Self-standing container for packaging a product for retail display

• US 8,857,610 B1
• Filed: 06/18/2012
• Issued: 10/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shurtape Technologies LLC (STM Industries Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Shurtape Technologies LLC (STM Industries Incorporated)
• Inventors: Gruber, George Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN
• Application Number:
  US13/525,789
• Time in Patent Office: 848 Days
• Field of Search: 206/45.24, 206/45.2, 206/45.23, 206/762, 206/515, 206/470, 206/303, 206/403, 206/519
• US Class Current: 206/45.24
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 21/0233 Nestable containers
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 25/10 Devices to locate articles in containers for protecting articles from mechanical damage B65D81/02
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 25/24 for spacing bases of containers from supporting surfaces, e.g. legs for pallets B65D19/40
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2543/00027 Stackable lids or covers
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2543/00092 circular
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2543/00296 Plastic
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2543/00537 on the outside, or a part turned to the outside of the mouth of the container
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 43/0222 only on the outside, or a part turned to the outside, of the mouth of the container B65D43/0216 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/671 wound in flat spiral form

Abstract

A container for packaging a product for retail display includes a base defining a product containment area with an annular rim defining an opening into the containment area and a lid mated to the rim for selective attachment to and detachment from the rim for opening and closing access into the containment area. At least one leg, preferably a pair of legs, is connected outwardly to the base adjacent the rim for supporting the assembled base and lid for self-standing on a substantially horizontal retail display surface with the base and the lid in a substantially vertical orientation.

Claims

1. A container for packaging a product for retail display, the container comprising a base defining a product containment area with an annular rim defining an opening into the containment area and a lid mated to the rim for selective attachment to and detachment from the rim for opening and closing access into the containment area, and a pair of spaced-apart legs connected outwardly to the base adjacent the rim for supporting the assembled base and lid for self-standing on a substantially horizontal retail display surface with the base and the lid in a substantially vertical orientation, wherein the base is bowl-shaped with a bottom wall and an annular wall projecting from the bottom wall, and with the rim formed along a free annular edge of the annular wall, the lid comprising an inner side formed with an annular flange for frictional engagement about the rim of the base to secure the lid on the base, the legs being pivoted to the base adjacent the rim to be engaged by the flange of the lid when mated to the rim of the base for pivoting the legs into disposition for supporting the base and lid in said self-standing orientation when the lid is secured to the base, the base being predominantly round and the annular wall being predominantly curvilinear with a segment of the annular wall being substantially linear, the legs being formed along the linear segment of the annular wall.

2. A container for packaging a product for retail display according to claim 1, wherein the annular wall of the base tapers narrowingly from the rim to the bottom wall for receipt of the bottom wall and the annular wall within the containment area of a second like base, thereby to facilitate nesting of multiple like bases.

3. A container for packaging a product for retail display according to claim 1, wherein the lid has an outer side formed with a recessed annular shoulder for receipt of the annular flange of a second like lid, thereby to facilitate nesting of multiple like lids.

4. A container for packaging a product for retail display according to claim 1, wherein the pair of spaced apart legs includes a foot portion for engagement with the annular wall for positioning of the legs in said pivoted disposition.

5. A container for packaging a product for retail display according to claim 1, wherein the base is configured to nest with like bases.

6. A container for packaging a product for retail display according to claim 1, wherein the lid is configured to nest with like lids.