Paperboard container lid convertible into a spoon

Claim 1

For an open-top food container, a flat lid formed to cooperate with the container as a detachable closure therefor, said lid comprising: a flat panel the periphery of which is shaped to cooperate with the container so as to form a detachable cover therefor, said flat panel having formed therein a plurality of weakened zones so arranged with respect to one another and the panel that the panel is convertible by folding about said zones into a spoon having a handle portion and a bowl portion joined at a throat, the so-formed handle constituting a pleated arrangement extending diametrically of the panel from a perimeter of the panel to the throat of the spoon, and the so-formed bowl constituting a scoop-shaped portion extending from the handle at the throat to the opposite perimeter of the panel, the weakened zones in the handle portion including three zones substantially parallel to one another with the intermediate zone lying substantially on a diameter of the panel, the remaining two zones being outer zones, and the weakened zones of the bowl portion including two outer zones extending away from the inner ends of the outer zones of the handle portion and flaring away from one another, and at least one intermediate zone, the portions of the panel outwardly of the outer zones in the so-formed spoon constituting downwardly extending lips.