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US 4,053,077 AGranted
Child safety cap
OwnerAmedio DeFeliceinventor
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Abstract
A child safe cap for a container generally of the screw on type, and of the push and turn variety, wherein cap and container are provided with screw threads having interengaging ratchet-like teeth at portions thereof, preventing a turn of the cap in a direction to remove it, but including structure providing for pushing down upon the cap to release the teeth making it possible to turn the cap off.
Claims8
The combination of a container and a child safety cap for the container, an exterior screw thread on the container and a corresponding interior screw thread on the cap,
- interengaging teeth on said screw threads locking the cap in position on the container in closed condition thereof,
- resilient means holding the cap in position with the teeth engaged, said resilient means being deformable upon pressing in of the cap with relation of the container to disengage the teeth allowing separation of the cap from the container by rotating the same in the appropriate direction,
- said resilient means comprising fingers on the screw threads on the cap located substantially in the area of the teeth of the screw thread on the container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.