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US 12,540,002 B2Granted
Pleated portion cup and lid
AssigneeGenpak, Division of Great Pacific Enterprises LP
InventorJean-Guy Perrault
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Abstract
A pleated paper container for holding a food product or non-food product, comprising a base, side walls, a rim, and a stopper step disposed at the side walls proximate to the rim, wherein the stopper step is configured to receive and frictionally engage a fibre lid in a covered position, thereby closing an opening of the container and enclosing the product.
Claims11
A disposable container for holding a food product, comprising:
- a substantially circular-shaped base;
- substantially annular side walls, the side walls having a lower ring and an upper ring, the lower ring connected to and extending around a periphery of the base, and the upper ring forming a substantially circular-shaped rim and defining an opening, and the side walls having a plurality of pleated folds extending from the base to the rim to strengthen the side walls;
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- a stopper step, disposed around a periphery of the side walls proximate to and below the rim,
- wherein the stopper step is configured to, on an inside surface of the stopper step, receive and frictionally engage an outside peripheral edge of a substantially circular-shaped fibre lid in a covered position, thereby closing the opening, and
- wherein, when the fibre lid is placed in the covered position, the base, the side walls and the fibre lid together define an enclosed inside space for containing the food product.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.