Peelable, sealable closure arrangement

Claim 1

A peelable, sealable closure arrangement for a container body and lid adapted to insure integrity of seal when internal pressure increases within the container, said arrangement comprising: (a) a tubular container body, open at the upper end, including: (i) a body wall; (ii) a peripheral rim extending radially outward from an upper marginal portion of said body wall; (b) a lid adapted for interlocking and hermetic sealing engagement with said container body; (c) said lid including a generally flat central panel having: (i) a layer of paperboard; (ii) a coating on the underside of said paperboard layer, which coating is formed of plastic material which is compatible for heat sealing to an inner surface of said container body rim; (d) said lid also including a molded plastic rim having: (i) a horizontal flange, the underside of which is secured to a marginal area of the upper side of said central paperboard panel; (ii) a skirt depending from the outer periphery of said rim; (iii) a lip projecting radially inward from a lower extremity of said skirt and defining with portions of said skirt and said central panel an annular channel for receiving the rim of said container body; (iv) said lid rim having a downwardly tapered inner portion whose underside is secured to said lid central paperboard panel to maintain an inward deflection of said panel; (e) said lid rim lip having a sharp pointed inner peripheral edge adapted to bite into said container rim to maintain said lid and container body rims in sealing engagement with each other even when the said lid central paperboard panel is deflected out of its normal horizontal plane by internal gas pressures generated within said container.