US 11,713,181 B2
Apparatus for holding a food product, and allowing a user to consume the food product without contact
Barbara Ashcroft, Germantown, TN (US)
Filed by Barbara Ashcroft, Germantown, TN (US)
Filed on Jan. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/578,349.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/138,565, filed on Jan. 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0227565 A1, Jul. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. B65D 83/00 (2006.01); B65D 5/38 (2006.01)
CPC B65D 83/0005 (2013.01) [B65D 5/38 (2013.01); B65D 2583/00 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus, comprising:
a container having a base, and a front wall, a rear wall and first sidewalls, wherein said first sidewalls extend from said base, wherein said base, said front wall, said rear wall and said sidewalls form an opening, and wherein said front wall and said rear wall are flat; and
a sleeve configured to receive said container, wherein said sleeve comprises a top portion, a bottom portion, and second sidewalls, wherein said second sidewalls connect said top portion and said bottom portion,
wherein said top portion, said bottom portion, and said second sidewalls form a hollow structure for receiving said container,
wherein a front end of each of said top portion, and said bottom portion of said sleeve is curved for creating a gap between said sleeve and said container at said front wall with the opening for allowing a user to pull out said container from said sleeve,
wherein said rear wall comprises a cut-section for allowing said user to pull or push said container into said sleeve,
wherein said container receives a food product at said opening and slides into said sleeve enclosing said food product,
wherein said container slides partially away from said sleeve and said food product positions at said front wall of said container such that said food product is surrounded by said top portion, said bottom portion, and said second sidewalls of said sleeve, and
wherein said container slides progressively into said sleeve pushing said food product for consumption by said user.