Safety aerosol cover cap

Claim 2

A safety cover cap for an aerosol container having a conical neck portion terminating in a small upper annular bead and a larger lower annular bead and an upwardly extending valveactuating button communicating with the inside of said aerosol container, comprising a lower cap element having a cylindrical sidewall provided with fastening means and a radially inwardly extending annular flange, said flange, having an aperture, the diameter being of a size which is capable of beiNg snapped about said upper annular bead so as to fixedly retain said lower cap element in an axial direction but free to rotate same about said upper annular bead, an upper cap element having a cylindrical sidewall cooperatively associated with the fastening means on the cylindrical sidewall of said lower cap element, a hollow tubelike element extending downwardly from the inside top of said upper cap element, said hollow tubelike element reinforcing and backing up said radially inwardly extending annular flange of said lower cap element so as to minimize deflection thereof when said aperture is pressed about said upper annular bead thereby permitting the joint assembly of said upper and lower cap elements of said safety cover cap to said aerosol container as a combined one-piece unit.

Claim 3

The safety cover cap according to claim 1, wherein the end of the cylindrical sidewall of said lower cap element is provided with a U-shaped channel for receiving the end of the cylindrical sidewall of said upper cap element whereby the two-piece constructional features are rendered less discernable, said U-shaped channel maintaining said cylindrical sidewall from being snapped and pried off said lower cap element by seating the bottom edge within the groove formed by said U-shaped channel.

Claim 4

The safety cover cap according to claim 1, wherein reinforcing ribs are provided between said flange and the inner sidewall of said lower cap element.

Claim 5

The safety cover cap according to claim 2, wherein said fastening means comprising at least one thread means on said sidewall of said lower cap element and on said sidewall of said upper cap element. 5. In combination with an aerosol container having an annular valve bead near a valve button, a safety cover cap of two-piece construction which when assembled together appears on the whole as a combined one-piece assembly, said cover cap comprising upper and lower cylindrical cup-shaped cap element secured to each other by fastener means, the bottom portion of said lower cup-shaped cap element having an aperture fitted about said annular bead in such a manner that the two-piece safety cover cap is fixedly restrained in an axial direction but free to rotate as a unitary device about said annular valve bead, and the end peripheral edge of said lower cup-shaped cap element having a U-shaped channel for receiving the end peripheral edge of said upper cup-shaped cap element, said U-shaped channel retaining said upper cylindrical cup-shaped cap element in place about said lower cylindrical cup-shaped cap element by seating the bottom end peripheral edge within the groove formed by said U-shaped channel whereby snapping and prying off said upper cap element is precluded.