JPH0717541A - Container - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a space between a tray member and a convexly-shaped lid body engaged therewith to receive its contents and easily remove the lid body from the tray member. CONSTITUTION:A container 1 consists of a tray member 10 and a convexly- shaped lid body 20 placed on the upper part of the tray member for engagement therewith. A tearing projecting piece 40 is provided projecting outwardly from the lower edge of the lid body 20. Holding pieces 34a and 34b are provided in the positions shifted about 90 degrees in the circumferential direction from the tearing projecting piece 40 to left and right, respectively. By lifting and pulling up the tearing projecting piece 40, a shell part 21 of the lid body 20 is torn and the holding pieces 34a and 34b are held between the fingers to spread it out to left and right, so that the lid body 20 is removed from the tray member 10.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a container for storing cakes and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Confectioneries such as cakes are sealed in containers one by one at a confectionery manufacturing factory, transported in this state, placed in stores for sale, and the buyer opens the container and eats it just before eating. There is something like this. There is a container for confectionery packaging of this type in which a convex resin lid is fitted on a resin flat plate member.

The plate member of this container has a flat plate portion in the center and an inclined portion with a rising slope on the outer periphery thereof, and a fitting projection is annularly provided on the upper surface of the flat plate portion. The lid body has a convex shell portion whose upper part is closed and whose lower part is open. The fitting part provided on the lower part of the inner surface of this shell part is externally fitted to the fitting projection of the dish member, whereby the lid part Is attached to the dish member in an airtight state. Further, a generally annular flange portion having a rising slope extends from the lower edge portion of the shell portion of the lid body, and a breaking projection piece is provided so as to project.
The collar portion is superposed on the inclined portion of the dish member.

In this container, the confectionery is placed on the dish member, and the confectionery is covered with the lid. When eating confectionery, pull up the breaking protrusions of the lid to rupture the shells on both sides of the breaking protrusions along the height direction. By unfolding, the fitting portion of the lid is removed from the fitting protrusion of the dish member, and the lid is removed.

[0005]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION In this container,
When expanding the shell, I used to hook the left and right thumb nails on the broken part, but this was very difficult to expand. or,
It also had the drawback of getting your hands dirty. The present invention has been made in view of the above problems of the conventional technique, and an object of the present invention is to obtain a container in which the lid body is easy to remove and the hands are not soiled during removal.

[0006]

The present invention has the following features to attain the object mentioned above. The container is composed of a resin-made dish member and a lid body, and a convex lid body is fitted to the upper portion of the dish member, and a space formed between the dish member and the lid body is filled with confectionery or the like. It will be used as a housing unit for housing.

The plate member is provided with a bottom plate portion and a fitting protrusion. The bottom plate portion is formed in a disc shape, for example. The fitting protrusion is provided in an annular shape so as to stand upright from the upper surface of the bottom plate portion. The lid is provided with a shell portion, a fitting portion, a breaking projection piece, and a tab piece. The shell is formed in a convex shape with the top closed. A cylindrical shape, a hemispherical shape, or the like can be adopted as a specific shape of the shell portion. The fitting portion is a portion that is fitted onto the fitting protrusion of the dish member, and is provided on the lower portion of the inner surface of the shell portion. The breaking projection is projected outward from the lower edge of the shell. The tab is provided at a position deviated from the breaking projection in the left-right direction by about 90 degrees in the circumferential direction.

When the lower edge portion of the shell portion of the lid is brought into surface contact with the bottom plate portion of the dish member, dust and the like cannot enter the fitting portion of the dish member and the lid, which is hygienic. preferable. A flat plate portion is formed at the center of the bottom plate portion of the dish member, and the periphery of the flat plate portion is surrounded by a sloped portion that rises outward and rises outward at the lower edge of the shell portion of the lid. Providing a sloped collar portion, providing the knob piece on the collar portion, stacking the collar portion on the inclined portion of the plate member, and providing a discontinuous portion in the middle of the collar portion in the circumferential direction, and the break in the discontinuous portion. You may make it arrange | position the projecting piece.

