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1 US B2 (12) United State Patent Baryhyan (10) Patent No.: (45) Date of Patent: Mar. 28, 2017 (54) DIE CUT, SCORED AND COATED BOARD DIVIDER (71) Applicant: FC Meyer Packaging LLC, Norwalk, CT (US) (72) Inventor: Matthew Arthur Baryhyan, Stormville, NY (US) (73) Aignee: FC Meyer Packagaing LLC, Norwalk, CT (US) (*) Notice: Subject to any diclaimer, the term of thi patent i extended or adjuted under 35 U.S.C. 154(b) by 0 day. (21) Appl. No.: 14/733,474 (22) Filed: Jun. 8, 2015 (65) Prior Publication Data US 2016/ A1 Dec. 8, 2016 (51) Int. Cl. B65D 5/49 ( ) B65D 85/30 ( ) B65D 5/50 ( ) B65D 5/56 ( ) (52) U.S. Cl. CPC... B65D 5/5076 ( ); B65D 5/563 ( ); B65D 85/30 ( ) (58) Field of Claification Search CPC... B65D 5/5076; B65D 5/563; B65D 85/30; B65D 5/5078; B65D 5/5083; B65D 5/508; B65D 5/48042; Y10S 229/902; Y1OS 229/906 USPC /120.23, ; 426/119, 120 See application file for complete earch hitory. (56) Reference Cited U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS 3.298,512 A * 1/1967 Crane... B65D 5, ,423 3,849,932 A * 1 1/1974 Adam... B65D 25/04 206,423 5,052,559 A * 10/1991 Brei, Jr.... B65D ,525 8, B2 * 12/2013 Vonfelden... CO9D 167/02 427, / A1* 12/2006 Specker... B65D 5/2O76 229/ FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS DE EP U1 * A2 * 5, , 1993 B65D 5/48042 B65D 5/48042 OTHER PUBLICATIONS Lori William, Scor-pal, "Six Pack Box by Lori William', www. cor-pal.com, by-lori-william.html, Dec. 6, * cited by examiner Primary Examiner Gary Elkin (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm Robert J. He; He Patent Law Firm (57) ABSTRACT A divider that ha a die-cut board that i greae reitant coated on both ide and i cored to define a plurality of alternative valley and peak fold. There i at leat one perforated line that pae through all of the valley and peak fold. The divider may taper at it ide from the peak fold to neighboring one of the valley fold. Two perforated line may be provided to ever the taper from the ide to leave the ide ubtantially reide in parallel plane with repect to each other. 16 Claim, 5 Drawing Sheet

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7 1. DIE CUT, SCORED AND COATED BOARD DIVIDER BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Taco for take out typically are crip taco erved wrapped and in a bag for the lower priced fat food. More upcale taco are oft flour taco filled and then arranged in a ingle pattern, placed in a take out box. The heat of the taco filling, combined with the gluten of the flour tortilla, caue the hingled taco to fue together. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A die cut and cored board i coated on both ide to erve a a divider to retain taco in a manner that keep them eparate from each other. The die cut, cored and coated board divider can be folded on the core and placed into either a neted tyle food container that ha a taper or in a rectangular tyle traight ided box. Such a divider keep taco eparated o they do not make contact with each other and therefore retain all their textural element. Additionally, the taco are preented in an upright poition for maximum appetite appeal. While the divider may retain taco in a manner that eparate them from each other, the divider may be alo ued to retain other kind of food product in a manner that eparate them from each other. For example, uch food product preferably include an edible pocket' in the form of a flour hell, roll, Sandwich wrap, pita bread, croiant, pocket bread, bagel, folded flatbread, etc. The divider i double-ided coated o that it doe not tain upon contact with the greae of the taco filling. The preence of greae tain, whether from the taco filling or from peronnel handling, i unightly and thu it i beneficial for cutomer appeal that the coating be reitant to greae tain. Thi coating i a conventional coating that i 100% water baed, recyclable and compotable within 90 day in a properly managed landfill. When folded, the divider form a erie of alternating peak and Valley fold that eparate a ucceion of panel of the die-cut board. Preferably, the die cut i uch that the ide of the divider with the fold line taper from the peak fold to two neighboring one() the valley fold. That way, the divider can be ized to appear to fit in a Snug manner within a box whoe idewall