A serving tray handling device having a glass or dish supporting surface and an undersurface provided with a finger-gripping projection or core which is surrounded by a recess or groove so that the user's fingers may be inserted into the recess or groove to grip the exterior wall surface of the projection or core. The core may receive a fitted cap of soft material. The core exterior wall surface is tapered inwardly for easy-grip while an opposing recess defining wall may also be inwardly sloped ...

The present invention relates to an ash tray, and more particularly to an ash tray which can sanitarily control as well as automatically extinguish a smoking cigarette butt when it is put in the ash tray. In accordance with the present invention, the ash tray comprises a tube body in which cigarette butts are received and a porous member is equipped to the inward lower; a cap covering the upper end of the tube body; and an aroma tube coupled to the lower of the tube body in which an aromatic is ...

A party tray for holding refreshments comprises a panel with an axis, a periphery and a thumbhole through the panel adjacent to the panel periphery and substantially along the axis. The user's thumb of either hand is directed through the thumbhole toward the panel periphery and the panel extends laterally on either side of the user's forearm. The panel may be an elongated ellipse wherein the axis is the major axis of the ellipse. Further, the panel may include a plurality of compartments configu...

An improved egg tray is disclosed. The egg tray is comprised of a thin-walled body of rigid fiber pulp material and has a plurality of pockets and a plurality of posts. Each pocket has a bottom surrounded by a plurality of posts and each pocket has an egg-supporting surface for supporting an egg. The egg-supporting surface is a continuous part of a substantially ellipsoidal surface approximating the surface of the pointed part of an egg, and the pockets are within an egg size interval for which ...

A plug tray for growing, planting and transplanting plants includes a surface member having a plurality of rows of inner cells and a pair of rows of outer cells. Each row of outer cells is positioned proximate to an end of the surface member. A plurality of aeration apertures are formed in the surface member to thereby provide aeration to plants growing within the cells. The inner cells and outer cells are offset with respect to the major axis of the surface member to thereby provide increased s...

The present invention refers to a new construction for the evaporation tray for the defrost water in refrigeration systems of refrigerators and freezers and, more especifically, to a new construction for the evaporation tray of the type which is affixed onto the shell of the hermetic compressor of said refrigeration systems.

The present invention consists in a tray assembly for use as a baking tray, the tray assembly including: a base tray having a generally planar base; a cooling tray having a generally planar surface for receiving at least one article to be baked, the generally planar surface having a plurality of apertures and being adapted to seat on the generally planar base; and elevation device disposed between the base and the cooling trays for sliding engagement therewith, the elevation device being slidabl...

The invention concerns a packaging tray (1) suitable for permanently holding liquid (5) escaping from a packaged article (6). At least on and/or in its base wall (2) the packaging tray (1) has at least one cylindrical bulge (4) which is open towards the interior of the packaging tray (1) and whose diameter, which remains constant over the entire depth of the bulge (4), is between 2 and 6 mm, its depth being 1.5-times the diameter. The invention also concerns a corresponding packaging device.

A propagation tray configured to receive a plurality of seedlings or root cuttings comprising a tray member having an outer peripheral skirt formed about the periphery thereof and a plurality of propagation cells each having an upper centrally disposed aperture formed in the upper portion thereof inwardly of the outer peripheral skirt to receive a growing media and seedlings or root cuttings therein, a lower centrally disposed drainage aperture formed in the lower portion thereof and a growing m...

A packaging tray includes a base member, first and second side members, and a first top member. The base member has a first plurality of channels defined therein. The first and second side members extend from the base and are rotatable with respect to the base. The first top member extends from one of the first and second side members and is rotatable with respect to the one of the first and second side members. The first top member includes a second plurality of channels defined therein. The fi...