Diamond International Corporation

General Foods Limited

Packaging Corporation of America

Robert E Ralphs

Kenneth D Bixler

Richard F Reifers

Henry A Lord

Nabil A El-Hag

Donald C McCann

Marilee D Egan

A molded carton is provided having a lock system for retaining a cover section in an overlying closed relation with the open top of a base section. The lock system includes a hinged flange mounted on a front segment of the base sections defining the open top. The flange is mounted for limited inward pivotal movement from a normal upright position wherein the flange projects generally upwardly from the front of the base section. The flange is provided with a predetermined number of outwardly projecting protrusions which, when the cover section is in closed position, interlockingly engage a corresponding number of apertures formed in the front wall of the cover section.

Upwardly molded locking flange on carton

Carrier for beverage cups

Convective heating tray

A tray of molded pulp or like material for carryout food and beverage comprising one or more pockets for receiving and firmly supporting any one of several different size beverage containers normally used in the carry-out food trade, each of the pockets having a circular floor portion, a web portion extending for a full 360.degree. around the circular floor portion in an area adjacent the circular floor portion and diverging in the upward direction, the web portion extending along a generally conic surface to an upper ridge, a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart tower-like members extending radially inwardly of the pocket from the web portion to firmly grip and support a beverage container which may be received in the pocket member but being too large in diameter to reach the circular floor portion, each of the tower-like members extending upwardly from the web portion at an area above the upper ridge of the web portion, each of the tower-like members including a pair of circumferentially spaced radially inwardly extending flanges having integral therewith at upper ends thereof a generally horizontal bridge, the pair of radially inwardly extending flanges and the bridge having radially inner edges which together with the web portion define an aperture facilitating stacking a tray having such pockets formed therein with like tray in nesting relationship, the radially inner edges of the flanges extending from upper ends thereof at the respective bridges toward the respective lower ends thereof at a steeper angle with the horizontal and closer to the vertical than the web portion whereby any beverage container received in the pocket will upon coming into contact with the radially inner edge of one of the flanges be maintained inwardly of the aperture defined thereby and above the circular floor portion to insure that any drippage or spillage from a beverage container will be retained within the floor portion within the enclosure provided by the web portion in the area adjacent the floor portion.

Molded pulp tray for beverage and food

Growing community of inventors

Katonah, NY, United States of America

Robert E Ralphs