Patent ID: 7811614

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, opposite side walls and a bottom wall, said side walls and said bottom wall attaching said front wall and said back wall together at said front wall and said back wall peripheral edges 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 comprises a band transversely encircling said array of product, said band being positioned about the array such that a portion of each of the individual elongate consumable products extends above an upper edge of said band and below a lower edge of said band such that said band frictionally retains said array of individual products therein.