The use of the container of the present invention is not limited to the packaging of confectionery such as cakes, but can be applied to the packaging of other foods or non-foods.

[0010]

When the lid is removed, the breaking projection is pulled up and the shell near the breaking projection is broken along the height direction. After that, the left and right knobs are respectively grasped by the left hand and the right hand and spread to the left and right, and the fitting portion of the lid is removed from the fitting protrusion of the dish member. Subsequently, by lifting the lid, the lid is removed from the dish member.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings of FIGS. 1 and 2 are external perspective views of a container for confectionery packaging, and FIG. 3 is a vertical sectional view. Container 1
The dish member 10 is made of resin, and the lid member 20 made of resin is fitted on the dish member 10.

The dish member 10 has a bottom plate portion 11, and the bottom plate portion 11 is composed of a flat disc-shaped flat plate portion 13 and an annular inclined portion 14 continuous with the outer peripheral edge of the flat plate portion 13. The inclined portion 14 has a first inclined portion 14a and a second inclined portion 14a having different inclination angles.
It is composed of an inclined portion 14b. An annular fitting protrusion 15 is provided on the upper surface of the flat plate portion 13 in the vicinity of the outer peripheral edge thereof, and an annular bulging portion 16 that bulges outward is formed on the upper portion of the outer peripheral surface of the fitting protrusion 15. ing. An annular leg portion 17 is provided on the lower surface of the flat plate portion 13 so as to project.

The lid 20 has a shell 21 having a convex shape and a flange 30 having a substantially annular shape. The shell portion 21 is composed of a flat plate-shaped top plate portion 22 and a conical peripheral wall portion 23 whose upper portion is cut, and the lower portion is open. A fitting protrusion (fitting portion) 24 is provided in an annular shape on the lower portion of the inner surface of the peripheral wall portion 23.
The fitting protrusion 24 is fitted onto the outside of the fitting protrusion 15 of the dish member 10 to fit the bulging portion 16 in an airtight state. Then, in this fitted state, the internal space surrounded by the flat plate portion 13 of the dish member 10 and the shell portion 21 of the lid 20 serves as the confectionery storage portion 50. Also, the peripheral wall portion 2
A large number of ribs 25 are provided at equal intervals on the outer peripheral surface of the lower portion of 3.

The collar portion 30 has a horizontal portion 31 which extends flatly outward from the lower end of the shell portion 21, a first inclined portion 32a which rises outward from the outer peripheral edge of the horizontal portion 31, and a first inclined portion 32a. The second inclined portion 32b is formed to have a gentle upward slope from the outer peripheral edge of the inclined portion 32a. The lower surface of the horizontal portion 31 is in surface contact with the upper surface of the flat plate portion 13 of the dish member 10 so that dust and the like cannot enter the airtight fitting portion between the fitting protrusion 15 and the fitting protrusion 24. There is. Second
The inclined portion 32b is superposed on the second inclined portion 14b of the dish member 10.

A discontinuous portion 33 is formed midway in the circumferential direction of the collar portion 30, and the discontinuous portion 33 divides the horizontal portion 31 and the inclined portions 32a and 32b into right and left portions. A breaking projection 40 is arranged on the discontinuous portion 33. The base portion of the breaking projection piece 40 is continuous with the lower end of the peripheral wall portion 23 of the shell portion 21, and the cross-sectional shape of the breaking projection piece 40 is the collar portion 3.
It is almost the same as 0. The tip of the breaking projection 40 projects outward from the inclined portion 14 of the dish member 10, and the tip of the breaking projection 40 is convenient for being picked up or hooked with a finger. Further, a hook claw 41 protruding in the vertical direction is provided. A pair of ribs 42 extending from the lower end of the peripheral wall portion 23 are integrally provided on the upper surface of the breaking projection 40.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the lid body 20 as seen from below. An inverted V-shaped notch 26 is formed at the lower end of the peripheral wall portion 23 so as to be continuous with the discontinuous portion 33 of the collar portion 30. . The upper end of the notch 26 is located below the maximum protruding end 24 a of the fitting protrusion 24 so as not to break the airtight fitting between the fitting protrusion 15 and the fitting protrusion 24. Further, the lid 20 has knobs 34a, 34b at positions that are displaced from the breaking protrusion 40 by 90 degrees in the left-right direction in the circumferential direction. Each tab 34a, 34
b has a thin plate shape, and is provided with the collar portion 30 and the peripheral wall portion 23 of the shell portion 20.
It is connected to. The shape of the knob 34 is shown in FIGS.
The shape is not limited to that shown in FIG. 6, and various shapes such as the shape shown in FIG. 6 can be adopted.

