Abstract: A container has a base, sides and a top, the base, sides and top together defining a void within which items can be located in use, an electromagnetic shield fully surrounding at least part of the void to provide an electromagnetic shield between an exterior of the container and items located within the said part of the void, an antenna located within the said part of the void and a signal generator connected to the antenna and operable to apply a signal to the antenna to cause the transmission of an impeding signal within the said part of the void to impede the reception of signals transmitted from locations external to the container by items located within the said part of the void.

Abstract: A side-gusset bag made of a plastic film/fabric laminate has front and rear panels formed of the laminate. Side gussets between the front panel and the rear panel, each formed with a pair of flanks meeting at a center fold, and each connected to the front panel and rear panel at respective edge folds. A lower end flap of the front panel and the flanges between the front panel and the rear panel having respective lower edges that are stepped to form exposed lower edge regions covered with glue such that, when folded rearward along a lower edge of the rear panel, the glue on these lower edge regions directly engages a rear face of the rear panel and secures the lower edge regions to the rear panel to form a bottom gusset.

Abstract: Packaging laminate for a packaging container for a fermented liquid milk product, such as soured milk, yogurt and crème fraîche. The packaging laminate has a paper layer, and outer liquid-tight layers on both sides of the paper layer. One of the outer layers of the packaging laminate has a whey protein surface coating.

Abstract: A microwave heating construct comprises a base, a wall extending upwardly around the base for defining a cavity for receiving a food item, and a microwave energy shielding element overlying a lower margin of the wall, the microwave energy shielding element having an upper edge including a substantially incurved portion.

Abstract: A cooking aid and methods of manufacturing and using the same are disclosed. The cooking aid includes a piece of foil for wrapping around a turkey or other fowl or food to serve as a cooking blanket to retain heat and moisture, and also serve as a lifter for lifting the fowl out of a roasting pan. The foil typically includes one or more pleated sections having panels folded along longitudinal folds which may be unfolded to expand the piece of foil. The foil may include left and right pleated sections with a central section of the foil therebetween. Drain holes are typically formed in the central section, which may also be embossed with logos or the like. Axial sections of the foil may be folded at an axial fold to overlay one another. Portions of the foil may be formed into rolled handles to help lift the fowl.

Abstract: There is provided a packaged pan and lid that includes at least two nested pans and at least two lids. Each lid has at least two bi-lateral fold lines, such that the lid is configurable into a folded configuration and removable secured within a well of a corresponding pan. The lid being removable from the well and unfolded to a substantially flat configuration. The lid may then be placed on the rim of the pan, such that a lip of the pan can be bent over the edge of the lid.

Abstract: The invention relates to a laminated board grade structure used for low cost, enhanced graphics packaging. The product contains an unbleached or bleached substrate board and a lightweight coated unprinted white paper grade laminated to the unbleached board substrate to produce a product with a smooth coated, glossy surface for quality graphics printing.

Abstract: An ovenable enclosure (10) for pizza or other heatable food product comprises a box of taint free board having an interior clearance over the pizza, a central vent (15) in the upper surface and a metal plate (16) on lower surface. The enclosure gives more consistent heating of the pizza with reduced edge dryness.

Abstract: A carton of laminate material to hold beverage containers with provision to open a portion of the top of the carton to provide a receptacle to receive a coolant such as ice to cool the beverage containers.

Abstract: A sheet- or web-shaped packaging material for forming into dimensionally stable packages with straight, well-defined edges and good grip rigidity includes a layer of paper or paperboard which, for purposes of facilitating folding, and is provided with a suitable pattern of longitudinal material weakenings along which the packaging material is intended to be folded during the production of the packages. The straight, well-defined edges and good grip rigidity of the packages is made possible in that the longitudinal, fold-facilitating material weakenings are of substantially W-shaped cross section including two mutually parallel linear material ridges on the one side of the packaging material and two corresponding, mutually parallel material depressions on the other side of the packaging material.

Abstract: This invention relates to a disposable foil pan having a continuous wall and a top ridge surrounding the pan. The wall has at least 10 spaced wall segmented flutes. There are preferably an equal number of segmented flutes on opposite sides of the pan i.e. 3 on each side and 2 on each end of a rectangular or oval pan. The wall segmented flutes having a combined width equal to at least 35% of the length of the wall. Each wall segmented flute has an indented surface facing an inside of the pan, and a raised surface forming the outer wall of the pan. The segmented flutes preferably have a segment length of 0.75 to 2.0 inches and a segmented depth of about ⅛ to ⅜ inches.

Abstract: A tubular composite container includes a paperboard body ply wrapped into a tubular shape, and a polymer film liner ply wrapped into a tubular shape and adhered to the inner surface of the body ply. The liner ply has a circumferential length when unwrapped and flat that is less than that of the body ply so that the liner ply is substantially uncompressed circumferentially. A strip of polymer film liner material is wrapped onto a mandrel and overlapping edge portions of the liner strip are heat sealed together by first preheating the liner strip to a temperature below the sealing temperature of the heat seal material on the edge portions of the liner strip, and then further heating the overlap region of the liner strip to at least the sealing temperature to cause heat sealing of the edge portions. A paperboard strip is coated on an inner surface with adhesive and is then wrapped about the liner and adhered thereto.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a laminated paperboard package having enhanced graphics and to a method of producing the same. The present invention uses metalized paper to enhance the quality of the packaging.

Abstract: A disposable foil container formed from a single sheet of metal comprises a bottom panel, a continuous wall panel, and a continuous rim. The bottom panel includes an upwardly-projecting rib configuration wherein a peripheral rib, having first and second opposing side curved sections and first and second opposing end curved sections, encompasses a pair of traversing ribs, first and second returning ribs, and a central portion of the bottom panel. Each curved traversing rib extends towards the central portion, has a first end intersecting with said first side curved section, and has a second end intersecting with said second side curved section at a first set of intersections. Each traversing rib is bisected into substantially equal parts by a major axis. The first returning rib has first and second ends intersecting said first side curved section and the second returning rib has first and second ends intersecting said second curved section at a second set of intersections.