Child resistant spout
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsLiesbeth Johanna Carolina Lemaire, Carol Smith
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Abstract
The present invention provides a package for dispensing tablets. The package comprises a dispensing opening. The dispensing opening comprises a hinged spout. The hinged spout enables the dispensing of the tablets from within the package in its open position. The hinged spout engages with the rest of the package in its closed position. The engagement between the hinged spout and the package comprises a hook and holder whereby the hook is flexibly and resiliently deflected from its rest position to engage with and to disengage from the holder. The hook is provided with reinforcing means located adjacent the hook so that the resiliency of the hook is enhanced by the reinforcing means for the engagement with and the disengagement from the holder.
Claims19
A package for dispensing tablets, comprising:
- a dispensing opening having a hinged spout which receives a tablet from said dispensing opening in its open position, said hinged spout engaging with the rest of the package in its closed position;
- a hook and holder for releasably engaging said hinged spout with the package, whereby said hook is flexibly and resiliently deflected from its rest position to releasably engage said holder;
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- wherein said hinged spout comprises a supporting wall, side walls and an end wall, said end wall being located on the same side of said supporting wall as said side walls and at least partially along the width of said supporting wall such that said side walls and said end wall retain a tablet on said supporting wall of said hinged spout.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.