Abstract: Tamper indicating, child proof system includes annular tear strip on the cap; and a rotatably indexing latch finger on the cap which engages a raised annular retainer ridge with bypass opening on the neck of the container. A tactile indicator of the rotational location of the bypass opening is under the tear strip for sensing by a finger that is in simultaneous contact with the cap, when the tear strip is removed. A lower ridge includes an index key for orienting the latch finger away from the bypass opening during assembly of the system.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a child resistant snap cap container device which includes a container, a collar ring, a snap cap and a spring. The container has a neck with a lower retainer bead and an upper retainer bead thereon and has at least one stop located below the lower retainer bead and at least one derailer lift located above the lower retainer. The collar ring is fitted onto the neck and has undercut ledges located on its inside so as to fit under the lower retainer bead of the neck and in horizontal alignment with the stop(s). The snap cap has a snap lip and has derailers located on its inside wall. It is hinged to the collar ring. The cap is adapted to fit onto the neck with the derailers being located below the upper retainer bead. There is at least one spring located between the ring and the shoulder of the container which biases the ring upwardly such that the container cannot be opened merely by rotation but must be pushed down and rotated to open.

Abstract: A cap assembly is fitted to a bottleneck, and is provided with a sleeve for fitting to the bottleneck. The sleeve is provided with a non-drip pouring spout whereby the liquid can be poured from the bottle through the sleeve and spout. A closure cap member is fitted to the sleeve in a secure manner. Before a cap portion of the closure cap member can be removed to permit the pouring of the liquid, a tear band must first be removed from the closure cap member, thereby providing tamper resistance. Additionally, the cap portion must be aligned with the sleeve before it can be removed, thereby providing child resistance.

Abstract: The present invention is a container and closure device, which includes the container, a collar ring and a cap. The container has a neck, an open top and a horizontal retainer track for affixing a collar ring thereto. The collar ring has a circular inside wall with a horizontal track for attachment to the track of the container so as to be horizontally and freely rotatable thereabout. The collar ring also has a top with a ledge thereon for frictionally engaging and retaining a cap, and has at least one cut out on the ledge to permit a cap to be inserted and removed from the collar ring.

Abstract: A fitment attached around an aperture in a container has a flange from which extends a spout closed by an initially integrally molded externally threaded plug. So long as the fitment and plug are in their original position after molding, the combination is tamper-evident. The plug is moved axially into the spout, with a liquid-tight fit. The plug has an outward extending tab formed with a slot and the fitment has an upward extending finger aligned with the slot in the tab and formed with tangs which lock the finger and tab together as the plug is moved into the spout, thereby making the device tamper-evident. A characteristic of the invention is that a tether interconnects the plug and the upper edge of the spout to prevent disconnection of the one from the other. As a further feature of the invention, an over-size foil seal extends across the bottom of the flange and is welded or otherwise adhered to the bottom of the flange.

Abstract: A generally cylindrical relative rotatable lock structure comprises three relatively rotatable coaxial members. The first and second members have generally opposed surfaces carrying connecting means which interengage to prevent relative axial movement between those members except in predetermined relatively rotatable positions. The third member is supported by one of the first or second members to prevent axial movement relative to the supporting member, but to permit rotatable movement. Friction between the third and non-supporting member causes the third member to rotate with the non-supporting member. The third member has connecting means cooperable with the connecting means on the member which does not support the third member to prevent relative axial movement between the third and non-supporting members except in predetermined relative position.

Abstract: The present invention provides a child resistant container suitable for packaging of medicines and the like wherein a bottom portion designed to hold the product and a cover member have first and second cooperative locking devices with the first locking device permitting a certain limited movement while maintaining a locked position such that when the second locking device is moved to an unlocked position, the first locking device remains locked until a second step or operation is performed thereon. Operation of the second locking device to unlock it tends to reinforce the locking action to the first locking device to prevent simultaneous unlocking of both locking devices.

Abstract: A can top resealer includes a locking member with built in camming means and an inner latching cap member having downwardly depending fingers having inwardly extending lugs that engage with the can top to assume a latched position when the locking member is lowered. When the locking member is lowered the camming means urge the fingers inwardly to releasably lock the lugs about the can top. A gasket is included for purposes of completing a hermetic seal.

Abstract: A dispenser for liquids, e.g., ophthalmic liquids, is provided with a movable top that pivots open to expose a recessed dispensing tip and pivots closed to cover and seal the dispensing tip.

