Child-Resistant Deodorant Stick Container

Abstract

This disclosure relates to the technical field of packaging for a stick, topical or salve personal product, such as deodorant, which has safety features to prevent access by children. A child resistant deodorant stick container can be used for the legal cannabis industry where people have topicals and salves that are applied to certain areas of the body, such as the elbow, to ease pain. This stick container can be implemented using a quarter turn opening mechanism where you push down and turn about one quarter of a full turn in order to then lift and open. In one embodiment, a deodorant tube comprises a bottle body, an upper cap component, a lower cap, an inner liner, a rotating component and a discardable cover. The upper cap component comprises an outer upper cap multiple sets of bayonet lock structures and an inner upper cap.

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RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]The subject matter of this application is related to Chinese Utility Model Application No. 2021219253271, filed on 2021 Aug. 17, and U.S. Provisional Application No. 63 / 113,401, filed on 2020 Nov. 13, all of which applications are incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]Soft personal-use salves or sticks such as deodorant or lipstick are typically packaged in a tube body. Typical packaging, however, does not take into account the risk of easy access by children. For example, the upper cap of a deodorant tube is typically an ordinary removable cap, which can be easily opened by children. A lower cap on a deodorant stick is typically not secured, enabling that children can easily pull it out, thus there is a risk of the contents being exposed, abused, and / or ingested by children. In addition, existing tube bodies are typically a single-layer structure of ABS material, not environmentally friendly for direct contac...

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Benefits of technology

This patent is related to a child-proof container for deodorant or other personal products that can be applied on the body. The container has safety features to prevent children from accessing it. The technical effects of this invention include improved safety, ease of use, and inaccessibility for children. The container can be used in the legal cannabis industry for applying topicals or salves to certain areas of the body. The cap of the container is designed to prevent it from being opened by children, and the bottle body has a double-layer structure to avoid pollution. The deodorant tube also has safety features and is easy to use.

Problems solved by technology

If the cap is larger than the base, it can look like a flashlight and be very ugly and will hurt the ability for the product to sell.

This is important because during child resistant testing, if the child removes the bottom, that may be considered a fail.

The deodorant tube structure of the utility model has good safety, and the upper and lower caps are not easy to be opened by children.

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