Child resistant packaging

• US 10,730,671 B2
• Filed: 03/07/2018
• Issued: 08/04/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Johns-Byrne LLC
• Original Assignee: JohnsByrne Company
• Inventors: Drosos, Michael, Cunningham, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Stashick, Anthony D
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kmet, L
• Application Number:
  US15/915,024
• Publication Number:
  US 20180257827A1
• Time in Patent Office: 881 Days
• Field of Search: 206 15
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2215/02 requiring the combination of simultaneous actions
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2215/04 requiring the combination of different actions in succession
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2585/56 for medicinal tablets or pills
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/38 Drawer-and-shell type containers
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 50/066 whereby parts of the container or closure having to be deformed, i.e. bi-stable movement B65D50/045 takes precedence

Abstract

Child resistant packaging for storing medicine or medicinal compositions that frustrates or prevents a child'"'"'s attempts to access the contents while permitting an adult to easily open the packaging through a series of movements or steps in coordination or combination to readily access the contents. The child resistant packaging includes a housing component and an insert component that is configured to slideably interact with an interior space of the housing component between a locked configuration and an unlocked configuration.

Claims

1. A child resistant packaging comprising:

a housing component comprising housing panels folded to form an interior space, the housing component including one or more tab aperture elements, a guide aperture element, and a lip element, the guide aperture element defined by a continuous connected boundary;

an insert component comprising insert panels folded to form a cavity configured to store a product, the insert component including one or more tab elements and a guide recess element, the guide recess element constructed from a first insert panel and a second insert panel, wherein the first insert panel includes an opening defined by an edge border, the first insert panel and the second insert panel folded to cover one another such that a base element comprising a portion of the second insert panel is exposed through the opening of the first insert panel, the insert component configured to slideably interact with the interior space of the housing component between a locked configuration and an unlocked configuration,

in the locked configuration, the one or more tab elements abut a panel edge of the lip element of the housing component, the locked configuration obstructing movement of the insert component from the interior space of the housing component, and a portion of both the base element and the edge border of the guide recess element accessible through the guide aperture element,

in the unlocked configuration, the one or more tab elements released from the panel edge of the lip element of the housing component via the one or more tab aperture elements, the unlocked configuration un-obstructing movement of the insert component from the interior space of the housing component.

2. The child resistant packaging according to claim 1, wherein the housing component further comprises a lock flap element, the lock flap element configured to contain a portion of the one or more tab elements preventing the insert component from being completely removed from the housing component.

3. The child resistant packaging according to claim 1, wherein the one or more tab aperture elements are each defined by a straight edge border and a curved edge border.

4. The child resistant packaging according to claim 1, the guide aperture element is defined by a first straight edge boundary, a second straight edge boundary, a first curve edge boundary and a second curve edge boundary.

5. The child resistant packaging according to claim 1, wherein the one or more tab aperture elements and the guide aperture element are positioned on a front face of the housing component.

6. The child resistant packaging according to claim 1, wherein the guide recess element is defined by an edge border and a base element.

7. The child resistant packaging according to claim 6, wherein the guide recess element is circular shaped.

8. The child resistant packaging according to claim 1, wherein the one or more tab elements are rectangular shaped.

11. The child resistant packaging according to claim 1, wherein the insert component further includes indicator elements positioned on a top surface and a bottom surface of the insert component.

12. The child resistant packaging according to claim 11, wherein each indicator element is semi-circular shaped.

13. The child resistant packaging according to claim 1, wherein the housing component is made from a paper-based material.

14. The child resistant packaging according to claim 13, wherein the paper-based material is laminated.

15. The child resistant packaging according to claim 1, wherein the insert component is made from a laminated paper-based material.

16. The child resistant packaging according to claim 1, wherein the packaging is a rectangular shaped configuration.

17. The child resistant packaging according to claim 1, wherein the guide recess element is circular shaped.

18. The child resistant packaging according to claim 1, wherein the continuous connected boundary comprises a straight edge.

19. The child resistant packaging according to claim 1, wherein the continuous connected boundary comprises a curved edge.

20. The child resistant packaging according to claim 1, wherein the guide recess element is square shaped.

9. A method for operating packaging, the method comprising the steps of:

placing the packaging on a surface, wherein the packaging includes a housing component with an interior space containing an insert component;

applying a vertical pressure to one or more tab elements positioned on the insert component to release the one or more tab elements from a lip element, wherein the one or more tab elements are accessible through one or more first aperture elements of the housing component;

exposing outside the housing component a portion of the insert component by applying a lateral pressure to a guide recess element positioned on the insert component, wherein the guide recess element comprises an opening defined by an edge border and a portion of the insert component exposed through the opening, wherein a portion of the edge border of the guide recess element is accessible through a guide aperture element of the housing component, the guide aperture element defined by a continuous connected boundary;

releasing the pressure to the one or more tab elements; and

pulling the exposed portion of the insert component to remove the remaining portion of the insert component from the interior space of the housing component.

10. The method for operating packaging according to claim 9 further comprising the step of:

pushing the exposed portion of the insert component to move the insert component into the interior space of the housing component.