Abstract: A dispenser for liquids, e.g., ophthalmic liquids, is provided with a movable top that rotates to uncover an aperture and to expose a recessed dispensing tip.

Abstract: A twist and push snap-on, child resistant cap and container has an inner cap seal which is easily snapped onto a neck of a container and an outer cap. The outer cap has a top and sidewalls and has a greater cross-sectional area than the inner cap, and receives and physically restrains the inner cap within the outer cap such that the inner cap may be moved upwardly and downwardly within it over specified distance. The outer cap includes a locking lug located on its inside wall adapted to snap over a circumferential bead located on the neck of the container. There is a stop located on the inside wall of the outer cap and is freely rotatable about the neck of the container except when in contact with stop(s) on the neck of the container at its level of rotation when the outer cap is on the container. A spring mechanism located between the inner and outer cap so as to bias downwardly the inner cap.

Abstract: A closure assembly for a container including a cap and an engagement member for releasably connecting the cap to the container to cover an opening in the container with the cap. A tamper evident membrane surrounds the periphery of the cap and includes a connecting member for releasably joining the membrane about the periphery of the cap in a breakaway manner. A release tab is provided, integrally formed with the membrane, in a breakaway manner on a portion of the membrane. Release of the tab from the membrane enables the same to extend outwardly from the membrane so as to be grasped and pulled by a user to sever the connecting member and peel off the remaining portion of the tamper evident membrane to enable removal of the cap from the 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: The present invention is directed to a child resistance container and lid which utilizes a semi-flexible ring. The snap lid which is utilized in the present invention container is substantially set into the top of the container and this lid has one component of either an extended lift member or an indented lift guide. The ring has the other component of either the extended lift member or the indented lift guide. When the ring is rotated, the snap lid cannot be opened. The snap lid can only be opened when the ring is simultaneously squeezed and rotated. In an alternative embodiment, the two component lift system is utilized wherein both components extend outwardly rather than one extending outwardly and one indented. They have geometric configurations so that one first slides past the other and then, in their reverse motion, one lifts the other so as to lift up a lid during operation.

Abstract: A child-proof container and a closure for selectively opening and closing the container. The hollow container has at its upper end a dispensing opening. The closure has a body member and a flip-top cap member attached by a hinge to the body member for movement between open and closed positions. The body member is supported and locked on the container to permit rotational movement of the body member on the container. The container has an annular locking rib for releasable locking engagement with a locking bead on the cap member to permit unlocking of the cap member from the container only when the body member is rotated to an unlocking position with respect to the container, whereby the cap member may be moved from a closed to an open position to permit dispensing of contents from the container. The container and the closure are provided with corresponding indicia to indicate the precise rotational alignment of the container and the body member to permit unlocking of the cap member from the container.

Abstract: A childproof, locking-type cap is disclosed. Briefly stated, an upper cap is mated to a lower cap so as to be axially pivotable thereabout. A plurality of wings are provided, each of which has an engaging rib which engages the rim on the top of a container such as an aerosol can or the like. Alignment of the upper and lower caps permit at least one wing to be moved out of the way when the cap assembly is removed from the container.

Abstract: A dispensing closure having a base ring with means for attachment to a container which permits rotation of the ring without axial movement. A lid is connected to the base ring by a hinge which allows the lid to be swung from a closed position blocking access to a container opening to an open dispensing position. A cam element on the lid effects initial movement of the lid towards an open position when the base ring is rotated. The lid cam element cooperates with a cam surface on the container. A fitment can also be used to attach the closure to a flat can top or to other container configurations. When a fitment is used, the cam surface will be on the fitment rather than the container.

Abstract: Closure assembly includes a lid carrier or base having a hinged lid. The top wall of the lid carrier has a sealing means surrounded by a downward alignment sleeve. The assembly is especially useful with high-speed automatic container-capping machinery, because the sleeve cooperates with the cylindrical upright neck or spout on a container to see that the closure assembly is not cocked prior to sealing and that the top of the spout makes square contact with the sealing means to assure a good seal. The sleeve is interrupted on the opposite side of the carrier from the hinge so that it does not interfere with action of a latch depending from the lid. The spout itself forms a stop for the latch so that it will not be overextended and break when it is pressed in unlatching.

