CONTAINER

• US 3,759,416 A
• Filed: 08/25/1970
• Issued: 09/18/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: IB Holding Company Limited (Interactive Brand Development, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Neil V. Constantine
• Inventors: Constantine, Neil V.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lowrance, George E.
• Application Number:
  US05/066,769
• Time in Patent Office: 1,120 Days
• Field of Search: 220/97C,97D,97F,70,72,23.6
• US Class Current: 206/505
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 21/0219 the closure presenting projecting peripheral elements receiving or surrounding the bottom or peripheral elements projecting from the bottom of a superimposed container B65D21/0222 and B65D21/0223 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 21/0233 Nestable containers

Abstract

A container having four side walls extending upwardly and outwardly from a base, the side walls having upper edges defining a peripheral rim and each side wall having longitudinal and lateral strengthening ribs formed therein, the base having a pair of channels formed in the exterior thereof to define a pair of support legs, and a lid having a peripheral lip adapted to engage the peripheral rim and having a depressed exterior surface defined by a peripheral ledge adjacent the peripheral lip and Lshaped recesses at the corner of the lid, the peripheral ledge being dimensioned to capture the support legs of a similar container when the containers are stacked one upon the other.

Claims

1. A container, formed of a non-porous resinous plastic, comprising a base, four side walls extending upwardly and outwardly from said base being interconnected with each other and with said base at generally rounded interior corners and having upper edges defining a rim having a periphery greater than the periphery of said base, said container being generally square in horizontal cross-section and having a plurality of horizontal ribs formed within said side walls, said horizontal ribs being substantially equally spaced from said base to said upper edges and having perimeters which increase with increasing height above said base, first and second outwardly and upwardly extending longitudinal ribs being formed as depressions within the outside of each of said side walls, said longitudinal ribs being wider near the base of said container than near the terminating portion adjacent said rim and being spaced from said rim, parallel channel means above said base interconnecting the lower end of said longitudinal ribs on opposed side walls thereby forming spaced legs in said base, and lid means having an inverted generally U-shaped peripheral ledge defining an outer wall engaging the exterior of said side walls and defining an upper wall engaging said rim, a recess adjacent said peripheral ledge and depressed with respect thereto being constructed and arranged to capture and support spaced legs of a like-configured container placed on said lid with said peripheral ledge substantially preventing horizontal movement of said supported container with respect thereto.

2. The container according to claim 1 wherein said longitudinal ribs are generally trapezoidal in vertical cross-section and the shorter parallel sides thereof terminate within the top horizontal rib a distance from the edge of said container whereby said shorter parallel sides of said longitudinal ribs are exposed when one of said containers is nested within another of said containers.

3. A stackable, nestable container formed of a non-porous, resinous plastic comprising a base, four side walls extending upwardly and outwardly from said base being interconnected with each other and with said base at generally rounded interior corners and having upper edges defining a rim having a periphery greater than the periphery of said base, said container being generally square in horizontal cross-section and having a plurality of horizontal ribs formed within said side walls and substantially equally spaced from said base to said rim, said horizontal ribs having perimeters which increase with increasing height above said base, first and second outwardly and upwardly extending longitudal ribs being generally trapezoidal in vertical cross-section arranged with their shorter parallel sides uppermost and spaced from said rim, parallel channel means above said base interconnecting the lower ends of said longitudal ribs on opposed side walls thereby forming spaced legs in said base, and lid means having an inverted generally U-shaped peripheral ledge defining an outer wall engaging the exterior of said side walls and defining an upper wall enGaging said rim, a recess adjacent said peripheral ledge and depressed with respect thereto for capturing and supporting spaced legs of a like-configured container stacked on said lid with said peripheral ledge substantially preventing horizontal movement of said stacked container with respect thereto, the interior of said horizontal ribs being constructed and arranged to support the exterior of corresponding horizontal ribs of a nested like-configured container, and said longitudal ribs being constructed and arranged to expose said shorter parallel sides when said containers are nested.