Patent ID: 7628297

Claim:
A dispensing closure that includes: a closure shell of one-piece integrally molded plastic construction that includes a base for securement to a container neck finish and a lid coupled by a hinge to said base, said base having a skirt, and a deck with a recess extending across said deck from a position adjacent to said hinge to a position opposite from said hinge, a dispensing opening in said deck recess, a radially outwardly facing wall disposed radially inwardly of said skirt, and a thumb recess in said skirt at a position opposite from said hinge and having a bottom wall, said lid having a base portion with a periphery for receipt in said deck recess and a tongue that extends substantially perpendicular to said base portion at an end of said base portion remote from said hinge wherein said tongue includes a lid latch element, and a base latch element in said radially outwardly facing wall in said thumb recess for engaging said lid latch element of said tongue on said lid to said base releasably to hold said lid in a closed position, wherein said base includes at least one rib to frictionally engage said tongue between said at least one rib and said radially outwardly facing wall of said deck in said closed position of said lid, and said base also includes a ledge provided between said thumb recess bottom wall and an edge of said deck recess and against which said tongue abuts in said closed position of said lid.