Receptacles – Compartmented container – Intercommunicable compartments
Patent
1997-05-02
1999-02-16
Castellano, Stephen
Receptacles
Compartmented container
Intercommunicable compartments
220 424, 220522, 220529, 220575, B65D 2508
Patent
active
058711163
ABSTRACT:
A food service and storage foodstuff holding container assembly formed of pair of matched open-faced upper and lower dishes and an interconnecting member having a perforate floor,the upper dish containing a foodstuff and the lower dish containing a liquid. The interconnecting member is frictionally seated within the lower dish. The upper dish is inverted and frictionally engaged with the interconnecting member to form the container assembly. Oppositely opening wells are carried along the periphery of the interconnecting member, a bead formation is within each well. The rim of the dishes seat within the wells while the interconnecting member is frictionally seated within the dishes, the bead formation tightly engaging the rims to supplement the frictional engagement of interconnecting member and the dishes, maintaining such engagement from unwanted disassembly. Once assembled, the container is inverted without separation of the dishes, even if shaken. The liquid from the lower dish passes through perforate floor into the upper dish, forming a mixture. The upper dish is separated providing access to the mixture. Covers are provided for the individual dishes for applicant before or after disassembly of the container. The container assembly can be packaged assembled or as a kit providing the plural disassembled elements in a single package for selective interchangable use.
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Castellano Stephen
Fox Sidney N.
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