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A container comprising a hollow tray and a domed lid, each of which are of unitary molded plastic construction. The tray has a planar bottom wall peripherally encompassed by a generally outwardly and upwardly flaring upstanding wall with a rim over which the lid is snugly attachable. Peripherally in

A container comprising a hollow tray and a domed lid, each of which are of unitary molded plastic construction. The tray has a planar bottom wall peripherally encompassed by a generally outwardly and upwardly flaring upstanding wall with a rim over which the lid is snugly attachable. Peripherally interspaced indents are molded in and offset interiorly from the upstanding wall of the tray and define interiorly facing surface regions disposed in proximately perpendicular relationship with the bottom wall of the tray. The container is particularly suitable for packaging a plurality of small dimensionally corresponding containers, such as ampuls, or the like. As such, it provides a package accommodating a plurality of rows of containers together with an upstanding plastic separator sheet separating each row of containers. The packaged containers gravitationally rest in upstanding, snug side-by-side relationship within the tray with their axial end portions projecting above the rim of the tray and enclosed within the interior confines of the domed lid. The package is especially well-suited for decasing the containers directly onto conventional apparatus associated with commercial container-filling systems, and provides a durable, inexpensive package for packaging containers in a clean, particulate-free environment. Also, the tray and lid components are designed to accommodate internesting with other like lids and trays and to facilitate stacking of packaged containers.

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A container package comprising: (A) a unitary molded hollow tray having a generally planar bottom wall peripherally encompassed by a thin relatively flexible continuous upstanding wall flaring upwardly and outwardly relative to said bottom wall, said upstanding wall having a continuous lower wall po

A container package comprising: (A) a unitary molded hollow tray having a generally planar bottom wall peripherally encompassed by a thin relatively flexible continuous upstanding wall flaring upwardly and outwardly relative to said bottom wall, said upstanding wall having a continuous lower wall portion adjoining said bottom wall in essentially normally disposed relationship and including: (i) a continuous upper wall portion having a continuous rim, (ii) a peripherally interspaced array of indents molded therein, said indents being offset interiorly from said upper wall portion and respectively defining an interiorly facing surface region disposed in proximately perpendicular relationship with said bottom wall and providing resistance to lateral deformation of said upstanding wall, (iii) a peripherally interspaced array of intermediate rib sections respectively occupying the interspaces between said indents and diverging outwardly and upwardly relative thereto; (B) a plurality of rows of dimensionally corresponding containers gravitationally resting in axially upstanding and snug side-by-side relationship within said tray and having axial end portions projecting above the rim of said tray; (C) a separator sheet of plastic material freely disposed in snug upstanding position between and separating each of said rows of containers; and (D) a domed lid of unitary molded construction snugly attached over the rim of said tray and enclosing the axial end portions of said containers projecting above the rim of said tray, said lid including; (i) a planar top wall, (ii) a continuous outwardly flared perimetrical wall of thin, flexible construction depending peripherally from said top wall, (iii) an endless marginal ledge extending laterally outwardly from said perimetrical wall and peripherally carrying a continuous depending skirt detachably attached over the rim of said tray in snug snap-fit relationship, and (iv) a peripherally interspaced array of inwardly offset tabs respectively defining interiorly facing surfaces aligned in proximately perpendicular relationship with said top wall and having a lower end extending downwardly beyond the inner periphery of said ledge and forming a projecting tongue disposed in adjacently spaced juxtaposed relationship with said peripheral skirt to provide said snap-fit relationship.