EP0989067B1 - Container for transporting heated food, particularly pizza - Google Patents

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EP0989067B1
EP0989067B1 EP99113914A EP99113914A EP0989067B1 EP 0989067 B1 EP0989067 B1 EP 0989067B1 EP 99113914 A EP99113914 A EP 99113914A EP 99113914 A EP99113914 A EP 99113914A EP 0989067 B1 EP0989067 B1 EP 0989067B1
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Filippo Lizzio
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Priority to AU45150/00A priority patent/AU766553B2/en
Priority to CA002313883A priority patent/CA2313883A1/en
Priority to TW092215198U priority patent/TW581087U/zh
Priority to ARP000103638A priority patent/AR024757A1/es
Priority to CNB001242628A priority patent/CN1144559C/zh
Priority to JP2000215818A priority patent/JP2001063761A/ja
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D51/00—Closures not otherwise provided for
    • B65D51/24—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes
    • B65D51/28—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes with auxiliary containers for additional articles or materials
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D21/00—Nestable, stackable or joinable containers; Containers of variable capacity
    • B65D21/02—Containers specially shaped, or provided with fittings or attachments, to facilitate nesting, stacking, or joining together
    • B65D21/0209—Containers specially shaped, or provided with fittings or attachments, to facilitate nesting, stacking, or joining together stackable or joined together one-upon-the-other in the upright or upside-down position
    • B65D21/0217—Containers with a closure presenting stacking elements
    • B65D21/0223—Containers with a closure presenting stacking elements the closure and the bottom presenting local co-operating elements, e.g. projections and recesses
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D43/00—Lids or covers for rigid or semi-rigid containers
    • B65D43/14—Non-removable lids or covers
    • B65D43/16—Non-removable lids or covers hinged for upward or downward movement
    • B65D43/162—Non-removable lids or covers hinged for upward or downward movement the container, the lid and the hinge being made of one piece
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D51/00—Closures not otherwise provided for
    • B65D51/16—Closures not otherwise provided for with means for venting air or gas
    • B65D51/1605—Closures not otherwise provided for with means for venting air or gas whereby the interior of the container is maintained in permanent gaseous communication with the exterior
    • B65D51/1611—Closures not otherwise provided for with means for venting air or gas whereby the interior of the container is maintained in permanent gaseous communication with the exterior by means of an orifice, capillary or labyrinth passage
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D2251/00—Details relating to container closures
    • B65D2251/10—Details of hinged closures
    • B65D2251/1016—Means for locking the closure in closed position
    • B65D2251/105—The closure having a part fitting over the rim of the container or spout and retained by snapping over integral beads or projections
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D2585/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D2585/30—Containers, packaging elements or packages specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure
    • B65D2585/36—Containers, packaging elements or packages specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure for biscuits or other bakery products
    • B65D2585/363—Containers, packaging elements or packages specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure for biscuits or other bakery products specific products
    • B65D2585/366—Pizza

