Patent ID: 9676533
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: B65B,B65D,G06Q

Claim:
1. A method of packaging an item, comprising the steps of: (a) forming a tamper-evident layer on a first surface of a web of sheet material having first and second surfaces, the tamper evident layer comprising a pattern of tamper-evident areas, the tamper-evident layer including a blank space; (b) adhesively attaching a first semi-rigid outer layer having a portion defining a cavity to the tamper-evident layer so as to adhere only to the tamper-evident areas, whereby the cavity is aligned with the blank space; (c) placing an item in the cavity defined in the first semi-rigid outer layer; and (d) attaching a second semi-rigid outer layer to the second surface of web; wherein the step of adhesively attaching the first semi-rigid outer layer to the tamper-evident areas is performed so that only the tamper-evident areas are removed from the web with the removal of the first semi-rigid outer layer from the tamper-evident layer.