Container having multiple independently unsealable compartments

Claim 1

A container comprising a container main structure having a plurality of hollow receptacles for containing portions of a product or products in a sealed state, adjacent receptacles being integrally connected at their adjacent rims by a common connective rim flange, other outer rims of the receptacles having outer rim flanges and a lid sheet sealingly attached to the connective rim flanges and the outer rim flanges thereby to seal the interiors of the receptacles and thereby to form individually sealed compartments, the lid sheet having at edge portions thereof tear-facilitating means each comprising a slit cut into the edge of the lid sheet at the position of each connective rim flange and thus forming two adjacent free corners of the lid sheet each of which can be pried and pulled upward to partially tear off the lid sheet, the lid sheet being not attached to the container main structure in the neighborhood of each slit, one of said outer rim flanges of the container main structure being formed at its outer edge with slits each at a position coinciding with one slit of the lid sheet and with a pair of slanted score lines connecting the inner end of each of said slits in said outer rim flange with the outer edges of the same at both sides of each slit, thereby to enable depression of a portin of the outer rim flanges defined by the slit and score line so as to facilitate the prying up of a selected free corner of the lid sheet for tearing off the sheet.