Child resistant snuff container

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10618707-B2
Application number	US-201715761790-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 18, 2017
Priority date	Jan 18, 2016
Publication date	Apr 14, 2020
Grant date	Apr 14, 2020

Abstract

A snuff container ( 101 ), comprising a base part ( 102 ) and a closure part ( 103 ) and being provided with a locking arrangement ( 120 ) for locking the closure part on the base part ( 102 ). The base part ( 102 ) comprises a bottom wall ( 105 ), a base side wall ( 107 ) and a compartment wall ( 117 ) arranged inward of the base side wall ( 107 ) with a space ( 114 ) between the base side wall ( 107 ) and the compartment wall ( 117 ). A portion of the base side wall ( 107 ) is formed by a resiliently flexible tongue ( 133 ), with an upper part of the tongue ( 133 ) being inwardly deflectable in a direction towards the compartment wall ( 117 ). The locking arrangement ( 120 ) comprising a first locking member ( 122 ) is arranged on an upper part ( 135 ) of the resiliently flexible tongue ( 133 ) and a second locking member ( 123 ) is arranged on the closure part ( 103 ) at a closure side wall end edge ( 113 ). The locking arrangement ( 120 ) is arranged to assume a locked configuration and a release configuration in which the upper part ( 135 ) of the resiliently flexible tongue ( 133 ) is in an inwardly deflected position.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A snuff container, comprising a base part and a closure part, a snuff storage compartment having an access opening being arranged in said base part, said closure part being configured to open and close said access opening, said snuff container comprising a plurality of locking arrangements for locking said closure part on said base part, wherein
said snuff container has a generally circular outer circumference and has an axial direction and a radial direction perpendicular to said axial direction,
said base part comprises a bottom wall, said bottom wall having a peripheral edge and a base side wall extending from said peripheral edge of said bottom wall and terminating in a base side wall end edge, said base part further comprising a compartment wall arranged inward of said base side wall and at a distance from said base side wall with a space between said base side wall and said compartment wall;
said closure part comprises a top wall having a peripheral edge and a closure side wall, said closure side wall extending from said peripheral edge of said top wall towards said bottom wall and terminating in a closure side wall end edge;
a portion of said base side wall comprises a plurality of resiliently flexible tongues, each of said resiliently flexible tongues having a lower part at said bottom wall and an upper part, said upper part of each of said resiliently flexible tongues being inwardly deflectable in a direction towards said compartment wall;
each of said plurality of locking arrangements comprises one of said plurality of resiliently flexible tongues, a first locking member being arranged on said upper part of said resiliently flexible tongue and a second locking member being arranged on said closure part at said closure side wall end edge, said first and second locking members being mating locking members and being configured to be in mating engagement with each other in a locked configuration of said locking arrangement and to be free from engagement with each other in a release configuration of said locking arrangement, wherein said upper part of said resiliently flexible tongue is in an inwardly deflected position in relation to adjacent parts of said base side wall, and wherein said first locking member comprises a ridge extending circumferentially along said base side wall end edge with first parts of said first locking member being arranged on said resiliently flexible tongues at said upper ends of said resiliently flexible tongues and with second parts of said first locking member being arranged between said resiliently flexible tongues.

2. The snuff container according to claim 1 , wherein said first and said second mating locking members comprise interengaging ridges.

3. The snuff container according to claim 2 , wherein an extension of said second locking member along said closure side wall end edge is smaller than or equal to a circumferential extension of said resiliently flexible tongue.

4. The snuff container according to claim 1 , wherein said snuff container comprises first and second locking arrangements forming a pair of locking arrangements, said first and second locking arrangements being placed at opposing locations along a circumference of said snuff container.

5. The snuff container according to claim 4 , wherein said closure part is configured to be rotatable in relation to said base part when said snuff container is closed.

6. The snuff container according to claim 5 , wherein said snuff container comprises two oppositely arranged locking arrangements and two second locking members are arranged diametrically opposite each other on the inside of said closure part and forming a pair of second locking members.

7. The snuff container according to claim 6 , wherein said closure part comprises at least one auxiliary locking member and wherein said base part comprises at least one corresponding release member.

8. The snuff container according to claim 7 , wherein said closure part comprises a pair of auxiliary locking members and said base part comprises a pair of corresponding release members said release members being constituted by interruptions in a first locking member.

9. The snuff container according to claim 8 , wherein said release members in said first locking member and said auxiliary locking members have smaller circumferential extension than a circumferential extension of said resiliently flexible tongues.

10. The snuff container according to claim 5 , wherein said closure part comprises a blocking member configured to prevent said resiliently flexible tongue from moving into said space between said base side wall and said compartment wall except when said resiliently flexible tongue has been brought into a selectable release position on said circumference of said snuff container, said selectable release position corresponding to a position of a second locking member on said closure part.

11. The snuff container according to claim 10 , wherein said blocking member comprises one or more blocking flanges said blocking flanges being arranged on an inside of said top wall and extending from said inside of said top wall downward into said space between said base side wall and said compartment wall.

12. The snuff container according to claim 1 , wherein a width of said resiliently flexible tongue is from 13 mm to 25 mm.

13. The snuff container according to claim 1 , wherein a supplemental closure element is provided at the closure side wall end edge on the inside of the closure side wall.

Assignees

• Swedish Match North Europe Ab

Inventors

• Straughan Simon

Classifications

• A24F23/00 Primary

  Cases for tobacco, snuff, or chewing tobacco · CPC title

• B65D2215/04

  requiring the combination of different actions in succession · CPC title

• B65D43/0212

  only on the outside, or a part turned to the outside, of the mouth (B65D43/0206 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B65D83/06

  for dispensing powdered or granular material · CPC title

• B65D50/061 Primary

  being disengageable from container only after rotational alignment of closure, or other means inhibiting removal of closure, with container, e.g. tortuous path type (B65D55/145 takes precedence) · CPC title