likewie taper from an open top to the bottom. Preferably, there i at leat one line of perforation may be provided that paed through all the peak and valley fold. For intance, there could be two ideline of perforation whoe evering would allow the tapered trip to be di carded and there could be one additional line of perforation centrally located o that evering the additional line of perforation eparate the die-cut board into two divider halve. Note that evering the two ideline perforation effectively remove the taper from the peak to the valley. A a reult, the ide of the divider lie ubtantially in parallel vertical plane with no taper. A can be appreciated, by coating the divider on both the two V-haped lot face and the three V-haped lot face, the divider can be ued in a two-taco pack poition a well a a three-tack pack poition and till be ueful in greae rei tance. That i, by reiting greae tain from appearing in the divider whether from content of the taco or from handling by peronnel. Further, there would no longer be a need to wrap the taco individually, thereby yielding mate rial cot aving with repect to the cot for wrapper and yielding labor cot aving with repect to labor involved to perform taco wrapping. One apect of the invention reide in a divider that ha a die-cut board configured to move under manual force between a fully flattened condition and a completely folded condition. The die-cut board i movable from the fully folded condition to a releaed condition that i intermediate the fully flattened condition and fully folded condition upon releae of the manual force. The die-cut board ha a plurality of cored line paced apart from each other and bending at each of the cored line to form a erie of alternating peak and valley fold between panel of the die-cut board. Each of the cored line have a depth Sufficient for pring-back memory o that the releae of the die-cut board from the completely folded condition reult in the die-cut board unfolding to pread out into the releaed condition. At leat one line of perforation pae through the erie of alternating peak and Valley fold. A plurality of divider chamber i formed with each defined by a repective pair of the panel that ha a repective one of the valley fold between the pair of the panel. A water-baed, greae-reitant coating coat face of the panel. Another apect reide in the at leat one line of perfo ration being centrally located and evering the perforation to provide two maller divider halve. The divider halve therefore have a ide edge with portion of the evered perforation that complement each other. Still another apect reide in placing the die-cut board or one of the divider halve into a box uch that their end contact and pre againt oppoite wall of the box. Alo, the two divider halve could be placed into two boxe repec tively with their end in contact and preing againt oppo ite wall of repective one of the two boxe. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING For a better undertanding of the preent invention, ref erence i made to the following decription and accompa nying drawing, while the cope of the invention i et forth in the appended claim. FIG. 1 i a progreive view of a die cut, cored, coated board divider in accordance with the invention, howing the divider before and after perforation are evered. FIG. 2 i a top view of a non-tapered box containing the divider of FIG. 1 (after perforation evering). FIG. 3 i an iometric view of a tapered box containing a divider of FIG. 1 (prior to perforation evering). FIG. 4 i a ide view of the die cut, cored, coated board divider of FIG. 1. FIG. 5 i a top view of the die cut, cored, coated board divider of FIG. 1 before any perforation are evered. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Turning to the drawing, FIG. 1 how a progreive view of a divider before and after perforation evering. The divider i made of a die-cut board 10 (uch a a paperboard) that i die cut, cored and double-ided coated. The coating i 100% water-baed, recyclable and compotable within 90 day in a properly managed landfill. A conventional perfect ing pre may be ued to hape the divider and provide the core line and coat both ide. When the die-cut board 10 i folded at the core to form the divider chamber 15, there arie an alternating et of peak fold 12 and valley fold 14 at the core.

