CA1225344A - Container for food products, particularly sweet products, usable as a money box - Google Patents

Container for food products, particularly sweet products, usable as a money box

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CA1225344A
CA1225344A CA000480082A CA480082A CA1225344A CA 1225344 A CA1225344 A CA 1225344A CA 000480082 A CA000480082 A CA 000480082A CA 480082 A CA480082 A CA 480082A CA 1225344 A CA1225344 A CA 1225344A
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casing
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Pietro Ferrero
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65DCONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D81/00Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents
    • B65D81/36Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents
    • B65D81/365Containers, or parts thereof, simulating or being incorporated into other items, e.g. puppet, animal, vehicle, building, dumb bells
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65DCONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D11/00Containers having bodies formed by interconnecting or uniting two or more rigid, or substantially rigid, components made wholly or mainly of plastics material

Abstract

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
A container for food products, which can be used as a money box after consumption of the products, comprises a hollow casing constituted by two trough-shaped bodies which can be joined together releasably at their complementary free edges. One of the free edges has a notch which defines a slot with the other free edge when the bodies are joined together. The two bodies have shaped appendages which give the container an animal-like appearance, and some of the appendages serve to support the container with the slot facing upwardly.

Description

The present invention relates -to containers for food products, and is particularly concerned with a container in the form of a money box which can be used for keeping money and similar objects after consumption of the products.
Broadly speaking, the present invention provides a container for food products, which can be used for keeping money and similar objects after consumption of the products, comprising: a hollow casing for receiving the food products, the hollow casing having a zoo morphic appearance and being constituted by two hollow trough-shaped bodies which can be joined together releasable in a frontal mating position goner-ally transversely along the hollow casing, the trough-shaped bodies having complementary free edges forming a zone of connection, at least one of the free edges defining a notch which, together with the free ends of the other trough-shaped body, forms a transverse slot in the wall of the casing when the two bodies are joined together, a partitioning separator member enclosed within the casing fitted releasable within the casing to divide the casing into portions defining two chambers, one of said chambers being intended to receive the food products, and a luminary sealing member applied removably to the casing to close the slot, the sealing member being in the form ox an annular band which can be wrapped around the hollow casing in the zone of connection between the two trough-shaped bodies.

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Preferably, at least one of -the trough-shaped bodies has associated shaped appendages which give the con-trainer itself the zoo morphic appearance and at least some of kick constitute support formations for supporting the con-tuner in a disposition in which the slot faces approximately upwardly .
By virtue of this characteristic, a container for food products, particularly sweet products, is provided which, after consumption of the products contained therein, can be used as a -toy functioning as a money box.
Further characteristics and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the description which follows, purely by way of non-limiting example, with reference to the appended drawings, in which:

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Figure 1 is a perspective view of a container according to the invention in a first disposition of use, Figure 2 illustrates the container of Figure 1 after opening, and 5 Figure 3 illustrates the same container in another disposition of use.

In the drawings a container for accommodating food products, particularly sweet products such as, for example, small chocolate eggs E, is indicated 1.

10 The container 1 is constituted essentially by a hollow casing 2 comprising two trough-shaped bodies 3, 4 which can be joined together releasable in a frontal making position.

The two bodies 3, 4 are two half-casings of plastics 15 material which, when joined together, together define an approximately ovoid casino.

The body 3 is made of transparent mounded plastics material while the body 4 is made of opaque plastics material.

20 Both the body 3 and the body have shaped decorative elements applied to them, for example by ultrasonic welding, to give the container itself a zoomorphi~
appearance For example, in the embodiment illustrated, two lower leg-shaped parts 5 and a group of upper shaped parts I, together defining the muzzle, eyes and ears of a small dog, are fixed Jo the transparent body 3.

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To the bottom portion of the other trough-~h~ped body 4, on the other hand, is attached a further shaped part 7 defining the tail of the dog.

The legs 5 define support formations intended to support S the container 1 in a position corresponding to the erect position of the animal represented thereby.

us best seen in Figure 2, which illustrates the container 1 partially dismantled, a separator member 8 is inserted between the two bodies 3, 4 and acts as an internal partition for the casing 2 to divide the casing into two chambers corresponding substantially to the two bodies 3 and 4.

The "front" chamber of the casing 2, that is, the chamber corresponding to the body 3 on which the front legs 5 and the muzzle 6 of the dog are mounted, contains the eggs E when the container is assembled. The "rear"
chamber of the casing, however, houses other decorative elements 9 constituted, for example, by adhesive labels of plastics material or cloth, the use of which will be better explained below.

The free edges of both trough-shaped bodies 3, 4 are circular. the free edge of the body 3 also has a notch 10 which, when the two bodies 3, 4 are joined together with their free edges mating, defines a slot 12 relative to the free edge of the body 4 Figure 3). The position of the notch 10 is selected in dependence on the position of the shaped parts (the legs S) defining the support formations of the container so that, when the container is disposed on a flat surface, the slot 12 faces more or less upwardly.

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Preferably, the separator member 8 has a generally dished configuration in which it is possible to distinguish a curved or dished bottom wall and a cylindrical side wall 13 extending along a circular path with a diameter slightly less than the diameter of the circular path along which the free edges of the two bodies 3 and 4 extend.

On assembly of the container, the separator member 8 is applied as a cover to the body 4 after the decorative elements 9 have been inserted in the body.

Subsequently, the closed body 4 is connected to the body 3 in which the small eggs E have been placed. The connection of the two bodies is generally effected by snap-engagement of the free edges of the two bodies 3, 4, which have complementary profiles.

