Abstract: A package for sliced food product comprising a bottom wall, a top wall, opposite sidewalls and opposite end walls, wherein the package includes a flap which comprises portions of the top wall and/or an adjoining sidewall of the package, and which is movable between a closed position and an open position to selectively facilitate access to the package interior. The package is preferably made of a thin, flexible plastic material. The flap is removably retained in closed position by a peelable seal extending along one or more edges of the flap, or at least along portions thereof. The package is configured so that when the flap is in open position, the sliced food product is accessible from the side, which facilitates engagement of slice edges and subsequent separation thereof, as well as removal of the slices without undue distortion. This makes the package particularly useful in conjunction with packaging of certain sliced cheeses, although the package may also be useful with other products as well.

Abstract: A package comprising tubular food casing strands encased in a plastic film, said film encompassing said strands, said package being provided with a tear strip secured upon the outside surface of the film; weakened areas being provided in the film along parallel edges of said tear strip so that pulling of said strip away from the package causes film between the weakened areas to be removed with the strip thus opening the package and exposing the strands.

Abstract: A reclosable, hermetically-sealed flexible package which has an inner, hermetic pool seal and a reclosure seal comprised of interlocking closure strips is provided with a tamper-evident feature located peripheral to the reclosure seal. The tamper-evident feature must be visibly disrupted to gain access to the reclosure seal.

Abstract: The object of this invention is to provide a package for flowers, candy or other consumables or objects which can easily be transformed from a first, transport configuration into a second, stationary configuration, is stable in its stationary configuration and can be manufactured exclusively out of thin walled material such as (biodegradable) plastic board or fiber board. Transformation from the transport configuration into the stationary configuration can easily be accomplished by detaching the upper part from the lower part along a weakened line delimitating the upper and the lower part when the package is in transport condition. Then the lower part is inserted into the upper part, which preferably has to be inverted first so that the generally relatively wide upper end of the upper part faces downward and forms the new lower end until the lower part is supported by the lower end of the upper part.

Abstract: A boil-in-a-bag pouch provided with a handle for grasping and lifting the pouch and including a easy opening mechanism The opening of the pouch is facilitated by a longitudinal line of weakness spaced a short distance from one longitudinal edge of the pouch in combination with either a lateral cut from the edge of the pouch to the line of weakness or one or more interruptions in the lateral seals used to form and seal the pouch through which the line of weakness passes. The interruptions in the lateral seal are small enough to prevent egress of the product from the pouch and are located so as to permit the pouch to be torn open along the line of weakness through the interruptions in the lateral seals. In this manner, a pouch is provided that has both a handle and an easy opening feature.

Abstract: A food package including a tray, a sleeve surrounding the tray and a rigid leg member extending from the back panel of the sleeve. The rigid leg member has a bottom edge that can rest on a support surface in order to position the front panel of the sleeve substantially perpendicularly to the support surfaces. In this way, the display surface can be better seen by potential consumers. A multipack food package is also disclosed.

Abstract: A food package including a tray and a sleeve surrounding the tray. The tray includes a base defining an opening and a sidewall extending from the base which terminates in a free edge. The free edge defines a tray opening. The sleeve includes a top panel positioned adjacent the tray opening, a bottom panel positioned adjacent to the opening in the base and a side panel positioned adjacent to at least a portion of the sidewall.

Abstract: The invention relates to a package for food product useful for boil-in-bag or microwave. This package comprises a sealed flexible pouch with a web of oriented material having a slit in the direction of the orientation of the material which is covered by an adhesive membrane. The package is opened and emptied by peeling off the membrane to expose the slit, inverting the package and pulling the edges of the package substantially parallel with the slit to open the slit to facilitate emptying of the contents of the package without spillage and with a reduced risk of burning the fingers of the user.

