Display package for meat item

Claim 1

A display package comprising: a meat item; a tray having a length, a flat bottom wall for supporting the meat item, substantially parallel laterally spaced, downwardly facing side edges extending over substantially the entire length of the tray and a peripheral upturned edge; said peripheral upturned edge in conjunction with the bottom tray wall defining an accumulation space for juices escaping from the meat item on said tray; a one-piece envelope defining a pocket for reception of the tray having the meat item thereon and having spaced first and second open ends communicating with the pocket, a bottom wall, a top wall, first and second flaps on the top and bottom walls respectively adjacent one of the first and second envelope ends and third and fourth flaps on the top and bottom walls respectively adjacent the other of the first and second envelope ends, there being fold lines to facilitate folding of each of the first, second, third and fourth flaps relative to its respective wall between an open position wherein access can be gained to the pocket through each said envelope end and a closed position wherein the first and second flaps cooperatively close the one envelope end and the third and fourth flaps cooperatively close the other envelope end; cooperating means on the tray and envelope for maintaining the tray with the meat item thereon in a display position within said pocket; said cooperating means including a curved upwardly facing surface on the bottom envelope wall which bears against the tray side edges along substantially the entire length of the side edges with the tray in said display position so that the tray bridges the curved upwardly facing surface of the bottom envelope wall and a well is defined by the curved bottom envelope well beneath the tray to accumulated juices escaping from the meat item on the tray, said second flap blocking the well at the one envelope end and the fourth flap blocking the well at the other envelope end to confine juices escaping from the meat item in the wall below the tray in its display position, said envelope ends, with the flaps in their open position, permitting introduction of said tray into said pocket by sliding movement of said envelope side edges against the curved upwardly facing surface of the bottom envelope wall; and means in said top envelope wall for permitting viewing of a meat item on said tray with the tray in a display position.