Patent ID: 8348509

Claim:
A flexible container comprising: a panel structure of flexible web material, defining a pouch that has a top opening; a closure cap; a rigid fitment in the top opening, having a surface section at which the fitment is sealed to the pouch, and further having a fitment opening through which contents of the pouch can be emptied from the pouch, and configured for the cap to be removably secured to the fitment to close off the fitment opening; and a handle, defined by the panel structure, by which the pouch is configured to be carried in an upright orientation in which the handle projects upward from the pouch at a juncture that is not above the bottom of the sealed surface section of the fitment; wherein the handle includes a handgrip and suspensions with lengths reaching vertically from the handgrip to the pouch; wherein the panel structure includes a front panel, a rear panel, and laterally opposite first and second side panels adjoining the front and rear panels throughout the lengths of the suspensions; and wherein the handgrip has a midline, the side panels have handle sections that are folded in half at respective fold lines, and the fold lines meet at the midline of the handgrip.