Patent ID: 7594588

Claim:
A removable locking container cover for covering a container having a neck with an outer bead, the cover comprising: a lid having a top, a bottom, and a circumferential edge; a skirt extending downward from the lid at or near the circumferential edge, the skirt having a bottom edge, an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface shaped to extend around the outside of the container neck; a plug seal extending from the bottom of the lid and concentric with the skirt, the plug seal having a smaller diameter than the skirt, the plug seal being connected to the bottom of the lid, the plug seal having an inner surface and an outer surface, the outer surface is shaped to fit snugly against the inside of the neck of the container; and a plurality of integral locks, each lock having an inwardly projecting locking wedge configured to engage a bottom edge of the outer bead of the container when the cover is locked onto the container so as to removably hold the cover in place on the container, one of the locks being a hinged lock, and two of the locks are non-hinged locks formed on the inside surface of the skirt; wherein the two non-hinged locks are spaced apart from one another and are each formed on the inside surface of the skirt more than 90 degrees from the center of the hinged lock so that no non-hinged lock is located less than 90 degrees from the center of the hinged lock, and wherein each non-hinged lock includes a slot extending substantially vertically from the bottom edge of the skirt, the slot extending through the skirt and through substantially the center of the locking wedge, and wherein the locking wedges do not extend from slot to slot.