Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Packaged or wrapped product – Having nonedible spacer to segregate all units of multiunit...
Reexamination Certificate
2006-01-24
2006-01-24
Merek, Joseph C. (Department: 3727)
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Packaged or wrapped product
Having nonedible spacer to segregate all units of multiunit...
C206S217000, C215S006000, C215S010000, C220S504000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06989168
ABSTRACT:
A container for vending single servings of beverages and snack foods, includes a liquid-impermeable wall providing a compartment for the beverage. An inside section of the wall defines a recess isolated from the compartment and open to the container exterior at the bottom. Near the upper end of the recess, the inside wall diameter is decreased in steps, to frictionally engage a leading edge region of a snack-food cartridge or other product inserted into the recess. A pull tab between the cartridge and the recess is accessible to remove the cartridge. Alternatively, a cartridge wrapper can be shaped to provide a pull tab component. The preferred snack-food cartridge includes a compliant thin film or foil wrapping surrounding a stack of cookies, a bar, or other snack food. In alternative arrangements, the container has a vertical slot for viewing a cartridge inserted into the recess, or is formed with horizontal top and bottom wall sections. Further alternatives involve a refrigeration package or chilled cartridge insertable into the recess to cool the beverage.
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Larkin Hoffman Daly & Lindgren Ltd.
Merek Joseph C.
Niebuhr, Esq. Frederick W.
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