Abstract: A safety lockable container includes a cylindrical container body, an integrally formed outlet nozzle, and a detachable cap. The nozzle has an external thread, which mates with an internal thread on the inner wall of the cap. A plurality of depending claws formed at the bottom of the cap mate in locking engagement with a plurality of corresponding notches in the side wall of the container.

Abstract: Safety closures resistant to (and evidencing) tampering comprising a snap cap or screw cap, a rotary safety ring, and a tear tab attached to the neck of the container, said closure requiring that the tear tab be removed before the safety ring can be lowered; the safety ring must be aligned with the cap in one angular position and pushed downwardly away from the cap before the cap can be removed from the container. These safety closures may include a tear pin, attached to the cap and to the ring, which must be broken before the cap can be removed from the container; the tear pin may be in addition to, or an alternative for, the tear tab. The tear pin and tear tab are made to be removable. This invention describes a tamper resistant and tamper evident closure comprising a cap having a depending annular flange with a slot therein, and an outwardly directed wing protruding through said slot; the cap cannot be removed without causing the cap to shear off the outwardly directed wing, which is made to be removable.

Abstract: A child-resistant package that includes a wide mouth blown glass container or blow molded plastic container, and a molded thermoplastic closure that is affixed to the finish portion of such container. The finish portion of the container has a radially outwardly projecting flange at the bottom portion of such finish portion, and this flange has a notch in its outer periphery. The closure has a flexible projection that extends outwardly and downwardly from the skirt of the closure, and a portion of this projection engages the notch in the flange of the finish to prevent the turning of the closure on the finish. The projection of the closure can be manipulated by hand to remove the portion of the projection that engages the notch in the container finish to disengage the closure projection from the container finish notch, to permit the removal of the closure from the container.

Abstract: This relates to a plastic fitment to be utilized in conjunction with a conventional metal closure having a rotational engagement with threads on a container neck finish. The fitment has a readily engageable snap-in interlock with the closure and is provided with a tamper indicating band attached to a ring thereof by rupturable bridges. When the closure and fitment are applied to a container, the tamper indicating band will ride over and lock behind a projecting rib on the closure neck finish. When the closure is to be removed, as it moves axially the bridges will rupture leaving the tamper indicating band on the container while the ring of the fitment is removed with the closure. If desired, a customer may remove the ring from the closure and reseal the container with the closure per se.

Abstract: A child-resistant package with a snap-on closure comprising a container having a neck finish including an annular retaining bead having at least one notch therein and a closure having a top wall and peripheral skirt, the skirt having a lifting tab on the outer surface thereof and a radially inwardly extending locking lug on the inner surface thereof adjacent the external lifting tab. The closure includes a tamper indicating band attached to the skirt by a plurality of circumferentially attached bridge portions. The band is formed with a plurality of circumferentially spaced vertical ribs.

Abstract: A child-resistant package with a snap-on closure comprising a container having a neck finish including an annular retaining bead having at least one notch therein and a closure having a top and a peripheral skirt. The skirt has a lifting tab on the outer surface thereof and a first radially inwardly extending locking lug on the inner surface thereof adjacent the external lifting tab. A cover cap having a top wall and a peripheral wall is placed over the closure and the peripheral wall of the cover surrounds the peripheral skirt of the closure. An annular band is connected to the lower edge of the peripheral wall of the cover cap by weakened portions. The band includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced radially inwardly extending lugs that project beneath the free edge of the peripheral skirt of the closure so that the cover cap cannot be removed until the band is first removed by severing it from the closure cap.

Abstract: A taper evident child-resistant container closure is rendered further tamper evident and resistant to prying off with an implement through provision of an interfitting complete circle recess in the upper face of the container dust ring and a depending tamper evident full circle skirt extension on the closure side wall.

Abstract: Safety closures resistant to (and evidencing) tampering comprising a snap cap or screw cap, a rotary safety ring, and a tear tab attached to the neck of the container, said closure requiring that the tear tab be removed before the safety ring can be lowered; the safety ring must be aligned with the cap in one angular position and pushed downwardly away from the cap before the cap can be removed from the container. These safety closures may include a tear pin, attached to the cap and to the ring, which must be broken before the cap can be removed from the container; the tear pin may be in addition to, or an alternative for, the tear tab. The tear pin and tear tab are made to be removable. This invention described a tamper resistant and tamper evident closure comprising a cap having a depending annular flange with a slot therein, and an outwardly directed wing protruding through said slot; the cap cannot be removed without causing the cap to shear off the outwardly directed wing, which is made to be removable.

