Dispenser package arrangement and methods
AssigneeThe Tapemark Company
InventorsConstance L. Fagen, Steven Blake Fisher
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Abstract
A package arrangement is provided. The package arrangement in general includes a blister pack having a backing construction secured thereto. In preferred arrangements, a removable header is provided. The backing construction preferably includes a flexible film having resealable pressure sensitive adhesive on a side thereof, by which the backing portion is secured to the blister pack. A portion of the backing construction is formed as a hinged cover portion, by two cuts, preferably parallel, extending through the backing construction portion and overlapping a selected section of the blister pack. In a preferred arrangement, each cut terminates at a stop structure.
Claims19
A package arrangement comprising:
- (a) a receptacle having an outer peripheral rim thereon;
- and,
- (b) a backing construction secured to the outer peripheral rim and in covering relation, to the receptacle;
- (i) the backing construction comprising a flexible film having a resealable pressure sensitive adhesive on a first side thereof by which the backing portion is secured to the outer peripheral rim;
- and
- (ii) the backing construction including an openable and reclosable hinged cover portion therein;
- said hinged cover portion comprising a portion bordered along opposite side edges by cuts through the flexible film of the backing construction.
A method of dispensing a sheet product from a package;
- said method including steps of:
- (a) stripping open a receptacle by peeling a hinged cover portion having resealable pressure sensitive adhesive thereon, from a peripheral rim portion on said receptacle;
- (i) said step of stripping being limited by a pair of curved stops;
- (ii) said step of stripping involving non-removal of the hinged cover portion from the package;
- (b) removing a sheet product from the receptacle;
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- (c) reclosing the receptacle by resealing the hinged cover portion to the peripheral rim portion with the pressure sensitive adhesive.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.