Patent ID: 7604585

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a pouch with a straw hole, the method comprising: providing a front panel and back panel; punching a straw hole into the front panel; providing a seal-material tape; partially punching a hole section into the seal-material tape, the hole section having a circumference slightly large than a circumference of the straw hole; guiding the hole section to a back side of the straw hole; sealing a periphery of the hole section around the straw hole onto the back side of the front panel; removing a remainder of the seal-material tape after sealing the hole section to the back side of the front panel; and sealing the front panel to the back panel wherein sealing the periphery of the hole section around the straw hole includes temporarily sealing the periphery of the hole section to the back side around the straw hole, removing the remainder of the seal-material tape from the back side of the front panel, and permanently sealing the periphery of the hole section to the back side around the straw hole.