Patent ID: 7537387

Claim:
A reclosable container having: a body for holding contents; said body having opposite ends between which extends a vertical axis, at least one of said ends being an openable end including integrally formed sectional closure means; said sectional closure means including an openable section, a transversely adjacent closed section and a juncture intermediate said openable and closed sections at which said openable section terminates and said closed section begins; said openable section having folding means including one or more fold lines along which said openable section is adapted to fold to close or unfold to open; said openable section being reversibly foldable along said fold lines between an opened position and a closed position; said opened position forming a pouring spout vertically extended relative to said juncture for discharge of container contents by unfolding said openable section from said closed position; said closed position effecting container closure by folding retraction of said openable section to the closed position from said opened position along said one or more fold lines, said fold lines including fold lines extending from a region adjacent said juncture across the openable section to a side edge of the container and being obliquely oriented at an acute angle from an axis transverse to said vertical axis, the openable end being initially closed by closing the openable section along said fold lines to an initially closed position; and wherein said body includes front and back wall members, said front and back wall members being connected along front and back wall member side edges of the container by opposed side wall members, each of said side wall members including a vertically extending medial fold line forming an inwardly projecting side wall gusset, wherein said folding means having fold lines including a fold line on each of said front and back wall members, the respective fold lines on the front and back wall members intersecting one of said medial fold lines adjacent said openable section wherein folding said openable section from said opened position down along at least one of said front or back wall member fold lines and concomitant folding of said medial fold line inwardly effects container closure with a first upper portion of the side wall member being folded onto the front wall member and a second upper portion of the side wall member being folded onto the back wall member forming first and second oblique folds, the first oblique fold extending from adjacent the juncture forward of the vertically extending medial fold line to a side edge of the container and the second oblique fold extending from adjacent the juncture backward of the vertically extending medial fold line to the side edge of the container so that the first and second oblique folds are physically separate folds.