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  • the present invention is related to containers for transporting heated food, particularly pizzas, hamburgers and more generally fast-food products.
  • the object of the present invention is to overcome the above inconveniences, and more particularly to provide a container for transporting heated food having a simple and economical construction, adapted to efficiently ensure preserving not only the temperature but even the fragrance of the warm food product contained therein, and moreover having a reduced encumbrance even in a transporting and stocking c ready-to-use ondition.
  • Figures 1 through 5 show a first embodiment of the invention, which is to be considered as the preferred embodiment, with specific reference to a container for transporting a pizza.
  • the container shape and size are thus suitable to house the pizza therein: obviously, design and size can be tailored to different foodstuffs, such as hamburgers, fast-food products and warm take-away food in general.
  • the container of the invention is formed by one single piece P of thin sheet-like moulded plastic material, defining a lower half-shell 1 and an upper half-shell 2 both having a substantially circular shape with a respective bottom wall 3, 4 and a respective lateral wall 5, 6.
  • the bottom wall 3 of the lower half-shell 1 is formed, in correspondence of the inner face thereof, with a radial array of straight ribs 7 projecting upwardly and starting from a central annular rib 8 having a circular design. Moreover further pairs of shorter ribs 9, between which radial recesses 10 formed as channels are provided, are provided between each pair of adjacent ribs 7.
  • the radial recesses 10, whose function shall be clarified herebelow, are extending also over the inner surface of the lateral wall 5 of the lower half-shell 1.
  • Respective recesses are corresponding, on the outer face of the bottom wall 3, to the ribs 7, 8 and 9, while on the same outer face respective ribs are corresponding to the recesses 10.
  • vent openings 14 are arranged in selected areas comprised between the ribs 11 e 13. These vent openings 14 are arranged according to a crown concentric to the half-shell 2 and, as shown in detail in figures 3 and 4, are each formed by a partial die-cut having a generally elliptical shape, actually defined by two juxtaposed substantially semicircular cuts 15 mutually joined by a central longitudinal cut 16.
  • the lateral walls 5, 6 of the two half-shells 1, 2 are designed to perform a mutual substantially sealed closure connection.
  • the lateral wall 5 of the lower half-shell 1 is formed superiorly with a series of elongated recesses 17 below which an annular flange 18 is provided, forming a forwardly projecting tang 19.
  • the lateral wall 6 of the upper half-shell 2 is formed inferiorly with a series of elongated projection 20 having a shape complementary to that of the recesses 17, and superiorly with an annular flange 21 forming a forwardly projecting tang similar to the tang 19 of the lower half-shell 1.
  • the two lateral walls 5, 6 of the half-shells 1, 2 are prolonged so as to form a straight connection book-like pivot hinge between the two half-shells 1 and 2.
  • the half-shells 1, 2 can be pivoted relative to each other between the closed position shown in figure 1, in which they define a cavity adapted to house a pizza, and a completely open position in which they are positioned one along the other, through the partially open position depicted in figure 2.
  • the annular flange 21 of upper half-shell 1 rests upon the annular flange 18 of the lower half-shell 1, with the projections 20 of the former fitted under pressure within the recesses 17 of the latter.
  • Further recesses 24 and complementary projections 25 may be additionally provided to hold the closure position, for instance formed in respective wings 26, 27 of the lateral walls 5, 6 near to the pivot hinge 23 and mutually engageable under pressure.
  • the ribs 7, 8, 9 of the bottom wall 3 of the lower half-shell 1 act as spacer element bearing the pizza housed in the cavity defined by the half-shells 1, 2 closed onto each other. Interspaces communicating with the recesses are thus defined between the pizza and the bottom wall 3, acting both as chambers collecting any steam generated by the pizza itself and condensed, and as chimneys - along the respective portions formed on the lateral wall 5 - for discharging smoke and steam upwardly.
  • the ribs 11, 13 of the upper half-shell define, between the bottom wall thereof and the pizza within the container, a plurality of interspaces communicating to the outside through the vent openings 14.
  • the hot pizza housed within the cavity of the container is efficiently kept, at least over the time necessary for transporting it from the production site to the place where it shall be eaten, at a substantially constant temperature and humidity on one hand by virtue of the thermal insulation performed by the half-shells 1, 2 closed onto each other in a substantially hermetical fashion, and on the other hand by virtue of the steam outlet through the previously disclosed interspaces to the outside of the container through the vent openings 14, in practice without appreciably affecting the fragrance of the pizza housed within the container.
  • the containers according to the invention may be more conveniently mutually superimposed and stacked, instead than in the closed condition of figure 5, arranging the respective half-shells 1, 2 in the completely open position, i. e. one on the prolongation of the other.
  • the half-shells 1, 2 have a greater height than in the case of the previously disclosed embodiment, and such to enable fitting two superimposed pizzas, instead of only one, within the cavity of the container.
  • An intermediate releasable septum 28 is provided for separating the two pizzas from each other, which is shown in detail in figure 8 and whose general configuration can be conveniently same as the bottom wall 3 of the lower half-shell 1.
  • the intermediate septum 28 has, as shown in figure 8, a circular shape with a perimetral flange 29 bearing onto the upper edge of the lateral wall 5 of the lower half-shell 1, and is formed on its upper face with a radial array of ribs 30, 31 similar to the ribs 7, 8, and with channel-like radial recesses 32 similar to the recesses 10 and providing the same function with reference to the pizza placed in use within the upper portion of the container.
  • the intermediate septum 28 is formed with a crown of peripheral vent openings 33 whose function is corresponding, with reference to the pizza placed in use within the lower part of the container, to that of the openings 14.
  • these vent openings 33 to which valve means may also be associated, can be different from that shown by way of example in figure 8.
  • the container according to the invention is not necessarily disposable, and that it can be re-used even several times.
  • each half-shell 1, 2 can be any plastic material conventionally used for the production of food containers, and anyway a heat-formable plastic material.
  • each half-shell 1, 2 may also be provided with a cellular structure, capable to ensure higher thermal insulating performances.
  • the details of construction and the embodiments may be widely varied with respect to what has been disclosed and illustrated, without thereby departing from the scope of the present invention such as defined in the appended claims.
  • the arrangement of the ribs and recesses of the half-shells 1, 2 as well as that of the vent openings 14 of the half-shell 2 may be different than the one disclosed with reference to the example.
  • the number of the vent openings 14 could be increased or reduced, and in the latter case valve means designed to selectively open communication between the cavity of the container and the outside environment may be associated to the vent openings.
  • These valve means could be manually or even automatically operable.

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SI9930171T SI0989067T1 (en) 1998-09-11 1999-07-16 Container for transporting heated food, particularly pizza
US09/419,882 US6257434B1 (en) 1999-07-16 1999-10-18 Container for transporting heated food, particularly pizza and the like
AU45150/00A AU766553B2 (en) 1999-07-16 2000-07-10 Container for transporting heated food, particularly pizza and the like
CA002313883A CA2313883A1 (en) 1999-07-16 2000-07-12 Container for transporting heated food, particularly pizza and the like
TW092215198U TW581087U (en) 1999-07-16 2000-07-14 Container for transporting heated food, particularly pizza and the like
ARP000103638A AR024757A1 (es) 1999-07-16 2000-07-14 Recipiente para transportar comida caliente, especialmente pizzas y similares
CNB001242628A CN1144559C (zh) 1999-07-16 2000-07-16 运输热食物特别是比萨等类似物的容器
JP2000215818A JP2001063761A (ja) 1999-07-16 2000-07-17 加熱された食品、特にピザ等を輸送するための容器
BR0002923-8A BR0002923A (pt) 1999-07-16 2000-07-17 Recipiente para transportar comida aquecida, particulamente pizza e semelhantes
KR1020000040884A KR20010015351A (ko) 1999-07-16 2000-07-18 특히 피자 등과 같은 가열 식품을 운반하기 위한 용기

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IT98TO000772A ITTO980772A1 (it) 1998-09-11 1998-09-11 Contenitore per il trasporto di alimenti.
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HK1028224A1 (en) 2001-02-09
ITTO980772A0 (it) 1998-09-11
PT989067E (pt) 2003-02-28
SI0989067T1 (en) 2003-04-30
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