Patent ID: 8240504
Filing Date: 2012-08-14
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
1. A canister comprising a container including a brim and a basin coupled to the brim and configured to form an interior product-storage region, the brim being formed to define a mouth opening into the interior product-storage region, and a lid including a cover plate and a rim coupled to a perimeter portion of the cover plate and configured to mate with the brim of the container to close the mouth defined by the brim and to cause a bottom surface of the cover plate to face downwardly toward the basin and a top surface of the cover plate to face upwardly away from the basin, wherein the rim includes a first message board extending along a first section of the perimeter portion of the cover plate and including a display panel arranged to lie in spaced-apart relation to the first section of the perimeter portion of the cover plate and a display-panel support coupled to the display panel and to the cover plate and configured to provide means for supporting the display panel in a reclined position relative to the cover plate wherein an upper edge of the display panel lies in closer proximity to the basin of the container than a lower edge of the display panel to cause the display panel to cooperate with the top surface of the cover plate to define an acute included angle therebetween when the rim of the lid is mated with the brim of the container so that a printed message provided on an inclined exterior surface of the display panel arranged to face away from the cover plate is visible to an observer, wherein the display-panel support further includes an inner panel and a top panel, the top panel arranged to interconnect the upper edge of the display panel and an upper edge of the inner panel, the top panel further arranged to cooperate with the display and inner panels to define a downwardly opening chamber, the brim extending upwardly into the downwardly opening chamber to lie in spaced-apart relation to the top panel when the rim of the lid is mated to the brim of the container, the rim further including a rigidifying web located in the downwardly opening chamber and coupled to the display panel and to the top panel and the inner panel of the display-panel support.