Patent ID: 8596490
Filing Date: 2013-12-03
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
1. A food-storage tray comprising a tray floor; and a tray side wall arranged to extend along an edge of the tray floor and to cooperate with the tray floor to form a product-storage region, wherein the tray floor is formed to include an array of liquid-storage basins and a web coupled to the tray side wall and to a brim of each of the liquid-storage basins, wherein each of the liquid-storage basins is formed to include chamber means communicating with the product-storage region for receiving and retaining liquid discharged from food deposited into the product-storage region and supported on the web so that such liquid is collected in at least one of the chamber means without the use of any separate absorbent pad supported on the web and located between the web and the food; wherein the tray floor is formed to include a plurality of micro-bore reservoirs and each micro-bore reservoir provides means for receiving and retaining minute quantities of liquid discharged from food deposited into the product-storage region and supported on the web; and wherein the tray floor includes an inner surface facing into the product-storage region and an outer surface facing away from the tray floor, the tray floor includes an upper layer comprising the inner surface and portions of the web and the liquid-storage basins and a lower layer lying under the upper layer and comprising the outer surface and portions of the web and the liquid-storage basins and wherein a first group of the micro-bore reservoirs are formed in the web and arranged to open into the product-storage region and a second group of the micro-bore reservoirs are formed in one of the liquid-storage basins and arranged to open into the chamber means of such liquid-storage basin.