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MINI JELLY CONTAINER
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
(a) Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a mini jelly container, and more particularly, to
a mini jelly container that divides a mini jelly into smaller sizes without
changing original shape and volume of a container of the mini jelly.
Thus, elderly people and children are allowed to eat the divided jelly
pieces individually while preventing the jelly getting congested at a throat,
thereby providing safety for eating as well as offering multiple favors
using the mini jelly container.
(b) Description of the Prior Art
Mini jellies are one of favorite snacks for people of all ages by being
small in size, offering good portability, and being tasty and hygienic.
People often eat mini jellies one after another, and cannot resist
temptations of mini jellies for the above reasons.
However, unfortunate events of mini jellies choking children and
elderly people to death are frequently heard from many places including
the U.S., Taiwan, Korea and Thailand, leaving numerous broken homes
as a result. Furthermore, competitiveness of industrialists making mini
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jellies are significantly lowered while being obliged to pay substantial
amounts of compensations. Whether for consumers or industrialists,
great losses are caused.
According to research statistics, mini jellies are such popular snack
due to having unique and pleasant tastes, and being non-teeth-sticking
and small in size with good portability as shown in FIG. 1. Thus, in
addition, to the aforesaid advantages, mini jellies are extensively
enjoyed by vast consumers for they are convenient to eat. More
particularly, a main reason that parents give mini jellies as snacks to their
children is that, unlike eating puddings, no spoons are required by
children in order to eat the mini jellies, meaning that after-cleaning of
sofas and floors is avoided.
A mini jelly measures approximately 3cm in diameter. However,
according to research reports, products measuring 3cm in diameter are
most likely to get congested at a throat - that is also why mini jellies
often choke people to death.
Therefore, specialists and scholars later suggested the industrialist to
enlarge a size of mini jellies. However, enlarged jellies inevitably loose
the prior characteristic of being small and dainty. It is also proposed
that jellies are cut to reduce a size thereof, so as to avoid dangers
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caused by jellies stuck at a throat.
Although the aforesaid method seems easy to implement, unfortunate
accidents of people choked to death by mini jellies are still frequently
heard because industrialists yet fail to promptly comply with the
theoretical solution. A cause behind it is difficulties that arise during a
manufacturing process of the mini jellies. To be more precise, a margin
of a mini jelly is extremely limited, and hence it is necessary that mini
jellies be manufactured by automated production to reduce production
costs thereof. Referring to FIG. 1, containers 10 are arranged side by
side for continuously filling a jelly fluid therein. At this point, the jelly
fluid is at a high temperature in a liquid state, and cannot be cut.
Therefore, the jeNy fluid is cooled in the containers to form solid jellies
20,
which can further be cut and sealed by opening covers 30.
Nevertheless, the above process is rather too time-consuming to add
loading to production costs of industrialists. In conclusion, the
industrialists fail to comply with such manufacturing process, and
repeated accidents of people choked to death remain unsolved.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the aforesaid shortcomings, the primary object of the
invention is to provide a container having a partition plate at an interior
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thereof, so as to divide the interior of the container into at least two
accommodating spaces. A jelly fluid is filled into the individual
accommodating spaces, and jellies having a reduced size are formed
when the jelly fluid is cooled to a solid state, thereby overcoming an
issue of prior mini jellies being prone to choke people to death.
Another object of the invention is to provide a container having at least
two accommodating spaces using a partition plate, such that a mini jelly
having different flavors is formed by filling jelly fluids of different
flavors
into the accommodating spaces.
The other object of the invention is to provide a container having an
opening cover divided into a same quantity as that of the
accommodating chambers, such that not only an eater is allowed to
respectively tear away individual parts of the opening cover to prevent
the jellies from simultaneously falling into a mouth, but also remaining
jellies not consumed yet can be properly stored for in a hygienic manner.
