Convertible pizza box

a box and pizza technology, applied in the field of convertible boxes, can solve the problems of collapse of the pizza box, not optimal storage means, and pizza pie is generally considered too messy for consumption during travel, and achieve the effect of convenient portability

Inactive Publication Date: 2008-03-27
ECOVENTION
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[0027]Accordingly, in a particularly advantageous embodiment of the invention, the blank is structured such that after being formed into a full sized box, the blank can be reconfigured, generally by manually tearing and folding along o...

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For these reasons, a pizza pie is generally considered too messy for consumption during travel, unless, of course, significant preparation and planning is involved, for example, dinner plates are taken along on the trip.
Consumers are well aware that these are not optimal storage means, however.
As mentioned above, a typical pizza box is designed to hold a full sized pizza and therefore requires substantial storage space, often more storage space than may be available in an average refrigerator.
The large flat surface of the pizza box often becomes a surface upon which other food items are placed and stored, for example multiple jars or containers of food, thereby resulting in collapse of the pizza box causing dama...

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[0041]For purposes of the following description, as used herein, “score line” encompasses any line, curve or irregular shape provided on a paperboard or cardboard blank for allowing the same to be folded or torn in a predetermined fashion. By “foldable box” it is meant a box which takes its shape by folding different segments of a blank piece of flat material, such as cardboard for example, around score lines. This action is also called “formation” of the box. “Unfolded box” generally refers to the blank, while “folded box” generally refers to the shaped article after folding the miscellaneous segments around certain score lines.

[0042]The score lines may include indentations, miscellaneous cuts, through-cut slits, perforations, and the like. They have a maximum possible degree of weakening the box at their location, so that an operator may perform the folding as fast and as easily as possible, with a minimum chance of folding the box in the wrong place. Thus, the box may be folded, ...

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Abstract

A container for pizza formable into a smaller, space saving box useful as, for example, refrigerator containers for pizza slices. Also disclosed are easily environmentally friendly disposable pizza boxes.

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[0001]The present invention generally relates to food storage containers, and more specifically relates to blanks for making boxes useful for pizza and other relatively flat food products.[0002]As the pizza industry has grown, there has developed a need for a pizza carton that can serve multiple functions and solve multiple problems.[0003]Cartons for packaging flat food products, for example, pizza pies, are well known and are provided in a number of shapes and sizes. Typically, these packaging cartons are formed from a single blank, for example, a flat generally rectangular blank made of cardboard, which is scored so that it can be manually folded and formed to define a three dimensional carton. A pizza carton blank is typically cut and scored so as to be foldable to form a substantially square or orthogonal carton which is sized to accommodate an entire pizza pie, for example, a full size pizza having a diameter of up to about 16 inches or greater.[0004]Pizza cartons of the type d...

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IPC IPC(8): B65D5/00
CPCB65D5/22B65D5/54B65D2585/366B65D5/6664B65D5/5475
Inventor WALSH, WILLIAM R.
Owner ECOVENTION
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