Patent ID: 8328047

Claim:
A package for containing and dispensing a fluent product, the package comprising: a fitment body having a tailpiece defining a dispensing passage extending along a longitudinal axis; and a collapsible pouch for containing a fluent product to be dispensed, the pouch defined by at least two opposing, flexible, web portions, the fitment body located at a dispensing end of the pouch with the tailpiece being sandwiched between the flexible web portions, the flexible web portions being welded to each other to define a pair of laterally spaced, longitudinally extending edge welds, and further being welded to each other and to the tailpiece to define an end weld bounded by inner and outer weld margins extending laterally across the pouch at the dispensing end, the portion of the end weld extending across the tailpiece having a maximum width W T parallel to the longitudinal axis, the flexible web portions being welded to each other at a pair of locations, the locations spaced laterally from each other on opposite sides of the longitudinal axis, wherein each of the locations is spaced laterally from the edge welds, and each of the locations is spaced from the outer weld margin by a distance D L that is greater than the width W T , with D L being measured along a line extending from the location to the outer weld margin normal to the slope of the outer weld margin at the point where the line intersects the outer weld margin.