ES2345964T3 - CONTAINER FOR FROZEN FOOD, IN PARTICULAR ICE CREAMS. - Google Patents

Abstract

A frozen food items container has a mainly flat floor on which is enclosed an oval encircling wall (14) open at the top and on which a lock is mounted. At the transition between floor and wall (14) is provided an expansion channel.

Description

Frozen food container, in Particularly ice cream

The present invention relates to a container for frozen food, in accordance with the preamble of the claim 1.

Ice cream and other frozen foods are transported and stored in economical plastic containers and Suitable for freezing. However, the final consumer has, frequently, complications to also extract the last rest of ice cream from the edges and angles of the container, so that, frequently, a remainder remains in the container taken advantage of.

From EP 1 486 424 a known oval plastic packaging container with the features of the preamble of claim 1, which has a convex shape in its transition from the bottom to the wall. Seen from the wall towards below, the radius of convexity changes rather slowly, while in the transition to the bottom there is a rather abrupt modification of the radius. Consequently said background has the edges described above and hardly It can be completely emptied by the final consumer.

From EP 0 803 444 A2 a known vessel whose wall has a curvature in the transition zone at the bottom. Also in this case, corners and edges appear in the transition to the bottom of said curvature, so here it is not possible a complete emptying.

Based on this basis, the present invention It aims to create a container of the type mentioned initially, in which frozen food can be extracted with ease of edges and corners.

According to the invention it is proposed as a solution technique of this objective a container with the characteristics of claim 1. The refinements of this container are derive from the secondary claims.

A container configured according to this information technology has the advantage that the final consumer has the possibility to easily extract ice cream (or other food frozen) of the widening groove, particularly when the inner radius of the widening groove corresponds to the radius of a spoon tip, to, therefore, completely empty the recipient.

Another advantage is that the container it receives greater stability, thanks to the widening groove.  This improves the haptic of the container. Alternatively, the thickness of the material can also be reduced, which produces a cost savings

Thanks to the circumferential configuration of the widening groove are removed throughout the container the pronounced edges and corners, so that the content of the tub is easily accessible.

The configuration of up to four convexities stability increases because, in this way, the container is widens in the foot area.

The at least partial configuration of the slot widening at the bottom has the advantage that the widening groove can be used as a socket on which it for the container

Other advantages of the container in accordance with the invention results from the attached drawing and the embodiments described below. Similarly, the characteristics mentioned above and those to be mentioned may, according to the invention, be used, in each case, individually or in Any combination with each other. The embodiments mentioned should not be understood as conclusive enumeration, but which have, rather, an example character. They show:

Figure 1, a schematic side view of a container according to the invention;

Figure 2, a schematic plan view of the container according to figure 1;

Figure 3, a schematic front view of the container according to figure 1;

Figure 4, a perspective view of the container according to figure 1, oblique from above;

Figure 5, a perspective view of the container according to figure 1, oblique from below.

Figures 1 to 5 show a form of embodiment of a container 10 according to the invention, comprising a bottom 12, essentially flat, and a wall oval circumferential 14. The wall 14 is shaped widened up, so that an upper edge of the wall 14 protrudes above the bottom 12 true.

Four convexities are arranged on the wall 16 that narrow upward from the bottom edge of the wall 14. Between the bottom 12 and the wall 14 is arranged a widening groove 18 that follows the outer contour of the wall 14, that is, also follows convexities 16. Said groove widening 18 has an inner radius 20 that corresponds, in the essential, within the radius of a spoon tip.

According to experience, this radio is in the range between 2 mm and 10 mm, preferably close to 4 mm

The widening groove 18 is configured circumferentially of the bottom 12 and, consequently, conforms a junction between the bottom 12 and the wall 14, even the convexities 16.

The convexities 16 have an inner radius 22 much larger than the inner radius 20 of the widening groove 18. Said inner radius 22 of the convexities 16 is between 10 mm and 40 mm, preferably
20 mm

In the embodiments shown in the Figures 1 to 5, the widening groove 18 continues the bottom 12 so that the bottom edge of the widening groove 18 is is placed below the bottom face of bottom 12, serving the widening groove 18 as support for the container 10 and container 10 itself stands only on the widening groove 18.

In another embodiment not shown here, the bottom bottom face is flat and the widening groove connects to the bottom in such a way that the lowest point of the groove widening is aligned with the bottom face of the bottom. From In this way, a flat surface is produced that functions as support surface of the container.

Claims (3)

1. Frozen food container, in particular for ice cream, with an essentially flat bottom (12), to which an oval circumferential wall (14) open upwards is connected, on which it is possible to apply a closure, being arranged in the transition Between the bottom (12) and the wall (14) a widening groove (18) and the widening groove (18) is formed in the bottom (12) in a circumferential way, characterized in that the widening groove (18) has an inner radius (20, 22) between 2 mm and 10 mm, because in the lower area of the wall (14) up to four convexities (16) are arranged, whose inner radii (22) are between 10 mm and 40 mm and whose radii interiors (22) are much larger than the radius of the widening groove (18), and because the circumferential widening groove (18) follows the path of convexities (16). A container according to claim 1, characterized in that the widening groove (18) extends, at least partially, to below the bottom (12). 3. Container according to at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the container (12) stands on a lower face of the widening groove (18).