Compartmented easy open package
AssigneeSchmalbach-Lubeca AG
InventorsGeorg Bolte, Dieter Heinecke, Gunter Hexel
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Abstract
An easy-open package has a vessel having an annular peripheral rim and at least one crosswise rib forming with the rim a plurality of upwardly open compartments, a foil engaging the generally coplanar upper edges of the rim and rib of the vessel, formed with a tear line extending around the rim, and provided with an open tab attached to the foil within the tear line, and repsective rim and rib hermetic bonds securing the upper edges of the rim and rib to the foil. When the individual compartments are to be kept separate, the foil is formed with an annular tear line around each such compartment and is provided within each tear line with a respective such open tab.
Claims10
An easy-open package comprising:
- a vessel having an annular peripheral rim and at least one crosswise rib together forming a plurality of upwardly open compartments, the rim and rib having generally coplanar upper edges;
- a foil engaging the upper edges of the rim and rib of the vessel, formed around each compartment with an annular tear line extending around the rim, and provided with an open tab attached to the foil within each tear line, one of the tabs being unitarily formed with the foil and being defined between extensions of the respective tear line, the one tab extending over a rib separating the compartment of the respective tear line from an adjacent compartment;
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- respective rim and rib hermetic bonds securing the upper edges of the rim and rib to the foil.
An easy-open package comprising:
- a vessel having an annular peripheral rim and at least one crosswise rib together forming a plurality of upwardly open compartments, the rim and rib having generally coplanar upper edges;
- a foil engaging the upper edges of the rim and rib of the vessel, formed with a tear line extending around the rim, and provided with an open tab attached to the foil within the tear line;
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- respective rim and rib hermetic bonds securing the upper edges of the rim and rib to the foil, the holding power of the rim bonds being substantially greater than the holding power of the rib bonds.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.