Abstract: A food product container having a body which comprises a central section, peripheral sections and, individual cavities to contain small portions of food product. Each cavity of the body overlaps the central section and one of the peripheral sections which are linked via a weakening line permitting detachment of the two sections. This detachment allows for the removal of a food portion in the cavity without altering the food portion in the adjacent cavities. The geometrical shape of the cavity makes it easy to remove the food product from the container especially when the weakening line is located at the maximal width of the geometrical shape.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing packages (1) for liquid food products, includes a step in which a flexible sheet material member (2) is folded into a tubular shape so that longitudinal strips (6) extends outwardly, and are joined to each other. Along the joined longitudinal strips (6), suitable welding lines (7, 8) are made so as to form a portion (9) in the form of a channel compartment (10) that is closed at one end, and having its other end in communication with an inside of the package. A a longitudinal breaking line (12) is made in the strips to allow the portion (9) to be partially detached from the package. In the strips (6) a notch (13) is made which allows the detachable portion (9) to be opened at the end opposite to the one in communication with the inside of the package (1).

Abstract: A coffee pack and method of packaging a coffee product. The coffee pack comprises a shell that forms separate coffee and aroma compartments with a small communicating hole or channel between the compartments. A quantity of a particulate coffee product, preferably soluble coffee, is located in the coffee compartment, and a quantity of a coffee aroma liquid containing aromatic volatiles, preferably coffee oil, is disposed in the aroma compartment. The communicating hole or channel between the compartments allows the aromatic volatiles to pass from the aroma compartment to the coffee compartment, without allowing any mixing, or at least any substantial mixing, in the coffee compartment between the coffee product and the coffee aroma liquid.

Abstract: A multi-seal flexible recloseable package having a tapered product cavity formed in one of the package sidewalls has a generally wedged-shaped cavity into which a doubled-over shingled stack of the food product slices are sealed. The package has a first, peelable hermetic seal located next to an access edge of the product cavity and a second, recloseable seal positioned directly above the peelable seal. Vertical extensions of the package sidewalls are sealed together at their tops to form a third package seal which has a tamper-evident tear strip. One or more openings in the vertical package extensions allow the package to be supported on a display hook.

Abstract: The invention comprises a salad sandwich and method of making the same where the salad sandwich is made of a baked edible shell that is open at one end and contains a tear-away bag which is filled with an appropriate sandwich fill. The tear-away bag keeps the sandwich fill fresh and prevents the sandwich fill from transferring moisture to the shell. The tear-away bag has a tear-away mechanism which, just before the salad sandwich is eaten, allows the bag to be removed in one step without removing the sandwich fill from the confines of the shell.

Abstract: A food product tray including a base defining an opening and a floor member covering the opening. The floor member has an edge portion thereof secured to the base such that the floor member substantially directly supports the food product in the tray. A food product package is also provided.

Abstract: A perforated package of a composite integral sheet material which includes a first layer of absorbent material, a second layer of printable material and an impermeable pigmented polymer layer interposed between the first and second layers. The composite material has a plurality of air pockets formed between at least one of the first or second layers and the polymer layer, by discontinuously bonding the first or second layers to the polymer material. The package has two parallel lines of perforation which allow access to the interior of the package and to the foodstuff contained therein. A method of using the perforated package of composite integral material.

Abstract: A microwave heating package for containing a food item to be cooked in a microwave oven including a top wall, a bottom wall and a side wall. A microwave interactive layer is affixed to the bottom wall for converting microwave energy into heat. The side wall is scored to define a first end flap and a second end flap. Each end flap is partially separable from the remainder of the package along the scoring and is hingedly connected to the bottom wall such that the separable portion of each end flap is pivotable from a first unseparated position to a second position located underneath the bottom wall.

Abstract: An elongated serving, storing and heating bag for a food product of the type having a folded shell construction such as a taco, burrito, hot dog or the like is disclosed. The bag is in the form of an open ended bag of paper-like material having a dead fold capability with the bag including first and second side panels hingedly connected to one another along substantially parallel first and second fold lines with the first and second side panels combining to form an elongated tubular sleeve having a first open end and a second sealed end for receiving the food product therein. The bag further includes a gusseted fold line forming one of the first or second fold lines so as to permit expansion of the bag along one longitudinal edge.

Abstract: A recloseable package has discrete, multiple product portion enclosures between first and second package films. Each product portion enclosure is separated from its adjacent product portion enclosure by a package central web portion. A recloseable seal is provided on the central web portion for each multiple product portion enclosure, and the product is hermetically sealed in its portion enclosure by a hermetic seal extending around the periphery thereof and interior of each recloseable seal.

