MULTI-COMPARTMENT CONTAINER WITH POP-TOP AND COMMUNICATING DOOR

摘要

A container for beverages including an outer peripheral wall and upper and lower walls. The upper wall spans and is sealed relative to the upper marginal edges of the peripheral wall and includes a first elongated tab formed integrally therewith and downwardly tearable from the top wall into the container with one bendable end of the first tab portion remaining attached to the top wall. An upwardly opening partition wall is disposed within the container below the top wall and includes peripheral edges sealed relative to the top wall. The peripheral wall defines a closed chamber within the container below the top wall. The partition wall includes a second integral elongated tab tearable therefrom with one bendable end portion of the second tab remaining attached to the partition wall. Connecting structure is operatively associated with the first and second tabs operative to effect tearing of the second tab from the partition wall responsive to downward tearing of the first tab from the top wall. In a first form of the invention, the upwardly opening partition wall comprises a substantially semi-spherical cup-shaped member whose upper marginal edges are crimped and sealed not only to the upper marginal edges of the peripheral wall of the container but also the outer peripheral edges of the top wall and the first and second tabs are substantially vertically aligned with each other. In a second form, the cup-shaped partition wall underlies only one-half of the top wall and includes a substantially vertical side wall portion in which the second tab is formed.