Gum slab package having insertable product retention member
AssigneeCadbury Adams USA LLC
InventorAllen Sydney Aldridge
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Abstract
A package assembly encloses a plurality of individual elongate consumable products. The package assembly includes a plurality of products aligned in a side-by-side array. The package housing encloses the array of product. The package housing has front and back walls for supporting the products therebetween and a closeable cover for closing a product dispensing opening. The package housing further includes a frictional product retention member insertably supported within the package for frictionally retaining the array of product within the package.
Claims7
A package assembly for individual elongate consumable products comprising:
- a plurality of said products aligned in a side-by-side array;
- a package housing for enclosing said array of products, said package housing having a front wall, a back wall, opposite side walls and a bottom wall, said side walls and said bottom wall attaching said front wall and said back wall together at said front wall and said back wall peripheral edges and a closeable lid for closing a dispensing opening;
- a frictional product retention member insertably supported within said package for frictionally retaining said array of products within said package;
- wherein said frictional product retention member comprises a band transversely encircling said array of product, said band being positioned about the array such that a portion of each of the individual elongate consumable products extends above an upper edge of said band and below a lower edge of said band such that said band frictionally retains said array of individual products therein.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.