Patent ID: 9475621
Filing Date: 2016-10-25
CPC Classification: B65D

Claim Text:
1. A tamper evident container capable of assuming an open arrangement and an initially sealed arrangement, the container comprising: a lid and a base; the lid including a cover surface and a lid rim, the lid rim circumferentially extending about the periphery of the lid; the base including a base rim circumferentially extending about the periphery of the base; a frangible hinge, the hinge formed between a lid hinge segment extending outwardly from the lid rim and a base hinge segment extending outwardly from the base rim; the lid hinge segment including at least one thumb rest positioned, sized and shaped to receive a tip or palmar surface of a thumb on a hand of a user; the at least one thumb rest having a counterpart finger rest located on the base hinge segment, the counterpart finger rest being positioned, sized and shaped to receive a tip or palmar surface of a finger on the user's hand while the thumb of the user's hand is in contact with the thumb rest; and the frangible hinge configured to rupture when the container is in the initially sealed arrangement by the application of a pushing force to the thumb rest and a contemporaneously pulling force to the finger rest.