Abstract: A child resistant package includes a snap-on closure of rigid and stiff material on a container having a neck finish with an annular locking rib having at least one notch. The closure has a locking lug extending radially inwardly from its skirt in alignment in a fire position with the notch upon rotation of the closure to permit removal of the closure when in the fire position. A finger tab extends radially outwardly from the skirt in alignment with the locking lug, and the skirt has rib structure extending radially inwardly from the skirt circumferentially spaced from the locking lug. The locking rib and rib structure having coacting cams for resiliently expanding the skirt upon snap locking the closure to the neck finish and upon removal of the closure. The locking lug and the rib structure are interengaged with the locking rib upon snap locking and the rib structure becomes disengaged from the locking rib upon removal of the closure.

Abstract: A child-resistant container closure constructed according to the present invention comprises a disk shaped cover plate attached to body section formed as a substantially cylindrical wall. A movable handle or tab is attached to the cover plate to aid a user in pulling the closure from a container in which the closure is installed. A well or recess is provided in cover plate to house the handle in a closed position. A ridge on the end of the handle cooperates with a mating ridge in the wall of the recess to retain the handle in a closed position. A resilient spring is provided in the recess so that when the handle is released from the recess, it is urged into a position in which it may be conveniently gripped by a user. An undercut groove or notch is provided on the outside surface of the cylindrical wall adjacent the cover plate. The notch engages a mating lip or ridge extending inward from the inner surface of the mouth of the product container to secure the closure to the product container.

Abstract: Frangible areas of different configurations are formed between the cap and skirt portions of a unitary molded plastic closure, with an internal continuous groove formed on the inside surface of the skirt portion having a diameter slightly larger than the outer diameter of an upper cap portion, the groove having an inner diameter slightly larger than the outer diameter of the cap, the groove lockingly engaging in a tight-fitting manner with the outer peripheral wall of the annular collar on the neck of the container when the closure is assembled with the container, and the groove together with ribs formed proximate to the groove provide a locking engagement between the container neck and the lower skirt portion, facilitating forming an annular collar on the container neck with an outer diameter larger than the outer diameter of the upper cap portion so as to prevent the closure from being pried off by children during use of the contents of the container.

Abstract: A stoppering device non-removably attached to the flanged neck of a container has a base (8) projecting beyond the neck of the container, with at least two arcuate surface sections extending from the base and disposed along a circle having a diameter slightly greater than that of the outer surface of the flanged neck (5). Each arcuate surface section (16) is extended on at least one of its sides in the circumferential direction by a locking foot (17). Each foot is integral with the arcuate surface at the end of the section opposite to the base (8) and is inclined inward from the end integral with the arcuate surface section (16) to a free end of the foot located toward the base (8). Each foot abuts the flanged neck (5) and holds the stoppering device securely onto the container.

Abstract: A captive key release closure structure includes a base ring for connection to a rim of a container, a closure member or cap integrally hinged to the base ring, latch indentations on an outer surface of a neck wall of the base ring, and latch pawls on an inner surface of a depending circumferential wall of the cap and aligned with the indentations. A key slot is formed in the cap wall at a position opposite the hinge, and a key receiving recess is formed in the base ring. The latch indentations and pawls are positioned in sets on opposite sides of the key slot and key recess. The closure structure is opened by insertion of a small keylike tool, such as a coin, spoon, or the like, and twisting against the surfaces forming the key slot and recess to separate and thereby release the pawls from the indentations.

Abstract: A snap-on closure for wide mouth containers has an integral hinged lid which can be lifted, as by the thumb, to provide access for spooning contents out of the mouth. The lid closes on a top flange which is presented by either the closure or the container. The closure has a skirt and snaps onto the container below the top flange or to an attachment bead on the container.

Abstract: A solid dosage unit dispenser closure cap suitable for use by sight-impaired persons and/or persons with physical incapability to unscrew caps of prescription bottles or containers having a lid integrally attached an annular skirt by a living hinge, wherein the lid has a tab to enable the patient to open the cap easily without twisting. In addition the container for the medicine has a ring attached thereto and to the inner surface of the skirt at the inside near the opening thereof. The ring has an opening sufficiently large to allow only one or perhaps two dosage units to be spilled out by the patient at one time, in addition the ring has a slide attached thereto which can be moved by the patient circumferentially on the ring to stop at indicia on the top of the ring which reminds the patient which dose was last taken or which dose is yet to be taken. A window on the top leg of the slide permits viewing or feeling the indicia.

