Food Container with Resealable Cap
AssigneeGeneral Mills, Inc.
InventorsEmil Bogdanov, Bradley Hannah, Mary K. Lash, James Popp, Joseph M. Touchet
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AssigneeGeneral Mills, Inc.
InventorsEmil Bogdanov, Bradley Hannah, Mary K. Lash, James Popp, Joseph M. Touchet
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A food container includes a main plastic body terminating in an upper rim having a ledge portion, a resealable cap configured to seal against the ledge portion when snap-connected to the upper rim and an externally visible tamper indicator integrated into the container body below the upper rim. The cap includes an opening tab which, upon initially opening the container, is lifted to break one or more frangible connections with the tamper indicator. When the food container cap is presented for sale, the tamper indicator is clearly visible to a consumer. When the cap is completely removed, the tamper indicator radially projects from the container body. The cap can be used to selectively reseal the main body upon seating the seal portion on the ledge portion and snap-connecting the cap to the upper rim.
A food container comprising:
A food container comprising:
A method of opening a sealed food container comprising manually manipulating an opening tab of a cap of the container to break a frangible element attaching the opening tab to a tamper indicator projecting from below a ledge portion of an upper rim of a main body of the food container in order to unseal a seal portion of the cap from the ledge portion and directly expose an interior food storage compartment of the food container wherein, upon opening the food container, the tamper indicator remains connected to the main body.
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