Patent ID: 9102443
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
1. A flexible food package comprising a bottom end, a top end, and a side wall incorporating a solid sheet twistable portion having increased dead fold characteristics than adjacent portions of the side wall, the twistable portion having at least a first section and a second section each having a maximum width parallel to the top end and joined by at least a third section having a minimum width parallel to the top end and less than the maximum width of each of the first and second sections, the first and second sections of the twistable portions each being formed of same material across their respective maximum widths, the third section being configured to permit the first and second sections to twist about the third section, the twistable portion being configured to twist together with adjacent portions of the side wall to restrict access to an access opening formed after opening of the top end.