Patent ID: 8616376

Claim:
A container comprising: an outer shell defining an opening; a dispensing cartridge defining a storage cavity and an access opening to the storage cavity, the dispensing cartridge slidable within the outer shell between a closed state in which the access opening is closed by the outer shell prohibiting access to the storage cavity and an open state in which the access opening is open such that access to the storage cavity through the opening is permitted; a cooperating catch arrangement between the outer shell and the dispensing cartridge having a locked state that fixes the dispensing cartridge in the closed state relative to the outer shell and an unlocked state in which the dispensing cartridge is permitted to slide relative to the outer shell from the closed state to the open state; the cooperating catch arrangement transitionable from the locked state to the unlocked state by resiliently reducing a width of the outer shell along a compression axis to resiliently expand a thickness of the outer shell along an expansion axis to disengage cooperating catch arrangement; and wherein the outer shell has opposed side portions, each opposed side portion having a curved portion that bows outward and away from the other side in a relaxed state; a stop arrangement between the outer shell and the dispensing cartridge, the stop arrangement limiting the amount of relative sliding travel between the outer shell and the dispensing cartridge such that the dispensing cartridge is inhibited from being fully removed from the outer shell during normal operation, the stop arrangement includes a channel having an abutment end and an abutment projection positioned within the channel, the abutment projection axially abutting the abutment end at an end of the relative sliding travel inhibiting removal of the dispensing cartridge from the outer shell.