Articulable tray display system

Inactive Publication Date: 2011-05-05
IVERSON PAUL J
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A problem has arisen with use of square, round, ovoid or rectangular trays of the prior art because, when used with these curved surfaces adjoining trays leave voids between them, providing only a disjointed surface to place plates of food or other items for presentation.

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[0028]The following description, and the figures to which it refers, are provided for the purpose of describing examples and specific embodiments of the invention only and are not intended to exhaustively describe all possible examples and embodiments of the invention.

[0029]Referring now to FIG. 1 a diagram of a tray 10 of the present system of invention is shown. Three trays 10 and 11 of the system of the present invention are shown. Round trays 11 of the same diameter are shown by way of example and the third tray 10 is of the same diameter except that tray 10 is formed with two concave voids 18 in the otherwise circular shape. The arc of the concave void 18 of the tray 10 is complementary to the convex arc 16 of the edge of the round trays 11 and of the circular convex edge 16 of tray 10, allowing the rounded edge of the round trays 11 or of another identical tray 10 (not shown) to fit within the void 18 area. There are two concave voids 18 in the preferred embodiment, spaced at ...

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Abstract

A generally circular tray having an edge that is convex and concave, where the convex portion is complementary in size to the concave portion. When used in series multiple trays can be arranged to form various configurations of tray arrays for the display of articles such as foodstuffs.

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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION[0001]This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 61 / 185,986, filed Jun. 10, 2009 entitled ARTICULABLE TRAY DISPLAY SYSTEM, Iverson, Paul, which application is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.COPYRIGHT NOTICE[0002]A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material which is subject to copyright protection. The copyright owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent document or the patent disclosure as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent file or records, but otherwise reserves all copyright rights whatsoever.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0003]This invention relates to displaying products such as food or other small items on trays and more particularly to a system, method and apparatus for creating an array of trays displaying these items.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0004]Food and other items are often placed on trays for sale by a vendo...

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IPC IPC(8): B65D6/04B65D1/34
CPCA47F3/142A47F7/0071A47F5/0062A47F5/16
Inventor IVERSON, PAUL J.
Owner IVERSON PAUL J
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