Dual tongue and slot container lock
AssigneeKeyes Fibre Company
InventorJoe R. Payne
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Abstract
A one-use-disposable type of foamed plastic container including a dished bottom and a dished top hinged to each other, the top having an inwardly flexible front wall the closeable edge of which includes a laterally outwardly directed locking tongue bifurcated by a deep notch into two protruding tongue sections, and the bottom having a skirt with an inwardly directed recess and a pair of slots in the recess to receive the dual tongue sections and lock the bottom and top together in the closed position.
Claims10
A container including two mating portions capable of packaging a product therebetween in the closed position, one of the portions having an inwardly flexible side wall with a laterally outwardly directed locking tongue protruding from its closeable edge, the other portion having a skirt along its corresponding closeable edge which overlies the closeable edge of the one portion in the closed position, an inwardly directed recess in the skirt located in opposition to the locking tongue, the improvement comprising a pair of slots in the recess separated from each other by an interconnecting web and a notch bifurcating the locking tongue into two protruding sections whereby each bifurcated section of the tongue is inserted in one of the slots in the recess and the notch accommodates the web of the recess to lock the two portions together in the closed position, and the two portions of the container may be unlocked by flexing the side wall of the one portion inwardly to withdraw the tongue sections from the slots in the recess of the other portion to permit the container to be opened.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.