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Tamper-resistant container for freshly baked food products

US5971262A · kind A · utility

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20Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateFeb 6, 1998
Grant dateOct 26, 1999
Priority date
Expiry dateFeb 6, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S229/906
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A container embodiment helping to protect freshly baked pizza pie and the like against extremely disgruntled delivery drivers while in a totally unsupervised environment. The container embodiment having tamper-resistant ventilation to enhance the overall effectiveness of a supplemental tamper-resistant securing means which is added just before the delivery process begins. The tamper-resistant ventilation prevents contaminates from being easily injected through the ventilation by a contaminate delivery means without leaving evidence of the contaminates on an inner surface area of the container embodiment.

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