Egg package

Claim 1

A POCKETED EGG TRAY FOR HOLDING A SINGLE LAYER OF EGGS IN CLOSELY SPACED ARRAY WHICH MAY BE INSERTED IN A CONTAINER, THE TRAY BEING IN THE FORM OF AN INTEGRAL MOLDED PULP SHEET BORDERED BY A PERIPHERAL RIM AND CONTOURED TO PROVIDE A PLURALITY OF EGG-RECEIVING POCKETS LYING GENERALLY IN A COMMON SUBSTANTIALLY FLAT PLANE, FOUR UPSTANDING POSTS SURROUNDING EVERY EGG-RECEIVING POCKET AND GENERALLY OCCUPYING THE FOUR CORNERS OF AN IMAGINERY SQUARE, SOME OF THE UPSTANDING POSTS EXTENDING SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER ABOVE THE FLAT PLANE THAN THE REMAINDER OF THE UPSTANDING POSTS, THE REMAINDER OF THE UPSTANDING POSTS AND THE PERIPHERAL RIM EXTENDING ONLY TO A HEIGHT WHICH IS NO MORE THAN APPROXIMATELY TWO-THIRDS THE HEIGHT OF THE HIGHER UPSTANDING POSTS, THE HIGHER UPSTANDING POSTS BEING ARRANGED IN A PATTERN WHEREBY THE FOUR UPSTANDING POSTS SURROUNDING EVERY EGG-RECEIVING POCKET INCLUDE AT LEAST ONE OF THE HIGH POSTS AND AT LEAST TWO OF THE REMAINING LOW POSTS, THE LATTER TWO BEING LOCATED DIAGONALLY FROM EACH OTHER ON THE IMAGINARY SQUARE TO FACILITATE FINGERTIP INSERTION FOR EGG REMOVAL, AND THE UPPER SURFACES OF THE HIGHER UPSTANDING POSTS LYING GENERALLY IN A COMMON SUBSTANTIALLY FLAT PLANE ESSENTIALLY PARALLEL WITH THE PLANE IN WHICH THE BOTTOMS OF THE POCKETS LIE TO FORM SUPPORT SURFACES FOR THE UPPER WALL OF THE CONTAINER IN WHICH THE TRAY MAY BE INSERTED.