US 10,442,587 B2 · Child-resistant senior-friendly medication bottle closure

Abstract

A pharmacy container comprising a bottle and a closure is described herein. The bottle includes a body, a neck, stops on the neck defining a lug retention area. The body defines a storage chamber therein. The neck extends away from the body and defines an opening to the chamber of the body. The neck includes threads extending around an outside surface of the neck. The stops extend from a bottom of a first thread toward the body, the stops defining the lug retention area. The closure is secured over the opening and around the neck. The closure includes a lug configured to interface with the thread and engage with the lug retention area to retain the closure in place over the opening. Other labels, bottles, associated combinations, and associated methods are also described.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A closure for a bottle, the closure comprising:

a top panel;
a skirt having a first edge and a second edge, the first edge of the skirt coupled with the top panel;
an outer frame having a top edge and a bottom edge, the bottom edge of the outer frame coupled with the second edge of the skirt opposite the top panel and extending toward the top panel with an outward flare such that the top edge of the outer frame is located radially outward from and is not directly connected with the top panel;
and
a plurality of lugs extending radially inward from the outer frame, the plurality of lugs configured to interface with threads on a neck of a bottle and engage with a plurality of lug retention areas to retain the closure in place over the neck.

2 more elements

A closure for a bottle, the closure comprising:

a top panel having a first edge and a second edge;
a first skirt portion having a top edge and a bottom edge, the first skirt portion top edge coupled with the first edge of the top panel;
a second skirt portion having a top edge and a bottom edge, the second skirt portion top edge coupled with the second edge of the top panel, wherein the first edge of the top panel is opposite the second edge of the top panel;
an outer frame having a top edge and a bottom edge, the bottom edge of the outer frame coupled with the first skirt portion bottom edge and the second skirt portion bottom edge, the outer frame extending toward the top panel with an outward flare such that the top edge of the outer frame is located radially outward from and is not directly connected with the top panel;
and
a plurality of lugs extending radially inward from the outer frame, the plurality of lugs configured to interface with threads on a neck of a bottle and engage with a plurality of lug retention areas to retain the closure in place over the neck, wherein the plurality of lugs are configured to release from the plurality of lug retention areas of the bottle under an external force applied inwardly to the outer frame.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/818,630Filed 20 Nov 2017 · division

Priority

7 Nov 2016

Published

US 2018/0127174 A110 May 2018

Granted

15 Oct 2019

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

B65D 50/063
Requiring the combination of different actions in succession: the closure or container being provided with two spaced sets of screw threads or the…
A61J 1/03
Containers specially adapted for medical or pharmaceutical purposes: for pills or tablets
A61J 1/1418
Containers with closing means, e.g. caps: threaded type
B65D 1/0246
Neck construction: closure retaining means, e.g. beads, screw-threads

Family

Application15/344,999Parent of this division · filed 7 Nov 2016

US 2018/0127175 A1Pre-grant publication · published 10 May 2018

US 10,011,406 B2Parent of this division

US 2018/0127174 A1Published application

US 10,442,587 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.

Child-resistant senior-friendly medication bottle closure

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Child-resistant senior-friendly medication bottle closure

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Abstract

Claims17