Food scoop

• US 6,050,482 A
• Filed: 07/31/1998
• Issued: 04/18/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Pactiv Packaging Incorporated (Pactiv)
• Original Assignee: Dopaco Incorporated (Graeme Richard Hart, MBA)
• Inventors: Cai, Liming
• Primary Examiner(s): Garbe, Stephen P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mai, Tri M.
• Application Number:
  US09/126,853
• Time in Patent Office: 627 Days
• Field of Search: 229/104, 229/117.01, 229/117.05
• US Class Current: 229/104
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/3685 by folding the blank to U-shape to form the base and opposite sides, the remaining sides being formed by extensions of these opposite sides

Abstract

A fry scoop having front and rear walls and an upwardly and rearwardly inclined bottom formed of a narrow forward bottom panel and a wide rear bottom panel which provides for an upward shifting of the rear wall as compensation for a reduced height of the panel forming the rear wall.

Claims

1. A food carton comprising a bottom, front and rear walls having lower edges and extending upward from said bottom, and opposed sides, said front and rear walls being joined at said sides, said bottom being joined to and extending between said front and rear wall lower edges, said carton including support means for supporting said carton upright and defining a support plane below said bottom, said bottom being of a greater height above said support plane at said rear wall than at said front wall wherein said rear wall lower edge is upwardly offset relative to said front wall lower edge, said walls and said bottom are integral and defined from a unitary blank of foldable material, and including a first fold line between said bottom and said front wall, a second fold line between said bottom and said rear wall, and a third fold line in said bottom between said first and second fold lines and defining a forward bottom panel between said first and third fold lines, and a rear bottom panel between said second fold line and said third fold line, said forward bottom panel having a front to rear depth less than a front to rear depth of said rear bottom panel and wherein said first and second fold lines form opposed convex front and rear edges on said bottom, said bottom, between said sides, being upwardly arced.

2. The carton of claim 1 wherein said front and rear walls are outwardly convex relative to each other.

3. The carton of claim 2 wherein said carton is foldable to a collapsed position with said front and rear walls planar and in contacting overlying relation to each other, said third fold line, in said collapsed position of said carton, being linear.

4. The carton of claim 1 wherein said front and rear walls are outwardly convex relative to each other.

5. The carton of claim 4 including a first fold line between said bottom and said front wall, a second fold line between said bottom and said rear wall, and a third fold line in said bottom between said first and second fold lines and defining a forward bottom panel between said first and third fold lines, and a rear bottom panel between said second fold line and said third fold line, said forward bottom panel having a front to rear depth less than a front to rear depth of said rear bottom panel.

6. The carton of claim 5 wherein said carton is foldable to a collapsed position with said front and rear walls planar and in contacting overlying relation to each other, said third fold line, in said collapsed position of said carton, being linear.

7. Carton construction comprising front and rear walls with a bottom integral with and extending between said front and rear walls, a first fold line between said front wall and said bottom, a second fold line between said rear wall and said bottom, said fold lines being outwardly convex relative to each other, and a third fold line in said bottom intermediate said first and second fold lines and closer to said first fold line than to said second fold line wherein said bottom is divided into a front bottom panel adjacent said front wall, and a larger rear bottom panel adjacent said rear wall.

8. A foldable carton structure comprising an elongate planar blank of foldable sheet material having front and rear longitudinally aligned wall panels, a bottom panel between said front and rear wall panels and defined by opposed first and second fold lines respectively between said bottom panel and said front and rear wall panels, said first and second fold lines being outwardly convex relative to each other, and a third fold line in said bottom panel intermediate said first and second fold lines and closer to said first fold line than to said second fold line.

9. The carton structure of claim 8 wherein said third fold line is straight.