Patent ID: 7048176

Claim:
A rigid and strong deep dish disposable container prepared from a radially scored, substantially planar paperboard blank, the container having a substantially planar bottom portion, an upwardly extending sidewall portion and an outwardly extending flange portion, at least one of said upwardly extending sidewall portions and said outwardly extending flange portions being provided with a plurality of circumferentially spaced radially extending densified regions formed from a plurality of paperboard layers reformed into substantially integrated fibrous structures generally inseparable into their constituent layers having a thickness generally equal to adjacent areas of the sidewall or flange portions, said deep dish disposable container being provided with a height to diameter ratio of from about 0.1 to about 0.16 and a characteristic flange width to diameter ratio of at least about 0.04, wherein said densified regions extend over a profile distance corresponding to at least a portion of the length of the scores of the paperboard blank from which said container is formed, wherein said radially scored paperboard blank has from about 60 to about 90 radial scores and the deep dish container being further characterized by an SSI Rigidity of at least 500 grams at 0.5 inch deflection.