CONTAINER FOR PERISHABLE FOODS

• US 3,858,717 A
• Filed: 11/08/1972
• Issued: 01/07/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Leo Peters
• Original Assignee: Leo Peters
• Inventors: Peters, Leo
• Primary Examiner(s): Summer, Leonard
• Application Number:
  US05/304,778
• Time in Patent Office: 790 Days
• Field of Search: 206/44R,44.12,45.15,45.16,DIG.26,DIG.32,56R,74 426/115 229/9 211/49D
• US Class Current: 206/738
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/4216 Cards, coupons or the like formed integrally with, or printed directly on, the container or lid
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/5246 formed separately from the container or lid
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/54 Lines of weakness to facilitate opening of container or dividing it into separate parts by cutting or tearing B65D5/06, B65D5/5233, B65D5/5253 take precedence ; break-in flaps, or members adapted to be torn-off, to provide pouring openings B65D5/70
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/724 Internal fittings facilitating the discharge of contents, e.g. guiding panels, movable bottoms or lifting strips
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 77/0433 the inner container being a tray or like shallow container, not formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks B65D81/3862 takes precedence

Abstract

Maintaining retail-store shelf freshness of perishable foods by means of a sliding sleeve structure within the container in which said foods are shipped.

Claims

1. A container adaptable for displaying its contents on a retail store shelf comprising a shipping case dimensioned to fit onto the display shelf of grocery stores and having a bottom wall, a sleeve slidably supported on the bottom wall of the case whereby the contents of the case are moved as the sleeve is moved over the bottom wall, and a pull tab attached to the sleeve and lying flat along the bottom wall of the case and extending from the sleeve a sufficient distance so that it is covered by the contents of the case when the case is full but is visible when about one-quarter of the case'"'"''"'"'s contents have been removed.

2. The container of claim 1 in which said sleeve is structured completely closed at its bottom and back, partially closed at its sides, completely open at its top and front, the front being the end at which the pull tab is fastened to the sleeve, and partially open at its sides.

3. The container of claim 2 in which the pull tab is provided with means for permitting successive portions of the pull tab to be removed as the sleeve is pulled forward incrementally.

4. A method of marketing individual packages of perishable food products comprising the steps of:

placing a carton containing a plurality of the food packages on a store shelf, the carton having a bottom wall and a sleeve slidably supported by the bottom wall, the sleeve being equipped with a pull tab extending over the bottom wall of the carton toward the front of the carton, and after some of the packages have been removed from the carton moving the remaining packages forward by pulling the pull tab.

5. The method of claim 4 in which the remaining packages are pulled forward after about half of the packages have been removed.

6. The method of claim 4 in which the portion of the pull tab extending forwardly beyond the front of the carton is removed after said remaining packages are pulled forward.

7. The method of claim 4 in which the remaining packages are pulled forward until the forwardmost remaining package is positioned at the front of the carton.

8. A combination shipping and display container for a plurality of stacked units arranged in rows, the container having top, bottom, front, rear, and opposite side walls, the top and front walls adapted to be removed when the container is used as a display container, a sleeve slidably supported by the bottom wall of the container, the sleeve having a bottom wall supported by the bottom wall of the container, a rear wall extending adjacent the rear wall of the container, and opposite side walls extending adjacent the side walls of the container, the bottom wall of the sleeve extending from the back wall of the container for only a portion of the length of the bottom wall of the container, and a pull tab secured to the bottom wall of the sleeve and extending over the bottom wall of the container toward the front wall.

9. The structure of claim 7 in which the pull tab is provided with means for permitting successive portions of the pull tab to be removed as the sleeve is pulled forward incrementally.

10. The structure of claim 8 in which the means for permitting portions of the pull tab to be torn off includes spaced-apart lines of weakness.