Abstract: A plastic container closure, such as a bottle cap liner or tamper evident seal, is formed from a coextruded multilayer foamed film. The coextruded multilayer foamed film has at least one solid film layer of a first polyolefin blend containing linear low density polyethylene, low density polyethylene, and, optionally high density polyethylene, and at least one foamed layer of a second polyolefin blend containing linear low density polyethylene, low density polyethylene, and optionally ethylene vinyl acetate. The multilayer foamed film may be coextruded using a blown film or cast film extrusion process under defined conditions. the coextruded multilayer foamed film may be laminated to other materials such as polyester film, thermoplastic adhesive films or metallic films and used as a plastic container closure, or may be applied as a liner to a plastic bottle cap.

Abstract: Disclosed is a tamper-evident closure for a container having a finish opening and including a cap member hingedly connecting to a base member. The base member is threadingly engaged with the bottle finish, and includes an upwardly extending pour spout. A sealing disk is installed in the interior of the pour spout and is secured thereto with a rupturable ring. A pull tab is attached to the sealing disk and, when pulled, causes removal of the sealing disk, threby allowing access to the interior of the bottle container. The cap includes an interior wall which engages the pour spout with a snap fit, providing a liquid-tight and airtight closure therefor.

Abstract: A plastic unitary molded child-resistant, snap-on, tampered-evident closure includes an upper cap portion having internal spaced ribs disposed for cooperation with the upper annular collar on the neck portion of a container, only one rib being sized to pass through the gap of the upper annular collar, and the upper cap portion having an indication indicating the location of the one rib; a lower skirt portion connected to the upper cap portion and having an inside diameter close to the outside diameter of the upper cap portion; weakened intermediate portions circumferentially formed about the closure at the connection between the lower skirt portion and upper cap portion; the upper cap portion including about its circumference a plurality of vertically extending intermittently spaced grooves extending down to the weakened intermediate portions; a plurality of corresponding openings which separate the weakened intermediate portions and extend through the connection between the upper cap portion and lower skirt

Abstract: A tamper-proof closure for a container having a discharge opening at one end and a wall member spanning the opening, inter-engaging locking between the skirt of the cap and the container opening, a tab projecting radially outwardly from the skirt registerable with a recess or gap in a radially outwardly directed flange of the container which it normally overlies, a fracturable tear band portion including inter-locking to prevent relative rotation of the closure and container.

Abstract: Disclosed is a container (1) is provided with a removable lid (2). At the top of the side wall of the container there is provided an outwardly projecting bead or bead portions (5, 5', 5") abutted by the lid (2) the lid having a skirt (2a) with downwardly and/or inwardly facing cams (10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17). The lid (2) is relatively stiff, and the inside of the skirt (2a) has a concave abutment surface (2a') near its lower edge portion, the abutment surface being of a substantially spherical, conical or superelliptical curvature and abutting the bead or bead portions (5, 5', 5"). The side wall of the container is provided with a support shoulder (7) beneath the bead or bead portions (5, 5', 5").

Abstract: A child resistant dispensing closure of the type comprising a cap member and a spout member. The cap member is provided with an exterior skirt, a top surface having an elongated groove formed therein, and an interior skirt. The interior skirt is provided with a cap locking bead adapted to engage a container locking bead provided on the neck of a container for rotatably mounting the cap member on the neck of the container. The elongated groove has a dispensing opening and an open area formed therein, and the interior skirt is provided with an interruption at the location of the open area so as to maintain the area unobstructed. The container locking bead is also provided with an interruption. The spout member includes an elongated body having a longitudinal dispensing passage therein and adapted to be mounted at one end in the elongated groove for rotation with respect to the cap member. The spout member is provided with a depending locking prong adapted for insertion into the open area.

Abstract: A child resistant cap is desirably fastened onto a container which container has a peripheral recess located below an extending top dome portion. The cap has a first inner partial peripheral flange having a given opening and a second inner partial peripheral flange located above said first flange and having a diametrically opposed opening, with said first flange inserted into said recess to cause said second flange to coact with said extending top portion when said cap is emplaced on said container.

Abstract: A child resistant dispensing closure characterized by a closure member and a lid member which is mounted on the closure member for movement between closed and open positions. A peripheral edge of the lid member abuts an annular shoulder provided on the closure member in the closed position, the point of abutment being concealed by an annular ring provided on the closure member. In the closed position, thickened portions provided on the peripheral edge of the lid member engage in recesses formed in the annular shoulder. The lid member is adapted to be moved upwardly from the closed to an open position when a user applies with one hand a manual compressive force to a panel provided on the exterior skirt of the closure member. This manual force results in deformation of the panel inwardly into a slot formed clearly through an enlarged portion of the shoulder.

