Abstract: A container providing for the storage of a pressurized fluid, such as a carbonated beverage, and having a separate compartment therein for the segregated storage of a second material, such as a flavoring for the beverage. The arrangement is responsive to a rapid drop in pressure which occurs in the container upon opening thereof to automatically cause the release of the second material from the compartment and dispensing thereof into the fluid stored in the container.

Abstract: A comestible product includes a molded base piece having a series of narrow, slit-like grooves formed therein and configured in a decorative design. A preferably confectionery decorative material is heated until it becomes flowable with a stiff consistency. A tool (such as a toothpick) with a narrow rigid blade is used to scoop the flowable decorative material and insert it into the grooves on the molded base comestible piece. The decorated base piece is then cooled for a short period of time to cause the confectionery material to solidify and become fused with the base piece to form a unitary one-piece construction. A kit used to carry out the foregoing decorating method includes a mold for forming the base comestible piece, and a tool for applying the flowable decorative material to the molded base piece. A plurality of individually associated receptacles hold different colors of the flowable confectionery material during the decorative steps.

Abstract: A microwave food package for preparing foods such as shelf-stable popcorn containing a packet of food additive or flavoring which is automatically dispersed over the food product when the package is heated by microwave radiation within the microwave oven during the cooking cycle. The package is constructed from a paper/polyester laminate and includes vent holes covered with a heat softenable polypropylene film for regulating the pressure and temperature within the package. The packet containing the additive or flavoring is also constructed from a polypropylene film which softens and eventually tears under heat and pressure within the package to disperse its contents over the product.

Abstract: A container providing for the storage of a pressurized fluid, such as a carbonated beverage, and having a separate compartment therein for the segregated storage of a second material, such as a flavoring for the beverage. The arrangement is responsive to a rapid drop in pressure which occurs in the container upon opening thereof to automatically cause the release of the second material from the compartment and dispensing thereof into the fluid stored in the container.

Abstract: A container comprising an outer container and an inner container suspended therein by flexible suspension means.

Abstract: A container providing for the storage of a pressurized fluid, such as a carbonated beverage, and having a separate compartment therein for the segregated storage of a second material, such as a flavoring for the beverage. The arrangement is responsive to a rapid drop in pressure which occurs in the container upon opening thereof to automatically cause the release of the second material from the compartment and dispensing thereof into the fluid stored in the container.

Abstract: A display package comprising a semi-rigid outer container having a front wall and a back wall with a cutout creating an opening in the front wall. The outer container encloses an inner container, the latter comprising a sheet or pouch of film plastic on a food product base, a plurality of intermediate pouches loosely enclosing separate food product ingredients, and an outer pouch of shrink film plastic heat shrunk onto the base over the intermediate pouches so as to hold them in place. The film forms a window for viewing the food products through the cutout.

Abstract: A utensil for reconstituting a two-component dehydrated dish includes three approximately cup-shaped container members having each a bottom wall and an annular wall transverse to the bottom wall and bounding an open side of the member opposite the bottom wall. A first container defines a cavity dimensioned to receive the other two members substantially entirely. The bottom walls of the first and of a second member are imperforate, the bottom wall of the third member being formed with a plurality of perforations. Positioning means permit the second and third members to be positioned in the cavity of the first member in respective positions in which the bottom walls of the second and third members are transversely offset from each other and from the bottom wall of the first member, and the second and third members are open in the same direction as the first member.

Abstract: A container for beverages including an outer peripheral wall and upper and lower walls. The upper wall spans and is sealed relative to the upper marginal edges of the peripheral wall and includes a first elongated tab formed integrally therewith and downwardly tearable from the top wall into the container with one bendable end of the first tab portion remaining attached to the top wall. An upwardly opening partition wall is disposed within the container below the top wall and includes peripheral edges sealed relative to the top wall. The peripheral wall defines a closed chamber within the container below the top wall. The partition wall includes a second integral elongated tab tearable therefrom with one bendable end portion of the second tab remaining attached to the partition wall. Connecting structure is operatively associated with the first and second tabs operative to effect tearing of the second tab from the partition wall responsive to downward tearing of the first tab from the top wall.

Abstract: A method of purveying food in which a variety of foods are cooked and frozen in disposable containers of ovenable sheet material each having a mouth surrounded by an outstanding lip and preferably a removable cover. At the time of serving, a plurality of the containers of frozen food are selected, to make up a meal, and a serving assembly provided by placing them in inverted position on an ovenable serving plate having a retaining rim, with the lips of adjacent containers overlapping each other or abutting the rim and to form a base that seats on the plate surface. The assembly is then heated to eating temperature and placed before the diner and the containers removed to display the foods as a normal serving. An aspect of the invention is the ovenable assembly of filled containers inverted on a serving plate having a retaining rim.

