Patent ID: 8857610

Claim:
A container for packaging a product for retail display, the container comprising a base defining a product containment area with an annular rim defining an opening into the containment area and a lid mated to the rim for selective attachment to and detachment from the rim for opening and closing access into the containment area, and a pair of spaced-apart legs connected outwardly to the base adjacent the rim for supporting the assembled base and lid for self-standing on a substantially horizontal retail display surface with the base and the lid in a substantially vertical orientation, wherein the base is bowl-shaped with a bottom wall and an annular wall projecting from the bottom wall, and with the rim formed along a free annular edge of the annular wall, the lid comprising an inner side formed with an annular flange for frictional engagement about the rim of the base to secure the lid on the base, the legs being pivoted to the base adjacent the rim to be engaged by the flange of the lid when mated to the rim of the base for pivoting the legs into disposition for supporting the base and lid in said self-standing orientation when the lid is secured to the base, the base being predominantly round and the annular wall being predominantly curvilinear with a segment of the annular wall being substantially linear, the legs being formed along the linear segment of the annular wall.