Non-spilling snack container
OwnerJanice W. Bussard, Kelley B. Reendersinventors
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Abstract
A container used for nibbling snack food, including a receptacle and a top cover made of flexible material, the cover having crossing slits forming a circle of tongues which when flexed downwardly by a person's fingers reaching inside for picking up the food, thus form a self-closing dispensing opening through the cover.
Claims3
A non-spilling snack container, comprising, in combination, a receptacle, a quantity of removable dry-type snack food within said receptacle, said receptacle being open at its upper end, a cover made of flexible material closing said open end, and a plurality of crossing slits across a center of said cover forming a circle of tongues, said tongues in a downwardly flexed position forming a central opening through said cover for removal of said snack food from said receptacle;
- said crossing slits being spiral-shaped from said crossing center so that said tongues are spiral-shaped;
- a raised spiral-shaped rib upon an upper side of each said tongue, said rib extending along a length of said tongue;
- and a pleated flange connecting between adjacent side edges of said tongues.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.