Easy-open container for refrigerated dough products and the like

An easy-open container comprising:

• a helically wound paperboard bodywall, the paperboard bodywall comprising transversely compressed and longitudinally overlapping edges, the helically wound bodywall defining a substantially cylindrical container having opposed ends and the longitudinally overlapped edges of the bodywall defining an easy-open seam extending helically between the ends of the container;
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• a temporary adhesive means having a high tack when wet but which dries to a material having a low adhesive strength between the longitudinally overlapped, transversely compressed edges of the paperboard bodywall for releasably adhering the overlapped edges of the body wall together and to allow opening of the container along the easy open seam.

An easy-open container comprising:

• a spirally wound body wall having overlapped edges and defining a substantially cylindrical container having opposed ends, the overlapped edges of the body wall defining an easy-open seam extending helically between the ends of the container;
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• adhesive means comprising a frangible or fracturable adhesive between the overlapped edges of the bodywall for releasably adhering the overlapped edges of the bodywall together and to allow opening of the container along the helical, easy-open seam, said overlapped edges having been treated with a coating to resist penetration of said adhesive into said bodywall.