US3362604A - Laminated dining dish - Google Patents

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US3362604A
US3362604A US510521A US51052165A US3362604A US 3362604 A US3362604 A US 3362604A US 510521 A US510521 A US 510521A US 51052165 A US51052165 A US 51052165A US 3362604 A US3362604 A US 3362604A
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
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  • ABSTRACT F THE DISCLGSURE A dining dish formed exclusively from a plurality of identical dish-shaped laminae of plastic material and each so thin as to easily bend and yield.
  • the plurality of dish-shaped laminae being pressure-nested one on top of the other in a number exceeding a minimum number of nested laminae necessary to provide a unit resisting bending and yielding under load a dish is subjected to under use, whereby the uppermost laminae may be removed one by one after each use of the dish to provide a clean surface, while additional laminae may be added at the bottom when the minimum number is reached so as to maintain a usable dish while consecutively using the laminae forming the dish.
  • the present invention relates to dining dishes and has for its principal object to provide dishes of various formation such as are found in the usual set of dining dishes, in particular to provide regular dishes, dessert dishes and soup dishes, which are formed of a plurality of identical components of laminar material, detachably arranged in juxtaposed relationship and the uppermost one of which may be removed after the dishes have been used thus eliminating the necessity of washing or otherwise cleaning the article.
  • Dining dishes designed to eliminate the necessity of washing the article after the use thereof have been heretofore proposed, manufactured and sold.
  • Dining dishes made of cardboard, wooden pulp and other cheap materials have been and are mass produced and are Widely used.
  • the upper face of such known dish is generally made substantially impervious to liquid substances by several methods, either impregnating or otherwise coating the base material with resins, or lining said face with an extremely thin layer of impervious material such as a very thin aluminum foil, impregnated paper, thin plastic sheet and so on.
  • manufacture of such dining dishes involves a search of a more or less favourable compromise between the cost of any individual serviceable dish unit, that is the very cost of use of the article for one course of the meal. It is obvious that the desirable low meal-cost leads to the use of an extremely poor and not appreciated article.
  • Each element is made of and from a plastic sheet which is quite impervious to moisture and has a highly polished upper face;
  • Each element While being very thin and therefore consisting of very economical material, is of thickness such to ensure that the uppermost element of the stacked dish can resist to the puncturing or cutting actions from regular use of a fork and a knife as conventionally used for a table cover;
  • All elements are shaped to include an essentially planar centre portion and a skirted upand out-flared edge portion, said edge portion comprising curved laminar material.
  • the laminated or stacked dining dish produced in accordance with the present invention consists of a pile or pack of superimposed and juxtaposed identically formed and shaped elements, said pile generally comprising at least ten and preferably more than fifteen elements.
  • Each element is formed and preferably punched olf thin polished sheet plastic material which is essentially hard and resilient, which possess excellent moisture-proof properties, and which is capable to resist to the action by conventionally handled cover forks and knives.
  • Each element is produced from laminated plastic material comprised in the group consisting of shockproof polystyrene having a relatively low rubber component content, such as 5 percent butadiene, or of chloro-polyethylene copolymers, or of a vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer having a low acetate content, or of a plastied polypropylene resin, or of nitrocellulose plastied with camphor based plastiiier, said laminated material having a thickness cornprised between 0.05 and 0.12 millimeter, the use of 0.08 to 0.10 millimeter thick polished laminated polystyrene including 5 percent butadiene being preferred.
  • each element is such to comprise a center fiat planar portion having a diameter substantially half of the overall diameter of the element, a curved up-turned skirt portion the concavity thereof is 11p-facing, and an edge portion including at least one ⁇ and preferably two small ⁇ down-facing concavities.
  • a dining dish formed by stack- -ing a number of such individual laminar elements has a resistance to bending and a load supporting property which is surprisingly greater than the product of the corresponding property of one individual element by the number of the elements comprised in the stacked plate or dish, ⁇ and therefore such stacked dish embodies a quite serviceable unit from which, upon use, the uppermost element thereof may be readily removed to restore the unit for use, and to which a number of similar elements may be also readily added from time to time for restoring the unit as to its most desirable thickness and self-supporting condition.
