Patent ID: 8231027
Filing Date: 2012-07-31
Classification: A01N,B65D

Abstract:
1. A vacuum sealed container comprising: a container body including an open top encircled by an outer body sleeve; a cover engaged on top of the container body for enclosing the open top of the container body, the cover comprising an air release valve in an upper portion of the cover above the container body and an interior cover sleeve structured to mate with the outer body sleeve with an air tight slide fit over the mating outer body sleeve so that it is necessary to open the air release valve to slide the cover onto the container body releasing air through the air release valve to create a vacuum seal, producing at least a partial vacuum in the container, with the cover fully installed on the container body and so that it is necessary to open the air release valve to admit air into the container to release the vacuum seal to enable the cover to be removed from the container body, wherein the air release valve further comprises: at least one protrusion on one side of the outer body sleeve, and at least one mating L-shaped opening on a bottom edge of the cover, one on each of two sides of the cover to mate with the protrusions so that as the cover is installed, while activating the air release valve, a vertical edge portion of the at least one L-shaped opening engages the mating protrusion and as the protrusion reaches a horizontal portion of the L-shaped opening the cover is turned to fully insert the protrusion in the horizontal portion to lock the cover onto the container to enable the container to be lifted by the cover, and the cover is turned in an alternate direction to align the vertical edge portion of the L-shaped opening with the protrusion and the cover lifted while activating the air release valve to remove the cover from the container body.