Patent ID: 7624872

Claim:
A container for storing and dispensing consumer products, comprising: a tray having a generally planar top surface into which has been formed one or more discrete cavities for receiving the consumer products; and a cover film to be adhered to the generally planar top surface of the tray by a layer of peelable adhesive to seal the one or more cavities to retain the consumer products in the one or more cavities; the cover film having pre-formed tear lines defining a tear-off portion per cavity to retain the consumer products in that cavity until it is removed by tearing along its tear lines; the or each tear-off portion of the cover film having low vapour transmission properties in the area which in use overlies the associated cavity, those low vapour transmission properties being created by a patch with high vapour barrier properties shaped and sized to overlie the associated cavity and adhered to the underside of the cover film by the layer of peelable adhesive which adheres the cover film to the top surface of the tray; the tear line defining the or each tear-off portion extending only within the periphery of the associated patch such that the associated patch must be peeled away from an overlapping region of the cover film between the tear line and the periphery of the associated patch when the or each tear-off portion is removed.