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US 11,242,188 B2Granted
Stand-up pouch with breachable sauce packet
AssigneeUnited Source Packaging LLC
InventorsEdward Davies, Bradly Buchanan, David Fyfe
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Abstract
Disclosed are disposable containers, such as a stand-up pouch, for heating food in a microwave oven and while automatically dispensing sauce onto the food. Methods and apparatuses for making sauce packets and disposable containers are also disclosed.
Claims16
A disposable container for heating food, the disposable container in a form of a stand-up pouch comprising:
- parallel container sidewalls coming together to form a container top, a container bottom, the container sidewalls and the container bottom defining a pouch interior, the pouch interior including a food region between the container top and the container bottom;
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- a thermally breachable packet within the pouch interior, the thermally breachable packet having a packet top attached to one of the sidewalls, a packet bottom facing the food region and the container bottom, a packet interior containing a liquid, and a seal encompassing the liquid, the seal having a longest side facing the container bottom;
- the packet having a packet top connected to one of the container sidewalls, the packet bottom disconnected from the one of the container sidewalls and free to move away from the one of the container sidewalls;
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- the longest side of the seal directing pressure of the liquid to burst the longest side of the seal toward the food region.
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A stand-up pouch comprising:
- parallel sidewalls coming together to form a container top;
- a container bottom between the sidewalls and opposite the container top, the container sidewalls and the container bottom defining a pouch interior;
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- a thermally breachable packet within the pouch interior, the thermally breachable packet having a top edge attached to at least one of the parallel sidewalls and a bottom edge detached from the sidewalls, the bottom edge facing the container bottom
- the packet including a laminate of at least two polymers, the laminate including an inner layer forming a seal encapsulating a sauce, the seal including a breachable longest side along the bottom edge of the packet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.