Abstract: A child resistant dispensing closure of the type comprising a cap base member and a cap lid member. The cap base member is provided with a dispensing opening, a slot, and a cap locking bead adapted to engage a container locking bead provided on the neck of a container. The container locking bead is provided with an interruption which is adapted to be brought into and out of alignment with the slot by manually rotating the cap base member with respect to the neck. The cap lid member is provided with a locking prong adapted to be received within the slot when the cap lid member assumes a closed position wherein it closes off the dispensing opening. The locking prong, when the cap lid member is in the closed position, is adapted to be engaged beneath the continuous portion of the container locking bead.

Abstract: A safety type cap for medicinal or similar containers capable of effecting a tight seal upon the container mouth by means of a sealing flange extending laterally from an inner surface of the cap rim which is deflected upon contact with a corresponding flange on an area surrounding the mouth of the container. The cap is held in sealed relation relative to the container by engagement of a pair of arcuate projections which engage a sufficient degree of the container periphery so as to resist dislodgement made possible by flexing of the container without alignment of the cap relative to the container for normal usual disengagement.

Abstract: A safety closure and container package including an internally threaded closure cap and a container having a threaded neck. A retention flange is located on the container neck below the threads, having a gradually sloping upper surface and an abrupt, inwardly directed lower surface extending downwardly toward the neck at 45.degree.-90.degree.. A coacting inwardly projecting retention bead on the cap completes this child-resistant feature requiring considerably more force for removal of the closure than application. The safety package can also include a second container flange and cap bead located between the retention flange and bead and the threads to provide a non-backoff feature. The non-backoff flange has a gradually sloping upper surface and a gradually sloping inwardly directed surface extending downwardly toward the container neck at 15.degree.-25.degree..

Abstract: This invention comprises a two part closure, for a container, comprising a top cap hingedly connected to an inner cap which is adapted to be semi-permanently positioned over the mouth of an associated container, a depending skirt on the inner cap and a trigger forming part of the skirt of the inner cap, actuation of the trigger normally being prevented by engagement of the trigger with an arcuate bead on the outside of the associated container whereby the trigger forms a locking means to hold the top cap in its closed position until the closure is angularly displaced relatively to the container into a predetermined position in which the trigger is unlocked and can be actuated manually to release the top cap for opening.

Abstract: An assembly of a container (1) and a child resistant closure (5) therefor. The container (1) has an external bead (3) on the neck (2) thereof and the closure (5) an inturned flange (8) on the skirt (7) thereof which makes snap engagement with the bead (3). The neck (2) of the container (1) comprises an external screw thread (4) while the skirt (7) of the closure (5) is locally severed or weakened to provide local deformable skirt portions (11) which can be deformed inwards by finger pressure thereon to enage thread portions (13) on the skirt portions (11) with the screw thread (4). The closure (5) is removable from the container (1) by deforming the skirt portions (11) to engage the thread portions (13) with the screw thread (4) by finger pressure thereon and rotating the closure (5) relative to the container (1) while maintaining said finger pressure.

Abstract: A tamper-indicating closure comprising a disc-shaped top with an upper skirt extending downwardly from the top; an annular upper bead around the inner surface of the upper skirt; a lower skirt proximate to and in center alignment with the upper skirt, the upper skirt being disposed between the top and the lower skirt; an annular retention bead around the inner surface of the lower skirt; a breakable bridge means between the skirts as the sole connection between the skirts; and a tool aperture between the skirts adapted to accept a tool means for breaking the bridge means so as to part the skirts.

Abstract: A moisture proof vial and closure system are provided which may be used in a child-resistant mode or in a non-child resistant mode. In the child-resistant mode locking lugs 22 on the closure are interlocked with bayonnet slots on the vial. A non-child resistant operation in a moisture proof system may be achieved by providing an integral sealing plug 21 extending from the top of the closure and by adding a detenting means 51 inside of the container to engage and hold the sealing plug 21 against sliding outwardly of the container. A simple push inward will force the sealing plug 21 home to its sealing position to seal the medicine in the vial, and a simple push or pull on the closure to force the fitment from the detenting means is needed to remove the closure. The preferred detenting means 51, 15 is in the form of radially inwardly directed projections 52 formed on the interior container wall to abut and restrain the sealing plug against inadvertent sliding from the container.

