Food package for segregating ingredients of a multi-component food product

US8551545B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC · US

Inventors

• Daniel R. Feldmeier · Waunakee, US
• Metty Poei · Wilmette, US
• Mary Amanda Lamp · Fitchburg, US
• Brian P. Lawless · Hawthorn Woods, US
• David Johnston Smith · Needham, US
• Edward L. Dickinson · Littleton, US
• Patsy Coppola · Bedford, US
• Stephen K. Guerrera · Holliston, US
• Robert R. Andrews · Norfolk, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 18, 2008
• Grant date: Oct 8, 2013
• Expiry date: Jan 26, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65D2581/3494
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A food package for segregating ingredients of a multi-component food product, such as the multiple components of a sandwich, the package comprising an outer container to house a first food component and at least one flexible envelope or barrier film layer that encloses at least one intermediate food component allowing for separation of the intermediate food component during extended periods of storage and prior to opening the product. A method for opening the package comprises applying a pulling force to an externally located protruding end portion of the envelope, such that the envelope peels apart and separates into ruptured layers that are pulled out of the food product and out of the outer container by the continual pulling force from the protruding end portion. Another method for opening comprises heating the container such that the barrier film layer ruptures upon heating, thus providing for components of the food product to combine.