Title: Package for uniformly shaped chip snack food products

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Claims: The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:

1. A filled container of uniformly shaped chip type snack food products, said filled container comprising a plurality of nested chips of substantially uniform shape and size, each of said chips having its major surfaces thereof positioned in abutting relationship with major surfaces of the adjacent chips, said nested chips being in a loop array; and container means substantially surrounding said loop array to maintain said nested chips in said loop array.

2. The container of claim 1 wherein said chips have major surfaces comprising a single curve.

3. The container of claim 1 wherein said loop array is a circular array.

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Inventors: Beall, Nelson J. (Albertville, MN, US)

Application Number: 435896
Filing Date: 1974-11-20
Publication_date: 1976-05-11
Assignee:
Primary Class(es): 514/162 510/131, 510/132, 510/387, 510/388, 510/391, 514/585, 514/596
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

2660529	Nov, 1953	Bloom	426/106.
3128030	Apr, 1964	Davies	229/2.
3212907	Oct, 1965	Caprioli	426/115.
3265280	Aug, 1966	Butzko	229/2.
3322267	May, 1967	Weiss	206/65.
3438826	Apr, 1969	Van Elkeren et al.	229/2.
3498798	Mar, 1970	Baur et al.	426/124.
3740238	Jun, 1973	Graham	229/2.
3852485	Dec, 1974	Beall	426/115.

Other Refs:
Primary Examiner: Lutter, Frank W.
Assistant Examiner: Weinstein, Steven L.
Attorney: Juettner; Anthony A.