JP3136919U - Food container - Google Patents

Abstract

A side dish or the like stored inside a container can be visually recognized without opening or closing the lid, and it is convenient for sales of a lunch box or the like by visually checking the side dish or the like of the lunch box, and by opening and closing the lid. The present invention provides a food container that can purchase a lunch box and the like by encouraging buyers.
In a food container 1 composed of a box body 2 and a lid body 5 to be crowned, the lid body is provided with a window 6 that can be opened and closed, and the inside of the food container 1 can be visually confirmed by opening and closing the window 7. Food container made possible.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a food container for storing rice and side dishes and serving as a lunch box.

  There is known a food container in which rice and side dishes are stored in a container such as a paper container and used as a lunch box. These bento boxes have been put to practical use in various ways, such as station lunch boxes sold at railway stations, empty boxes sold at airports, and lunch box containers sold at department stores.

Conventionally, containers, such as a lunch box, are known (for example, refer to patent documents 1 and 2).
JP 2000-6950 A JP-A-8-150008

Patent Document 1 relates to a “container with an inner box”, in which an inner lid is fitted into the upper half of the bottom box, the outer box is partitioned into two stages, and the upper inner box is attached to the outer box. It is a structure that opens and closes entirely with a lid piece.
Patent Document 2 relates to a “assembled-type lid girder folding box”, in which a lid plate that opens and closes an open upper surface of a box body that stores an inner lid member is divided into left and right sides, and the left and right lid plates are provided on left and right side plate portions of the box body. The upper end portion is provided by being folded in a mountain.

In the above prior art, first, in the container of Patent Document 1, the contents and state of the lunch box stored in the box cannot be visually recognized unless the cover piece is fully opened.
Therefore, in order to check the side dishes and state of the lunch box in the container, open the lunch box stored in the container and expose it with a transparent wrap so that the contents of the lunch box can be seen. I must.
In the container of Patent Document 2, the lid only opens left and right, and in order to visually recognize the contents of the lunch box stored in the container, it is necessary to open the lid to the left and right or left and right to expose and visually check the contents. There are the same inconveniences as in Patent Document 1.

  The present invention can visually check the side dishes stored inside the container without opening and closing the lid, etc. in the container of the lunch box, etc. It is an object of the present invention to provide a food container that can open a lid to open and close the lid to raise interest in the purchaser and purchase a lunch box or the like.

  The invention according to claim 1 is a food container comprising a box body and a lid body that covers the box body, wherein the lid body is provided with an openable / closable window, The interior is made visible by opening and closing.

  The invention according to claim 2 is characterized in that, in claim 1, the opening and closing of the window is a sliding door piece attached to the lid.

  The invention according to claim 3 is a food container, comprising a bottom piece, a box body opened upward provided with a peripheral wall piece standing up from a peripheral edge of the bottom piece, a plate-like inner lid body placed on the box body, An inner lid body comprising a top piece having an opening with a large area, a peripheral wall piece suspended from the periphery of the top piece, and an outer lid body crowned from above on the box body. A viewing window is provided in a part of the door, and a sliding door piece for opening and closing the viewing window of the inner lid is provided between the outer lid and the inner lid.

  The invention according to claim 4 is characterized in that, in claim 3, the box, the inner lid, and the outer lid are rectangular in a plan view.

  The invention according to claim 5 is characterized in that, in claim 3, the sliding door piece is provided with a stopper that comes into contact with an edge of the opening of the outer lid.

  The invention according to claim 6 is the invention according to claim 3, wherein the viewing window is any one of a round window, a rectangular window, a flower head window, and a cloud window, and the sliding door piece imitates a shoji pattern. Features.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, since the openable window is provided on the lid of the food container containing the lunch box, and the inside is made visible by opening and closing the window, the inside of the food container can be opened without opening the lid. For example, by setting the window portion as a side dish of a lunch box stored in a food container, you can visually check the side dish by opening and closing the window without opening the lid, and purchase a lunch box. By adding an interesting operation such as opening and closing the window, you can increase the willingness to purchase when you buy a lunch, and you can put a transparent film on the window to sanitize your lunch. Etc. can be confirmed.

