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US 2022/0153502 A1Published application
Disposable container with breachable sauce packet
AssigneeUnited Source Packaging LLC
InventorsEdward Davies, Bradly Buchanan, David Fyfe
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Abstract
Disclosed are disposable containers, such as a stand-up pouch, for heating food in a microwave oven and while automatically dispensing sauce onto the food. Methods and apparatuses for making sauce packets and disposable containers are also disclosed. eodcmaster
Claims17
A disposable container for heating food, the disposable container comprising:
- parallel container sidewalls coming together to form a container top, a container bottom, the container sidewalls and the container bottom defining a pouch interior, the pouch interior including a food region between the container top and the container bottom;
- and
- a thermally breachable packet within and attached to the pouch interior, the thermally breachable packet having a seal encompassing a liquid and having a longest side facing the container bottom, the longest side of the seal directing pressure of the liquid to burst the longest side of the seal toward the container bottom.
A container comprising:
- at least one sidewall between a container bottom and a container top, the container sidewall encompassing a container interior;
- and
- a thermally breachable packet within the container interior, the thermally breachable packet including:
- a top packet edge attached to at least one of the sidewall and the container top;
- a bottom packet edge detached from the at least one sidewall and facing the container bottom;
- and
- a laminate with an inner layer forming a seal encapsulating a sauce, the seal including a breachable longest side.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.