Owens-illinois, Inc.

James H Price

George V Mumford

William E Fillmore

Ned J Smalley

Wayne E Garver

A two member child-resistant closure assembly including an outer shell and an inner resilient closure retained therein. In the child-resistant mode, the resilient inner closure spring biases the outer shell into locking engagement with lugs formed on a cooperating container. A handling ring is provided for removing the inner closure for use separately as a snap cap. For this purpose, the inner closure includes an annular plug, and a short annular skirt arranged to engage the container rim.

Convertible child-resistant closure assembly

A child-resistant, safety closure for a container having a dispensing end including a threaded neck portion onto which the closure is adapted to be threadably assembled. The closure is of the type having an annular sidewall section having a flexible distal end portion provided with at least one interlocking member adapted to interlockingly engage at least one complementary interlocking member on the dispensing end of the container in such manner that interlocking engagement is achieved when the closure is in a fully closed position on the container neck portion. Removal of the closure requires manual compression of the sidewall at locations straddling the interlocking members coupled with concurrent retrogressive turning movement of the closure. An additive safety feature embodies providing a secondary interlocking engagement when the closure is partially removed. Thus, such manual manipulation ordinarily must be repeated at each successive interlocking position of the closure and is both beyond the ordinary capability of a child or other person of similar mental capabilities. The closure features a frictionally slidable, fluid-tight sealing arrangement which in one aspect is operative to prevent leakage of the container's contents when the closure is in a fully closed position, and which in another alternative aspect is operative to prevent such leakage at and between both the fully closed and the succeeding partially removed interlocking locations of the closure on the container dispensing end.

Child-resistant safety closure

An improved vapor-seal, child-resistant closure and container combination is disclosed herein. The container comprises a cylindrical plastic body which is molded in one piece and has circumferentially spaced, radially extending projections on the upper end thereof that have notches therein. The closure comprises a one-piece plastic body having a top panel and an annular depending skirt with circumferentially spaced lugs extending radially inwardly for engagement with the notches. An annular integral rim or abutment is provided on the annular surface of the top panel of the closure and depends downwardly therefrom. A unique two-piece, vapor-seal liner is interposed between the annular abutment and the lugs for engagement with the upper end of the container. The two-piece liner incorporates a resilient disk member which serves as a spring between the closure and container and a deformable disk positioned beneath the resilient disk which may be pressed into sealing engagement with the upper rim of the container to provide a vapor-tight seal between the closure and container.

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Maumee, OH, United States of America

James H Price