Abstract: A food package including a food package tray partially surrounded by a food package jacket. The food package tray has a base and a sidewall extending from the base. The food package jacket has a bottom flap disposed adjacent to at least a portion of the base of tray and at least one side flap extending from the bottom flap and disposed adjacent to at least a portion of the sidewall. The side flap has a section adhesively secured to the sidewall. In this way, the food package jacket and food package tray form the food package. An associated method is also disclosed.

Abstract: A liquid sauce container packet and tray assembly is provided including a packet (1) containing sauce which is thermally fused on opposing ends to flanges of a tray (2). The thermally fused ends of the packet (1) are formed in a perforated line (3) manner for ease of removal of the packet (1) from the tray (2). Upon separation of the tray (2) and packet (1) along the perforated lines (3), the sauce may be dispensed into the tray (2).

Abstract: A disposable paper pouch enclosing a food product, the pouch being both biodegradable and recyclable. The pouch is made up of two superposed paper plies which are rendered liquid impervious by water-based acrylic layers coated on the inner and outer faces of the plies, the acrylic inner layer having a low melting temperature and the acrylic outer layer having a high melting temperature. The superposed plies are subjected to heat and pressure by standard sealing bars that have no effect on the outer layers but cause the inner layers which face each other to fuse together in a predetermined sealing pattern to define an inner pocket that is fillable with the food product.

Abstract: A reclosable, hermetically-sealed flexible package which has an inner, hermetic peelable seal and a reclosure seal, typically including interlocking closure strips, is provided with one or more of various tamper-evident features which provide an easily visible and noticeable indication of disruption thereof of the type that would gain access to the reclosure seal.

Abstract: A packaged food product includes a rigid food product bar which has a width, a height and a length extending between end edges of the bar and a package provided by a hand-tearable product packaging material enclosing the bar having a notch positioned therein. The notch is a single linear slit positioned adjacent and parallel to an end edge of the enclosed bar and the notch has a length less than the width of the enclosed bar. The notch is covered on an interior surface of the packaging material by a cover material which liquefies when heated to a temperature compatible with the packaging material, which is adhesive enough to remain on the notch, but which is weak enough to break when the package is bent by leveraging the product contained in the package against the packaging material interior adjacent the covered notch.

Abstract: The recloseable clamshell package of the invention includes a container portion and a lid portion. The lid portion has a lip portion which is congruently shaped with the container lip portion for mating engagement therewith in order to form a closed package. The lid portion includes corner portions which are congruently shaped with the container portions for mating engagement therewith.

Abstract: A multi-seal flexible recloseable package having a tapered product cavity formed in one of the package sidewalls has a generally wedged-shaped cavity into which a doubled-over shingled stack of the food product slices are sealed. The package has a first, peelable hermetic seal located next to an access edge of the product cavity and a second, recloseable seal positioned directly above the peelable seal. Vertical extensions of the package sidewalls are sealed together at their tops to form a third package seal which has a tamper-evident tear strip. One or more openings in the vertical package extensions allow the package to be supported on a display hook.

Abstract: A perforated package of a composite integral sheet material which includes a first layer of absorbent material, a second layer of printable material and an impermeable pigmented polymer layer interposed between the first and second layers. The composite material has a plurality of air pockets formed between at least one of the first or second layers and the polymer layer, by discontinuously bonding the first or second layers to the polymer material. The package has two parallel lines of perforation which allow access to the interior of the package and to the foodstuff contained therein. A method of using the perforated package of composite integral material.

Abstract: A package for heating food has a cover for covering a tray and provides an aluminum laminate for covering the tray side wall. The cover is configured to extend over the top opening or over the base of the tray and cover the tray side wall. In one embodiment, only side edge portions of the cover are formed of an aluminum laminate. In another embodiment, the entirety of the cover is formed of an aluminum laminate, in which case, the cover has lines of weakening positioned therein for tearing and removing a central portion of the cover.

