Non-reusable, peel off covered ice tray
AssigneeArctic Icewater, Inc.
InventorSture C. Cederroth
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Abstract
There is provided an ice tray that includes a body and a laminated cover that has a plastic coat for securing together the body and the cover. The body includes a plurality of individual cavities for receiving liquid therein. Each wall of each cavity has an upper edge that forms a lip. The cover is sealed along each lip of each cavity to provide a liquid tight seal for each cavity. The body and cover are each, preferably, formed of a single sheet of material. The body is made of pure polyvinyl chloride plastic, and the cover is made of a laminate of polyester and polyamide with adhesive therebetween and the plastic coat on the side of the polyester opposite the adhesive.
Claims5
An ice cube tray for containing a liquid that forms into a plurality of ice cubes, said tray comprising:
- a body having a plurality of cavities each for receiving a portion of the liquid, each of said plurality of cavities having a bottom and a plurality of side walls with each side wall having an upper lip, said body being formed of pure polyvinyl chloride plastic;
- a cover being adapted to be secured to said body and having a plurality of cover areas, said cover being formed of a laminate of a polyester layer, an adhesive on said polyester layer, a polyamide layer on said adhesive, and a plastic coat on a side of said polyester layer opposite said adhesive, wherein said plastic coat affixes said cover to each lip of each cavity when heated to a sufficient melting point;
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- wherein each cavity forms a liquid tight seal that prevents oxygen from entering into an enclosed cavity, and wherein once a formed ice cube is removed from a cavity said cover portion of that cavity can not be reattached to that cavity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.