Patent ID: 8307982
Filing Date: 2012-11-13
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
1. A cake container for holding cake or other food which includes a base ( 14 ) lying on a vertical container axis ( 18 ), said base having a cake-supporting base surface ( 20 ) and having a largely cylindrical base peripheral wall ( 24 ) centered on said container axis and extending around said cake-supporting base surface, said cake container also including a cover ( 16 ) that has a greater height than said base and that has a largely cylindrical cover peripheral wall ( 30 ) centered on said container axis, wherein: said base peripheral wall has a plurality of radially outwardly-projecting dimples ( said cover peripheral wall has a plurality of dimple-receiving regions ( said dimple-receiving regions each having a dimple-receiving cavity ( said base and said cover are each formed of a resilient plastic sheet of a thickness on the order of 0.020 inch that has been deformed, and walls of said dimple-receiving regions and said dimples each can deflect radially to assure that the dimples can be received in the dimple-receiving regions despite tolerances in manufacture, and said cover is formed of a transparent plastic sheet, whereby to allow a person to view a dimple as it moves in a dimple-receiving region.