Patent ID: 8304003

Claim:
An ovenable container that can be exposed to temperatures of about 200° F. to about 600° F. comprising an inner liner, an outer liner and a single corrugated paper layer positioned between said inner and outer liners; said inner and outer liners formed of a non-corrugated paper substrate; said outer liner having an upper and lower surface, said outer liner having a weight of about 1 to about 100 pounds per thousand square feet, said lower surface of said outer liner forming a bottom surface of said ovenable container; said inner liner having a lower surface, said inner liner is formed of a base portion and a rim, said rim connected to and fully encircling said base portion of said inner liner, said base portion of said inner liner generally planar, said rim extending upwardly from a peripheral edge of said base portion of said inner liner, and wherein an upper surface of said rim and an upper surface of said base portion, and said connection between said rim and said base portion of said inner liner are absent a seam, and wherein said upper surface of said rim and said base portion of said inner liner are designed to engage a food product that is placed on said ovenable container, said inner liner having a weight of about 25 to about 150 pounds per thousand square feet; said upper surface of said inner liner including a polymeric coating, said polymeric coating designed to engage a food product that is placed on said ovenable container and to inhibit the food product from sticking to said ovenable container while the food is heated on said ovenable container, said polymeric coating including one or more polymers selected from the group consisting of polyethylene terephthalate, polybutylene terephthalate and polymethylpentene; said single corrugated paper layer having a weight of about 1 to about 100 pounds per thousand square feet, said weight of said inner liner greater than said weight of said outer liner, said weight of said inner liner greater than said weight of said corrugated paper layer, said single corrugated paper layer at least partially connected to said upper surface of said outer liner and to said lower surface of said inner liner by an adhesive that includes starch.