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US 6,149,955 AGranted
Snack food container and coin bank
OwnerWarren J. Wilsoninventor
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A snack food container comprises a blow molded extruded transparent polyvinyl chloride housing having solid wall and base segments, a token slot, and an opening through which a solid particulate snack food product is loaded into and removed from the housing. A releasable seal on an interior surface of the housing covers the token slot. The sealed cap, token slot seal and housing maintain the food product in a sealed state prior to the cap being removed and/or the seal being released. The housing is used as a token bank by inserting tokens through the released token slot after the food product has been removed from the housing and the seal has been released from the token slot. In one embodiment the token slot is a pressure sensitive adhesive strip adhesively attached to the housing, and in a second embodiment the slot is in the cap. The housing contains visible promotional material unrelated to the snack food.
In combination, a housing having solid wall and base segment and an opening, a removable cap sealingly covering the opening, a solid particulate snack food product in the housing, a token slot, a releasable seal covering the token slot, the removable seal cap, seal and housing maintaining the snack food product in a sealed state prior to the cap being removed and the seal being released, the housing being used as a token bank by inserting tokens through the released token slot after the food product has been removed from the housing and the seal has been released from the token slot.
A method of using a container including a solid snack food product including (a) a housing, (b) a removable sealed cap on an opening of the housing, and (c) a releasable sealed token slot, the method comprising unsealing and removing the cap so there is access to the snack food product through the opening, then removing the snack food product through the opening, releasing the sealed token slot, and after all the snack food product has been removed from the housing inserting tokens into the housing through the released token slot while the cap is on the opening.
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