Secure lock closure
View Patent ↗A secure lock for container packaging with a flexible retaining lip of various formations for sealing against material product flow distributions with the secure seal preventing tampering of, for example, a flexible walled container of material such as a medication, food stuff or art material. A resistant secure lock is provided which in one embodiment meets Federal Child Safety Standards providing a seal of flexible locking and unlocking which is resistant to a child's tampering. In one embodiment, a tamper resistant seal is formed for a squeezable container cap with a flexible hinging structure connecting a cap to a cap receptor base structure of a container to prevent a material product such as medicine from dispensing without disengaging the seal selectively to allow access to an aperture, yet with a directed flexion of a lip or head, the seal simply unsnaps from a tamper resistant state to release the flow of product through an aperture from a container.
1. A flexibly activated locking closure for secure product packaging of the type having a container with a discharge opening therein, said locking closure comprising:
a cap having a top outward facing surface;
a connection of said cap to a base structure;
said base structure having at least one aperture for dispensing; said aperture further comprising at least one of several of a pierced aperture, a tearout membrane aperture, or a molded structure aperture;
at least one of a flexible locking member with a lip portion to lock for slidably engaging to said cap with an engageable receptor within said cap for providing said connection of said cap to said base structure;
said connection further comprising a hinging structure; and
a seal formed comprising said cap, said locking pin;
said base structure apon flexion of said locking pin through said engageable receptor within said cap when said cap is flexibly engaged to said base structure;
wherein the base structure includes a recessed portion, and wherein the flexible locking member is mounted in the recessed portion such that the top of the flexible locking member is located below the top surface of the cap when the flexible locking member is engaged with the receptor.
2. The closure of claim 1 further wherein said base structure is formed as a whole with a container.
3. The closure of claim 1 further wherein said base structure is formed with an air vent.
4. The closure of claim 3 further wherein said cap further comprises a pin for sealing said air vent.
5. The closure of claim 1 wherein said closure is resilient to environment factors comprising temperature; altitude; and material product for flow through said closure, further wherein said closure is formed via molding comprising injection molding, co-injected molding, or direct insertion molding further comprising a direct formation on or into a nozzle.
6. A secure closure for consumer packaging comprising:
a cap comprising a lip receptor and an outward facing toy surface;
a connection of said cap to a base structure which comprises a locking lip receptor engaging a flexible extension with a lip bud slidably engaging said cap securely to said base structure to form said connection; and
said connection further comprises a hinging structure connecting said cap to said base structure;
wherein the base structure includes a recessed portion, and wherein the flexible extension is mounted in the recessed portion such that the top of the bud of the flexible extension is located below the top surface of the cap when the bud is engaged with the receptor.
7. A secure flex-to-open, closure construction of a cap and a lock activated for dispensing from a hand-held dispenser, comprising in combination:
a) a body base structure member having at least one discharge passage said discharge passage further comprises at least one of a pierced aperture, a tearout membrane aperture, or a molded aperture structure, said body member including a recessed portion;
b) a flexible body extension extending from said body member and being force flexed from a user-motion thereon between a sealing cap construction sealing position and a open to discharge position for material dispensing through an orifice, the flexible body extension being mounted in the recessed portion and extending upward such that the top of the flexible body extension is located below a top outer surface of the can;
c) said closure construction on said members for interrupting communication between the discharge passage and the discharge orifice when a nozzle member of said base structure is opened when said cap is lifted from a sealing position from said body extension flexion, and establishing an opening between the container interior for a material discharge passage and said orifice when the closure member is disposed in a discharging position such that said material can flow through at least one discharge passage of said base structure; and
d) said closure construction reforming initial shape formation in a sealing position with a force applied to said cap to engage said cap to said flexible body extension.
8. A closure comprising
a cap engageably forming a connection to a base structure;
said connection comprising a plurality of flexible locking pins, each locking pin comprising an enlarged head extending from a recess formed in said base structure for securely and releasably engaging with said cap, the enlarged head being located below a top outward facing surface of the cap when the cap is locked to the base structure;
said base structure comprising a nozzle; said nozzle further comprising a size set at a curing time;
further said base structure comprises a sealing inner ring for secure connection to a container;
said cap further comprising cap receptors formed on the can for engaging said cap to said pins, wherein the enlarged head of each locking pin releasably engages with one of the cap receptors for locking the cap to the base structure;
further said pins are flexible from at least one recession within said cap said cap further comprising a sealing plug for engagement on closure with an orifice; said connection further comprises a hinging structure connecting said cap to said base structure.
9. A flexibly activated the locking closure for secure product packaging of the type having a container with a discharge opening therein, said locking closure comprising:
a cap having a top outward facing surface, and an inner surface, the cap having an access hole formed through it, and a lock receptor extending from the inner surface of the cap the lock receptor having a notch formed in it;
a base structure having a top surface and a bottom surface, the base having at least one aperture extending from the bottom surface to the top surface for dispensing an item, the base having a recessed portion extending from the bottom surface;
the cap being attached to the base through a hinged connection such that the lower surface of the cap is adjacent to the upper surface of the base structure when the cap is in a closed position;
at least one flexible locking member having a first end mounted in the recess such that the flexible locking member extends out of the recess, the flexible locking member having a locking lip on a second end, the locking lip adapted to removably engage with the lock receptor on the cap for locking the cap to the base structure when the cap is in the closed position;
wherein the locking lip of the flexible locking member is located below the top surface of the cap when the flexible locking member is engaged with the lock receptor.
10. A closure as set forth in claim 9 , wherein said closure comprises a polymer further comprising polypropylene.
11. A closure as set forth in claim 10 , wherein said polymer is of a customizable crystallinity.
12. A closure as set forth in claim 10 , wherein said polymer is semicrystalline.
13. A closure as set forth in claim 9 , wherein said closure comprises a deformation resistant seal wherein said seal comprises a selectable transition cycle selectively cycling a tamper resistant state to a non-tamper resistant state.
14. A closure of claim 9 , wherein said closure connects manually absent a connector said connector comprising a hinging structure.
15. A closure of claim 9 , further comprising at least one of an indentation groove for opening said closure.
16. A closure of claim 9 , wherein said aperture is selectively molded to a size determined at manufacturing time.
17. A closure of claim 9 , wherein said aperture is customizably molded to approximate a material distribution sizing; said aperture material distribution sizing further comprising at least one of a pill sizing, a particulate matter sizing, or a liquid material distribution sizing.
18. A closure of claim 9 , wherein said aperture is molded to form at least one of several narrow stream flows from said container.
19. A closure of claim 9 , wherein said aperture is selectively molded to a size for dispensing granular particulate material flow.
20. A closure of claim 9 , further comprising a selectively formed resiliency to environment factors comprising temperature; altitude; and material product for flow through said closure; further wherein said closure is formed via molding comprising injection molding, co-injected molding or direct insertion molding further comprising formation on or into a nozzle.