8 3 Each of the divider chamber 15 i bounded by a pair of panel 17 of the die-cut board 10 with one of the valley fold 14 between the pair of panel 17. There i at leat one line of perforation that pae through the entire et of peak and valley fold. Preferably, there may be two line of ideline perforation 16 and centerline perforation 18 (ee FIGS. 1 and 5). The center line perforation 18 would be patially eparated from and located centrally between the two ideline perforation, all of which line of perforation 16, 18 being ubtantially parallel to each other. After evering the ideline perforation 16 and the cen terline perforation 18, there would be left two divider halve 10A, 10B and two tapered trip 10C formed by evering the ideline perforation (only one hown in FIG. 1, but the other i ymmetric or a mirror image). The two tapered edge 10C are to be dicarded. The two divider halve 10A, 10B define the divider chamber 15, which are bounded by a pair of panel 11 of the aociated divider half 10A, 10B that ha a repective one of the valley fold 14 between the pair of panel 11. A a conequence of providing for Such perforation, there arie flexibility a to the divider ize. The divider ize doe not have to take up the full dimenion of the box for take out to fulfill the function of retaining taco eparate from each other. If a ide order from a menu i offered for take out, for intance, in addition to the taco, the die-cut board 10 can be eparated into halve by evering at the centerline perforation 18 that i provided for that purpoe. A a reult, two horter divider halve 10A, 10B are formed that enable the taco to be erved with a ide of rice or bean or a alad in the ame box for take out. The divider halve 10A, 10B each have evered portion 40 of perforation along one of their edge where they were eparated and thu correponding one of the evered portion 40 of perfora tion from each of the divider halve 10A, 10B complement each other. Turning to FIGS. 2 and 3, the die-cut board 10 (or each of die-cut halve 10A. 10B) ha core (peak fold 12, valley fold 14) that eparate the divider chamber 15 from each other and are only at mot 40% core depth of the total thickne of the die-cut board 10 o that the folded (accor dion tyle) die-cut board 10 (or each die-cut half 10A, 10B), when folded, ha a maximum amount of dead fold rei tance, memory (or pring back). When the die-cut board 10 i placed in a box (uch a the tapered box 30 of FIG. 3) for take-out and releaed from it fully folded condition under manual force, the releae caue the die-cut board 10 to pring back (tending to unfold) o a to have the die-cut board 10 fully cover the chamber floor of the box with end edge of the die-cut board 10 coming into contact with and preing the oppoite wall of the box. Turning to FIG. 2, the two divider halve 10A, 10B are hown within the confine of a non-tapered box 20 that i of a rectangular traight wall tyle. The two divider halve 10A, 10B are hown flipped over relative to each other. That way, divider half 10A ha three divider chamber topide and divider 10B ha two divider chamber topide. That i, there i a different number of divider chamber facing topide a between the two halve 10A, 10B. The two divider halve 10A, 10B ret upon a topide of the bottom of the non tapered box 20. In practice, only one of the two divider halve 10A, 10B would be placed in any one box to accommodate one order of taco, but the other would be placed in another box to accommodate another order of taco. The remaining pace in the box (with jut one of the two divider halve 10A, 10B in the box) could accommodate other food item from the menu, Such a rice or bean or alad. There may be no need, however, to ever the ideline perforation 16 once the centerline perforation 18 are evered, becaue either one of the two divider halve 10A, 10B, even with the taper trip attached, will fit within the non-tapered box 20. That i, the underide of either of the two divider halve may ret upon the top of the bottom of the box. Turning to FIG. 3, the die-cut board 10 i poitioned within a tapered box 30 whoe idewall 32 taper from top to bottom. The ide of the die-cut board 10 are haped to taper in a complementary manner to the taper of the box idewall 32. The ide of the die-cut board 10 taper from the peak fold to neighboring one of the valley fold and thu from top to bottom. Inerting the die-cut board 10 into the tapered box 30 reult in the tapered ide of the die-cut board 10 being accommodated upon or againt the tapered idewall 32 of the tapered box 30 o that the bottom ide of the divider clear the tapered idewall 32 to ret upon the topide of the bottom of the tapered box 30. However, flipping the die-cut board 10 over would mean it would not fit into the tapered