Child-resistant pill dispenser

A pill-dispensing container with safety closure, comprising:

• a circular base member including an upstanding body wall with external thread formations, a circumferentially and downwardly extending skirt integrally connected to said body wall at an axial location beneath said threads, said base member having an angularly distributed plurality of upwardly open individual pill compartments radially within said body wall, the open ends of said compartments terminating at an axial location short of the upper end of said body wall;
• a pill-dispensing lid member rotatably mounted to and axially retained by said base member to close said compartments within the upper limit of said body wall, said lid member having unit-pill dispensing means in radial register with one of the pill compartments for each of a selectable plurality of angular positions thereof;
• and a closure-cap member including a skirt with internal threads for selective engagement with said body-wall threads;
• said closure-cap member and said lid member having rotation-resistant engagement when said closure-cap member is thread-engaged to said body wall, said cap-member skirt having plural radially-inwardly directed ratchet teeth axially beneath the threads thereof, said base-member skirt having at one angular location a radially inwardly compliant portion whereby said inwardly compliant portion may be transiently and resiliently inwardly displaced, and a ratchet-locking tooth formation carried by said compliant portion and having (a) ratchet-escaping engagement with cap-member teeth in the thread-on direction of cap-member threaded engagement with said base member and (b) ratchet-locking engagement with said cap-member teeth in the thread-off direction of such threaded engagement.