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US 5,775,570 AGranted
Food container adaptable for holding a drink cup
OwnerHong R. Kiminventor
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Abstract
A popcorn bucket type of food container is adapted for mounting a drink cup along one side. This is facilitated by providing score lines along which one side of the container may be folded concave inwardly while allowing one band of the folded-in side to extend outwardly for encircling the cup and a lower portion to extend outwardly as a cup support ridge. For longer cups a portion of the bottom of the container may be folded so that the lower part of the sidewall may be folded inwardly as well.
Claims10
A food container device for use with at least one drink cup, the device comprising:
- a generally circular sidewall providing a top and a bottom annular lips, the lips defining a top and a bottom respective openings into the container;
- a disk shaped bottom wall joined with the sidewall and positioned for covering the bottom opening;
- the sidewall providing at least one cup holding enablement, each of the at least one cup holding enablements comprising:
- a first and a second linear score lines extending between the top and the bottom lips for folding a minor portion of the sidewall inwardly;
- a plurality of, spaced apart slits, each of the slits extending between the first and the second linear score lines for enabling at least one band portion of the minor portion of the sidewall to extend outwardly when the minor portion of the sidewall is folded inwardly, the outwardly extending band portion, and the inwardly folded minor portion of the sidewall, together, forming an encircling member for holding one of the at least one drink cup securely on the food container device.
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A combination food and drink container device comprising:
- a) at least one drink cup;
- b) a generally circular sidewall providing a top and a bottom annular lips, the lips defining a top and a bottom respective openings into the container device;
- a disk shaped bottom wall joined with the sidewall and positioned for covering the bottom opening;
- the sidewall providing at least one cup holding enablement, each of the at least one cup holding enablements comprising:
- a first and a second linear score lines extending between the top and the bottom lips for folding a minor portion of the sidewall inwardly;
- a plurality of, spaced apart slits, each of the slits extending between the first and the second linear score lines for enabling at least one band portion of the minor portion of the sidewall to extend outwardly when the minor portion of the sidewall is folded inwardly, the outwardly extending band portion, and the inwardly folded minor portion of the sidewall, together, forming an encircling member for holding one of the at least one drink cup securely on the food container device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.