US3703384A - Easily opened bacon package - Google Patents

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US3703384A
US3703384A US122626A US3703384DA US3703384A US 3703384 A US3703384 A US 3703384A US 122626 A US122626 A US 122626A US 3703384D A US3703384D A US 3703384DA US 3703384 A US3703384 A US 3703384A
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Oscar E Seiferth
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D75/00—Packages comprising articles or materials partially or wholly enclosed in strips, sheets, blanks, tubes or webs of flexible sheet material, e.g. in folded wrappers
    • B65D75/52—Details
    • B65D75/54—Cards, coupons or other inserts or accessories
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D75/00—Packages comprising articles or materials partially or wholly enclosed in strips, sheets, blanks, tubes or webs of flexible sheet material, e.g. in folded wrappers
    • B65D75/28—Articles or materials wholly enclosed in composite wrappers, i.e. wrappers formed by associating or interconnecting two or more sheets or blanks
    • B65D75/30—Articles or materials enclosed between two opposed sheets or blanks having their margins united, e.g. by pressure-sensitive adhesive, crimping, heat-sealing, or welding

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  • the fold-over board includes a lower support panel and a flap, joined to the panel along a fold line.
  • the fold line is discontinuous at a recess die-cut from the fold line.
  • the cut-out die-cut board material remains attached to the bacon board and is folded under the board liap to provide an inner restrictive barrier for preventing bacon from reaching the recess area.
  • An easy opening tab is positioned between the opposing films outside the seal area but within the recess region to provide for a smooth, continuous edge of the package.
  • the inner restrictive barrier prevents inadvertent placement of a grease lprint in the seal region due to contacting of bacon with the film in that region. Such a grease print would interfere with the formation of a hermetic seal on manufacture, or with reclosing the package after opening.
  • Sliced bacon, and the like is conventionally placed in a shingled array on a fold-over board having a relatively small flap along one edge thereof which folds down over a small portion of the product.
  • the flap provides a label surface upon which important source-of-goods and other information can be imprinted and viewed without turning over the package.
  • Use of transparent packaging films to enclose such a package enables the consumer to inspect the enclosed product.
  • a method and equipment for manufacturing such packages enclosed between transparent films are disclosed in U.S. Pat. 3,083,106, issued Mar. 26, 1963 to E. C. Sloan et al., which patent is assigned to a common assignee with this application. The disclosure of the aforementioned patent is incorporated herein by reference thereto.
  • It is an object of this invention t-o provide a bacon package utilizing convenient opening tabs which need not extend beyond the normal edge of the package.
  • FIG. l is a top plan view of a completed package in accordance with this invention.
  • FIG. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary cross sectional View taken approximately along the line 2-2 of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary cross sectional View taken approximately along the linc 3-3 of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 4 is a reduced scale top perspective view of a fold-over bacon board which is usable in the package of this invention.
  • the fold-over board 12 in accordance with this invention, comprises a main support panel 14 and fold-over flap 16 which is integral therewith.
  • the fold line 17 between main panel 14 and fiap 16 constitutes one edge of the fold-over bacon board 12.
  • a portion of both the main support 14 region and fold-over flap region is die-cut and inwardly folded to provide restrictive barrier ap 18 which remains connected along its fold line 20 to bottom panel 14.
  • An imaginary line 22, constituting an extension of ofld line 20, is shown on FIG. 4. Folding of barrier tab 18 as indicated in FIGS.
  • the resulting partly assembled package comprising board 12 and slices 10 is placed over a bottom film 26 and a tab 27 is positioned on the upper face of film 26 to coincide with recess 25, though it is spaced from board 12.
  • the lower surface 28 of tab 27 includes an adhesive which enables tab 27 to adhere to film 26.
  • Upper surface 30 of tab 27 is suitably coated, e.g., with a release agent of known type, to prevent adhesion of tab 27 to upper film 32.
  • bottom film 26 and top film 32 are positioned below and above the partially assembled package respectively and the films are hermetically joined along seal line 40 closely adjacent the periphery of board 12 by known method. In accordance with this invention, however, it is particularly important that the seal line 40 extend into the recess 25 between tab 27 and board 12.
  • seal 40 be openable, prefenably peelable. It is preferred that a part of the adjacent edges 34, 36 be provided with an openable, and preferably a peelable, seal. Seal 40, around the remaining periphery of the package can be permanently joined, if desired.
  • tab 27 and opposed unattached marginal portion 52 ⁇ of film 32 are grasped and are pulled apart to separate films 32 and 26 along seal 40 along openable edge 33.
  • seal 40 along openable edge 33.
  • a portion of the films be separated, e.g., up to approximately half of the package, whereby board 12 and bacon slices 10 thereon can be removed through the resulting opening. If less than all the slices of bacon are taken from board 12, it is preferred that board 12 and remaining bacon slices 10 then be reinserted between the plastic sheets and hand pressure applied along seal line 40 to reclose the package. In a preferred embodiment, a peelable portion of seal 40 is resealable.
  • barrier flap 18 prevents shifting of bacon slices 10 into the region of recess 25 during the reinsertion thereby preventing formation of a grease print along seal line 40 in the region of recess 25.
  • larger -iiap 16 also shields the edge seal regions from a grease print, and serves as a convenient handling surface by which the package contents can be gripped by the consumer during removal or reinsertion of board 12 without touching the foodstuff.
  • barrier flap 18 and opening tab 27 In the illustrated embodiment only a single barrier flap 18 and opening tab 27 is shown. It is contemplated that modifications of the illustrated embodiment can be employed Without departing from the invention. For example, a plurality of barrier flaps 18 and opening tabs 27 can be employed, if desired-the tabs 27 and recesses 25 can be positioned near the center, as illustrated or they can be positioned along one or both edges.
  • barrier 18 is fabricated by cutting a flap from across fold line 17 by a three sided cut, with barrier 18 remaining integral with base panel only along fold line 20.
  • a two sided cut could be employed to leave the barrier joined to both top flap 16 and bottom panel 20 along fold lines analogous to line 20.
  • a single cut would be required to accomplish a similar result in which a recess 25 and barrier 18 would be formed.
  • the bacon board comprises a lower support panel and a folded-over first flap joined to said lower support panel at a first fold line therebetween, which fold line constitutes an edge of the lower support panel, said fold-over bacon board and shingled array being enclosed between a pair of packaging material films hermetically joined together in a seal region closely adjacent the periphery of the bacon board, wherein edges of said films define the edges of the package, the improvement comprising: a product-restraining second fiap cut from portions of said lower panel and said first flap across said first fold line, said second flap being joined to said bottom panel along a second fold line, said product-restraining second flap being folded back in the direction away from said first fold line and laying between said first flap and said bottom panel, thereby forming a recess at said edge, said recess extending into said bottom panel and said first fiap; wherein one edge of said shing
  • seal region is peelable along that portion thereof which is adjacent said fold line, and further continuously extending along a portion of the sides adjacent said that portion, and is nonpeelable along the remaining periphery of the package.
  • a bacon package comprising a fold-over bacon board, an array of bacon slices positioned on said board, wherein the bacon board comprises an underlying bacon support panel and an integral fold-over flap joined to said panel along a fold line, said board and array being hermetically enclosed within a seal region between opposing sheets of packaging material film, wherein edges of the sheets define the edges of the package, the improvement wherein said board has a pair of cuts at a medial region of said fold line, said cuts defining edges of a product-restraining barrier which is cut from a portion of said support panel and from a portion of said flap in the region of said fold line, said barrier being joined to said panel, and being folded back between said flap and said support panel in the direction away from said fold line, and wherein said fold line is discontinuous, by reason of said cuts and folded-back barrier, to provide an edge recess adjacent said fold line between said cuts wherein said opposing sheets can contact each other in said recess; separating tab means positioned between said opposing sheets at an edge thereof at said recess
  • seal region is peelable along that portion thereof which is adjacent said fold line, and further continuously extending along a portion of the sides adjacent said that portion, and is non-peelable along the remaining periphery of the package.
  • a bacon board of suitable relatively stiff, flexible material consisting essentially of a suitably sized bottom support panel and a relatively narrow flap integral with said bottom support panel and foldable over a portion of said bottom support panel along a fold line which constitutes an edge of said bottom support panel
  • said board includes a product-restraining barrier flap integral with said bottom support panel; and wherein the material from which said barrier flap is taken includes both a portion of said bottom support panel and said flap adjacent said orginal fold line thereby providing a recess from said edge extending into both said bottom support panel and said flap in the region of said barrier; and, wherein said product-restraining barrier is folded back in a direction extending away from the fold line.