In this container 1, the cake 100 is placed inside the fitting protrusion 15 in the flat plate portion 13 of the dish member 10. When eating the cake 100, the lid 20 of the container 1 is removed as follows. First, a finger is hooked on the hook claw 41 of the breaking projection 40 to raise it upward. Then, the peripheral wall portion 23 of the lid 20 is cracked from the notch 26. Subsequently, the breaking projection piece 40 is pulled upward, and as shown in FIG. 2, the peripheral wall portion 23 located above the breaking projection piece 40 is turned up and broken.

Next, the left and right knobs 34a and 34b are respectively grasped by the left hand and the right hand, and pulled outward to be spread, whereby the fitting projection 24 of the lid 20 and the fitting projection 15 of the dish member 10 are fitted together. Then, the lid body 20 is lifted up and removed from the dish member 10. When the lid 20 is removed in this way, the cake 100 appears in a state of being placed on the bottom plate portion 11 of the dish member 10.

As described above, the lid 20 of the container 1 of the present invention can be removed more easily than the conventional one, and
It has the advantage of keeping your hands clean when removing.

[0020]

As described above, according to the present invention,
By providing the lid with the knob, an excellent effect that the lid can be easily removed without soiling the hand is exhibited.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of a container according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an external perspective view showing the middle of opening the container according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the container according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a plan view around a projecting piece for breaking.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the periphery of the breaking projection piece of the lid body as viewed from below.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing another embodiment of the knob.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Container 10 Dish member 11 Bottom plate part 13 Flat plate part 14 Sloping part 15 Fitting protrusion 20 Lid body 21 Shell part 24 Fitting protrusion part (fitting part) 30 Collar part 31 Horizontal part 33 Discontinuous part 34a, 34b Picking piece 40 Breaking protrusion 50 Storage part

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A resin-made dish member is fitted with a convex resin-made lid body, and a space formed between the dish member and the lid body serves as a housing portion. The dish member includes a bottom plate portion and an annular fitting protrusion that is provided upright on the upper surface of the bottom plate portion, and the lid body has a convex shell portion with an upper portion closed, A fitting portion that is provided on the lower portion of the inner surface of the shell portion and is fitted onto the fitting protrusion of the dish member, and a breaking projection piece that extends outward from the lower edge portion of the shell portion,
A tab provided at a position deviating from the breaking protrusion by about 90 degrees in the circumferential direction, and pulling up the breaking protrusion to raise the shell portion near the breaking protrusion in the lid. A container characterized in that the lid can be detached from the dish member by breaking along the depth direction. 2. The container according to claim 1, wherein the lower edge portion of the shell portion of the lid body is in surface contact with the bottom plate portion of the dish member. 3. The bottom plate portion of the dish member has a flat plate portion at the center, and an inclined portion having a rising slope around the flat plate portion toward the outside. A generally annular collar portion having a discontinuous portion is formed in the circumferential direction in the upward slope from the lower edge portion, and the collar portion of the lid body is provided on the inclined portion of the dish member. 3. The rupture projecting piece is arranged in a discontinuous portion of the collar portion of the lid body, and the knob piece is provided on the collar portion of the lid body. The described container.