Patent ID: 9682813
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: B65D

Claim:
1. A food packaging having two or more adjacent food packet portions, wherein each food packet is joined to the other at a respective separation area, wherein an outer most food packet portion at an outermost end of the food packaging is removable from the food packaging by separating the outermost food packet portion from a remaining food packet portion through the respective separation area; wherein each food packet portion includes a tab or gripping portion and the removed outermost adjacent food packet portion conceals the tab or gripping portion of the remaining food packet portion until the removed outermost food packet portion is separated from the remaining food packet portion such that the remaining food packet portion becomes the new outermost food packet portion at the outermost end of the food packaging, wherein the tab or gripping portion of the remaining food packet portion is joined to the removed adjacent food packet portion at the separation area whereby the tab or gripping portion of the remaining food packet portion only becomes accessible when the outermost food packet portion is removed at the separation area, wherein the food packaging is formed from a first sheet portion and a second opposed sheet portion, wherein each pair of adjacent food packet portions are separated by a pair of spaced ribs that extend between the first and second sheet portions and are positioned on either side of the separation area; and wherein the separation area is a weakened band and the weakened band comprises a continuous weakened line and a portion of the weakened line formed in the first sheet portion is not in direct recognition with the portion of the weakened line formed in the second sheet portion, thereby forming an over or under hang as the tab or gripping portion.