Patent ID: 6427840
Filing Date: 2002-08-06
Classification: B65D,G11B

Abstract:
A packaged product comprising:a non-packaged product; a container that accommodates the non-packaged product, has at least one container wall, and has at least one opening that allows access to the non-packaged product; and a foil wrapper that wholly envelops the container together with the non-packaged product accommodated therein, lies against the at least one wall, covers the opening in the container, is made of a heat-shrinkable foil, and has been provided with a perforation that includes a succession of adjacent perforation holes and extends over a given circumferential portion of the packaged product, which perforation extends parallel to a cross-sectional zone of the container, the cross-sectional zone extending across the opening in the container, wherein: the foil wrapper only has perforation holes forming the perforation in its area which lies against the at least one container wall; the foil wrapper has no perforation holes in its area which covers the opening in the container; the length of the part of the foil wrapper without perforation holes is greater than the dimension of the opening in the container in the area covered by the part of the foil wrapper not having any perforation holes; the non-packaged product is formed by a magnetic-tape cassette having a box-shaped housing; the container is of the book-cover type, has two main walls, two short side walls, and one long side wall, and does not have a wall in the area of the long narrow side opposite the long side wall, in which area it has the opening for access to the magnetic-tape cassette accommodated in the book-cover type container as non-packaged product; and the perforation extends in a cross-sectional plane of the container, which plane extends parallel to the two short side walls and extends over a large part of the two main walls of the container and over the long side wall of the container.