WO2011154897A1 - Contenant destiné à transporter des aliments chauffés et couvercle associé - Google Patents

Contenant destiné à transporter des aliments chauffés et couvercle associé Download PDF

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WO2011154897A1
WO2011154897A1 PCT/IB2011/052477 IB2011052477W WO2011154897A1 WO 2011154897 A1 WO2011154897 A1 WO 2011154897A1 IB 2011052477 W IB2011052477 W IB 2011052477W WO 2011154897 A1 WO2011154897 A1 WO 2011154897A1
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Filippo Lizzio
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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
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47J—KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES
    • A47J47/00—Kitchen containers, stands or the like, not provided for in other groups of this subclass; Cutting-boards, e.g. for bread
    • A47J47/14—Carriers for prepared human food
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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

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  • the present invention refers to containers expressly designed for transporting heated foodstuff typically from the place of production to the place where the food will be consumed still hot, so as to preserve heat thereof.
  • Containers thus made, usually made of plastic material or cardboard or aluminium, usually comprise a bowl vessel provided with an openable lid for the airtight sealing of the vessel.
  • the present invention addresses a different technical drawback, and more in particular that related to transporting cooked foodstuff and still hot so as to preserve both the heat and flavour thereof.
  • the object of the present invention is that of overcoming such drawback in an extremely functional but simultaneously simple and inexpensive manner from a construction point of view.
  • the lid of the transport container includes an inner wall and an outer wall delimiting an intermediate interspace which, in the closed condition of the lid, communicates with the vessel through a plurality of first holes formed in the inner wall and with the atmosphere through a plurality of second holes formed in the outer wall of the lid.
  • the vapour generated by the heated foodstuff arranged in the container is capable of controllably venting first in the intermediate interspace of the lid, through the holes of the inner wall thereof, and then to the atmosphere through the holes of the outer wall. This allows preventing the condensation of the vapour within the vessel, without however subjecting the foodstuff to sudden cooling, thus maintaining the flavour thereof substantially unaltered at least within the period of time required for transport thereof from the place of production to the place of consumption.
  • Such advantageous result can be further increased, according to a preferred embodiment of the invention, by providing the second holes of the outer wall having substantially smaller dimensions with respect to those of the first holes of the inner wall. This allows a relatively quick outflow of the vapour from the vessel towards the intermediate interspace, and a slower release thereof towards the atmosphere. The heat of the vapour temporarily stored within the intermediate interspace contributes to maintain the foodstuff arranged within the transport container hot.
  • -figure 1 is a schematic perspective view of an embodiment of a container for transporting heated foodstuff according to the invention, represented in the closed condition of the lid thereof,
  • -figure 2 is a view analogous to figure 1 in the open condition of the lid
  • -figure 3 is a an enlarged scale cross-sectional view according to line III-III of figure 1,
  • -figure 4 shows a variant of the transport container according to the invention, in the open condition of the related lid
  • FIG. 5 is a top plan view of a further variant of the transport container according to the invention.
  • FIG. 6 is a side elevational view showing the transport container according to figure 5 stacked with an identical transport container
  • -figure 7 is a top plan view of the bowl of the transport container of the figure 5,
  • FIG. 8 -figures 8 and 9 are perspective views of figure 7 exemplifying two different configurations of the bowl.
  • -figure 10 is a side elevational view of a detail represented in figures 8 and 9.
  • the container according to the invention expressly intended for transporting heated foodstuff typically from the place of cooking to the place of consumption, comprises a vessel 1 generally a quadrangular-shaped bowl, and a lid for airtight sealing 2 applied openable on the top part of the vessel 1.
  • the vessel 1 has a perimeter engagement edge 3 on which there is engaged a complementary perimeter edge 4 of the lid 2 providing, in the closed condition thereof, a substantially airtight coupling.
  • the opposite edges of the bowl 1 and of the lid 2 may be provided with removable pressure- fitting members, for example in form of projections and complementary recesses, mutually disengageable when opening the transport container.
