Patent ID: 8088421

Claim:
A reclosable food package for containing a food product, the package comprising: a thermoformed base member having a compartment in which a food product can be received, a bottom wall, an opening to the compartment above the bottom wall, and side wall portions of the compartment upstanding from the bottom wall, each of the side wall portions having an upper section; a thermoformed lid covering the opening to contain a food product within the compartment, a portion of the thermoformed lid adapted to fit within the opening and nest with the upper sections of the side wall portions of the compartment; and a plurality of recesses of the upper sections of the side wall portions of the thermoformed base member that each form a complementary fit with an aligned one of a plurality of lugs of the thermoformed lid portion, each recess and aligned lug resulting from substantially simultaneous deformation using a common tool, the plurality of recesses and lugs being effective to provide a combined average separation force of the lid from the base member that is consistently greater than the combined separation force of separately-formed recesses and lugs.