Package for dough products including a collapsible baking pad

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11083204-B2
Application number	US-201816122143-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 5, 2018
Priority date	Sep 5, 2018
Publication date	Aug 10, 2021
Grant date	Aug 10, 2021

Abstract

A package for raw dough products is disclosed that includes a tray defining an interior storage space, and a collapsible baking pad having an upper surface configured to support a plurality of raw dough products and adapted for movement between a nested condition dimensioned for placement within the interior storage space of the tray for shipping and a flattened condition separated from the tray for baking the raw dough products.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A package for dough products, comprising:
a) a tray defining an interior storage space;
b) a collapsible baking pad disposed within the interior storage space of the tray in an initial nested condition for shipping, said collapsible baking pad having an upper surface supporting a plurality of dough products, said collapsible baking pad being adapted for movement from said initial nested condition to a flattened condition separated from the tray for baking the plurality of dough products supported thereon;
wherein the baking pad includes at least two conjoined sections divided by a medial fold line, each of the sections including a central surface area supporting at least one dough product of the plurality of dough products;
wherein the central surface area of each section of the baking pad is bounded by a pair of spaced apart lateral fold lines extending parallel to one another and to the medial fold line dividing the two conjoined sections;
wherein the central surface area of each section of the baking pad is divided by a central crease line that extends perpendicular to the spaced apart lateral fold lines to divide each central surface area into a pair of spaced apart conjoined side surface areas, each supporting a dough product of the plurality of dough products; and
wherein the each of the spaced apart side surface areas is bounded in part by a lateral crease line that extends parallel to the central crease line.

2. A package as recited in claim 1 , wherein the tray includes a rectangular bottom panel, a front panel foldably attached to a front edge of the bottom panel, a rear panel foldably attached to a rear edge of the bottom panel, and two opposed side panels foldable attached to opposed side edges of the bottom panel.

3. A package as recited in claim 1 , wherein the baking pad is made from an oven-ready polymer coated paperboard material, and the tray is made from containerboard packaging material.

4. A package as recited in claim 1 , wherein the collapsible baking pad has a longitudinal axis and is adapted to move from the nested condition to the flattened condition by expanding the baking pad in a lengthwise direction relative to the longitudinal axis thereof.

5. A package as recited in claim 1 , wherein the collapsible baking pad has a longitudinal axis and is adapted to move from the nested condition to the flattened condition by expanding the baking pad in a lengthwise direction and a widthwise direction relative to the longitudinal axis thereof.

Assignees

• Westrock Shared Services Llc

Inventors

• Smith Kenneth C

Classifications

• B65D2571/00339

  extending from the upper or lower wall · CPC title

• B65D71/26

  extending from the upper or lower wall · CPC title

• B65D5/48022

  formed by two parallel panels located in the base of a tray being folded up towards each other · CPC title

• A21B3/131 Primary

  removable, foldable or disposable · CPC title

• A21B3/15

  Baking sheets; Baking boards · CPC title