Patent ID: 8066141

Claim:
A sealed package of pourable food product comprising: a plurality of walls; a through hole passing through one of the walls; a removable portion fixed directly to the one wall and completely covering the through hole; an upstanding frame fixed to the package at a position surrounding the removable portion, the upstanding frame defining a pour opening through which the pourable food product can flow when a part of the removable portion covering the through hole is removed; a cap fitted to the frame and closing the pour opening, the cap being removable from the frame; a rigid plate positioned in the upstanding frame and extractable from the frame by pulling action; a pull-tab of sheet material having a sealed end at an edge of the through hole, and a free, unsealed end at an opposite end of the pull-tab and at an initial position, the pull-tab of sheet material being attached to the removable portion and the free, unsealed end being attached to the rigid plate, and the pull-tab of sheet material connecting the rigid plate to the removable portion so that pulling action applied to the rigid plate after removing the cap is first applied to the free, unsealed end of the pull-tab of sheet material to remove the free, unsealed end from the initial position, and is subsequently applied to the removable portion attached to the pull-tab of sheet material to cause removal of the part of the removable portion after the free, unsealed end is removed.