Pizza box configured to form smaller box for storage of leftovers
OwnerKayla Grace TILLMANinventor
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Abstract
A blank for forming a box for serving pizza includes panels defined and separated by manufactured lines that, when folded, define a box having a first footprint for enclosing within the box an entire pizza and that, when folded differently with panels having been removed, define a second box having a second footprint for enclosing leftovers of the entire pizza, the second footprint being smaller than the first footprint. The second footprint preferably is approximately one half of the area of the first footprint for accommodating no more than half of the entire pizza.
Claims20
A method of forming a subsequent box for the storage of leftover pizza from an initial box used for serving of an entire pizza, which initial box is formed by folding a box blank having manufactured lines along a first plurality of the manufactured lines, comprising the steps of:
- (a) unfolding portions of the initial box;
- (b) tearing along perforated lines of the manufactured lines for removing portions of the box blank;
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- (c) folding remaining portions of the box blank along a second plurality of the manufactured lines to form the subsequent box, the subsequent box having a footprint that is no more than half of the footprint of the initial box;
- (d) wherein the first plurality of manufactured lines is not an identical set to the second plurality of manufactured lines.
A box having a first footprint comprising:
- (a) a blank having a plurality of panels that have been folded, with a first panel defining with one or more other panels a bottom of the box, and a second panel defining with one or more other panels a lid of the box;
- (b) manufactured lines by which a panel of the bottom of the box that is not the first panel may be removed and by which a panel of the lid of the box that is not the second panel may be removed;
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- (c) manufactured lines about which panels of the box may be folded after removal of panels of the bottom and lid of the box to form a smaller box having a footprint that is substantially smaller than the first footprint;
- (d) wherein the first panel itself defines an entire bottom of the container of the smaller box and the second panel itself defines the entire top of the lid of the smaller box.
A blank for forming a box for serving pizza, the blank comprising panels defined and separated by manufactured lines that, when folded, define a box having a first footprint for enclosing within the box an entire pizza and that, when folded differently with panels having been removed, define a second box having a second footprint for enclosing leftovers of the entire pizza, the second footprint being smaller than the first footprint.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.