Prize delivery system

Claim 1

A prize delivery system incorporated within a food or beverage container typically employed in the food service industry and constructed for secretly retaining a prize award, while visually simulating non-prize bearing containers for preventing advance detection of the existence of prize bearing containers among a plurality of mixed prize bearing containers and non-prize bearing containers, said prize delivery system comprising: A. an outer surface defining shell a. defining an internal retaining zone, b. comprising an entry portal at one end thereof, and c. a base defining member at the opposed end thereof, establishing the internal retaining zone therebetween; B. a prize retaining member a. affixed to one surface of the base member in overlying, covering engagement therewith, and b. comprising means forming a prize retaining zone for receiving a prize award; c. a prize award mounted in the retaining zone of the prize retaining member for being secretly retained therein until exposed by a consumer, D. a covering plate a. positioned in overlying visually obscuring engagement with said prize retaining member and said prize award, preventing visual observation thereof, and b. visually simulating a non-prize bearing container, preventing advance detection of the presence of a prize award therein; whereby a prize delivery system is attained wherein a prize award is secretly concealed in a food or beverage container, with the presence of the prize award being completely undiscoverable when compared with non-prize bearing, conventional food or beverage containers, thereby enabling the random distribution of prize bearing containers with non-prize bearing containers, with complete assurance that the presence of a prize award is discovered by consumers only upon opening of the container assembly.