PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15890098
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["220", "304000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to child-resistant closure systems including a container, closure, and a resilient deformable liner positioned therebetween. The container and closure include mechanisms for engaging each other when the closure system adopts a closed configuration. In the closed configuration, the liner adopts a moderately non-flat profile and covers a mouth of the container. The closure can include a deflection rib and a highly curved top panel; when a pushing movement of sufficient force is applied to the closure, the closure system transitions from the locked configuration to an unlocked configuration. At this time, the deflection rib deforms a central portion of the liner, and the highly curved portion of the top panel engages the mouth of the container; this action can cause an outer portion of the liner to contact the highly curved portion and transition to a highly curved profile mimicking the profile of the top panel.

Claim (Index 1):
A child-resistant closure system comprising:\n a container having:\n a neck on a first end of the container, the neck having a finished edge defining an annular mouth, and \n a plurality of spaced-apart projections extending outward from an outer surface of the neck, each neck projection including a hook-shaped portion defining a notch in the interior of the projection, a portion of each notch adjoining a narrower end of a tapering passageway; \n a closure having a top panel and a skirt depending from a periphery of the top panel,\n the top panel including a central portion, an annular depressed portion surrounding the central portion, and an annular raised portion surrounding the depressed portion, the central portion having an annular deflection rib extending inward from an interior surface of the central portion; \n the closure skirt having, respectively,\n a first portion communicating with the top panel, the first portion containing a plurality of spaced-apart liner retainers extending inward from an interior surface of the first portion, each liner retainer defining a ledge, \n a second portion containing a plurality of spaced-apart lugs extending inward from the interior surface of the central portion, the lugs adapted to engage the notches in the projections on the container, and \n a peripheral rim; and \n \n a resilient deformable liner positioned between the container and the closure, having:\n an interior portion communicating with the annular deflection rib, \n an exterior portion communicating with the finished edge of the container neck, and \n a peripheral edge communicating with the liner retainers; \n wherein when the closure system is in a locked configuration, the lugs are engaged within the notches in the projections on the container, and the resilient deformable liner adopts a moderately non-flat profile and engages the finished edge; and wherein when in the locked configuration, when sufficient force is applied for the top panel and the finished edge to engage the resilient deformable liner therebetween, the resilient deformable liner is increasingly deformed as it contacts the depressed and raised portions of the top panel, and the lugs are moved such that they can exit the notches through the tapering passageways.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.34783
- Patent Class: 220.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11190034', '11443329', '10832914', '10768374', '13824979']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8172463527726416
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4866715064015275
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7841888681355302
- Mean Citation Score: 230.922326
- Max Citation Score: 238.09016
- Similarity Product: 185.29716727068424

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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