Easy-open sausage package

Details Easy-open sausage package Easy-open sausage package

2005-05-02

2009-10-20

Becker, Drew E (Department: 1794)

Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products

Packaged or wrapped product

Packaged product is animal flesh

C426S106000, C426S112000, C383S210000, C383S211000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07604828

ABSTRACT:
An easy-open package for food items, such as sausages, and a packaged sausage product that is hermetically sealed within a cavity. The package includes first and second sheets. The first sheet defines a cavity for holding sausages. The second sheet is applied onto the first sheet to cover the cavity and the sausages. A radiant seal seals the sausages within the cavity. A peel seal surrounds the radiant seal. In packages having a reclosable seal, one or more unsealed pockets are defined between the peel seal and a bottom of the reclosable seal, such as interlocking grooves or a zipper. The radiant and peel seals define an unsealed area. The one or more unsealed pockets and the unsealed area make it easier to open the package, by requiring less force to separate the first and second sheets. Further, the unsealed area can provide an area in which purge from the sausages is collected so that the purge is not dispersed throughout the package, thus providing a more visually appealing package.

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