Flexible package

US11072478B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Susana E Borrero · Mason, US
• Kenneth Stephen McGuire · Montgomery, US
• Lee Mathew Arent · Lancaster, US
• Benjamin G Hesford · Hamilton, US
• Jun You · Sharonville, US
• Jason M Earl · Milford, US
• Joseph Craig Lester · Monroe, US
• Benjamin Jacob Clare · Cincinnati, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 18, 2019
• Grant date: Jul 27, 2021
• Expiry date: Nov 26, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65D2203/02
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A flexible package having first, second, and third flexible material layers, with the second flexible material layer being disposed between the first and third flexible material layers; a product receiving chamber having a product receiving chamber outer circumference defined by the first flexible material layer; a plurality of spaced first seals disposed around a package circumference, the first seals sealing the first, second and third flexible material layers together; a plurality of spaced second seals disposed around the product receiving chamber outer circumference, the second seals sealing the second and third flexible material layers together; a plurality of inner expansion chambers, each one of the plurality of chambers being defined between adjacent ones of the first seals; and a plurality of outer expansion chambers, each one of the plurality of chambers being defined between a second seal and an immediately adjacent first seal.