Absorbent insert for food packages
AssigneeJames River Corporation of Virginia
InventorsThomas D. Pawlowski, William G. Ticknor
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Abstract
A package for meat products and other oily foods and similar products marketed in stores and suitable for use to heat or cook the contents by microwave radiation comprising a absorbent insert having as basic elements a cooking surface of waxed paperboard or the like and an absorbent underlay. The cooking surface on which the food is laid is provided apertures so that fats and liquids released from the food during cooking may readily pass therethrough and be captured by the absorbent underlayer.
Claims7
An absorbent insert for a package used to display and cook a food product laid thereon, which comprises a paperboard blank resistant to staining from contact with said food product, said blank having an apertured central panel and a lateral panel along each of two opposite edges of said central panel, the combined width of the two lateral panels being greater than the width of said central panel, a fold line impressed along each of said opposite edges of said central panel, an absorbent layer attached by adhesive to said blank, the edges of said absorbent layer being spaced inwardly from the edges of said blank, and adhesive fastening the overlapped portion of said two lateral panels folded inward over said absorbent layer.
An absorbent insert for a package used to display and cook a food product laid thereon, which comprises a flat sleeve having apertures on the side on which said food product is laid, said sleeve being resistant to heat and staining from contact with said food product, and an absorbent layer of cellulose within said sleeve with the ends of said absorbent layer being spaced about one quarter inch inwardly from the ends of said sleeve.
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