Container usable as a toy construction element

• US 4,106,657 A
• Filed: 07/19/1976
• Issued: 08/15/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ferrero SPA
• Original Assignee: P Ferrero & C SPA
• Inventors: Dogliotti, Amilcare
• Primary Examiner(s): Lowrance, George E.
• Application Number:
  US05/706,406
• Time in Patent Office: 757 Days
• Field of Search: 220/4 C, 220/4 E, 220/23.4, 206/504, D34/15 FF, D34/15 GG, 46/25, 46/23, 215/10
• US Class Current: 220/23.4
• CPC Class Codes: A23G 1/545 Hollow products, e.g. with inedible or edible filling, fixed or movable within the cavity
• CPC Class Codes: A23G 3/545 hollow products, e.g. with inedible or edible filling, fixed or movable within the cavity
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 33/08 provided with complementary holes, grooves, or protuberances, e.g. dovetails
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 81/361 Modular elements with complementary shapes, interengageable parts or the like toy building blocks A63H33/04; building elements for walls E04B2/02

Abstract

A container for small gifts, suitable to be enclosed in an Easter-egg or like hollow product, which is formed in two cup-shaped snap engageable parts and which is usable as a construction element for which purpose each of the cup-shaped snap engageable parts are provided with a plurality of holes in their side walls with which can be snap engaged a mushroom headed projection which projects from the bottom of one of the two parts, the bottom of the other part being formed with a further hole to receive a mushroom headed projection of another such element.

Claims

1. A container for gifts, suitable to be used as a toy construction element, said container comprising:

first and second substantially equal size cup-shaped parts,

means on said first and second parts permitting snap engagement of said parts together at their rims in such a manner as to form a container in the form of a generally ovoid barrel having a smooth hollow interior,

means defining a plurality of holes in the side wall of the first of said cup-shaped parts spaced from the rim of said first part and lying in a common plane parallel to said rim,

means defining a hole in the bottom of said first of said cup-shaped parts,

means defining a plurality of holes in the side wall of the second of said cup-shaped parts spaced from the rim of the second part and lying in a common place parallel to said rim, and

a mushroom headed projection extending outwardly from the bottom of the second of said cup-shaped parts, said mushroom headed projection being snap engageable with any of the holes in the side walls or the bottom of the first or second parts of another like container.