Container for snack foods

• US 7,748,536 B2
• Filed: 09/11/2007
• Issued: 07/06/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: James Hicswa, Joseph D. Cassese
• Original Assignee: James Hicswa, Joseph D. Cassese
• Inventors: Hicswa, James, Cassese, Joseph D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gehman; Bryon P.
• Application Number:
  US11/853,370
• Publication Number:
  US 20080078773A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,029 Days
• Field of Search: 206/219, 206/542, 219725-735, 426107-115, 426119-120, 426/122, 426/234, 229/4.5, 229/400
• US Class Current: 206/542
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 19/06 Plates with integral holders for spoons, glasses, or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 15/00 Containers having bodies formed by interconnecting or uniting two or more rigid, or substantially rigid, sections made of different materials specially constructed to be opened by cutting, piercing, or tearing, of wall portions B65D17/00; pallets B65D19/00
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 21/0227 Containers joined together by bonding, adhesive or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 3/06 essentially conical or frusto-conical
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 81/3446 specially adapted to be heated by microwaves
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 81/3469 Pop-corn bags
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/36 for bakery products, e.g. biscuits
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/72 for edible or potable liquids, semiliquids, or plastic or pasty materials

Abstract

A snack holder includes a generally cylindrical cup sized and shaped lower section and a larger container or multiple container upper or adjacent section for holding snack foods, additional cups and the like. The snack holder is formed from a single sheet of paper or foldable material that is cut and folded into a desired configuration having a lower or bottom frustoconical or truncated cylindrical section, and an upper generally rectangular parallelepiped container section.

Claims

1. A snack container comprising, in combination:

a generally truncated cylindrical lower support section having an upper, generally circular rim; and

a generally rectangular parallelepiped configured upper snack container section including a generally rectangular, planar bottom side having a center opening and an inside and an outside, said circular rim attached to the bottom side, said lower support section and said upper container section together being comprised from a single folded flat planar sheet, said sheet including a generally circular lower section connected to separate, respective first and second bottom panel sections of said bottom side, said lower section and said bottom panel sections generally arrayed in series along a longitudinal first axis, said circular lower section and said bottom panel sections all including a midpoint generally aligned on said first axis, said second bottom panel section being attached to a first side wall section along a joint line positioned generally parallel with the first axis, the first side wall section further being adjoined to three additional adjoining side wall sections, the additional side wall sections being in a side by side disposition and generally equal in size and shape with the first side wall section, the side wall sections having lines forming junctures between said side wall sections, said first side wall section and said three additional side wall sections foldable about the juncture lines between the side wall sections to form said upper container section, said first and second bottom panel sections being folded over the cylindrical lower support section to form the planar bottom side of the upper container section.

2. The container of claim 1 further including tabs along a border of the three additional side wall sections for connection to the bottom panel sections.

3. The container of claim 1 wherein the bottom panel sections each include a generally circular opening.