  • FIGURE 1 perspcctively and -d-iagrammatically shows a supply of laminar elements as in their stored condition
  • FIGURE 2 similarly shows a number of dish units and an individual element as being removed therefrom;
  • FIGURE 3 is a fragmentary sectional view of a stacked unit as taken olf from a supply pile, and a fragmentary side view of one element as being removed from said unit, the items of FIG. 3 being designed for producing a dining plate for essentially solid meats;
  • FIGURE 4 is a similar view showing a dish unit and a single element shaped for providing a deep or soup dish;
  • FIGURE 5A and FIGURE 5B diagrammatically show arrangements of units as provided for carrying out resistance tests thereof.
  • FIGURE 5C is a graph wherein the readings from said test have been plotted.
  • FIGS. 1 to 4 inclusive there are shown elements E and E of laminar plastic material as above described and shaped to form plain or flat and respectively deep or so'up dish units U and respectively U upon piling-up at least ten and preferably more than fifteen identical individual elements.
  • Such identical elements may be stored, packaged and transported as stacked into a pile P including a large number of elements, such as one hundred or several hundreds of identical elements.
  • Such piled elements are ⁇ not connected to each other and they can be either individually or in groups removed from the supply pile P.
  • the units intended for use are obtained simply by removing stacks of elements from said pile and, upon use and upon removal of the uppermost element from each used unit, such units can be superimposed again on said pile for saving space and better protection of the upper face of each individual element.
  • each laminar element includes a center planar portion l@ or l and a flared or tapered skirt portion thereabout.
  • Said skirt portion comprises an inner upwardly curved part 12 or 12', an outer upwardly curved part 14 or 14 and an edge part 16 or 16 including two narrow down-facing corrugations.
  • the shape of said elements is such that a proper full engagernent of the superimposed elements is ensured, that is the said skirt portion 1.2-16 or 12X-16 does not include parts forming an excessively stepped angle with the flat center portion 10 or 10', respectively.
  • Units U and U including a variable number of elements E and E shaped as shown in FIGS. 3 and respectively 4 have been formed by pressing of polystyrene including 5% butadiene sheet material 0.08 millimeter thick. Such units had an overall diameter of 230 millimeters about and included a center portion and respectively 10 of 110 millimeters about. Such units have been located over rigid s-upports S' spaced at an interval I of 12() millimeters, as shown in FIG. 5A. A rod having a slightly convex lower face has been located over the edge of the unit, parallel to the corners or edges of supports S and at the middle of said interval I to provide a load P of grams.
  • a perfectly usable dish is provided in the most simple and economical manner.
  • a deep or soup dish consisting of a unit U formed by at least sixteen elements E', a deep dish which may be actually handled when regularly loaded is provided.
  • the laminated dishes of the invention are of clean and very agreeable appearance.
  • the new dishes look substantially as conventional china or glazed ceramic ones.
  • the downturned edges thereof prevent infiltration of liquid substances between the various superimposed elements and add an improved appearance to the units.
  • the above indicated numbers (at least ten and preferably more than fifteen) of the elements needed to provide an actually serviceable dish indicates the lower limit to be preferably but not strictly necessarily considered, no upper limit can be actually given. If a desired dish formed of more than twenty elements may be formed, and it may be said that the upper limit is given only by the supply available and by the desire met to handle a too thick and thereof bad-looking article. As no upper limitation exists, a rather thick unit may be however desired and readily provided, according to the invention, when an exceptional load is to be put into and carried about in the dish, such thick article not leading to more cost of use as all elements included thereinto, except the uppermost one, can be recovered for further use thereof.
