connect the cap and the closure. The cap and the closure are radially spaced and the ribs extend at a slant or pitch angle relative to a radial line. The ribs all slant in one direction when the closure is in the open or at-rest position. To seal the opening, the member is turned angularly to decrease the pitch angle, which action bends or flexes the cap radially inwardly against the tube or bottle. The member is turned sufficiently far to bend the ribs over center so that they slant in the opposite direction, in order to lock the closure on the cap or closure.

Abstract: A safety device for use with a container with a screw cap. The device which preferably is made from plastics material has an annular body portion with an inwardly tapered inner wall. The screw cap is insertable into the body portion which is so dimensioned that the orientation of the cap is substantially maintained. The cap is held captive inside the body portion by means of a deflectable flange at the mouth of the body portion which permits the cap to be placed on, or be removed from, its closure position on the container but the cap and the device are nonetheless rotatable relatively to each other. The device restricts direct manual access to the cap. The device is frictionally engageable with the cap by urging the device towards the container. The device and the cap may then be rotated together to screw the cap on or off the container.

Abstract: A three component safety cap for threaded containers is operated entirely in a rotational mode between positions where the cap is safe or "child-proof" or unsafe for children in that it may be removed from the threaded container by simple rotation. Optionally, the safety cap may include a visual indicator of its safe or unsafe condition. Discomfort to the fingers and particularly the fingertips is avoided.

Abstract: A "reminder-cap" type of closure member for containers, such as medicine bottles, embodying two nested housings which are rotatable relative to each other in one direction, and non-rotatable relative to each other in the other direction, and in which the inner of the two housings has indicia thereon, which is viewable from outside the outer housing, and the outer housing has an indicating portion disposed adjacent to the indicia and movable relative to the later during rotation of the housings relative to each other; and which may embody structure that can be latched and unlatched to afford protection against a small child opening the container closed thereby.

Abstract: A child-proof screw-cap closure is described which can be screwed onto a bottle or the like container and comprises an inner cap, an outer cap, a coupling member and a sealing member, which inner cap possesses an inner chamber and a cavity, connected with one another by a passage and a channel with a window between the cavity and the chamber, and which outer cap possesses a projecting zone with at least one niche, which zone projects so far into the interior of the outer cap that, in the non-actuating position, it at least partially covers the window of the channel and prevents passage of the coupling member through the channel, whilst when the outer cap is rotated so that the niche faces the window, the coupling member can pass from the cavity into the window and project into the niche, as a result of which a positive engagement is made between the inner and outer cap and both caps can be unscrewed from the mouth of the container.

Abstract: An improved safety closure cap with an integral sealing torque control means is disclosed for use on medicine or other packages where it is desirable that children cannot open the package. The cap has an inner shell with container engaging thread means and an outer shell rotatably attached to the inner shell. Ratchet means including means for controlling the maximum cap application torque locks the shells together as they are turned onto a container. The ratchet means is inoperative as the cap is turned off permitting the outer shell to freely rotate on the inner shell. A second shell connecting means is provided for removal in the form of a pressure operated interlock which is activated by an adult's gripping certain portions of the shells to turn them off as a unit.

Abstract: A safety closure for a container comprising an inner cap with a top and cylindrical collar having threads mating with threads on the container and a central longitudinal extending recess; an outer cap having a top and a cylindrical collar fitting concentrically about the collar of the inner cap, the outer cap being freely rotatable relative to the inner cap in the direction of loosening the inner cap member from the neck of the container, having cooperable locking means with the inner cap for tightening the inner cap member on the neck of the container, the top of the outer cap having a central longitudinal extending opening adapted to be moved into and out of alignment with the recess on the inner cap member by rotation of the outer cap member relative to the inner cap member; and means to prevent insertion of a key device into the aligned opening and recess without the application of pressure on the key device.

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: A safety cap for sealing a container is disclosed. The cap is adapted to a container having a sidewall and annular upper shoulder extending to a neck portion that is threaded. In the vicinity of the neck portion is a cam member having a lug recess in the vicinity of the eccentric portion of the cam.The cap comprises an inner cup member with an integral continuous sidewall for sealing the container. On the inner cup member's interior surface, threads are formed to mate with the threads on the container. The sidewall has at least one downwardly projecting lug adapted to contact the recess on the cam member when the cap is in its sealing position. Alternatively, the inner cup member can include an inner cup with threads and a middle cup with lugs.Connected to the inner cup member or molded in one piece is an over cup that has a diameter equal to the span of an adult's hand. This cup is located so that when a force is exerted against it, it transversely deforms and translates the force to the inner cup member.

Abstract: A child-resistant overcap adapted to be positioned over a threaded screw cap which has axially extending ribs on the outer surface of its threaded skirt, in order to make the entire closure child-resistant. The overcap has a disc-like top and a cylindrical skirt which nests over the screw cap. An inwardly extending lip on the bottom edge of the overcap skirt retains the overcap in position after assembly. The disc-like top of the overcap is slotted with at least two diametric slots, arranged with their axes normal to each other. One slot is formed by two diametrically opposed, outwardlyconverging pairs of edges defining V-notches and the other slot may be a narrow slit. The inner wall of the overcap skirt has at least one axial driving rib which protrudes radially inwardly and is located at the outer end of the narrow slit.

Abstract: A tamperproof child resistant closure for a medicine bottle or the like. The closure has an inner threaded cap and an outer driver nested over the cap. There is a first co-operating, one-way clutch means on the driver and cap for screwing the cap onto the bottle. There is a second one-way, co-operating clutch means comprising an abutment on the outer wall of the cap skirt and an inwardly movable segment of the driver skirt. There is a removable sector portion of the driver top that is frangibly connected to the upper end of the segment and to the driver top which initially prevents inward movement of the segment for engaging the second clutch means.

Abstract: An outer cap for association with a conventional externally knurled screw closure cap and serving as a safety overcap converting the same to a double cap safety closure for sealing threaded bottles and other containers with contents which might be harmful to children; with the outer cap constructed for trapped association with the inner cap for permissive free rotation relative thereto but provided with internal knurling and an adjacent relieved or slotted area permitting inward flexing of the adjacent knurled wall of the overcap into engagement with the external knurling of the inner cap upon selected pressure applied by an adult to effect rotation of both caps in unison, such as the unscrewing direction, for authorized access to the contents of the container.