| 摘要 |
A molded packaging tray having a plurality of downwardly dished pockets for receiving soft, round, delicate articles such as apples, peaches and tomatoes, and a plurality of upwardly tapering posts. The pockets and posts are arranged so that when two or more trays are properly oriented in a stack the flat pocket bottoms of one tray rest on the flat post tops of the next lower tray in the stack, rather than resting on the fruit packaged in the next lower tray. The pockets are substantially circular in horizontal cross-section at their approximate mid-level between the pocket bottoms and the post tops to smoothly support the delicate fruit, and the pockets are without inwardly directed protrusions. The pockets below the approximate mid-level taper inwardly to join the pocket bottoms at a low angle not greater than about 55 DEG from the horizontal to minimize the total height of the tray with respect to the diameter of the fruit packaged therein. Four reinforcing ribs are associated with each pocket below its mid-level, the ribs being outwardly convex in horizontal cross-section, and being joined to the pocket bottoms at their lower extremities and tapering upwardly therefrom to merge with the pockets. The pocket bottoms and the post tops are similar in shape and generally coextensive in size.
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