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US 8,770,431 B1Granted
Sauce tray and lid system for food container
AssigneeKFC Corporation
InventorsPaul Glaser, Susan E. Miles, Rodney T. Stephenson, Chris Roeder
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Abstract
A sauce tray defines one or more openings through a base surface to receive and retain one or more containers of dipping sauce, and the sauce tray is further configured to be positioned in either a first orientation or second orientation on top of a food container. In some embodiments, the sauce tray is part of a lid system that also creates a separate cavity within the interior volume of the food container to store another food product.
Claims17
A combination, comprising:
- a food container;
- and
- a sauce tray defining multiple openings through a base surface and configured to be positioned in either a first orientation or second orientation on top of the food container, wherein (a) in the first orientation, the sauce tray effectively forms a dome over the food container, (b) in the second orientation, the sauce tray effectively forms a bowl that encroaches into an interior volume of the food container, and (c) in both the first orientation and the second orientation, the sauce tray is configured to receive and retain a container of dipping sauce through each of the multiple openings through the base surface of the sauce tray, with an upper flange of the container of dipping sauce engaging the base surface of sauce tray.
A lid system for a food container, comprising:
- an insert tray having a bottom wall and a continuous side wall that collectively define an interior cavity with an open top, said insert tray being received in an upper portion of the food container, thus creating a separate cavity within an interior volume of the food container;
- and
- a sauce tray, said sauce tray defining one or more openings through a base surface, and said sauce tray being placed over the insert tray on top of the food container, wherein the sauce tray is configured to receive and retain one or more containers of dipping sauce through the one or more openings through the base surface of the sauce tray;
- wherein the sauce tray includes multiple downwardly extending appendages that are spaced at intervals around a periphery of the sauce tray with each of these downwardly extending appendages defining a lateral recess, and wherein the insert tray includes multiple tabs that are adapted to engage the lateral recesses defined by the downwardly extending appendages of the sauce tray, thus locking the sauce tray to the insert tray.
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A combination, comprising:
- a food container;
- an insert tray having a bottom wall and a continuous side wall that collectively define an interior cavity with an open top, said insert tray being received in an upper portion of the food container, thus creating a separate cavity within an interior volume of the food container;
- and
- a sauce tray, said sauce tray defining one or more openings through a base surface, and said sauce tray being placed over the insert tray on top of the food container, wherein the sauce tray is configured to receive and retain one or more containers of dipping sauce through the one or more openings through the base surface of the sauce tray.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.