  • a dining dish consisting of a plurality of identical dish-shaped laminae each of which has a substantially planar center portion and an upwardly and outwardly flared skirt portion including inclined parts, each of said dish-shaped laminae formed from moisture-proof, cutand puncture-resistant plastic material and each being thin as to bend and yield under the load of the contents it is subjected to during use, said plurality of dish-shaped laminae being pressure-nested one on top of the other with the top surface of each dish-shaped lamina, except the uppermost, completely engaging the bottom surface of the lamina superimposed thereon so as to stick thereto, said plurality of laminae exceeding a minimum number of nested laminae necessary to form a unit resisting bending and yielding under the load of the contents it is subjected to during use, the uppermost laminae being removable for disposal one by one after each use of the dish to provide a clean surface while additional laminae may be added when, due to removal of the uppermost laminae for disposal
  • each of the laminae has a thickness not exceeding 0.12 mm.
  • each of said laminae has a thickness of between 0.05-O.l2 mm.
  • each 0f said laminae is formed from plastic material consisting of polystyrene having a low butadiene content.
  • each of said laminae is formed from plastic material consisting of chloro-polyethylene copolymer.
  • each of said laminae is formed from plastic material consisting of vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer having a low acetate content.
  • each of said laminae is formed from plastic material consisting of plastied polypropylene resin.
  • each of said laminae is formed from plastic material consisting of nitrocellulose plastiiied with a camphor plastiiier.

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US3512338A (en) * 1965-12-10 1970-05-19 Richard F Nestler Packaging with plastic bags
US4182462A (en) * 1973-08-31 1980-01-08 Buff George J Jr Sanitary container
US4227362A (en) * 1978-01-19 1980-10-14 Wallsten Hans Ivar Method of forming a multiple pack of vessels
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USD478252S1 (en) 2002-06-05 2003-08-12 Syracuse China Company Plate
USD484750S1 (en) 2002-09-18 2004-01-06 Oneida, Ltd. Pasta bowl
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USD574661S1 (en) * 2007-02-14 2008-08-12 Sigma Industries, Inc. Pizza pan
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US3512338A (en) * 1965-12-10 1970-05-19 Richard F Nestler Packaging with plastic bags
US3448913A (en) * 1966-10-22 1969-06-10 Bremshey & Co Work support,more particularly for household purposes
US4182462A (en) * 1973-08-31 1980-01-08 Buff George J Jr Sanitary container
US4227362A (en) * 1978-01-19 1980-10-14 Wallsten Hans Ivar Method of forming a multiple pack of vessels
US4944427A (en) * 1987-09-21 1990-07-31 Nippon Petrochemical Co., Ltd. Disposable tray for medical use and method of making the same
GR1000190B (el) * 1989-11-23 1992-03-20 Christos Konstantopoulos Βαση για τροφιμα και ειδη ζαχαροπλαστικης.
USD478252S1 (en) 2002-06-05 2003-08-12 Syracuse China Company Plate
USD485128S1 (en) 2002-09-18 2004-01-13 Oneida, Ltd. Plate
USD484750S1 (en) 2002-09-18 2004-01-06 Oneida, Ltd. Pasta bowl
USD494420S1 (en) 2003-11-04 2004-08-17 Syracuse China Company Bowl
US20060201434A1 (en) * 2005-03-08 2006-09-14 John Kujawa Pet Dish Dispenser with Disposable Inserts
US7392761B2 (en) * 2005-03-08 2008-07-01 John Arthur Kujawa Pet dish dispenser with disposable inserts
US20080264345A1 (en) * 2005-03-08 2008-10-30 John Arthur Kujawa Pet dish dispenser with disposable inserts
US20060266748A1 (en) * 2005-05-26 2006-11-30 Kim Crawford Combined plate and cupholder
USD574661S1 (en) * 2007-02-14 2008-08-12 Sigma Industries, Inc. Pizza pan
USD646123S1 (en) * 2010-08-06 2011-10-04 Villeroy & Boch Ag Tableware
USD656793S1 (en) * 2011-09-26 2012-04-03 Vince Mastroianni Tilted plate
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