Patent ID: 8181433

Claim:
A method of sealing a non-wax-coated film pouch contained within an enclosure, the method comprising: forming an enclosure; positioning a non-wax-coated film within the enclosure, the film comprising a polymeric layer bonded to a sealant resin layer; dispensing a flowable dairy-based product into the pouch and in contact with the sealant resin layer; overlapping first and second portions of the film in which the first portion of the film comprising a first portion of the polymeric layer bonded to a first portion of the sealant resin layer is folded over such that the sealant resin layer of the first portion contacts the dairy-based product, and the second portion of film comprising a second portion of the polymeric layer bonded to a second portion of the sealant resin layer is folded over such that the sealant resin layer of the second portion contacts the polymeric layer of the first portion; and heat sealing the folded over overlapping first and second portions to each other, whereby the first portion of the polymeric layer is bonded to the second portion of the polymeric layer by the second portion of the sealant resin layer; wherein the heat sealed first and second portions are free of a fin seal.