box 30 in that orientation. Thi i becaue the underide of the divider 10 after flipping i too large to clear the inward taper of the tapered box 30 and thu could not reach the top of the bottom of the tapered box 30 to ret upon it. For that reaon, evering the ideline perforation 16 and dicarding them yield the die-cut board 10 but without the ide taper and thu i dimenioned to clear the idewall 32 of the tapered box 30 after being flipped over and thu be able to ret upon the topide of the bottom of the tapered box 30. Such perforation evering offer the flexibility to flip the (non-tapering) die-cut board 10 over to give a uer the choice a to the number of divider chamber or divider chamber 15, which are V-haped, that will face topide and thu a correponding number of taco that can be placed into the V-haped chamber for retention. Each divider chamber 15 ha a pair of panel 17 that incline from a ingle valley fold between them to form the V-hape. If the divider ha, for intance, three divider chamber 15 formed on one face to accommodate retaining three taco and ha two divider chamber 15 formed on the oppoite face that can accommodate two taco (albeit lightly larger taco than i the cae for the one face), then evering the centerline perforation 18 to remove the taper enable the divider to be accommodated in the box to ret on the topide of the bottom of the box with either the two divider chamber 15 face or the three divider chamber 15 face being on top. A an alternative or in addition, the die-cut board 10 could alo be evered at the centerline perforation 18. Either of the reultant two divider halve 10A, 10B would fit within the tapered box 30, with or without the tapered ide attached. A a further alternative, if the tapered box 30 could be replaced by a non-tapered box 20 of FIG. 1 of large enough dimenion, then the die-cut board 10 would fit the box and may ret on the topide of the bottom of the non-tapered box 20 in either of it orientation, i.e., with the three-divider chamber 15 face topide or with the two-divider chamber 15 face topide. Turning to FIG. 4, it hould be apparent that the die-cut board 10 ha three-divider chamber 15 in one ide and two-divider chamber 15 in the oppoite ide. Thu, if the two-divider chamber 15 are topide, in a box, one can flip the die-cut board upide down and the three-divider cham ber 15 then are poitioned topide intead and vice vera.

9 5 While the foregoing decription and drawing repreent the preferred embodiment of the preent invention, it will be undertood that variou change and modification may be made without departing from the cope of the preent invention. What i claimed i: 1. A divider, compriing: a die-cut board configured to move under manual force between a fully flattened condition and a completely folded condition and being movable from the fully folded condition to a releaed condition that i inter mediate the fully flattened condition and fully folded condition upon releae of the manual force, wherein the die-cut board ha a plurality of cored line paced apart from each other and bending at each of the cored line to form a erie of alternating peak and Valley fold between panel of the die-cut board, each of the cored line having a depth Sufficient for pring-back memory o that the releae of the die-cut board from the completely folded condition reult in the die-cut board unfolding to pread out into the releaed condition; a plurality of divider chamber each defined by a repec tive pair of the panel that ha a repective one of the valley fold between the pair of the panel, the plurality of divider chamber being configured o that in the releaed condition the repective pair of the panel incline from the repective one of the valley fold: ide that taper from aociated one of the peak fold to neighboring one of the valley fold o a to define a peripheral region at a level where the peak fold reide that i wider than a peripheral region defined at another level where the valley fold reide; and a water baed, greae-reitant coating that coat face of the panel. 2. The divider of claim 1, wherein the water baed, greae-reitant coating coat an entirety of all face of the panel. 