Abstract: This invention provides an improved food package, and method for producing the food package, which combines an individual food container with a wrap. The food package makes the process of wrapping a food, such as a hamburger, more efficient and makes the food easier to eat. The food package may be a bag or a carton of any composition suitable for the purpose of holding a food item. The food container is attached to a wrap that has a length and width significantly larger than the dimensions of the food container. The method for producing the food package includes unwrapping and cutting of a wrap material on the same vacuum belt assembly as an adhesive application and a hopper feeder.

Abstract: A food container, such as a scoop formed of lightweight paperboard, has a slit (or slot) extending in substantially a straight line across a front panel thereof for receiving a flange of a condiment container such as a cup covered by a lid. The condiment container may be securely attached the food container by inserting the flange in to the slit, from the outside of the food container, sufficiently that at least one locking feature on the flange becomes disposed within the food container. At least one locking feature is formed on a surface of the flange. The locking feature is tapered from a leading edge to a trailing edge thereof, and has a thickness (t2) at its trailing edge which is substantially greater, such as five to ten times greater, than its thickness (t1) at the leading edge thereof The locking feature can be in the geometric form of a triangle, having an apex oriented towards a leading edge of the flange.

Abstract: A paperboard container adapted to hold pastries or the like is fashioned from a unitary blank. The blank is provided with a plurality of generally rectangular panels defined by fold lines. The container assumes two forms, with each having a bottom panel with upstanding side walls therefrom to define a bottom tray, a top panel with depending side walls therefrom to define a top tray, and two latching tabs. One latching tab is carried by the front wall of the lower tray, while the other latching tab is carried by the front wall of the upper tray. The two front walls are overlapping and in substantial surface contact with each other. Each latching tab is outwardly bendable from its respective front wall, with each latching tab being coated on at least one surface with a cohesive material. Such a material has the property that it adheres only to other cohesive material coated surfaces.

Abstract: A bottle carrier is formed of two superposed panels of paperboard having a plurality of bottle neck receiving openings and a handle sandwiched between the panels. Each opening has a plurality of radially extending fingers whose ends engage beneath a portion of an abutment associated with each bottle neck. Each finger is bent upwardly at about 45 degrees after insertion of a bottle into a respective opening. Each finger is provided with a microcut line on its upper surface, each microcut line extending about 10-50% through the paperboard. Such microcut lines facilitate removal of the bottles from the carrier by permitting easier rupture. The handle has a manually accessible flexible strip at the upper surface of the uppermost panel or section, one end of the strip being folded prior to use.

Abstract: A tray formed from a unitary paperboard blank. The tray has at least one pair of parallel troughs whose ends are closed by end forming flaps carried by the trough bottoms. A longitudinal arch in the general form of an inverted V in transverse cross section separates the troughs and forms one side of each. The uppermost portions of the ends of the arch extend through the ends of the tray. In one embodiment, the top of the arch is sharp in transverse cross section, while in a second embodiment, the top of the arch is truncated. In the third embodiment, the tray has three parallel troughs.