Multi-compartment rigid tray with recloseable rigid dome lid

US11649087B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Quaker Oats Company · US

Inventors

• Paola Appendini · Northbrook, US
• David Block · Redlands, US
• Paulette Bluhm-Sauriol · Wawarsing, US
• Ryan Joseph Boudreaux · Yorktown Heights, US
• Peter Brian Clarke · Westport, US
• Rebecca Eley · Brooklyn, US
• Geoffrey Gibbins · Brooklyn, US
• Eric Thomas Henderson · Chicago, US
• James J. Maki · McHenry, US
• Jorge Maldonado · Frisco, US
• Donald E. McCumber · Madison, US
• Megan Sklanka · Boiceville, US
• James Troy Starkey · North Haven, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 3, 2017
• Grant date: May 16, 2023
• Expiry date: Oct 12, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65D2543/00953
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed are rigid multi-compartment recloseable packages. A package may comprise a rigid tray comprising a product surface to hold food products. The tray may comprise a raised lip along a perimeter of the product surface to laterally secure the food products thereon. The tray may have a tray skirt horizontally extending outward from a top edge of the lip, and dividing features upwardly extending from the product surface to form distinct compartments on the product surface for receiving the food products therein. Furthermore, such an exemplary package also comprises a recloseable rigid lid having an upper surface substantially coextensive with the product surface, and at least one sidewall downwardly extending from the upper surface. The lid may also comprise a lid skirt horizontally extending outward from a bottom edge of the at least one sidewall, where the lid skirt is coextensive and complimentary in shape with the tray skirt.