Containers for protecting children against dangerous products

Claim 2

A container comprising a first compartment having a wall formed with an opening for the removal of products, a closure member preventing removal of the products through said opening, means for locking said closure member, said locking means being mounted on the closure member and on the container wall and being locked by a simple translatory movement of said closure member from the open position, said locking means opening only by a combination of at least two predetermined nonobvious movements including an independent auxiliary compartment, a readily removed closure member for said auxiliary compartment and a harmless element which is unpleasant to at least one of the child''s senses in said compartment.

Claim 3

A container according to claim 1, said opening being the end of a tubular member, said locking means including at least one tab cut in the sidewall of one of said members, a locking lug, one of the surfaces of which is inclined while the opposite surface is perpendicular to the container axis and borne by said tab, at least one ring borne by the second member and having a single vertical passage for the lug, the resilience of the tab and the shape of the lug enabling the two members to engage one another irrespective of the relative positions of the passage and the lug.

Claim 4

A container according to claim 2, said opening being the end of a tubular element, comprising two tabs supporting two lugs at different levels, said tabs being cut in opposite directions in the tube, and two notched rings each formed with a slot for the passage of the lug and movable in respect of rotation in relation to one another but axially rigidly secured and borne by the lid at two different levels.

Claim 5

A container according to claim 2, comprising a tab bearing a lug and cut in the closure member, a first outer ring rigidly secured to the tube, a second outer ring movable in respect of rotation about said tube and a vertical slot for the passage of the lug in each of said rings.

Claim 6

A container according to claim 2, comprising a tab cut in the closure member and bearing a lug and terminating in a hook, a ring rigidly secured to the inner wall of the tube and the height of which is less than the dIstance between the lug and the hook of the tab, an inclined slot for guiding the descent of the lug formed in the said ring and, above said ring, a vertical stop for limiting the rotation of the closure member in the tube and extending the inner surface of the ring in order to move the tab away, release the hook and guide its reascent.

Claim 7

A container for protecting children from dangerous absorbable products and for directing the child to harmless substances and to alert responsible persons comprising a first compartment for the dangerous products, a precoded combination closing device for said first compartment automatically self-locking at any position upon closure, a second compartment for a harmless product having a distracting and warning characteristics and an easily opened closing device for said second compartment.

Claim 8

A container for protecting children from dangerous absorbable products and for directing the child to harmless substances and to alert responsible persons comprising a first compartment for the dangerous products, a precoded combination closing device for said first compartment automatically self-locking at any position upon closure, a second compartment for a harmless product having a distracting and warning characteristics and an easily opened closing device for said second compartment.

Claim 9

A container according to claim 6, said precoded combination closing device including a plug formed by three cylinders of decreasing outside diameter so superimposed that their axes coincide, the first cylinder being solid, the second and third cylinders being hollow, the said second and third cylinders having two slots formed throughout the thickness of their wall along two adjacent generatrices, the said slots bounding a flexible tab adapted to fold towards the interior of the hollow cylinders, the said tab having a hook-shaped protuberance at its free end and a lug on the part corresponding to the third cylinder along the surface of connection between the second and the third cylinder, and a tube which along its inner surface has a circular ring of rectangular section having dimensions such that it can be inserted between the hook and the lug of the plug tab when the plug is introduced into the opening, the ring being situated in the cylindrical opening at a distance from the edge of said opening equal at the maximum to the height of the second cylinder forming the plug, the said ring being cut at a first position and over a width at least equal to the width of the lug of the tab so as to have an inclined plane starting from the inner wall of the tube and leading to the bottom inner edge of said rings, said ring also being surmounted in a second position by a stop whose front surface forms an extension of the inner surface of the ring and whose height is at least equal to the distance separating the hook and the lug on the tab, and reference means for determining the position of the inclined plane and the position of the stop disposed on the plug and the tube so that they can be interpreted only by a person familiar with the closure system.

Claim 10

A container according to claim 7 including projections for identifying the code to the senses of touch and hearing, said projections being uniformly spaced along the inner surface of the tube above the ring and on the inner surface of said ring.

