EP 1,122, 184, EP 1,052, 183 and EP 565,967, incorporated herein by the present reference, teach containers of this kind. In EP 1,122, 184 as well as EP 565,967 the flap is moulded integrally with the annular skirt. The connection between the vertical sides of the flap and the skirt is tender and quite easily broken, whereby it is possible to ascertain whether the flap has been turned upwards and thus whether the lid was once removed from the container. By the solution taught in EP 1,052, 183 a strip that extends before the flap must be broken before the flap can be turned upwards. It is hence a common feature that, prior to purchasing a packaging consisting of the container with contents and lid fitted thereon, the consumer is able to verify that nobody has previously removed the lid and gained access to the contents of the packaging.

Containers of the type in question are conventionally manufactured by means of an injection moulding tool, into which-from a source of a plastics material - plastics is injected and thus the container appears with a uniform appearance corresponding to the selected plastics material.

It is a problem with the prior art containers that the consumer tends to overlook the flap and thus to try to remove the lid in an unintentional manner

by means of a sharp tool that he/she attempts to introduce underneath the edge of the lid. Such behaviour will, in all events, involve that the consumer feels uncomfortable using the container and thus possibly avoids buying the product in question at a later point in time.

The invention attempts to remedy this problem by providing an improved container of the above-mentioned kind with a more clear indication of how the container should open as featured in the characterising part of claim 1.

By the container defined in claim 2, the desired clarity can be obtained in a manner that is convenient from a manufacturing point of view. Additionally, the invention provides an injection tool and a method of manufacturing the improved container by use of the injection moulding tool.

Advantageous embodiments are taught in the further dependent claims. Thus the invention lends itself for use both when the flap along the sides is moulded integrally with the skirt as described in EP 1,122, 184 and EP 565,967 and when the only connection of the flap with the remaining part of the container is embodied by the turning connection.

The invention also relates to a packaging comprising a container of the type in question and a lid.

The invention will now be explained in further detail with reference to an exemplary embodiment.

Figure 1 shows a moulded plastics container, seen in an inclined view from above; Figure 2 is a schematic sectional view of an injection moulding tool for manufacturing a container according to the invention.

In Figure 1, reference numeral 1 generally designates a section of a moulded plastics container, seen in an inclined view from above. The container 1 has

an annular side wall 10 that extends from a not shown bottom of the container and up towards the mouthing 2 of the container. Preferably, the side wall 10 follows the contour of the frustum of a cone and an engagement area 15 for a not shown lid is arranged near the mouthing 2 by the free edge of the side wall 10. The engagement area 15 is configured in a conventional manner for being able to snaplockingly engage with a complementarily configured engagement area of a not shown lid, and the engagement area can be configured and arranged as shown in EP 1,122, 184, EP 1,052, 183 or EP 565,967.

Round along the side wall 10 there is, on its outside in the area by the mouthing 2, arranged a skirt 20 for stiffening the container 1. The skirt 20 comprises annular wall areas 21,22, 23 and 24 that are arranged in extension of each other, the wall areas 21,23 extending in a direction from the side wall 10. A wall section 24, most remote from the side wall 10, thus extends round along the side wall 10 at a distance there from. For carrying the container 1 the wall area 24 may in a conventional manner comprise not shown mounting openings for a handle.

A turnable flap 30, the object of which will be explained in further detail below, is also arranged in proximity of the mouthing 2. Preferably, the flap 30 is offset by 90° relative to the mounting openings for the handle. A turning connection 8 that may be configured as a film hinge extending along the flap 30 connects the flap 30 to the remaining container 1 and allows a relatively unimpeded turning of the flap 30 in a direction upwards away from the sidewall 10.

More specifically the flap 30 can be received in a recess in the skirt that is formed by a recessed portion of the wall area 24, or the flap 30 can be received in an interruption of the skirt 20, whereby the front side 35 of the flap 30 is aligned with the surface of the wall area 24. The wall area 24 and the front 35 of the flap 30 thus combine to form an even annular surface without protruding areas that makes stacking of a number of the containers 1 difficult.

The flap 30 can be secured in the shown position in various ways, eg as described in EP 1,122, 184, EP 1,052, 183 or EP 565, 967.

In the shown state of the flap 30 the container can be supplied to an organisation or a business that fills the container 1 with a charge and subsequently arranges a lid in engagement with the engagement area 15.

Hereby the lid will extend down across the wall portions 21,22 of the skirt 20 and down across a part of the upper area of the flap 30, immediately below the turning connection 8. By manually turning the flap 30 upwards by means of the turning connection 8, it will subsequently be possible to release the lid from at least a part of the engagement area 15 immediately above the flap 30, said upper area of the flap 30 pressing the adjoining area of the lid outwards and upwards. Hereby the lid is more easily removed manually.

Following application of the lid, the container 1 is ready for further distribution to a sales outlet. Hereby the lock that secures the flap 30 in the shown position will constitute a guarantee that the lid was not previously removed.

Previous attempts to remove the lid by operation of the flap 30 can thus be ascertained by the locking of the flap 30 being broken.

Figure 2 shows a sectional view of an injection moulding tool 50 according to the invention which is suitable for manufacturing a container 1 as shown in Figure 1. As shown, the injection moulding tool 50 comprises a first mould part 55 that can be moved along an axis corresponding to the vertical axis of the container 1. The injection moulding tool 50 also comprises a second mould part 95 and the two mould parts 55,95 delimit, in a closed position of the tool, a mould cavity 52 for forming the side wall 10, bottom, skirt 20 and the flap 30 of the container 1. As shown the tool according to the invention comprises two supply conduits for plastics material, wherein the one conduit 60 debouches in the area where the bottom of the container 1 is formed, whereas the second conduit 65 debouches in the area 53 where the flap 30 is formed. Each conduit 60,65 is coupled to a respective source of plastics material, the plastics materials being of different colours, thereby yielding a

finished product with a flap 30 having one colour, while the remaining part of the container 1 has a another colour. The area 53 of the mould cavity 52 in which the flap 30 is formed being in communication with the remainder of the mould cavity, the injection of the plastics material must be controlled such that the fronts of the plastics material injected through the two conduits 60, 65 meet in an area near the flap 30 so as to impart to the flap 30 a readily identifiable appearance on the finished container 1.