US 3,933,245 AGranted

Article holding and dispensing container

OwnerPatrick E. Mulleninventor

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Abstract

An article holding and dispensing container having an article receiving and holding compartmental tray and a plurality of vertical and horizontal score lines separating the tray into a plurality of individually removable pockets. A closure member is heat-sealed to the back of the tray closing off the pockets and includes vertical and horizontal score lines aligned with the score lines of the tray. The closure member is not heat-sealed to the tray in the vicinity of the intersection of the score lines to facilitate breaking away of individual pockets or removing the contents thereof. A plurality of such containers may be hung in a generally vertical array on support members with indicia at the top of each container and the pockets at the bottom with one of the containers being removable from the support members without the necessity of removing any of the remaining containers.

Claims7

Dependent claims

In an article holding and dispensing container having an article receiving holding compartmental tray, a plurality of vertical frangible score lines associated with said tray separating generally aligned vertical rows of a plurality of article receiving pockets formed in said tray, pockets in said vertical rows being generally horizontally aligned with pockets in adjacent vertical rows, and horizontal frangible score lines associated with said tray separating aligned horizontal rows of said pockets, said pockets being open on one side thereof and closure means associated with said tray closing off the open sides of said pockets, the improvement which comprises:

said closure means having a plurality of vertical frangible score lines generally aligned with the vertical score lines of said holding compartment and a plurality of horizontal frangible score lines generally aligned with the horizontal score lines of said holding compartment, said closure means being heat-sealed to said holding compartment;
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article removal facilitating means associated with both said holding compartment and said closure means at the intersection of said horizontal and vertical score lines, wherein said article removal facilitating means includes a plurality of non-heat-sealed zones in the areas of the intersection of the vertical and horizontal score lines of said closure means and at the intersection of the vertical and horizontal score lines of said holding compartment.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.