Patent ID: 6766918
Filing Date: 2004-07-27
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
A storage container apparatus comprising: a storage portion having a bottom panel, and integral with, and extending upwardly from the bottom panel, a continuous peripheral storage portion side wall terminating with a top, upwardly facing, rim, and downwardly spaced from the rim, an outwardly extending storage portion flange; a cover portion having a top panel, and integral with the top panel, and extending downwardly from the top panel, a continuous peripheral side wall terminating with an outwardly extending cover portion flange; the cover portion flange and the storage portion flange laying in mutual adjacency when the cover portion is in place over the storage portion; and a circular flexible continuous ring fitted loosely through corresponding clearance holes in the storage and cover portions flanges, the ring of such diameter as to enable the cover portion to be removed from the container portion and rotated around the ring so as to be placed to one side in approximately the same plane as the storage portion, and spaced apart from the storage portion.