US2003862A - Meat package - Google Patents

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June 4, 1935.

H. H. MCKEE MEAT PACKAGE Filed June 21, 1933 fl iirg/ fi M Kee INVENTOR wpwuz-ss ATTORNEY Patented June 4, 1935 I Y i UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MEAT PACKAGE Harry H. McKee, Chicago, 111., assignor to Industrial Patents Corporation, Chicago, 111., a corporation of Delaware Application June 21, 1933, Serial No. 676,837

1 Claim. (Cl. 206-46) This invention relates to an improved meat to provide a package as shown in Figure 2. The package and particularly to a retail sliced bacon present invention contemplates utilizing a stiiip ening member 1 which may be of cardboard, the

One of the objects of this invention is to proedges 4 and 6 being then folded over in the usual vide an improved retail sliced bacon package. way in such manner that the stiffening member 5 Other objects will be apparent from the descrip- 1 is contained permanently within the package tion and claim which follows. providing a positive means for retaining the de- The manner of preparing this improved meat sired shape of the package. package is shown in the drawing in which: In wrapping packages of bacon of this type,

10 Figure 1 is a perspective view of a plurality of it is customary to fold the flat batch of slices over 10 bacon slices placed in overlapping relationship, a metal plate to secure the proper size, the metal on a piece of cellulosic wrapping material. plate being removed before the package is placed Figure 2 is a perspective view of the finished in a shipping box in a display carton. P The withdrawal of the metal member often Sliced bacon is conventionally marketed in renecessitates retucking of the edges of the wrap- 15 tail packages either by packing the slices in small ping material at one end of the package. The boxes or cartons or, in the case of smaller packuse of a cardboard insert which is permitted to ages such as half-pound packages, wrapping a remain in the package eliminates the withdrawal plurality of slices in any desired wrapping maoperation and the retucking operation.

terial such, for example, as a transparent cel- In the forming of the package of the present 20 lulosic covering. invention, the use of a metal plate is rendered Inasmuch as the bacon is unfrozen and, there-- unnecessary since the fiat stiffening member 1 fore, necessarily flaccid, the packages do not preis a cardboard plate and serves as a base upon sent an attractive appearance after handling which to fold the batch of slices. It will be seen independently. A that the present invention provides a novel sliced It is one of the purposes of the present invenbacon package of desirable characteristics and tion to provide a meat package of this type which overcomes many of the defects inherent in the may be prepared in the usual way but which type of package previously used. will be rigid and will consequently retain its shape I claim:

and appearance during normal handling. A sliced bacon package comprising a flat, cen- 30 In the preparation of packages of this type, tral stiffening member, a plurality of overlapped it is customary to arrange the slices l as shown slices of bacon folded about said stiffening memin Figure 1 upon a sheet of wrapping material as her and a sheet of wrapping material holding the 2, the edges are then folded over as at 3, 4, 5 and bacon in position on said stiffening member.

I and the edges 4 and 8 turned upon themselves HARRY H. McKEE. 35

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