Patent ID: 6412653
Filing Date: 2002-07-02
Classification: B01F,B65D

Abstract:
A moulded plastics tray, said tray having been formed from a sheet of a thermoplastics sheet material having a machine direction in a plane in which the sheet has been extruded, comprisingat least one receptacle formed out of the plane of the sheet, and an elongate utensil capable, when detached from the remainder of the material of the tray, of being used either (i) as an eating utensil for a product to be positioned within said at least one receptacle, or (ii) as a mixing or lifting utensil for a product to be positioned within said at least one receptacle, said sheet, at least substantially in said plane, (a) defines a rim about a top of said at least one receptacle, and (b) fully surrounds a perimeter of said elongate utensil, and a part of the sheet surrounding the elongate utensil is bridged to said utensil only at a region substantially midway along a length thereof, and rupture of the bridging being facilitated by the machine direction being at least substantially aligned to a longitudinal axis of said elongate utensils, and a fold axis defined in said material of the sheet, a fold line extending along said fold axis, said fold line being split by a length of said utensil such that each split is located on an opposite side of the utensil, whereby folding at said fold axis assists in the rupturing of the bridging.