Poultry tray and method of packaging poultry using same
AssigneeCascades Canada Ulc
InventorsMathieu Roberge, Philippe Marcoux, Serge Blais, Simon Bédard
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Abstract
A poultry tray for shipping and displaying a dressed poultry. The poultry tray comprises a receptacle including a bottom wall and a peripheral wall having an upper end defining a receptacle opening. The poultry tray also comprises a flap pivotally connected to the receptacle at a rear end thereof. The flap is pivotable between an open configuration wherein the flap extends outwardly from the receptacle opening and a closed configuration wherein the flap covers a section of the receptacle opening and has a distal end detachably secured to the receptacle.
Claims20
A poultry tray for shipping and displaying a dressed poultry, the poultry tray comprising:
- a receptacle including a bottom wall and a peripheral wall having an upper end defining a receptacle opening, the bottom wall comprises a supporting surface and two poultry thigh raised sections spaced apart from one another along a transversal axis of the receptacle, extending above the supporting surface and configured to highlight a corresponding poultry thigh, each one of the poultry thigh raised sections being adjacent to the peripheral wall close to a rear end and extending above the supporting surface;
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- a flap pivotally connected to the receptacle at the rear end thereof, the flap being pivotable between an open configuration wherein the flap extends outwardly from the receptacle opening and a closed configuration wherein the flap covers a section of the receptacle opening and has a distal end securable to the receptacle, wherein each one of the poultry thigh raised sections comprises at least one of a male member and a female member and the flap comprises at least two of the other one of the male member and the female member, the male and female members being complementary and detachably engageable to one another.
A poultry tray for shipping and displaying a dressed poultry, the poultry tray comprising:
- a receptacle including a bottom wall and a peripheral wall having an upper end defining a receptacle opening, the bottom wall comprises a supporting surface and two poultry thigh raised sections, extending above the supporting surface and configured to highlight a corresponding poultry thigh, each one of the poultry thigh raised sections being adjacent to the peripheral wall close to a rear end and extending above the supporting surface and below an upper end of the peripheral wall;
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- a flap pivotally connected to the receptacle at the rear end thereof, the flap being pivotable between an open configuration wherein the flap extends outwardly from the receptacle opening and a closed configuration wherein the flap covers a section of the receptacle opening and has a distal end securable to the receptacle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.