US 7,114,619 B2Granted

Child resistant dispensing closure package

AssigneeParadigm Packaging, Inc.

InventorsDouglas Ellis, Aleksey Zats, Henry H. Nyman

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Abstract

A medicine container includes a child-resistant closure with a tamper-evident feature. The closure includes a plug adapted to be fixed to the container adjacent the open end. The plug has an access opening for enabling removal of material from the container through the open end of the container. A slide is supported on the plug for sliding movement in a first direction relative to the plug between a closed position in which the slide covers the access opening and an open position in which the access opening is uncovered. A child-resistant feature is interposed between the plug and the slide. The closure also includes a tamper-evident feature that permanently indicates breaking of the original seal of the container. The container may have a rectangular configuration including at least one surface large enough for a mailing address label; and a sealable window mailer envelope for receiving the medicine container.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A package containing and dispensing medicine, comprising:

a container sized to contain medicine for a patient, the container having an original seal;
and
a child-resistant closure to close the container, including a plug having an access opening for the medicine, the closure being openable to break the original seal and also openable thereafter only by the application of two dissimilar, simultaneous motions;
the closure including a slide that is slidable in a first direction along the plug from a closed position to an open position, the slide when in the closed position closing the access opening and having pins that engage shoulders on the plug to block sliding movement of the slide along the plug in the first direction;
the slide being movable into a released position by the application of force in a second direction different from the first direction so that the pins of the slide move away from the shoulders of the plug thereby to enable sliding movement of the slide along the plug in the first direction;
the slide being slidable out of the released position by the application of force in the first direction simultaneous with the application of force in the second direction.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.