Patent ID: 6036036
Filing Date: 2000-03-14
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
A child-resistant package (100) comprising a container (110) and a closure (120), said package being suitable for storing and dispensing potentially dangerous products, said container comprising an upper portion (115), said upper portion comprising a first engaging means (118) for releasably securing said closure to said container, said closure comprising an inner skirt (121) which comprises second engaging means (118a) corresponding to said first engaging means of said upper portion for releasably securing said closure to said container, said closure further comprising an outer skirt (122), generally concentrically aligned with said inner skirt, said upper portion of said container further comprises at least an interlocking tooth (119), and said closure further comprises at least one resiliently deformable pushtab (123), said upper portion (115) further comprises a neck portion (117) and a shoulder portion (116), said neck portion comprising an opening (112), said shoulder portion comprising at least said interlocking tooth (119), said shoulder portion (116) further comprises a surrounding wall (130), and said interlocking tooth (119) a cut (135) through the thickness of said surrounding wall, said cut being dimensioned to fully accommodate said pushtab (123), and at least part of said pushtab is inwardly moveable when a squeezing force is applied to said inwardly movable part of said pushtab, said pushtab having an exposed surface contour which generally conforms to the exterior surface contour of the adjacent portions of said outer skirt, said interlocking tooth and said pushtab being so formed and positioned to prevent removing of said closure from said container to open said package unless said pushtab is first depressed to disengage said pushtab from said interlocking tooth before said container is opened, and at least part of said exposed surface contour of said pushtab faces the innermost surface of said interlocking tooth when said closure is disengaged from said container.