Patent ID: 7946003

Claim:
A closure assembly for use with a flexible package; the closure assembly comprising: (a) a zipper closure arrangement having first and second zipper profiles constructed and arranged to selectively interlock; the zipper closure arrangement including first and second closures defined by the first and second zipper profiles; (b) a slider device oriented to slide laterally along the zipper closure arrangement and oriented to be axially moveable from a first axial position to a second axial position; (i) the first closure being constructed and arranged to mate when the slider device is in the first axial position and is moved laterally along the zipper closure arrangement in a first direction; and (ii) the second closure being constructed and arranged to mate when the slider device is in the second axial position and is moved laterally along the zipper closure arrangement in the first direction; the second closure being constructed and arranged to be unmated when the slider device is in the first axial position.