Food carton having cylindrical lower portion
First Claim
1. A food carton of an inverted truncated generally conical configuration comprising front and rear walls, each wall having a base edge, a top edge and opposed side edges diverging upward from said base edge to said top edge, the side edges of each of said front and rear walls being foldably joined to the corresponding side edges on the other of said front and rear walls;
- said front and rear walls, in a first folded configuration of the carton, being in flat parallel overlying relation to each other, said front and rear walls, in a second erected use configuration, each being outwardly convex relative to the other and between the opposed side edges thereof; and
a bottom wall extending between and having opposed ends edges foldably joined to the front and rear walls in closely spaced relation above the base edges thereof, said bottom wall, in the second use configuration, forcibly retaining said outwardly convex front and rear walls in a slightly tapering substantially cylindrical configuration along at least a lower extent of said carton upward from the base edges of said front and rear walls.
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Abstract
A finger food container formed as a flat carton expandable into a truncated conical configuration with a substantially cylindrical lower portion extending upward to a scoop-forming upper portion. Front and rear walls of the folded carton have lower edges interconnected by a bottom wall which, upon an outward bowing of the front and rear walls, expands therebetween in close conformance thereto for a locking of the front and rear walls in the outwardly bowed positions thereof.
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20 Claims
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1. A food carton of an inverted truncated generally conical configuration comprising front and rear walls, each wall having a base edge, a top edge and opposed side edges diverging upward from said base edge to said top edge, the side edges of each of said front and rear walls being foldably joined to the corresponding side edges on the other of said front and rear walls;
- said front and rear walls, in a first folded configuration of the carton, being in flat parallel overlying relation to each other, said front and rear walls, in a second erected use configuration, each being outwardly convex relative to the other and between the opposed side edges thereof; and
a bottom wall extending between and having opposed ends edges foldably joined to the front and rear walls in closely spaced relation above the base edges thereof, said bottom wall, in the second use configuration, forcibly retaining said outwardly convex front and rear walls in a slightly tapering substantially cylindrical configuration along at least a lower extent of said carton upward from the base edges of said front and rear walls. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
- said front and rear walls, in a first folded configuration of the carton, being in flat parallel overlying relation to each other, said front and rear walls, in a second erected use configuration, each being outwardly convex relative to the other and between the opposed side edges thereof; and
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15. For use in the formation of a folded food carton of an inverted, truncated conical configuration;
- a unitary blank, said blank comprising opposed front and rear wall panels aligned along a longitudinal axis of said blank, said panels having spaced facing base edges, a bottom wall panel integral with each of said front and rear wall panels at said base edges and extending therebetween, said bottom panel having a first opposed pair of longitudinally spaced end edges and a second pair of laterally spaced side edges, said end edges being defined in said opposed wall panels in inwardly spaced relation to the corresponding base edges thereof, the base edge of each panel extending laterally beyond said bottom panel to form a pair of opposed base edge end portions, said front and rear wall panels each having an outer edge in spaced opposed relation to the corresponding base edge, said front and rear wall panels each having opposed side edges extending between the corresponding base edge and outer edge, said outer edge of said front wall panel being concave, said outer edge of said rear wall panel being convex, a central fold line defined in said bottom panel centrally between said base edges and extending between said bottom panel side edges, said second pair of spaced side edges each is generally convex and defined by two generally equal length linear extents meeting at an angle at said central fold line.
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