EP 0011482 A1 19800528 - Improvements in trays for containing eggs, fruit or other articles.
Title (en)
Improvements in trays for containing eggs, fruit or other articles.
Title (de)
Verpackungstablette für Eier, Früchte oder dgl.
Title (fr)
Plateaux pour oeufs, fruits et analogues.
Publication
Application
Priority
GB 7844288 A 19781113
Abstract (en)
A tray (1) for containing eggs, fruit or other relatively fragile articles is of generally square shape in plan and is thermo-formed, as a thin-walled product, from plastics sheet material. It comprises rows and columns of article-receiving pockets (2) defined by hollow upstanding bosses (5,6), each pocket being interconnected with adjacent pockets by deep, generally V-shaped channels (11) extending between adjacent bosses. These channels form the underneath of the tray into a grid-like configuration in which the outsides of the pockets (2) are joined to adjacent pockets by the hollow webs formed by the channels. This grid-like configuration serves to provide the tray with strength and rigidity and enables articles, such as eggs, to be carried in the thin-walled plastics tray without the tray collapsing or folding when it is held at its edges.
IPC 1-7
IPC 8 full level
B65D 85/32 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP)
B65D 85/322 (2013.01)
Citation (search report)
- DE 1276545 B 19680829 - OVOTHERM G M B H VERPACKUNGEN
- US 2691456 A 19541012 - SHEPARD ERNEST L
- GB 1340715 A 19731212 - MERRET SON LTD GORDON
- US 3265281 A 19660809 - ZEIJKO HOHNJEC
- GB 1071238 A 19670607 - KALLE AG
- US 3416695 A 19681217 - BESSETT CLIFFORD H, et al
Designated contracting state (EPC)
BE CH DE FR GB IT LU NL SE
DOCDB simple family (publication)
EP 0011482 A1 19800528; ES 253529 U 19801216; ES 253529 Y 19820501; GR 73994 B 19840606; ZA 796041 B 19810624
DOCDB simple family (application)
EP 79302559 A 19791113; ES 253529 U 19791112; GR 790160486 A 19791112; ZA 796041 A 19791109