US 12,240,654 B2
Liner for food receiver of food holding apparatus
Sai Ravi Krishna Subramani, Houston, TX (US)
Assigned to DUKE MANUFACTURING CO., St. Louis, MO (US)
Filed by Duke Manufacturing Co., St. Louis, MO (US)
Filed on May 26, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/324,462.
Application 18/324,462 is a division of application No. 17/586,237, filed on Jan. 27, 2022, granted, now 11,912,465.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/142,127, filed on Jan. 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0382595 A1, Nov. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. A47J 47/14 (2006.01); A47G 23/06 (2006.01); B65D 1/34 (2006.01); B65D 25/16 (2006.01)
CPC B65D 25/16 (2013.01) [A47G 23/06 (2013.01); B65D 1/34 (2013.01)] 36 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of using a liner with a food tray receiver of a food holding apparatus, the food tray receiver having a floor and a plurality of food tray receiver side walls defining a food tray receiver cavity for receiving one or more trays of food, the food tray receiver having a top opening defining a top of the food tray receiver cavity and in which the one or more trays of food are receivable for reception in the food tray receiver cavity, the method comprising:
placing the liner in the food tray receiver cavity, the liner comprising:
a flexible body sized and shaped to be inserted into the food tray receiver cavity of the food tray receiver, the flexible body having a base and a plurality of body side walls extending generally upward from the base, the flexible body having a food receiving cavity defined by the base and the plurality of side walls, the food receiving cavity having an open top configured to receive food when the flexible body is disposed in the food tray receiver and food falls toward the flexible body; and
forming a seal between the side walls of the flexible body and the food tray receiver side walls to generally prevent food from moving between the food receiver side walls and the body side walls, the seal being formed in the food tray receiver cavity at an elevation below the top opening of the food tray receiver.