Composite bag-like package
AssigneeRock-Tenn Company
InventorHenry Wischusen, III
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Abstract
A package of the type used to contain one or more products to be carried out of a store or restaurant, includes a paperboard base tray having tapered side walls and a tapered, flexible bag portion made, for example, of transparent plastic film. The sleeve forming the bag portion is attached to the side walls of the base. The package thus has a rigid, smooth inner bottom for supporting upstanding articles, such as drink cups, has the capability of being nested in an open configuration for storage, and can be made from a minimum of materials.
Claims13
A package for carrying articles, comprising:
- a base tray including a bottom panel defining a peripheral edge and a side wall extending upwardly from the peripheral edge of said bottom panel at an angle greater than 90 degrees from said bottom panel, said side wall defining an upper peripheral edge longer than said peripheral edge of said bottom panel;
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- a flexible sleeve having a height substantially greater than the height of said base tray sidewall, and having a bottom opening defined by a continuous bottom edge, said bottom edge of said sleeve having a length approximately equal to or greater than the length of said peripheral edge of said bottom panel of said base tray but shorter than the upper peripheral edge of said base tray side wall;
- said sleeve being positioned about the exterior of said base tray such that said bottom edge of said sleeve engages said base tray side wall and said articles may be loaded into said sleeves substantially above said upper peripheral edge of said base tray side wall such that said sleeve is engaged by said articles and retains said articles against lateral outward movement.
A method of assembling a package of the type used for carrying articles, comprising the steps of:
- forming a base tray including a bottom panel defining a peripheral edge at an angle greater than 90 degrees from said bottom panel, and a side wall extending upwardly from the peripheral edge of the bottom panel, said side wall defining an upper peripheral edge longer than said peripheral edge of said bottom panel;
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- inserting said base tray into a flexbile sleeve having a height substantially greater than the height of said base tray side wall, and having a continuous bottom edge, said bottom edge of said sleeve having a length approximately equal to or greater than the length of said peripheral edge of said bottom panel of said base tray but shorter than the upper peripheral edge of said base tray side wall until said bottom edge frictionally engages said side wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.