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US 2019/0161254 A1Published application
Child-resistant cap
OwnerCory J. Wilsoninventor
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Abstract
A child-resistant closure for a container includes an inner cap retained in an outer cap, the outer cap being rotatable with respect to the inner cap; the inner cap having a gripping surface on a circumferential sidewall; the outer cap having a circumferential lateral wall defining elongate cutouts that expose the gripping surface, the cutouts being sized and spaced to provide adequate contact area between a typical thumb of an adult and the exposed gripping surface to allow removal of the closure from a container and inadequate contact area between a typical thumb of a child.
Claims6
A child-resistant closure for a container, comprising:
- an inner cap rotatably retained within an outer cap;
- the inner cap including a top wall and a depending circumferential side wall having an interior surface and an exterior surface, threads on the interior surface of the side wall of the inner cap, and gripping features on the exterior surface of the side wall of the inner cap;
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- the outer cap having an upper wall and a depending lateral wall, the lateral wall having an upper elongate cutout section exposing gripping features on a first section of the exterior surface of the sidewall of the inner cap, and a lower elongate cutout section exposing gripping features on a second section of the exterior surface of the sidewall of the inner cap, the upper cutout and the lower cutout together defining a bridge portion of the lateral wall extending between the upper and lower cutouts, the bridge portion covering a section of the sidewall between the upper and lower cutouts.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.