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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 1996
Filed:
Apr. 25, 1995
James Gentile, Orange, CT (US);
John Bengston, Ridgefield, CT (US);
Dean Rainey, Clinton, CT (US);
John Eimer, Danbury, CT (US);
Alfred G Zammit, Mississauga, CA;
Chesebrough-Pond's USA Co., Division of Conopco, Inc., Greenwich, CT (US);
Abstract
A dispensing package is provided with a container and a cap. The cap includes a mechanism to fittingly engage across an open end of the container, a top portion defined by a deck, a skirt wall surrounding the deck, at least one dispensing orifice formed in the deck, a locking aperture with a wide and a narrow area preferably in a T-shape, a lid hingedly attached to the deck, a flexible post projecting downwardly from the lid, and a release mechanism along the skirt. The flexible post has an enlarged section at an end thereof which can lockingly engage underneath landings that define wide and narrow areas of the locking aperture. A flexible area along the skirt can be pushed inward against the enlarged section of the post to dislodge same from underneath the landings thereby opening the lid.