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US 11,147,309 B2Granted
Container for smokeless tobacco products comprising a pulp material and related packaged product assembly and method
AssigneeR.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
InventorsPankaj Patel, August Joseph Borschke
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Abstract
A container configured to hold one or more units of a product is provided. The container may comprise a lid and a base. The lid and/or the base may be constructed from a pulp derived from a plant material. For example, the pulp derived from the plant material may be a wood pulp material. A related method is also provided.
Claims15
A container, comprising:
- a lid, comprising:
- a top wall;
- and
- one or more lid sidewalls extending from the top wall to a lower lip defining a lid opening;
- and
- a base moveable with respect to the lid between a coupled configuration in which an internal storage compartment defined by the base is substantially closed and a decoupled configuration in which the internal storage compartment is open, the base comprising:
- a bottom wall;
- one or more base sidewalls extending from the bottom wall to an upper lip defining a base opening;
- one or more vent channels extending around a circumference of the one or more base sidewalls and from the upper lip to a shoulder defined between the upper lip and the bottom wall, the one or more channels providing venting to the internal storage compartment when the lid is seated on the base;
- and
- an intermediate wall spaced upwardly from the bottom wall so as to define an internal space therebetween,
- wherein at least one of the lid and the base is pulp-molded from a pulp derived from a processed plant material, the pulp being a mixture incorporating the processed plant material so that the processed plant material is a majority of the weight of the pulp, and
- wherein at least one of the lid and the base further comprises a coating positioned at an exterior of at least one of the lid and the base and not positioned at an interior of the lid and the base.
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A method for manufacturing a container, comprising:
- pulp-molding at least one of a base and a lid from a pulp derived from a processed plant material, the pulp being a mixture incorporating the processed plant material so that the processed plant material is a majority of the weight of the pulp, the lid, comprising:
- a top wall;
- and
- one or more lid sidewalls extending from the top wall to a lower lip defining a lid opening;
- and
- the base comprising:
- a bottom wall;
- one or more base sidewalls extending from the bottom wall to an upper lip defining a base opening;
- and
- one or more vent channels extending around a circumference of the one or more base sidewalls and from the upper lip to a shoulder defined between the upper lip and the bottom wall, the one or more channels providing venting to the internal storage compartment when the lid is seated on the base;
- and
- an intermediate wall spaced upwardly from the bottom wall so as to define an internal space therebetween,
- the base being moveable with respect to the lid between a coupled configuration in which an internal storage compartment defined by the base is substantially closed and a decoupled configuration in which the internal storage compartment is open;
- and
- applying a coating to an exterior of at least one of the base and the lid without applying the coating to the interior of the lid and the base.
12 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.