Rigid holding container with breachable perimeter bubble
OwnerWilliam S. Perell, Leif B. Sorenseninventors
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Abstract
A rigid holding container has a flexible cover sheet extending over the holding area for scaling the contents. The container has a wide, flat perimeter lip which provides a firm base for the seal between the cover sheet and the container. A breaching bubble is formed in the seal, under the cover and over the perimeter lip. The consumer breaches the bubble by pressing the bubble against the lip between the thumb and forefinger. The pressure compresses the air in the bubble causing the bubble to expand laterally. The expanding bubble breaches along the perimeter of the lip, producing a peel flap of flexible cover material. The consumer pulls the peel flap while holding the rigid container down, to remove the cover sheet.
Claims27
A container, which is sealed against the exterior environment, and which provides easy access to an item contained therein, comprising:
- an item compartment;
- an access opening into the item compartment;
- a rigid support for supporting the item compartment and forming part of the container;
- a flexible closure for closing the item compartment and forming part of the container;
- a peripheral seal between the rigid support and the flexible closure, and circumscribing the access opening for closing the item compartment located inside the peripheral seal;
- a breachable bubble between the rigid support and the flexible closure located outside the perimeter seal;
- a breachable seal formed along an edge of the breachable bubble and
- wherein the breachable bubble is spreadable under applied pressure into the breachable seal, which spreading separates the flexible closure from the rigid support, until the spreading bubble produces an edge breach through the breachable seal to the exterior environment.
A plurality of individual stackable containers, which are sealed against the exterior environment, and which provide easy access to items contained therein, comprising:
- item compartment in each individual container for the contained items;
- access opening into each item compartment for accessing the contained item;
- compartment support for supporting the item compartment forming part of each individual container;
- flexible closure for closing the item compartment forming part of each individual container;
- peripheral seal between the compartment support and the flexible closure forming each individual container, pressed into sealing engagement, and circumscribing the access opening for closing the item compartment located inside the perimeter seal;
- an overhang formed by the compartment support and extending beyond the item compartment outside the perimeter seal;
- breachable bubble between the compartment support and the flexible closure forming each individual container, pressed into sealing engagement, and carried on the overhang;
- an under void adjacent to the overhang, on the compartment support side;
- breachable seal formed along the edge of each breachable bubble;
- the breachable bubbles spreadable under applied pressure into the breachable seal thereof, which spreading separates the flexible closure from the compartment support, until the spreading bubble produces an edge breach through the breachable seal to the exterior environment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.