JP2005350079A - Tray for microwave oven and food package - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tray for a microwave oven capable of placing a food such as a pizza or the like with a large size, with good operability during cooking by heating, and with good stability, a food package and a method for manufacturing the tray for the microwave oven. <P>SOLUTION: The tray 1 for the microwave oven, which places the food and is used for cooking by heating in the microwave oven, is provided with a bottom face part 2 on which the food is placed, side face parts 3 surrounding the bottom face part 2, first side face parts 4 extending upward from specified peripheral edge parts 31 of the bottom face parts 3, second side face parts 5 positioned between the first side face parts 4, and leg parts 6 provided on the second side face part 5 sides and bending downward the end part 21 of the bottom face part 2 and furthermore bending upward the edge part 22 of the end part 21 to raise the bottom face part 3 upward, and constitutes the side face parts 3 by bonding the ends 41 of the first side face parts 4 with the ends 51 of the second side face parts 5. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a microwave tray and a food package, for example, for placing food such as pizza and using it for cooking in a microwave oven.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there is known a microwave tray on which food such as pizza is placed and used for cooking in a microwave oven.

  When cooking is performed by placing the bottom of the tray directly on the table of the microwave oven, heating unevenness occurs and the food is difficult to be heated uniformly. Moreover, it is easy to generate | occur | produce the part which heats locally excessively and conversely lacks heating.

  In particular, the vicinity of the upper surface portion of the food tends to be overheated. For example, in the case of pizza, it causes spillage of cheese and toppings disposed on the upper surface. If the cooking time is shortened to eliminate this spillage, the crispy feeling of the bottom pizza crust will be lost.

  On the other hand, foods near the bottom of the tray tend to be insufficiently heated. In order to eliminate this shortage of heating, it is conceivable to raise the bottom by providing legs on the tray.

  For example, Patent Document 1 discloses a circular heating table for a microwave oven provided with a foot plate under the base for pulling up a paper circular base plate that can be manufactured with one touch.

  Patent Document 2 discloses a carton with legs for a microwave oven in which legs for supporting a tray are formed.

Patent Document 3 discloses a carton for a microwave oven in which a space is created at the bottom by assembling.
JP-A-8-295372 Reality No. 8-6743 JP 2002-370734 A

  However, the above-described prior art has a problem in that it is not always easy to assemble, so that it takes a long time to assemble during cooking and the workability is poor. In addition, the size of foods such as pizza that can be placed is small, there is a risk that fluid loads may leak from the tray when there is no edge (peripheral side), and strength during transportation There was a shortage problem. In addition, there is a problem that the stability of the microwave tray after assembly is not good.

  Therefore, the present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and the size of foods such as pizza that can be placed is large, the workability during cooking is good, and the sense of stability is also good. It aims at providing the tray for microwave ovens, and a food packaging body.

  In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 1 is a microwave tray for placing food and using it for cooking in a microwave oven, wherein the bottom portion on which the food is placed; Provided on the side of the second side surface, the side surface surrounding the bottom surface, the first side surface extending upward from the predetermined peripheral edge of the bottom surface, the second side surface positioned between the first side surfaces And a leg portion that raises the bottom surface portion by bending an end portion of the bottom surface portion downward and bending an edge portion of the end portion upward, and the side surface portion is an end of the first side surface portion. A tray for a microwave oven is provided by joining the end of the second side surface portion to the end of the second side surface portion.

  According to the said structure, since the leg part which raises a bottom face part has already been completed, since a customer does not need an assembly and can be heated moderately just to put in a microwave oven as it is, workability | operativity is good.

  The invention according to claim 2 provides the tray for microwave oven according to claim 1, wherein the first side surface portion has a handle portion.

According to the said structure, since the tray for microwave oven has a handle part, it is convenient for carrying around.
The invention according to claim 3 provides the tray for microwave oven according to claim 2, wherein the handle portion is completely bent and bonded to the back side of the first side surface portion.
According to the said structure, since a 1st side part becomes sturdy, the tray for microwave ovens strong against a vibration etc. can be provided.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided the microwave tray according to any one of the first to third aspects, wherein the bottom surface portion is provided with a microwave heating element.

  According to the said structure, since the microwave oven heating element is provided in the said bottom face part, the bottom part of an internal foodstuff is also heated uniformly and it becomes difficult to produce a heating nonuniformity.

  According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided the microwave tray according to any one of the first to fourth aspects, wherein the side surface portion includes a microwave heating element.

  According to the said structure, since the said microwave oven is provided in the said side part, the side part of an internal foodstuff is also heated uniformly, and it becomes difficult to produce a heating nonuniformity.

  The invention according to claim 6 provides the tray for microwave oven according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the height of the leg portion is 3 to 50 millimeters.

