Food preservative container
OwnerTakashi Oginoinventor
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Abstract
A ventilated food preservation, container having a replaceable hermetically re-sealable lid closure cover portion fitted with a lid finger grip to open the lid and allow control of pressure inside the container in a single movement through a ventilation pressure release hole. When the outer cover portion of the finger grip portion is gripped to lift the closure member, the finger grip portion partially detaches from the lid and releases the seal between the lid and the container.
Claims6
A food preservative container (1) comprising a container body (2), and a closure member (3) fitted over the container body (2) so as to close an opening (2a) of the container body (2), the closure member (3) having an upper portion fitted with a finger grip portion (16), and a peripheral edge (3a) capable of being hermetically and removably fitted to the container body (2), wherein:
- the finger grip portion (16) fitted to the closure member (3) comprises a finger grip main body (33) attached to the closure member (3), a grip outer cover portion (38) circumscribing the finger grip main body (33) and having an upper part joined with the finger grip main body (33) and a lower part annularly extending so as to hermetically contact the closure member (3), and a vent hole (26) defined in an inside region of the closure member (3) circumscribed by the grip outer cover portion (38) for allowing communication between the inside and outside of the closure member (3);
- and the grip outer cover portion (38) of the finger grip portion (16) is formed from a flexible and elastic material such that when the grip outer cover portion (38) is gripped with fingers in order to lift up the closure member (3), the lower part (40) of the grip outer cover portion (38) is partially moved toward a center of the finger grip portion (16) and detaches from the closure member (3) to release a hermetic state of the closure member (3) against outside air thereby allowing an internal space (11) of the container to communicate with the outside through the vent hole (26).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.