Double walled nestable plastic container

• US 3,079,027 A
• Filed: 12/10/1959
• Issued: 02/26/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/1959
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Bryant Edwards
• Original Assignee: Bryant Edwards
• Inventors: Edwards, Bryant
• Application Number:
  US03/858,791
• Time in Patent Office: 1,174 Days
• US Class Current: 206/519
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 41/0077 made of two vessels inserted in each other
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 1/265 Drinking cups B65D81/3865 takes precedence, holders for plastic cups A47G23/0208

Claims

1. A NESTABLE DOUBLE WALLED PLASTIC CONTAINER COMPRISING A FIRST HOLLOW MEMBER OF INTEGRAL SEAMLESS CONSTRUCTION HAVING A LOWERMOST END PORTION AND SIDE WALLS PROJECTING UPWARDLY AND HAVING THE MARGINAL EXTENT THEREOF CURVED RADIALLY OUTWARDLY BACK UPON ITSELF TO PROVIDE A CIRCUMFERENTIALLY CONTINUOUS RIM PORTION, A SECOND HOLLOW MEMBER OF INTEGRAL CONSTRUCTION DISPOSED WITHIN SAID FIRST MEMBER, SAID SECOND MEMBER HAVING A BOTTOM WALL PORTION AND SIDE WALLS PROJECTING UPWARDLY AND TERMINATING IN A RIM PORTION ALSO RADIALLY OUTWARDLY CURVED BACK UPON ITSELF AND ADAPTED TO OVERLIE AND ENGAGE THE RIM PORTION OF SAID FIRST MEMBER TO PROVIDE A SUBSTANTIALLY OPEN TOP, THE BOTTOM WALL PORTION OF SAID SECOND MEMBER BEING DISPOSED IN SPACED RELATION TO THE LOWERMOST END PORTION OF SAID FIRST MEMBER, SAID SECOND MEMBER BEING OF PREDETERMINED DIFFERENT SIZE RELATIVE TO SAID FIRST MEMBER SO AS TO PROVIDE A SPACE BETWEEN A SUBSTANTIAL AREA OF THE SIDE WALLS OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND MEMBERS, SAID FIRST MEMBER ADJACENT THE LOWERMOST END PORTION HAVING A PREDETERMINED DIAMETER, SAID SECOND MEMBER SIDE WALLS SUBSTANTIALLY AT THE BOTTOM WALL BEING OF A DIAMETER LARGER THAN SAID PREDETERMINED DIAMETER, WHEREBY AN INSULATING NESTABLE CONTAINER IS PROVIDED, CHARACTERIZED IN THAT WHEN A PLURALITY OF LIKE CONTAINERS ARE DISPOSED IN NESTED RELATIONSHIP, THE BOTTOM WALL OF SAID FIRST MEMBER IS SUPPORTED BY SAID SECOND MEMBER.