  In the invention according to claim 2, since the opening and closing of the window is performed by the sliding door piece attached to the lid, in addition to the effect of claim 1, the opening and closing operation of the window is simple. Since it is an operation that pulls and pushes the sliding door, the operation is interesting, and at the time of purchase, it is possible to check the contents of the lunch box side dish while having fun, and the opening and closing mechanism of the window can be simply configured.

In the invention according to claim 3, the box body, the plate-like inner lid body that covers the box body, and the box body that covers the inner lid body from the top and has a top piece with an opening having a large area are covered from above. Since it consists of an outer lid body that crowns, a viewing window is provided in a part of the inner lid body, and a sliding door piece that opens and closes the viewing window of the inner lid body is provided between the outer lid body and the inner lid body. The inside of the food container can be visually recognized by pulling the sliding door piece and opening the window of the inner lid without opening the outer lid.
Therefore, for example, by making the window part a side dish of a lunch box stored in a food container, you can visually check the side dish by opening and closing the window without opening the outer lid, and you can purchase a lunch box. By adding an interesting operation such as opening and closing the window, you can increase your willingness to purchase a lunch, and by attaching a transparent film etc. to the window provided on the inner lid, You can check the contents of the lunch box.

  In addition, an opening is provided in the outer lid body, the sliding door piece is exposed in the opening, the sliding door piece is slid in the opening, and the window of the inner lid body is opened and closed. By combining the lid and the sliding door piece, for example, it is possible to obtain a food container and a lunch box with a rich design that appeals to the purchaser by combining shoji and Japanese-style paintings.

  In the device according to claim 4, the food container has a box body, an inner lid body, and an outer lid body that are rectangular in a plan view. In addition to the effect of claim 3, the food container is easy to store a lunch box, etc. It is easy to obtain a design with excellent design, such as sliding door pieces, paintings and patterns in the margins of the periphery.

  According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, since the sliding door piece is provided with the stopper that comes into contact with the edge of the opening of the outer lid body, in addition to the effect of the third aspect, the window is reliably opened and closed by the sliding door piece.

In the invention according to claim 6, since the viewing window is any one of a round window, a rectangular window, a flower head window, and a cloud window, the shape of the window and the shape and pattern of the sliding door pieces are displayed on the inner lid body below the opening. Along with patterns and paintings, it is possible to provide an entertaining lunch box with high taste and interest, and the value of the lunch box stored in the food container can be increased.
In addition, the above can be performed by setting the shape of the window, setting the pattern of the sliding door pieces and the like, the setting of the pattern of the blank portion, and the setting of the painting in relation to this.

The best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The drawings are viewed in the direction of the reference numerals.
FIG. 1 shows a first embodiment of a food container according to the present invention, and is an external perspective view in which a lid and a box are separated. FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along line 2-2 in FIG.
In the present embodiment, the food container 1 is made of a box 2 and a lid 5 and has an overall shape that is long in the front and back compared to the width.

The box 2 of the food container 1 is composed of a bottom piece 2a and peripheral wall pieces 2b erected from the four peripheral edges of the bottom piece 2a (... represents a plurality, the same applies hereinafter) and is open upward.
In the embodiment, the partition piece 3 is disposed so as to cross in the width direction at a position that is approximately 1/3 of the entire length of the box body 2, and the inside space 4 of the box body has a large rice storage space 4 a. And a side dish storage space 4b smaller than this.

The lid 5 has a top piece 5a that covers the box 2 and a peripheral wall piece 5b that hangs from the four peripheral edges of the top piece 5a and surrounds the outside of the peripheral wall piece 2b of the box 2 described above. The lid 5 is detachably crowned from above (openable and closable), and the lunch box made of stored rice, side dishes or the like is covered.
A viewing window 6 is opened and installed so as to cover a part of the top piece 5a of the lid 5, specifically, the above-mentioned side dish storage space 4b of the box 2 closed by the top piece 5a.
The viewing window 6 has a relatively large area so that side dishes stored in the side dish storage space 4b can be confirmed.

