Patent ID: 8662334
Filing Date: 2014-03-04
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
1. A storage container for use with a vacuum packaging appliance, said storage container comprising: a container body with a base wall, side walls, an open top and an upper rim surrounding the open top; a one-way check valve structured to control a flow of a gas therethrough; and a lid comprising as a single unit a flexible diaphragm and an outer rigid or semi-rigid rim surrounding said diaphragm, wherein said outer rim is complementarily structured to said upper rim of said container to releasably seal said outer rim to said upper rim and said lid provides an airtight interior area in said container body; and wherein said lid is constructed and arranged so that, when said lid is operatively present on said container body, said flexible diaphragm is deformable inward into said interior area, when gas in said interior area is removed through said one-way check valve, to such an extent so as to substantially conform the flexible diaphragm to exposed upper surfaces of contents in said container body.