A wine glass constructed from molded plastic includes an upper body defining an upwardly narrowed flume for concentrating the wine bouquet, in combination with a contoured lower base defining an annular moat surrounding a central punt for enhanced visual inspection of the wine. In addition, the upper body further includes a notched indent at an outboard side thereof forming a shelf for facilitated fingertip grasping and manipulation of the assembled glass. In one form, the upper body and lower base of the wine glass are provided as separate modules adapted for assembly to form the wine glass, and disassembly for respective compact stacking. In another form, the wine glass has a one-piece construction adapted for compact stacking by nested reception of the upwardly narrowed flume partially into the underside of the lower base of an overlying glass in the stack.

A beverage machine that brews beverages from a beverage pod is described. The pod is container with a top surface and a bottom surface connected by a sidewall that form a cylinder. The pod contains whole brewing elements that can be ground into sub-elements by the brewing system for brewing into a beverage. The pod is actuatable between an open state and a closed state by a breaking system of the beverage machine. In the closed state the brewing elements are contained and in the open state the elements are released. The pod includes a failure mechanism on the sidewall that is engineered to fail when the pod is actuated by a breaking mechanism of the beverage machine. When actuated the failure mechanism fails such that the beverage pod can be pulled into a top portion and a bottom portion to release the brewing elements.

A confectionery product comprises a two-section, non-edible housing defining a hollow interior adapted to receive a toy or other novelty item, and a layer of edible material covering approximately half of the outer surface of each section of the housing, while the other half is uncovered, in order to reduce the calories of the product and its cost.

An extension collar is provided for use with a pail having an opening and containing mixable building material. The collar includes an annular body with an upper edge, an opposite lower edge, and a sidewall connecting the edges. In addition, the body has a diameter that is complementary to, and insertable into the opening of the pail such that upon insertion into the pail, the collar adds to a height of the pail.

A housing includes: a housing body that contains at least one electromechanical or mechanical component, the housing body including a front plate and a pair of side plates, the plates being connected to a bottom plate in such a manner that the housing body includes an opening; a cover for closing the opening; and a gasket interposed between an edge portion of the housing body and an edge portion of the cover to tightly close an inside of the housing body. An edge portion of each of the side plates has a curved shape.

The utility model consists of a spherical heat-resistant opaque plastic bowl (4) having a heat-resistant silicone sealant (5) applied to the bottom of the bowl to ensure the stability of the assembly during operation and which is provided at the top with four L shaped grooves (7), profiled on the inside of the top edge of the main bowl, positioned diametrically opposed and at equal distances between them, over which a removable median extension (3) in the form of a spherical area open at its top and bottom is attached, made of transparent heat-resistant plastic, which is provided with four protrusions (6) diametrically opposed and at equal distances between them, located on the outside of the lower edge of the median extension, the joining of the median extension (3) with the main bowl (4) being achieved by sliding the protrusions (6) in the grooves (7) by a press-and-twist motion of the median extension (3) on the bowl (4), and above the removable extension a heat-resistant plastic lid (2) is positioned, which has a handle (1)its grip profile (1) resulting from its configuration, having the ratio of the height of the bowl assembly H1 to the sphere diameter of the bowl assembly D1, H1/D1 in the range of 0.8-0.9, the ratio of the H2 height of the bowl (4) to the H1 height of the bowl assembly, H2/H1 in the range of 0.6-0.7, and the ratio of the H3 height of the median extension (3) to the H1 height of the bowl assembly, H3/H1 in the range of 0.4-0.3, and the base diameter is equal to the diameter of the upper aperture of the spherical extension.

A rollingly conveyable transport unit (1) comprises a container shell (10) and an internal space (28), provided within the container shell, for accommodating a product (90) to be packaged. The container shell comprises two or more shell parts (11, 12) that are reversibly connected to one another in a force-fit manner by a closing element.

A crack-propagation line is separate from a seal joining two shells of a confectionery packaging. The confectionery packaging is opened by separating the packaging along the crack-propagation line such that a portion of at least one of the parts of the confectionery packaging is broken to form an opening through which the packaged confectionery can be removed. Consequently, there is provided a method of forming a confectionery packaging and a method of packaging a confectionery product wherein two shells of a confectionery packaging are sealed together and a crack-propagation line is formed in a portion of at least one of the parts of the confectionery packaging. Suitably, the crack-propagation line extends away from the seal joining the two parts. The confectionery packaging is opened by separating at least one of the parts of the confectionery packaging, leaving the seal substantially unaffected. The additional step of forming a separate crack-propagation line rather than intending the confectionery packaging to be opened by separating the two parts through the seal provides improved opening characteristics.