Packaging product and method of closing a packaging product
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsSarah M. Drewery, Michael J. Fish, Colin I. Holyoake, Keira L. Hopkins
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Abstract
A packaging product and a method of closing a packaging product are provided. Closing a packaging product may include providing a first member of the packaging product having an aperture therein and providing a bubble rivet extending through the aperture and having an expanded hollow head portion on one side of the aperture with a neck portion of the bubble rivet being provided in the aperture. The hollow head portion of the bubble rivet is breakable to enable withdrawal of the head portion through the aperture thereby non-reversibly opening the packaging product.
Claims20
A method for closing a packaging product, comprising:
- providing a first member of the packaging product having an aperture therein;
- providing a bubble rivet extending through the aperture having an expanded hollow head portion on one side of the aperture with a neck portion of the bubble rivet being provided in the aperture,
- wherein the bubble rivet comprises a flexible plastics material enclosing a volume of gas or liquid,
- wherein the hollow head portion of the bubble rivet is breakable to enable withdrawal of the head portion through the aperture thereby non-reversibly opening the packaging product, and
- wherein the bubble rivet is released by bursting the flexible plastics material to reduce the volume of the head portion by releasing the gas or liquid contained therein.
A packaging product, comprising:
- a first member of the packaging product having an aperture therein;
- a bubble rivet provided through the aperture, the bubble rivet having an expandable hollow head portion which in use is provided on one side of the aperture and a neck portion which in use is provided in the aperture,
- wherein the bubble rivet comprises a flexible plastics material enclosing a volume of gas or liquid,
- wherein the hollow head portion of the bubble rivet is breakable to enable withdrawal of the head portion through the aperture thereby non-reversibly opening the packaging product, and
- wherein the bubble rivet is released by bursting the flexible plastics material to reduce the volume of the head portion by releasing the gas or liquid contained therein.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.