Cup and package of cups
US4193494A · kind A · utility
Assignee
Inventor
Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 28, 1978 |
| Grant date | Mar 18, 1980 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 28, 1998 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB65D1/265
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
Food storage vessels in the form of foam polystyrene cups are each formed with an enlarged cap seat extending from a bottom wall of the cup to define a compartment to be filled when the cups are inverted, with deliquescent or hygroscopic material which can be reconstituted with the addition of water. The cups are inverted after stacking and held together by means applying endwise pressure thereto. In this nested and stacked condition, each cup has a depending base wall, which forms the cap seat, in sealed engagement with an adjacent portion of an adjacent nested cup to provide a sealed enclosure for the material between adjacent cups. Each of the cups is a thick wall, one-piece molded plastic cup preferably of foamed polystyrene.
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