Patent ID: 8871287

Claim:
A method for arranging eggs in a container, the method comprising acts of: placing a first egg within a first receptacle of the container, the first receptacle being contoured such that the first egg comes to rest in a first resting orientation with a long axis of the first egg tilted toward a rear portion of the container; placing a second egg within a second receptacle of the container, the second receptacle being contoured such that the second egg comes to rest in a second resting orientation with a long axis of the second egg tilted toward the first egg and toward the rear portion of the container; mechanically adjusting the first and second eggs to assume the respective first and second resting orientations by contacting the first and second eggs with an egg orienter; and resisting movement of the first egg from the first resting orientation and the second egg from the second resting orientation such that the long axes of the first and second eggs remain substantially parallel to one another.