AU2002101059A6 - Improvements introduced in sandwich packing - Google Patents

Description

00 "IMPROVEMENTS INTRODUCED IN SANDWICH PACKING"

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The present patent concerns to packing industry, specifically to improvements related to sandwich packing, to reduce the sale costs and to turn more practical and hygienic the consumption of this food.

In the previous state of art, the sandwich always has been offered in a cardboard box to allow its transport from the counter to the consumer's table, Stogether with a traditional napkin to facilitate its consumption in a hygienic way.

SHowever, although the cardboard box was good for transportation and offered an improvement in the visual end of the product, it has a restricted usefulness to this Stask, because, starting from the moment in that the sandwich was removed of its Sinterior, it lost all its purpose and it still turned an obstacle in the tray or the consumer's table.

When removing the box's sandwich, an uncomfortable task and sometimes a disaster, in what tells respect the original form of the sandwich, the consumer didn't get to involve the sandwich completely with the napkin and he made the retreat of it in stages, some part of the sandwich was in the box due to its size and constitution (done by parts). Due to that situation, inevitable and constraining, the consumer only had an alternative, to use the hands to complete the arrangement of the sandwich.

In most of the cases, knowing about this problem, the consumer simply removes the sandwich with his hands and after involves it with the napkin. This practice, totally unsanitary, once the consumer rarely washes his hands to eat something in snack bars or "fast-food", he still has another problem: the final consumption of the sandwich generated many uncomfortable situations, such as: to avoid that the dismount of the sandwich in his hands and to avoid the contact with sauces and fat absorbed by the napkin.

Considering these problems, the present invention was conceptualised.

In one broad form there is provided a packing that not only executes the transport function, but also offers a good conditioning for the sandwich, allowing its transport from the counter to the consumer's table, giving it an improvement in the visual end of the product, as dismissal the use of the final napkin to hold the sandwich as he eats it.

The present embodiment of the invention disclosures a special packing made in low density polypropylene, an inert material and recyclable used in food packing, that has the similar external form of a sandwich (in the example, a hamburger), made of two halves joined at one side with a flexible fold and by a 0 suitable simple fitting in the other ones. Suitably an inferior part of the packing still contains a cut line to allow its division in two parts.

(Ni In this way the consumer can eat half of the sandwich removing the O superior part and holding the same with the inferior part, without need of 5 removing the sandwich of the packing, and later to eat more a quarter of the (Ni same detaching one of the half of the inferior part, that can be separated in the cut line, holding the same in the remaining part, to eat the last quarter.

With that the use of the traditional napkin is released not being necessary the use of the hands in any moment, once the packing serves as support for 10 consumption, and it makes it impossible to touch the sauces and fat with hands, (Ni Obecause the packing material impermeability.

N The sandwich packing of the present embodiment can be better understood with the enclosed illustrations, below related, besides the numeric references with detailed description that, without however the restriction of its configuration, as its dimensions, proportions and the reach of its application.

The figure 1 is a perspective view of the packing.

The figure 2 is an open side view of the packing of figure 1.

The figures 3, 4 and 5 are: frontal, superior and side views of the packing.

The figures 6 and 7 are: top plan and sectional side views of the packing.

The figure 8 is a detail of the fitting of its basic (inferior and superior) parts.

In accordance with these illustrations and their numeric references, the present embodiment refers to a sandwich packing with two basic parts: a superior part and an inferior part joined by fittings of the male type (4) female in its borders, which is interrupted by a flexible fold in one of its sides. The flexible fold suitably forms a hinge fixing together the two basic parts and as depicted in figure 3. The packing still has, preferably in the inferior part a cut line such as the interrupted or discontinuous cut line depicted in figure 4, to allow its further division in two sub-parts (3A and 3B) with little effort.

Said parts, when joined form a similar contour of a sandwich (here, for example, a hamburger) with base and superior extremity straights and an outline arched in the fittings level.

It is to be understood that the above embodiments have been provided only by way of exemplification of this invention, and that further modifications and improvements thereto, as would be apparent to persons skilled in the relevant 3 0 0 art, are deemed to fall within the broad scope and ambit of the present invention described herein.

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Claims (3)

1. 2. The sandwich packing as claimed in claim 1 wherein the cut line includes one or more interruptions.
2. 3. The sandwich packing as claimed in either claim 1 or claim 2 wherein the superior part and the inferior part are fixed together by the flexible fold which forms a hinge between said parts.
3. 4. A sandwich packing substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying drawings.