Divided food service tray

Claim 1

THE COMBINATION OF A RECTANGULAR AND DIVIDED FOOD SERVICE TRAY FORMED WITHIN A SUITABLE PAPERBOARD BLANK HAVING A TOP PANEL, A LATERAL FLANGE CIRCUMVENTING THE SAID PANEL, A RIB DISPOSED WITHIN THE SAID FLANGE, A PLURALITY OF AT LEAST FIVE RECEPTACLES HAVING A UNIFORM DEPTH, DISPOSED WITHIN THE SAID PANEL AND DEPENDING THEREFROM, SAID RECEPTACLES SPACED WITHIN THE PERIMETRIC CONFINES OF THE SAID RIB, SAID RECEPTACLES HAVING THEIR CENTERS TRANSVERSED BY THE CENTRAL AND LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF THE SAID PANEL, TWO OF THE SAID RECEPTACLES BEING FRUSTO-CONICAL IN SHAPE AND IDENTICAL RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER, AND THE REMAINING RECEPTACLES BEING RECTANGULAR OF WHICH EACH IS PROVIDED WITH INWARDLY INCLINED SIDE AND END WALLS EACH HAVING A UNIFORM TAPER AND UNIFORM RESPECTIVELY TO THE SIDE AND END WALLS OF THE OTHER RESPECTIVE RECEPTACLES, ONE OF THE SAID RECTANGULAR RECEPTACLES PROVIDED WITH A GREATER WIDTH RELATIVE TO THE WIDTH OF THE OTHER RECTANGULAR RECEPTACLES, WHICH ARE IDENTICAL IN SIZE, SAID IDENTICAL RECEPTACLES SPACED EQUALLY AND IN OPPOSED RELATION FROM THE OPPOSITE ELONGATED SIDES OF THE LARGER RECEPTACLE, WHICH IS CENTERED TRANSVERSELY THE SAID PANEL, SAID FRUSTO-CONICAL RECEPTACLES SPACED EQUALLY AND IN OPPOSED RELATION FROM THE OUTBOARD AND ELONGATED SIDES OF THE IDENTICAL RECEPTACLES, SAID RECEPTACLES DEFINING A DIVIDED TRAY WITH THE SAID PANEL, OF A SECOND IDENTICAL TRAY POSITIONED IN CO-EXTENSIVE ALIGNMENT WITH THE FIRST SAID TRAY AND IN CO-PLANAR RELATION THEREWITH, MEANS TO PIVOTLY SECURE SAID TRAYS TO PREVENT LATERAL DISENGAGEMENT RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER, ANCHORING MEANS TO OBVIATE THE SAID PIVOTAL MEANS TO PREVENT RADIAL MOVEMENT OF SAID TRAYS RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER, A SECOND COMBINATION OF A FIRST AND SECOND SAID RESPECTIVE PAIR OF IDENTICAL DIVIDED FOOD SERVICE TRAYS, SAID SECOND TRAY ALIGNED IN OPPOSED AND SUPERPOSED ARRANGEMENT WITH THE FIRST SAID TRAY TO PROVIDE A CELLULAR CONTAINER THEREBETWEEN, MEANS TO DETACHABLY SECURE SAID TRAYS IN SEALING ENGAGEMENT PROVIDING TO OBVIATE THE INGRESS OF AIR THEREIN, A THIRD COMBINATION OF A FIRST AND A PLURALITY OF DIVIDED AND IDENTICAL FOOD SERVICE TRAYS ALIGNED IN TELESCOPIC AND COMPLEMENTARY RELATION ONE RELATIVE TO ANOTHER DEFINING A STACK THEREWITH, AIR SEALING MEANS TO OBVIATE THE CONTAMINATION OF THE PRE-SANITARY CONDITION OF SAID STACK OF TRAYS, EXCLUSIVE OF THE OPEN FACE OF THE TOP TRAY THEREWITH.