Title: Child-resistant medicine vial

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Claims: Having described my invention, I claim:

1. A combination child-resistant container and cap therefor, consisting of:

(a) a container having,

(1) an open topped body which has an open annular neck terminating in an annular lip that lies in a radial plane of the neck,

(2) a thin planar, annular flange extending outwardly from the outer side of said body the upper surface thereof being spaced axially below said lip, and

(3) at least one arcuate ramp on said flange, said ramp having a radial thickness less than the width of said flange and said ramp having an upwardly extending top surface rising at at least one end from the upper surface of said flange, and,

(b) a cap for said container, said cap having

(1) a disc-like top,

(2) a resilient inner, tubular skirt depending from said top and adapted to tightly fit into the interior of said container neck,

(3) an outer, annular skirt depending from said top which is adapted to telescope over said container neck and which has,

(a) an axial length such as to extend downwardly into close proximity to said container flange,

(b) an outer diameter at its bottom edge no greater than the outer diameter of said flange,

(c) an inner diameter greater than the outer diameter of said ramp, and,

(4) at least one lug on the inner side of said outer skirt, said lug having a radial thickness less than the space between the outer side of said ramp and the inner side of said outer skirt,

2. A combination container and cap according to claim 1 in which the outer skirt of the cap is frusto-corrical,

3. A combination container and cap as defined in claim 1 in which the upper surface of the ramp has an upwardly inclined portion at both ends,

4. A combination according to claim 1 which there are a plurality of ramps spaced from each other around the container flange.

5. A combination according to claim 1 and an upwardly extending annular rim on the perimeter of the flange, the outer diameter of the bottom edge of the outer skirt being less than the inside diameter of said flange.

Other info:

Inventors: Gach, Peter P. (Evansville, IN, US)

Application Number: 956107
Filing Date: 1978-10-30
Publication_date: 1979-10-16
Assignee: Sunbeam Plastics Corporation (Evansville, IN)
Primary Class(es): 215/211 215/295, D24/224
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

3372834	Mar, 1968	Ayotte et al.	220/306.
3430798	Mar, 1969	Goyet et al.	215/295.
3759411	Sep, 1973	Horrath	215/209.
3910444	Oct, 1975	Foster	215/295.
4098418	Jul, 1978	Fields	215/206.

Other Refs:
Primary Examiner: Hall, George T.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Leonard; Henry K.