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US 6,410,065 B1Granted
Expansible food container
AssigneeNottingham-Spirk Design Associates, Inc.
InventorsJohn R. Nottingham, John W. Spirk, Jr., Dale Panasewicz
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AssigneeNottingham-Spirk Design Associates, Inc.
InventorsJohn R. Nottingham, John W. Spirk, Jr., Dale Panasewicz
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An expansible container is provided for use during the cooking of food in a radiant energy device such as a microwave oven, with the container being configured or otherwise designed to provide entertainment to onlookers as the container expands in size during the relative rapid cooking of food in the container and/or with the fully expanded container of cooked food providing an interesting article, character, figure or configuration that is of novel, interesting or entertaining appearance. The container is formed from relatively flexible materials that define a closed chamber which contains food to be cooked. In its deflated form, the container is collapsed to assume a relatively flat, thin configuration which, in most preferred practice, displays or is configured to provide an entertaining or amusing shape. The inflation of the container during cooking of its food contents in a device such as a microwave oven may be rendered even more entertaining by selecting the food contents to comprise a substance such as popcorn that generates various types of entertaining noises such as “popping” noises during the cooking process. Once inflated, the container retains its expanded or inflated form to provide a measure of lasting entertainment or amusement. If popping corn is the food being cooked, the cooking time typically requires about one to about six minutes.
A microwave popcorn device comprising:
A microwave popcorn device comprising:
A microwave popcorn device comprising:
A microwave popcorn package comprising at least two flexible non-planar sheets of material having peripheral edges bonded together to form at inflatable cavity for containing popcorn, said sheets of material being cut and bonded together in a configuration which resembles a sports ball when the cavity is inflated by gas generated by microwave cooking of the popcorn.
A microwave popcorn package comprising at least two flexible non-planar sheets of material having peripheral edges bonded together and bonded to a substantially planar base for said package, said sheets of material being cut and bonded together in a configuration which resembles an animal when inflated by gas generated by microwave cooking of the popcorn.
A microwave inflatable popcorn package comprising artistic panels adhesively bonded at peripheral edges to form a sealed container having a three-dimensional appearance of an animal when the package is inflated,
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.