Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
  • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
  • B65D85/30—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure
  • B65D85/36—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure for bakery products, e.g. biscuits
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
  • B65D2585/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages specially adapted for particular articles or materials
  • B65D2585/30—Containers, packaging elements or packages specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure
  • B65D2585/36—Containers, packaging elements or packages specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure for biscuits or other bakery products
  • B65D2585/363—Containers, packaging elements or packages specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure for biscuits or other bakery products specific products
  • B65D2585/366—Pizza

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a package (or box or box-shaped element) which is portable and openable for containing and transporting cooked take-away food such as, generally but not exclusively, pizzas.
• a portable and openable package for containing, storing and transporting cooked and warm take-away food such as, for example, pizzas (hence the accepted meaning of "pizza box")
• a foldable support box or casing
• cardboard generally corrugated, die-cut and provided with creases (or, in other more general terms, weakening or fracturing means) which are useful to allow, if required, folding the component portions of the support box to arrange it, particularly, in the use or closed condition, in which the support box itself receives the take-away food the user consumes in a more or less far place, which is different from the public store where the purchase thereof occurred.
• a portable and openable package of the known type, of the type of interest herein, (used for containing, storing and transporting take-away food) therefore comprises a support casing made of cardboard for food use and provided at least with a first base portion (or bottom portion) and a second covering portion separated from each other through the already mentioned weakening means which make the aforesaid portions mutually foldable so that such a support casing can take at least
• the pizza box is often made of corrugated cardboard and the paper with which it is produced must be mainly if not entirely made up of virgin vegetable fiber. Furthermore, the pizza box must be resistant, adapted to transport food, economical, stackable, thermally insulated so as to allow adjusting the humidity and maintaining the temperature of the food contained and transported to destination as much as possible.
• the present invention aims to overcome the above-described drawbacks of the known art.
• the cognitive sphere of such a first purpose it is task of the invention to provide a portable and openable package for containing and transporting take-away food which allows the final customer to consume and enjoy food in an almost optimal condition, almost as if it was directly served on the plate as it is the case in a public store (for instance, a restaurant or a pizzeria), and in any case in a more pleasant state on the palate and, therefore, better satisfying the requests of the final customer.
• a public store for instance, a restaurant or a pizzeria
• the portable package of the invention for containing and transporting take-away food keeps the constructional concept thereof intact and the organoleptic and thermal features of the food contained therein unchanged in almost absolute or at least somehow better terms as compared to similar portable packages of the prior art.
• the box-shaped portable package of the invention includes a laminar coating sheet made of non-stick baking paper and stably coupled, through gluing means, to at least one part of the inner face of the first base portion and/or of the inner surface of the second covering portion.
• the laminar coating sheet which makes the portable and openable package of the invention innovative remains hidden and is always in contact with (and/or facing) the food contained therein, when the portable package itself is in a closed condition and the foldable support casing belonging thereto takes the operating position.
• the take-away food contained in the portable package of the invention retains the taste features thereof almost intact, thus allowing the end customer a better consumption as compared to what is allowed by the known equivalent portable packages.
• the portable package of the invention for containing and transporting take-away food has a lower degree of deterioration as compared to the portable packages of the known type since the laminar coating sheet of the first base portion, on which the cooked and warm food rests, disposes and absorbs any liquid spills coming from the food without particular or immediate negative consequences on the structural integrity of the foldable cardboard casing.
• - figure 1 shows an assonometric view of the portable and openable package of the invention in the conventional use or closed condition, during the transport of the take-away food;
• FIG. 2 shows a first assonometric view of the portable and openable package of figure 1 in the conventional non-use or open condition, while it is, for example, placed at an oven of a take-away pizza shop, ready to receive the freshly cooked pizza;
• FIG. 2a shows a view of figure 2 according to the cross-section plane Ha-Ha
• figure 3 shows a second assonometric view of the portable and openable package of figure 1 in the conventional non-use or open condition
• figure 4 shows an assonometric view of the portable and openable package of figure 1 in an intermediate semi-open (or semi-closed) condition.
• the portable and openable package of the invention for containing, storing and transporting especially cooked and warm take-away food (or food items) is shown in figures 1 and 2 where it is globally numbered with 1 .
• the portable and openable package 1 comprises a support casing 2 made of cardboard for food use and provided first and foremost, although not exclusively, with a first base (or bottom) portion 3 and a second covering portion 4 separated from each other through weakening means, indicated by 5 as a whole, which make such portions 3, 4 mutually foldable so that the support casing 2 takes at least
• the box-shaped portable package 1 includes a laminar coating sheet 6 made of non-stick baking paper, suitable for cooking, stably coupled through gluing means, numbered with 7 as a whole and seen in the detail of figure 2a, in this case to the entire inner face 3a of the first base portion 3 and also to the entire inner surface 4a of the second covering portion 4 so that the laminar coating sheet 6 is, on the one hand, in contact with, and on the other, facing (or facing towards), the food accommodated on the inner face 3a of the first base portion 3.