Abstract: A disposable paper pouch enclosing a small supply of cream or other flowable food product, the pouch being both biodegradable and recyclable. The pouch is made up of two superposed paper plies which are rendered liquid impervious by water-based acrylic layers coated on the inner and outer faces of the plies, the acrylic inner layer having a low melting temperature and the acrylic outer layer having a high melting temperature. The superposed plies are subjected to heat and pressure by standard sealing bars that have no effect on the outer layers but cause the inner layers which face each other to fuse together in a predetermined sealing pattern to define an inner pocket that is fillable with the cream and a spout leading from the pocket to an outlet adjacent one end of the pouch. The outlet is normally blocked, but when the pouch is to be put to use, it is torn along a line intersecting the outlet to open the outlet whereby the cream may then be expelled therefrom by squeezing the pouch.

Abstract: Disclosed is packaging which includes two separate compartments, a first compartment for storing a flowable product such as cheese spread, and a second compartment for storing a solid product such as crackers. The first compartment, housing the flowable product, includes a lid having a scored portion which is broken upon bending of the packaging along a longitudinal bending region. To prevent unintentional discharge of the flowable product prior to its intended use, such as during shipping or other handling in which the flowable compartment may inadvertently be bent in the longitudinal direction, and thereby rupture the lid at the score line with the flowable product being dispensed therethrough, the flowable product compartment is separably attached to the solid product compartment along a side of the flowable compartment perpendicular to the longitudinal bendable region to increase its rigidity to bending in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A bag for packaging products includes a generally parallelepiped-shaped body of composite sheet material having a rectangular closure zone formed at one end. A closure line extends across the closure zone between the upper and lower sides of the closure zone and a through cutout is formed in the closure zone at the closure line to facilitate opening of the bag. Preferably, the cutout is defined by first and second edges which are generally perpendicular to one another. The first edge is substantially perpendicular to the upper edge of the closure zone and the second edge adjoins the lower end of the first edge and extends substantially parallel to the upper and lower edges of the closure zone. The upper end of the first edge also extends above the upper edge of the closure zone.

Abstract: A container for vacuum packing refrigerated dough and a method of forming a refrigerated dough product is disclosed. A method of forming a refrigerated dough product using a spiral wound composite container of the present invention is also disclosed.

Abstract: A recloseable, peggable package wherein the enclosed product is packaged between first and second package panels includes two package extensions and a recloseable seal strip interior of the package extensions. The package panels are hermetically sealed around their periphery and further sealed to the recloseable seal strip exterior of the hermetic seal. The first and second package panel extensions are sealed exterior of the recloseable seal strip and the extensions contain at least one opening extending therethrough which enables the package to be vertically displayed on a display member.

Abstract: Containers of the present invention are particularly adapted for use in heating a food product contained therein by utilizing an oven that operates with forced heated air. In one embodiment of the present invention, the container includes a body portion having a bottom end panel attached thereto, and a top end panel releasably attached thereto. The container is provided with means for allowing heated air to pass through the container such as a plurality of apertures in the container's top and bottom end panels, or a plurality of apertures in the container's sidewall panel. In one embodiment, the body portion of the container is provided with a pleat that is initially folded. When the container's top end panel is removed, the pleat is unfolded to allow the container to be expanded. In another particularly preferred embodiment of the present invention, the body portion of the container is provided with a line of weakness that is broken to open the container.

Abstract: A plastic film bag for foodstuffs or the like having opposed film bag walls joined at their edges and forming a mouth between the walls and at one side reclosable fastener strips between the walls at the bag mouth having facing releasably interlocking profiles thereon with a sealing strip extending from one profile to the wall of the other profile with the sealing strip being sufficiently broad to avoid stress thereon and preferably with the sealing strip having a frangible fracture line extending substantially parallel to the profile to be torn when the profiles are first separated with the fracture line formed in various ways including perforations, or a score line, or an insert in the sealing web defining the frangible fracture line or the web being formed of multiple parts joined by a portion that fracture more easy than the sealing web.

Abstract: A plastic film bag for foodstuffs or the like having opposed film bag walls joined at their edges and forming a mouth between the walls at one side, reclosable fastener strips between the walls at the bag mouth having facing releasably interlocking profiles thereon with a base for each of the strips, each base web having an outer portion and an inner portion which is adjacent the contents of the bag, one inner portion bonded to the wall of the bag and the other inner portion substantially unattached, the inner portions of the webs being continuous with a perforate tear line therethrough, a sealing strip over the tear line, the outer edges of the film at the mouth bonded to each other above the fastener strips so that the outer edge can be cut leaving pull flanges with the inner portions of the base webs sealing the interior of the bag until the tear lines are torn.

