Holder for food containers in the form of a frame
OwnerDaniel Paul Scott Gilbertinventor
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Abstract
A holder of nestable plastic food containers in the form of a frame has walls including a bottom wall and at least one sloping wall that is a side wall. One or both of the bottom wall and the sloping side wall(s) has a cut-out. In any wall having a cut-out the cut-out occupies at least 40%, 50% 60%, ⅔, ¾ or ⅘ of the surface area of the wall. The one or more cut-outs are shaped (a) to define a source identifier associated with the holder and (b) to allow a user to view contents of one of the food containers held by the holder. The cut-outs may be continuous in that its border may be traceable in a continuous motion. The size of the holder matches the size of the food containers that the holder holds. The holders are stackable and can be hung through the aligned cut-outs.
Claims29
A holder of nestable plastic food containers in the form of a frame, comprising:
- walls including
- a bottom wall;
- at least one sloping side wall;
- wherein one or more of the walls has a cut-out, each particular cut-out of the one or more cut-outs occupies at least 40% of a surface area of a particular wall of the walls that the particular cut-out is cut out of,
- the one or more cut-outs are shaped so as
- (a) to define a source identifier associated with the holder and
- (b) to allow a user to view contents of one of the food containers held by the holder,
- wherein a size of the holder matches a size of the nestable plastic food containers that the holder holds.
A holder of nestable plastic food containers in the form of a frame, comprising:
- a bottom wall;
- a sloping left side wall;
- a sloping right side wall;
- a sloping front wall;
- and
- a sloping rear wall,
- wherein one or more of the walls comprises a cut-out, each of one or more cut-outs occupying at least 40% of a surface area of a particular wall of the one or more of the walls,
- the one or more cut-outs shaped so as
- (a) to define a source identifier associated with the holder and
- (b) to allow a user to view contents of one of the food containers held by the holder,
- wherein a size of the holder matches a size of the nestable plastic food containers that the holder holds.
A stack of nestable holders, each of the holders configured in a form of a frame and configured to hold a nestable plastic food container, the stack comprising:
- a series of the at least three holders, wherein each holder in the series comprises:
- a bottom wall;
- at least one sloping side wall;
- wherein the bottom wall has a cut-out that occupies a majority of a surface area of the bottom wall,
- the cut-out shaped so as
- (a) to define a source identifier associated with the holder and
- (b) to allow a user to view contents of one of the food containers held by any of the holders.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.