Abstract: A tamper indicating child-resistant package comprising a container having a body and a neck, said neck having at least one retaining bead with a notch therein and a closure comprising a base wall and a peripheral wall having at least one pair of locking lugs generally diametrically opposite to one another such that the closure can be rotated to orient one of the locking lugs with a notch permitting the closure to be removed by an upward force in the area of the notch to produce a tipping movement. The peripheral wall of the closure has an axially extending band connected to the lower end of the peripheral wall by a weakened line and the band has an inner regular polygonal surface.

Abstract: A safety closure cap and container is disclosed. The container is of vial variety having an open top and two vertically-spaced annular protuberances at its upper portion defining a groove therebetween. The cap is circular, having an inverted central dome and a wide outer annular portion integrally formed with a downwardly extending flange. The latter is formed with an inward projection adapted to releasably snap into the groove and includes a plurality of vertical slots circumferentially spaced-apart. The underside of the cap is formed with a fulcrum ridge and a fluid-proof sealing ridge.

Abstract: A removal-resistant plug or closure for a container has a slide radially extensible beyond the circumference of the plug and container to provide a gripping surface for removal of the plug. With the slide retracted, the exterior surfaces of the plug is smooth and devoid of any gripping surface. A seal attached after the container is filled and the plug inserted is provided by a cavity which extends across a lateral edge of the slide and the adjacent portion of the slide guide in the plug. A marker plate is attached to cover the cavity such that when the slide is moved, the portions of the cavity are misaligned to break the marker plate from the plug to provide a visible indication that the seal has been broken.

Abstract: When a child-resistant cap for a container of potentially hazardous contents is turned in either direction of rotation to a release position, cooperative parts on the cap and container will engage and interact to produce a permanent visual indication of tampering.

Abstract: This invention provides a container and closure assembly in which the container has an open mouth, a rim around the mouth, a cut-out in the rim and annular closure retaining means below the rim and in which the closure has a top to close the mouth of the container, an inner depending plug to enter the mouth of the container, a tear band, means shaped to engage with the closure retaining means on the container and a thumb-receiving recess in the plug.

Abstract: This invention provides a closure which is both tamper-resistant and child-resistant. The closure has a cap part including a top and a skirt, a tear band and a captive band, the tear band being connected to the skirt and to the captive band by lines of weakness and tell tale bridge members are provided so that the tear band cannot be removed without breaking the bridge members to provide the tamper-resistant feature. To provide the child-resistant feature the skirt of the cap part has an internal projection which can pass through an opening in an arcuate bead on an associated container only when the cap part is turned into a predetermined position.

Abstract: Child-resistant closure comprises a closure neck with an opening surrounded by an inner and an outer wall and a closure cap with a skirt matingly engaged by the inner wall and extending to the outer wall, the outer wall including a deformable segment to permit inward finger deformation and upward pressure on the underside of the lip of the closure cap, with improvements comprising reinforcement means in the closure cap and/or closure neck to prevent radial deformation of the closure in the area of the opening, other than at the preselected outer wall deformable segment location. Preferably, the reinforcement means comprises radially disposed ribs associated with the closure cap and also radially disposed ribs extending between the inner and outer walls of the closure neck surrounding the opening thereof.

Abstract: A removable cover on a container has first and second tabs extending downwardly alongside the upper periphery of a container. Each tab has a latch member in contact with the lower surface of a ledge structure to prevent upward movement of the cover. The cover is removed by simultaneously pushing each tab radially inwardly and then pushing upwardly on the cover.

Abstract: An integral thermoplastic biasing hinge is disclosed. Hinged plate members are biased to achieve one of two positions, e.g., an open or closed position by the utilization of a spring member having two arms which are resiliently connected at one of their ends and hingedly connected to the plate members at their other ends.

Abstract: A reversible child resistant closure having a child resistant and a non-child resistant mode of use. The closure is characterized by its low profile and tab that extends outwardly from the closure; this tab being engageable from below when closure is rotated into the appropriate position on the container. An upwardly extending relatively low annular rib is provided on the roof of the closure which serves as the means by which the closure is engaged by the container neck when the closure is inserted into the container neck in its non-child resistant mode.

Abstract: A reusable childproof container closure is disclosed for closing the nozzle of a plastic container wherein the container terminates upwardly in a nozzle including a peripheral groove. A plastic closure includes an inserting member having a cooperating, peripheral lip formed therein for removable engagement in the peripheral groove. The closure also includes a peripheral skirt formed with depending sidewalls which overfit the nozzle and which provide a surface to be engaged by a tool such as a screwdriver for closure removal purposes.

