Patent ID: 7661549
Filing Date: 2010-02-16
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: a pair of containers having complimentary contours on external surfaces thereof such that with one of the containers inverted, with respect to the other one of the containers, said external surfaces are nestable; each said external surface having an embossment distally positioned from a groove, so that with the embossment of each one of the containers frictionally engaged with the groove of the other one of the containers, the containers are thereby impermanently joined; each of the containers having an aperture therein; each of the containers engaged with a removable cap having a primarily planar base portion hinged, by a hinge, to a primarily planar cover portion wherein the base portion and the cover portion may assume a mutually coplanar attitude and alternately may assume a surface-to-surface contacting attitude, the base portion providing a hollow neck having a through hole therein, the hollow neck extending to one side or the base portion, the cover portion providing a stopper portion extending to one side of the cover portion and positionable into the through hole of the hollow neck when the cover portion is in the surface to surface contacting attitude relative to the base portion, the cover portion further providing a flange positioned in opposition to the hinge, the flange extending to one side of the cover portion and positionable in contact with an edge of the base portion, wherein with the hollow neck inserted within the aperture, the hollow neck is sealed by the stopper portion and the aperture is sealed by the hollow neck within the aperture, and wherein a pair of spaced apart lips on a top surface of the each container engages and secures the cover portion when in the mutually coplanar attitude.