Abstract: The package comprises a base (10) having flat horizontal wall (14) formed with a plurality of apertures (18, 20) and supported by a circumferential depending skirt (16). A flanged cup (28) containing the creamy product is removably inserted into a central aperture (18). Further flanged cups (32) containing comminuted edible ingredients such as peanut, hazel nut, pistachio, puffed rice or chocolate, are inserted into the remaining apertures (20). The whole is closed by a removable lid (12) superposed on the flat wall (14) of the base (10). The package also includes small spoons (40) which may be located in corresponding depressions (not shown) formed in the flat wall (14) of the base (10).

Abstract: A two-chamber flat envelope for packaging various goods is proposed, the chambers of which can be opened uniformly for the purpose of filling. The envelope having two outer walls and a separating partition has plural seams at the edges of the walls joining these walls to one another. Furthermore the envelope has a first seam, which joins the partition to the first outer wall, and a second seam, which joins the partition to the other outer wall, each being located at a predetermined distance from one side seam.

Abstract: A convenience food composed of dehydrated noodles and two packages of soup, the first soup being capable of maintaining the pH value of the liquid obtained after boiling the noodles with the soup at more than 7, and a second soup having an acidity sufficient to reduce the pH of the liquid to 5.0 to 7.0 by adding said second soup to the liquid obtained from boiling the noodles with the first soup. The convenience food provides excellent texture in the cooked noodles as well as uniform flavoring throughout.

Abstract: A pouch for use in packaging food or similar granular materials is disclosed which includes at least two different and segregated pouch compartments combined in a single unit. The two pouches may be each formed of different sheet materials so that a differential level of protection may be provided for the different materials in each of the two pouches. The two pouches are simultaneously formed in a folding and sealing machine with the top edges of the two pouches being sealed together to form a single dual compartment package.

Abstract: The present invention relates to production and packaging of rice-ball rolled in laver.A laver is wrapped in a packing sheet for blocking moisture and rice-ball is packed by said packing sheet. The rice-ball is rolled in said laver when stripping said packing sheet. The flavor of laver is prevented from being damaged by the moisture of said rice-ball even after a long time from its production. Moreover, said rice-ball in laver can be packed surely and cleanly for selling them at drive-in store or at a station.

Abstract: The present invention relates to production and packaging of seasoned rice rolled in laver. A laver is fixed on a long strip of packing sheet for blocking the moisture and seasoned rice of cylindrical shape is situated at the center of said packing sheet. The packing sheet is then folded back in order to pack the laver and the seasoned rice separately, preventing the direct contact of them. When eating, said seasoned rice is rolled on the laver by pulling one end of the packing sheet, stripping the seasoned rice which rolls over the laver on the packing sheet. Thus, the flavor of laver can be secured from damage by moisture of said seasoned rice even long after production. In addition, said seasoned rice rolled in laver can be packed surely and cleanly for selling at a drive-in store or at a station.

Abstract: This invention relates to a package for an elongated rice-ball or bread and butter comestible together with a laver in an isolated manner until the comestible is wrapped with the laver. The package includes a long moisture-proof sheet such as vinyl or paraffin-coated paper doubled by folding it at the center thereof. The leading edge of the folded back surface may be again folded back in the opposite direction to form a short tongue. The comestible is placed on the single-layered end portion of the sheet and a laver is interposed between the juxtaposed portions of the sheet. The comestible can be wrapped together with the laver without laver becoming moist and the laver can be removed from between the juxtaposed portions of the sheet and wrapped around the comestible.

Abstract: Ice cream sandwich packages, containing an ice cream block and two wafers in separate adjacent compartments of a flat flexible polymeric material wrapper comprised of overlying layers of material heat sealed together at the marginal edges thereof, to separate the two compartments and at each end thereof, are continuously formed in apparatus consisting of rotary sealing elements to seal films together around the items to be packaged and rotary cutting elements to separate individual packages.

Abstract: A two-compartment package is provided which includes in a first lower compartment, frozen or refrigerated ice cream; and in a second upper compartment, frozen or refrigerated syrup with the frozen or refrigerated syrup being supported on a microwave reflective material and the microwave reflective material protecting the frozen or refrigerated ice cream from microwave energy whereby the rate at which the frozen ice cream located in the first lower compartment absorbs heat is much less than the rate at which the syrup in the second upper compartment absorbs heat. The first and second compartments are enclosed in a sealed container, the top surface of the second compartment of which is transparent to microwave energy.The second upper compartment may be an integral part of the food package or it may be a separate container means that is removably and tightly fitted within the upper portion of the first lower compartment.

