Patent ID: 8794471

Claim:
A container, comprising: a basket having a basket lip; and a lid with lid lip connected to a tear strip, the tear strip being bonded to the basket lip to form a seal; wherein an applied force to the seal separates the tear strip from the lid so that the tear strip remains bonded to the basket lip and so that a lid tear surface is exposed; wherein the basket lip includes a basket snap feature and the lid lip includes a lid snap feature; wherein the basket snap feature and the lid snap feature are mateable to resist separation of the lid from the basket; wherein the lid tear surface is connected with a tear strip surface by a plurality of links arranged along the lid tear surface and extending therebetween; wherein the lid tear surface has a plurality of alternating projections and notches, the tear strip surface has a shape complementary to the lid tear surface, and each link extends between a notch of the lid tear surface and a complementary feature of the tear strip surface; and wherein chaff generated by the links when the lid is separated from the tear strip does not extend beyond the projections of the lid tear surface.