Patent ID: 7404495

Claim:
A child-resistant closure that includes: a base having a dispensing opening and a peripheral skirt, a lid molded integrally with said base end coupled by a hinge to said base so as to be pivotable about said hinge between a closed position adjacent to said dispensing opening and an open position spaced from said dispensing opening, one of said base and said lid having a latch arm resiliently extending from a periphery thereof diametrically opposite said hinge, said latch arm having a pair of opposite extending tabs adjacent to a free end thereof, the other of said base and said lid having an axial passage for receiving said latch arm and a pair of laterally spaced ledges in said passage for engagement by said tabs to lock said lid in said closed position, said latch arm being directly manually engageable by a user from a radial direction external to said closure to pivot said latch arm radially inwardly within said passage and release said tabs from said ledges so that said lid can be pivoted to said open position, and cam surfaces on said ledges, said tabs on said latch arm, or both said ledges and said tabs, for flexing said resilient latch arm to snap said tabs over said ledges as said lid is pivoted to said closed position.