Two patents and no hands needed: How a Valley man came up with a hands-free popcorn bucket

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Two patents and no hands needed: How a Valley man came up with a hands-free popcorn bucket
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Hundreds of riders took to the roads in Phoenix on Saturday with the goal of raising money and awareness for missing and murdered Indigenous people.

Inside a warehouse near the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, a 400-ton press is turning that idea into an invention which could change the way people enjoy popcorn at the theater, in the car, or any spot with a cup holder.

“He says, ‘I think you have got something here, kid,’” Randazzo remembers a patent lawyer telling him. “COVID hit and then everything went into lock down, including that company, which wiped them out of business,” Randazzo said. Pacific Plastic Technology can produce close to 70 Hands Free Popcorn Buckets an hour. Plastic pellets are vacuumed from a barrel, then heated to 400 degrees before being subjected to 400 tons of pressure to be shaped into the one-of-a-kind popcorn bucket.in January and is now trying to get the attention of major movie theaters like AMC and Regal. Randazzo has also gone to three different Shark Tank casting calls but never made it to the final round.

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