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US 11,738,935 B1Granted
Expandable pizza container
OwnerTate Koenig, Matt Poeschiinventors
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Abstract
An expandable triangular pizza storage container with a set of triangular trays for the separation, microwaving and serving of individual slices of pizza. The storage container has a series of concentric triangular compartments that are expanded from a flexible polymer, accordion-style container body. The lid also has a triangular configuration with a replaceable compressible gasket, a set of four locking wings extending from each side that frictionally engage a rigid triangular top ring of the container body, and a central vent.
Claims6
An expandable pizza storage container, comprising:
- a flexible, generally triangular container body having three sides joined at rounded corners, and a planar bottom face extending perpendicularly from a bottom edge of said sides, wherein said sides are pleat folded so as to form an upper pleat and a lower pleat that are concentrically nested;
- a rigid seal ring bonded to a top edge of said sides;
- a rigid, generally triangular, planar lid with a gasket groove formed about a periphery edge of a bottom side of said lid;
- a compressible, removeable gasket frictionally retained within said gasket groove;
- a microwave safe triangular tray with a peripheral lip formed there about a tray top face and a finger tab extending from said triangular tray;
- wherein said lid resides upon said container body with said gasket in contact with said seal ring, and said tray resides within said container body.
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