Patent Yard Sign in
Expired Canadian patentCanada

Microwave heating package

CA 1281007 C · Owner: General Mills, Inc. · Inventors: Mcdonald, Duane L.; Mikulski, Barry S.; Deffenbaugh, Lynn B.

CIPO record

Overview

Drawings and full text

Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.

Open the CIPO record

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Disclosed are packaged frozen food articles which are adapted to be heated by microwave. The articles include a frozen food item and a microwave heating package. The packages include a tray and an overwrapped paperboard carton having a microwave shield and having a plurality of windows in the sleeve. The package further includes an opposed pair of spaced parallel upper and lower microwave susceptor heating cards each comprising an inner heating layer mounted on a mounting board, and a means for spacing the heating cards from the microwave shield such as a spaced pair of corrugated paperboard spacers intermediate the microwave shield and the heating cards. The heating layers are in direct …

Read the whole patent

Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.

Why it's free to use

  • Granted March 5, 1991. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended March 5, 2008.
  • We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
FiledJuly 15, 1987
GrantedMarch 5, 1991
Term endedMarch 5, 2008
Patent numberCA 1281007 C
Classification (IPC)H05B6/80 +1 more

Timeline

Timeline From CIPO dates

1988199119941997200020032006Application filedJuly 15, 1987Patent grantedMarch 5, 1991Term endedMarch 5, 2008

Sources & verification

Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.