Food package with rip-cord opener
CA 2074364 A1 · Owner: Vandenberg, Dawn M. · Inventors: Vandenberg, Dawn M.
Overview
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A food packaging material suitable for a variety of food service applications, including fast food restaurants is provided. The packaging is preferably formed from a flexible laminate sheet that includes at least one moisture impervious layer and has been formed into a receptacle having a shape suitable for enclosing and sealing fast food sandwiches and the like. Attached to the sheet is a length of rip cord having at least one free end that can be grasped and pulled by the consumer to tear the laminate sheet thereby, opening the sealed food-containing receptacle. The rip cord can be attached so that it causes one portion of the receptacle to be partially or completely separated from a …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed January 22, 1991. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended January 22, 2011.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by January 22, 2013.
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