Envelopes – wrappers – and paperboard boxes – Wrapper – Including means to facilitate severing the wrapper
Reexamination Certificate
1999-10-19
2001-09-18
Pascua, Jes F. (Department: 3727)
Envelopes, wrappers, and paperboard boxes
Wrapper
Including means to facilitate severing the wrapper
C229S087080, C229S938000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06290121
ABSTRACT:
SPECIFICATIONS
This invention relates to packaging, serving, holding, handling and consumption of convenience and fast foods such as hamburgers, beef burgers, cheeseburgers, chicken burgers, fish burgers, croissant sandwiches, Kaiser sandwiches and similar fast foods. It specifically concerns a holding, handling, preserving and dispensing shell to enable customers to eat servings of burger-type fast foods while minimising the risk of soiling and contaminating same with dirty hands; ingesting the hand-contaminated food; having too much of the food go cold; and, spilling and splattering of morsels, condiments, remnants and fluids on clothing, furniture and vehicle interiors. Fast and convenience food outlets have become popular features around the world Cities, towns, communities and highways in North America and all over the world boast such fast food outlets as “McDonald's”, “Wendy's”, “Burger King”, “Harvey's”, “A&W”, “Subway”, “Arby's”, “Lick's” and others depending on the continent and particular country. Convenience and fast food outlets present their burgers, bun sandwiches and similar fast foods to customers in unit packaging such as paper wraps, plastic wraps, paper boxes, cardboard boxes or styrofoam boxes.
The customers proceed to eat the burgers by first unwrapping the paper fully or partially with a risk of mess, or opening the box and grasping and lifting the fast food (again with a risk of mess). Eating of the unwrapped and exposed burger or bun sandwich is done with condiments and fluids spilling and dripping from all sides in the fast food premises, motor vehicle or home. Most customers who have little time or opportunity to wash their hands are compelled to handle and contaminate their fast foods due to the use of the current inconvenient, untidy and unhygienic, full-exposure packaging. A lot of care is exercised by the customers to avoid soiling the fast food with usually dirty hands; letting the food go cold; squeezing out the condiments, fluids and morsels; and soiling their clothing, furniture and vehicle interiors. A major drawback of the current packaging for burger and bun sandwich fast foods is the inconvenient and unhygienic aspects of forcing workers straight out of construction sites, plants, factories, warehouses and similar workplaces; and travellers coming off the roads and highways; to handle and eat their fast foods with dirty hands and risk food contanination, food spill and mess.
The listed disadvantages of current packaging may be overcome by my new invention (called Clean Bite Pack, Easy Bite Pack or Neat Pack). An object of my new invention is to provide a user-friendly packaging shell that is segmented in order to be dismantled in stages to enable the eater of burger-type fast foods to enjoy the foods conveniently, neatly and hygienically by:
holding and handling only the packaging shell, and not the fast food, with bare and often dirty hands;
easily tearing off segments of the packaging shell which correspond to bite-sized portions of the fast food being eaten;
exposing only one bite-sized portion of the fast food at a time to be bitten off and eaten, not the entire serving;
keeping the remaining fast food intact and warm inside the partial shell of the packaging; and,
trapping and confining the squeezed out condiments, morsels, remnants and fluids in the trough of the packaging.
This invention will enable eaters/consumers of burger-type and bun-sandwich fast and convenience foods to enjoy their foods inside or outside the fast and convenience food premises without concerns for:
touching their fast foods with often dirty hands;
soiling and contaminating their fast foods with dirty hands;
ingesting the hand-contaminated fast foods;
having their fast foods go cold from overexposure while being eaten; and
soiling their hands, clothing, furniture and vehicle interiors with morsels, condiments remnants and fluids.
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