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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8132684 | Child-resistant closure, package and method of making A closure includes a skirt and internal lugs on the skirt. The skirt has an undulating circumferential contour that includes alternate outwardly convex and outwardly concave portions, with the internal lugs being disposed within the outwardly concave portions of the... | 03/13/2012 |
| 7922017 | Child-resistant closure, container and package convertible to non-child-resistant operation A child-resistant package includes a container having an open mouth, a conical external surface around the open mouth that widens away from the mouth and a wall extending from the conical external surface. A closure has a base wall, and a peripheral skirt having a f... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7891509 | Closure and container package having child-resistant and non-child-resistant modes of operation A package having child-resistant and non-child-resistant modes of operation includes a plastic container having a cylindrical finish and at least one external thread on the finish spaced from the open end of the finish. An external circumferentially extending first ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7832577 | Child-resistant closure and package convertible to non-child-resistant operation A package having child-resistant and non-child-resistant modes of operation includes a container having a neck finish with an open end, an external surface surrounding the open end and at least one external first engagement element spaced from the open end. A closur... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7815063 | Closure and package with user-selectable child-resistant and non-child-resistant modes of operation A child-resistant closure includes a one-piece plastic shell having a base wall with a peripheral edge, an annular skirt, and a bistable snap-action toggle connection between the peripheral edge of the base wall and the skirt such that the skirt is adapted to be mov... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7591394 | Child-resistant package, closure and container A child-resistant package includes a container having an open mouth surrounded by a wall and a closure engagement element extending circumferentially part-way but not completely around the wall. The portion of the wall into which the engagement element does not exte... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7581656 | One-piece box-shaped container with large label wrap surface A container includes a container base and a lid interconnected by a hinge and being of one-piece integrally molded plastic construction. The container base is of generally rectangular outline having a back wall to which the hinge is connected, a front wall, opposite... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7534378 | Plastic forming process monitoring and control A method of manufacturing and certifying operation of a system for producing plastic containers using equipment having at least one controllable action that affects quality of containers produced by the equipment includes inspecting raw materials for parameters that... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7527160 | Closure having user-modifiable functionality A closure includes a one-piece integrally molded plastic shell having a shell portion that is engageable with a container such that said closure is adapted to function in cooperation with the container in a first predetermined mode of operation, such as a child-resi... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7455518 | Injection molding A method and apparatus for injection molding an article including a radially extending child resistant feature. Finish block halves are provided that include a pocket and that are closable together to form a neck-finish mold cavity. Mold body halves are provided tha... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7434703 | Child-resistant tamper-indicating package A tamper-indicating child-resistant package includes a container having a finish with an open mouth and an external circumferential bead spaced from the mouth. A closure has a skirt for externally encircling the container finish, a tamper band frangibly connected to... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7401707 | Child-resistant closure having a non-child-resistant mode of operation A closure includes an outer plastic shell having a base wall, a peripheral skirt with a central axis, a circumferential array of lugs on an underside of the base wall, and a pair of axially spaced internal beads on the skirt spaced from the base wall. An inner plast... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7401706 | Closure and package having child-resistant and non-child-resistant modes of operation A closure having child-resistant and non-child-resistant modes of operation includes a plastic inner shell having a skirt with at least one internal thread, an external bead on the skirt and a circumferential array of teeth on the bead. A plastic outer shell has a s... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7387214 | Closure and container package with child-resistant and non-child-resistant modes of operation A package includes a closure for attachment to a container. The closure has a skirt with a plurality of internal lugs and an internal surface. The container has a sidewall terminating in an open end and having a plurality of external projections. The plurality of ex... | 06/17/2008 |
