Patent ID: 8307982

Claim:
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 ( 26 ); said cover peripheral wall has a plurality of dimple-receiving regions ( 32 ) each formed by a radially-outward deformed region of said cover peripheral wall, said dimple-receiving regions each having a chimney ( 52 ) about as wide as one of said dimples to receive a dimple in a chimney upper portion ( 60 ) by the cover being lowered around the base while chimney lower ends initially lie directly over said dimples; said dimple-receiving regions each having a dimple-receiving cavity ( 54 ) connected to one of said chimney upper portions to receive one of said dimples when the cover is turned about said cover axis after the dimple has reached said chimney upper portion; 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.