Envelopes – wrappers – and paperboard boxes – Paperboard box – Box material includes a coating or a nonpaperboard...
Patent
1979-03-27
1980-06-17
Moorhead, Davis T.
Envelopes, wrappers, and paperboard boxes
Paperboard box
Box material includes a coating or a nonpaperboard...
229 15, 206564, B65D 324, B65D 100
Patent
active
042080061
ABSTRACT:
A tray of molded pulp or like material for carryout food and beverage comprising one or more pockets for receiving and firmly supporting any one of several different size beverage containers normally used in the carry-out food trade, each of the pockets having a circular floor portion, a web portion extending for a full 360.degree. around the circular floor portion in an area adjacent the circular floor portion and diverging in the upward direction, the web portion extending along a generally conic surface to an upper ridge, a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart tower-like members extending radially inwardly of the pocket from the web portion to firmly grip and support a beverage container which may be received in the pocket member but being too large in diameter to reach the circular floor portion, each of the tower-like members extending upwardly from the web portion at an area above the upper ridge of the web portion, each of the tower-like members including a pair of circumferentially spaced radially inwardly extending flanges having integral therewith at upper ends thereof a generally horizontal bridge, the pair of radially inwardly extending flanges and the bridge having radially inner edges which together with the web portion define an aperture facilitating stacking a tray having such pockets formed therein with like tray in nesting relationship, the radially inner edges of the flanges extending from upper ends thereof at the respective bridges toward the respective lower ends thereof at a steeper angle with the horizontal and closer to the vertical than the web portion whereby any beverage container received in the pocket will upon coming into contact with the radially inner edge of one of the flanges be maintained inwardly of the aperture defined thereby and above the circular floor portion to insure that any drippage or spillage from a beverage container will be retained within the floor portion within the enclosure provided by the web portion in the area adjacent the floor portion.
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Bixler Kenneth D.
Lord Henry A.
Ralphs Robert E.
Reifers Richard F.
Diamond International Corporation
Flocks Karl W.
Moorhead Davis T.
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