Abstract: A flexible plastic film reclosable package for foodstuffs or the like having opposed plastic film walls joined to each other completely around their circumference and having a bag mouth between the walls at one side, fastener strips between the walls in the bag mouth having reclosable pressure interlocking rib and groove profiles joined to close the bag with a peel seal material in the base of the groove to initially hermetically seal the bag and lock the rib in the groove, the fastener strips having outwardly extending base webs to form pull flanges with one of the strips having an inwardly extending base web laminated to the film and either no base web or a very short protective base extending inwardly from the other fastener strip and a protector board inserted in the bag between the profiles and the contents.

Abstract: A flexible, bag-like package which includes an access opening containing a reclosable seal at or near its top edge, is encompassed by a tamper-evident band. The band is bonded to the front and back wall panels of the package and extends across the access opening. Attempts to remove the band in order to open the package will result in disruption of the band or the wall panels.

Abstract: An improved communion container for containing a portion of wine/grape juice and a portion of bread. The container includes a cup containing the portion of wine/grape juice, the cup having an open mouth; a lid for being secured to the cup about the open mouth to close the open mouth and to seal the portion of wine/grape juice within the cup, the lid having a tab portion for allowing easy manual removal of the lid from the cup; a receptacle containing the portion of bread, the receptacle having a cavity for containing the portion of bread and including structure for closing the cavity to seal the portion of bread within the cavity; and attachment structure for attaching the receptacle to the cup after the portion of wine/grape juice is sealed within the cup and after the portion of bread is sealed within the cavity of the receptacle and with the tab portion of the lid positioned beneath a portion of the receptacle to prevent inadvertent removal of the lid until the receptacle is opened.

Abstract: A container for storage of refrigerated dough products under pressurized condition is provided. The container includes a tubular sidewall having a fracture region capable of directing fracture and end closure means for closing opposite ends of the tubular container. Refrigerated dough is contained within the container for shipping and storage.

Abstract: A self-expanding flexible pouch that can be used as the measuring device for reconstituting a concentrated product contained therein. The flexible pouch includes an extensible stay located in the throat area of the pouch that is biased toward a circular or elliptical configuration but initially held substantially flat in a stressed condition by the pouch's sealed top portion. When the pouch's top portion is removed, the extensible stay expands to its unstressed circular configuration and thereby expands and opens the pouch's throat area. In a particularly preferred embodiment of the present invention, the pouch's bottom section is provided with a pleated bottom gusset panel that is attached to the sidewall panels' inner surface. When the reconstituting fluid is poured into the pouch, the pouch's bottom gusset panel unfolds and drops downward which allows the pouch's bottom section to also expand and assume a substantially tubular configuration.

Abstract: A package for extended storage and in-store display of fresh red meat is disclosed. Preferably the package is made by a vacuum skin packaging process wherein the forming web is a composite peelable film having a peelable oxygen barrier layer and an oxygen permeable skin layer which remains to enclose the product when the peelable film is removed after storing. A means and method for readily initiating the peeling process is provided by a combination of a manual pull tab and selected perforations of the forming web.

Abstract: A food storage carton for the microwave cooking of a foodstuff packaged therein which is to be crispened or browned upon cooking. The carton is fashioned from a one piece blank of paperboard, one panel of which supports a foodstuff, such as a frozen pizza, and which panel is provided with a layer of microwave interactive material which becomes hot upon absorbtion of microwave energy. The construction of the carton is such that the frozen foodstuff is elevated above the carton bottom on a false bottom. Before microwave cooking, the top panel of the carton is ripped off, the carton placed in the oven and the foodstuff cooked.

Abstract: This invention provides a food material-container combination which allows the food material to be cooked and solidified by simple operations without a pot, and which simplifies the work of cleaning up after cooking. Referring to FIG. 1, a self-standing container 11 has an opening 12 at the top portion thereof. A food material such as tofu material is charged in the container 11 together with water. The upper portion 13 is sealed by folding it by hand. The container and contents are then thoroughly shaken, whereafter the content of the container 11 is heated by a microwave oven. After a prescribed period of heating, the container 11 is taken out from the microwave oven and the container is cut along the line 16. The end product can then be removed.

