Envelopes – wrappers – and paperboard boxes – Paperboard box – Convertible
Reexamination Certificate
1999-07-30
2001-04-03
Shoap, Allan N. (Department: 3727)
Envelopes, wrappers, and paperboard boxes
Paperboard box
Convertible
C229S400000, C229S161000, C229S118000, C206S459500
Reexamination Certificate
active
06209780
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a french fry scoop of the type fashioned from a unitary blank of paperboard or other stiff, resilient, and foldable sheet material.
The container art is aware of a number of french fry scoop and container constructions, typically fashioned from paperboard, and including a front wall, a rear or scoop wall, and a bottom wall. The scoop wall usually rises higher than the front wall, while the front wall is typically provided with a part circular recess at its central portion. The front and rear walls are curved to yield a container generally convex in transverse cross section, as a convex—convex optical lens. Such scoops are shipped to a fast food outlet in flattened or collapsed condition, and the scoop is opened or erected by manually pressing its opposite edges together, with the bottom wall construction being such that a toggle action is effected to thereby lock the container in an open position due to the inherent resiliency of paperboard. While in this open position, a server will typically hold the container by its side edges and use the protruding rear wall portion as a scoop to fill the container with french fries. Then, the filled scoop is served to the consumer. The french fry container/scoop construction described above is known.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
According to the practice of this invention, the rear or scoop wall is provided with two parallel slits, each extending completely through the paperboard or other sheet material. Each of a pair of vertically and horizontally displaced openings passes completely through the paperboard. These openings are located between the parallel slits. The rear wall of the container carries a tear-off strip, the strip being of generally uniform width, with the width of the tear strip being slightly less than the length of the two parallel slits. The tear-off strip is provided on one of its surfaces with two lines or rows of indicia, with one line of indicia defining separate and distinct questions and the other line defining separate and distinct answers to the questions. In use, the consumer, typically after having eaten the french fries, tears off the tear strip and inserts it through the two parallel slits. Insertion is done in such a manner that the indicia is viewable through the two openings. For example, one of the openings may display a question, while the other opening may display the answer to that question. In a second embodiment, the slits and openings are located on the front wall, while the tear strip is formed by tearing out a pre-weakened portion of the rear or scoop wall.
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Mai Tri M.
Shoap Allan N.
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