DISPOSABLE PAPER PLATE AND LID

Abstract: A disposable paper plate and lid which may be round, square, or rectangular and which may include reinforcing strips (1, 2) of paper, plastics or metal, for reinforcing the upper side walls of the plate.

Description: DISPOSABLEPAPERPLATEANDLID -1- A report to describe a patent of utility model of "DISPOSABLE PAPER PLATE AND LID". The volume needed daily of industrial, domestic of hospital meals, whether hot or cold, has forced the suitable areas to look for ways to expedite the hand¬ ling of tableware and utensils. Its observed a growing demand in the area of feeding, for r.eady-to-use and properly packed foods, to be con sumed in working places, without further operation . This fact is evidenced in industrial centers and large cities. The construction and implementation of new industrial centers, diversified day by day, growing towards the countryside according to the government policy, creates new markets for industrial cooking, which usually consumes this kind of packing. It was necessary the perfectioning of the packing concepts in order to satisfy this large and growing market wi¬ thin parameters of low cost. In order to manufacture a packing within such concept, it was developed a simple but highly efficient system transforming a raw material not specifically used for this kind of pack¬ ing in a product with many advantages: "THE PAPER" Such material has its critical point for not keeping the desired shape after being pressed or pulled: ho - wever, with the use of the strip (Figures 1, 3 and 5, details n 9 1 and 2) in the same material, or in plasticor a paper strip, or steel, iron or aluminum wire on its upper edge, and lower face, achieving half of its outer side has completely extinguished such inconvenience, and given it a higher resistance fully Q PI /j. WIPO „ satisfying its industrial handling. The strip, in or_ der to be aggregated to the packing, can be split in two or more pieces making easier its manufacture. Besides this advantage, the hot or cold pressing sys_ tem, which glues all the paper folds appearing when the paper is shaped, because of tf e water-proof plas_ tic film that melts, forming one entire piece, con - sequently increasing the resistance of the plate, for tractive efforts as well as compression. It is also pointed out the fact that, to date, the market was supplied ONLY with aluminum plates, a material still depending on import, thus worsening our foreign pay¬ ments balance. The drawings attached hereto show the versatility of the product, having conditions to sa- tisfy the market because of its several shapes -round, square or rectangular and rectangular with divisions - within the required standards and highly competitive prices, once its cost is 50 (fifty per cent) lower, and has all the hygienic conditions of its similar product. OM ?

Claims: CLAIMS 1) DISPOSABLE PAPER PLATE AND LID, with special fea¬ ture os presenting round, square of rectangular shape, or rectangular with internal divisions. 2) DISPOSABLE PAPER PLATE AND LID with special feature of being water- proof internally, keeping humidity and heat. 3) DISPOSABLE PAPER PLATE AND LID, with special fea - ture of being manufactured of paper or light cardboard of weight determined by its usage, handling and weight of the food. 4) DISPOSABLE PAPER PLATE AND LID with special feature of keeping its shape by use of a fitting strip, aggr_e gated on the plate's edge, on its internal face, achie- ving half of the outer side. 5) DISPOSABLE PAPER PLATE AND LID with special feature of having a glued framing strip which is fixed in two or more pieces, by conventional process of glueing, by thermal glueing or by pressure and heat to melt plas- tic film of the strip on the body of the plate. 6) DISPOSABLE PAPER PLATE AND LID with special feature of its fitting in the moment of pressing, besides the strip, the internal folds, which are glued over them¬ selves because of the plastic film in the internal face. 7) DISPOSABLE PAPER PLATE AND LID with special feature of receiving the framing strip made of paper, paper strip, iron or aluminum strip or wire. 8) DISPOSABLE PAPER PLATE AND LID with special feature of being sealed by a paper lid, through thermal or pressure process which, because of the internal plas- OMPI _4_ tic film, adheres to the body (edge) of the plate , by means of conventional glueing, thermal glues , S tapling, creasing, holes or borders.

Inventors: MELO J
Applicants: MELO J
Application year: 1980
Main classification: B65D5
IPC codes: B65D1