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An improved child-resistant plastic safety closure for containers has a depending skirt on it for attaching the closure to the top of a container. The top of the closure has an opening through it, which extends over a major portion of the total area of the top. A lid with upper and lower surfaces is

An improved child-resistant plastic safety closure for containers has a depending skirt on it for attaching the closure to the top of a container. The top of the closure has an opening through it, which extends over a major portion of the total area of the top. A lid with upper and lower surfaces is hinged at one edge of the opening in the top for closing the opening. Tongue-and-groove inter-engagement members between the lid member and the top, around at least part of the periphery of the opening, hold the lid closed in the opening. Diametrically-opposed, spaced-apart first and second fulcrum extensions are located on opposite sides of the opening a predetermined distance from the hinged edge of the lid member; and these fulcrum extensions are located below the lower surface of the lid member when it is closed in the opening. The fulcrum extensions protrude only a short distance into the space of the opening; and whenever a predetermined pressure is placed on the lid member in the region between the hinged edge and the first and second fulcrum extensions, the lid member flexes about a secondary hinge and raises the edge opposite the hinged edge above the top of the closure to permit that edge to be grasped and raised to pivot the lid away from the opening. This exposes the full area of the opening through the top; so that the contents of the container readily may be removed.

대표청구항 ▼

[ What is claimed is:] [1.] A tablet dispensing closure for a container top including in combination:a container top-engaging portion on said dispensing closure for closing a container;a top on said dispensing closure having an opening with a periphery therethrough covering a major portion of the ar

[ What is claimed is:] [1.] A tablet dispensing closure for a container top including in combination:a container top-engaging portion on said dispensing closure for closing a container;a top on said dispensing closure having an opening with a periphery therethrough covering a major portion of the area of said dispensing closure top;a lid member having upper and lower surfaces and hinged at one edge of said opening for closing said opening;inter-engagement members between said lid member and at least a portion of said dispensing closure top around the periphery of said opening to hold said lid member closed in said opening; andspaced-apart, diametrically-opposed, first and second fulcrum extensions located on opposite sides of said opening a predetermined distance from said hinged edge of said lid member and below said lower surface of said lid member when said lid member is closed in said opening, wherein predetermined pressure on said lid member in a region between said hinged edge and said first and second spaced apart fulcrum extensions causes the edge of said lid member opposite said hinged edge to raise above the top of said dispensing closure to permit grasping of said lid member to pivot said lid member about said hinged edge thereof away from said opening, exposing the full area of said opening through said dispensing closure top.