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US 9,278,787 B2Granted
Single point hinge for a container
AssigneeAnchor Packaging, Inc.
InventorsSatya Garg, Brent Riales, David Smith, Tim Cimmerer
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Abstract
A single point hinge and a method of thermoforming a plastic container including a single point hinge include a lid, a tray, a single point hinge connecting the lid and the tray. The single point hinge includes an angle formed by a lid chamfer and a tray chamfer. The single point hinge further includes a lid well adjacent to the lid chamfer and a tray well adjacent to the tray chamfer, and the lid connects to the lid well and the tray connects to the tray well.
Claims8
A plastic container, comprising:
- a lid;
- a tray;
- a hinge connecting the lid and the tray;
- the hinge comprising:
- an angle formed by a lid chamfer and a tray chamfer, wherein the angle results in a single hinge point;
- and
- a lid well adjacent to the lid chamfer and a tray well adjacent to the tray chamfer;
- and
- wherein the lid connects to the lid well by a lid well transition and the tray connects to the tray well by a tray well transition.
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A plastic container, comprising:
- a lid thermoformed from a sheet of plastic material;
- a tray thermoformed from the sheet of plastic material;
- a hinge thermoformed from the sheet of plastic material, the hinge connects the lid and the tray;
- the hinge comprising a single hinge point formed by two chamfers thermoformed from the sheet of plastic material, the single hinge point forming an angle between the two chamfers;
- and
- wherein the thermoformed plastic material is thinner at the single point than the remainder of the plastic material.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.