Abstract: Safety closures resistant to tampering comprising a cap, a rotary safety ring, and a locking member, usually located below the rotary safety ring, said closure requiring that the locking member be removed before the safety ring can be lowered; the safety ring must be aligned with the cap in one angular position and pushed downwardly away from the cap before the cap can be removed from the container. The locking member includes a first engaging means which engages a second engaging means located on the neck of the container to which the safety closure is attached. The locking member, prevented from rotation by the engagement of the first and second engaging means, is attached to the rotary safety ring by a connection, which should be broken whenever the closure has been tampered with. The connection may be a fragile tear pin, or a peel pin, a tamper resistant safety closure comprising a snap cap, capable of being removed only when a thumb tab extends past an annular ridge, that engages (via, e.g.

Abstract: A child-resistant package with a snap-on closure comprising a container having a neck finish including an annular retaining bead having at least one notch therein, a closure having a top and a peripheral skirt, the skirt having a lifting tab on the outer surface thereof and a first radially inwardly extending locking lug on the inner surface thereof adjacent the external lifting tab. The skirt includes a portion defining a tamper indicating tab having a radially inwardly extending lug thereon spaced circumferentially from the locking lug on the closure such that when the locking lug is aligned with a notch in the first annular bead, the closure cannot be removed until the tab portion of the band having the lug thereon is severed from the skirt of the closure and freeing the closure so that the lug on the tab portion will not interfere with removal of the closure.

Abstract: A dispensing package having a tamper-evident dispensing closure. A tamper-indicating removable strip is integrally formed with the closure and is secured to one of the closure body and closure cover via frangible bridging means. The closure hingedly connects the cover and body. The body defines a dispensing orifice and the cover seals the orifice. The strip defines spaces and the other one of the body and cover defines projections which extend into the spaces to resist relative movement of the body and cover unless the frangible bridging means are severed and thereby shows that access has been gained to the dispensing orifice. The closure is preferably generally circular and the tamper-indicating means are preferably within the perimeter of the closure.

Abstract: An improved safety closure for containers is disclosed; the closure comprises a snap-on cap held in place on a container by a rotary safety ring which must be aligned with the cap in one angular position and pushed downwardly away from the cap before one can remove the cap from the container. The closure is improved by providing an outwardly directed bead on the safety ring which makes it easier to grip and push down (and up) the safety ring. An annular protrusion, added to the underside of the cap, and a circumferential knob, added to the neck of the container, improve the seal of the container. Also, a safety ring and cap assembly which has no lateral opening between the safety ring and the cap is disclosed. This invention describes various ways to incorporate on the closure means for counting the number of uses or doses of the container's contents.

Abstract: The invention contemplates a container closure, with a frangible cover preassembled thereto, such that both the closure and the cover have independent snap-lock engagement to the container-neck finish, in a single axially displaced assembly of both of the preassembled parts to the neck finish. The cover must be broken to gain access to container contents, so that any breakage provides a direct warning as to possible tampering. In the disclosed embodiment, the closure which remains after destruction and removal of the cover, has child-safety features, in respect of its snap-action engagement to the neck finish.

Abstract: A container and closure assembly which is resistant to opening by a child, and which includes a container having a cylindrical neck portion having an annular safety ring key or key way therearound. A safety ring is rotatably mounted on the neck portion and is retained against axial movement thereon by the key or key way. The safety ring defines an access tab relief, and also an access tab safety recess adjacent the access tab relief. A closure cap which is dimensioned to fit over and close the opening at the upper end of the neck portion is hinged to the neck portion for pivotation between an open and closed position. The closure cap carries an access tab at a location spaced around the cap from the hinge by which the cap is connected to the neck portion.

Abstract: A child-resistant closure includes a tamper-proof band which engages an associated container finish, and which must be separated from the remainder of the closure for removal of the closure from the finish. A pull tab and weakening grooves are provided to permit manual separation of the tamper-proof band from the remainder of the closure. A resilient shield integrally formed with the tamper-proof band overlies the pull tab and normally prevents grasping thereof. Removal of the closure is possible only when the shield is manually deflected and held in position while the pull tab is grasped and the tamper-proof band torn away from the remainder of the closure.

