Gregory P Phelps

US Patent:

50980130, Mar 24, 1992

Filed:

Jan 15, 1991

Appl. No.:

7/641199

Inventors:

Stephen L. France - Convis Township, Calhoun County MI
Gregory P. Phelps - Portage MI

Assignee:

Arvco Container Corporation - Kalamazoo MI

International Classification:

B65D 530

US Classification:

229115

Abstract:

A tray for transporting a single slice of pizza while facilitating use of the tray as a support so that the piece of pizza can be removed from and repositioned on the tray during eating thereof. The tray includes a generally triangular bottom wall and a pair of low-height side walls which extend along opposite identical side edges of the bottom wall. The other or base edge of the tray is open to facilitate movement of a piece of pizza either onto or off of the tray. The tray is formed from a flat blank constructed preferably of corrugated paperboard, with fold lines separating the low side walls from the bottom wall so that the side walls can be folded upwardly to be generally perpendicular to the bottom wall. One of the side walls has a latching tab integrally associated therewith and foldable so as to wrap around one end of the other side wall for insertion into an elongate slot which extends along the fold between the other side wall and the bottom wall to latch the tray in its assembled position.