Container for food products such as confectionery in the shape of a jointed toy
AssigneeSoremartec S.A.
InventorPietro Ferrero
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Abstract
A container for, for example, food products such as confectionery, is formed from a casing and one or more auxiliary bodies associated with and affixed to the casing to give the container an animal-like or human-like appearance. The auxiliary body or bodies affixed to the casing can take the form of human-like or animal-like features and can be moved relative to the casing both by rotation about the longitudinal axis of the body and by variation of the position of the longitudinal axis of the body relative to the case by sliding the body along a circular path. This provides a container which also may be used as a toy.
Claims12
A container comprising a casing and at least one associated auxiliary body mounted on the casing, wherein:
- the casing has at least a portion with a rounded surface;
- the at least one auxiliary body has a portion with a rounded surface complementary to the portion of the casing having said rounded surface and the at least one auxiliary body is mounted on the casing so as to be movable relative to the casing along an arcuate path along the surface of said casing;
- connection means are provided between the casing and the at least one auxiliary body for maintaining the at least one auxiliary body mounted on the casing while permitting movement of the at least one auxiliary body relative to the casing along the arcuate path;
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- wherein the at least one auxiliary body is also rotatable relative to the casing about an axis extending generally in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the casing, said axis being variable relative to the surface of the casing as a result of the at least one auxiliary body being movable relative to the casing along the arcuate path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.