Patent ID: 6202904
Filing Date: 2001-03-20
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
A flaked and granular fibrous cereal food product storing and direct mouth dispensing package apparatus comprising a resilient plastic container having an internal volume for holding the cereal food product, having a container wall, a closed bottom and an open top and having a body with an axial dimension and a transverse dimension suitable for holding in one hand, the transverse dimension being sufficiently large for filling the container with the cereal food product from a cereal box through the open top without spillage from the box of the cereal food product, a minimum size of the transverse dimension of the open end of the container being about 70 millimeters, the container wall having a first fastener near the open top, a spout cap having a larger open end and a sidewall extending around the larger open end with a second complementary fastener on the sidewall for connecting to the first fastener on the container wall near the open end of the container after the container is filled with the cereal food product, the spout cap having a smaller outer open end remote from the larger open end, the spout cap having a tapered sloping wall connecting the larger open end and the smaller open end, the sloping wall sloping at about 30.degree. to about 60.degree. with respect to the axial dimension of the container for preventing nose interference with the sloping wall while the container and the spout cap are tipped for directly feeding the cereal food product into a human mouth, the spout cap having an internal volume at least 15% of the container internal volume, for permitting free flow of the cereal food product along a surface of the cereal food product formed within the cap spout and the container when the container and the cap spout are tilted for causing the surface of the cereal food product to exceed an angle of repose, the spout cap having a mouthpiece extending outwardly from the outer open end at an angle to the tapered sloping wall, the mouthpiece having a projection with walls extending generally in axial directions from the smaller open end of the spout cap, the mouthpiece projection having an internal transverse dimension at least about 26 millimeters sufficiently large to permit passage of largest pieces of the cereal food product, and the mouthpiece projection having outer dimensions sufficiently small to be compatible with a human mouth, the projection having a length sufficiently short for avoiding jamming of the cereal food product flowing therethrough, the mouthpiece projection being oval in cross-section normal to the longitudinal axis thereof and being contoured to the opened mouth for preventing spillage of the cereal food product during direct mouth feeding.