Patent ID: 8690431

Claim:
A package having a pair of end seals and fin seal therebetween, comprising an outer film layer and at least one inner film layer, said inner and outer film layers being mutually laminated, wherein the package comprises a pair of mutually spaced lines of weakness in the outer film layer only, and means for initiating tearing of the film layers integrally formed from all of the film layers, said tear initiation means being formed by two cuts through all of the layers of film, each cut being located within the fin seal and meeting one of the mutually spaced lines of the weakness, the entire region within the fin seal between the two cuts extending to one of the mutually spaced lines of weakness being unsealed defining a pair of tabs, said lines of weakness and tear initiation means being disposed such that activation of the tear initiation means causes controlled tearing of all the film layers along the lines of weakness.