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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2000
Cory Hillebrand, Atlanta, GA (US);
Other;
Abstract
An article for packaging food is provided in which the article comprising a triangularly shaped top layer of a first flexible material, such as aluminum foil, having two sealing edges and one opening edge, and a triangularly shaped bottom layer of a second flexible material having two sealing edges and one opening edge, wherein the sealing edges of the top layer are secured to the sealing edges of the bottom layer, thereby forming a conical pouch between the top layer and the bottom layer. The pouch has an opening between the opening edges into which food items can be inserted and then the opening edges folded together to close the pouch. The top layer preferably includes perforations that facilitate tearing open the top layer, for example, during or following reheating of the food item. The packaging articles can be provided in a sheet form having one or more rows of the packaging articles, wherein each row comprises two or more of the articles integrally formed together, such that each article is removably connected to another article, preferably by having perforations between the articles. The sheet can be provided to the user as a cylindrical roll, from which the user can tear off an individual packaging article as needed. Food items, such as slices of pizza, can be placed into the pouch opening of packaging article, and then the opening edge of the top layer and the bottom layer can be pinched together and folded to close the pouch.