To accomplish the aforementioned objects, a mini jelly container
according to the invention comprises a container, and at least one
partition plate in the container to divide an interior of the container into
at
least two accommodating spaces. A jelly fluid is filled into the individual
accommodating spaces, and two mini jellies having a reduced size are
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formed when the jelly fluid is cooled into a solid state. The mini jelly
container is then sealed with an opening cover, thereby overcoming an
issue of prior mini jellies being prone to choke people to death.
To better understand characteristics, effects, functions and objects of
the invention, detailed descriptions of a preferred embodiment shall be
given with the accompanying drawings below.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 shows a schematic view of a prior mini jelly.
FIG. 2 shows a schematic view according to the invention.
FIG. 3 shows a schematic view according to the invention having been
opened.
FIG. 4 shows a schematic view of another embodiment according to
the invention.
FIG. 5 shows a schematic view illustrating the structure in FIG. 4 in a
sealed status.
FIG. 6 shows a schematic view illustrating the structure in FIG. 5 being
eaten .
FIG. 7 shows a schematic view of yet another embodiment according
to the invention.
FIG. 8 - FIG.10 show schematic views of several other embodiments
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according to the invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
Referring to FIGS. 2 and 3, a mini jelly container according to the
invention comprises a container 10, at least one partition plate 40 at an
interior of the container 10, at least two accommodating spaces 11
divided at the interior of the container 10 so as to hold a jelly 20 in each
accommodating space 11, and an opening cover 30 for sealing, thereby
reducing a size of the jellies 20 to overcome a shortcoming of mini jellies
prior being likely to choke people to death.
In addition, apart from being an integral, the opening cover 30 at an
upper section of the container 10 can also be divided into a same
quantity as the accommodating spaces 11 using a dividing line 31.
Thus, when eating the jellies, a jelly placed in one of the accommodating
spaces 11 having the opening cover 30 being torn away is eaten first, so
as to avoid the jellies from simultaneously falling into a mouth as well as
facilitating storage and keeping cleanliness of remaining jellies not
consumed yet.
Referring to FIGS. 4 to 6, the container 10 comprises a partition plate
40 having three sections that are isogonal to one another to divide the
container 10 into at least three accommodating spaces 11, and an
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opening cover 30 divided into three parts at an upper section of the
container 10, with each part of the opening cover 30 respectively
covering an upper section of each accommodating space 11.
To eat the jellies, a pulling section 32 at part of the opening cover 30 is
torn away in sequence to eat the jellies 20 stored in the accommodating
spaces 11 one after the other. Thus, the jellies 20 are prevented from
simultaneously falling into a mouth as well as facilitating storage and
hygiene of remaining jellies 22 not consumed yet. Furthermore, the
opening cover 30 can be torn away all at once to eat the jellies placed in
the storage spaces 11. For that the jellies 20 in individual
accommodating spaces 11 are reduced to smaller sizes, hazards of the
jellies getting congested at a throat is prevented.
To adapt to jellies having different flavors, the opening cover 30 can be
indicated with words or patterns. Also, to prohibit children from
purposely or accidentally tearing away all the opening cover 30, the
pulling section 32 are located at different positions as shown in FIGS. 2
and 5.
With reference to FIG. 7, the container 10 is further disposed with an
intersecting partition plate 40 to provide at least four accommodating
spaces 11.
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Again referring to FIGS. 2 and 7, the container 10 is divided into at
least two accommodating chambers 11 using the partition plate 40,
thereby reducing sizes of jellies to minimize dangers of choking when
eating with one swallow. FIGS. 8 to 10 show different partition plates in
more embodiments according to the invention.
The accommodating spaces 11 may be filled with jelly fluids of
different flavors. Thus, numerous flavors are offered in a same mini
jelly to increase purchase urge of consumers while also keeping original
tastes of mini jellies and effectively overcoming potential dangers of
eating conventional mini jellies.
It is of course to be understood that the embodiments described
herein are merely illustrative of the principles of the invention and that a
wide variety of modifications thereto may be effected by persons skilled
in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as
set forth in the following claims.
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