  According to the said structure, since the height of a leg part is 3-50 mm, the bottom part of an internal foodstuff is also heated uniformly and it becomes difficult to produce a heating nonuniformity.

  The invention according to claim 7 provides a food package, wherein the microwave oven tray according to any one of claims 1 to 6 is loaded with a food optimized by heating and packaged by packaging means.

  According to the said structure, since a customer can cook only by putting this food packaging body in a microwave oven, workability | operativity is very good and convenient.

  Provided are a microwave tray, a food packaging body, and a method for manufacturing the microwave tray that have a large size of food such as pizza that can be placed, have good workability during cooking, and have a good sense of stability. can do.

  An embodiment of the present invention will be described based on an example with reference to the drawings.

  A microwave tray according to a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

  FIG. 1 is a development view of a microwave tray according to a first embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a partial perspective view showing a manufacturing process of the microwave tray according to the first embodiment of the present invention. a) is a process of bending the first side surface portion at a substantially right angle with respect to the bottom surface portion, and (b) is a leg portion that raises the bottom surface portion by bending the end portion of the bottom surface portion downward and bending the edge portion of the end portion upward. (C) shows the process of manufacturing a side part by bending the wing | blade part of a 2nd side part inside, and joining the edge of a 1st side part, and the end of a 2nd side part. FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the microwave tray according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the microwave oven tray 1 according to the first embodiment of the present invention mainly includes a bottom surface portion 2, a leg portion 6 for lifting the bottom surface portion, and a first side surface portion constituting the side surface portion 3. 4 and the second side surface portion 5. Paper is used as the material, and in this embodiment, water-resistant paper (350 grams per square meter) is used. In order to clarify the detailed configuration of the microwave tray 1, the manufacturing process of the microwave tray 1 will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the development view of the microwave tray 1 according to the first embodiment of the present invention is created by cutting out a substantially square, substantially flat sheet. In the drawing, the solid line is a cut line, and the dotted line is a crease line. Since the developed view of the microwave tray 1 according to the first embodiment of the present invention has a vertically and horizontally symmetrical shape, there are four leg portions 6 and four side surface portions 3 respectively.

  First, a microwave heating element is attached to the bottom surface portion 2. Then, the 1st side part 4 is provided in the site | part of the up-down and left-right direction on the drawing extended | stretched upward from the predetermined peripheral part 31 of the bottom face part 2. As shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 2A, the first side surface portion 4 is bent in a substantially right angle direction along the first side fold line 23 for the side surface portion, whereby the side surface portion 3 extending upward with respect to the bottom surface portion 2. Will be part of In the present embodiment, four such side portions 3 are formed in the vertical and horizontal directions.

  Next, the end 21 is bent along the first fold line 24 for the legs in FIG. 1 and the edge 22 is bent along the second fold line 25 for the legs in the upper front of FIG. Part 6 is manufactured. In the present embodiment, the leg 6 has a height of 10 millimeters. In addition, as for the height of the leg part 6, 3-50 millimeters is preferable.

  A second side surface portion 5 is formed between the four first side surface portions 4. The second side surface portion 5 is located at a corner of the microwave tray 1. The second side surface portion 5 mainly has an edge portion 22 and a wing portion 50. As shown in FIG. 2C, the wing part 50 is bent along the side face second fold line 26 in the upper front side of FIG. 1.

  Then, the side part 3 is manufactured by joining the end 41 of the first side part 4 and the end 51 of the second side part 5, and the microwave tray 1 is finally completed.

  Thereafter, two frozen pizzas are placed, packaged by packaging means, and shipped as a food package. The microwave heating element may be attached to the side surface portion 3 or both the bottom surface portion 2 and the side surface portion 3. Further, the manufacturing method is not limited to the above method.

  Next, the operation of the tray 1 for microwave oven according to the first embodiment of the present invention having the above configuration will be described.

  When a customer purchases the food packaging body and warms the pizza in the microwave, the pizza is taken out of the food packaging body, the shrink film is removed, the pizza is placed on the microwave tray 1, and then the electronic The pizza can be warmed up just by inserting it into the range. That is, since the microwave tray 1 in the food packaging body has the leg portion 6 for lifting the bottom surface portion 2 as described above, the customer does not need any assembly and simply inserts it into the microwave oven as it is. You can warm pizza moderately. Furthermore, since the leg part 6 which lifts the bottom face part 2 is provided, the bottom part of the pizza is also warmed appropriately, the crispy feeling of the pizza crust at the bottom part of the pizza is cultivated, more uniform heating can be performed, and uneven heating is eliminated. Furthermore, since the microwave heating element is affixed to the bottom face part 2, uniform heating can be performed reliably and heating unevenness is eliminated.

