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US 7,607,563 B2Granted
Pizza container
AssigneeArvco Container Corporation
InventorsD. Matt Hanna, Robert A. Ford
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Abstract
A container for use in transporting food, such as pizza, and formed from a foldable blank. The container incorporates therein a cut-out adjacent a top wall thereof which serves as a finger grip for opening the container.
Claims7
A food container comprising:
- a generally planar bottom wall having a pair of first generally parallel side edges and a second pair of generally parallel side edges extending transversely relative to said first pair of side edges;
- first and second side walls integrally joined to said bottom wall and folded upwardly therefrom about fold lines which extend along said first pair of side edges;
- first and second end walls integrally joined to said bottom wall and folded upwardly therefrom about fold lines which extend along said second pair of side edges;
- first and second generally planar top flaps, said first top flap being integrally joined to one of said end walls along a first fold line and folded downwardly from said one end wall about said first fold line, said second top flap being integrally joined to the other said end wall along a second fold line and folded downwardly from said other end wall about said second fold line so as to be positioned in superimposed relation with said first top flap;
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- a cut-out area defined generally along said first fold line, said second top flap defining a free edge portion disposed over a portion of said cut-out area adjacent said first fold line so as occlude said portion of said cut-out area from above and define a finger grip for opening said container.
3 more elements
A container comprising:
- a generally horizontal bottom panel;
- a pair of generally upright side walls which project upwardly from first opposite edges of said bottom panel;
- a pair of generally upright end walls which project generally upwardly from second opposite edges of said bottom panel;
- a top cover generally parallel to and spaced upwardly from said bottom panel, said top cover being defined by a pair of top flaps respectively joined to upper edges of the respective said end walls;
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- a cut-out area defined adjacent one of said end walls adjacent said upper edge thereof, one of said top flaps of said top cover having a free edge portion disposed in overlapping relation with a portion of said cutout area such that said cut-out area and said free edge portion together define a finger grip for opening said container, said cut-out area being disposed along a fold line which adjoins the other said top flap with said one end wall.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.