US 11,702,257 B2
Child-resistant storage case
Paul Phillip Burek, Centennial, CO (US); and William Edward Ludlow, Tulsa, OK (US)
Assigned to CRATIV Solutions, Inc., Denver, CO (US)
Filed by Edibles Engineering LLC, Tulsa, OK (US)
Filed on Oct. 17, 2016, as Appl. No. 15/295,017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/255,222, filed on Nov. 13, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2017/0137184 A1, May 18, 2017
Int. Cl. B65D 50/04 (2006.01); B65D 43/16 (2006.01); B65D 43/22 (2006.01)
CPC B65D 50/04 (2013.01) [B65D 43/16 (2013.01); B65D 43/162 (2013.01); B65D 43/22 (2013.01); B65D 50/046 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A child-resistant storage case comprising:
a base;
a lid, said base and lid defining an interior storage space with peripheral walls; said base and lid each having a front aspect, a rear aspect and opposing side aspects; said front aspects and side aspects of said base and lid having interior surfaces;
a hinge connecting the rear aspects of the lid and base and enabling the lid to pivot between an open position permitting access to the interior storage space and a closed position preventing access to said interior storage space;
two side latches spaced apart from one another on the opposing side aspects releasably securing the lid to the base, said side latches releasing the lid from the base when pressed inward;
a front latch extending downward from the front aspect of the lid proximate to a thinned corner region of the lid that has a reduced thickness relative to adjacent portions of the lid, the front aspect of the lid on each lateral side of the front latch also having reduced thickness portions relative to adjacent portions of the lid such that force required to deflect said front latch is reduced relative to a lid without said reduced thickness portions, said front latch comprising a bottom portion having a horizontal ledge surface;
a complementary feature on the interior surface of the front aspect of the base to releasably engage the front latch and thereby secure the lid to the base; wherein said complementary feature is generally C-shaped and comprises a rearwardly facing recess that is partially defined by a downwardly facing horizontal abutment surface, said complimentary feature further comprising an upper horizontally extending surface;
a horizontal tab, said horizontal tab having planar upper and lower surfaces and extending forward from and beyond the front aspect of the lid adjacent to the front latch to form an L-shaped structure with the front latch, said L-shaped structure pivoting with respect to the lid upon said complimentary feature upper horizontally extending surface when the horizontal tab is pressed downward toward said base and away from the lid to pivot the front latch bottom portion inward with respect to the lid and with respect to the base to thereby release the front latch from the complementary feature on the interior surface of the front aspect of the base;
whereby a user must simultaneously press inward on the side latches, press downward on the horizontal tab toward the base and away from the lid to release the front latch, and lift upward on the lid to open the storage case;
wherein access to said upper surface of said tab is unobstructed and readily engageable by a user to downwardly rotatably deflect said horizontal tab; and
wherein said C-shaped cavity of said complimentary feature receives said bottom portion of said front latch therein with said horizontal ledge surface of said front latch bottom portion engaged by said horizontal abutment surface of said complimentary feature and maintains said lid is in said closed position until said front latch bottom portion is rotatably inwardly deflected to release said latch bottom portion from said C-shaped cavity.