Patent EA-003229-B1 (EA)
Title: Packing article for frozen products
Inventor: PEDERSEN STEEN
IPC: A21D13/08
Filed: 1999-09-15
Abstract: 1. A packing item (2, 20), especially for overbaked (prebaked) and/or frozen dough items, e.g. pizzas, calzones, and pies, which packing item on the side being adapted to face and to touch the dough item is provided with a susceptor coating in the form of by way of example a polyester film provided with a possibly patterned metal coating and is provided with a number of ventilation openings (8, 12, 14), characterized is that that a part of the bottom of the packing item is lifted free of a support surface and ventilation openings are arranged around a central area. 2. A packing item according to claim 1, characterized in that at the underride of the packing item, said ventilation openings are covered by means of one or more detachable labels which at the side facing upwards toward the underside of the plate or tray are, by way of example, provided with a susceptor coating. 3. A packing item according to claim 1, characterized in that its bottom surface has a thickness or depth in punctiform zones so that the greater part of the bottom of the packing item including said central area may be lifted free of a support surface. 4. packing item according to claim 1, characterized in that along the periphery or the outer edge it has an annular, narrow zone with larger thickness or depth, i.e. so that the greater part of the bottom of the packing item including said central area is situated at a slightly higher level then said annular zone, and that said annular, outer zone is provided with radial ventilation grooves (18). 5. A packing item according to claim 1 and designed as a circular tray-shaped packing item for a pizza or a similar dough item and being adapted to be divided into a number of packing items by means of radial perforations (46), characterized in that a circular central area (50) it is provided with downward bent edge parts (51) being adapted to constitute "feet" for pointed end parts of the divided packing items. 6. A packing item according to claim 1 and designed as a circular packing item for a pizza on a similar dough item, characterized in that it is made of a packing item which in the plane state has a wavy outer edge (36), and which in the upward bent state has feet downward along its periphery, the feet formed by wave crests (40) of said outer edge, and has radial ventilation openings formal by vales of said outer edge. 7. A packing item according to claim 1 and designed as a circular packing item for a pizza or similar dough item, characterized in that it is provided with an outer annular support surface, and that its support or bottom surface is thus designed and located so that there is a distance of about 3 - 20 mm between the support or bottom surface and said support surface which is provided with radial ventilation openings (26). 8. A packing item according to claim 1, characterized in that the packaging item. being a box-shaped packing of which said susceptor coated surface adapted to face and to touch the dough item is provided on the outside of the box, preferable the topside thereof, and that said ventilation openings consist of prepared perforated fields adapted to be pressed out, what the susceptor surface is used as an elevated baking support for a pizza or another dough item - preferably taken out from the packing in a microwave oven. 9. A packing item according to claim 1 and 8, characterized in that said susceptor coated surface as a field is prepared to be pressed out in order to create an opening in preferable the bottom of the box, and that said susceptor field afterwards is adapted to form a loose elevated baking support positioned upon said opening in a turned position, as the configuration of the susceptor field may comprise three or more edges.