Abstract: A child-resistant package comprising a container and a snap-on closure. The container has a neck finish including a first upper annular retaining bead and a second lower annular retaining bead spaced axially beneath the first annular bead. The first retaining bead has a notch therein and the second annular bead is continuous. An annular protective flange extends radially outwardly and is axially spaced below the second bead. The closure has a base and a peripheral skirt with a lifting tab on the outer surface thereof, a first radially inwardly extending locking lug on the inner surface thereof adjacent the external lifting tab, and at least one second radially inwardly extending locking lug located diametrically opposite from the lifting tab and axially below the plane of the first locking lug.

Abstract: A container and closure assembly having complementary engaging threads on the closure and container which are used for closing the container but which do not afford opening movement because of a one-way stop arrangement. Opening movement requires orientation to a predetermined location followed by tilting of the cap to open the container and remove the closure therefrom.

Abstract: A container closure such as a bottle top or the like is provided having a base portion for assembly onto the container forming a top to the container, the base portion having an orifice therethrough set in a generally planer top surface. A top member lies atop the planer surface and has a hinge defining the top member into two portions, one of which has structure for affixing it in face to face relationship with the planer surface on top of the base. The other portion is movable about the hinge from an orifice closing position atop the planer surface to an orifice open position extending at an angle to the planer surface. A flexible tongue extends into the area of the hinge and is capable of undergoing a snap movement from one side to the other of a raised rib in the planer surface to hold the second portion of the top in the orifice open position at an angle to the planer surface. The second portion of the top may be equipped with a stopper insertable into the orifice.

Abstract: A packaging unit has a container closed by a safety plug which has a maximum diameter equal to the outer diameter of the container opening and a smooth exterior to avoid any gripping surface. A cylindrical lip adjacent to the peripheral edge of the plug cooperates with the inner surface of the container opening to seal the opening. A slide is movable along a radial direction of the plug to extend beyond the edge of the container opening to provide a gripping surface for removing the plug. Safety detents may be provided which must be manipulated to permit movement of the slide.

Abstract: A one piece molded closure cap for a material dispensing container having a material dispensing valve and nozzle such as an aerosol can. The cap comprises a ring member securely mounted to the can, a closure member hingedly connected to the ring member and a tamper guard which is positioned over the dispensing nozzle and is connected to the ring member by frangible fingers. The tamper guard prevents manipulation of the dispensing valve prior to the removal thereof. In another embodiment, the ring member and closure member are molded with a nozzle which is connected to the ring member by frangible means such that the nozzle functions as a tamper guard. In another embodiment a latch is provided which has two operable positions with one position allowing the closure lid to be opened easier than by the other position.

Abstract: A closure cap for closing the mouth of a container. The cap has a plug forming an inner member, and an outer member with a depending skirt. When the closure cap is in operative position on a container the inner member is arranged coaxially within the upper part of the outer member with the plug in position to close the mouth of the container. When in this position the upper part of the outer member is positioned above the mouth of the container and the skirt of the outer member embraces and engages with the outer surface of the container around the mouth.

Abstract: A child-resistant, tamper indicating package includes a container having a body portion with a tubular neck and a closure for the neck which is removable and reclosable. The container has a shoulder at the juncture of the body and the neck and the neck has a radially outwardly extending annular rib spaced from the shoulder. The rib has opposed upper and lower converging surfaces such that the included angle at which the lower surface intersects the tubular neck is greater than the included angle at which the upper surface intersects the tubular neck. The closure has a disc-shaped top and a flexible annular skirt the lower edge of which is formed with an inwardly directed flange. The inside diameter of the flange is less than the outside diameter of the rib on the neck so that the flange engages the upper surface of the rib to flex the skirt radially outwardly during downward movement of the closure on the neck until the flange snaps beneath the neck rib to hold the closure in sealing engagement with the neck.

Abstract: A child-resistant package consists of a container having an open-ended neck and a cap having a top and an annular skirt which telescopes over the container neck. There are co-operating snap-over retainers on the exterior of the neck and the interior of the cap skirt which require the cap to be moved axially a distance greater than the axial over-lap of the retainers in order to remove the cap. The container neck and the cap skirt also have a radially extending lug and a circumferentially extending ramp that are moved into engageable alignment by flexing the cap skirt inwardly. The ramp has a surface which is inclined relative to the axis of the neck and cap skirt and which has an axial height greater than the distance of axial over-lap of the retainers. In order to remove the cap, the skirt is flexed inwardly to align the lug with the ramp surface and the cap is rotated relative to the container neck causing the cap to be moved axially a distance sufficient to disengage the over-lapped retainers.

