Patent ID: 6922976
Filing Date: 2005-08-02
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
1. A method of packaging pizza, said method comprising the steps of: providing a pizza box blank cut and scored into a set of components erectable into a non-wall-engaged rectangular pizza carton having interior-disposed support-bearing cover side flaps and comprising: folding said pizza box blank into a partially-erected non-wall-engaged carton using the following sub-steps (a) through (e): folding said partially-erected non-wall-engaged carton into said non-wall-engaged rectangular pizza carton using the following sub-steps (f) through (h): opening said non-wall-engaged rectangular pizza carton into an opened non-wall-engaged rectangular pizza carton and placing a pizza therein; and folding said opened non-wall-engaged rectangular pizza carton into a fully-erected rectangular pizza carton loaded with pizza, said fully-erected rectangular pizza carton having (a) said left and right cover side flaps disposed interior to said left and right side walls, respectively, (b) said hingedly movable cover front flap disposed within said cover front flap engagement structure and disposed substantially parallel to said front wall, and (c) said front and rear corner flaps disposed substantially parallel to said front and rear walls, respectively.