Abstract: A blank for being folded into a food container has one group of fold lines along which the blank is folded to form an elongate, tubular, rectangularly shaped food container. The blank is provided with a second set of closely spaced fold lines which extend transversely to the length of the tubular food container. There is a third fold line between each pair of second fold lines. The second and third sets of fold lines are formed so that pressing the food container from opposite longitudinal ends causes sections of the blank disposed between the second fold lines to fold inwardly at the third fold lines, to define and form a plurality of food compartments in the food container. A set of slits is formed in the blank at the locations of the corners of the compartment forming indentations. The slits permit the indented walls to pass through one another in an overlapping manner and in a manner which seals the corners against leakage of food.

Abstract: A disposable plastic container for ices comprising a pair of substantially equally shaped films of a thermoplastic synthetic resin laid one upon the other and welded or adhered to each other. They are joined only partly to define therebetween a liquid inlet which is closed after a liquid for forming ices has been introduced therethrough, and a plurality of compartments each capable of holding the liquid therein and allowing it to be frozen at a low temperature. The films define a joined edge portion surrounding all of the compartments and provided with a plurality of notches which enable the films to be torn across the compartments, so that the frozen products which have been formed in the compartments can be removed therefrom.

Abstract: This relates to a carton for packaging a product which is to be processed in a microwave. The carton includes a top wall which is hinged to a portion of a rear wall and has a glue flap bonded to a removable portion of a front wall. The carton is formed of a delaminatable web with the top wall having transversely spaced score lines in opposite faces thereof whereby the carton is openable by removing the removable portion of the front wall and then peeling a major portion of the top wall from border portions thereof to open the carton. After the product has been removed, the top wall is swingable into the interior of the carton to form a support platform for the product. The support platform is positioned a predetermined distance above the bottom wall of the carton to provide for a maximum efficiency of the heating of the product within a microwave oven.

Abstract: A wrapper for wrapping two different foods, such as a mass of compressed rice and a dried seaweed sheet, separately. The wrapper comprises an inner trianglar-shaped bag made of food wrapping synthetic resin material for storing a mass of rice therein and an outer trianglar-shaped bag made of the same material enclosing said inner bag and provided with a tear-off portion. At serving, the tear-off portion is torn off in order to expose the lower end of the inner bag. Then the inner bag is pulled out of the outer bag so that the dried seaweed sheet sticks around the mass of rice. A method for fabricating the wrapper is also disclosed.

Abstract: A synthetic resin container having a curved container body and a bottom plate peripherally sealed at the peripheral edge of the lower end opening of the container body which has a spiral notched line spirally formed on the container body from the top edge of the container body. Thus, the synthetic resin container is formed of type that the entirety is covered and can still be readily opened.

Abstract: A package unit includes, in combination, a generally elongated shaped food item for consumption when the package is open, and a container which surrounds and seals the elongated shaped food item. The container includes a first tear line formed adjacent to one end of the container along a plane generally perpendicular to the axis of the elongated shaped food item for opening the container. A second tear line is formed along the plane generally parallel to the food item for exposing one end of the food item after the container has been open by removing a portion of the container along the first tear line. The second tear line extends at one end from the center portion of the first tear line toward the other end of the container and terminates at its other end in a central section of the container. Third and fourth tear lines each extend at opposed angles from the other end of the container and are joined together adjacent the other end of the second tear line.

Abstract: Tear strip structure for the relatively narrow side wall of a relatively flat rectangular paperboard carton. The side wall is defined by an inner folded closure flap and an outer flap folded thereover. The outer flap has a line of weakness extending along its length, between and parallel to its fold line and its free edge. The inner flap has a first cut score line defining its fold line and a second cut score line .[.coincident.]. .Iadd.aligned .Iaddend.with the line of weakness of the outer flap. The region of the outer flap overlying the region of the inner flap between the cut score lines is adherent to the latter region and defines a tear strip, an end portion of which is non-adherent and functions as a tab by which the strip may be grasped and torn away, separating the plies of the underlying closure flap between the cut score lines in achievement of removal of the tear strip in predictable, controlled manner.