FOOD CONTAINER WITH OBVERSE FORM AND REVERSE FORM OF INFORMATION
A food container provides information of food order with both obverse and reverse form on one side. A first pattern having content of food order and a third pattern having nutrition information of the food are printed on the outer part of one side of the food container in obverse form and a second pattern having content of food order is printed on the middle part of the same side of the food container in reverse form. The food container is translucent and all the patterns are visible from the other side, which provides the fast food industries an easy way to wrap and deliver the foods fast and correct.
This application claims the benefit of the filing date of U.S. provisional patent application No. 60/823,759, filed Aug. 28, 2006, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a containing material, and more specifically, to a food container with obverse type and reverse type of information.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The manufacturing process of food has been systematically developing in the fast food industries. A counter in the front stage receives an order from a customer and inputs the order into a point of service (POS) system, which sends order information to the backstage kitchen workers. The kitchen workers in the backstage then make foods according to the order from the POS system and wrap the foods in wrappers when foods are done. The wrapped foods are delivered to the counter and handed over to the customer. So, foods are generally wrapped in wrappers and have similar appearances.
Since foods are wrapped in similar (or the same) wrappers, it is not easy for fast food workers, either kitchen workers or counters, to identify the products by viewing from outside the wrappers if there is no substantial information on the wrappers. A prior art food wrapper in some fast food industries has prefabricated pattern indicating a food that should be wrapped inside. The prefabricated pattern is printed on one side of the wrapper while the other side of the wrapper, which is always the same with all sorts of wrappers, is for directly contacting and wrapping the food so that the food is not contaminated by the prefabricated pattern. The kitchen workers then pick a right wrapper according to the prefabricated pattern on the wrapper for wrapping the right food inside. But using wrappers with prefabricated pattern to wrap the foods is limited in the variety of food that can be wrapped and the efficiency of the procedure of delivering foods with wrappers can be lowered down since the wrappers are not easily identifiable from the other side that directly contacting and wrapping the food.
For another kind of wrapper in the prior art, which is plain and translucent, kitchen workers have to wrap the food in the wrapper and deliver the foods carefully in organized way. Even so, foods wrapped with the same wrappers are still highly possible to be mistakenly wrapped and delivered to a customer, which deteriorates the service quality of a fast food industry.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONThe claimed invention provides a food container with obverse form and reverse form of information. The food container is translucent and has a first side and a second side for containing a food. The food container comprises a first pattern printed in reverse form on the first side and a second pattern printed in obverse form on the first side, wherein the first pattern and the second pattern are visible from the second side of the food container.
These and other objectives of the present invention will no doubt become obvious to those of ordinary skill in the art after reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiment that is illustrated in the various figures and drawings.
The food containers in the claimed invention can be of many kinds of application, for example, a wrapper, or a box for containing various kinds of foods in food industries, especially in fast food restaurants. In the following paragraphs, the wrapper made of translucent paper is taken for description purpose.
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The food container in the present invention provides information of food order with both obverse and reverse form on one side. A first pattern having content of food order and a third pattern having nutrition information of the food are printed on the outer part of one side of the food container in obverse form and a second pattern having content of food order is printed on the middle part of the same side of the food container in reverse form. The food container is translucent and all the patterns are visible from the other side, which provides the fast food industries an easy way to wrap and deliver the foods fast and correctly.
Those skilled in the art will readily observe that numerous modifications and alterations of the device and method may be made while retaining the teachings of the invention. Accordingly, the above disclosure should be construed as limited only by the metes and bounds of the appended claims.
Claims
1. A food container with obverse form and reverse form of information, the food container being translucent and having a first side and a second side for containing a food, comprising:
- a first pattern printed in reverse form on the first side; and
- a second pattern printed in obverse form on the first side;
- wherein the first pattern and the second pattern are visible from the second side of the food container.
2. The food container of claim 1, wherein the first pattern is on the middle part of the first side.
3. The food container of claim 1, wherein the second pattern is on the edge of the first side.
4. The food container of claim 1, wherein the first pattern is the reverse form of the second pattern.
5. The food container of claim 1, wherein the first pattern comprises a food order text.
6. The food container of claim 5, further comprising a nutrition information pattern printed on the first side, the nutrition information pattern comprising a food nutrition text corresponding to the food order text.
7. The food container of claim 1, wherein the second pattern comprises a food order text.
8. The food container of claim 7, further comprising a nutrition information pattern printed on the first side, the nutrition information pattern comprising a food nutrition text corresponding to the food order text.
9. The food container of claim 1, being a wrapper for wrapping the food with the second side contacting the food.
Type: Application
Filed: Oct 31, 2006
Publication Date: Feb 28, 2008
Inventor: Mei-Lin Liou (Richmond)
Application Number: 11/555,267
International Classification: B65D 75/00 (20060101);