Patent ID: 7296700

Claim:
A dispenser for metering a liquid nutritional supplement, comprising: a body having a neck portion, the neck portion having at least one thread thereon; a child-resistant cap adapted to couple to the neck portion, the child resistant cap having a plurality of axial ridges around an outside perimeter thereof; a dosage cup adapted to couple to the child-resistant cap such that a user has to exert a force on the dosage cup that is greater, by a predetermined amount, than the weight of the dosage cup to remove the dosage cup from the child-resistant cap; at least four axial shoulders on an inside surface of the dosage cup, each axial shoulder having an engaging surface adapted to engage the axial ridges, the engaging surface starting proximate a base of the dosage cup and tapering from a point distal from said base along a wall of the dosage cup, and wherein the inside surface of said dosage cup has a smooth frustoconical shape, the inside surface being devoid of any projections other than said axial shoulders.