Package having separable overlay
AssigneesAnco Collector Supplies, Inc., Zim's Bagging Company, Inc.
InventorsMay C. Counts, Harry Zimmerman, Jr.
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Abstract
A package having a separable overlay is formed by a high speed web roll manufacturing method and adapted for multiple marketing of retail goods. The package has at least three layered sheets of flexible material, the outermost sheet being quickly and easily removable from the remainder of the package without disruption thereof. The package may thus be converted from one for marketing goods under a label of a seasonal or special nature to a package for marketing goods under a label of a general or everyday nature, to thereby extend the profitable shelf-life of the package.
Claims7
A mass produced package having a separable overlay portion, the package comprising:
- a plurality of layered sheets of flexible material having printed information thereon for outward display on said package, each one of said plurality of layered sheets having an interior surface, and an exterior surface for display of information thereon and a plurality of edges forming a perimeter, at least a portion of the perimeter of each one of said plurality of layered sheets being connected to a corresponding portion of the perimeter of an immediately adjacent layered sheet, and the entire perimeter of one of said plurality of layered sheets being continuously inseparably connected along the entire perimeter of at least one adjacent sheet of said plurality of layered sheets when said package is filled with goods, to thereby provide said package with containment function, and wherein an outermost one of said plurality of layered sheets is adapted for quick, facile removal from the remainder of said plurality of layered sheets without disrupting the containment function of said package, to thereby provide a means for altering the information outwardly displayed on said package, wherein said outermost layered sheet which is adapted for quick, facile removal is provided on the exterior surface thereof with information of a special nature and a layered sheet which is immediately adjacent thereto is provided on the exterior surface thereof with information of a general nature which is hidden from view by said outermost layered sheet, so that removal thereof alters the outward appearance of said package to thereby permit said package to be adaptable from one for merchandising goods in relation to something of a specific nature to one for merchandising goods in relation to information of general nature, to thereby permit the retailer to realize extended profitable use of said package.
A package for containing goods and having an overlay portion which is separable therefrom without disruption of the containment function of said package;
- said package comprising first, second and third flexible sheets each having a plurality of edges and being arranged in registered layered fashion, said second flexible sheet being layered over said first flexible sheet and forming said package therewith and said third flexible sheet being layered over said second flexible sheet and forming an overlay portion for said package, each of the plurality of edges of said second flexible sheet being substantially non-releasably sealed to a corresponding one of the plurality of edges of said first flexible sheet so as to completely seal said package for secure retention of goods contained in said package, at least two of the plurality of edges of said third flexible sheet being releasably sealed to at least two corresponding edges of said plurality of edges of said second flexible sheet, to thereby provide a means for removal of said third flexible sheet from said package without causing inadvertent separation of said second flexible sheet from said first flexible sheet, wherein each of said first, second and third flexible sheets has opposed outside and inside surfaces, the outside surfaces of each of said first, second and third flexible sheets and the inside surface of only said third flexible sheet having been treated to affect the degree to which facing surfaces will remain in sealed relationship to each other, the corresponding inside surfaces of said first and second flexible sheets being arranged in registered, facing relationship to each other and the treated inside surface of said third flexible sheet being arranged in registered facing relationship to the treated outside surface of said second flexible sheet.
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