Patent ID: 11930946
Assignee: nan
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A child resistant portable toothpick dispenser, comprising:
a rear housing in the form of a generally rectangular and planar rear housing panel having opposite interior and exterior surfaces, the rear housing panel transitioning, about its perimeter, to an interiorly-extending perimeter sidewall, an upper end of said rear housing having a laterally-extending recessed notch provided therein, a laterally-extending edge of said laterally-extending recessed notch attached, via a living hinge, to a child-resistant closure; and
a front housing in the form of a generally rectangular and planar front housing panel having opposite interior and exterior surfaces, the front housing panel transitioning, about its perimeter, to an interiorly-extending perimeter sidewall, an upper end of said front housing having a laterally-extending, recessed child resistant closure engagement structure configured for selective locking engagement with said child-resistant closure when said portable toothpick dispenser is in a fully-assembled state, a hinged side of said front housing adjoined to a corresponding hinged side of said rear housing by a living hinge to thereby form a clamshell-style toothpick dispenser housing,
wherein, when said portable toothpick dispenser is in a closed state precluding access to the stored toothpicks, in order to open, or unlock, said child-resistant closure a user must concurrently apply a first force to a central depressible area positioned at a center of said front housing panel exterior surface, and a second force to a central depressible area positioned at a center of said rear housing panel exterior surface in order to disengage said child resistant closure from the recessed child resistant closure engagement structure of said front housing such that the child resistant closure automatically rotates about its living hinge into an open state providing user access to the stored toothpicks.