Pocket-size container for consumer items
AssigneePhilip Morris USA Inc.
InventorsStephen J. Bellamah, William T. Griffin, Dominic J. C. Howard, Robert T. Mitten
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Abstract
A three-piece pocket-size container for holding a consumer product such as smokeless tobacco product in an interior volume of a perimeter band which has a base locked to a lower rim portion and an openable cover on an upper rim of the perimeter band. When closed, the cover, the perimeter band and the base form a flush exterior sidewall of the container. The base and cover can be metal and the perimeter band can be transparent (clear, tinted or colored) or opaque plastic to provide a container that maintains product freshness, and is easily opened and closed.
Claims23
A pocket-size container for use with consumer products, comprising:
- a perimeter band having a protruding bulwark forming a first sidewall portion of the container, having an upper rim portion above the protruding bulwark to accept a cover and a lower rim portion below the protruding bulwark to accept a base;
- a pan-shaped rigid base having an upward wall surrounding the lower rim portion of the perimeter band forming a second sidewall portion of the container below and flush with the protruding bulwark of the perimeter band;
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- a pan-shaped rigid cover having a downward wall surrounding the upper rim portion of the perimeter band forming a third sidewall portion of the container above and flush with the protruding bulwark of the perimeter band when the container is closed;
- wherein an outermost wall surface of the first sidewall portion is flush with an outermost wall surface of the second sidewall portion and an outermost wall surface of the third sidewall portion;
- wherein the perimeter band includes a locking mechanism preventing release of the base from the perimeter band.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.