Cup and package of cups

Claim 1

A package of nested disposable cups with deliquescent or hygroscopic material for use in dispensing beverages or food products comprising: a plurality of disposable cups telescoped together into a nested stack, each of said cups being one piece and formed of foamed polystyrene plastic material and having a substantially frusto-conical, thick side wall with an interior foamed polystyrene surface for engaging said material, each of said cups having a rim at the upper end of said side wall defining an opening into said cup, each of said cups further having a planar bottom wall integrally joined to said side wall to define thereabove a food storage and liquid mixing chamber and a base wall integrally joined to said bottom wall and extending downwardly approximately 0.3 to 0.5 inch from said bottom wall to define therewith a cap seat and a bottom downwardly opening enclosure for being filled with the material while inverted, the outer side of said frusto-conical side wall extending in a continuous taper to said planar bottom wall; each of said base walls having an outer side offset radially inwardly of its side wall at a location beneath said planar bottom wall; said base walls having a cross-sectional thickness greater than the cross-sectional thickness of its side wall; said side walls of said adjacent nested cups having a shoulder means integrally formed on the interior of the adjacent nested cup side wall for supporting said base wall above the bottom wall of the adjacent nested cup to provide a sealed enclosure bounded by said bottom walls, said base wall and the portions of side wall of the adjacent nested cup between said bottom walls; said shoulder means being spaced above said bottom wall by a distance not substantially greater than the depth of said downwardly opening enclosure; a measured quantity of product in said sealed enclosure; and means for applying an endwise pressure to said stack to maintain said sealed enclosure.