Patent ID: 8221812

Claim:
A package assembly for individual elongate consumable products comprising: a plurality of said products aligned in a side-by-side array; a package housing for enclosing said array of products, said package housing having a front wall, a back wall and a closeable lid for closing a dispensing opening; a frictional product retention member insertably supported within said package for frictionally retaining said array of products within said package; wherein said frictional product retention member includes a U-shaped retention clip for supporting one end of said product array; wherein said U-shaped clip is an elongate member having a bottom wall and opposed upstanding side walls, said side walls including divergently flared upper extents which extend outwardly beyond a line perpendicular to said bottom walls along said side walls, said flared extents being urged inwardly by said walls of said package so as to retentively support said ends of said product in said clip.