Container for packaging

Abstract

This utility model regards trays or containers made from thermoplastic material for food packaging. Some trays or containers have partitions that divide them into two, three or more compartments on the same level, to hold different products, but they are all sealed with the same sealing film. This invention aims at obviating the above limits and issues, with an innovative method of packaging and sealing several different or identical food products. This invention is intended to meet the requirement of packaging several products in the same container or tray, without coming into contact with one another during shelf-life or, different portions of the same product that can be opened and used in sequence and at different times.

1 . A container comprising:
 a thermoplastic body including at least two compartments, one of said at least two compartments being an uppermost compartment being above another of said at least two compartments being a lower compartment for containing different or identical packed products on different levels, wherein said compartments on different levels are sealed individually and can be opened at different times to use the packed products, from the uppermost compartment down to the lower compartment, wherein each of said compartments can remain individually sealed until actually unsealed.   
     
     
         2 . The container as in  claim 1 , wherein said at least two compartments are defined in height by a number of steps along the side walls of the container, with an intermediate step every two subsequent compartments starting from the lower compartment, one step and/or stacking notches on the uppermost compartment, and a closing surface defined by the top edge of the container body. 
     
     
         3 . The container as in  claim 2 , where each lower compartment is closed and sealed individually by a corresponding element or closing cover positioned and sealed on the/each intermediate step, and the upper compartment is closed and sealed by a closing cover or element positioned and sealed on the edge of the tray or container body. 
     
     
         4 . The container as in  claim 3 , where the closing element of each lower compartment is a pre-punched film or thermoformed lid, and the closing element or lid of the uppermost compartment is an element produced by a non-stop coil. 
     
     
         5 . The container as in  claim 1 , where said superimposed compartments have different capacities. 
     
     
         6 . The container as in  claim 1 , where the lower compartment is divided into different compartments. 
     
     
         7 . The container as in  claim 1 , where the body is rectangular. 
     
     
         8 . A container comprising:
 an individually sealed first compartment; and   an individually second compartment on a different level than said first compartment, wherein said first compartment and said second compartment can be opened at different times and can remain individually sealed until actually unsealed.