Accurately placed stress concentrating aperture in flexible packages
CA 1163249 A · Owner: The Procter & Gamble Company · Inventors: Enting, David E.; Frohwerk, Arthur E.
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Arthur E. Frohwerk David E. Enting, ABSTRACT, An "easy open" feature for a sealed flexible pouch and method and apparatus for accurately positioning said feature in the sealed border region of said flexible pouch. The feature comprises a stress concentrating aperture exhibiting a strong tendency to initiate a directional tear while maintaining integrity of the sealed pouch until an opening force is applied. In a preferred embodiment the pouches are cut from a moving web by a rotary shear cutter while a web punching means operatively connected with each cutter blade is engaged in the moving web. Because the web undergoes no movement relative to the cutting means or the punching means until …
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- Granted March 6, 1984. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended March 6, 2001.
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