Next, a microwave tray according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 4 is a development view of a microwave tray according to a second embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a microwave tray according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

  Unlike the first embodiment, the tray 1 for microwave oven according to the second embodiment of the present invention is provided on the two first side surfaces 4 opposed to the semicircular handle portions 44.

  The basic manufacturing method of the microwave tray 1 according to the second embodiment of the present invention is the same as that of the microwave tray 1 according to the first embodiment, but there are two rectangular handle portions 42 in the final process. Is bent at the dotted line 43 and bonded at the back side of the first side face portion 4, and the two semicircular handle portions 44 are bent at the dotted line 43 outward by about 90 degrees. Accordingly, the microwave tray 1 according to the second embodiment of the present invention is convenient to carry because the handle portion 44 is formed, and the two rectangular handle portions 42 are completely bent at the dotted line 43 to be formed on the first side surface. Since it adhere | attaches on the back side of the part 4, the 1st side part 4 becomes a firm structure, and the tray 1 for microwave ovens strong to a vibration etc. can be manufactured in a distribution process. The rectangular handle portion 42 and the semicircular handle portion 44 can be reversed. That is, the semicircular handle portion 44 is completely bent at the dotted line 43 and bonded to the back side of the first side surface portion 4, and the rectangular handle portion 42 is bent at the dotted line 43 outward by about 90 degrees. Is possible.

Next, a microwave tray according to a third embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 6 is a development view of the microwave tray according to the third embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the microwave tray according to the third embodiment of the present invention.
The microwave tray 1 according to the third embodiment of the present invention differs from the first and second embodiments in that the shape of the side surface portion and the like is changed. Specifically, the outer shape line of the wing part 50 of the second side face part 5 has a notched shape as indicated by solid lines 52 and 53. Further, a contact line between the end 51 of the second side surface portion 5 and the end 41 of the first side surface portion 4 is brought inward as indicated by a solid line 54. In addition, a microwave heating element is attached to the bottom surface portion 2. The basic manufacturing method is the same as that for the microwave tray according to the first embodiment.

  As described above, the microwave oven tray 1 according to the third embodiment of the present invention is easily transported in the manufacturing process because the second side surface portion 5 has a notch. Moreover, the decorative feeling is also excellent by the unevenness | corrugation of the external shape of the tray 1 for microwave ovens.

The expanded view of the tray for microwave ovens concerning 1st Example of this invention It is a partial perspective view which shows the manufacture process of the tray for microwave ovens which concerns on 1st Example of this invention, (a) is a process in which a 1st side part is bent at a right angle with respect to a bottom part, (b) is a bottom part. The process of manufacturing the leg part which raises the bottom face part by bending the edge part downward and bending the edge part of the edge part upward, and (c) bending the wing part of the second side part inward, the first side part The process which manufactures a side part by joining the edge of this and the end of a 2nd side part is shown. The perspective view of the tray for microwave ovens concerning 1st Example of this invention. Fig. 3 is a development view of a tray for a microwave oven according to a second embodiment of the present invention. The perspective view of the tray for microwave ovens concerning 2nd Example of this invention. The expanded view of the tray for microwave ovens concerning 3rd Example of this invention The perspective view of the tray for microwave ovens concerning 3rd Example of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Microwave tray 2 Bottom face part 21 End part 22 Edge part 23 First fold line 24 for side parts First fold line 25 for legs Second fold line 26 for legs Second fold line 3 for side parts Second side line 3 Peripheral part 4 First side part 41 End 42 Square handle part 44 Semicircular handle part 5 Second side part 50 Main part 51 End 6 Leg part 7 Microwave heating element

Claims (7)

A microwave tray for placing food and used for cooking in a microwave oven,
A bottom surface on which the food is placed;
A side surface surrounding the bottom surface;
A first side surface extending upward from a predetermined peripheral edge of the bottom surface;
A second side surface located between the first side surfaces;
A leg portion that is provided on the second side surface portion side, bends an end portion of the bottom surface portion downward, and bends an edge portion of the end portion upward to raise the bottom surface portion;
With
The microwave tray according to claim 1, wherein the side surface portion is formed by joining an end of the first side surface portion and an end of the second side surface portion. The tray for a microwave oven according to claim 1, wherein the first side surface portion has a handle portion. 3. The tray for a microwave oven according to claim 2, wherein the handle portion is completely bent and bonded to the back side of the first side surface portion. The microwave tray according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein a microwave heating element is provided on the bottom surface. The microwave tray according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein a microwave heating element is provided on the side surface. The microwave tray according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the leg has a height of 3 to 50 millimeters. A food packaging body, wherein a food to be optimized by heating is loaded on the microwave tray according to any one of claims 1 to 6 and packaged by a packaging means.