Patents by Inventor Stephen L. France

Stephen L. France has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5253800
    Abstract: A one piece pizza tray blank having a generally planar member and a pair of sidewalls capable of being folded upward therefrom. Each of the sidewalls has a pair of opposing extensions capable of being folded inward therefrom along vertical extension fold lines. Each of the extensions has a foot extending downward therefrom in the direction of the planar member. The feet are designed to lockingly engage with slots and pressure tabs in the corner regions of the planar member for lockingly engaging the sidewalls and extensions in a vertical position. The feet also act as supports to prevent the planar member holding a pizza from contacting a counter or table top upon which it may be placed. This pizza tray may be slid inside of an appropriate bag for pizza transport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1993
    Assignee: Arvco Container Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen L. France
  • Patent number: 5098013
    Abstract: A tray for transporting a single slice of pizza while facilitating use of the tray as a support so that the piece of pizza can be removed from and repositioned on the tray during eating thereof. The tray includes a generally triangular bottom wall and a pair of low-height side walls which extend along opposite identical side edges of the bottom wall. The other or base edge of the tray is open to facilitate movement of a piece of pizza either onto or off of the tray. The tray is formed from a flat blank constructed preferably of corrugated paperboard, with fold lines separating the low side walls from the bottom wall so that the side walls can be folded upwardly to be generally perpendicular to the bottom wall. One of the side walls has a latching tab integrally associated therewith and foldable so as to wrap around one end of the other side wall for insertion into an elongate slot which extends along the fold between the other side wall and the bottom wall to latch the tray in its assembled position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1992
    Assignee: Arvco Container Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen L. France, Gregory P. Phelps