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US4069348A (en) * 1974-08-22 1978-01-17 L. D. Schreiber Cheese Company, Inc. Package and method of forming the same
USD250173S (en) 1976-03-18 1978-11-07 Swift & Company Windowed backing board for a bacon package or the like
US4371553A (en) * 1980-08-01 1983-02-01 James River-Dixie/Northern, Inc. Package including product support insert
US4375482A (en) * 1980-08-01 1983-03-01 James River-Dixie/Northern, Inc. Package including product support insert
US5036645A (en) * 1990-02-05 1991-08-06 Oscar Mayer Foods Corporation Method of making a recloseable package
US5074416A (en) * 1990-12-14 1991-12-24 Oscar Mayer Foods Corporation Package with recloseable board seal
US20060099306A1 (en) * 2004-11-08 2006-05-11 Hormel Foods, Llc Packaging for use with high pressure pasteurization
USD718642S1 (en) * 2013-02-07 2014-12-02 Kraft Foods Group Brands Llc Package
USD856988S1 (en) * 2015-10-02 2019-08-20 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Mobile device
US20220055788A1 (en) * 2020-08-20 2022-02-24 Sargento Foods Inc. Sliced Food Product Package

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4069348A (en) * 1974-08-22 1978-01-17 L. D. Schreiber Cheese Company, Inc. Package and method of forming the same
USD250173S (en) 1976-03-18 1978-11-07 Swift & Company Windowed backing board for a bacon package or the like
US4371553A (en) * 1980-08-01 1983-02-01 James River-Dixie/Northern, Inc. Package including product support insert
US4375482A (en) * 1980-08-01 1983-03-01 James River-Dixie/Northern, Inc. Package including product support insert
US5036645A (en) * 1990-02-05 1991-08-06 Oscar Mayer Foods Corporation Method of making a recloseable package
US5074416A (en) * 1990-12-14 1991-12-24 Oscar Mayer Foods Corporation Package with recloseable board seal
US20060099306A1 (en) * 2004-11-08 2006-05-11 Hormel Foods, Llc Packaging for use with high pressure pasteurization
USD718642S1 (en) * 2013-02-07 2014-12-02 Kraft Foods Group Brands Llc Package
USD737150S1 (en) * 2013-02-07 2015-08-25 Kraft Foods Group Brands Llc Package
USD856988S1 (en) * 2015-10-02 2019-08-20 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Mobile device
USD856989S1 (en) * 2015-10-02 2019-08-20 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Mobile device
USD879081S1 (en) 2015-10-02 2020-03-24 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Mobile device
US20220055788A1 (en) * 2020-08-20 2022-02-24 Sargento Foods Inc. Sliced Food Product Package
US11505357B2 (en) * 2020-08-20 2022-11-22 Sargento Foods Inc. Sliced food product package

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