1. A plastic container, comprising:
a lid;
a tray;
a hinge connecting the lid and the tray;
the hinge comprising:
an angle formed by a lid chamfer and a tray chamfer, wherein the angle results in a single hinge point; and
a lid well adjacent to the lid chamfer and a tray well adjacent to the tray chamfer; and
wherein the lid connects to the lid well by a lid well transition and the tray connects to the tray well by a tray well transition.
2. The plastic container according to claim 1, further comprising:
a tray flange that connects the hinge to the tray;
a lid flange that connects the hinge to the lid; and
wherein the closure of the hinge results in contact between the lid flange and the tray flange.
3. The plastic container according to claim 2, wherein when the hinge is closed the only opposing hinge surfaces that are in contact with each other are those of the lid flange and tray flange.
4. The plastic container according to claim 1, wherein when the lid and tray are in the open position the angle is approximately 60\xb0 to 90\xb0.
5. The plastic container according to claim 1, wherein the plastic is random copoly polypropylene, copoly propylene, or homo polypropylene.
6. The plastic container according to claim 5, wherein the plastic material that forms the hinge point is thinned or coined.
7. The plastic container according to claim 6, wherein the plastic material at the hinge point is thinned or coined to approximately 0.003 inches to approximately 0.008 inches.
8. A plastic container, comprising:
a lid thermoformed from a sheet of plastic material;
a tray thermoformed from the sheet of plastic material;
a hinge thermoformed from the sheet of plastic material, the hinge connects the lid and the tray;
the hinge comprising a single hinge point formed by two chamfers thermoformed from the sheet of plastic material, the single hinge point forming an angle between the two chamfers; and
wherein the thermoformed plastic material is thinner at the single point than the remainder of the plastic material.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method for producing user-selecter paint composition, the method comprising:
providing an apparatus for producing a paint composition;
prompting a user to select through the apparatus whether the paint to be produced will have characteristics of either interior or exterior paint;
prompting the user to select through the apparatus a paint sheen;
prompting the user to select through the apparatus a paint color type;
providing a mixing chamber;
automatically depositing at least two premixed aqueous compositions into the mixing chamber, wherein none of the at least two premixed aqueous compositions is paint prior to being deposited into the mixing chamber;
and mixing the at least two premixed aqueous compositions in the mixing chamber to produce the paint composition having the selected sheen, the selected color type and being well suited for either interior or exterior use as input by the user.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the mixing chamber is a paint can and the mixing is accomplished by agitating the premixed aqueous compositions in the paint can.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least two premixed aqueous compositions comprise at least one fluid prepaint including at least one white opacifying pigment, at least one fluid prepaint including at least one extender pigment, at least one fluid prepaint including at least one flat polymeric binder, and at least one fluid prepaint including at least one gloss polymeric binder.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein the at least two premixed aqueous compositions comprise at least one fluid prepaint including at least one white opacifying pigment, at least one fluid prepaint including at least one extender pigment, at least one fluid prepaint including at least one flat polymeric binder, and at least one fluid prepaint including at least one gloss polymeric binder,
further wherein, the at least one fluid prepaint including at least one extender pigment comprises two fluid prepaints of an exterior extender prepaint and an interior extender prepaint.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the automatically depositing at least two premixed aqueous compositions into the mixing chamber comprises determining an appropriate tint level for the selected color to produce the paint having the selected color type.