The isolation of the front and rear chambers of the casing from the exterior is made more effective by an annular band 14 of adhesive material which is wrapped around the casing 2 to cover the zone of connection between the two bodies 3, 4. The adhesive band 14 extends as a sealing cover for the notches 10, further reinforcing the connection between the bodies 3, 4.

The assembled container has the appearance illustrated in Figure 1.

In order to consume the small eggs E, the user removes the adhesive band 14, as shown schematically in Figure
2, separating the two bodies 3 and 4. The chamber containing the eggs E is thus made accessible to allow the removal of the products contained therein.

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After the consumption of the eggs E, the container l may be reassembled, the separator member 8 being removed after the decorative elements 9 in the body 4 have been taken out.

In the new configuration of assembly, the container l takes on the overall appearance illustrated in Foggier.
In this condition, coins M, bank notes, and similar objects to be kept may be introduced into the casing 2 through the slot 12 defined by the notch lo lo Thus, in this second disposition of use, the container 1 serves as a money box.

The elements 9 taken from the body 4 may be stuck onto one of the bodies 3, 4 in order to decorate the container further.

In the embodiment illustrated, the decorative elements 9 may be applied to the container 2 so as to simulate the patches of the animal represented by the container l.

Claims (6)

THE EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION IN WHICH AN EXCLUSIVE
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. A container for food products, which can be used for keeping money and similar objects after consumption of the products, comprising:
a hollow casing for receiving the food products, the hollow casing having a zoomorphic appearance and being constituted by two hollow trough-shaped bodies which can be joined together releasably in a frontal mating position generally transversely along the hollow casing, the trough-shaped bodies having comple-mentary free edges forming a zone of connection, at least one of the free edges defining a notch which, together with the free ends of the other trough-shaped body, forms a transverse slot in the wall of the casing when the two bodies are joined together a partitioning separator member enclosed within the casing fitted releasably within the casing to divide the casing into portions defining two chambers, one of said chambers being intended to receive the food products and a laminar sealing member applied removably to the casing to close the slot, the sealing member being in the form of an annular band which can be wrapped around the hollow casing in the zone of connection between the two trough-shaped bodies.
2. A container as defined in claim 1, carrying associated decorative members for application to the container, a second chamber of said two chambers being intended to receive decorative elements.
3. A container as defined in claim 2, wherein the portion of the casing defining the chamber intended to receive the food product is made from transparent material and the portion of the casing defining the chamber intended to receive the decorative elements is made of opaque material.
4. A container as defined in claim 1, wherein at least one of the trough-shaped bodies has associated shaped appendages which give the container a zoomorphic appearance at least some of said appendages constituting support formations for support-ing the container in a disposition in which the slot faces approximately upwardly.
5. A container as defined in claim 2, wherein at least one of the trough-shaped bodies has associated shaped appendages which gives the container a zoomorphic appearance at least some of said appendages constituting support formations for supporting the container in a disposition in which the slot faces approxi-mately upwardly.
6. A container as defined in claim 3, wherein at least one of the trough-shaped bodies has associated shaped appendages which give the container a zoomorphic appearance at least some of said appendages constituting support formations for support-ing the container in a disposition in which the slot faces approximately upwardly.
CA000480082A 1984-05-18 1985-04-25 Container for food products, particularly sweet products, usable as a money box Expired CA1225344A (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

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IT533391-B/84 1984-05-18
IT8453391U IT8453391V0 (en) 1984-05-18 1984-05-18 CONTAINER FOR FOOD PRODUCTS PARTICULARLY SWEET PRODUCTS USABLE AS A Piggy Bank

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AU (1) AU573813B2 (en)
BE (1) BE902329A (en)
CA (1) CA1225344A (en)
CH (1) CH663001A5 (en)
DE (1) DE3515466A1 (en)
DK (1) DK164657C (en)
ES (1) ES286288Y (en)
FI (1) FI78045C (en)
FR (1) FR2564437B1 (en)
GB (1) GB2158810B (en)
GR (1) GR851138B (en)
HK (1) HK57993A (en)
IT (1) IT8453391V0 (en)
LU (1) LU85900A1 (en)
NL (1) NL8501123A (en)
NO (1) NO162152C (en)
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DK164657B (en) 1992-07-27
NO851956L (en) 1985-11-19
BE902329A (en) 1985-08-16
ES286288Y (en) 1986-06-16
ATA147885A (en) 1991-02-15
NO162152B (en) 1989-08-07
DE3515466A1 (en) 1985-11-21
AU573813B2 (en) 1988-06-23
IT8453391V0 (en) 1984-05-18
GB2158810A (en) 1985-11-20
SE8501779D0 (en) 1985-04-11
AT393254B (en) 1991-09-25
GB8509317D0 (en) 1985-05-15
ES286288U (en) 1985-12-01
FR2564437A1 (en) 1985-11-22
FI851980L (en) 1985-11-19
DK219385A (en) 1985-11-19
SE462647B (en) 1990-08-06
NO162152C (en) 1989-11-15
FI78045C (en) 1989-06-12
GR851138B (en) 1985-11-25
FI851980A0 (en) 1985-05-17
SE8501779L (en) 1985-11-19
LU85900A1 (en) 1986-01-14
DK219385D0 (en) 1985-05-17
GB2158810B (en) 1988-05-11
FR2564437B1 (en) 1989-08-18
ZA852759B (en) 1985-12-24
CH663001A5 (en) 1987-11-13
FI78045B (en) 1989-02-28
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