US3482680A - Produce package and blank for producing the lid - Google Patents

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US3482680A
US3482680A US754932A US3482680DA US3482680A US 3482680 A US3482680 A US 3482680A US 754932 A US754932 A US 754932A US 3482680D A US3482680D A US 3482680DA US 3482680 A US3482680 A US 3482680A
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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
    • B65D65/00—Wrappers or flexible covers; Packaging materials of special type or form
    • B65D65/02—Wrappers or flexible covers
    • B65D65/16—Wrappers or flexible covers with provision for excluding or admitting light
    • B65D65/18—Wrappers or flexible covers with provision for excluding or admitting light with some areas transparent and others opaque
    • 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
    • B65D1/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers having bodies formed in one piece, e.g. by casting metallic material, by moulding plastics, by blowing vitreous material, by throwing ceramic material, by moulding pulped fibrous material or by deep-drawing operations performed on sheet material
    • B65D1/34—Trays or like shallow containers
    • 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
    • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D85/30—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure
    • B65D85/34—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure for fruit, e.g. apples, oranges or tomatoes
    • B65D85/345—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure for fruit, e.g. apples, oranges or tomatoes having a meshed or apertured closure to allow contents to breathe
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S229/00—Envelopes, wrappers, and paperboard boxes
    • Y10S229/915—Stacking feature