  • the lid 2 has a double structure formed by an inner wall 5 and by an outer wall 6, between which there is defined an intermediate interspace 7 (figure
  • the walls 5 and 6 are in turn formed with respective mutual sealing coupling perimeter edges 4a, 4b which - in their entirety - constitute the airtight coupling edge 4 on the perimeter edge 3 of the vessel
  • the inner 5 and outer 6 walls can be formed by two distinct elements or, more conveniently, they can be made in a single piece, for example thermoformed plastic material. In such case, as illustrated in figures 2 and 3, they are joined to each other in an integral articulated hinge-like manner along one side 2a of the lid 2.
  • the inner wall 5 of the lid 2 is made with a plurality of through holes 8, and the outer wall 6 is in turn made with a plurality of through holes 9.
  • the holes 8, for example circular or any other shape, have dimensions substantially larger than those of the holes 9, and they are conveniently offset i.e. non-aligned with respect thereto.
  • the container 1 is intended to be used for transferring heated foodstuff (for example roast chicken, rotisserie products and the like) from the place of production to the place of consumption, with the lid 2 hermetically closed on the vessel 1.
  • heated foodstuff for example roast chicken, rotisserie products and the like
  • the vapour developed thereby instead of remaining and condensing within the container, rising upwards, vents into the intermediate interspace 7 through the holes 8.
  • the vapour introduced into the interspace 7 is advantageously discharged into the external environment of the lid 2 through the holes 9.
  • the bowl vessel 1 and the lid 2 can be made using any suitable material and preferably using plastic material for food products, for example transparent, moulded or more conveniently thermoformed .
  • the lid 2 instead of the lid 2 being formed by an element separate from vessel 1 it can be made in a single piece therewith.
  • the inner wall 5 with the holes 8 is joined to a side 3a of the perimeter edge 3 of the vessel 1 through an integral elastic hinge 10, while the outer wall 6 is joined on the opposite side 3b of the perimeter edge 3 through an integral elastic hinge 11.
  • the container is closed, starting from the open condition represented in figure 4, firstly by folding the inner wall 5 on the vessel 1 and then folding the outer wall 6 on the inner wall 5, thus providing a coupling between the perimeter edge 4b and the perimeter edge 3 of the vessel 1 and defining the intermediate interspace 7.
  • the inner wall 5 of the lid 2 can instead be joined, through an integral elastic hinge, to the side of the outer wall 6 opposite to the integral hinge 11 for joining to the bowl 1, and thus folded within such outer wall 6.
  • the inner wall 5 is integrally elastic-hinge-j oined along one side thereof to the side 3a or 3b of the vessel 1
  • the outer wall 6 is integrally elastic-hinge-j oined along one side thereof to the side of the inner wall 5 opposite to the vessel 1.
  • the inner wall 5 and the outer wall 6 of the lid can be made separately, and thus kept distinct or subsequently joined to each other, for example by welding.
  • FIGS. 6 to 9 show a further variant of the transport container according to the invention, having a different shape and further distinctive characteristics.
  • the bowl 1 with corrugated and slightly offset lateral walls, has a bottom wall 12 slightly projecting inwards, thus externally defining a recess for the shape-coupling with the lid 2 of an identical underlying transport container, in the stacked condition represented in figure 6.
  • bottom wall 12 has a series (three in the illustrated example) of transverse grooves 13 which can be selectively used for the removable insertion of partition elements 14, one of which is represented in detail in figure 10, provided with projecting lateral feet 15.
  • partition elements 14 one of which is represented in detail in figure 10, provided with projecting lateral feet 15.
  • the container according to the invention could be made of metal such as stainless steel or aluminium, terracotta or other material .

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La présente invention concerne un contenant permettant de transporter des aliments chauffés, comprenant un récipient (1) pourvu d'un couvercle ouvrable (2) pour le scellement hermétique comprenant une paroi interne (5) et une paroi externe (6) délimitant un espacement intermédiaire (7) qui, lorsque le couvercle (2) est fermé, communique avec le récipient (1) à travers une pluralité de premiers trous (8) formés dans la paroi interne (5) et avec l'atmosphère à travers une pluralité de seconds trous (9) formé dans la paroi externe (6) du couvercle (2).
PCT/IB2011/052477 2010-06-08 2011-06-07 Contenant destiné à transporter des aliments chauffés et couvercle associé WO2011154897A1 (fr)

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