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US 7,243,813 B2Granted
Domed food container
AssigneeAnchor Packaging, Inc.
InventorKevin Krueger
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Abstract
A food container preferably for heated food, has a lid member and a base member. The base member has complimentary embossed portions in the bottom of the base member to engage a complimentary indented portion in the top surface of the lid member. The retaining mechanism allows containers to be stacked so as to secure each container while allowing steam to escape from the lid of a container. Also, a fluid return system retains fluid in the container and promotes flow of fluid into the bottom of the container.
Claims15
A food container comprising:
- a lid member, the lid member including an upper surface and including a retaining mechanism formed in the upper surface of the lid member;
- the lid member retaining mechanism including one or more steam escape mechanisms;
- a base member having a base bottom, the base member including a base member retaining mechanism formed into the base bottom and including one or more steam escape mechanism engaging portions;
- the base member retaining mechanism being complementary with the lid member retaining mechanism, whereby at least one of the steam escape mechanisms is complementary with one of the steam escape mechanism engaging portions;
- the lid member and base member being capable of interlocking arrangement such that the lid member can be removably secured to cover the base member;
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- wherein when the container is arranged in stacked formation below an identical container, at least one of the steam escape mechanisms of the lid member retaining mechanism engages one of the steam escape mechanism engaging portions of the base member retaining mechanism on the container above it and steam can escape the food container through an engaged steam escape mechanism.
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A food container comprising:
- a lid member, the lid member including an upper surface and including a lid member retaining mechanism formed in the upper surface;
- the lid member retaining mechanism including one or more vented extensions, an embossed surface and a sidewall;
- a base member including a base bottom and a base member retaining mechanism formed into the base bottom;
- the base member retaining mechanism including one or more embossed portions and being complementary with the lid member retaining mechanism;
- the lid member and base member being capable of interlocking arrangement such that the lid member can be removably secured to cover the base member;
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- wherein when the container is arranged in stacked formation below an identical container, one or more vented extensions of the lid member retaining mechanism are complementarily engaged by the one or more embossed portions of the base member retaining mechanism on the container above it and steam can escape the food container through one of the engaged vented extensions.
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A food container comprising:
- a lid member, the lid member including a lid member retaining mechanism formed in the upper surface of the lid member, wherein the lid member retaining mechanism includes an embossed surface, a sidewall, and one or more vented extensions;
- a base member including a base member lock rim and including a base member retaining mechanism including a retaining inner area having a flat surface and one or more embossed portions having a plurality of elevated and incrementally spaced surfaces;
- the base member retaining mechanism being complementary with the lid member retaining mechanism such that when the container is arranged in stacked formation below an identical container, one or more vented extensions of the lid member retaining mechanism are complementarily engaged by the one or more embossed portions of the base member retaining mechanism on the container above it;
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- an interlocking arrangement in the lid member and the base member that secures the base member with the lid member to form the container.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.