Food container with discard compartment
View Patent ↗A food container is divided into two compartments by a vertically extending partition wall. A user selects which of the two compartments will hold a food product and which compartment will receive inedible parts of the food product after edible part of the food product is consumed. A snap-on lid closes the container to retain the food product and discarded inedible parts inside the container. Flap openings in the lid allow access to the compartments.
1. A food container device, comprising:
a container body having an inner chamber, a closed bottom, a continuous peripheral sidewall, an exterior peripheral rim with an outwardly extending alignment projection, and an open top;
a lid member detachably engageable with the open top of the container body and having a lid interior surface, a planar top surface, a downwardly extending lid flange, a pair of access openings, and a pair of flap members selectively closing the access openings, said flap members being pivotally oriented in relation to the top surface along respective pivot lines;
a partition wall extending from the bottom of the container and engaging an interior surface of the lid member when secured to the container body, the partition wall having an upper edge, which extends above the top of the container body, said partition wall dividing the inner chamber into a food compartment configured to store a food product therein and a discard compartment configured to receive inedible parts of the food product after the edible part of the food product in the food compartment has been consumed; and
wherein the lid member is provided with an alignment groove on the lid interior surface, said alignment groove receiving a top edge of the partition wall therein, the alignment groove extending across the lid interior surface and downwardly along the lid flange, the alignment groove receiving the alignment projection of the rim of the container body.
2. The device of claim 1 , wherein the pivot lines are oriented in a substantially parallel relationship to the alignment groove.
3. The device of claim 1 , said lid member is provided with an extension part adjacent the alignment groove.