Claim 11

A container according to claim 6 including a lid in the form of a rectangular panel cooperating with the container in the form of a parallelepipedal box, resilient strips separated by slots forming the two opposite side surfaces of said box, a locking boss at the free end of at least one strip, a U-guide at the end of the other strips, a U-guide on two opposite edges of the lid adapted to slide on the guides of the strips and lugs secured to the lid guides and adapted to slide in the strip guides but locked in the opening direction by the bosses while a simultaneous force applied just to the strips bearing the bosses does not retract them.

Claim 12

A container according to claim 6 including a lid in the form of a rectangular panel cooperating with the container in the form of a parallelepipedal box, said lid having along two of its nonadjacent sides a hollow guide of rectangular section limited by four sides, the first side being formed by the plane of the panel itself, the second side being formed by a part perpendicular to the first side and forming the outer edge of the panel, the third side being formed by a part perpendicular to the second sIde and hence parallel to the plane of the panel and the fourth side being formed by a part perpendicular to the plane of the panel, the said fourth side being out from its edges by rectangular notches separated from one another by lugs, and two of the nonadjacent edges of the container having notches registering with the panel guides, said notches being formed in the said edges over their entire height and throughout their thickness so as to form strips in the proportion of one strip per notch provided in the fourth side of the lid guide, some of the strips terminating at their free end in a boss while the other strips terminate at their free end in a U-shaped guide so that when the lid has been placed on the container it can be withdrawn only by incling the strips with bosses-and only those strips-toward the interior of the container.

Claim 13

A container according to claim 9, the bosses and the U-members at the ends of the strips having bevelled part which, when the lid is fitted and under the action of the lugs in the fourth side of the lid guide, bend the strips having bosses inwards and correct location of the strips provided with a V-member.

Claim 14

A container according to claim 9, the lid having longitudinal shoulders parallel to the sides having guides and parallel to its edges having strips the container has partitions, the said shoulders and partitions cooperating to form a guide means for the lid during its closure or opening movements.

Claim 15

A container according to claim 9 including three strips provided with bosses, two of said strips being on one side of the container and one of said strips being on the other side of the container.

Claim 16

A container according to claim 1, comprising a lid having the form of a rectangular panel cooperating with a container having the form of a parallelepipedal box, two longitudinal ribs beneath the lid panel, a lug in the middle of each of said ribs and extending slightly beyond the said panel, and recesses formed in the inner wall of the container invisible from outside engaging the lugs by the action of a pressure of the lid on the wall of the container and holding the said lugs captive until simultaneous pressure applied to the other two surfaces of the box deforms the lateral walls in which said recesses are formed.

Claim 17

A container according to claim 1, comprising an opaque tube open at one end and provided with a lateral opening, a closed compartment for dangerous products, a side opening for said compartment cooperating with said lateral opening, sliding inside the tube, resilient means for moving the said openings away from one another between the tubes and the compartment, inner projections and a key secured to the tube and forming a stop to limit the movement of the compartment, a closure member comprising a hollow cylindrical plug to prevent access to the movable compartment, a profile opposite to that of the projections and key borne on the outside of said plug and having a height corresponding to the distance between the open edge of the tube and the end of the compartment when, after the compartment has been introduced into the tube, their openings coincide, and a lid for protecting and camouflaging the profile, and retractable means for locking the plug on the tube.

Claim 18

A container according to claim 15 including spikes secured to the end of the dangerous product compartment inside the hollow cylinder of the plug and at the center of the profile of said plug.

Claim 19

A container according to claim 15, the projections forming a regular polygon, the key being a triangle closing one of the corners of the polygon at some distance from the exterior and the plug and the profile forming polygons one of which corresponds only to the projections while the other corresponds to the projections and the key.

Claim 20

A container according to claim 15, including projections in the form of triangular teeth, a rectilinear key and a profile borne by the plug having teeth separated by triangular spaces and a rectilinEar space corresponding to the key.