Container for food products and method to manufacture it
AssigneeSiropack Italia S.R.L.
InventorRocco DE LUCIA
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Abstract
A container for food products has a handle connected to a basket by means of two coupling elements, which are welded to the basket through relative openings of the handle, and are configured to elastically deform the relative openings due to a movement of the handle from a rest position inside the basket to an operating position outside the basket and to lock the handle to the basket by interference.
Claims12
A container for food products comprising a basket (2), which is cup-shaped, is delimited by a bottom wall (3) and by a lateral wall (4), and is made of a polymer material;
- a handle (5) to hold the basket (2), which is substantially U-shaped and has two free ends (6);
- and two coupling elements (8) to connect the free ends (6) of the handle (5) to the basket (2);
- each coupling element (8) being made of a polymer material welded to the basket (2), in particular by means of ultrasonic welding;
- each free end (6) having a respective opening (7;
- 15) extending around a coupling portion (9;
- 16) of the relative coupling element (8);
- and the handle (5) being mounted so as to move between a rest position, in which the handle (5) is substantially arranged on the inside of the basket (2), and an operating position, in which the handle (5) substantially extends on the outside of the basket (2);
- and characterized in that the handle (5) is made, at least in the area of said openings (7;
- 15), of an elastically deformable polymer material;
- each opening (7;
- 15) and the coupling portion (9;
- 16) of the relative coupling element (8) being configured so as to allow the coupling portion (9;
- 16), due to the movement of the handle (5) from its rest position to its operating position, to elastically deform the opening (7;
- 15) and to lock the handle (5) on the basket (2) by interference.
A method to manufacture a container for food products comprising a basket (2), which is cup-shaped, is delimited by a bottom wall (3) and by a lateral wall (4), and is made of a polymer material;
- a handle (5) to hold the basket (2), which is substantially U-shaped and has two free ends (6);
- the method comprising the steps of:
- inserting the handle (5) in a rest position on the inside of the basket (2);
- and
- connecting each free end (6) of the handle (5) to the basket (2) by means of a coupling element (8) made of a polymer material welded to the basket (2), in particular by means of ultrasonic welding, through a corresponding opening (7;
- 15) of the handle (5);
- the opening (7;
- 15) extending around at least a coupling portion (9;
- 16) of the coupling element (8);
- and being characterized in that it comprises, furthermore, the step of:
- moving the handle (5) from its rest position to an operating position on the outside of the basket (2), so as to allow each coupling portion (9;
- 16), to elastically deform the relative opening (7;
- 15) and to lock the handle (5) on the basket (2) by interference.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.