Skin package
AssigneeBaker Perkins Holdings Limited
InventorAlan Caunt
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Abstract
A skin package wherein an article is enclosed between layers of thermoplastic film joined by heat sealing around the perimeter of the article and including at one side a strip, enclosed between the layers and projecting from them, which is heat sealed to one layer only and is non-adherent or only lightly adherent to the other layer.
Claims3
An air-free skin package consisting of an article enclosed between a generally flat bottom layer of thermoplastic film having a dimpled surface contacting said article and a top layer of thermoplastic film having a domed portion accommodating said article, said layers being heat sealed together in a zone immediately surrounding the entire perimeter of the article and being in close and intimate contact with the entire surface of said article, said package being devoid of any weakened severance line and including, along at least one edge and disposed between said layers, a strip of material which is heat sealed to one only of said layers and extends laterally beyond the other layer so that the package may be opened by separation of the strip from the other layer.
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