Mobil Oil Corporation

Raul Matos

Raj K Mangla

Darryl P Hansen

Chris Olenski

Dennis Oberdorf

Container with releasable lock

A domed container. The container includes a receptacle and dome cover therefore having locking means for releasably locking the cover to the receptacle. The receptacle includes a bottom wall having a top surface delimited by an upstanding rib and terminating in an outwardly extending resilient rim. The dome cover includes a top wall having at least one wall depending therefrom, the depending wall having a plurality of vertical inwardly extending ribs spaced therealong, each of the vertical inwardly extending ribs having an upper end and a lower end, interspersed between the plurality of vertical inwardly extending ribs is a plurality of vertical outwardly extending ribs, each of the vertical outwardly extending ribs having an upper end and a lower end, each the upper end of the vertical outwardly extending ribs having a crush-resistant ribbed crown portion thereof, the depending wall having a lower end adapted to be received in the space formed between the upstanding rib and the rim of the receptacle, with the lower end of the inwardly extending vertical ribs of the dome relieved so as to avoid an abutting relation with the rib of the receptacle, the lower end of the depending wall terminating in an outwardly extending resilient flange adapted to underlie the shoulder in abutting locking engagement therewith.

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Raul Matos