Back to results
US 12,709,431 B2Granted
Bakery tray
AssigneeDrader Manufacturing Industries Ltd.
InventorsAbiy Wubneh, Jeff McTavish
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A molded bakery tray include a tray body that has a top surface, a bottom surface, and a peripheral wall around a perimeter of the tray body. Support ribs on the bottom surface intersect an inner surface of the peripheral wall at intersection points along at least one side of the tray body. The support ribs taper from a nominal width to an intersection width at the intersection points, the intersection width being less than the nominal width.
Claims6
A bakery tray with a locking handle, comprising:
- a tray body having a carrying surface and a surrounding wall that surrounds the carrying surface;
- and
- a handle having a first end and a second end that engage the tray body, the handle being pivotable from a collapsed position to an upright position, wherein, at each of the first end and the second end:
- the handle comprises an engagement portion that is pivotally received by a handle-receiving aperture in the surrounding wall of the tray body to define a pivot axis of the handle, the engagement portion being axially moveable within the handle-receiving aperture;
- the handle comprises a support portion that extends perpendicular to the engagement portion, wherein, with the handle in the collapsed position, the support portion is spaced from the carrying surface, the support portion pivoting toward the carrying surface as the handle pivots to the upright position;
- and
- the tray body comprises an axial stop adjacent to the handle receiving aperture, the axial stop being perpendicularly spaced from the pivot axis of the handle such that the axial stop allows the engagement portion to be withdrawn from the handle-receiving aperture when the handle is in the collapsed position, and prevents the engagement portion from being released from the handle-receiving apertures when the handle is in the upright position.
4 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.