Hinged closure for containers

A hinge for a container having a container body and a closure member, said hinge including:

• (a) a pair of outwardly extending struts mounted on a first of said closure member or container body having a bar-like structure, polygonal in shape and having projections thereon;
• said bar-like structure extending therebetween and in spaced relation to the first of the closure member or container body so as to form an aperture therebetween;
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• (b) a wall depending from a second of said closure member or container body;
• said wall having a semicircular sleeve attached thereto;
• said sleeve having an interior polygonal shaped surface so as to have a series of valleys;
• said projections being rotatable in said sleeve and each of said projections successively engaging said valleys upon relative rotation thereof;
• said sleeve shaped to receive said bar-like structure and hold said closure member in a fixed position at each location where said projections align with the valleys of the sleeve polygonal shaped surface;
• said sleeve being rotatable on said bar-like structure when a user exerts a small degree of force on said closure member;
• said sleeve having a thickness being also sized to relatively snugly fit into said aperture, while being rotatable on said bar-like structure;
• and said sleeve being positioned such that when said closure member is in an open configuration thereof, said sleeve is easily removed from said bar-like structure and when said closure member is in the closed position thereof, said sleeve wraps around said bar-like structure and is positioned to interfere with removal thereof from said aperture.

A hinge for a container having a container body and a closure member, said hinge including:

• (a) a pair of outwardly extending struts mounted on a first of said closure member or container body and having a bar-like structure extending therebetween in spaced relation to the first of the closure member of container body so as to form an aperture therebetween;
• (b) a first wall depending from a second of the closure member or container body;
• said first wall having a semi-circular sleeve attached thereto;
• said sleeve shaped to receive and rotate about said bar-like structure;
• said sleeve having a thickness being also sized to relatively snugly fit into said aperture, while being rotatable on said bar-like structure;
• and said sleeve being positioned such that when said closure member is in an open configuration thereof, said sleeve is easily removed from said bar-like structure and when said closure member is in the closed position thereof, said sleeve wraps around said bar-like structure and is positioned to interfere with removal thereof from said aperture;
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• (c) second and third walls extending generally radially outward from the first of said closure member or container body;
• said second and third walls being generally vertically aligned when said closure member is in the closed position thereof and horizontally aligned;
• said first and second walls positioned on either side of said bar-like structure and in close proximity to said sleeve when the closure member is in the closed position thereof so that the teeth of a child cannot readily be positioned between said second and third walls and said sleeve at such an angle to enable the teeth to pry said sleeve;
• said second and third walls projecting above said bar-like structure so that the teeth of a child cannot readily be positioned between said sleeve and the first of said closure member or container body.