• a laminar coating sheet 6 made of non-stick baking paper, suitable for cooking, stably coupled through gluing means, numbered with 7 as a whole and seen in the detail of figure 2a, in this case to the entire inner face 3a of the first base portion 3 and also to the entire inner surface 4a of the second covering portion 4 so that the laminar coating sheet 6 is, on the one hand, in contact with, and on the other, facing (or facing towards), the food accommodated on the inner face
• the laminar coating sheet 6 remains in view when the support casing 2 made of cardboard takes the rest position, while it remains hidden from view and in direct or indirect contact with food (not shown for simplicity) when the support casing 2 made of cardboard takes the operating position.
• the laminar coating sheet 6 is single-sided siliconized, since such a laminar sheet 6 comprises silicone material only on a second side face 6b facing outwards and opposite to a first side face 6a of the laminar sheet 6 which, in the specific case being described, is therefore directly in contact with the inner face 3a of the first base portion 3 and/or with the inner surface 4a of the second covering portion 4.
• the laminar coating sheet 6 is a monolithic body which completely overlaps both the inner face 3a of the first base portion 3 as well as the inner surface 4a of the second covering portion 4.
• the laminar coating sheet can also be stably coupled to an inner part of a plurality of delimiting side plates (indicated by 8 in the accompanying figures) coupled to the side edges 3b, 3c and 3d of the first base portion 3 through auxiliary weakening means (indicated by 9 in the accompanying figures and of the same type as the weakening means 5), adapted to make the delimiting side plates 8 foldable with respect to the first base portion 3.
• the laminar coating sheet 6 has a basis weight with a value in the range of 50 - 90 g/sqm.
• the basis weight of the laminar sheet 6 takes a value in the range 52 - 78 g/sqm.
• the laminar coating sheet 6 presents a thickness with a value in the range of 50 - 100 pm.
• a precise preferred basis weight value of the laminar coating sheet 6 is equal to 55 g/sqm when it takes a thickness of 67 pm, while, in a another preferred solution, the laminar sheet 6 has a basis weight equal to 75 g/sqm and a thickness equal to 95 pm: these executive solutions have proved to offer an excellent yield as compared to the stated purposes of the invention.
• the non-stick baking paper with which the laminar coating sheet 6 is made is waterproof, anti-grease (or resistant to fats), anti-humidity and produced with raw cellulose fiber, without the addition of coloring substances.
• non-stick baking paper used in the portable carton 1 of the invention for warm food complies with standard 1935/2004/EC and Italian Ministerial Decree no. 21/03/73.
• the anti-grease property of the non-stick baking paper of the laminar sheet 6 allows the portable and openable package 1 of the invention to retain dirt to a somewhat lower extent (in an estimated percentage between 50% and 70%) as compared to the portable packages of a known type which are comparable thereto, to the point that it is possible to assume that, once employed and finished the use thereof, the portable and openable package 1 of the invention can be disposed of and recycled as paper rather than as dry waste as it is the case in the current state of the art.
• gluing means 7 are uniformly distributed on the inner face 3a of the first base portion 3 and on the inner surface 4a of the second covering portion 4 of the foldable support casing 2 as well as only on the first side face 6a of the laminar coating sheet 6.
• the gluing means 7 comprise a biodegradable organic adhesive substance, mainly adapted to glue paper and cardboard also at an industrial level, for example in box factories.
• the aforesaid biodegradable adhesive substance is presented in the form of a protein-based paste and also does not have a chemical-physical effect which is harmful to human health and the environment.
• the biodegradable adhesive substance of the gluing means 7 preferably used in the invention has a Brookfield viscosity equal to about 2,900 [mPa] s at 60°C, a boiling point equal to about 100°C, a pH value between 5.5 and 6.5 and is 100% water soluble.
• the present invention also relates to the use of non-stick baking paper as a material for supporting or preserving the cooking temperature of take-away food in the form of at least one laminar coating sheet 6 internally coupled to a support casing 2 made of cardboard for food use, in portable packages 1 for containing and transporting said take-away food.
• the portable and openable package for containing and transporting take-away food as well as the use of non-stick baking paper as a support material for take-away food in a portable package, both of which are the subject of the present invention, achieve the purposes and reaches the advantages mentioned above.
• the portable and openable package for containing and transporting take-away food, and the use of non-stick baking paper as a support material for take-away food in such a portable package allow maintaining the fragrance and crunchiness of the food in a clearly better manner as compared to the portable packages of the known type, while avoiding the inevitable leaks of ingredients from the food itself from deteriorating, damaging or otherwise affecting, even only in terms of cleaning, the support casing which is kept intact until the final destination of the take-away food.
• changes could be made to the portable and openable package of the invention for containing and transporting take-away food consisting, for example, of weakening means of different concept and different location with respect to those found in the accompanying figures.
• the laminar coating sheet can be stably coupled through gluing means only to a part of said inner face of the first base portion and of the inner surface of the second covering portion.
• further embodiments of the portable and openable package for containing and transporting take-away food exclusively claimed herein, still not accompanied by explanatory figures, can provide for the laminar coating sheet to be stably coupled, through gluing means, to at least one part of the inner face only of the first base portion or at least one part of the inner surface only of the second covering portion, so that the laminar coating sheet is only in contact with, or only facing, the food, respectively, when the foldable support casing takes the operating position, which does not affect the general technical advantage provided by the present invention.

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