Ice cream cone packing jacket and holder

• US 4,069,996 A
• Filed: 10/19/1976
• Issued: 01/24/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Leon W. Koziol
• Original Assignee: Leon W. Koziol
• Inventors: Koziol, Leon W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Staab, Lawrence J.
• Application Number:
  US05/733,756
• Time in Patent Office: 462 Days
• Field of Search: D 1/99, D 7/70, D 9/10, D 9/12, D 9/176, D 9/221, 53/390, 141/391, 211/2, 211/14, 211/15, 220/85 H, 229/1.5 H, 248/145.3, 248/145.6, 248/146
• US Class Current: 248/146
• CPC Class Codes: A23G 3/563 products with an inedible support, e.g. a stick
• CPC Class Codes: A23G 9/503 products with an inedible support, e.g. a stick
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 1/26 Thin-walled containers, e.g. formed by deep-drawing operations B65D1/165 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/78 for ice-cream
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 248/912 Plural, selectively usable, article engaging means

Abstract

A packing jacket and holder for ice cream cones including a generally tubular body tapering inwardly from one end for receiving a sugar cone in said one end, and having an enlarged cup on the other end for receiving the enlarged head of a cake cone in the enlarged cup.

Claims

1. An ice cream cone packing jacket and holder comprising an elongate open ended tubular body, said body tapering conically from one end toward a medial region having the same internal taper as the external taper of a conventional sugar cone for conformably receiving a conical sugar cone, a radially outstanding shelf extending circumferentially about the other end of said body, and a generally cylindrical wall extending circumferentially about the perimeter of said shelf and combining therewith to define a cup opening centrally into the other end of said body, said cup having generally the same internal dimension as the external dimension of the enlarged head of a conventional cake cone to conformably receive the enlarged head of a cake cone with the tail thereof in said body, whereby sugar and cake cones are adapted to be supportively received for packing with ice cream without breakage, said one body end terminating in a plane generally normal to the longitudinal direction of said body for stable resting engagement with a supporting surface with said cup uppermost, and said cylindrical wall having its distal edge lying in a plane generally normal to the longitudinal direction of said body for stable resting engagement with a supporting surface with said one body end uppermost, whereby filled sugar and cake cones are adapted to be stably supported in upright position, said body and cup being integral and substantially rigid to resist cone deformation, and said medial region being formed with an unobstructed through finger opening sized to pass a finger for dislodging a received ice cream cone.

2. An ice cream cone packing jacket and holder according to claim 1, said body tapering conically from its other end toward said medial region.

3. An ice cream cone packing jacket and holder according to claim 1, said body tapering conically from its other end coaxially toward said medial region, said medial region being defined by the juncture of tapers from said body ends, said through finger opening being at said juncture for dislodging a received ice cream cone in a selected one of said tapers.