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  • a package for produce such as berries and the like in a basket filled with heaped produce has fixed thereto a three-dimensional, see-through cap providing ventilation for the produce while restraining the produce in the basket.
  • a package for produce such as berries and the like should not only protect the product, but should be attractive, retain the product in the basket, permit the consumer to generally observe the package contents, permit stacking of the packages without damage to the product, and permit air circulation through the package to facilitate circulation of cooling and/or freezing air and deterring spoilage of the fresh produce.
  • Primary objects of the present invention are to provide a novel package which includes all of the desirable qualities mentioned above; to provide a novel package in which the closure cap permits heaping of berries or the like and provides a three-dimensional closure cap restraining the product in heaped relation, while bridging and protecting the packaged produce'to provide a flat plateau support facilitating stacking of the packages, as well as providing spaced ventilation opening in the corner and a viewing aperture whereby the package contents may be readily observed.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the novel package
  • FIG. 2 is a top plan view of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a bottom plan view of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 4 is a side elevational view of one side of the package
  • FIG. 5 is a vertical section taken on the plane of line 55 of FIG. 2;
  • FIG. 6 is a perspective view, similar to FIG. 1, showing a modified basket or tray
  • FIG. 7 is an enlarged top plan view of a blank from which the three-dimensional cap is produced.
  • FIG. 8 is a bottom plan view of FIG. 7;
  • FIG. 9 is a section taken on line 9-9 of FIG. 8.
  • a produce package for berries or the like is indicated generally at 10 and comprises a basket or tray 12 and a three-dimensional lid or cap indicated generally at 14.
  • the tray or basket 12 can assume many uniform polygonal shapes and is preferably. produced by molding a slurry pulp, however, the basket can be produced from paperboard, wood, plastic, etc.
  • the basket is substantially rectangular; see FIG. 2, and comprises four sides 16 joined at radiused corners 18 which are formed integral with a bottom wall 20 by means of radiused marginal edges 22.
  • the side walls 16 may, in this exemplary embodiment, include slots 24 extending through both the side walls and bottom wall and spaced therealong.
  • the slots 24 are flutes or reinforcing ribs 26.
  • FIG. 6 Before describing the three-dimensional lid or cap 14, attention is drawn to FIG. 6 in which a package, similar to that shown in FIG. 1, is indicated generally at 10' and comprises a basket or tray 12' and lid or cap 14 similar to that shown in FIG. 1.
  • the side walls 16' correspond generally to those indicated at 16 in FIG. 1, for example, however, the side walls do not include reinforcing flutes and/ or slots extending through the side walls and bottom wall.
  • the tray or basket 12' includes a peripheral reinforcing flange or rib 28 having a planar outer surface 30', the function of which will be subsequently described.
  • the lid or cap 14 will straddle the basket or trays 12, 12' and comprises a body or cut-and-scored blank, indicated generally at 32 which is produced in any suitable manner from a suitable paperboard, plastic material, etc.; see FIGS. 7-9.
  • the blank 32 is substantially planar, prior to being assembled or mounted on the basket or tray, and in this exemplary embodiment comprises a body portion 35 formed as an octagon including relatively long, mutually parallel opposed pairs of margins 34, 34' and 36, 36' disposed in right angular relation with respect to each other.
  • the margins 34-36 are connected by intermediate, respective, mutually parallel pairs of margins 38, 38' and 40, 40 likewise disposed in respective right angular relationship and extending at with respect to the adjacent margins 34-36', respectively.
  • the blank 35 is so proportioned with respect to the marginal flange 28 of the tray so that the score lines 42, 42' and 44, 44', which extend parallel to margins 38, 38' and 40, 4.0, respectively, and are disposed intermediate portions of margins 34, 36; 36, 34'; 34', 36; and 36, 34.
  • These margins 42-44 will be disposed in substantially coplanar relation to the upper marginal edges of the flange or frame 28 of the basket or tray 12 and/or 12' when the lid is mounted on the basket to form a completed package.
  • the score lines 42, 42'; 44, 44 form mounting tabs 46, 47, 48 and 49 which are suitably secured to outer surface portions 30 of the frame 28 at sides 46, 47, 48' and 49', respectively; see FIGS. 1 and 2, for example.
  • the body member 35 preferably has formed therein an octagonal viewing aperture 50 disposed symmetrically with respect to the sides 34-36'.
  • the aperture 50 is preferably covered by transparent sheet material 52 extending peripherally beyond the aperture 50 as seen at 54 in FIG. 8.
  • the aperture 50 includes opposed, mutually parallel pairs of marginal edges 54, 54; 56, 56 parallel to and disposed inwardly of the outermost margins 34, 34'; 36, 36; 38, 38'; 40, 40'.
  • pairs of score or fold lines 62-68 Converging uniformly from the terminal ends of margins 54, 56, 54' and 56' of the aperture 50 and extending substantially to intermediate portions of the margins 34- 36', respectively, are pairs of score or fold lines 62-68 which define trapezoidal and hexagonal segments 70 and 72, in alternately disposed relationship about the viewing aperture 50.
  • the tabs 46-49 are suitably secured to the portions 46, 49', respectively, of the tray rim, and the segments 70 and 72, will be disposed in angularly depending relationship from the substantially planar portion 52 of the lid, i.e., in prism-like relationship and the upper marginal edge of the viewing aperture 50 and the transparent sheet 52 will provide a ledge or resting portion for completed packages when they are stacked in a packing crate, for example.
  • the margins 34-36 will extend diagonally across the corners of the tray forming triangular openings 74 at the package corners providing good air circulation as well as exposing a portion of the package contents.
  • the lid 14 which straddles the tray, permits the heaping of berries or whatever product is packaged, while protecting the contents, and permits ready stacking of the packages without damage, as well as permitting the ultimate consumer to obtain a good picture of what the package contains, a portion of the product which is exposed at the openings 74 and permits extremely close examination of the package contents.
  • the prism-like lid in conjunction with the polygonal tray affords a package meeting all the requisities of good packaging criteria.
  • a package comprising basket means: having a polygonal upper edge comprising coplanar, straight-edge portions intersecting at corners of the basket;
  • a prisrn-like lid straddling the basket and including hinged securing tabs connected to the basket and havingstraight-edge margins at the hinged connection to the basket and disposed substantially parallel to and overlying straight-edge portions of the upper edge of the baseket;
  • said lid including a central, polygonal, planar area defined by angularly related, straight-edge, coplanar margin surrounded by alternately disposed, trapezoidal and hexagonal planar segments depending angularly from said planar area,
  • said hexagonal segments having one edge hindgedly connected to the hinge margin of a. respective one of said securing tabs
  • said trapezoidal segments diverging toward the corners of said basket and terminating in a transverse, linear margin extending into and forming side edges of the adjacent hexagonal segments to which said trapezoidal segment is connected, said outer linear edge extending transversely of a corner of said basket and forming a triangular ventilation opening thereat.
  • planar lid area is octagonal and comprises a viewing aperture.
  • a blank for producing a three-dimensional, prismlike lid with planar facets for use on a basket having coplanar, polygonally related, straight marginal edge portions comprising:
  • planar body portion having a central, polygonal central area defined by angularly related straight marginal edges
  • said area being bordered by alternately disposed, planar trapezoidal and hexagonal segments each having a straight edge portion defining a portion of said central area,
  • said hexagonal segments including an outer marginal hinge line parallel to said just-mentioned straight margin forming a portion of said central area, a securing tab hingedly connected to the outer marginal hinge line of said hexagonal segments, said hexagonal segments being disposed in rectangular relationship and said trapezoidal segments being disposed there between,
  • said trapezoidal segments having opposite converging side margins hingedly connected to adjacent ends of two rectangularly related hexagonal segments, said trapezoidal segments having an outer margin parallel to the margin forming a part of said central polygonal area, said outer margin extending linearly through angular portions of said hexagonal segments in angular relationship to the portions of adjacent hexagonal segments hingedly connected to the trapezoidal segments.

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USD356253S (en) 1994-05-12 1995-03-14 Advanced Container Corporation Box for shipping asparagus
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FR2646407A1 (fr) * 1989-04-27 1990-11-02 Predault Charcutier Paul Boite de conservation de produits alimentaires
USD370175S (en) 1993-05-04 1996-05-28 Mccallum Graham R Asparagus box
USD356253S (en) 1994-05-12 1995-03-14 Advanced Container Corporation Box for shipping asparagus
US20080093257A1 (en) * 2006-09-05 2008-04-24 Peacock Apparel Group, Inc. Shirt box
US7717323B2 (en) * 2006-09-05 2010-05-18 Peacock Apparel Group, Inc. Shirt box
USD606710S1 (en) * 2007-09-17 2009-12-22 Motivation Design, Llc Pet bowl
WO2015048655A1 (en) * 2013-09-27 2015-04-02 Sabert Corporation Container having a molded pulp base and vented plastic lid for maintaining crispiness of moisture- sensitive foods

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