The carton and package provides for a new type of closure which may take several different forms, each of which incorporates a coated paperboard lid having a heat-sealable plastic coating such as polyethylene for example. Wherein a 180.degree. bend is made to provide an outer edge of the lid which is heat-sealed together to provide strength to support a divergent flange or edge which is used in accomplishing a closing and/or sealing of the carton or package. In one form, this edge provides a sna...

Cushioning unit for use inside a packing box includes a hollow carrier, such as a tube or box, for accommodating the article to be packed, and pieces of resilient material, such as foamed plastic, secured to exterior of the carrier and adapted to engage the inner surfaces of the box walls. Resilient pieces may include a main rectangular pad secured to each end of carrier, and auxiliary pads secured to center of each side of main pad, only the edges of the pads engaging the packing box walls. Alt...

In a system of packaging of foodstuffs in containers of rectangular horizontal section, each open-topped container is sterilized, filled, and closed with a sterilized closure. The closure is of a laminate including a thermoplastics layer of sufficient thickness to fill an internal discontinuity of the container mouth during heat-sealing of the closure to the container. In making the closure, a portion of laminate is partially severed to form a flap and the laminate is clamped around the flap and...

The invention relates to the provision of package which can be used in a first condition for retail purposes such that an item or items and/or information relating to the item(s) within the package, can be viewed externally of the package, and a second condition for use as, for example, a gift, in which the item and/or information is masked from external view. In one embodiment the change between first and second conditions can be achieved by moving a flap of the packaging between first and seco...

A recloseable bag package is provided by closing the top of a filled bag to form a neck, preferably trimming the walls of the bag to the same height, folding over a portion of the neck, preferably only once, and sealing the folded over portion of the neck to a side wall of the bag using a composite tape comprising a length of a first tape having a non-setting adhesive coating on one surface and a length of a second tape overlapping one edge of the adhesive coated surface of the first tape. The f...

The method of and apparatus for packaging units in flexible sheet material which is heat-sealable at least on one side, in which a web of the material is formed into a tube with an inside-face-to-inside-face longitudinal seam by bringing the side margins of the web into inside-face-to-inside-face engagement and pressing them together at a sealing station, and heating the inside faces of said margins as they converge toward one another and meet at the sealing station by directing a stream of hot ...

Packaging for an article provides tamper evident security for an article carried in a pre-shaped inner part that is received in a loose outer part that has pre-defined crease lines along which the outer part is folded to draw down and tighten the loose outer part around the pre-shaped inner part to seal close the inner part whereby the loose outer part must be broken or torn to remove the article. The packaging is arranged for hanging or stand alone display. The pre-shaped inner part is made of ...

A childproof blister card useful for medicaments in discrete form openable only by a specific succession of steps. The card has a peelable backing and is perforated to enable the peeling to be started. It also has perforated tabs for access to the contents after removal of the backing.

A childproof blister card useful as a package for medicaments in discrete form is openable only by a specific succession of steps. The card has a peelable backing and is perforated to enable the peeling to be started. It also has perforated tabs for access to the contents after removal of the backing. The card is subdivided into separable portions, each of which is openable similarly.

Method and apparatus for forming a package wherein two layers of wrapping film are continuously fed through a sealing station at a preselected velocity, the stroke length of a reciprocable sealing device at that station having a path parallel to that of the film feed so that it travels in a forward direction at the same linear speed as the film, the sealing device is brought into operative relationship with the layers of film during at least part of its forward travel in each cycle to produce a ...