The Associated Press

The man who designed the Pringles potato chip packaging system was so proud of his accomplishment that he asked that a portion of his ashes be buried in one of the iconic cans.

Fredric J. Baur, of Cincinnati, died May 4 at Vitas Hospice in Cincinnati, Ill., his family said. He was 89.

Baur's children said they honored his request by placing part of his cremated remains in a Pringles container in his grave in suburban Springfield Township, Ill. The rest of his remains were divided between an urn buried along with the can and another urn given to a grandson, said Baur's daughter, Linda Baur of Diamondhead, Miss.

Baur requested the burial arrangement because he was proud of his design of the Pringles container, a son, Lawrence Baur of Stevensville, Mich., said Monday.

Baur was an organic chemist and food-storage technician who specialized in research and development and quality control for Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble Co.

The inventor filed for a patent for the tubular Pringles container and for the method of packaging the curved, stacked chips in the container in 1966, and it was granted in 1970, P&G archivist Ed Rider said.

Baur retired from P&G in the early 1980s.