3. A divider, compriing: a die-cut board configured to move under manual force between a fully flattened condition and a completely folded condition and being movable from the fully folded condition to a releaed condition that i inter mediate the fully flattened condition and fully folded condition upon releae of the manual force, wherein the die-cut board ha a plurality of cored line paced apart from each other and bending at each of the cored line to form a erie of alternating peak and Valley fold between panel of the die-cut board, each of the cored line having a depth Sufficient for pring-back memory o that the releae of the die-cut board from the completely folded condition reult in the die-cut board unfolding to pread out into the releaed condition; a plurality of divider chamber each defined by a repec tive pair of the panel that ha a repective one of the valley fold between the pair of the panel, the plurality of divider chamber being configured o that in the releaed condition the repective pair of the panel incline from the repective one of the valley fold; and a water baed, greae-reitant coating that coat face of the panel, wherein the die-cut board ha at leat one line of perforation that pae through the erie of alternating peak and Valley fold. 4. The divider of claim 3, wherein the die-cut board ha ide that taper from aociated one of the peak fold to neighboring one of the Valley fold o a to define a peripheral region at a level where the peak fold reide that i wider than a peripheral region defined at another level where the valley fold reide. 5. The divider of claim 4, wherein the at leat one line of perforation include two ideline of perforation that are ubtantially parallel to each other with the die-cut board in a flattened condition. 6. The divider of claim 5, wherein the at leat one line of perforation further include an additional line of perfora tion that i ubtantially parallel to the two ideline of perforation with the die-cut board in the fully flattened condition, the additional line of perforation being arranged patially apart from and between the two ideline of per foration. 7. The divider of claim 3, wherein the depth of the cored line i at mot 40 percent of a total thickne of the die-cut board. 8. In combination, the divider of claim 4 and a box whoe idewall taper from a top of the box to a bottom of the box, the box containing the die-cut board poitioned o that a tapering of ide of the divider i accommodated againt the taper of the idewall of the box with an underide of the die-cut board reting on a topide of a bottom of the box. 9. The combination of claim 8, wherein the die-cut board ha oppoite edge that pre againt oppoite wall of the box. 10. A divider, compriing: two die-cut board halve each configured to move under manual force between a fully flattened condition and a completely folded condition and being movable from the fully folded condition to a releaed condition that i intermediate the fully flattened condition and fully folded condition upon releae of the manual force, the two die-cut halve having correponding evered por tion of perforation along repective edge that complement each other, wherein each of the die-cut board halve ha: a plurality of cored line paced apart from each other and bending at each of the cored line to form a erie of alternating peak and Valley fold between panel of an aociated one of the two die-cut board halve, each of the cored line having a depth Sufficient for pring back memory o that the releae of the aociated one of the two die-cut board halve from the completely folded condition reult in the aociated one of the two die-cut board halve unfolding to pread out into the releaed condition; a plurality of divider chamber each defined by a repec tive pair of the panel that ha a repective one of the valley fold between the pair of the panel, the plurality of divider chamber being configured o that in the releaed condition, the repective pair of the panel incline from the repective one of the valley fold; and a water baed, greae-reitant coating that coat face of the panel. 11. In combination, the divider of claim 10 and two boxe, the two die-cut board halve each having oppoite edge preed againt oppoite wall of repective one of the two boxe. 12. The combination of claim 11, wherein one of the two die-cut board halve i in a flipped over orientation relative to that of a remaining one of the two die-cut board halve o that each preent a different number of divider chamber facing topide. 13. The divider of claim 10, wherein the water baed, greae-reitant coating coat an entirety of all face of the panel of each of the die-cut board halve.

10 7 14. The divider of claim 10, wherein the die-cut board halve each have ide that taper from aociated one of the peak fold to neighboring one of the valley fold So a to define a peripheral region at a level where the peak fold reide that i wider than a peripheral region defined at 5 another level where the valley fold reide. 15. The divider of claim 11, wherein the die-cut halve each have a repective ideline of perforation that i ub tantially parallel to an aociated edge along which are the correponding evered portion of perforation The divider of claim 10, wherein the depth of the cored line i at mot 40 percent of a total thickne of the die-cut board.