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Food Box with flatware attached thereon

a technology of food boxes and flatware, applied in the field of food boxes, can solve the problems of people being too lazy to go out of the office for lunch, people may feel inconvenience, and people often forgetting to carry flatware pieces, so as to save working hours and costs

Inactive Publication Date: 2009-05-07
DA-YEH UNIVERSITY
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[0005]The primary objective of this invention is to provide a food box with flatware pieces attached thereon, the food box having a flatware portion with flatware pieces of predetermined shapes pressure-made being attached thereon, wherein the food box is manufactured by once forming to save the working hour and cost and to conform with both sanitation and environmental protection.
[0007]The present invention is characterized in that the upper cover body has an attached sheet extending from each of at least one side sheet and the attached sheet is refolded to form together with the side sheet an attached flatware portion, wherein the attached flatware portion has pressure-made creases thereon in predetermined shape according to the outline of ordinary flatware including chopsticks, forks and spoons. The user may take off and obtain at least one disposable flatware piece and strip the residual material along the crease. The disposability frees the user from the inconvenience of carrying flatware pieces individually. Furthermore, easy and efficient use can be achieved by using appropriate thickness of material.

Problems solved by technology

Mostly people in work are too lazy to go out of the office for lunch.
It has been known surprisingly that disposable chopsticks are such as being soaked in blenching water heavily for pretty appearance, producing carcinogenic substances after heating.
People may feel inconvenience after all that the flatware pieces prepared should be washed as well; also, people may often forget to carry the flatware pieces.

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[0016]Refer to FIGS. 1 to 3, which show a food box 100 according to the present invention. The food box 100 has a box body 1 and an upper cover body 2 covering the box body from above. Generally, a rope or an elastic band may be put around in collocation for fast covering.

[0017]The box body 1 is structured conventionally as being rectangular box-like, having an indented loading space 11 for loading the food. The upper cover body 2, corresponding to the box body 1, has a main covering sheet 21 for covering the loading space 11 of the box body 1 from above, side sheets 22, 23 being on each one of the two long side edges of the main covering sheet 21 (side sheets on the short side edges are usually left out for saving material) and an attached sheet 24 extending from the side sheet 22.

[0018]As shown in FIG. 2, folds 25 to 27 are disposed orderly between the main covering sheet 21 and the side sheets 22 and 23, and between the side sheet 22 and the attached sheet 24. The attached sheet ...

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Abstract

A food box with flatware attached thereon. The food box has an attached sheet extending from each of the at least one side sheet of the upper cover body thereof, which covers the box body of the food box from above. The attached sheet is refolded to form an attached flatware portion, together with the side sheet, wherein the attached flatware portion has pressure-made creases thereon of predetermined shapes, according to the outline of ordinary flatware including chopsticks, forks and spoons. The user may take off and obtain at least one disposable flatware piece and strip the residual material along the crease. Furthermore, easy and efficient use can be achieved by using appropriate thickness of material.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates to food boxes and, in particular, to a food box with flatware including chopsticks and forks attached thereon, which can be conveniently taken off from the food box so that carrying flatware pieces individually can be avoided. The flatware pieces are firmly structured for use with better efficacy.[0003]2. Descriptions of the Related Art[0004]As known in the present days, the economical structure has changed with a growing population of dinning out people. Mostly people in work are too lazy to go out of the office for lunch. They buy lunch boxes which together with the chopsticks are disposable usually, simplifying matter and saving time. To protect the Earth and conserve the nature, however, one must lessen a waste of resource to avoid causes of destroying the ecological environment. He is obligate to devote his energy in activities like garbage classification and recovery for papers and pl...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): B65D5/00
CPCB65D51/246
Inventor SUNG, MING-HUNGLIN, JHIH-HAN
Owner DA-YEH UNIVERSITY
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