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Container with hinged lid

  • US 20040079757A1
  • Filed: 08/22/2003
  • Published: 04/29/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Apparatus comprising:

  • a hollow container body having a thickened peripherally extending rim and an open end bounded by the rim, the rim defining a periphery of the container body and having a linear part which defines a pintle, the pintle defining a pintle axis; and

    a lid body overlying the rim in a closed position and having a channel formed therein which includes a linear part defining a socket, the linear part of the channel having a concave wall that extends in close-fitting relation through greater than 180 degrees of the circumferential extent of the pintle around the pintle axis to hingably couple the lid body to the container body for movement about the pintle axis from the closed position to an open position where the lid body is disposed at an angle to the open end of the container.

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