Case with a hinged cover

Claim 1

A case including a base and a lid, joined to one another by joint means and provided with a closure device, which is located in a zone remote from the joint means and which includes at least one movable element cooperating with fixed elements located on the lid and the base of the case, the lid having a front edge and a window therethrough, the movable element including a control element that projects outside the case in the closing position of the case, wherein: the movable element is a T-shaped tilting pushbutton comprising a top beam and a central leg, said top beam including, toward the front of the case, the control element projecting at the front edge of the lid in the closing position through said window and on the back thereof having, toward the joint means of the case, pivot means, the control element having a mean plane and the mean plane of the control element being substantially parallel to the axis of the pivot means but external to said pivot means of said control element, said central leg comprising a latching prong and a lower end that has a hooking means; the fixed elements of the closure device carried by the lid define, on the front edge of the lid, said window for the control element of the tilting pushbutton, and including a front cradle which supports the pivot means of the control element of the tilting pushbutton, said front cradle being carried on the inside by a front edge of the lid and also, on the one hand, a back stop on which the tilting pushbutton comes to rest when the control element is subjected to a thrust oriented toward the inside of the case, at least one elastic tongue which rests on the tilting pushbutton on the back side of the control element, in order to push said control element back toward the front of the case and to keep the pivot means resting against said front cradle; and other fixed elements of the closure device that are located on the base of the case define a recess located against the front edge of the base of the case, said recess receiving the latching prong when the case is in the closing position, the wall of the recess perpendicular to the base of the case and located toward the inside of the case including a retention means complementary to the hooking means of the latching prong.