Abstract: An improved dispenser for cosmetic stick solids such as deodorants constructed to be filled in either normal or inverted position. This dispenser is cylindrical having walls of substantially uniform diameter, an open top, and substantially closed bottom. The dispenser is constructed so that the dispensing means is either pushed up manually, or propelled by a screw-mechanism. In the latter case a long screw is mounted in a central opening in the bottom, and continues along the axis of the cylinder. The cap of the dispenser may assume either of two forms, a snap-on type, or a screw-on type, each exhibiting an air-tight seal. The snap-cap is constructed to include a plurality of cams which operate in conjunction with similar members on the mouth of the cylindrical container to provide relative ease in opening and closing the snap-cap.The dispenser is designed to be filled in a conventional manner from the opening in the top, or, alternatively, from a hole in the bottom of the cylindrical container.

Abstract: A childproof safety screw cap and container having yieldable cap retainer means which are overcome, to effect cap removal, by a quarter-turn twist that produces a relatively large axial cap travel due to the provision of multiple screw thread elements thereon. The cap can be pushed straight on, accompanied by bypassing of the threads. The retainer means and the threads increase their interlock action if the cap is squeezed laterally, as by the act of a child applying its teeth to the cap. A shielding flange on the container defeats efforts to bite the cap under its bottom rim, and a bevelled top peripheral portion of the cap defeats its being gripped at the top, by the teeth.

Abstract: A one-piece child-resistant dispensing closure for a container which has an open end. The closure has a skirt which mates with the end of the container and a top which spans the space defined by the skirt. Preferably there are two dispensing openings through the top, each of which is surrounded by an upwardly extending rim. The closure also comprises a lid for each opening and a hinge for each lid. The hinges and lids are integral parts of the closure. The lids have similar rims which fit around the rims on the closure top when the lids are swung over to close the dispensing openings. In the closed position, ribs on the edges of the pairs of opposed rims snap over each other and ears on the inner sides of the lids are closely spaced from a fulcrum on the closure top. The engagement of the ribs holds the lids closed. Pry means, such as a coin or blade, may be inserted between the fulcrum and a lid ear to pry the particular lid open.

Abstract: A child-resistant closure and container system is provided with a snap on and off closure requiring a coin or tool to remove the closure. A skirt wall on the closure is positioned sufficiently close to a shoulder on the container that the gap between the bottom edge of the skirt wall and adjacent shoulder is insufficient to admit a tool or to allow the teeth of a child to enter and to be used to pry off the closure. The shoulder diameter is equal to or greater than the diameter of the skirt wall to prevent the child's teeth from engaging and prying off the cap. A small notch is formed in the skirt wall to allow a coin or tool to be inserted and to be twisted against the shoulder to pry off the closure.

Abstract: A molded plastic pill box has a lid hinged by a living hinge at one side of its top so the box can be loaded by a pill manufacturer, the lid when swing closed, permanently locking against reopening. The lid has a pill dispensing opening and a child-resistant closure hinged by a living hinge to the other side of the box top and normally closing the dispensing opening. The box forms a package for the pills and which can be sold by the pill manufacturer to a druggist, an adult purchaser being capable of opening the child-resistant closure for dispensing of the packaged pills. The entire box can be a one-piece molding for minimum cost.

Abstract: A plastic lid closure assembly for containers, particularly for packaging purposes, comprising a lid and a lid carrier connected to one another by an integral web hinge, the lid carrier being formed with an upstanding resilient tongue and the lid being formed with a cam or the like adjacent the hinge and operative to transversely deform the resilient tongue on movement of the lid to produce a snap-up effect.

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 safety closure is provided for closing the open neck of containers having a bead type finish formed on such neck end. The closure comprises a unitary element molded from a resilient plastic material and having a generally horizontal circular panel portion and an integral, generally vertical peripheral flange portion. The flange portion is provided with an internally projecting rib which snaps into engagement with the groove normally provided beneath the bead of a container bead finish. In the closed position of the closure on the container, the bottom edge of the closure flange is flush with the side wall of the container neck and cannot be engaged by the fingers to pry the closure off of the container.

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.