Patent ID: 6923343
Filing Date: 2005-08-02
Classification: B05B

Abstract:
1. In a screw-on, manually operated sprayer and container, the sprayer having an inside threaded sprayer neck and the container having an outside threaded container neck upon which the inside threaded sprayer neck is attached, the improvement of providing a child-resistant safety feature, which comprises: a non-flexible collar attached to the outside of said sprayer neck and adapted to freely rotate about said sprayer neck to inhibit undesired unthreading or threading of said sprayer neck from or to said container neck, said collar having a continuous sidewall, an open top with a top rim, an open bottom with a bottom rim, positioning means located on said collar to maintain a predetermined position of said collar relative to said sprayer neck, antiremoval means located on said collar to prevent removal of said collar from said sprayer neck, and at least one flexible engagement means being thins portion of said sidewall integrally formed with said collar as one piece having an approximately same width across an entire length of said at least one flexible engagement means and being moveable inwardly to frictionally engage said sprayer neck for frictional engagement therewith to permit removal of said sprayer neck and collar simultaneously from said container neck, and to permit attachment of said sprayer neck and collar simultaneously to said container neck, by depressing said at least one flexible engagement means against said sprayer neck and rotating said collar while so depressing said at least one flexible engagement means.