Abstract: A cup dispensing system employs a housing having a pair of walls with relatively rigid inwardly inclined portions for supporting a stack of cups and enabling individual dispensing of cups.

Abstract: An expendable thin walled cup for liquids and the like is disclosed having a configuration which facilitates improved removal from the forming mold, insures more uniform wall thickness and prevents telescoping of the spacing means of a plurality of the cups when stacked in nested relation.

Abstract: A coverall lid or closure for gripping and sealing engagement with the bead of a cuplike container. The lid includes a central panel which is connected to a circumferential cavity by means of a corrugated ring. The cavity is adapted to receive the bead of the container and abut the bead in sealed engagement. A conical skirt extends downward and outward from the lower edge of the cavity. The upper portion of the skirt and the lower portion of the cavity form a waist and this waist is interrupted by a series of circumferentially spaced flutes. The portion of the skirt between the flutes act as lands, each land having a decreasing circumferential extent from a lower portion to an inner portion thereof to facilitate flexing of the lands radially outward when engaged by the container bead. The lower portion of the cavity is moveable into position beneath the bead to grip the latter when the lid is fitted on the container.