Abstract: The invention relates to an improvement in a child resistant liquid seal closure and container combination. The container neck has one or more locking projections which engage one or more locking lugs on the interior surface of the closure to prevent rotational removal of the closure from the container. To remove the closure, the cap skirt must be squeezed and distorted to disengage the lugs radially outwardly from the locking projections on the container neck. A snap cap liner is retained within the closure, adjacent the inside surface of the top panel. As the closure is rotated onto the container, this liner snaps into place onto the top of the container neck, and forms a primary liquid seal. Although the final orientation of the outer closure and bottle is effected by the relative position of the locking lugs and projecting cam, this orientation does not affect the primary seal formed by the internal snap cap liner.

Abstract: The closure consists of inner and outer caps which are disposed concentrically about the mouth of a container. A flap or latch is cut into the side wall of the inner cap and the latch is biased such that its upper edge is normally disposed beneath a lip formed in the brim of the container to lock the inner cap about the mouth of the container. The outer cap is maintained concentrically about the inner cap by means of the lower edge of the latch which is accommodated in an annular groove formed in the inside wall of the outer cap. The caps may be removed from the container by first forcing the outer cap downwardly relative to the inner cap. As the outer cap moves downwardly the wall of its groove contacts the lower portion of the latch and causes the latch to pivot to a position at which its upper edge is no longer beneath the brim lip. Secondly the inner cap is grasped along with the outer cap and the two caps are removed together as a unit from the container.

Abstract: An improved child resistant sifter fitment and closure for containers of harmful products includes an inverted cup-shaped body member formed of resilient plastic material and an integrally molded locking flap connected by an integral hinge to the periphery of the panel portion of the body member. The locking flap folds into a conforming recess in the top surface of the panel, and, in its folded position, all edges of the locking flap are flush with the adjacent top surfaces of the panel. Co-operating locking surfaces are provided on the flap and the body portion to retain the locking flap in its folded position, and to permit limited longitudinal movement of the locking flap relative to the panel. Dispensing openings are provided in the panel underlying the locking flap and an equal number of apertures are provided in the locking flap which are alignable with the dispensing openings by a longitudinal movement of the locking flap relative to the panel.

Abstract: The disclosed invention is a child-proof closure device for a bottle. The device includes a bottle cap which can be placed in sealing disposition with a cap-receiving upper lip on the bottle, and which is removable from the lip of the bottle with rotation and/or upward excursion on and relative to the upper lip of the bottle. The device includes in combination with this cap, a bottom member for fitting over the bottle bottom in releasable snap engagement therewith, and a strap attached between the bottom member and the cap, the bottom member and strap being configured so that the cap cannot be removed from the bottle without first removing the bottom member from the bottle bottom.In certain embodiments of the invention, the length of strap between the cap and bottom member is short enough to restrain upward excursion of the cap and prevent its removal when the bottom member is in place on the bottle bottom.

Abstract: A substantially leak-proof and child-resistant combination closure comprising a container and a cap. The container has a neck and the cap has a tubular skirt which fits over the container neck, a disc-like top and resilient annular shoulder portion. The cap skirt and bottle neck have cooperating means for retaining the cap on the container. There is a sealing liner beneath the top of the cap which engages and seals the open end of the container neck. The cap skirt and the container in some embodiments have cooperating locking means which are engaged when the cap is moved down to normal closed position on the bottle neck. The locking means function to render the closure child-resistant. Other embodiments have tamper indicating means. The resilient shoulder portion of the cap flexes to compensate for tolerance variations in the cooperating retaining means on the cap and container neck in order to insure that the cap liner seals the neck of the container.

Abstract: A rotatable annular collar adapted for use with a conventional overcap of the snap-fit type and a container having a cylindrical mouth, an inwardly directed annular groove extending completely around the wall of the container and an outwardly projecting annular bead positioned at or between the mouth of the container and the annular groove formed for releasable holding engagement with the snap-fit cap is provided. The snap-fit cap has a top panel, an annular skirt depending therefrom and a lift tab extending outwardly from the lower margin of the depending skirt which also has an inwardly projecting annular bead adapted to snap over the outwardly projecting annular bead of the container. The rotatable annular collar has an upstanding exterior wall member with an access gate therein, an inwardly extending flange connecting the exterior wall member and an interior annular rib member frictionally fitted to the annular groove of the container.