U.S. patent application number 11/555267 was filed with the patent office on 2008-02-28 for food container with obverse form and reverse form of information.
Invention is credited to Mei-Lin Liou.
Application Number | 20080048012 11/555267 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 39112435 |
Filed Date | 2008-02-28 |
United States Patent
Application |
20080048012 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Liou; Mei-Lin |
February 28, 2008 |
FOOD CONTAINER WITH OBVERSE FORM AND REVERSE FORM OF
INFORMATION
Abstract
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.
Inventors: |
Liou; Mei-Lin; (Richmond,
CA) |
Correspondence
Address: |
NORTH AMERICA INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION
P.O. BOX 506
MERRIFIELD
VA
22116
US
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Family ID: |
39112435 |
Appl. No.: |
11/555267 |
Filed: |
October 31, 2006 |
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Application
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Filing Date |
Patent Number |
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60823759 |
Aug 28, 2006 |
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Current U.S.
Class: |
229/87.08 ;
229/938 |
Current CPC
Class: |
B65D 65/22 20130101;
B65D 65/10 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
229/87.08 ;
229/938 |
International
Class: |
B65D 75/00 20060101
B65D075/00 |
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.
Description
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] 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 INVENTION
[0002] 1. Field of the Invention
[0003] The present invention relates to a containing material, and
more specifically, to a food container with obverse type and
reverse type of information.
[0004] 2. Description of the Prior Art
[0005] 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.
[0006] 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.
[0007] 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 INVENTION
[0008] The 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.
[0009] 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.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0010] FIG. 1 is an illustration of an exemplary embodiment of a
food container of the present invention.
[0011] FIG. 2 is an illustration of the food container in FIG. 1 in
another perspective.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0012] 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.
[0013] Please refer to FIG. 1. An exemplary embodiment of a wrapper
10 is translucent and has a first side 12 and a second side 14. The
wrapper 10 is square, rectangular, or of any other specific shape
for a specific requirement. Since the wrapper 10 is made of paper,
it can be easily folded up to wrap a food. The first side 12 of the
wrapper 10 is for placing information of the content and the second
side 14 of the wrapper 10 is for directly contacting and wrapping
the food. On the first side 12 of the wrapper 10, two sets of
patterns are printed by a printing machine that has the ability to
output patterns in either obverse form or in reverse form.
Therefore, the first side 12 comprises a first pattern 20 and a
second pattern 30, wherein both patterns can be images, texts, or
figures. The first pattern 20 is located on the outer part of the
first side 12 for providing information with an already-wrapped
food for the fast food workers or the customers, and the second
pattern 30 is located on the middle part of the first side 12 for
the kitchen workers in the backstage to wrap a food with the
wrapper 10 correctly and quickly. Since the wrapper 10 is for
wrapping a food, the first pattern 20 and the second pattern 30 on
the first side 12 contain information of food order. The first
pattern 20 contains information of food order in obverse form and
the second pattern 30 contains information of food order in reverse
form. Take the exemplary embodiment in FIG. 1 for example, the
first pattern 20 includes text content with food title: `CHEESE
BURGER` in the first line and additional instructions for making
the food: `NO ONIONS` and `EXTRA KETCHUP` in the second and third
lines, while the second pattern 30 includes text content the same
as the text content included in the first pattern 20, except for
its reverse form. Although the second pattern 30 has the same
content as the first pattern 20 does, the two patterns in the
exemplary embodiment is not the only way to display information in
the present invention. For a more friendly application based on the
present invention, the first pattern 20 can include food order in a
more customer friendly style and the second pattern 30 can include
food order with more technical presentation such as some
abbreviations of the food titles or symbols related to these
additional food making instructions.
[0014] In the exemplary embodiment in FIG. 1, an additional third
pattern 40 is also printed on the first side 12. To provide the
customer with more useful information, the third pattern 40
includes nutrition information of the food inside the wrapper 10.
The third pattern 40 is located on the outer part of the first side
12 and is in obverse form just as the first pattern 20 is. It is
because the third pattern 40 plays a role of providing information
to the customer when the food is wrapped, not to the kitchen
workers when the food has not been wrapped in the wrapper 10
yet.
[0015] FIG. 2 shows an illustration of the wrapper 10 in another
perspective, which is the like how a kitchen worker may see when
the kitchen worker is wrapping a food in the wrapper 10. Since the
wrapper 10 is translucent, the three patterns printed on the first
side 12 of the wrapper 10 are visible viewing from the second side
14 of the wrapper 10. The patterns appear different from how they
look like viewed from the first side 12 as in FIG. 1 instead. In
FIG. 2, the first and the third patterns 20, 40 appear in reverse
form and the second pattern 30 appears in obverse form. When the
kitchen worker places the wrapper 10 with the second side 14 facing
upward, he/she sees the second pattern 30 on the middle part of the
first side 12 (the other side that faces downward at this time) of
the wrapper 10 in obverse form, which provides the kitchen worker
an easy way to make and place the right food with appropriate
further instructions for make the food on the second side 14 of the
wrapper 10. In such way, the wrapper 10 in the present invention
allows the fast food industries to speed up the food making process
in the backstage without losing accuracy. After the kitchen worker
places the right food with appropriate further instructions for
make the food on the second side 14 of the wrapper 10, he/she wraps
the food in the wrapper 10 by folding the outer part of the wrapper
10 inward. When the outer part of the wrapper 10 is folded inward,
the first and the third patterns 20,40 on the first side 12 of the
wrapper 10 are again appearing in obverse form viewing from the
already-wrapped food, which provides the workers, either the
kitchen workers in the backstage and the counters, and also the
customer a convenient way to recognize the food.
[0016] 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.
[0017] 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.
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