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US 2014/0191022 A1Published application
Method of Using Modular Pizza Box
OwnerWilliam Gerard Volz, Brady Neal Wareinventors
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Abstract
The present invention provides a method of using a disposable pizza box that may also be used as a storage container for holding leftover pizza. In a preferable embodiment, the original box is first divided into two portions. The resulting open end of one or both portions may then be readily folded shut, thereby forming reduced-sized, additional closed box structures. In a most preferred embodiment of the present invention, one portion of the divided box is sized so that when the open end is folded shut, the reduced-sized box is essentially half the volume of the original box.
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A method for using a fully re-closable, size selectable container system structure, comprising
- a. a bottom portion, the perimeter of which is defined by hingedly attached, opposing lower side walls, a hingedly attached back wall, and a hingedly attached lower front wall
- b. a top portion hingedly attached to said back wall, the perimeter of which is defined by hingedly attached, opposing upper side walls, a hingedly attached upper front wall, and said hingedly attached back wall
- c. divisional means for facilitating the division of the container system structure into at least two pieces, arranged longitudinally through the container system structure
- d. a back wall tab portion on the back wall adjacent to the divisional means, delineated by perforations and said divisional means, essentially rectangular in shape, removably attached to the back wall, hingedly attached to the bottom portion and having a length essentially equal to the height of the back wall and a width essentially equal to or lesser than the height of the back wall
- e. a removable portion on the lower front wall, adjacent to the divisional means, delineated by perforations and said divisional means, extending to the edge of the container system structure and having a length essentially equal to or greater than half the width of the lower front wall, and a width essentially equal to or less than half the width of the lower front wall
- f. a removable portion of the top and upper front wall, adjacent to the divisional means delineated by perforations and said divisional means, extending to the edge of the container system structure on the upper front wall and having a width essentially equal to or less than half the width of the lower front wall, and a length essentially equal to or greater than half the width of the lower front wall
- g. a removable portion on the top, adjacent to the divisional means and the back wall, delineated by perforations and said divisional means, adjacent to the back wall tab portion and having a length essentially equal to or greater than the length of the back wall tab portion and a width essentially equal to or less than the height of the back wall
- h. a tab portion on the lower front wall, adjacent to the divisional means, delineated by perforations and said divisional means, the bottom portion and the removable portion on the lower front wall having a width and length essentially equal to or less than half the width of the lower front wall.
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A method of using a fully re-closable, size selectable container system structure, comprising
- a. a bottom portion, the perimeter of which is defined by hingedly attached, opposing lower side walls, a hingedly attached back wall, and a hingedly attached lower front wall
- b. a top portion hingedly attached to said back wall, the perimeter of which is defined by hingedly attached, opposing upper side walls, a hingedly attached upper front wall, and said hingedly attached back wall
- c. divisional means for facilitating the division of the container system structure into at least two pieces, arranged longitudinally through the container system structure
- d. a back wall tab portion on the back wall adjacent to the divisional means, delineated by perforations and said divisional means, essentially rectangular in shape, removably attached to the back wall, hingedly attached to the top portion and having a length essentially equal to the height of the back wall and a width essentially equal to or lesser than the height of the back wall
- e. a removable portion on the lower front wall and bottom, adjacent to the divisional means, delineated by perforations and said divisional means, extending to the edge of the container system structure and having a length essentially equal to twice the width of the lower front wall, and a width essentially equal to or less than the width of the lower front wall
- f. a tab portion on the upper front wall, delineated by perforations and said divisional means, extending to the edge of the container system structure on the upper front wall, hingedly attached to the top, removably attached to the upper front wall and having a width essentially equal to or less than the width of the lower front wall, and a length essentially equal to or greater than the width of the lower front wall
- g. a removable portion on the bottom, adjacent to the divisional means and the back wall, delineated by perforations and said divisional means, adjacent to the back wall tab portion and having a length essentially equal to or greater than the length of said back wall tab portion and a width essentially equal to or less than the height of the back wall, wherein the lower front wall and lower side walls are hingedly attached to one another through a triangular portion hingedly attached to the bottom portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.