Snack food container and coin bank
CA 2205604 C · Owner: Wilson, Warren J. · Inventors: Wilson, Warren J.
Overview
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A snack food container comprises a blow molded extruded transparent polyvinyl chloride housing having solid wall and base segments, a token slot and an, opening through which a solid particulate snack food product is loaded into and removed from the housing. A releasable seal on an interior surface of the housing covers the token slot. The sealed cap, token slot seal and housing maintain the food product in a sealed state prior to the cap being removed and/or the seal being released. The housing is used as a token bank by inserting tokens through the released token slot after the food product has been removed from the housing and the seal has been released from the token slot. In one …
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- Filed May 16, 1997 and granted October 9, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 16, 2017.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by May 16, 2019.
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