Portable food dispenser

• US 8,015,780 B2
• Filed: 09/14/2009
• Issued: 09/13/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sabert Corporation
• Original Assignee: LBP Manufacturing Incorporated
• Inventors: Wolf, Kurt, Cook, Matthew R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Durand; Paul
• Assistant Examiner(s): Weeks; Gloria R
• Application Number:
  US12/558,974
• Publication Number:
  US 20100139220A1
• Time in Patent Office: 729 Days
• Field of Search: 534/49, 534/91, 206/139, 229/101.2, 229/103
• US Class Current: 53/491
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 47/06 with pouring spouts or tubes; with discharge nozzles or passages with slidable spouts B65D47/26
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 47/12 having removable closures
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/008 the container body having a pyramidal shape
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/103 one of the self-locking flaps having a tongue engaging into an opening of an opposite flap
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/3607 formed by folding or erecting a single blank
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/3628 collapsed along median lines of two opposite sides of the rectangular tubular body
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/46096 two opposite closure flaps being provided with handle elements which are in contact with each other
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/46112 either the handle elements being formed with lugs which engage with the other side walls or closure flaps, or the other closure flaps folding over a part of the handle to maintain the handle in position
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/6605 the lid being formed by two mating halves joined to opposite edges of the container body
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/6614 with means for retaining the lid in open position
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 77/0433 the inner container being a tray or like shallow container, not formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks B65D81/3862 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 229/902 Box for prepared or processed food

Abstract

A portable food dispenser includes one or more containers. A first container is capable of being only partially opened to provide access to food or a second container. The second container includes a cover that can be opened to provide access to food.

Claims

1. A method of transporting an item in a container, comprising:

a. providing a first container that comprises a pair of container slots, multiple pairs of container tabs, a lid, having a first section and a second section, that is integral to the first container and configured to operate between a first position and a second position, and a handle formed from the first section and the second section of the lid, where each of the first section and the second section of the lid comprise a pair of handle tabs and a pair of handle slots;

b. providing the lid of the first container that is capable of having a first pair of the multiple pairs of container tabs inserted into the pair of handle slots from the first section of the lid and a second pair of the multiple pairs of container tabs inserted into the pair of handle slots from the second section of the lid to secure the lid in the first position and to provide access to a potion of the first container; and

c. placing a second container in the first container.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising securing the lid in the first position, to provide access to a portion of the second container, by inserting the first pair of the multiple pairs of container tabs into the pair of handle slots from the first section of the lid and inserting the second pair of the multiple pairs of container tabs into the pair of handle slots from the second section of the lid.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising disengaging each of the multiple pairs of container tabs from the pair of handle slots, and securing the lid in the second position by inserting the pair of handle tabs into the pair of container slots.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising folding the handle flat upon a portion of the lid.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising removing a portion of a cover to the second container to provide access to an interior of the second container.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising removing a cover to the second container to provide access to an interior of the second container.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising providing the lid of the first container that is capable of having the pair of handle tabs inserted into the pair of container slots to secure the lid in the second position.