Integrated Food Packaging with Extractable Tray for Hygienic Spreading

Resolve Bottlenecks,
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions

Solution Overview

Problem

Existing food packaging solutions for spreadable products and slices require separate packaging, leading to hygiene issues, breakage risks, and lack of control over portion sizes, making eating and disposal inconvenient and unsanitary.

Innovation Solution

A combined packaging system with a lower container and extractable shaped body that houses both spreadable product and slices, featuring a removable seal, integrated spatula, and stable support for slices, allowing easy spreading and eating without hand contact or breakage.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If separate packaging is used for spreadable product and slices, then individual product protection is improved, but device complexity and ease of operation deteriorate due to multiple packages and support planes needed

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveproduct protectionVSAvoidnumber of packages

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple separate packages (spreadable product, slices, teaspoon, support plane) into a single integrated food container. The container includes a lower tray with compartments for the spreadable product and slices, an upper tray for the slice, and integrates a teaspoon and support plane, eliminating the need for multiple separate packages while maintaining product protection.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The food container serves multiple functions simultaneously: it protects the spreadable product in the lower tray, provides a support plane for the slice in the upper tray, includes an integrated teaspoon for taking the product, and eliminates the need for separate placemats or support surfaces. This multi-functionality reduces the number of separate packages needed.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Reliability

If separate packaging is used for spreadable product and slices, then individual product protection is improved, but ease of operation worsens due to need to handle multiple packages and support planes

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveproduct protectionVSAvoidhandling convenience

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The integrated container structure acts as an intermediary that facilitates easy operation. The upper tray serves as a stable support plane for the slice, eliminating the need to hold the slice in hand during spreading. The integrated teaspoon provides convenient access to the spreadable product without requiring separate packaging handling.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Ease of operation

If slice is held in hand during spreading, then ease of operation is improved, but object-generated harmful factors worsen due to risk of dirtiness and breakage

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvespreading convenienceVSAvoidbreakage risk

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The upper tray is designed to provide stable support for the slice before the spreading operation begins. This pre-positioned support plane prevents the slice from being held in hand, thereby preventing potential breakage and dirtiness before they can occur. The container structure cushions and protects the fragile slice throughout the eating process.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #11Beforehand cushioning (Prior cushioning)

4Reliability

If separate packaging is used for spreadable product and slices, then product control is improved, but loss of substance worsens due to arbitrary eating and excessive use

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveproduct controlVSAvoidproduct waste

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The lower tray is divided into separate compartments: one for the spreadable product and another for the slices. This segmentation allows the consumer to see and control the portions of each component separately, preventing arbitrary eating and excessive use. The visual separation helps maintain proper nutritional balance and portion control.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

5Reliability

If multiple packages are used for spreadable product, slices, teaspoon, and placemat, then product protection is improved, but loss of time worsens due to collection and disposal of multiple packages

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveproduct protectionVSAvoiddisposal time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The integrated container design simplifies the disposal process. After use, the entire container can be disposed of as a single unit or the components can be easily separated for appropriate recycling or disposal. This eliminates the time-consuming process of collecting and sorting multiple separate packages.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #34Discarding and recovering

Data Source

PatentEP4426621B1Food packaging

Publication Date: 2026.04.01 DELIZIE BAKERY SRL

Figure 1
Figure 2
Figure 3

AI summary

A food packaging (1) has a bowl-shaped lower container (2) defining a first compartment (15) for housing a plurality (4) of toasted slices or the like (18), and an insert having the function of tray defined by a shaped body (20), which is completely housed in the lower container (2), in an extractable manner, and has a second compartment (24) for housing a food product (P1) spreadable on the toasted slices (18) and a cavity (27) configured to house and hold only one of the toasted slices (18) during a spreading step; a removable wall (9) is fixed on a peripheral edge of the lower container ( 2 ).