The viewing window 6 is closed with an opening / closing piece 7 so as to be opened and closed. In the embodiment, the opening / closing piece 7 is a sliding door piece that moves in the length direction of the top piece 5a and opens and closes.
As shown in FIG. 2, guide rails 8 and 8 are provided on the left and right of a part of the bottom surface of the top piece 5a, and the left and right ends 7a and 7a of the sliding door piece 7 are provided between the guide rails 8 and 8, respectively. The sliding door piece 7 is slidable on the lower surface of the top piece 5a in the longitudinal direction of the top piece 5a.
The end of the sliding door piece 7 is provided with a regulating piece 7b for restricting the opening / closing limit by abutting with the edge 6a of the viewing window 6 and holding the sliding door piece 7 easily by holding it. Provided.

In the above, rice, side dishes, etc. are stored in the rice storage space 4a and the side dish storage space 4b of the box 2, respectively, and the rice and side dishes stored with the lid 5 covered from above are closed and closed. Form a bento.
In the above, a lunch box is provided in a closed state. The viewing window 6 is opened by pulling the sliding door piece 7 of the lunch box, and the opening limit of the sliding door piece 7 is regulated and opened by the restriction piece 7b coming into contact with the edge 6b at the back of the viewing window 6. The side dishes and the like in the lunch box can be viewed from the viewing window 6.
Thus, by removing the lid 5 from the box 2 and visually recognizing the inside, it is possible to confirm the contents of the lunch box, side dishes, etc. stored in the lunch box.

Although the above food containers are rectangular in plan view in the embodiment, they can be formed into a shape other than a circle, an oval, an ellipse, or a polygon other than a square, such as a hexagon or an octagon.
The food container 1 described above is formed of paper, paper coated with resin on the inside, etc. for both the box and lid. You may form with resin other than paper.

3 is an exploded perspective view showing a second embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a single box, FIG. 5 is a sectional view taken along line 5-5 of FIG. 4, and FIG. FIG. 7 is a sectional view taken along line 7-7 in FIG. 6, FIG. 8 shows an inner lid body and a sliding door piece, (a) is a plan view of the inner lid body, and (b) is a sliding door. It is a top view of a piece.
The food container 11 includes a rectangular box 12, an outer lid body 14, an inner lid body 16, and a sliding door piece 19.

3, 4, and 5, the box 12 includes a bottom piece 12 a and peripheral wall pieces 12 b that stand up and surround the four peripheral edges of the bottom piece 12 a.
In the embodiment, the four rounds of the bottom piece 12a were folded in a mountain shape to form the inner and outer double walls to form the peripheral wall pieces 12b. In the box 12, a space 13 opened upward for storing rice, side dishes or the like is formed.

The outer lid body 14 has a rectangular shape shallower than the box as shown in FIGS. 3, 6, and 7, surrounds the top piece 14 a and the peripheral edge of the top piece 14 a, and is a peripheral wall piece that is bent and suspended. 14b...
As shown in FIG. 7, the four-round surplus portion of the top piece 14 a was folded in a mountain to form inner and outer double walls to form the peripheral wall pieces 14 b. On the inner side of the upper end of the left and right ones of the peripheral wall piece 14b, cutouts 14c for locking a locking piece of the inner lid body 16, which will be described later, are formed apart from each other in the front-rear direction. Moreover, the notches 14c and 14c were formed also in the width direction intermediate part of the front and rear peripheral wall pieces.
6 and 7, only the left and right sides of the peripheral wall piece are shown, but the other side is also formed at two places spaced apart in the front-rear direction.

The top piece 14 a of the outer lid body 14 is provided with a large-area opening 15 that is large in the width direction and large in the front-rear direction.
In the embodiment, the opening 15 is, in the embodiment, the upper half 15a of the opening 15 in the longitudinal direction and the upper and lower edges 15c and 15d of the front half 15a are vertically arranged with respect to the upper and lower edges 15e and 15f of the rear half 15b. A cloud-like shape having a large width is formed by shifting the phase.

  The inner lid body 16 is as shown in FIG. 3 and FIG. 8A, and the plate shape covering the entire box body 12 is made of a plate-like member, and the left and right side edge portions 16a and 16a are separated from each other in the front-rear direction. Then, each of the two locking pieces 16c... Is projected, and the front and rear edges 16b and 16b are provided with one locking piece 16c and 16c at the center in the width direction.

