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US 3,942,671 AGranted
Carry-out tray
AssigneeMobil Oil Corporation
InventorJohn Florian
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Abstract
A tray for food and beverages in which the beverage cup recesses are adapted to retain differing size cups by reason of an arcuate projection from the bottom at one side of such recess.
Claims10
A molded carry-out tray for food formed with a plurality of circular wells for retention of circular cups having chimes projecting downwardly from the bottoms thereof;
- the improvement in structure of each of said wells which comprises a flat circular bottom wall, a circular side wall integral with and extending upwardly from said bottom wall and adapted to retain a circular cup in said well, a projection extending upwardly from said bottom wall near an edge thereof and spaced inwardly of said bottom wall from the adjacent portion of said side wall to provide a continued surface of said bottom wall between said projection and the adjacent portion of said side wall adapted to support between the said projection and the said adjacent portion of said side wall the chime of a cup of diameter approximately equal to that of said bottom wall, said projection being further adapted to contact at its surface remote from the side wall with the bottom of a cup of diameter substantially less than that of said bottom wall to thereby retain such cup of lesser diameter in contact with a portion of said side wall remote from said projection.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.