Package for individually wrapped strip-shaped pieces of chewable and edible articles
OwnerKlaus A. Sontaginventor
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Abstract
A package for strips of chewing gum, sweets, food, and other chewable and edible articles which are wrapped individually into flat packets arranged one above the other. Each of the packets at one end thereof is provided with an extension projecting in the longitudinal direction of the packet and beyond the content of the packet. Each extension has a hole therethrough through which extends a common pivot member which at its ends has a head or the like to keep the packets on the pivot member while all of the packets are pivotable about the common pivot member.
Claims3
A package having strips of chewing gum, sweets, food, and other chewable or edible articles held individually in relatively flat elongated closed packets arranged one above the other;
- each of said packets comprising a lower foil portion and a thinner upper foil portion substantially covering said lower foil portion;
- said lower foil portion having a pan shaped depression located at one end of the packet and a continuous closed depression enclosing an undepressed portion of said lower foil portion and located at the other end of said packet and connected to said pan shaped depression by another undepressed portion of the lower foil portion;
- said upper foil portion being sealed to the lower foil portion at the undepressed portions of the lower portion;
- the upper foil portions of each packet sealed over the pan shaped depression forming sealed chambers with said articles contained therein;
- the upper foil portion and the lower foil portion being unsealed at the edge of the packet adjacent the pan shaped depression thus forming a flap for tearing open the sealed chambers;
- said continuous depression surrounding a hole in the undepressed portion of said lower portion having a rivet or pin forming an axis passing therethrough with said rivet or pin including means so that all the packets are held together one above the other yet are capable of being pivoted selectively in a fan-like manner;
- said undepressed portion connecting the pan shaped depression and said continuous depression and the upper foil portion which overlies it being perforated for removal of the pan shaped depression from said continuous depression and said rivet or pin;
- the pan shaped depression and the continuous depression being of equal depth so that the continuous depressions act as spacer bodies along said rivet or pin so that satisfactory pivoting of the packets are possible even when a portion of the packet formed by the pan shaped depression and its overlying upper foil portion is removed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.