A viewing window 17 is provided in a portion of the inner lid body 16 that is biased toward one side in the front-rear direction (length direction).
The visual recognition window 17 is a size that allows a side dish or the like accommodated in the box 12 of the food container to be sufficiently visually recognized, and is a circular window with a lower side in the embodiment. The viewing window 17 was covered with a transparent film 18 from the back surface to cover the window to ensure hygiene.

The sliding door piece 19 for opening and closing the viewing window 17 is as shown in FIG. 3 and FIG. 8B. The sliding door piece 19 has a sufficient area and width to close the viewing window 17 described above. Is formed by a plate-like member having a width larger than the opening 15 of the outer lid body 14 and having substantially the same width as the inner lid body 16.
The left and right sides of the sliding door piece 19 are provided with guide pieces 19a and 19a that are slightly longer in the front and rear, and the length in the front and rear direction of the sliding door piece 19 is substantially the same as the length of the front half portion 15a and the rear half portion 15b of the opening. did.
A regulating piece (pick piece) having a small width is bent and erected at the center in the width direction of the front end portion 19 b of the sliding door piece 19.

FIG. 9 is a perspective view showing a state after assembly as a food container (lunch box), and FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view taken along line 10-10 of FIG.
Further explanation will be made with reference to these drawings. The sliding cover piece 19 is disposed between the inner lid body 16 and the outer lid body 14 so as to sandwich the sliding door piece 19 between the inner lid body 16 and the inner lid body 16. The locking pieces on the left and right sides of the body 16 and the locking pieces 16c at the front and rear ends are engaged with notches 14c provided on both inner sides and front and rear sides of the peripheral wall pieces 14b of the outer lid body 14, respectively.
Accordingly, the inner lid body 16 is locked to the lower surface of the top piece 14a of the outer lid body 14, and the sliding door piece 19 is sandwiched and held therebetween.

As shown in FIG. 9, the sliding door piece 19 has guide pieces 19a and 19a on both the left and right sides, upper and lower edges 15c and 15d of the front half 15a of the opening 15 of the outer lid body 14, and upper and lower edges 15e and 15f of the rear half 15b. These portions are frame-shaped and face the lower left and right sides of the frame portion 14d that surrounds the inner side of the top piece 14a.
As shown in the figure, in a state where the sliding door piece 19 is pulled to the right-hand side in the figure, the restricting piece 19c comes into contact with the front edge portion 15g of the opening, and further movement is restricted.

Accordingly, as shown in FIG. 10, the food container 11 that has been closed cannot be visually recognized because the sliding door piece 19 closes the viewing window 17 of the rice or side dishes accommodated inside.
The sliding door piece 19 grips the regulating piece (picking piece) 19c and slides it in the opening direction, whereby the sliding door piece 19 moves to open the viewing window 17, from inside this window, that is, a side dish of the lunch box. (
A side dish) etc. can be visually recognized. At this time, the viewing window 17 is hygienic because the transparent film 18 is attached thereto.

Although the above food containers are rectangular in plan view in the embodiment, they can be formed into a shape other than a circle, an oval, an ellipse, or a polygon other than a square, such as a hexagon or an octagon.
Further, the food container 1 described above is formed of paper or paper coated with resin on the inside of the box and lid. You may form with resin other than paper.

11 to 15 are diagrams showing actual examples and other examples of the above-described second embodiment, FIG. 11 is a perspective view of the first example with the sliding door closed, and FIG. FIG. 13 is a perspective view of the second embodiment of the viewing window, FIG. 14 is a perspective view of the third embodiment of the viewing window, and FIG. 15 is a view of the fourth embodiment of the viewing window. It is a perspective view.
Various variations will be described with reference to these drawings.

