Patent ID: 9260226
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: B65B,B65D

Claim Text:
1. A package assembly comprises a plurality of products and a tubular packet enclosing the products formed from a wrapper of flexible material, the packet having a side wall region encircling the products, the wrapper having a line of weakness either partially or fully encircling an area of the wrapper located in the side wall region to define an opening region, which opening region can be at least partially removed to create a dispensing opening in the side wall region of the wrapper through which the products may be dispensed by tearing the wrapper along the line of weakness; wherein the package assembly is configured such that the wrapper can be ruptured along the line of weakness by pressing a first one of the products out of the packet through the opening region to create the dispensing opening; wherein the opening region is dimensioned so that it has an area which is only slightly larger than a cross sectional area of one of the products, where the cross sectional area of the product is taken in a plane which is aligned generally parallel to the opening region.