Patent ID: 8302614

Claim:
A compact case, comprising: a body having a bottom plate, a rear wall provided at a rear end of the bottom plate, a pair of side walls provided at respective side ends of the bottom plate, a pair of slots formed in the bottom plate at a front side part or a rear side part thereof along the respective side walls, a pair of elastically deformable pushing walls formed in the respective side walls facing the respective slots; a lid provided to the rear wall of the body and rotatable with respect to the body; a cosmetic dish that fits into the body between the respective side walls thereof and slidable in a longitudinal direction of the body; a hook part provided between the cosmetic dish and the lid engageably and disengageably engaging the cosmetic dish with the lid so as to hold the lid at a closed position with respect to the body and to release the engagement of the cosmetic dish with the lid through sliding movement of the cosmetic dish; a projection integrally provided to one of an inner surface of the pushing wall and the cosmetic dish; and a slope-defining part facing the projection and integrally provided to one of the cosmetic dish and the inner surface of the pushing wall, wherein squeezing the pushing wall causes the projection to abut the slope-defining part and to move slidably to make the cosmetic dish slide forward or rearward via the slope-defining part.