Packaging for energy foods or other substances
OwnerJan R. Lauinventor
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Abstract
A consumer package is disclosed that can be opened with one hand. The packaging can have a finger or thumb loop attached to a panel that allows a user to use a finger of the same hand holding the package to open the package. The finger or thumb loop can be designed to have strength and structural integrity to open the package rather than just to hold the package. The package can have a finger or thumb grip portion attached to the panel to open the package. The package can have a finger or thumb hold attached to the panel to open the package.
Claims19
An easy-open energy food package, comprising:
- a tray having a surface defining an interior portion and a peripheral edge circumscribing the interior portion;
- a cover layer having a surface that is adhered to the peripheral edge of the tray and covers an entirety of the interior portion of the tray, wherein the tray and the cover layer cooperate to define a package body that, in use, encloses an energy food;
- at least one finger or thumb grip portion secured to the cover layer and having an enhanced friction surface portion, which has a coefficient of friction greater than the cover layer so that, in use, the at least one finger or thumb grip portion can be utilized to assist in removal of the cover layer from the tray.
An easy-open energy food package, comprising:
- a tray having a surface defining an interior portion and a peripheral edge circumscribing the interior portion;
- a cover layer having a surface that is adhered to the peripheral edge of the tray and covers an entirety of the interior portion of the tray, wherein the tray and the cover layer cooperate to define a package body that, in use, encloses an energy food within an interior space;
- wherein the tray comprises a protrusion initially extending in a first direction away from the interior space, and wherein, in use, the protrusion can be depressed such that it extends in a second direction into the interior space to separate the energy food from at least a portion of the surface of the tray that is adjacent the protrusion.
An easy-open energy food package, comprising:
- a tray having a surface defining an interior portion and a peripheral edge circumscribing the interior portion;
- a cover layer having a surface that is adhered to the peripheral edge of the tray and covers an entirety of the interior portion of the tray, wherein the tray and the cover layer cooperate to define a package body that, in use, encloses an energy food;
- at least one finger or thumb hold secured to the cover layer and having a finger or thumb grip surface so that, in use, the at least one finger or thumb hold can be utilized to assist in removal of the cover layer from the tray.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.