Patent ID: 8468786

Claim:
A method of forming a reclose mechanism on a package, the method comprising: providing a package, the package including a rigid base member having a compartment, a bottom wall of the compartment, an opening to the compartment above the bottom wall, sidewall portions of the compartment upstanding from the bottom wall, and a rigid lid for closing the opening of the compartment, a portion of the rigid lid configured to extend along an inner surface of one of the sidewall portions of the compartment; locating an outer surface of the one sidewall portion of the compartment proximate a rail; aligning an anvil with the rail; shifting the anvil toward the rail; and deforming adjacent regions of the portion of the rigid lid and the one sidewall portion of the compartment into a depression of the rail to substantially simultaneously form an aligned lug and recess of the package, the lug being formed in the portion of the rigid lid and the recess being formed in the one sidewall portion of the compartment.