Patent ID: 6648165
Filing Date: 2003-11-18
Classification: B65D,E04F,E04G,Y10S

Abstract:
An open topped container comprising a first receptacle and a second receptacle joined at a common upper edge each receptacle having a rectangular open top and each receptacle enclosing a volume on all sides except the open top wherein the panels extending from the common edge provide a sufficient space therebetween to rest on at least a portion of an extended forearm and accommodate a portion of a thumb of a hand of a user extended beneath and around one of the receptacles and wherein the second receptacle, which is on the outside of the forearm as the container rests on the forearm, further comprises a first rectangular panel having the common edge as its first longer edge, a second rectangular panel joined at its first longer edge to the second longer edge of the first rectangular panel and of equal length therewith, a third rectangular panel joined at its first longer edge to the second longer edge of the second rectangular panel and of equal length therewith, a fourth rectangular panel joined at its first longer edge to the second longer edge of the third rectangular panel and of equal length therewith, each of the first, second, third and fourth rectangular panels joined at each of its shorter edges to a first, second, third and fourth edge, respectively, of an end piece further wherein the first edge of the end pieces is no more than half as long as the second edge of the end pieces and forms an internal obtuse angle therewith, the third edge of the end pieces is curved and the third rectangular panel is bowed so that the shorter edges of the third rectangular panel match the curve of the third edge of the end pieces and the fourth edge of the end pieces is of a length equivalent to the sum of the lengths of the first and second edges thereby forming an integral container closed on five sides and having a rectangular opening bordered by the common edge, a fifth edge of the end pieces and the second edge of the fourth rectangular panel.