Container for a pie or the like

Claim 2

A container according to claim 1 wherein the sleeve is open-ended, and including means for preventing the dish from slipping out of the open ends of the sleeve.

Claim 3

A container according to claim 3, wherein the last-mentioned means comprises a plurality of additional tabs in the top wall of the sleeve, and which may be pressed into the sleeve to engage the edge of the dish flange.

Claim 4

A container according to claim 4, wherein there are four tabs in the top wall of the sleeve, two preventing slipping of the dish in each longitudinal direction of the sleeve.

Claim 5

A container for a pie or the like in a flanged dish, the container comprising interconnected top, bottom, and two sidewalls forming a sleeve; the sleeve being open-ended and having a substantially rectangular section with a width substantially equal to the diameter of a dish to be contained therein, a height greater than the height of the dish, and a length at least as great as its width; a plurality of tabs arranged to be pressed out of the sleeve material for engagement above the dish flange to hold the dish down against the bottom wall of the sleeve; means for preventing the dish from slipping out of the open ends of the sleeve; the sleeve being provided with two pairs of slots, one adjacent each end of the sleeve on each side of the sleeve, each slot extending down a sidewall and partly into the top and bottom walls of the sleeve; and including two endless cords each fitted into diagonaLly opposite slots and crossing over one another over the top and bottom walls of the sleeve.

Claim 6

A container as set forth in claim 6 and including at least one generally upright spacer extending from adjacent the bottom of the pie, up through the pie, to adjacent the top wall of the sleeve.

Claim 7

A container according to claim 6, in which the tabs which engage the top of the dish flange to hold the dish down are located in the sidewalls of the sleeve.

Claim 8

A container according to claim 8, in which the tabs are substantially D-shaped tabs pressed into the sleeve about and below a horizontal hinge line across which they are connected to the corresponding sleeve sidewall substantially midway along the length of the sleeve.

Claim 9

A container according to claim 8, in which the tabs include four tabs, two pressed out of each sidewall, each tab being connected to its sidewall across a vertical hinge line and having a shoulder at the free edge of the tab for overlying the dish flange when pressed into the sleeve.

Claim 10

A container according to claim 6, wherein each slot is provided by a pair of substantially parallel cut lines extending down the sidewall of the sleeve and continuing partly into the top and bottom walls of the sleeve, and wherein material between the cut lines is pressed into the sleeve to provide the slot.

Claim 11

A container according to claim 11, wherein the material between the cut lines, when pressed into the sleeve, is arranged to engage the dish and thereby form said means for preventing the dish from slipping out of the open ends of the sleeve.