Domed container for baked goods or the like

A domed container comprising a receptacle and a dome cover therefore having locking means for releasably locking the cover to the receptacle, said receptacle comprising a bottom wall having a top surface delimited by an upstanding rib and terminating in an outwardly extending resilient rim wherein said rim is outwardly yieldable, said bottom wall having a bottom surface including depending rib structure extending below the bottom of said rim wherein said rim is downwardly yieldable, said rim encompassing in spaced relation said rib and being provided with an inwardly extending shoulder, and a first camming surface formed on said rim and extending outwardly and upwardly from said shoulder;

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• said dome cover comprising a top wall having at least one wall depending therefrom, said depending wall having a plurality of vertical inwardly extending ribs spaced therealong, each of said vertical inwardly extending ribs having an upper end and a lower end, interspersed between said plurality of vertical inwardly extending ribs is a plurality of vertical outwardly extending ribs, each of said vertical outwardly extending ribs having an upper end and a lower end, each said upper end of said vertical outwardly extending ribs having a crush-resistant ribbed crown portion thereof, said depending wall having a lower end adapted to be received in the space formed between said upstanding rib and said rim of said receptacle, with said lower end of said inwardly extending vertical ribs of said dome relieved so as to avoid an abutting relation with said rib of said receptacle, said lower end of said depending wall terminating in an outwardly extending resilient flange adapted to underlie said shoulder in abutting locking engagement therewith preventing movement of said dome cover relative to said receptacle, and a second camming surface formed on the exterior of said flange;
• when said cover is moved towards said container to effect locking engagement therewith, said first and second camming surfaces initially co-acting with one another causing said rim to be deformed outwardly and downwardly and said flange to be deformed inwardly towards said lower end of said depending wall while the latter is substantially reinforced by a portion of said rib of said receptacle until said flange abuttingly engages the underside of said shoulder.