The embodiment of FIG. 11 displays a lattice pattern or a picture of a shoji screen on the surface of the sliding door piece 19, imitating a state in which the viewing window 17 is fastened with the shoji, and an opening adjacent to the closed sliding door piece 19. On the surface of the left half portion of the inner lid body 16 facing the left half portion 15b of FIG.
Assuming the case where a food container is used as a Japanese-style lunch box, for example, in the embodiment, a visual window made up of a shoji pattern and a round window is associated. A painting imitating Japanese style lunch box was emphasized.

  FIG. 12 shows a state in which the sliding door piece 19 is opened. When the sliding door 18 is opened, a circular window appears as a visual window. It is emphasized.

FIG. 13 shows an example in which the viewing window 117 appearing with the sliding door piece 19 opened is a flower head window (firehead window) shape, and FIG. 14 shows the viewing window 217 appearing with the sliding door piece 19 opened. In FIG. 15, the viewing window 317 that appears when the sliding door piece 19 is opened is a square window.
Since the components other than the viewing window are the same as described above, the same parts are denoted by the same reference numerals, and detailed description thereof is omitted.

Although the specific shape of the visual recognition window is given in FIGS. 12 to 15, the shape of the porthole other than this, for example, a concentrator window, a triangle, a pentagon, a hexagon, an octagon, etc., is arbitrary and is stored in a food container. The shape of the viewing window is selected according to the type of food to be selected, and the picture of the inner lid blank is selected according to the type of food stored in the food container.
The shape of the viewing window is selected and set according to the type of food to be stored in accordance with the shape of the food container, for example, a circle, an ellipse, an oval, a polygon, or the like.
Furthermore, the food container 1 described above is formed of paper or paper coated with resin on the inside of the box and lid. It may be formed of a resin other than paper as described above.

  The food container according to the present invention is suitable as a lunch box container.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS It is the external appearance perspective view which showed 1st Embodiment of the food container which concerns on this invention, and isolate | separated the cover and the box. FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along line 2-2 of FIG. It is a disassembled perspective view which shows the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a perspective view which shows the simple substance of a box. FIG. 5 is a sectional view taken along line 5-5 of FIG. It is the perspective view seen from the bottom face of an outer cover body. FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view taken along line 7-7 in FIG. 6. An inner lid and a sliding door piece are shown, (a) is a top view of an inner lid, (b) is a top view of a sliding door piece. It is a perspective view which shows the state after an assembly as a food container (lunch box). FIG. 10 is a sectional view taken along line 10-10 in FIG. 9; It is a perspective view of the state where the sliding door of the 1st example of the 2nd embodiment was closed. It is a figure of the visual recognition window open state of the Example of FIG. It is a perspective view of 2nd Example of a visual recognition window. It is a perspective view of 3rd Example of a visual recognition window. It is a perspective view of 4th Example of a visual recognition window.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Food container, 2 ... Box body, 5 ... Cover body, 6 ... Visual recognition window, 7 ... Sliding door which opens and closes a window, 11 ... Food container, 12 ... Box body, 14 ... Outer lid body, 15 opening, 16 ... Inside Lid, 17, 117, 217, 317 ... viewing window, 19 ... sliding door piece

Claims (6)

In a food container comprising a box and a lid covering the box,
The lid is provided with a window that can be opened and closed, and the inside can be visually confirmed by opening and closing the window.
A food container characterized by that.   The food container according to claim 1, wherein the opening and closing of the window is a sliding door piece attached to the lid. Provided with a bottom piece, a box body that is open upward with a peripheral wall piece rising from the periphery of the bottom piece, a plate-like inner lid body that covers the box body, and an opening with a large area that covers the inner lid body. Comprising a top piece, a peripheral wall piece suspended from the periphery of the top piece, and an outer lid body crowned from above on the box body;
A viewing window is provided in a part of the inner lid,
Between the outer lid and the inner lid, a sliding door piece for opening and closing the visual window of the inner lid is provided.
A food container characterized by that.   The food container according to claim 3, wherein the box, the inner lid, and the outer lid are rectangular in a plan view.   The food container according to claim 3, wherein the sliding door piece is provided with a stopper that comes into contact with an edge of the opening of the outer lid.   The food container according to claim 3, wherein the viewing window is any one of a round window, a square window, a flower head window, and a cloud window, and the sliding door piece has a shoji pattern.

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