Patents by Inventor Darrell F. Beaver

Darrell F. Beaver has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 3955742
    Abstract: A container for edible material including an upright open top vessel having a circumferential upper lip and a lid of generally flat, thin, impervious material having the outer edge configured to removably sealably engage the vessel circumferential upper lip and having an eating utensil, such as a spoon or fork, outlined by a continuous notch impressed in the lid material, the notch communicating at two places with the edge of the lid so that a user may, by pulling on the edge, tearing the material from which the lid is formed along the continuous notch thereby extract out of the lid the eating utensil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1976
    Inventors: Paul W. Marshall, Darrell F. Beaver, Lawrence M. Thomas