Flexible Container With Dispensing Aid
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsLee Mathew Arent, Donald Joseph Cox
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Abstract
A flexible container including a first web portion defined by a first periphery, and a second web portion defined by a second periphery. The second web portion may be disposed in a face to face relationship with the first web and at least partially overlapping the first web. At least a portion of the second periphery may be bonded or sealed to the first web, the sealed portion defines a first product volume. The container further includes a dispensing aid disposed adjacent to the sealed portion of the second periphery and may include a dispensing valve. The dispensing aid includes third and fourth web portions sealed along a closed periphery and defining an expanded volume or structural support volume.
Claims20
A flexible container comprising:
- a first web portion defined by a first periphery,
- a second web portion defined by a second periphery and disposed in a face to face relationship with the first web and at least partially overlapping the first web, at least a portion of the second periphery sealed to the first web, the sealed portion defining a first volume,
- a dispensing aid disposed adjacent to the sealed portion of the second periphery,
- wherein the dispensing aid comprises third and fourth web portions sealed along a closed periphery and defining an expanded volume.
A flexible container comprising:
- a first web portion defined by a first periphery,
- a second web portion defined by a second periphery and disposed in a face to face relationship with the first web and at least partially overlapping the first web, at least a portion of the second periphery sealed to the first web, the sealed portion defining a first volume,
- a dispensing aid disposed adjacent to the sealed portion of the second periphery,
- wherein the dispensing aid comprises third and fourth web portions sealed along a closed periphery and defining an expanded volume;
- a dispensing valve comprising first and second expanded volumes disposed adjacent one to the other and defining a gap therebetween,
- wherein each of the expanded volumes comprise sub-portions of the first and second web portions sealed along a closed periphery,
- wherein the gap comprises sub-portions of the first and second web portions arrayed in a face to face relationship,
- wherein the dispensing valve is disposed adjacent to the first volume.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.