Container apparatus having detachable and discardable wall sections

Abstract

A container apparatus formed having a main wall section that can be selectively, and repeatedly perforated at different regions to form a plurality of detachable wall sections that can be detached and discarded to reduce the size of the container according to graduated amounts of the contents being used. The container is useable in the storage of food product and helps maintain the freshness of foods, such as ice cream, by virtue of the container structure that facilitates reduction of the internal volume of the container, and hence the amount air space above the surface of the remaining food product in the opened container. The container structure includes a body having a bottommost container portion connecting to the main wall section from which the plurality of detachable wall sections can be formed. The main wall section includes an uppermost wall section member that connects to a container lid. The plurality of detachable wall sections being delineated by a plurality of strip members that are spatially disposed on the outside of the main wall section. Each strip member includes a perforating element in contact with an underlying region of the main wall section. The perforating element being selectively utilized to cause the underlying region to be perforated and thereby form a detachable wall section. In an unutilized state, each strip member includes a pull tab portion and an end portion disposed in an overlapping configuration to form a junctional region on the outside of the main wall section. Each junctional region being covered by a tamper-proof seal.

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