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US 8,251,245 B2Granted
Container with sealing lid
AssigneeHelen of Troy Limited
InventorsDean DiPietro, Timothy Jude Kennedy, Sherwood Forlee, Eugene Ryu Kaneko
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Abstract
A releasably sealable container is disclosed. The container includes a container body, a lid, a gasket and a retaining arm. The container body includes a lip defining an opening. The lid is configured to engage the opening. The lid includes a body and a frame. The gasket is configured to cooperate with the lid and the lip to seal the opening.
Claims11
A releasably sealable container system comprising:
- a container including a container opening defined by a lip and at least one wall, the lip including a sealing portion and an engaging portion;
- a lid including a body and a frame,
- the frame including a top portion, a side portion depending downwardly from the top portion and at least two retaining arms extending inwardly from the side portion, each retaining arm being configured to contact the lip at the engaging portion to retain the lid on the container in an engaging position,
- the body including a cover portion for covering the container opening when positioned on the container and a skirt depending downwardly from the cover portion, wherein the skirt is sized and positioned on the body to fit inside the container opening, wherein the side portion of the frame at least substantially surrounds the body when the frame is retained on the lip in the engaging position;
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- a gasket positioned between the lid and the lip, with each retaining arm in the engaging position the gasket contacts the sealing portion of the lip and maintains a substantially liquid tight seal on the container;
- wherein the body includes at least two movable locking arms each configured to engage the lip;
- wherein the frame is configured to be displaced downwardly to contact each locking arm to move each locking arm inwardly to engage the lip.
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