Patent ID: 7721908

Claim:
A container comprising: a plastic container base having a bottom, front and back ends extending upwardly from the bottom in spaced relation, and a pair of sidewalls extending upwardly from the bottom and transversely between the front and back ends to define a storage area; a plastic container lid slideably disposed on the plastic container base, the plastic container lid including a cover portion that encloses the storage area when the plastic container is in a closed position, and a skirt that depends downwardly from and peripherally around the cover portion, the skirt and the sidewalls of the container base mating at a horizontally extending interface vertically interposed between the bottom and the cover portion, the skirt and the sidewalls each extending horizontally outward to a common outer perimeter extending vertically around the interface such that a perimeter of the container is the same on either side of the interface and is generally smooth along opposing vertically extending sides of the container as a whole; a pair of first tracks, including one on each of the sidewalls; and a pair of second tracks depending downwardly from opposing sides of the cover portion, the pair of second tracks slideably engaging the pair of first tracks such that the plastic container lid is slideable from the closed position to an open position to form a dispensing opening between the front end of the plastic container base and a forward edge of the cover portion.