Abstract: A package for temporarily hand-packing a rice-ball of triangular shape together with a sheet of dry laver until the former is field-wrapped with the latter so as to prepare a laver-wrapped rice-ball or "Onigiri". The package includes a packing sheet of square shape folded along a fold extending through a pair of opposite angles to form a pair of folded sheets of equilateral triangular shape for holding the dry laver inbetween. The packing sheet is made of a moisture-proof material such as paraffine paper or vinyl sheet. Further inclusive is a pull-out sheet which extends from one of the vertical angle portions of the folded sheets and which is folded back toward the fold of the packing sheet. The pull-out sheet thus provided is sized to have such a sufficient margin, when the rice-ball is placed thereon for the temporary hand-packing operation, as can facilitate its hand pull-out operation at its margin before the rice-ball is wrapped with the dry laver.

Abstract: A container for packaging frozen food in which the food can be reheated including a paperboard tray having upstanding side walls and horizontal flanges and an upright central divider wall forming separate food compartments in the tray. The container is formed from a planar die-cut blank in which the central divider wall is formed by folding adjacent rectangular panels on the blank into abutting, back-to-back relation and the side walls are one piece and are foldably connected to adjacent die-cut portions of the blank so that when the divider wall is erected, the side walls are continguous to each other about the periphery of the tray. A pre-formed, semi-rigid blister of thermoformable plastic material is used in combination with the tray to provide a leakproof liner.

Abstract: A multi-compartment package for the packaging of food products takes the form of a generally flat rectangular pouch-like package which is permanently closed at the side edges, has a temporary seal at the top edge and a bottom closure. A further temporary seal extends between the top and bottom of the package separating the interior of the package into two separate compartments. The package is opened by separation along the temporary seals to result in a one compartment package open at the top. The invention has particular applicability to the packaging of the components of an ice-cream sandwich.

Abstract: A metal foil container forming three generally rectangular compartments, each compartment being hingedly secured along one of its ends to an end of one of the other compartments, so that all of the compartments are foldable relative to each other.The method of cooking and serving a hamburger sandwich in the same package in which it was refrigerated and stored, in which a package including separate compartments foldable relative to each other is first used for supporting two pieces of bread in spaced relationship to a meat patty while the meat patty is grasped between a pair of hot metal jaws for purpose of cooking it, utilizing the same package to conduct hot cooking gases from the meat patty to the bread, and again using the package to assist in folding the meat patty and pieces of bread into a sandwich concurrently with the disassembly and removal of the package.

Abstract: A prepared meat product is contained in a disposable package suitable for transporting, cooking, and serving. One specific form is a meat patty; a second specific form is a hamburger patty together with half a hamburger bun; a third specific form is a hamburger patty together with two half hamburger buns; and a fourth specific form is a wiener together with two half wiener buns.The package of the present invention is disposable and is preferably made primarily of aluminum foil. Some specific features of different forms of the package are a built-in grease trap, filtered vent for cooking gases, removable protective cover for the vent, and removable holder for the meat product for removing the cooked meat product from the package when it is to be served.The invention also makes provision for cooking the meat product faster than the bread when both are enclosed in the same package, and provision for using cooking gases from the meat to warm and moisten the bread.

Abstract: A package is provided for heating foods which includes a pair of bread slices such as the halves of a hamburger bun, at least one meat product such as a hamburger patty preferably resting on one of the bread slices and a condiment package containing one or more condiments with a microwave reflective material at least partially enclosing the condiments to reduce the rate at which they absorb heat. These components are enclosed in a sealed plastic bag which is transparent to microwave energy.

Abstract: A compartmented composite container package is disclosed including a tubular composite body wall member closed at one end by a metal closure member, the one end of said body wall member containing a cup for receiving a first product, characterized by the provision of a separator member that is connected with the open end of the cup by a snap-fit connection to isolate the first product from a second product that is introduced into the remaining space within the tubular wall member via the other end thereof. In order to further isolate the products from each other, the separator includes a radially enlarged cylindrical flange portion that circumferentially engages the uniform cylindrical inner wall surface of the tubular body wall member, thereby to cooperate with the snap-fit connection to provide a double sealing result.

Abstract: A multicomponent food package for heating food in electrical appliances. The package is dimensioned so that the package may be properly aligned in the appliance.

Abstract: A process for forming a two compartmented fiber dough can comprising forcing a thermoplastic cup into the lower part of a container, inserting a duct close to the cup and filling the same with icing, forcing a divider plate into engagement with the cup and the inside wall of the can so as to form a triple seal, introducing a dough product on the opposite side of the divider and sealing the open end of the container with a top closure, and allowing the dough to proof.