US2070711A - Container - Google Patents

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, Feb. 16, 1937. A. P. COSTA ET AL CONTAINER Original Filed April 5, 193.5

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Refiled for abandoned application Serial No. 664,662, April 5, 1933. This application May 16, 1936, Serial No. 80,182

2 Claims.

This application is a substitute for application Serial No. 664,662, filed April 5, 1933.

This invention relates to the class of paper receptacles and has particular reference to the type of container or paper receptacle employed for holding ice cream, frozen confection and the like.

Heretofore it has beenthe practice to provide as a container for ice cream and frozen confection a paper cup having a separable lid and when vending such articles a wooden spoon or the like is supplied with each article to facilitate eating the contents of the cup or container.

In accordance with the present invention a container for the purpose above suggested is provided which will facilitate the packing of the ice cream or frozen confection therein, will dispense with the need of a spoon for eating the contents of the container and will otherwise prove more efficient than containers as now employed.

Briefly the invention consists in the provision of a container made of paper, suitably treated, or from other destructible material and from which sections thereof may be removed successively as the contents of the container are being consumed.

The invention together with its numerous objects and advantages will be best understood from a study of the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings wherein is illustrated a preferred embodiment of the invention.

It is to be understood at the outset that the form of the invention herein disclosed is merely exemplatory and that accordingly it is in nowise intended to restrict the invention other than to meet the requirements of the prior art and scope of the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is an elevational view of one side of the container.

Figure 2 is a side elevational view of the container taken at right angles to Figure 1.

Figure 3 is top plan view.

Figure 4 is a side elevational view of the container with one section thereof removed.

Figure 5 is a vertical sectional elevatlonal view taken through the lower or handle end portion of the container, and

Figure 6 is a plan view of the blank from which the container is formed.

Referring to the drawings by reference numerals it will be seen that the container is of elongated form, substantially rectangular in cross section. In accordance with the present invention the container comprises four elongated sides or walls I, 2, 3 and 4. Walls l and 4 at their meeting edges are joined through the medium of a longitudinal flap 5 provided on the longitudinal edge of the wall I and adhesively secured to the inner face of the wall 4. The lower portions of 5 walls 2 and 4 converge, and the lower portions of walls I and 3 are folded on fold lines 6, I inwardly between the lower portions of walls I and 4 and the lower portions of the walls I, 2, 3 and 4 are held in their final positions through the medium 10 of a flap 8 provided on the lower edge of the wall 4 andfoldable inwardly behind corresponding folded portions of the walls I and 3 as suggested in Figure 5. It will thus be seen that the lower portions of the walls form a tapered handle for the container and the flap 8 also serves as a bottom closure for the container.

Walls 2 and 4 are provided at their upper edges with closure flaps 9 that are foldable inwardly one upon the other, while walls I and 3 are provided respectively with flaps III, II respectively which are also foldable one upon the other and upon the folded fiaps 9. Flap I l is provided with a tongue I2 to engage a slit I3 provided in the-flap III for securing all the flaps 9, Ill and II in folded position for sealing or closing the top or upper end of the container.

To facilitate removal of portions or sections of the container as the ice cream or frozen confection contained therein is consumed, the walls I to 4 inclusive together with flap 5 are transversed at vertically spaced points in their length by score lines I4, I5 while the wall 3 has in an upper portion thereof above the score line I4 a diagonal score line I6 and the wall I between the score linesl :4, I 5 is also provided with a diagonal score line It will thus be seen that when it is desired to remove the portion of the container above the score line I4, the wall 3 is first torn along 40 the score line I6 and then by tearing along the score line I4 the portions of the walls I to 4 and the flap 5 above the score line I4 are readily removed. Similarly when the ice cream or the like I8 has been consumed to the point suggested in Figure 4 an additional section or portion of the container may be removed by tearing first along the score line I! and then along the score line I5.

In actual practice the container is formed from a single blank of a strong, comparatively stifl' paper suitably treated and cut to the blank form suggested in Figure 6. The walls I to 4 inclusive and flap 5 are formed by folding the blank on the longitudinal parallel fold lines I0 5 while the lowerportions oi the walls I to l inelusive, and flap 5 are bendable on a horizontal fold line 20, and the flaps 9, III and I l are bendable on the horizontal or transverse fold line 2|.

From the foregoing it will be seen that I have 7 provided a simple and economical container for ice cream or frozen confection which will provide a sanitary receptacle, which can be readily destroyed after use, and when in use, provides an efficient holder for the ice cream and facilitates the eating thereof. By successive removal of portions 01' the container the eating of the ice cream may be accomplished without resort to a spoon and at the same time without inconvenience.

While for the purpose of facilitating successive removal of the portions or sections of the container I have shown diagonal lines of perforations and transverse or horizontal lines of perforations it is to be understood that if desired a suitable length of string, wire or any other suitable medium may be employed to the receptacle in any suitable manner and following substantially the arrangement of the perforated or score lines to be used to facilitate the successive removal of portions of the container, it being intended in nowise to limit the invention to the specific medium shown for this purpose other than as might be necessary to meet the requirements of the prior art and scope of the of destructible material having walls two of which converge at their lower ends and a second two of which have their lower portions foldable inwardly toward one another between the lower portions of the first two walls, a flap on the lower end of one of the first two walls for closing the bottom of the container, flaps on the upper ends of all of said walls for closing the top of the container, horizontal score lines extending transversely of the walls at vertically spaced points thereon, and diagonal score lines arranged on two opposed walls, with the diagonal score line of one of said two opposed walls extending from the uppermost horizontal score line to the top of the container, and the diagonal score line on the other of said two opposed walls extending between two adjacent horizontal score lines.

2. A container of the class described constructed of a folded blank and having walls two of which converge at their lower ends-and a second two of which have their lower portions foldable inwardly toward one another between the lower portions of 'the first two walls, a flap on the lower end of one of the first two walls for closing the bottom of the container, flaps on the upper ends of all of said walls for closing the top of the container, said container having the walls thereof scored to form prescribed lines of severance permitting the container to be reduced in size of tearing oif portions thereof along said lines of severance.

ANTHONY P. COSTA. JOSEPH -('JOS'IA, JR.

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