Patent ID: 7114619

Claim:
A package containing and dispensing medicine, comprising: a container sized to contain medicine for a patient, the container having an original seal; and a child-resistant closure to close the container, including a plug having an access opening for the medicine, the closure being openable to break the original seal and also openable thereafter only by the application of two dissimilar, simultaneous motions; the closure including a slide that is slidable in a first direction along the plug from a closed position to an open position, the slide when in the closed position closing the access opening and having pins that engage shoulders on the plug to block sliding movement of the slide along the plug in the first direction; the slide being movable into a released position by the application of force in a second direction different from the first direction so that the pins of the slide move away from the shoulders of the plug thereby to enable sliding movement of the slide along the plug in the first direction; the slide being slidable out of the released position by the application of force in the first direction simultaneous with the application of force in the second direction.