Meat container
AssigneeWilson Foods Corporation
InventorWilliam E. Archibald
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Abstract
A container for shipping and temporarily storing fresh meat cuts which is a corrugated container of right parallelepiped construction and made up of interconnected corrugated panels. Each panel has a kraft paper outer liner with an outwardly facing wire side, a wax impregnated kraft paper inner liner and a medium positioned between the liners. Each opposed side wall of the box is made up of a pair of superimposed major flaps, and minor flaps extend from the opposite side edges of the panels making up the end walls of the box along and against portions of the outer side of the outermost major flap in each of the pairs of major flaps at opposite sides of the box.
Claims13
A container for containing fresh cuts of meat comprising:
- a single corrugated board element including a plurality of panels separated by slits and fold lines, said element being folded into a hollow, completely enclosed, right parallelepiped configuration to provide the container with two opposite parallel sides, a top, a bottom and two opposite parallel ends, said board element and each of the panels thereof including:
- an outer liner including:
- an inwardly facing felt side;
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- an outwardly facing wire side, said wire side containing relatively longer and coarser fibers of greater exposed surface area than said felt side and providing a wicking action for transpiring water vapor from inside the container to the outside of the container;
- an inner liner;
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- a corrugated medium located between the inner and outer liners and bonded to said inwardly facing felt side of said outer liner;
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- wax impregnated into said inner liner from the side thereof opposite said corrugated medium to render said liner liquid impermeable to thereby prevent water in liquid form from passing through said inner liner from the interior of said container and whereby said panels pick up and absorb water vapor and moisture more slowly at the inner liner due to said wax impregnation than would occur without any wax impregnation and said outer liner transpires moisture in the form of water vapor to the outside of the box relatively rapidly due to the outward facing of said wire side of said outer liner, and moisture accumulation in the panels between the inner and outer liners that can cause weakness and sogginess of the panels is prevented.
A container for fresh cuts of meat comprising:
- a bottom panel;
- side walls including flaps formed integrally with said bottom panel and extending perpendicularly upwardly therefrom;
- end wall panels formed integrally with said bottom panel and extending perpendicularly upwardly therefrom and at right angles to said side wall flaps, each of said end wall panels including portions adjacent said bottom panel which are formed integrally with lower portions of said flaps and cooperate with said lower portions of said flaps and said bottom panel to form closed, liquid imperforate corners, and said bottom panel and the lower portions of said side wall flaps and end wall panels together forming an unslitted tray located at, and constituting, the bottom portion of said container and including said imperforate corners;
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- a container top extending between said side wall flaps and parallel to said tray bottom panel, and completely closing said container, said bottom panel and container top each being craft corrugated board including:
- an inner liner;
- an outer liner;
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- a corrugated medium positioned between said outer liner and said inner liner, said outer liner having a wire side located on the opposite side of the outer liner from the side thereof adjacent the medium, and having a felt side adjacent the medium.
A corrugated box for containing fresh cuts of meat comprising:
- a series of interconnected imperforate panels folded and joined to form a close hollow right parallelepiped, each of said panels including:
- a kraft paper outer liner positioned at the outside of the box and including an outwardly facing wire side and an inwardly facing felt side;
- a kraft paper inner liner positioned inwardly in the hollow parallelepiped from the outer liner and including a wire side facing toward said outer liner and an inwardly facing felt side;
- a corrugated medium between said inner and outer liners and secured to the felt side of said outer liner and the wire side of said inner liner;
- wax impregnated into said inner liner from the felt side thereof in an amount of about five pounds of paraffin wax per 1,000 sq. ft. of surface area of the inner liner;
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- means for inhibiting liquid leakage through four corners of the hollow right parallelepiped.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.