Reversible child resistant cap and combination of a container and a reversible child resistant cap
AssigneeTri State Distribution, Inc.
InventorsDavid A. Miceli, Joseph A. Miceli
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a reversible child resistant cap and a closure system having two positions, the first being a child resistant position and the other being a non-child resistant position. The cap is characterized in that it has a closure plane, a circumferential outer skirt for engaging a container, and a circumferential resilient depending inner member.
Claims21
A reversible child resistant cap for use with a container, the cap having a child resistant mode when applied to the container in a first child resistant position and having a non-child resistant mode when applied to the container in a second non-child resistant position, the cap comprising:
- a closure plane;
- a circumferential outer skirt comprising an upper portion extending in an upward direction from the closure plane and a lower portion extending in a downward direction from the closure plane, wherein the upper portion of the circumferential outer skirt comprises a non-child resistant engaging means for engaging the container and the lower portion of the circumferential outer skirt comprises a child resistant engaging means for engaging the container;
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- a circumferential resilient depending inner member comprising an outer surface, wherein the outer surface is tapered from a larger diameter portion adjacent the closure plane to a smaller diameter portion remote from the closure plane, a plug portion projecting from said closure plane opposite said circumferential inner member.
A closure system comprising a reversible child resistant cap and a container, having a child resistant mode when the cap is applied to the container in a first child resistant position and having a non-child resistant mode when the cap is applied to the container in a second non-child resistant position;
- wherein the cap comprises:
- (i) a closure plane;
- (ii) a circumferential outer skirt comprising an upper portion extending in an upward direction from the closure plane and a lower portion extending in a downward direction from the closure plane, wherein the upper portion of the circumferential outer skirt comprises a non-child resistant engaging means for engaging the container and the lower portion of the circumferential outer skirt comprises a child resistant engaging means for engaging the container;
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- (iii) a circumferential resilient depending inner member comprising an outer surface, wherein the outer surface is tapered from a larger diameter portion adjacent the closure plane to a smaller diameter portion remote from the closure plane;
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- the container comprises:
- (i) a neck portion, wherein the neck portion of the container has an inner surface for engaging the tapered outer surface of the cap to provide a seal and said neck portion flexes to impart a bias on the cap in a direction of removal of the cap when the closure system is used in the first child resistant position;
- a top edge surface for engaging the closure plane of the cap to provide a seal when the closure system is used in the second non-child resistant mode;
- and a non-child resistant engaging means disposed on an outer surface of the neck portion for engaging the cap when the closure system is used in the second non-child resistant position;
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- (ii) a child resistant engaging means disposed on the container remotely from said neck portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.